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    Wednesday, November 18, 2189 :

    "It is Today" !

   eh voilà!

"In the interest of democracy, repressive actions were taken; In order to preserve democracy, repressive actions were taken"

Puerto Rico (Reuters) -- A malfunctioning fuel monitoring system was the likely cause of an Oct. 23 explosion and massive fire at a Puerto Rican fuel storage depot, the US Chemical Safety Board said on Tuesday. (...)  "The filling of a tank without a functioning monitoring system is the type of activity the CSB will be examining very closely," Investigator-in-Charge Jeffrey Wanko said as the agency announced a full investigation of the incident. (...) The blast resulted from the accidental overfilling of a tank with gasoline from a ship docked in San Juan harbor that occurred because of a faulty monitoring system, CSB officials said. Employees were unaware of the overfilling because the facility's computerized level monitoring system was not fully operational.  As the gasoline spilled undetected from the tank, it vaporized and spread across the facility, creating a 2,000-foot (610-metre) wide vapor cloud that ignited once it contacted an ignition source.

A man and a woman have been arrested in Manchester by officers of the Greater Manchester Police and Metropolitan Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) in connection with the Zbot family of Trojan horses.

Zbot is one of the most notorious pieces of malware of recent times. It's a data-stealing Trojan horse, designed to grab information from internet users which would help hackers break into online bank accounts and social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace.

For some us this will not bring the hoped for contest between Hamilton and Kimi Raikönnen on the same team, but it will be interesting.  It's the first time two consecutive reigning champions will be in the same team.

For sure (that's an inside joke) the thousands of ET formula one freaks will be salivating over the chance for the now looming recreation of WWII, with McLaren and it's union jack drivers going up against the jack-booted Mercedes Brawns (well, they jack-booted Button out) with their all-German pairing of Rosberg and Heidfeld.  (or the rumored surprise, the return of the Schumacher guy.)

I don't know about today, i wish it was March 2010 already. Perhaps i've been sniffing high performance fumes.

Skennah Kowa

Algeria-Egypt is on-going.

Ukraine-Greece: will Ukraine make it?

Slovenia-Russia: this could be a shocker, after the meagre 2:1 for Russia in Moscow.

Bosnia-Portugal: Bosnia could be a surprise winner, too, bu IMO that would be less of a shocker.

France-Ireland: France should win easily. But there is Domenech. Will they fire Domenech at last if Ireland wins?

Uruguay-Costa Rica: Uruguay should clinch this.

*Traitor*, n.
A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.

Back when Obama got the Democratic nomination for president I opined - more or less - "he's a dead man walking."

Well ... Trawling for assassins: Evangelical nuts want Obama dead diary on dKos lays it out.

Tonight, Rachel Maddow aired a bonechilling interview with former fundamentalist leader Frank Schaeffer in which Schaeffer accuses evangelical zealots and far-right wing nuts of formenting violence against our president.

This new "American Taliban," Schaeffer says, is essentially "trawling for assassins," using coded, Biblical language in hopes of inciting some lunatic to kill the president.

Anybody have more details? I can't find Cerbere-Metz any more, but I'm not sure if this was only a seasonal train anyway.

A 1962 ad by one of ExxonMobil's companies

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

That old square can triangulate all he likes but even for politicians things must come full circle.

Here's looking at Euclid.

And the little white lines
That the airplane leaves behind
Are drifting right in front
of the waning of the moon..."

    -- "Comfort Eagle", words and music by John McCrea of "Cake" from the album by the same title,
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfort_Eagle#Personnel

         

"In the interest of democracy, repressive actions were taken; In order to preserve democracy, repressive actions were taken"