Apparently some Turks have been having fun balkanizing the USA. I don’t read Turkish, but I’m assuming some of this is in reaction to various proposals to draw a new Kurdistan out of Turkey and Iraq.
Of course, the rest is just your typical hate coming out: they hate that we went into Afghanistan, into Iraq, and apparently some of them want to kick the Israelis out of Israel and into North America. Lovely.
Of course, I’m certainly not going to judge the mindset of whole country in the totality based on this, without other information. Imagine if people judged America based on Daily Kos. One website is not necessarily representative of anything meaningful. But still, it’s something to think about.
Link via Strange Maps via Moe Lane.
Sonics 116, Nuggets 168. Denver shot 60% from the field, 52% from three point range (16-31), made 30-35 free throws. and had eight players in double figures (three over 20). Camby had a triple double (13-15-10).
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seattle | 29 | 29 | 27 | 31 |
| Denver | 48 | 36 | 43 | 41 |
Wow. Wow.
Quit jacking up threes with so much time left on the clock. It’s getting ridiculous.
Yes, I know that without Bynum and now without Gasol it’s harder to play an inside out game, but come on. What about Odom? What about trying a little dribble penetration? I hear that Kobe guy is good at that.
And if Kobe gets doubled to get you open, don’t just settle. Get further inside first. Try to break down the defense further.
Patience. Come on, guys.
PatienceX version 2 is out.
PatienceX is a set of seventeen games and variants of solitaire or patience games
for the Macintosh OS X 10.4 and later. These games range from the classic (Klondike) to the new (Freecell), from the easy (Grandfather’s Clock) to the challenging
(Spider).
New in version 2: A new card deck based on the art of William Blake, and a more detailed Statistics screen, showing your win percentage to two decimal places, and your current win streak. Buy now for $12.95!
At this point I don’t know how I could live without it.
Hornets beat Spurs, handing the Lakers a full game lead in the West again.
Rockets won, too, pushing their win streak even sicker, and into a tie with the Spurs for the division lead. And that’s with Yao Ming out for the year still.
The West is just so deep this year.
Japan is enduring a rare bout of “divided government”, where the powerful lower house of the Diet is controlled by the usually-ruling Liberal Democratic Party (center-right defense hawks) in coalition with the New Komeito Party (liberal pacifists, and I mean liberal in the traditional sense, not the post-New Deal American sense), but the upper house is controlled by the Democratic Party of Japan (social democratic pacifists).
Having just taken a page from the Democratic Party of America playbook and boycotted for a week, the returning upper house has now rejected the LDP nominee for Governor of the Bank of Japan, despite the outgoing Governor’s term ending on the 19th. The DPJ is risking the BOJ having no leadership (just as the Federal Reserve was without leadership in 1929) in order to get back at the LDP for taking advantage of little-used Constitutional provisions to ram through a tax and budget reform bill.
When I look at Japanese politics, with their teachers who sue over being forced to sing the national anthem, demanding secular Prime Ministers, and all that other lefty mischief of the kind we see here in America, I wonder if we made a mistake giving them the Constitution we gave them. I hope it’s enough protection from the left.
BBC reports that Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia founder, took a donation in exchange for making an edit to a protected page that was requested by the subject of the page.
Jeff Merkey’s page is not locked to outside editing right now as Wales removed the protection once the story broke, and there is an edit by Wales on record favorable to Merkey during that protection. So the verifiable facts can be verified, but the actual payoff of course would be harder to find and prove.
True or not, Wikipedia’s reputation just took another hit today. Personally I stick to this rule: they’re useful for looking up useless things (such as Caramelldansen), but not anything important in the real world.
…in McCain’s campaign offices. Politico reports of a new Pew Research poll that shows support for the war, and belief that we’re winnning, is at its highest point in nearly two years.
According to late February polling conducted by The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, 53 percent of Americans—a slim majority—now believe “the U.S. will ultimately succeed in achieving its goals” in Iraq. That figure is up from 42 percent in September 2007.
The percentage of those who believe the war in Iraq is going “very well” or “fairly well” is also up from 30 percent in February 2007 to 48 percent today.
This is not a good time to be a cut and run wimp like Barack “Widdle Baby Kitten” Obama.
Played Wii Tennis today significantly for the first time, teaching my nephew how to play. And boy is my arm killing me, wow.