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* Attention, Andrew West: mining fatalities have dropped every year President Bush has been in the White House. But he just doesn’t care!
* The number of people killed on French roads fell below 5,000 last year. Which is understandable, considering all their cars have been torched.
* Compassionate head-tilts from the entire Alito clan!
* Greenpeace claim they were rammed by whalers; whalers say they were rammed by Greenpeace. Both sides present video evidence.
* Glue-sniffing Cambodian gangster monkeys are on the loose, as usual.
* Matt Duffy: “For the record, my luggage problem never led to the death of 345 people.”
* Excellent fiskings from Neil Steinberg and Toby.
* Harry’s Place brings you up to speed on George Galloway’s oily adventures inside the Big Brother house.
Greenpeace uses some scientific terminology to explain how whales are similar to humans - no doubt to an audience with an estimated mental age of a preschooler :
Whales are mammals. They are way more like us than they are fish. They are warm blooded like us, they have four chambered hearts like us, they have a little bit of hair, they breathe air, the mummy ones breast feed their babies...
Posted by James Waterton on 2006 01 13 at 02:13 AM • permalinkI’m no sailor, but those videos appear to me to support the Japanese claims. Unless international maritime law allows smaller, faster vessels to manuever within a small fleet of large, slower vessels.
Any nautical types out there that might want to venture an opinion?
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 01 13 at 02:46 AM • permalink* Compassionate head-tilts from the entire Alito clan!
Are you sure they weren’t watching Senator Ted *hic* Kennedy about to fall over?
;^)
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 01 13 at 03:33 AM • permalinkGreenpeace claims it had the right of way… I don’t think that means they can try to go THROUGH the Japanese ship….
Posted by MikeTheLibrarian on 2006 01 13 at 03:58 AM • permalinkAnyone who has sailing experience knows that no matter who has the legal right of way, the overriding, common-sense rule is always: Yield to tonnage.
Posted by lil varmint on 2006 01 13 at 04:08 AM • permalinki think your usually on safe ground to assume that greenpeace “activists” are media tarts that will stop at nothing to get inflammatory, staged images to back up their campaigns. There sense of ethics in this respect probably rank about as low as Mike Moore’s in terms of truth in their film clips.
Not that i particularly have much sympathy with the jappo’s in this particular case, but i wouldn’t trust most greepeace fanatics as far as i could kick them…..
Apparently about 2.5 million Muslims travel to Mecca (population ~ 200,000) every year for the hajj.
One study has reported 1700 fatalities in a single season just from heat related disorders. And then there are the stampedes, infectious diseases, vehicle accidents, heart attacks and building collapses etc., that add further to hajj mortality.
As I understand it there are about 6 billion people in the world. If the Wahabists got their way and took over the whole world then if every one of the 6 billion people in the world did the right Muslim thing and made a hajj at least once in their lifetime you would have at least 85.7 million people (and their luggage) visiting Mecca at the same time every year.
Apart from the difficulties in providing accommodation for all these people imagine what the death toll would be! Close to 60,000 just because of the heat! Imagine the hospitals they’d have to build to cater for sick pilgrims but that would only be used for a few days every year! Can even the oil-rich Saudis afford such expenditure?
I think the Wahabists should give up their ideological/territorial ambitions now, while they’re still managing to cope with the influx of pilgrims moderately well.
<blockquote>Cows/pigs/sheep are mammals. They are way more like us than they are fish. They are warm blooded like us, they have four chambered hearts like us, they have a little bit of hair, they breathe air, the mummy ones breast feed their babies…<blockquote>
I wonder how many Greenpeace cacktivists eat beef/pork/lamb?
Geenpeace lackey:
“Even the photo Japan put out the other day, if you look closely there’s a wake in front of our ship because we were actually in reverse at the time.”
Bullshit!
It’s fairly common knowlege that Greenpeace ‘activists’ frequently try to obstruct target vessels. They even brag about it in their press releases.
The linked Japanese video clip shows the Greenie vessel reverse course only at the last [impossible] second. i.e When the swampy Captain realized that the S-turn he’d just pulled toward the Nisshin Maru might not have been such a brilliant idea....Apparently the concept of linear momentum doesn’t exist in greenworld.
Moral: Don’t cross courses with a ship that displaces 8 times your tonnage.
Dumbass hippies.So more cars died this year in France than people?
Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2006 01 13 at 08:59 AM • permalinkMatt Duffy: “For the record, my luggage problem never led to the death of 345 people.”
The authorities in Mecca basically have ONE job: to look after pilgrims. They have been doing it for well over 1000 years. And every year, something like this happens. That kind of incompetence is downright impressive.
Never mind the real-world laws of physics, Greenpeace has unassailable moral authority!
