tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90453592024-02-19T18:36:33.493+07:00Captain Marlow"Try to be civil, Marlow" (Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger728125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9045359.post-34413367249745932872016-03-22T21:21:00.000+07:002016-03-22T21:21:56.670+07:00Books that made me into a restless globetrotter<div class="MsoNormal">
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voice of my mother reading aloud pierced my consciousness intermittently. When it
did, the fever ensured that her words were imprinted unforgettably into my
memory, like light on a salt & silver old photographic print.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "segoe ui" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Stuck in bed due to a bout of measles, the book I was
listening to was the famous ‘Gods, Graves, and Scholars: The Story of
Archaeology’ (Civilta’ Sepolte in the Italian edition) by C.W. Ceram, given to
me for my birthday. An intoxicating introduction to history to a 12 year old
and likely the trigger of an early passion for travelling, adventure, mysterious
places, exotic peoples. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "segoe ui" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">At 15, after good school results </span><span style="font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.4px;">(more luck than hard work, I’m afraid)</span><span style="font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">, I finally earned the reward I had been pestering my
parents for: a school holiday in the U.K., namely to learn English (Italian
school holidays were gorgeous three and a half month long summer affairs).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "segoe ui" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For two wonderful summers I went to an English school
in Chorleywood, just outside London. The ‘institute’- rather more an informal
and friendly family arrangement, thank goodness - operated as a language school
for foreign girls during winter but catered for boys as well during the long European
summer holidays. It was a sprawling, lovely old farmhouse in a green, wooded
area where I had a fantastic time and, incidentally, learned decent English
(and acceptable French, as many of the girls were from there).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "segoe ui" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My acquired language skills opened up a wealth of
reading material of which I readily took advantage of (in later years I would also
learn Spanish and Portuguese: easy for me, an Italian speaking person).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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by pure chance: one night, idly roaming around the streets of Rome, I happened
onto a still open newsstand and started rummaging through the books, new and used,
that were on offer. One colorful cover struck me: an anaconda slithering on the
jungle floor. Irresistible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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well thumbed but still decent copy of Colonel Leonard Clark’s ‘The Rivers Ran
East’ was staring at me from the counter: I took it home and didn’t stop
reading it until I finished it. And then I started it again, foregoing sleep, afraid
of having overlooked some detail. Clark’s other epic exploits, ‘Yucatan
adventure’, ‘The Marching Wind’, ‘A Wanderer Till I Die’ soon located and
purchased, also gave me many hours of pleasure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "segoe ui" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My family had a well stocked library so I grew up in
the company of London’s ‘White Fang’ and ‘Call of the Wild’, Kipling’s ‘Kim’,
Conrad (my <i>livre de chevet</i> is still ‘Heart of Darkness’), Greene, Maugham,
Hemingway only to move on to the writings of my hero Sir Francis Richard
Burton, T. E. Lawrence, Freya Stark, Wilfred Thesiger, Captain Cook’s Journals or
travel staples like Chatwin and Theroux. Darwin, Levi-Strauss and Frazer’s
‘Golden Bow’ provided a good starting point for further pursuits of a more
scientific nature.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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about travel ‘classics’ I should confess, before being accused of not even
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it within the present short list, that Kerouac’s ‘On the Road’ never
really did anything for me. I would rather read and re-read Pirsig’s wonderful ‘Zen
and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance’, a profound discourse about - let me oversimplify
- how to live. Nothing Kerouac would have appreciated of course, preoccupied as
he was with the conformism of playing the anti-conformist.<o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="font-family: "segoe ui" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Whenever and wherever I traveled I always tried to
imagine how the places I was seeing and the peoples I was meeting with must
have appeared to the first European explorers: old travel journals and diaries are
great for this. Sometimes they are comic in their presumption and arrogance,
sometimes dramatic for the terrible experiences they recount, often full of
surprise at the marvels of nature and man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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or adventure books they are certainly familiar with. I shall however mention a
few gems I read and loved hoping that at least a few might have escaped their
attention, especially the younger readers’ attention, and that they might enjoy
them as I did.</span></div>
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on the River Amazons’, by Henry Walter Bates, is one of those books that manage
to convey rich scientific information while entertaining and fascinating the </span><v:shape alt="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51RV08ADJBL._SX333_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg" id="_x0000_s1034" style="height: 137.7pt; margin-left: 1.5pt; margin-top: 6pt; mso-position-horizontal-relative: text; mso-position-horizontal: absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative: text; mso-position-vertical: absolute; mso-wrap-distance-bottom: 0; mso-wrap-distance-left: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-right: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-top: 0; mso-wrap-style: square; position: absolute; visibility: visible; width: 92.25pt; z-index: 10;" type="#_x0000_t75">
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In 1848, Bates followed Wallace (of Darwin’s fame) to South America in a joint
expedition up the river Amazons. Apart from discovering and documenting about
8000 new species during his 11 years of explorations (as Darwin himself attests
in his introduction to Bates’ journal), his diary is a great source of
information of all kinds - not limited to Natural History - about his
experiences up and down the mighty river.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSOOdmzOs-MXujKgVRh3VEZkR4NVBzx3kQQBYHb3FwuQaXJXsG4TdUIMFIN7KGPqx44uvj3670wXHeiNQURIjJ7iDB-pww3pnyvY99efH4FFr4EaAwceMgCpbwqORh4UaUh_o/s1600/Clipboard05.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSOOdmzOs-MXujKgVRh3VEZkR4NVBzx3kQQBYHb3FwuQaXJXsG4TdUIMFIN7KGPqx44uvj3670wXHeiNQURIjJ7iDB-pww3pnyvY99efH4FFr4EaAwceMgCpbwqORh4UaUh_o/s1600/Clipboard05.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">From ‘Trader Horn: A Young Man’s Astounding Adventures
in 19</span><sup style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">th </sup><span style="font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Century Equatorial Africa’, a book published in 1932 (my
copy has a great introduction by John Galsworthy), </span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">was
born my love of Africa that would never abandon me. An old European adventurer,
Alfred Aloysius Horn, recounts his incredible life as a hunter, trader, diplomat,
military leader, what-have-you. An ode to being young and brave and the sadness
of lonely old age with only memories as companions.</span></div>
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with Scott” by Admiral Evans, is a wonderful, engrossing book recounting the
ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition of 1910. Despite Scott having been a controversial hero
and his reputation gone through various revisions and counter revisions, there
is no doubt that his efforts benefitted science and advanced the exploration of
Antartica. There is a lovely little museum in Cambridge, the Scott Polar
Research Institute on Lensfield Rd., which is worth a few hours of your time
(check first if it’s open to the public beforehand).</span></div>
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little known book by John Steinbeck ‘The Log from the Sea of Cortez” is the
diary of his marine expedition to Baja California on a rented boat with his
friend Ed Ricketts, a biologist, prematurely killed in an accident. The
collection of specimen leaves time to the two great friends to chat, observe,
think and reflect. A breath of fresh air: amusing, informative, always
intelligent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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books you need to put in context </span><span style="font-family: "segoe ui" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(we are talking early ‘20s here) but once you
do, there is nothing to diminish the sheer courage of a man hunting jaguars
