Does the Core and the Gap exist? That is, does a generally well-off realm known as the Functioning Core contain goods associated with globalization (wealth, peace, etc), while a realm known as the Non-Integrating Gap lack these goods?
Mountainrunner, surprisingly, appears to say the answer is no. While he does not say so directly, he notes that (in general) anything that exists in the Gap exists within the Core, and vice versa. In response to my claim that the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Bhutto is not surprising because it happened in the Gap, Mountainrunner wrote:
Etc, all in the same vein. Brr...
Obaid Karki, on the other hand, is rather a hoot:
But, to be more visible, he added a lot of garbage text like this:
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Which makes his act a bit too low class, if you see what I mean...
The theme for this week PhotoHunt is "Delicious". The dictionary shows two meanings:
1. Greatly pleasing or entertaining 2. Extremely pleasing to the sense of taste
So almost everything goes, making my job easier. To start with something controversial that some people consider delicious and some will definitely find disgusting.
Yep - herring. Its connoisseurs know that it accompanies many kinds of firewater very well, its haters will not abide its aroma.
The next one is probably considered delicious almost everywhere - a grapefruit from the grapefruit (Citrus Paradisi) tree:
You can distinguish the nether parts of a would be grapefruit thief as well.
And the last, but not the least:
Even if he is not our cat, I know a delicious (greatly pleasing) thing when I see one. I hope it's easy to see what makes him special, besides being a generally beautiful cat. And NO - it is not a Photoshop job!
And a belated Happy New Year to all!
If you liked what you have seen (or read) in this post, add your link in the comments:
I promise to visit your place as soon as possible!
There is nothing we can do with CO2 to stop the current warming.
We have only just come out of a little ice age 160 years ago. The Hockey Stick graph is a fraud. Its obvious. So the only explanation for why CO2 Global Warming is being promoted is because the jews are behind it. Whenever people are lying, you know that the jews are involved.
That's why Israel is positioned to be the leader in Solar Power Industry.
He forgot the ice cones and air conditioners industries, the poor schlub.
The following e-mail exchange is made public by a special Elders' decree.
from ELDER (mercyelder@compuserve.de) to ... [omitted for security reasons]
Good day/Sir/Madam
It is my delight to introduce myself and business to you. I am Madam Mercy Elder, a citizen of Ghana Republic of West Africa. Our community has 1000 kgs of gold dust for sales.
from ... [omitted for security reasons] to ELDER (mercyelder@compuserve.de)
Dear Madam,
Thank you for your kind notice. The 1000 kg of gold dust should be transported to the following address: [omitted for security reasons] no later than January 11, 2008. Packing instructions attached.
BBC says so, showing the picture of the heavy hitter as well:
On Wednesday, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem told reporters: "We were surprised to learn of the comments of the French president."
Our super-sensitive microphones picked up what was said off the record:
Indeed, what do these cheese-eaters understand in our business here? Besides, we have never blown up anyone. Er... at least no one who didn't deserve it...
I think that it is safe now to announce my momentous discovery that will bring me a lot of money in a few days. Thanks to BBC, I am now expecting a transfer of a sum that, with reasonable fiscal restraint and planning, will allow me to spent the rest of my days in luxury and comfort. I am talking about 130 million yuan ($17.6m, £8.8m). Of course, some of this amount will be deducted to pay the middlemen and a sizable chunk will go to the taxman, but all in all, with re... but I have already said it.
You have probably received some of these e-mails, mostly from Nigeria, that promise you fabulous sums for participation in a financial transaction that seemed suspicious to you and, because of your timidity, you have refrained from taking part in it.
Anyway, your offer would have been rejected, since you didn't know what is the source of this wealth. Now I know. And I am getting it!
The story strangely overshot Christmas, but remains exciting. Just the view of the building practically guarantees the ghosts:
And, of course, there is nothing that excites more than the view of the ghost himself:
I suspect I can take a shot at the identity of the ghost, because this beard is pretty unique:
Muhammad Hassan Abu Tir (PBUH) is quite a memorable character. And if I am mistaken, then this is for Israelycool's collection of "Separated at birth"...
Warning: rude, full of ad hominem notions (but totally true) post - sensitive souls please stay away!
