You have to love the Brit’s MI5 at full stretch as 20 Islamist terror plots revealed
Reid said that the existence of so many plots means that the police and MI5 are fully stretched and cannot divert their precious counter-terrorism resources to a lengthy public inquiry into last year’s London suicide bombings.
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Having a concept of Central intelligence being formalized into an agency of the federal government begs the question. Is there an agency for central stupidity. Is there a counterpoint to all organizational systems, is there a balance? If we can contain intelligence into association, should we balance that with a gathering of stupid. Would it be called FEMA, or the White House, or maybe Congress? And who would you appoint to manage a Central Stupid agency? Don’t we have a CSA department, maybe that’s where all the money went to.Â
This story is one I heard at the University of Kansas. It was in a Medieval History class I was enrolled in (being as I was bound and determined to be a History teacher). This class was taught by the best history professor I have ever had, and I’m sorry to say, I don’t recall his name after all these years.
He would start out every class with a Medieval Joke or a story. And as best as I can, I will attempt retell one of my favorites.
There were a couple of merchants who were friends, one a Catholic the other a Jew, and they were in constant discussions as to the superior nature of each their chosen religion. At the time around the 13th century Catholicism was on the rise and there was a consistent stream of conversions and the Jewish merchant was always amazed. The two friends were each attempting to convert the other and neither succeeding. On one occasion the Jewish man who was intending a trip to Rome for business, told his Catholic friend in a bit of an amusing way that if what he found in Rome could convince him of the superior Catholic church, he would convert. Upon hearing this the Catholic man was fraught with fear as the Rome of that period was as corrupt as could be, with Bishops, Cardinals and Priests selling dispensation, granting favors and indulgences. While themselves participating it drunken debauchery and whoring. A generally poor example of the nature of the Catholic church. But knowing this the Catholic merchant did not illustrate this for his friend, hoping that such things might not be observed during his trip. So the Jewish merchant made his trip, and upon his return came to his friend and confessed that he would convert to the Catholic Religion. And his friend was perplexed, and ask what had been the determining factor. His friend then went on to describe the worst fears of what he had heard of Rome. The Catholic man was shocked at what he heard, and ask his friend that in the face of such corruption's, how could he want to convert to such a church. And the Jewish man said, it was because of such chaos that he determined that for a religion to grow as it had, then it must be the one true religion as nothing else could explain the rise of this religion. And the Jewish man converted to Catholicism.
Now this is interesting as it has a universal applicability to politics and religion in that with all the political corruption’s of democratic governments they continue to grow. Even in the face of fumbling presidencies corrupt politicians and bungled opportunities, when democracy has a chance, it will succeed even in the face of such chaos. Errors are corrected, politicians are convicted, presidents impeached, and bungled opportunities are recovered.
They are not without pain and require much work by honest men. And as it’s been said before;
Democracy is the the worst form of government, except for all the other’s
This may sound crazy but is there any other food in Conneticut except Dunkin Donuts, or Pizza? I have only found one Starbucks, but donuts can be had on any street corner. Very funny.
And every year they would fish together and catch each other up on events.
One was a Catholic Priest and the other was a Jewish Rabbi.
One year the Priest tells his buddy the Rabbi;
“There was a young fellow from my parish who just became a Priest.”
And the Rabbi replied;
“Sure, sure, that’s nice. No big deal.”
Years later the Priest is telling his fishing partner;
“You know that young priest from my parish, well, you know he just became a Bishop.”
And the Rabbi replied;
“Sure, sure, that’s nice. No big deal.”
Several years later and the Priest continues;
“You know that Priest from my parish that became the Bishop? Well now he’s become a Cardinal. Can you believe that?”
And the Rabbi replied again;
“Sure, sure, that’s nice. No big deal.”
Many years later and the Priest begins again;
“You know that Priest from my parish who became a Bishop, then became a Cardinal. He’s now the Pope, isn’t that fantastic?”
And the Rabbi replied again;
“Sure, sure, that’s nice. No big deal.”
At this point the priest can make no more, and explodes;
“Why do say that this, is it not a grand thing, this priest went from being a priest in my village to being the Pope, leader of the Christian faith. And you tell me this is not a big deal. What do you want him to be, Jesus Christ?”
And the Rabbi replies;
“Why not? One of our guys made it!”
Merry Christmas to all.
Time for some humor.
A major research institution has recently announced the discovery of the heaviest element yet known to science. The new element has been named “Governmentium.” Governmentium has one neutron, 12 assistant neutrons, 75 deputy neutrons, and 224 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312.
These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of particles called peons.
Since Governmentium has no electrons, it is inert. However, it can be detected, because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. A minute amount of Governmentium causes one reaction to take over four days to complete, when it would normally take less than a second.
Governmentium has a normal shelf-life of 4 years; it does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganization in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places.
In fact, Governmentium’s mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganization will cause more morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes.
This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to believe that Governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a certain quantity in concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as “Critical Morass.”
When catalyzed with money, Governmentium becomes Administratium — an element which radiates just as much energy as the Governmentium since it has half as many peons but twice as many morons.
Apply material lightly.
It’s funny how work intrudes into my bloging output.
I need a voice to blog converter. One that will filter out explicative’s would be nice.
I have been finding that many of the search engines like Google, Yahoo, Technorati, and Feedster are returning different search results for the words . Now I don’t use these words in real text on this post as an example of this. Now I know that certain words have been blocked on Google. And most of these are for the Chinese government. But the odd results are showing up in Europe as well. are important words that should not be blocked.
With regards to the current ID or Intelligent Design arguments, I have often remembered this funny graphic.
And it completely represents why ID should not be allowed to pass as Science, because it’s not. And politicians who promote this are only demonstrating their own ignorance, or they are counting on some bogus religious support for the next election. Think about it, becoming the leader of people of such ignorance. What a high goal politicians are striving for these days.
This looks too good to be true. Sea Code
But sign me up, outsourcing never looked so good.
With all the F*** Bombs falling out of Microsoft is it any wonder that there is so much talk about the impending implosion of Microsoft?
With leadership of this caliber, what would you expect, Vision? Innovation? Vista? This kind of attitude is indicitive of the bully, striking out at what they themselves can not provide.
What next for poor Struggling Microsoft?
I’ve been reading too much Science Fiction. But what if this isn’t a neutron star, but someone’s spaceship. Neutron star races out of the Galaxy
This is a classic transference thing, where someone projects their own success in one area of endeavor , into another field.
I once had an IT director with an MBA tell me that any computer with more than four CPU’s was a waste of electricity, while standing in a computer room filled with more than 200 Computer systems all with 8 processors or more (some more than 24) all spinning their hearts out.
Go figure.