armed only with a spear to protect the Indian farmers of the Pantanal, in the
Brazilian Mato Grosso. On the same class as ‘The Man-Eaters of Tsavo’ by
Colonel J.H.Patterson, this book is the ultimate classic adventure; it will
make you restless and envious.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the heart of Borneo’, a very enjoyable, funny and fresh account of an expedition
to unexplored areas of the region. An odd couple, a naturalist, Redmond
O’Hanlon and a poet, James Fenton, set out in the insect infested sauna of the
jungle. I have since visited Kalimantan (not the north-west region this book
describes) so it was interesting for me to compare ‘impressions’. Reminiscent
of Conrad but extremely witty, you will smile, laugh and love every page.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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there is a book that takes me back to the Africa I love and cherish, it is ‘The
Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood’, a trilogy by Elspeth
Huxley. Thika is a nostalgic memoir of growing up in Africa, a loving look at the
Kenya of Elspeth’s childhood and a hint at the clouds in its future. Critical
but always sensitive and understanding, a joy to read. It should be part of any
school curriculum.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Fleming, brother of Ian Fleming of James Bond fame, no mean writer himself, was
a correspondent for the Times and a great travel writer. His ‘Brazilian
Adventure’, the search for Colonel Fawcett (no book about Colonel Fawcett and
the Lost City of Z escaped me after reading this), ‘News from Tartary’, ‘With
the Guards to Mexico!’ and others gave me many hours of learning and fun. Look
him up: his British dry humor and terse prose, telling us about hostile
environments and little known territories makes his writings a pleasure to
read. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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me partisan but despite Patrick O’Brien millions of fans, I feel obliged to
mention his Aubrey-Maturin novels: a fantastic tour de force that will make the
reader go back to his books again and again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "segoe ui" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Set during the Napoleonic wars, it chronicles the
friendship between a Royal Navy captain and a Spanish ship doctor (and Irish-Catalan
intelligent agent for the British Admiralty, by the way). Don’t think for a
moment this is all boring naval mumbo-jumbo. The meticulously researched and
wonderfully written in fascinating period language novels – twenty in all- will
be your magic carpet on which to follow the two friends (and their families,
troubles and joys) to ‘800 England, Australia, Mauritius, trapped in the
infamous Paris’ Temple prison in Paris, spying in Malta, to the Dutch East Indies,
Ireland, Sierra Leone, Cape Horn and many more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and reading tastes, I have visited, worked and lived in many countries and had my
share of adventures. Nothing <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a>stops you from doing the
same though, even if you would rather sit comfortably on your favorite armchair
while doing so: from Homer’s ‘The Odyssey’
to Andy Weir’s ‘The Martian’, just take your pick. After all books, to
paraphrase Prospero, <i>are such stuff as dreams are made on.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9045359.post-91552533674580749532010-06-01T10:28:00.001+07:002010-06-01T10:28:50.858+07:00The Gaza-bound terrorist flotilla meant to frame Israel: you know how; I’ll tell you why.<div class='posterous_autopost'><p><a href="http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20100531_flotillas_and_wars_public_opinion?utm_source=GWeekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=100531&utm_content=readmore&elq=7a6cce0a997949f0b34a2583ad01ca67">Stratfor</a> gives us a good, if incomplete, background of the Gaza crisis. In any case, it teaches an excellent lesson in propaganda techniques.</p> <p>A somewhat ‘closer to the truth’ analysis comes from <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/05/reislamicized-turkey-turns-a-corner-attacks-israel.html">Atlas Shrugs</a>; <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/">Pamela</a> seems to have a much deeper vision of Erdogan’s aims to (re)establish a Caliphate or at least imitate Iran’s medieval revolution.</p> <p>Without going into Turkey’s recent purges of secular elements in the judiciary and the army, of which you are certainly painfully aware, it is clear that Erdogan finds convenient to align himself – for the moment – with the big bully: Iran.</p> <p>The two have recently slapped the US administration in the face and are still laughing and boasting about it; the “uranium enrichment” farce has worked in a least two ways: first, it has emasculated whatever sanctions Obama meant to submit to the Security Council by showing – falsely – Iran’s good faith, and second, it has given a boost to Erdogan’s reputation and ambitions.</p> <p>(Note: Lula was lounging about in a drunken stupor as usual, but he’ll gain from the meeting as well)</p> <p>And here are my two cents: I think it is very likely that, during the infamous meeting Iran-Turkey-Brazil, other issues were discussed: the most important of which is the use of “professional” terrorists (and <a href="http://www.news24.com/World/News/Flotilla-had-alQaeda-links-20100531">al-Qaeda</a> elements, probably from Iran itself) in the Turkish NGO flotilla directed towards Gaza.</p> <p>The whole operation had three advantages for Turkey’s Erdogan and Iran’s Ahmadinejad:</p> <p>1) It would inevitably provoke Israel to use force, therefore giving an excuse to Erdogan to cancel Turkey’s alliance with Israel and proceed with the islamization of the country</p> <p>2) As a consequence, Israel would no more be able to use Turkey’s airspace to reconnoiter the region’s terrain or attack Iran (as it did at length before <a href="http://www.thecuttingedgenews.com/index.php?article=615&pageid=16&pagename=Opinion">attacking Syria in 2007</a>)</p> <p>3) Great propaganda value (this phase has already <a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2010/05/026427.php">started</a> in earnest)</p> <p>Israel’s first priority now is to show the world that she is the victim and not the aggressor; failing this, the plot against her will proceed, perhaps even to the point of a war, justified by a world opinion shaped by terrorists and shared by idiots.</p> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://writerous.codeplex.com/">Writerous</a></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://captainmarlow.posterous.com/the-gaza-bound-terrorist-flotilla-meant-to-fr">Captain Marlow</a> </p> </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9045359.post-25417802454829129902010-04-26T11:28:00.001+07:002010-04-26T11:28:37.601+07:00Latest from the Captain<div class='posterous_autopost'><ul> <li>Mugabe often said he'd transform Zimbabwe in the perfect Maoist state; he surely kept his promise.</li> <li>I'd recommend to US friends & foes to disregard whatever comes out of this administration; it won't last & it's not America</li> <li>If ur shy, introverted, become a muslim; nobody in the pc West will dare to mock u anymore. <a href="http://bit.ly/buO33e">http://bit.ly/buO33e</a></li> <li>@<a href="http://twitter.com/travelfish">travelfish</a> u ignore that skin clearing creams are the 1st selling product in Africa & Caribbean...</li> <li>@<a href="http://twitter.com/brooksbayne">brooksbayne</a> the Tunguska batch, I think</li> <li>I just signed the pledge to RememberNovember, do the same by visiting <a href="http://RememberNovember.com">http://RememberNovember.com</a></li> <li>"Researchers “Addicted” to Bogus Internet Studies" Yup. Nowadays, this is what passes for science on BBC, CNN & NYT</li> <li>Ciao Fini! <a href="http://bit.ly/aYNIv9">http://bit.ly/aYNIv9</a></li> <li>Panic about volcanic ash over Britain which closed British airspace for five days was completely unfounded. <a href="http://bit.ly/9vVwba">http://bit.ly/9vVwba</a></li> <li>Is this how NYT hopes to survive? Writing for vegan pacifist gauche caviar pinkos like it was the 60's? <a href="http://nyti.ms/aAaG4h">http://nyti.ms/aAaG4h</a></li> <li>"Chomsky Warns of Rise of Far Right in US" Which is of course a natural reaction to Far Left policies <a href="http://is.gd/bHPax">http://is.gd/bHPax</a></li> <li>Let me get this straight: Obama is profiling air travellers but Arizona can't profile immigrants? <a href="http://is.gd/bHPvW">http://is.gd/bHPvW</a></li> <li>“Four years of talking down to me and asking me to pay for it.” <a href="http://is.gd/bHRDq">http://is.gd/bHRDq</a></li> <li>A Southern accent now...these ppl have no dignity <a href="http://is.gd/bHTAy">http://is.gd/bHTAy</a></li> <li>“We Are All Israelis” <a href="http://is.gd/bHUsr">http://is.gd/bHUsr</a> Faster, please!