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 01 13 at 11:44 AM • permalinkI swear, I was going to use Neil Steinberg’s Lyndon Johnson story on the Leunig thread. When I remember Steinberg’s stalking the Chicago Tribune’s Bob Greene like that sick girl in The Natural, I’m so glad I didn’t. Hi Neil, hope this made your day.
Posted by chinesearithmetic on 2006 01 13 at 12:35 PM • permalinkSpeaking of Alito, the denizens of the Democratic Underground are taking his imminent comfirmation with their customary thoughtful analysis and restraint:
SHUT IT DOWN! SHUT IT ALL DOWN NOW!!
Posted by Randal Robinson on 2006 01 13 at 02:53 PM • permalinkMemo
To: Achillea, RebeccaH, Richard McEnroe, JayC, PW, et al
Subject: Allocation of ResourcesFact #1: There are currently 2,000+ minions in the Evil Death Cult Known as Neoconservatism. Most of these have significant amounts of un- or under-utilized time. Almost all would enthusiasticly embrace any orders to further the aims and goals of the Death Cult.
Fact #2: 5,000 applications, strictly limited to that number due to budgetary restraints on Kinko charges, for new minions were zapped up in 1.5 hours at the “So You’re Considering a Career in Evil Mayhem” Day at Halliburton headquarters last October. Estimates in the thousands were placed on those persons forced to leave without an application, mainly through the use of stunning ray guns. The riot was characterized as an anti-war protest initiated by Mother Sheehan.
Fact #3: There are more than 300 fascists in training, at various levels of the apprenticeship track, most with little to do.
Fact #4: There are approximately 50 fairly evil henchman with a desire to do something spectacularly dastardly that would catapault them into ascension as full fledged members of the Death Cult. Many of these can regularly be found at significant intervals of the day in a fairly sober state.
Recommendation: Next time you need someone to do some especially lame and thankless task, pick up a phone and call one of them.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 01 13 at 05:17 PM • permalinkThis whole wronwright thing is starting to sound a bit like Evil Genius...
My favorite comment on the Democratic Underground thread was the first one:
“The Repukes [how clever! - ED.] are in dereliction of their duty and it’s time to take the ball out of their hands…. literally.”
Literally! Remove that baseball from the hands of every Republican in Congress. Then they will have no baseball. How can they govern without a baseball?
Gawd! I don’t think those wannabe Morlocks have had such a snit since… oh, I don’t know… since the Roberts nomination?
DU - A mind is a terrible thing to lose.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 01 14 at 01:06 AM • permalinkwronwright — Union Rules, my good son… you don’t want to bring up any DEMARCATION issues, do you?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 01 14 at 01:31 AM • permalinkAlito beet a’dubya on my bench,
He dinna wanna legislate like the French…Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 01 14 at 01:34 AM • permalinkMemo
To: Achillea, RebeccaH, Richard McEnroe, JayC, PW, et al
Subject: Sinister Neocon Cabal Management HandbookNote: wronwright is not cleared for this.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 01 14 at 01:42 AM • permalinkJeez, those DU clowns are friggin’ clueless. They are using the shut down of the Federal Government in 1995 as their revolutionary “model”. Oi!
That shutdown came about because Congress (Republican controlled, in at least one house) and Bill “Bubba” Clinton bickered over the budget. Clinton called the Congressional bluff, and most (not all) of the Federal Government shut down for a week or two.
This is not exactly the same situation.
As I said…...FRIGGIN’ CLUELESS!!!!
Which shouldn’t be a surprise, should it?
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 01 14 at 02:09 AM • permalinkI’m more interested in the glue-sniffing Cambodian gangster monkeys. Can you imagine those little buggers let loose in, say, Seattle, next time there’s an anti-WTO demonstration?
That’s wronwright on the left.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 01 14 at 01:56 PM • permalinkMemo
To: To: Achillea, RebeccaH, Richard McEnroe, JayC, PW, et al
Subject: Evil Neocon Cabal Employee OrientationPlease confirm that wronwright has received a copy of the current edition.
Memo
To: To: Achillea, RebeccaH, Richard McEnroe, JayC, PW, et al
Subject: Evil Neocon Cabal Employee OrientationWronwright was issued the appropriately abridged edition, deleting Rules 9, 10, 15, 21,22 and 24.
The deletion of Rule 24 allowed the retention of all rules in Section IV.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 01 14 at 10:17 PM • permalinkI am completely bummed out, another club that won’t give me an invitation. My psyche is again damaged as when my membership for the 3 Stooges Fan Club came back marked address unknown.
Posted by Pat Patterson on 2006 01 17 at 12:37 AM • permalink
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