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The Mark of a Professional

“more professional and better trained” —
Like those that blew up a clearly marked and well-known UN observation post.

Are you trying to be amusing, Mr. Gillerman?

CBC News: Wife of Canadian UN observer prays for a ‘miracle’

Israel’s UN ambassador, Dan Gillerman, said Thursday Israel would not allow the UN to be involved in any investigation of why the post was struck.”Israel has never agreed to a joint investigation, and I don’t think that if anything happened in this country, or in Britain or in Italy or in France, the government of that country would agree to a joint investigation,” he said.

He also ruled out major UN involvement in any potential international force in Lebanon, saying more professional and better-trained troops were needed for such a volatile situation.

For G**’s Sake!

Weren’t you already?

CBC News: ‘We will attack everywhere,’ al-Qaeda leader warns

“It is a jihad for God’s sake and will last until [our] religion prevails. We will attack everywhere.”

From the ‘It’s About Time’ Department

Let’s see… Climate getting hotter… Less snow pack… Drier summers…
Oh, and let’s not forget British Columbia, Canada, with the thousands of hectares of dead, DRY pine trees, killed by a beetle infestation that could have been contained 10 years ago

Just makes me seeth…

Warmer climate linked to wildfires | IndyStar.com

“The change is much more rapid than initially forecast 10 or 15 years ago,” Brian Stocks, a retired Canadian Forest Service scientist, said of the fires. “It seems people are finally beginning to take a look at it.”

RS Ophiuchi go boom!

I should think they would also be extremely grateful, not to be ‘close up’….

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Astronomers glimpse exploded star

The only problem, which is a great embarrassment to astronomers, is that they have never seen a type 1a close up - their measurements are all based on theory.

No %#$!! Sherlock…

From the Department of the Penetratingly Insightful….

CBC Arts: China seeks to curb ‘unhealthy’ karaoke music

The new karaoke initiative has met opposition from the public, including on internet chat sites, where many see it as another government attempt to control the people.

Yes, he is a babbling idiot!

Way to go, Mr. H

CBC News Indepth: Reality Check

Cooler heads may prevail, but further violence in the Middle East seems inevitable and Canadians may find that they are more politically committed to such a campaign than they want or, perhaps, than Stephen Harper intended.

Linux kernel custom compile — the Debian way

This How-to is now here, on a separate page…

Did you ever notice..

how you think everything is getting more intensely strange,

..or strangely intense,

but you can’t figure out which it is

… or how you know…

Assimilated??

We Are Borg….

CBC News: Movements controlled by thoughts alone, neuroscientists show