</li> <li>Mark Steyn cleans the floor with Bill "Pardons for Sale" Clinton. <a href="http://is.gd/bHW0d">http://is.gd/bHW0d</a></li> </ul> <a href="https://twitter.com/captain_marlow">Follow me on Twitter</a> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://writerous.codeplex.com/">Writerous</a></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://captainmarlow.posterous.com/latest-from-the-captain-2">Captain Marlow</a> </p> </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9045359.post-14598379756349437692010-04-26T11:25:00.001+07:002010-04-26T11:25:53.335+07:00A little “Engrish” in Georgetown, Penang<div class='posterous_autopost'><a href="http://twitpic.com/1ik4lr" title="Share photos on twitter with Twitpic"><img src="http://twitpic.com/show/thumb/1ik4lr.jpg" height="150" alt="Share photos on twitter with Twitpic" width="150" /></a> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://writerous.codeplex.com/">Writerous</a></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://captainmarlow.posterous.com/a-little-engrish-in-georgetown-penang">Captain Marlow</a> </p> </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9045359.post-39784768304114845522010-04-12T14:26:00.002+07:002010-04-16T09:56:20.925+07:00Latest from the Captain<div class="posterous_autopost"><ul> <li>Beta Blackberry twitter app seems very nice, solid and fast; I'll keep u posted.</li> <li>Lots of rubbish flying around the net about Bangkok red shirts; follow @<a href="http://twitter.com/bangkokpundit">bangkokpundit</a> if you want to know <a href="http://bit.ly/9RSACK">http://bit.ly/9RSACK</a></li> <li>Quite happy w/ Twitter for Blackberry; give it a try and let me know.</li> <li>Obama To Host Nuclear Conference <a href="http://bit.ly/9wKRgv">http://bit.ly/9wKRgv</a> The incarnation of Affirmative Action keeps BS#itting his way thru life</li> <li>Enjoy! How many times can you find urself in agreement w/ islamists after all? <a href="http://is.gd/boX2w">http://is.gd/boX2w</a></li> <li>Obama's false accounting for defense; New START now counts 1 bomber (which can contain up to 20 bombs) as 1 bomb. Result: useless treaty</li> <li>@<a href="http://twitter.com/KurtSchlichter">KurtSchlichter</a> Watch Chuck Norris flicks over & over again!</li> <li>The most important thing to this president is how you feel and what you say, not all those annoying facts. <a href="http://is.gd/bpaDQ">http://is.gd/bpaDQ</a> Funny!</li> <li>Would you fly on a Tupolev? <a href="http://is.gd/bpaTV">http://is.gd/bpaTV</a></li> <li>"Lo sfregio di Praga" Che schifo... <a href="http://is.gd/bpcdd">http://is.gd/bpcdd</a></li> <li>"Da oggi il mondo è più sicuro, hanno detto Obama e Medvedev" Continuiamo a prenderci per il c%lo. <a href="http://is.gd/bpcnE">http://is.gd/bpcnE</a></li> <li>Dopo il sequestro Mastrogiacomo <a href="http://is.gd/bpdet">http://is.gd/bpdet</a> ho pochi dubbi che Emergency sia coinvolta <a href="http://is.gd/bpdi6">http://is.gd/bpdi6</a> Strada e' un estremista</li> <li>L'Unita', toccato il fondo da tempo (e io pago...), continua a scavare imperterrita <a href="http://is.gd/bpdsO">http://is.gd/bpdsO</a></li> <li>"In Sudafrica uccidere un bianco non è reato" qualcuno comincia ad accorgersene. Grazie ai mondiali di calcio? <a href="http://is.gd/bpdzh">http://is.gd/bpdzh</a></li> <li>"Vietnamese Prime Minister said the elections in Burma should be fair, democratic, with the participation of all parties" <a href="http://is.gd/bpf21">http://is.gd/bpf21</a></li> <li>Dicono che questa sia l'età dell'egoismo. Sbagliano. E' l'età dell'ipocrisia. <a href="http://is.gd/blkxz">http://is.gd/blkxz</a></li> <li>"Ahmadinejad wants to relocate 5millions from Tehran over quake fears" <a href="http://is.gd/bpfpz">http://is.gd/bpfpz</a> This stinks to high heaven.</li> <li>"NO COMMENT" <a href="http://twitpic.com/1f1mrt" title="Share photos on twitter with Twitpic"><img src="http://twitpic.com/show/thumb/1f1mrt.jpg" width="150" height="150" alt="Share photos on twitter with Twitpic" /></a></li> </ul> <a href="https://twitter.com/captain_marlow">Follow me on Twitter</a> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://writerous.codeplex.com/">Writerous</a></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com/">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://captainmarlow.posterous.com/latest-from-the-captain-0">Captain Marlow</a> </p> </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9045359.post-85645750850159780272010-04-01T12:50:00.001+07:002010-04-01T12:50:53.488+07:00Latest from the Captain<div class='posterous_autopost'><p> </p> <ul> <li>La Russia sostiene di voler combattere il terrorismo islamico ma appoggia regimi islamisti <a href="http://is.gd/b7S46">http://is.gd/b7S46</a></li> <li>se Silvio non avesse vietato Le trasmissioni di Floris e Santoro avrebbe vinto anche Puglia, Basilicata e Liguria. <a href="http://is.gd/b7T9h">http://is.gd/b7T9h</a></li> <li>The MDC’s political dominance : change is inevitable. Faster, please. <a href="http://is.gd/b7U26">http://is.gd/b7U26</a></li> <li>Take it w/ a pinch of salt (from Debka): G8 skips Iran sanctions to boost secret US opening to Revolutionary Guards. <a href="http://is.gd/b7U9i">http://is.gd/b7U9i</a></li> <li>Olavo de Carvalho on Communism in Latin America. Don't miss it! <a href="http://is.gd/b7UzZ">http://is.gd/b7UzZ</a></li> <li>Good Ole Movies: Billy Budd (1962) <a href="http://post.ly/WvXg">http://post.ly/WvXg</a></li> <li>Good Old Movies: The Year of Living Dangerously (1982) <a href="http://post.ly/Wvoh">http://post.ly/Wvoh</a></li> <li>Good Old Movies: To Have and Have Not (1944) <a href="http://post.ly/Ww9Q">http://post.ly/Ww9Q</a></li> <li>Recruiting Somali pirates against Iran? Why not! <a href="http://bit.ly/dbyXsy">http://bit.ly/dbyXsy</a></li> <li>Bolton 2 Netanyahu: 4 God’s sake get on w/ it before Obama destroys U; the fate of the free world rests on yr shoulders.<a href="http://bit.ly/dhRNlp">http://bit.ly/dhRNlp</a></li> </ul> <a href="https://twitter.com/captain_marlow">Follow me on Twitter</a> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://writerous.codeplex.com/">Writerous</a></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://captainmarlow.posterous.com/latest-from-the-captain">Captain Marlow</a> </p> </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9045359.post-82113395767860524302010-04-01T11:53:00.001+07:002010-04-01T11:53:56.913+07:00Good Old Movies: To Have and Have Not (1944)<div class='posterous_autopost'><p><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/captainmarlow/sJDgJemnsuiwyBetqvtjAAjnCzIhzBBjCyEEwGByevnwkpmFtnxCcmBpuhhl/To_Have_and_Have_Not.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="97" height="140"/> </p><p>Forget Hemingway, this film has very little to do with the novel of the same name. Nevertheless, it is one of my favorite movies. Why? Because Humphrey Bogart is in it, because Lauren Bacall is in it and because Walter Brennan is in it!</p> <p>“Slim” is as sexy as she can be. When she sings “Am I blue” with Hoagy Carmichael at the piano you’ll get shivers down your spine.</p> <p>The bond between “Steve” and “Slim” is immediately evident (and we all know how it ended up...). However, I have always wondered if my favorite cinematographic couple’s chemistry would have worked in “Casablanca" (“To have and have not” tries unsuccessfully to remix all of Casablanca elements): would Bacall have been better than Bergman? I must admit that Ingrid Bergman is much more appropriate than Lauren Bacall for the part of saintly companion to a Resistance hero; had she been played by “Slim”, she and Rick would still be making wild love in Paris!</p> <p>Re-watch it, if only for “Eddie” doing the forgetful drunk and “Cricket” playing and singing…</p> <div class="wlWriterSmartContent" style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="float: left;"> <p /><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt37382/" target="_blank">Go to IMDb page</a> <p style="font-size: smaller;">Information © <a href="http://www.imdb.com" target="_blank">IMDb.com</a></p> </div></div> </div> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://writerous.codeplex.com/">Writerous</a></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://captainmarlow.posterous.com/good-old-movies-to-have-and-have-not-1944">Captain Marlow</a> </p> </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9045359.post-4021626751121192462010-04-01T11:18:00.001+07:002010-04-01T11:18:53.002+07:00Good Old Movies: The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)<div class='posterous_autopost'><p><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/captainmarlow/znhHhIkxjuffszlekzAwDacJkgbkDkBuzexgnvFwcdGaeCkeHBkoxfBGHkDr/The_Year_of_Living_Dangerously.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="97" height="140"/> </p><p>Great movie with a young but convincing Mel Gibson and a very sexy Sigourny Weaver. The collapse of the Soukarno regime in Indonesia in 1965 and Soukarto’s take over.</p> <div class="wlWriterSmartContent" style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="float: left;"> <p /><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt86617/" target="_blank">Go to IMDb page</a> <p style="font-size: smaller;">Information © <a href="http://www.imdb.com" target="_blank">IMDb.com</a></p> </div></div> </div> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://writerous.codeplex.com/">Writerous</a></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://captainmarlow.posterous.com/good-old-movies-the-year-of-living-dangerousl">Captain Marlow</a> </p> </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9045359.post-29078248758115222832010-04-01T10:47:00.001+07:002010-04-01T10:47:14.271+07:00Good Ole Movies: Billy Budd (1962)<div class='posterous_autopost'><p><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/captainmarlow/CayDkpHDabcECmkIJbgjlDCojupxxywHcypmJrzizvtHrheCConzECBwujwh/Billy_Budd.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="100" height="126"/> </p><div class="wlWriterSmartContent" style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="float: left;"> <p /><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt55796/" target="_blank">Go to IMDb page</a> <p style="font-size: smaller;">Information © <a href="http://www.imdb.com" target="_blank">IMDb.com</a></p> </div></div> </div> <p>Fantastic moral drama based on Melville’s novel. An excellent Peter Ustinov, a terrifying Robert Ryan and a surprisingly handsome (if not beautiful) and innocent-looking Terence Stamp at his debut (I think).