Ramen Review

I talked to a fuckload of anonymous Arabs in the last 2 months. And I can vouch for one thing: these people know perfectly well that they cannot rely on Western governments’ sweet-talk. But they simply want their dictators to go down down down, dammit and inshaAllah.
And they go and try to do that. And people die in the process.
Some of the people I chatted with, as a matter of fact, are dead now, killed by some dictator’s … read more

So, revisiting the river valley overlooked by Hill 431, where two nights before the CinC[*] and his “publisher of a major newspaper” friend went to their little outing.
While the Minister was back in Berlin getting 80% of the major media pissed off mightily (and one Mr. Wonka of the Leipziger Volkszeitung[de:] presumably shitlisted — watch 1:20 to 1:32 and 1:50 here:)

some Afghan guy who presumably will forever remain nameless had decided to take matters in his own hands — alas, … read more

Hanging tough at Hill 431 with the publisher of a major newspaper (To be ’splained below)Image by fritz13.
Dax floating free above the train wreck (but still within grund effect I presume — TINA was a capitalist whore all along after all). DJIA is so-so, definitely not off the ground. N225 remains groundbound essentially.
Them sandniggers are getting restive, and neither Sammy not Johnny (nor the Kaiser nor anyone else) can seem to hold them at bay. Too bad too that it’s … read more

(My Portuguese may suck; I apologize. I am barely able to grasp the basic rules, and have been forced to do so by necessity alone.)
There is a lot of talk these days about admigration. Google knoweth not that word, yet Germany does[*]. We do not know, or have, “immigration”, except in the negative: Germany is not, and will never be, a country of immigration. Or so it has been said.
The following quotes are, à votre plaisir, rendered into English trying … read more

So, on May 20th, 2010, I said in a private conversation (that was duly noted down) regarding the economy:

the significant index values of the coming ?weeks:
dax 6500 and rising
djia 10000 and falling

Meaning that until one of these marks is breached, and robustly so, the global economy will remain in limbo, and other matters of concern may be leisurely regarded as utterly more important.
Almost 3.5 months later, I have no reason whatsoever to change my opinion on this issue.
The last week … read more

It will be pretty interesting to see how Capitalism will digest that Greece thingy. And to see how many of the PIIIGGS will go down before this is over.
In any case, those that had already deadsaid Teh Kryzys[en:/pl:] stand corrected.
Big things do need a lot of time to proceed after all. And it is not like we could not have told that this’ll take some time, ね?

As regards the funny things in life, Jane Buergermeister’s[*] lil old click-grabbing … read more

Actually, no[de:].
They had been long Arified through and through, and as far as I can think of, entirely voluntarily. Certainly, not a single dirty smelly money-grabbing Jew had any major say about it even before the Nazis, and by 1945 it had itself completely whored[de:] out to the highest bidder.
They flaunt their Jew heritage, possibly because after haShoah, things Jewish have the attractiveness of things taboo in Germany. But I presume they were Catholic[de:] in “modern” times — if anything … read more

The People had enough at last.
They had been fed up for just too long. Despite all this grand populist BS from their exalted leadership — the undynamic duo at which half the world poked fun — about lowering some tax or another or shit, the economy was a mess, the exports had plummeted, major domestic banks were avoided on the financial markets like the plague, unemployment remained high and if anything rising, wages remained low, and without all those soup … read more

(Too pissed off of the universe to add links right now, also need to run some PCR 2mo’. Maybe l8r.)
A month as uneventful as it was full of summer heat and monochrome karma.
Kim the Lesser’s guys have assembled some more rockets in NKorea and are showing off. Everybody is pissed, except the NKoreans, who are partly elated and partly… … I don’t expect it to matter to their daily lives too much.
Peace in Sri Lanka? I fear not — though … read more

Back to Part 1

And then the topic turned to a plane that was flying in a no-fly zone near to Camp David and heading towards Site R. I had no idea what Site R was. And to me Camp David was a place where George Bush went on vacation. I didn’t know any more than that.

And now the topic is getting really interesting. As will become clear, this plane is most likely Flight United 93.

BR: And this was information … read more

since, oh IONO… mid-September 2001 perhaps?
Maybe. Maybe not. We shall see.
Until then, thanks to the 9/11 conspi folks for their continuous asinine lobbying; had they chosen to fight that what the shruBskis were in fact perpetrating, the world might very very well habe been spared 4 more years that were mostly like gang raping for virginity. Oh, and also many “thanks” for making the pretty flowers grow (and the corals — as well as others — die).
You guys suck. Some … read more

The Con supreme-mayoral candidate of Cologne announced today that he’ll quit the race for re-election (elections due August).
He had been a staunch supporter of the subway project that came to almost topple a church belltower[de:], killed two, destroyed much of the documental archive of Cologne, sunk millions of euros; he had been investigated by the police more than once, had been entangled in networks of bribery, kickbackry, ill-spent funds, construction scandals and the likes. His time of office benefitted … read more

Indices cavorted all over the place, settling in for a solidly red week, though today — as did the DJIA a few days ago — the N225 manages to make a near spot landing with plusminus zeroish change. The last 3 weeks’ bumpy bounce, tumbling down a broken and rough slope, shaved some 12.5% off the DJIA, while the N225’s losses could well (for a while at least) be limited to just below another 10%. The DAX, in spite of … read more

Ah, the eternal challenge to actually discuss cooking on a weblog originally intended to be about the culinary only. So… what did I make for Hanukkah? Searching for something similar but not alike to latkes (which I had been advised to prepare), I came across some pakora-style concoction incorporating peas; I figured that given the fact that this would not be unknown to the Bene Israel, it would be adequate. Being probably as goy as goy can be, what would … read more

Al-Arabiya.
Who’d have thunk? Nice.

I remember the scenery as seen on TV — after 1991, there was a time where war was CNN, and CNN was war. And there was no Web where I lived, and the nights of war were green in colour.
An arid landscape, yellow and ruddy hues. Stark sunlight. Acacias. The December 9th 1992 nighttime photo op, Navy LCAC running up on an Indian Ocean shore. I was very much into naval technology then, and took due note that for … read more

See also this Onion spoof act of clairvoyance.

“… the biggest regret of all the presidency has to have been the intelligence failure in Iraq.”
(George W. Bush, December 1st, 2008)

No.
The biggest regret — the only regret — is that Barbara Pierce Bush did not, shortly after V-J Day, speak the magic words:

“George Herbert Walker, pull out before you cum.”

The Wall Street Journal has a rather strict access policy to its archives. Regarding a particularly fascinating piece from some 40 days ago, you will need archival access, which is for example unavailable on the sometimes-helpful BugMeNot.
But you can access WSJ archival material via many university libraries. And in this day and age, there is likely to be a helpful student around in the States or the EU or or China or India or Indonesia or Russia or Brazil … read more