US efforts to get tougher on Iran are frustrated by China and Russia’s reluctance. But Sadjapour said the new sanctions sent a message to the Europeans that if they do not support the US stance, they heighten the risk of the United States taking military action.”China and Russia are more concerned about the prospect of the US bombing Iran than of Iran getting a nuclear bomb,” he added.

Do you understand the problem here? Do you understand who is causing strife in the world? Yes, I am biased, because I don’t want our great country to be viewed in this light. When the colors of the flag run, it’s the blood of our freedom and liberty washing away. We sell our selves off to these tyrants in the name of squashing tyrants. We know they lied before. We cannot trust them. We can not allow them to manufacture enemies like this. Its like they need excuses to be violent. Amadininajad is not the leader of Iran, he’s is a powerless figurehead. Iran has a 100% literacy rate. Even if it was 60%, think of what Iraq has. This not a backwards country. This is a country thrice the size of Iraq. The point being, if we went to war there, they will initiate a draft, but even after getting those troops and the troops around the world shifted to the conflict, we would not have enough. I feel our military will be watered down by another ten years of conflict or more. What price at the pump is worth this? It wouldn’t even fix the price. Oil is $93 a barrel now, anew record.

Oh yeah, her’e s a theory as to why violence dropped. They are running out of people to kill!

Teacher assigns students in a college level course to submit their work to wikipedia instead of term papers. Think about it, it’s free publishing practice and their work has merit instead of being forgotten. How many of your term papers were at least submitted with your resume, eh? I am so delighted by this.

A programming language made for mining data, like I wonder what data and why, hmm.

Another link on the subject.

I recently came across some Handspun Antique Hemp Nightgowns – I now know why Pot is illegal

I’m busy today, heh, but this article was fascinating. It seems multiple industries lobbied against hemp and pot (you can’t smoke hemp)

Medical marijuana advocate kills herself

This Man Receives 300 Marijuana Joints a Month From the Federal Government

Bill Maher Tells Andrew Sullivan: “It Was Not That Hard to See Bush Was a Moron in 2000″ [VIDEO]

Brilliant. You know why I say my rants are like a parrot squawking? It’s because I like cheese.

The Raw Story | MSNBC: Leaked memos show Giuliani’s ignorance of terrorism before 9/11

Yeah, another DUH. Say you still voting for this nutcase?

Graphictruth: The Constitution now OFFICIALLY “Ron Paul Spam.”

Could be a DUH, you tell me.

The Raw Story | Plame: Disclosure of classified status amounted to ‘treason’

We havn’t had a good political death penalty in awhile come to think of it. This doesn’t count.

Fox advocates war. This is the biggest DUH. Advertisers need to be contacted and told to pull from their channel.

New UN environmental report paints a very bleak future for humanity

Yeah wonderful isn’t it? Humanity a virus upon the planet consumes natural resources at a level where wars are for changes in trade routes and control over resources. We kill ourselves over the right to kill our selves. The amazing thing is, if china and India get to our level of development, that alone will destroy us environmentally. Perhaps even in my lifetime.

Does anyone still think doing nothing is enough to stave off these liars from putting us into a conflict of this scale? If we attack Iran, Russia will retaliate. If Israel attacks Iran, Iran will retaliate and they are capable to do so unlike Iraq. I love how Bush is doing Osama’s wishes. Maybe his god is Alla after all. Nothing destroys a country more than war regardless of where the battles are. They will come home some day because we are the nuclear aggressors. We are the ones threatening nuclear war with Iran. Iran has no nukes at all and according to this report (yahoo killed the link, but yes this was a part of the report now out, the NIE) if they were to make them, it’d take 3-8 years. They are cooperating with inspectors more than the news lets on. Heck, that aspect ain’t in the news anymore. Did Iran cause 9-11 too? Whose next? You?

More threat of war from the lovable peaceful non nuclear nation.

Seems that some of it was arson and some of it was caused by terrorists. Also, some of the areas are under control or will become so. The wind has died down thankfully and the weekend may be humid. The link goes to a discussion of a video about Fox New’s diabolical coverage of the fire. Fox is insane to blame this on terrorists, what is this, a witch hunt? First the evangelicals (some/most?) blame anything they don’t understand ot don’t like on the devil. Then Maccarthy goes wild. Now a preventable fire storm (more national guard troops, equipment, and global warming being dealt with) is their fault. Are they trying to scare us? Yes they are and by doing so we are controlled by them. Who watches fox news anyways? Oh, right, mostly old folks homes with the sound off because of the pretty colors. No joke.

This + This

Sigh, like you with Comcast, I have to live with AT&T. Their privacy policy is under debate currently. I’d say more, but they might cancel my contract, go fig.

It is unreal what people are facing there right now. 500,000+ people told to evacuate 300,000+ people complying. Some say its a freak of nature, others say its global warming. Fox news blamed the terrorists, yes really. Amazing spin we have here truth be told. Don’t forget where they are spinning.

I think there is a handful of people who hate America. Unfortunately for them, a lot of them are losing their homes in a forest fire today. -Glen Beck

What does he mean anyways and why did he say it? Never mind that. To my friends in California, I hope you are safe and better days await. I couldn’t imagine going through what you are going through and frankly I believe most people are like that. The sheer scale of this is an area the size of New York City. Imagine that city evacuating. These fires are nearly out of control.