No, this post is not about vertically challenged people, and I am definitely not a sizeist - how could I be one, when my width has already almost eclipsed my puny height? Besides, vertically challenged people are known to play key roles in history - from king David to Napoleon, not to mention a certain Israeli general. But I digress - we are talking here about really small people in the sense of their puny brains, puny minds - and poisonous nature. People whom one of my late relatives used to characterize in Yiddish as "der kleiner mensch mit der kleiner pipick" or, in a loose translation, "a small man with a small johnson". And no, he didn't mean neither the height of the person nor the length of the person's member.
One of the prominent examples of that genre is a certainMarkElf - the Jewish Leprechaun of Britain, who keeps a blog that we use to call "Jews without Y-fronts". His New Year Eve opus is a rather pitiful attack on David Hirsh and could be located at _jewssansfrontieres.blogspot.com/2007/12/dr-hirsh-sings-come-all-ye-faithful.html_ (no free links to the jerk).
He starts with an attempt at Hirsh's scientific integrity, hinting that his work was presented to the general public without a peer review ("...the academics I spoke to told me that a more usual practice would be to submit an academic paper to some recognised authority in the field..."). Well, it was, and the work is placed on the Yale website not exactly due to the author's blue eyes. Not that he has to report on the peer review of his work to a worthless leprechaun.
The next innuendo is even more laughable: "It's an open meeting but you have to email Hirsh to reserve your place. This means he can vet the attendance. That's not to say he will, but he can." What can I say? I could call Elf a sorry and miserable excuse for a human being and a waste of oxygen and say that Elf's attendance at that meeting will have to be conditioned upon some special deodorizing measures. That is not to say I will, but I could, if I were so inclined.
Now a bit of crescendo, we are coming to the juicy part. First of all, the leprechaun is throwing his weight (oh well...) against the scientific value of the said work: "...the critique might have the likes of Yale thinking twice about running zionist propaganda that has little or no academic merit. I'm saying all this without having read the thing..." [emphasis mine, of course]
Do you have a feeling that the putz has dug himself a hole deep enough already? Just wait, because immediately after this priceless escapade he really let it rip: "Anyway, I'd love someone to go away, read it and critique it properly rather than simply parrot it as this rally..."
Oh boy... He would love someone to read it... Talk about a small man with a small johnson...
When starting this post, I wanted to call that creature a kneebiter. But, upon second thought, a normal person's knees are on the Everest level for this one.
No matter how phony and clumsy was the Pallywood attempt to present the Jooz as Santa-haters, it was prophetic in a way:
Mossad is known for some small and big foul-ups, but in this case we are proud of our protege: agent zzz, genetically modified to withstand the low temperatures in the area and a crack shot.
I know very well that this shot will not be accepted for a weekly exposition of photographs in a kindergarten for visually challenged baboons. And yet... there is something in it that I cannot put into words...
(Which means: better start complimenting me for that picture or else).
This funny and educational story was known to me for quite a long time, but I have never suspected it could be relevant to the space shuttle as well. As a side remark - it proves that evolution is not omnipotent indeed. In some cases it is plainly powerless...
The US Standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches.
That's an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used? Because that's the way they built them in England, and the US railroads were built by English expatriates.
Why did the English people build them like that? Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used.
Why did they use that gauge then? Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they used for building wagons, which used that wheel spacing.
Okay!
Why did the wagons use that odd wheel spacing? Well, if they tried to use any other spacing the wagons would break on some of the old, long distance roads, because that's the spacing of the old wheel ruts. So who built these old rutted roads?
The first long distance roads in Europe were built by Imperial Rome for the benefit of their legions. The roads have been used ever since.
And the ruts?
The initial ruts, which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagons, were first made by Roman war chariots. Since the chariots were made by, or for, Imperial Rome they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing.
Thus we have the answer to the original questions.
The United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches derives from the original specification for an Imperial Roman army war chariot. Specs and Bureaucracies live forever. So the next time you are handed a specification and wonder what horse's ass came up with it, you may be exactly right - because the Imperial Roman chariots were made to be just wide enough to accommodate the back-ends of two war horses.
When we see a Space Shuttle sitting on the launch pad, there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are the solid rocket boosters, or SRBs. The SRBs are made by Thiokol at a factory in Utah. The engineers who designed the SRBs might have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site. The railroad line to the factory runs through a tunnel in the mountains. The SRBs had to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than a railroad track, and the railroad track is about as wide as two horses' behinds. So a major design feature of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system was determined by the width of a horse's ass.
