High level defections so far include but are not limited to the Libyan delegation to the United Nations, the ambassador to Tunisia and two high ranking fighter pilots that landed in Malta rather than bomb protesters.
Good luck! I think Qaddafi is done. I just hope he leaves something of a country in his bloody wake.
With all that said, it might be time to finally decide how to spell Qaddafi's name. I can see it being important for writing out charges for crimes against humanity.
Lord knows, we'll miss his fashion sense though.
Venezuelan officials have criticized Britain's foreign secretary for suggesting Qaddafi was fleeing there. They've denounced his statements (which have turned out to be incorrect), as "irresponsible". Naturally, a cozy relationship with a murderous dictator isn't irresponsible in the slightest:
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has visited Libya half a dozen times during his 12 years in office.
In 2009, Col Gaddafi visited Venezuela and presented President Chavez with one of the large tents he uses during his foreign travels.
I guess Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe felt a bit left out. Every other elderly autocrat in Africa is stomping all over their citizenry. Why shouldn't he join in the fun?
Looking for Eden. A friend of mine has told me that she won't consider atheism or agnosticism for what are essentially aesthetic reasons: The scientific viewpoint simply lacks the grand and epic origins tales found in the worlds religions. And it's an apt point I suppose. Being attracted to good literature is certainly as valid reason for religious faith as any other. That said, pondering the origins of life from a scientific perspective seems at least as fascinating and as rich as reading a mythos of man from mud.
On a not-unrelated note, here's a brief article (with images), on the scientific pursuits of Alan Turing. He worked to establish mathematical proofs of repetitive patterns in nature, from the cellular to the galactic level. Way to go Science!
Speaking of patterns: Here's an article about Ant Death Spirals.
This unfortunately, is what I woke up to on the radio this morning: The four Americans captured by pirates have been killed. Granted, the world is just a little busy right now. But it might be time to seriously consider doing something about these people. If piracy could be controlled in the 18th century well before the invention of radar, I'm quite certain it can be controlled now.
I am so very, very sick of winter.
North Korea is now reduced to begging for food. That's sad and all. Shame their communist paradise isn't working out that well. Now granted, we do want to maintain stability in the Korean peninsula and a starving North is not going to help that. That said, we're talking about these guys:
Our Strength
(Poem from Children’s Literature magazine, March 2010)
You Yankee bastards, look in surprise at the sky;
Then come here with bent heads, looking into the ground
You wonder what power fired the Kwangmyongsong missile
And how, startling the world,
We broke new ground in C.N.C. technology
You can’t begin to know our military-first strength;
It can’t be measured with your yardsticks.
Usually, I consider it to be bad manners to threaten the people feeding you with nuclear weapons. I was taught that it's impolite to do that to your dinner hosts. But then again, I wasn't raised to be a sociopath.
This is interesting: Amazon is launching a serious challenge to Netflix. Frankly, if they're able to get enough content it sounds like it might be a better deal: $79 a year for unlimited two-day shipping and all the movies you care to watch on your computer is pretty hard to beat I think. Right now though, it seems geared more towards convincing consumers to commit to becoming so-called "prime customers". The movies and tv shows aren't the focus yet, they're just a draw to get more people to buy products via Amazon.
I watched "Exit Through the Gift Shop" just the other day. The Oscars are refusing permission to Banky to attend in disguise. They're worried that impostors might show up and they won't know who to give the award to in the event the movie wins. This leads to your quote of the day:
When his nomination was announced, Banksy called it a "big surprise."
"I don't agree with the concept of award ceremonies, but I'm prepared to make an exception for the ones I'm nominated for," he said, adding: "The last time there was a naked man covered in gold paint in my house, it was me."
In other Oscar news: A man was shot dead for eating his popcorn too loudly during a showing of "Black Swan".
Huh...I mentioned this very, very late last night. Well, Congressman Wu would like everyone to know that he's doing much better now.
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