</p> <p>If you haven’t watched it, do it now; if you have, watch it again!</p> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://writerous.codeplex.com/">Writerous</a></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://captainmarlow.posterous.com/good-ole-movies-billy-budd-1962">Captain Marlow</a> </p> </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9045359.post-70589154099282578172010-03-31T13:36:00.002+07:002010-04-16T09:53:50.652+07:00Latest tweets from the Captain<ul> <li style="text-align: left;">Un'analisi equilibrata della sconfitta della sinistra in Italia. <a href="http://is.gd/b6865">http://is.gd/b6865</a> </li> <li>BOTTOM STORY OF THE DAY: Ricky Martin confirms he’s gay. Who’s next — Elton John? <a href="http://is.gd/b69tE">http://is.gd/b69tE</a> </li> <li>A Buddhist Monk awaits alms outside my hotel in Phnom Penh <a href="http://twitpic.com/1bwjhj" title="Share photos on twitter with Twitpic"><img src="http://twitpic.com/show/thumb/1bwjhj.jpg" width="150" height="150" alt="Share photos on twitter with Twitpic" /></a></li> <li>Some more dirty background to the Obama made Honduras crisis. <a href="http://is.gd/b6cmk">http://is.gd/b6cmk</a> </li> <li>Drone Attacks Are Legit Self-Defense, Says State Dept. Lawyer. Another "Bush was right" I suppose. <a href="http://is.gd/b6cJC">http://is.gd/b6cJC</a> </li> <li>I hope that bloody wussy has watched the last 24 episode...might learn what a President should be... </li> <li>After weeks of lies BBC has to admit Berlusconi's "big gains"; I hate these monotesticledcommieveganwarmistwussies! <a href="http://is.gd/b7oXZ">http://is.gd/b7oXZ</a> </li> <li>Have We Gone From Watching Movies to Just Looking At Them? Good point; watch this space (I love lil known good movies) <a href="http://is.gd/b7qHp">http://is.gd/b7qHp</a> </li> <li>It Could Destroy Italy 'At Any Time'. No, it is not Di Pietro but an underwater volcano. <a href="http://is.gd/b7vCl">http://is.gd/b7vCl</a> </li> </ul> <a href="https://twitter.com/captain_marlow">Follow me on Twitter</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9045359.post-17067090791394630312009-11-23T20:58:00.001+07:002009-11-23T20:58:44.583+07:00#Honduras forgotten in the midst of even bigger Obama's blunders
<div><span class="long_text"><span title=" El Departamento de Estado comprobó que el respaldo institucional hondureño a la destitución y arresto de Zelaya era prácticamente unánime y se mantenía firme, pese a las sanciones y las cancelaciones de visas." style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255);">I have always been extremely curious about this Administration treatment of Honduras in the aftermath of Zelaya's attempted coup and puzzled by the blatant way in which Obama leaned in favor of Chavez and his dangerous games in Latin America.</span></span></div> <p /> <div><span class="long_text"><span title=" El Departamento de Estado comprobó que el respaldo institucional hondureño a la destitución y arresto de Zelaya era prácticamente unánime y se mantenía firme, pese a las sanciones y las cancelaciones de visas." style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255);">Now, thanks to <a href="http://faustasblog.com/?p=17005">Fausta</a>, we finally understand why Obama has again changed his position by 180" (an automatic translation of the excellent <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.elnuevoherald.com%2Fopinion%2Fv-fullstory%2Fstory%2F593163.html&sl=es&tl=en" title="http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.elnuevoherald.com%2Fopinion%2Fv-fullstory%2Fstory%2F593163.html&sl=es&tl=en CTRL + Click to follow link">Montaner </a>article follows):</span></span></div> <p /> <div><span class="long_text"><span title=" El Departamento de Estado comprobó que el respaldo institucional hondureño a la destitución y arresto de Zelaya era prácticamente unánime y se mantenía firme, pese a las sanciones y las cancelaciones de visas." style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255);"><em> The State Department found that the Honduran institutional support to the dismissal and arrest of Zelaya was virtually unanimous and held firm, despite sanctions and cancellation of visas. </em></span><em><span title="Los poderes legislativo y judicial, las iglesias, el ejército y, según las encuestas, el 80% de la población, preferían a Zelaya alejado del poder." style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255);">The legislature and judiciary, the churches, the army and, according to surveys, 80% of the population, preferred Zelaya from power. <p /></span><span title=" El informe del departamento jurídico de la Biblioteca del Congreso sobre la remoción de Zelaya, solicitado por un legislador, no dejaba lugar a dudas: Zelaya había sido separado del cargo y sustituido por Micheletti de acuerdo con la legislación hondureña." style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255);"> The report of the legal department of the Library of Congress on the removal of Zelaya, requested by a legislator, left no doubt: Zelaya had been removed from office and replaced by Micheletti under Honduran law. </span></em><em><span title="Expulsarlo del país seguramente fue ilegal (acaso debieron dejarlo encarcelado), pero exigir su restitución era tanto como pedirles a los hondureños que violaran la ley." style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255);">Expelled from the country was probably illegal (perhaps due to leave jail), but both require restitution was like asking the Hondurans who violated the law. <p /></span><span title=" El nuevo gobierno de Honduras, hábilmente, había trasladado el debate al seno de la sociedad norteamericana, por medio de congresistas y senadores republicanos, y la administración de Obama estaba pagando un precio político interno por sostener una postura antidemocrática contraria a los intereses y valores" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255);"> The new government of Honduras, deftly, had moved the debate within American society, through Congress and Senate Republicans and the Obama administration was paying a political price for supporting internal antidemocratic stance contrary to the interests and values </span></em><em><span title="del pueblo estadounidense." style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255);">the American people. <p /></span><span title=" En el Departamento de Estado circulaban dos páginas compiladas por la inteligencia norteamericana en las que se consignaban los presuntos delitos y complicidades del entorno más íntimo de Zelaya con el narcotráfico y la corrupción." style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255);"> At the State Department circulated two pages compiled by U.S. intelligence in which the alleged crimes were recorded and complexities of the intimate environment of Zelaya with drug trafficking and corruption. </span></em><em><span title="No tenía sentido colocarse en ese mismo bando, mientras Washington mantenía en el país la base militar de Palmerola, supuestamente dedicada a vigilar y combatir actividades afines a las que realizaban familiares y amigos de su contradictorio protegido." style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255);">There was no point placed in the same side as Washington remained in the country Palmerola military base, supposedly dedicated to monitor and control activities related to family and friends who performed his contradictory protected. <p /></span><span title=" Tampoco parecía sensato alentar la supervivencia artificial de un régimen que militaba abiertamente en el campo chavista, familia política aliada a Irán." style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255);"> He did not seem wise to encourage the artificial survival of a regime that was active in the field openly Chavez, allied with Iran political family. </span><span title="Chávez, que hasta hace poco era clasificado como una pintoresca molestia, al asociarse a Irán y prestarle apoyo para el desarrollo de armas nucleares ha pasado a ser un enemigo peligroso." style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255);">Chavez, who until recently was classified as a whimsical trouble associating itself with Iran and provide support for the development of nuclear weapons has become a dangerous enemy.</span></em></span></div> <p /> <div><span class="long_text"><span title="Chávez, que hasta hace poco era clasificado como una pintoresca molestia, al asociarse a Irán y prestarle apoyo para el desarrollo de armas nucleares ha pasado a ser un enemigo peligroso." style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255);">However enlightening, this doesn't explain why their initial approach was so totally wrong; I have read many theories about it, but only one fits the facts: Obama and his "experts" wanted to be seen to side with the weak (with the people, on the side of democracy, protecting the oppressed) <strong>but they completely and utterly misunderstood the situation.</strong></span></span></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://captainmarlow.posterous.com/honduras-forgotten-in-the-midst-of-even-bigge">Captain Marlow</a> </p> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9045359.post-12447038634367032942009-09-28T13:32:00.001+07:002009-09-28T13:32:11.382+07:00Believing one's own propaganda can only lead to huge mistakes: Bush was well liked.
