Posts Tagged ‘Russia’

Once More Into the Breach!

Monday, October 22nd, 2012

Once again I will be Livetweeting tonight’s Presidential debate. Drinking words to sip on are “Libya,” “China,”"Iran,” “Russia” and “Nuclear.” Chug for “Jihad” or if Obama calls Benjamin Netanyahu “Bibi.”

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LinkSwarm for June 22, 2012

Friday, June 22nd, 2012

A quick LinkSwarm for a busy Friday:

  • Mark Steyn on how Europe and the U.S. are headed in the same direction.
  • How ObamaCare will swell Texas’ Medicaid rolls.
  • Texas Democratic U.S. Representatives Al Green, Ruben Hinojosa, and the retiring Charlie Gonzalez all kicked money into New York Democratic Rep. Charlie Rangel’s reelection fund.
  • A change in Mexico’s drug war strategy?
  • Speaking of the drug war, America’s War on Sudafed has led to a huge increase in meth from Mexico.
  • A look at the Zeta drug cartel.
  • Abandoned military bases of the Soviet Union.
  • Vladamir Putin is up to his usual tricks.
  • Live in San Antonio? Congratulations! Your tax dollars are helping bureaucrats buy houses.

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    LinkSwarm for April 9, 2012

    Monday, April 9th, 2012

    A LinkSwarm to start your day with:

  • Today’s Democrat calling her fellow Texans bigots comes to you from Rep. Donna Howard (D-Austin).
  • How the story of today’s media transformation is being written by the losers: “We should not expect anything like impartial analysis from people whose very livelihoods—and those of their close friends—are directly threatened by their subject matter.”
  • Want a glimpse of where health care is headed if ObamaCare isn’t repealed or overturned? In the UK, doctors told a woman to find another provider because her carbon footprint to visit them was too large. All two miles of driving worth. (Hat tip: Say Uncle.)
  • Holly Hansen reports on a Williamson County Republican candidates forum. County commissioner Lisa Birkman attended, but her opponent Lee Ann Seitsinger didn’t.
  • “Please excuse Kelly Lee McCarty from her job at the Texas Water Development Board because she was sick and has to spend five days of bed rest. Signed, Epstein’s Mother.”
  • Sen. John Cornyn notes the failure of Obama’s cheeseburger diplomacy with Russia.

  • Mark Davis leaving WBAP?

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    Moscow Bombing News: Suicide Bomber “Man of Arab Appearance,” North Caucasus Angle?

    Monday, January 24th, 2011

    A lot more details here, including more aftermath footage, and the deeply unsurprising news that the bomber was a “man of Arab appearance.”

    Also this:

    Three men who have been living in the Russian capital for a certain period of time reportedly took part in organizing the blast, a source told Interfax news agency. He also noted that these three were believed to be Russian North Caucasus militants.

    The North Caucasus area is where Chechnya is located, where Russia is still occupying Georgian territory, where a dizzying array of post-Soviet Russian Republics (Adygea, Karachay-Cherkessia, Kabardino-Balkaria, North Ossetia, Ingushetia, Dagestan) of differing ethnicities reside, and where jihadists have declared a Caucasus Emirate, claiming most of the land between the Caspian and the Black Sea.

    However, having news of North Caucasus involvement available so soon after the bombing seems quite strange. It could very well be Jihadest involvement, or it could be Vladamir Putin manufacturing a pretext for cracking down on the regions various separatist movements.

    (Hat tip: PowerLine.)

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    23 31 35 Killed in Moscow Airport Bombing

    Monday, January 24th, 2011

    “The Russian state RIA Novosti news agency says an explosion at Moscow’s busiest airport has killed 23 people and wounded 130.”

    Chechnyan separatists? Jihadists? (Remember that Jihaist suicide bombers have struck in Russia before.) Who knows? News is still coming in.

    Another story.

    Added: Death toll updated to 31

    Edited to add 2: Seeing reports of 35 deaths now. Also seeing reports that it was a suicide bomber.

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    Russians now saying their climate data was distorted, cherry-picked

    Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

    According to this report CRU “probably tampered with Russian-climate data.”

    It goes on:

    “Analysts say Russian meteorological stations cover most of the country’s territory, and that the Hadley Center had used data submitted by only 25% of such stations in its reports. Over 40% of Russian territory was not included in global-temperature calculations for some other reasons, rather than the lack of meteorological stations and observations.

    “The data of stations located in areas not listed in the Hadley Climate Research Unit Temperature UK (HadCRUT) survey often does not show any substantial warming in the late 20th century and the early 21st century.”

    The deeper people look into the data, the more data manipulation they find. Insert your own “tip of the iceberg” joke here.

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