<p><i>There are people around the world who will always hate or distrust us, like the mullahs of Iran or Kim Jong Il or Castro. Obama seems determined to befriend these mortal enemies. Then there are peoples, nations, and leaders which share natural interests with America, like Israel, Poland, India, Columbia, and Britain. Toward these nations and their leaders, Obama seems bent on being the very ugliest Ugly American.</i></p> <p></p> <p><a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/09/the_ugly_american.html">Bruce Walker</a> at the American Thinker manages to put into words what I have always suspected: the only reason I can come up with to explain Obama’s absurd and inconsistent foreign policy is that, as ridiculously naïve as it may sound, Obama really believes the anti-bush propaganda the dems have circulated in the past 8 years.</p> <p></p> <p>As I suggested <a href="http://captainmarlow.blogspot.com/2009/04/first-comment_22.html">earlier</a>, it is very simple to wake up from this – for some – daydream:</p> <p></p> <p><i>Take pen and paper and draw a divider (no pun intended) like a capital T on a sheet of paper (like an accountant’s debit and credit graph); go back in your mind to a few months or few years ago. On the left column start listing Bush’s foes and on the right his friends/allies; you will immediately realize that the list on the left contains the names of tyrants, dictators, madmen, fraudsters, corrupt politicians, etc. (Khamenei, Ahmadinejad, Kim Jong Il, the Castro brothers, Chavez, Morales, Chirac, Schroeder, Saddam Hussein, etc., etc.) and the right mostly the names of heads of state of democratic countries (Israel, Sarkozy, Merkel, Harper, John Howard and now Rudd, New Zealand, Italy, Iraq, etc., etc.). </i></p> <p><i></i></p> <p>You get the drift. So where did the myth (yes, it is a myth) of “the world hates Bush” originates? In the same place where all attacks against center and center-right parties originates: on the left (see what they are trying to do to Berlusconi, arguably the best government Italy has ever had since WWII).</p> <p></p> <p>The result of Obama’s gullibility? He has consistently been alienating the guys on the right side of the list: UK, Israel, Honduras, Poland, Czech Republic, etc. and getting comfy with America’s enemies. I am afraid that the next President of the USA will have a lot of apologizing to do; this time for real.<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://captainmarlow.posterous.com/believing-ones-own-propaganda-can-only-lead-t">Captain Marlow</a> </p> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9045359.post-42400559066453762202009-09-28T11:34:00.001+07:002009-09-28T11:34:35.520+07:00Latest tweets from the Captain
<ul type="disc"> <li style="color: #333333; line-height: 19.2pt;">Christiane Amanpour interviewing Mugabe on CNN; he's lying, of course, but she's toothless and unprepared. She'll never be a Fallaci.</li> <li style="color: #333333; line-height: 19.2pt;">Mixed Reactions Over CNN Interview With Mugabe. Yes, she was unprepapared. Good to see him squirm & defensive tho <a href="http://viigo.im/10vp">http://viigo.im/10vp</a></li> <li style="color: #333333; line-height: 19.2pt;">US welcomes #Iran inspection offer.Another "ballet" that'll give'em more time.As if Sarkozy deadline wasn't enough <a href="http://viigo.im/10vw">http://viigo.im/10vw</a></li> <li style="color: #333333; line-height: 19.2pt;">EU envoys return to #Honduras to help resolve coup crisis & possibly stir up some violence to help Chavez <a href="http://viigo.im/10vA">http://viigo.im/10vA</a></li> <li style="color: #333333; line-height: 19.2pt;">Afghanistan Troop Request Splits Advisers to Obama. No doubt he'll pick the wrong one... <a href="http://viigo.im/10vF">http://viigo.im/10vF</a></li> <li style="color: #333333; line-height: 19.2pt;">Chavez, Gaddafi seek new world order. Why 2 "bipolar" want a "multipolar" world beats me. <a href="http://viigo.im/10vI">http://viigo.im/10vI</a></li> <li style="color: #333333; line-height: 19.2pt;">Kenyan president protests U.S. warning letters. Priceless! Non-interference, sorry if Bush was pushy, no more? <a href="http://viigo.im/10vR">http://viigo.im/10vR</a></li> <li style="color: #333333; line-height: 19.2pt;">Obama accuses #Iran of pattern of evasion. Do'h! Ahmadinedjad must be LOL! <a href="http://viigo.im/10vU">http://viigo.im/10vU</a></li> <li style="color: #333333; line-height: 19.2pt;">RT @<a href="http://twitter.com/StrvingBloggist">StrvingBloggist</a>: Obama = One Big Awful Mistake America</li> <li style="color: #333333; line-height: 19.2pt;">Iran tests short-range missiles. <a href="http://tr.im/zRSq">http://tr.im/zRSq</a> This must be the dialogue they talk about...</li> <li style="color: #333333; line-height: 19.2pt;">By keeping silent on #Iran second plant about which he knew for months, Obama has caused irreversible damage. <a href="http://bit.ly/26DDcm">http://bit.ly/26DDcm</a></li> <li style="color: #333333; line-height: 19.2pt;">Gates: No Afghan Withdrawal Date; would be a strategic mistake. Ahem, isn't this what Republicans used to say? <a href="http://viigo.im/10Yk">http://viigo.im/10Yk</a></li> <li style="color: #333333; line-height: 19.2pt;">Brazil to lose its right to an embassy in Honduras in 10 days if it does not decide on handing over Zelaya. Good! <a href="http://viigo.im/10Yq">http://viigo.im/10Yq</a></li> <li style="color: #333333; line-height: 19.2pt;">RT @<a href="http://twitter.com/TaoWizard">TaoWizard</a>: The wise one accomplishes each small task as if they were the greatest task ~ Daodejing</li> <li style="color: #333333; line-height: 19.2pt;">@<a href="http://twitter.com/badbanana">badbanana</a> of course it is! Otherwise the West'd've done something, they have known about it for a year...</li> <li style="color: #333333; line-height: 19.2pt;">Mugabe & those like him R our creation; we have feted and honored them for too long for our own reasons (cold war). What can we expect now?</li> <li style="color: #333333; line-height: 19.2pt;">If anyone wants an invite to try out Brizzly; looking really good so far. <a href="http://is.gd/3JEd3">http://is.gd/3JEd3</a></li> <li style="color: #333333; line-height: 19.2pt;">RT @<a href="http://twitter.com/dvd493">dvd493</a>: RT @<a href="http://twitter.com/LadyImpactOhio">LadyImpactOhio</a> @<a href="http://twitter.com/Ohio_Tea_Party">Ohio_Tea_Party</a> OPERATION SENATE OVERLOAD ON HEALTHCARE HAS BEGUN. PLS RT. <a href="http://bit.ly/1ayyVS">http://bit.ly/1ayyVS</a></li> <li style="color: #333333; line-height: 19.2pt;">#tcot When they start talking about "the vast right wing conspiracy" you can relax; you know they are losing. <a href="http://ow.ly/15RvtU">http://ow.ly/15RvtU</a></li> <li style="color: #333333; line-height: 19.2pt;">Sell out your friends, and you’re a cretin. Sell them out and get nothing in return, and you’re a cretin and a fool. <a href="http://bit.ly/82GVV">http://bit.ly/82GVV</a></li> </ul> <p><span style="color: #333333;"><a href="https://twitter.com/captain_marlow">Follow me on Twitter</a></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://captainmarlow.posterous.com/latest-tweets-from-the-captain-3">Captain Marlow</a> </p> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9045359.post-60933876670450747452009-09-07T13:01:00.001+07:002009-09-07T13:01:24.844+07:00In the end, it is up to those who get it sooner to be patient and do the hard work...
<p>I was surprised recently, when a colleague of mine, talking about one of our contractors, said that he looked honest and hard working and he was sure he would deliver in time. I had a meeting afterwards with the guy and immediately judged him a crook or at least someone who didn’t know what he was talking about; I was sure (and was proved correct) that, as soon as he got the contract, he would scout around for cheap labor, botch the work and disappear after receiving an advance payment.</p> <p></p> <p>This got me wondering what I have, in addition to age and experience, that others don’t; I assure you, for example, that watching someone on TV who to you is clearly lying and dissimulating, together with friends who miss all the telltale signs and take the person’s words at face value is a disheartening, irritating experience. “Can’t you see he is lying?” you feel like bursting out saying; “don’t you understand he doesn’t mean that at all?”.</p> <p></p> <p>Of course, after many years, I – and those like me, a bit quicker on the draw, let’s say – have learnt to be patient; we know that eventually these people will reveal themselves for what they are (I remember with a smile Dean’s horrible “aaaaarghhhh” when he lost or Edwards’ “scandal”: I wouldn’t have trusted him with a second hand toothbrush from the moment I saw him). As painful as all this is (you always have to stop yourself from saying: “I told you so” and you keep wondering how grownups and/or professionals can talk seriously about this or that person), it is also funny. I remember last year someone asking me what I thought of Obama (for me it was unbelievable to watch all these people drinking in his “hopeychangey” thing; he is perhaps the most empty, hypocritical, fake, dissimulating man I have ever watched perform in public); naively, I replied: “I don’t see how he can even win his party’s primaries”. Knowing smiles of superiority welcomed my – in their eyes – ignorant opinion.</p> <p></p> <p>They were right, of course; they believed as gospel what the man and MSM were saying (to the point of forgetting his ineffectual career, dark past and criminal frequentations). I had again committed the sin of thinking that no one could miss the blatant incompetence, the emptiness of the words, the disgusting moral equivalence always at the forefront. Am I happy now that I can say “I told you so” as more and more people realize the truth? No, I am not; the stakes are too high and the damage could be irreversible. It is time for those who are only waking up now to make up for the time lost.</p> <p></p> <p><i><a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/09/by_the_book_how_democracies_pe.html">Ultimately, the America we love lives or dies because of the action or inaction of its citizens. Revel reminds us of the terrible responsibility of that citizenship, as we face a battle for survival, against ourselves.</a></i></p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://captainmarlow.posterous.com/in-the-end-it-is-up-to-those-who-get-it-soone">captainmarlow's posterous</a> </p> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9045359.post-61603153266993984832009-09-04T08:48:00.001+07:002009-09-04T08:48:06.379+07:00Afghanistan: how to lose a war and blame someone else
<p>I do hope that someone in this dysfunctional administration <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204731804574388630158193104.html">listens</a> to Max Boot:</p> <p></p> <p><i>Until now international forces and their Afghan partners have lacked the will and resources to implement a classic counterinsurgency plan designed to secure the populace. But that is precisely what Gen. Stanley McChrystal will undertake—assuming he gets the resources he needs from Washington. To pull the plug on our operations now, when our troops are only beginning to fight in earnest, would be even more foolish than it would have been to short-circuit the surge in Iraq in 2007—as so many who are freely offering advice on Afghanistan today once advocated.</i></p> <p><i></i></p> <p>However, I have my doubts; four main mistakes were made by Obama and his ideological cronies:</p> <p></p> <p class="MsoListParagraph" style=""><span style="">1)<span style="font: 7.0pt Times New Roman;"> </span></span>Spreading the word that they wanted to talk to “moderate” Taliban (there is not such a thing and it has – rightly – been interpreted as a sign of extreme weakness)</p> <p class="MsoListParagraph" style=""><span style="">2)<span style="font: 7.0pt Times New Roman;"> </span></span>Hoping stupidly that the perceived European ill will against Bush (itself a fabrication of the Dems) would miraculously transform itself in love and military support for Obama’s endevours</p> <p class="MsoListParagraph" style=""><span style="">3)<span style="font: 7.0pt Times New Roman;"> </span></span>Afghanistan, like Iraq and all the rest of it, is a regional problem and no amount of appeasement towards Syria or Iran will reduce their desire to do harm to US/Western interests in the region; on the contrary, it will only encourage them</p> <p class="MsoListParagraph" style=""><span style="">4)<span style="font: 7.0pt Times New Roman;"> </span></span>First thing to do to protect the population is to eliminate corruption (which was the main reason of the Taliban’s’ first success); to do this allies must destroy completely poppy fields and opium cultivations which only benefit and fund the Taliban’s’ murderous activities (farmers and villagers get very little out of it anyway; they would be better off planting grains)</p> <p></p> <p>Of course, when you have people like Dennis Ross advising a young and inexperienced President that protecting the poppy fields must be the first objective of the counterinsurgency (a “no brainer” he calls it) you can only despair…let’s hope McCrystal, with his love of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPXVGQnJm0w">napalm</a>, will use it where it is now needed most.</p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://captainmarlow.posterous.com/afghanistan-how-to-lose-a-war-and-blame-someo">captainmarlow's posterous</a> </p> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9045359.post-36813290946753917482009-09-01T11:28:00.002+07:002009-09-01T11:33:38.482+07:00Latest tweets from the Captain<ul type="disc"> <li style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19.2pt;">'Reborn' Jesus Leads Vegans in Russia. And the "this is my body this is my blood" thing? Haven't read the fine print? <a href="http://bit.ly/2czCKA">http://bit.ly/2czCKA</a></li> <li style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19.2pt;">Slogans for Windows 7. <a href="http://bit.ly/1i4SxO">http://bit.ly/1i4SxO</a> The best? Because owning a Mac is one step away from drinking lattes at a Green Party tweetup.</li> <li style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19.2pt;">In a new, gentler time, apparently it’s now possible to swap mass murderers for oil. Think of the possibilities. <a href="http://tinyurl.com/lqb2uh">http://tinyurl.com/lqb2uh</a></li> <li style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19.2pt;">12 Facts about Global Climate Change That You Won’t Read in the Popular Press. <a href="http://tinyurl.com/kqtooo">http://tinyurl.com/kqtooo</a> ESSENTIAL READING!</li> <li style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19.2pt;">Global March against Hugo Chavez next 4 September at 12:00. <a href="http://www.nomaschavez.org/">http://www.nomaschavez.org/</a> (via @<a href="http://twitter.com/fausta">fausta</a>)</li> <li style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19.2pt;">#tcot Is this how the "reset" with Syria is working? <a href="http://tinyurl.com/lp6cn4">http://tinyurl.com/lp6cn4</a></li> <li style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19.2pt;">#iran #iranelection Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 18. Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion.</li> <li style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19.2pt;">#tcot The real Ted Kennedy. <a href="http://tinyurl.com/274evx">http://tinyurl.com/274evx</a></li> <li style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19.2pt;">Chappaquiddick, the true story: when a man is not a man anymore. <a href="http://tinyurl.com/n8rey2">http://tinyurl.com/n8rey2</a></li> <li style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19.2pt;">Splendid cartoon: British Lockerbie memorial. http://tinyurl.com/ksffb2</li> <li style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19.2pt;">#tcot Kennedy tried to enlist the aid of the Soviet regime, Yuri Andropov, to get President Reagan defeated. <a href="http://tinyurl.com/ma9o9h">http://tinyurl.com/ma9o9h</a></li> <li style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19.2pt;">Following my latest tweet...British Lockerbie memorial <a href="http://post.ly/3aBb">http://post.ly/3aBb</a></li> </ul> <p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><a href="https://twitter.com/captain_marlow">Follow me on Twitter</a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;"></span></p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com/">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://captainmarlow.posterous.com/latest-tweets-from-the-captain-2">captainmarlow's posterous</a> </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9045359.post-48885593997470360012009-09-01T11:23:00.001+07:002009-09-01T11:23:32.338+07:00Following my latest tweet...British Lockerbie memorial
<p><a href="http://townhall.com/Funnies/Default.aspx"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;"><a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/captainmarlow/LTijn33khoPiOSgqjq5ZkO0YdpXFzZQPPBZG7LRh0vWcPw2WTVHU9CDbIlXX/image001.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/captainmarlow/UrvxaTJPWsYUvHut1HQOWwLSdxEuYCtVGhjqXjShcNwqFYfjP99HSwRwE3lv/image001.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" height="379"/></a> </span></a></p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://captainmarlow.posterous.com/following-my-latest-tweetbritish-lockerbie-me">captainmarlow's posterous</a> </p> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9045359.post-23081884061796476832009-08-24T12:35:00.001+07:002009-08-24T12:35:38.192+07:00Latest tweets from the Captain<ul> <li>Swaziland King Mswati III sent several of his 13 wives on a multi-million-dollar shopping spree. <a href="http://bit.ly/3wi3xk">http://bit.ly/3wi3xk</a> This is where aid goes</li> <li>Brave people against medieval death cults: <a href="http://bit.ly/2H5G5">http://bit.ly/2H5G5</a></li> <li>#iran #iranelection Ahmadinejad's next defense minister is wanted by Interpol for 1994 Buenos Aires atrocity. <a href="http://bit.ly/HZ2Dy">http://bit.ly/HZ2Dy</a></li> <li>Another excellent reason to upgrade to Windows 7: a lame, paid for, non-expert opinion piece on Wired against it. <a href="http://bit.ly/10Ksbq">http://bit.ly/10Ksbq</a></li> <li>#tcot Gordon Brown, politically finished anyway, has just set up his pension fund in Tripoli, a la "Schroeder" (that 1 in Moscow, though)</li> <li>Rafsanjani in 'conciliatory' move. He has betrayed you as you knew he would; get rid of all clerics! #iranelection <a href="http://viigo.im/0F7k">http://viigo.im/0F7k</a></li> <li>#Marlow Not my real name (do'h), just one of my favorite books...</li> <li>#tcot Dear Obama, despite your birdbrained father's beliefs, communism never has worked and never will. Give it up and behave like a man.</li> <li>“This Massive Expansion of Wasteful Statism Brought to You by Obama Marketing, Inc.”. <a href="http://bit.ly/dmjZg">http://bit.ly/dmjZg</a></li> <li>Malaysia beer woman spared caning. <a href="http://bit.ly/1TtakR">http://bit.ly/1TtakR</a> It would be nice one day to welcome back Malaysia into the civilized world.</li> <li>Its a good time to be a polar bear.Unusually cool temperatures in the north produced thicker-than-usual polar ice. <a href="http://tinyurl.com/m6pqr9">http://tinyurl.com/m6pqr9</a></li> <li>Interesting backgrounder on the latest Gordon Brown blunder, freeing terrorist al-Megrahi for money. <a href="http://tinyurl.com/neqy6d">http://tinyurl.com/neqy6d</a></li> <li>Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon’s youngest daughter, Hyun Hee, and her husband, Chatterjee's incredible UN careers. <a href="http://tinyurl.com/lq2qtr">http://tinyurl.com/lq2qtr</a></li> <li>Evidence is mounting that there was far more to the release of Megrahi than simply compassion,” said a British MP. <a href="http://tinyurl.com/nw9mk9">http://tinyurl.com/nw9mk9</a></li> </ul> <a href="https://twitter.com/captain_marlow">Follow me on Twitter</a> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9045359.post-72384769401072756702009-08-21T13:55:00.001+07:002009-08-21T13:55:56.307+07:00#tcot And they say FOX is biased?
<p>So, while sitting room intellectuals joke about FOX News and wink at each other knowingly, they continue – unknowingly – to be fed s*&t like this:</p> <p></p> <p><b>MSNBC <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/19/unreal-msnbc-edits-clip-of-man-with-gun-at-obama-rally-to-support-racism-narrative/">edits</a> clip of man with gun at Obama rally to support racism narrative</b></p> <p><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/UYKQJ4-N7LI&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" /></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/UYKQJ4-N7LI&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" height="344" width="425"></embed></object></object></p> <p></p> <p>I f Obama is reduced to this level of deceit to desperately cling to his dwindling ratings after only 7 months, he won’t even finish the first term…(if and when the spineless GOP manages to grow a new pair)</p> <p></p> <p>Oh, the irony!</p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://captainmarlow.posterous.com/tcot-and-they-say-fox-is-biased-0">captainmarlow's posterous</a> </p> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9045359.post-39135206927673526332009-08-21T09:11:00.001+07:002009-08-21T09:11:36.393+07:00Latest tweets from the Captain
<ul type="disc" style="margin-top: 0in;"> <li style="">#iran #iranelection Hurdles Expected As Ahmadinejad Begins Second Term. <a href="http://bit.ly/zHisY">http://bit.ly/zHisY</a> Now's the hard part guys.Give it all you've got!</li> <li style="">When, during a war, Congress starts asking precise benchmarks, like in Iraq, is the part that makes me laugh most (^_^). <a href="http://bit.ly/xj0iC">http://bit.ly/xj0iC</a></li> <li style="">Splendid cartoon on how the "Dear Leader" secures supplies. <a href="http://bit.ly/EC4Ew">http://bit.ly/EC4Ew</a></li> <li style="">Latest Tweets from the Captain <a href="http://tinyurl.com/kjv6bm">http://tinyurl.com/kjv6bm</a></li> <li style="">Latest Tweets from the Captain <a href="http://post.ly/1y4s">http://post.ly/1y4s</a></li> <li style="">After 6 Months, More View Obama's Presidency as a 'Failure' Than Bush's. <a href="http://bit.ly/18OF0S">http://bit.ly/18OF0S</a></li> <li style="">When a society starts asking: "why should the brain surgeon make more than the auto worker?" like Europe did and US is doing, it is the end.</li> <li style="">± 50% of a population is usually ignorant and stupid but the unwashed masses (and the elite who squeezes them) this time really screwed up!</li> <li style="">Affirmative action laws are, of course, racist by definition; a first step towards abolishing meritocracy. The price will be steep indeed...</li> <li style="">Get used to "newspeak". The U.S. is no longer engaged in a "war on terrorism" or fighting "jihadists" or a "global war." <a href="http://bit.ly/D6O0C">http://bit.ly/D6O0C</a></li> <li style="">A calmer Iraq takes on another killer — smoking. <a href="http://bit.ly/PaLgE">http://bit.ly/PaLgE</a> Best proof of "Bush was right" if anyone needed one of course...</li> <li style="">RAI: GARIMBERTI, INFORMAZIONE PUBBLICA DEVE RACCONTARE I FATTI Quando mai Rai 3 ha fatto informazione!? <a href="http://viigo.im/0uyP">http://viigo.im/0uyP</a></li> <li style="">Yahoo “Never Was a Search Company,” Says CEO. On the contrary, it was nothing but...and you blew it! <a href="http://viigo.im/0uzl">http://viigo.im/0uzl</a></li> <li style="">Pakistani Taliban head's death a blow to militants. All Obama has to do to be right is continue Bush policies. <a href="http://viigo.im/0uzA">http://viigo.im/0uzA</a></li> <li style="">Happy Birthday, Singapore! You don't look your age and are as beautiful as ever!</li> <li style="">RT @<a href="http://twitter.com/scalzi">scalzi</a>: Hey! I won a hugo! Well deserved, man! Well deserved!</li> <li style="">Hillary Clinton: I'm secretary of state, not Bill. <a href="http://bit.ly/f68Pz">http://bit.ly/f68Pz</a> The whole dog & pony show getting more ridiculous by the day!</li> <li style="">Nobody takes seriously Joe"dumbo"Biden except Russia; and they'll make US pay for having publicly dismissed their country as a basket case.</li> <li style="">US continues to condemn Zelaya's ouster but no sanctions means #Honduras has won. <a href="http://bit.ly/Vei3Q">http://bit.ly/Vei3Q</a> Why lie then? <a href="http://bit.ly/19WGem">http://bit.ly/19WGem</a></li> <li style="">Hillary Clinton: I'm secretary of state, not Bill. <a href="http://bit.ly/f68Pz">http://bit.ly/f68Pz</a> The whole dog & pony show getting more ridiculous by the day!</li> <li style="">Nobody takes seriously Joe"dumbo"Biden except Russia; and they'll make US pay for having publicly dismissed their country as a basket case.</li> <li style="">US continues to condemn Zelaya's ouster but no sanctions means #Honduras has won. <a href="http://bit.ly/Vei3Q">http://bit.ly/Vei3Q</a> Why lie then? <a href="http://bit.ly/19WGem">http://bit.ly/19WGem</a></li> <li style="">I accuse Obama and those members of Congress of seeking to impose a “Cap-and-Trade” bill based entirely on the hoax. <a href="http://bit.ly/qZcU1">http://bit.ly/qZcU1</a></li> <li style="">#indonesia #indonesiaunite Source Hints Body Not That Of Indonesia Militant Top. <a href="http://bit.ly/13x7CX">http://bit.ly/13x7CX</a></li> <li style="">U.N.'s Ban Ki-moon congratulates Iran President Ahmadinejad. He mixed up his notes, it was "I'm deeply concerned". <a href="http://viigo.im/0xaZ">http://viigo.im/0xaZ</a></li> <li style="">Dems seem ready to ditch the "here's what we're fighting for" to "here's what were fighting against." <a href="http://bit.ly/1TURv5">http://bit.ly/1TURv5</a> Pathetic...</li> <li style="">It's official: President Obama is not afraid of Canadians. <a href="http://bit.ly/h4dP6">http://bit.ly/h4dP6</a></li> <li style="">#tcot All you ever wanted to know about socialism but were afraid to ask... <a href="http://bit.ly/23aI9C">http://bit.ly/23aI9C</a></li> <li style="">U.N.'s Ban Ki-moon congratulates #Iran President Ahmadinejad. He mixed up his notes, it was "I'm deeply concerned". <a href="http://viigo.im/0xaZ">http://viigo.im/0xaZ</a></li> <li style="">Iraq's Bombs of August: A Return to the Bad Old Days? Obama's total lack of strategy emboldens the terrorists. <a href="http://bit.ly/8rbhp">http://bit.ly/8rbhp</a></li> <li style="">The stench of corruption in Thailand is reaching new heights: Why the Merchant of Death May Not Stand Trial. <a href="http://bit.ly/usGzu">http://bit.ly/usGzu</a></li> <li style="">#iranelection vote for this, vote for that; same sickness. Only separation of church and state will bring #iran back into the world.</li> <li style="">BULLSHIT!!! NOT A CHANCE!!! RT @<a href="http://twitter.com/andandandanda">andandandanda</a>: I've had enough, the terorrism will break INDONESIA to pieces do you realize?be strong and un</li> <li style="">Bossi: "Dialetto obbligatorio a scuola". Sembra Mugabe! Ricetta certa per I'll sottosviluppo <a href="http://viigo.im/0APK">http://viigo.im/0APK</a></li> <li style="">RT @<a href="http://twitter.com/dearpacificday">dearpacificday</a>: HAPPY BIRTHDAY INDONESIA.</li> <li style="">RT @<a href="http://twitter.com/JessicaTattiana">JessicaTattiana</a>: i'm stuck in singapore's crappy airport for 6 hrs! Best airport of SEA!</li> <li style="">#iran #iranelection Some of u are young; don't fall for this crap! Religion is only an excuse to legitimate the unelected corrupt in power</li> <li style="">RT @<a href="http://twitter.com/dvd493">dvd493</a>: RT @<a href="http://twitter.com/glockster23">glockster23</a> @<a href="http://twitter.com/michellemalkin">michellemalkin</a> Maybe if O was getting a kickback from Exxon we could get some American oil drilled.</li> <li style="">Who would win in a war between the human race and the zombies? <a href="http://post.ly/2RjZ">http://post.ly/2RjZ</a></li> <li style="">Ahem...talking about mathematical models again... <a href="http://post.ly/2Row">http://post.ly/2Row</a></li> <li style="">Today, the worst that can happen to any genocidal crook is that some idiot somewhere will be "deeply concerned" about "allegations" of ...</li> </ul> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/captain_marlow">Follow me on Twitter</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://captainmarlow.posterous.com/latest-tweets-from-the-captain-0">captainmarlow's posterous</a> </p> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9045359.post-22717209656843770822009-08-20T11:48:00.001+07:002009-08-20T11:48:46.727+07:00Ahem...talking about mathematical models again...
<p><i>The outgoing leader of Greenpeace has admitted his organization’s recent claim that the Arctic Ice will disappear by 2030 was “a mistake.” Greenpeace made the claim in a July 15 <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/urgent-action-needed-as-arctic" target="_blank">press release</a> entitled “Urgent Action Needed As Arctic Ice Melts,” which said there will be an ice-free Arctic by 2030 because of global warming. </i></p> <p></p> <p><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/NC7bE9jopXE&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" /></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/NC7bE9jopXE&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" height="344" width="425"></embed></object></object></p> <p></p> <p><i>Sackur said the claim was inaccurate on two fronts, pointing out that the Arctic ice is a mass of 1.6 million square kilometers with a thickness of 3 km in the middle, and that it had survived much warmer periods in history than the present. </i></p> <p><i></i></p> <p>Wow! Talking about small mistakes! Al Gore must have refused him a raise…</p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://captainmarlow.posterous.com/ahemtalking-about-mathematical-models-again">captainmarlow's posterous</a> </p> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9045359.post-24996228671077252882009-08-20T10:59:00.001+07:002009-08-20T10:59:21.496+07:00Who would win in a war between the human race and the zombies?
<p>Since it has now been proven beyond reasonable doubt that mathematical models are infallible <i>(Al Gore et al.)</i>, so much so that even political decisions affecting billions of people and involving trillions of dollars are taken based on their results, I feel compelled to draw your attention to an even more momentous prediction than global warming disasters or climate change Armageddons: who would win in a war between the human race and zombies?</p> <p></p> <p><i>It is possible to successfully fend off a zombie attack, according to Canadian <a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/zombies/">mathematicians</a>. The key is to “hit hard and hit often.” Oh yes, somebody actually did a study on mathematics of a hypothetical zombie attack, and published it in a <a href="https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=9750"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">book on infectious disease</span></a>. So, while we still don’t know what to do <a href="http://bit.ly/R6YCb"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">if a deadly asteroid takes aim at Earth</span></a>, an unlikely but technically possible situation, we now know what to do in case of a zombie attack. “An outbreak of zombies is likely to be disastrous, unless extremely aggressive tactics are employed against the undead,” the authors wrote. “It is imperative that zombies are dealt with quickly, or else we are all in a great deal of trouble.”</i></p> <p></p> <p><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/captainmarlow/3MLKJpv8LNWSKeOCv4GHP6pDI41eko9hVJPlvgpeyk0EBUEgwSX6MYJmjKuk/image001.jpg" width="415" height="285"/> </p> <p></p> <p>There is hope yet.</p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://captainmarlow.posterous.com/who-would-win-in-a-war-between-the-human-race">captainmarlow's posterous</a> </p> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9045359.post-10217231230503872172009-08-07T11:20:00.001+07:002009-08-07T11:20:53.444+07:00Latest Tweets from the Captain<ul> <li>How is Hillary doing as secretary of State? She is impotent. She is in charge of our relations with Lichtenstein. <a href="http://bit.ly/7R4tH">http://bit.ly/7R4tH</a></li> <li>Krauthammer's On North Korea releasing US journalists to President Clinton: it was a hostage ransom. No question at all. <a href="http://bit.ly/EU5JM">http://bit.ly/EU5JM</a></li> <li>#iran #iranelection Hurdles Expected As Ahmadinejad Begins Second Term. <a href="http://bit.ly/zHisY">http://bit.ly/zHisY</a> Now's the hard part guys.Give it all you've got!</li> <li>RT @<a href="http://twitter.com/googlenews">googlenews</a>: North Korea pardons journalists - Denver Post <a href="http://bit.ly/10XESt">http://bit.ly/10XESt</a> At what price?</li> <li>Top U.S. commander in Iraq said American role over the next 2 1/2 years is crucial. <a href="http://bit.ly/JahU3">http://bit.ly/JahU3</a> Thank god for intelligent people!</li> <li>Once u give in to blackmailers, u are in for the duration. Bill Clinton has found himself a permanent job; better keep the bags ready.</li> <li>Russian Subs Patrolling Off East Coast of U.S. <a href="http://bit.ly/17kC2Y">http://bit.ly/17kC2Y</a> A warning to the Joker not to intervene in Georgia?</li> <li>Mideast destabilized as planned, senseless religious fundamentalism is out forever; #Iran Theocracy [will] Implode[s]. <a href="http://bit.ly/o2N45">http://bit.ly/o2N45</a></li> <li>Maureen Dowd, who writes a gossip column in the NYT, has her own superficial opinion on Bill's trip to Pyongyang; she must be in love.</li> <li>Zimbabwe's Vice-President Joseph Msika died on Wednesday. <a href="http://bit.ly/vr6Xj">http://bit.ly/vr6Xj</a> MUGABE NEXT? FASTER PLEASE!</li> <li>Kim Jong Il's smile said it all; gave Kim a rare opportunity to have an ex-president appear before him as a supplicant. <a href="http://bit.ly/10n1Re">http://bit.ly/10n1Re</a></li> <li>#iranelection US backtracks on #Iran poll remarks. <a href="http://bit.ly/3qMSlJ">http://bit.ly/3qMSlJ</a> And the list of mistakes grows and grows...</li> <li>U.S. Decides Not to Impose Sanctions on #Honduras. <a href="http://bit.ly/1FTEB1">http://bit.ly/1FTEB1</a> And the list of mistakes grows and grows...</li> <li>How is Hillary doing as secretary of State? She is impotent. She is in charge of our relations with Lichtenstein. <a href="http://bit.ly/7R4tH">http://bit.ly/7R4tH</a></li> <li>Krauthammer's On North Korea releasing US journalists to President Clinton: it was a hostage ransom. No question at all. <a href="http://bit.ly/EU5JM">http://bit.ly/EU5JM</a></li> <li>#iran #iranelection Hurdles Expected As Ahmadinejad Begins Second Term. <a href="http://bit.ly/zHisY">http://bit.ly/zHisY</a> Now's the hard part guys.Give it all you've got!</li> <li>When, during a war, Congress starts asking precise benchmarks, like in Iraq, is the part that makes me laugh most (^_^). <a href="http://bit.ly/xj0iC">http://bit.ly/xj0iC</a></li> <li>Splendid cartoon on how the "Dear Leader" secures supplies. <a href="http://bit.ly/EC4Ew">http://bit.ly/EC4Ew</a></li> </ul> <a href="https://twitter.com/captain_marlow">Follow me on Twitter</a> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9045359.post-43130499292103645242009-07-30T08:32:00.001+07:002009-07-30T08:32:35.027+07:00#afghanistan The end of a civilization, or the West latest fad: self-castration
<p><i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6730996.ece">Taleban</a> insurgents fighting German forces in northern Afghanistan have often lived to fight another day thanks to trilingual warnings that have to be shouted out before the men from the Bundeswehr can squeeze their triggers. The seven-page pocket guide to combat tucked into the breast pocket of every German soldier offers such instructions as: “Before opening fire you are expected to declare loudly, in English, ‘United Nations — stop, or I will fire,” followed by a version in Pashtu — Melgaero Mellatuna- Dreesch, ka ne se dasee kawum!”</span></i></p> <p><i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">The alert must also be issued in Dari, and the booklet, devised by a committee in some faraway ministerial office, adds: “If the situation allows, the warning should be repeated.” <b>The joke going round Nato mess tents poses the question: “How can you identify a German soldier? He is the corpse clutching a pocket guide.”</b></span></i></p> <p>When we will stumble about, our only eye burned to charcoal by a red hot pointed log, in horrible pain, crying “who did this to us?”, someone will answer: “Nobody!”, and he will be right.</p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://captainmarlow.posterous.com/afghanistan-the-end-of-a-civilization-or-the">captainmarlow's posterous</a> </p> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9045359.post-37073177943488014542009-07-28T14:03:00.001+07:002009-07-28T14:03:15.478+07:00#Obama: the mask slips and the arrogance, ignorance and racism surface for all to see
<div class="Section1"> <p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/5225221/the-mask-slips.thtml">Melanie</a>, great as always:</span></p> <p><i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">For the President of the United States to get involved at all in such a local matter was off-limits. For him to do so without even bothering to discover the facts was disturbing. For him to damn the Cambridge police as ‘stupid’ whereas it was clearly Gates who was ‘stupid’(and worse), thereby demonstrating how the Presidential knee automatically jerks to the crudest of anti-white (and anti-police) tunes regardless of the facts, was deeply alarming. </span></i></p> <p><i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">But not surprising.</span></i></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></p> </div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://captainmarlow.posterous.com/obama-the-mask-slips-and-the-arrogance-ignora">captainmarlow's posterous</a> </p> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0