Map of Asia

Yep the Middle East is in Asia. Here is a Map. If you are like me, in gramar, High School, and College I never studied a map that showed Asia as a whole. especially the Middle East was split on three maps. I could never tell who was anyones neighbors beyond those who bordered any major country (ie. China,Israel, India, Russia, or Saudi Arabia, It was hard to put relations to any of those because they always was on seperate maps.) On closer examination, our military could do a good pincer movement on Iran from the West and East. Giving access to the Caspian Sea to which would be more cost efficent than piping oil from the old Khanite region through Afganistan. Taliban, Pushtu, or Mujahaden probally still making oil companies plan a pipe dream. From the Caspian through Iran to the Arabian Sea, might be the best plan. Maybe Israel might plan another flight to blowup a nuclear Power reactor and fly home again. The Turks and Greeks have teamed up to thump the Franks, they protested thePope a few years ago for the Fourth Crusade dating back over 800 years, by creating a pipeline through Azberjan, Armenia, and Turkey to the Black Sea. Good for them but they have created enviromental concerns in Baku. Then we Got the Chechens who still sting from a war on Terorism from Russia who are being drained by Putin so we can get cheap oil at the Lukoil Stations. Yep the Russians are no better, the are getting Oil from Iraq and Kazahstan like us. They just do not mention Chechnya, only Azerbaijan. Which is where the oil is pumped out to through pipeline.

But with higher literacy rates, more reliable infrastucture, Collegiate grads, increasing populations, with better food sources than in the 12th Century the middle East is a different story. In the end, what lost them the first crusade might win them the next. Higher population and food supply. They also know that eventually the sands take all empires, and they can wait. Try reading Clash of Civilization and the Remaking of World Order, it gives you a interesting economic reason why the west should pay attention to Asia.

Cheers for Today,
Chris

Dan Quayle Anyone!

It seems pappa Bush had a Quayle accident preventing anyone shooting him,Junior has a problem with his own VP too. It seems Cheney can not tell the difference between a 70 year old lawyer and a quail. I have an Uncle that is seventy and a bit slow on the uptake, if he never shot anyone, Cheney has no excuse if he can not tell the difference between a small bird that walks real funny with a strange flopping hair piece and someone he forced to eat crow, along with the bird shot? How long did it take you after all the jokes to actually ask if the man was ok? I hope he suffers not another Heart attack from the 20 gauge lodged near his heart.

By the way, how does Dan Quayle become the only VP with a museum? Here is some words of wisdom from Quayle.

What do you get with two quails in two bushes, A Dick and a Colon running away screaming. For everyone knows in all bad racists movies, the black guy gets it in the end.

All Pun aside Colin Powell was a great man of duty and inteligence just had too many chips into a bad pot. Javez from Les Miserables always reminded me of him, at least Colin knew enough not to jump from that bridge. Just ship.

Random Links for the Day

George Washington Carver helped Henry Ford create a Model T that ran on Peanut oil ushering in Fords new environmental car Escape. Better late than never!

Gerald Ford in 1975 looked like the Norwegian God Odin suffering from an eye injury tha made him wear a patch. Resulting in having only one eye like the Allfather.

Ever notice Popeye was a sailor with one eye? Or, if Olive Oil popped him good. If Popeye is Odin that makes Olive Frigga. Another name for Frigga by the Gnostics is Ennui (Enn-u-i).

Nixon lost his post because of illegal wire tapping, where is Bob Woodard on this story? Where does he stand on todays story of Bush's wire tapping? He is reporting on CIA agents true identities; ie. Valerie Plame. By the way ford replaced Nixon after his impeachment. Ever notice that George Senior looks a little like the Smoking Man on the X-files?

Posse comitatus Act anyone? Bush is trying to repeal itand you do not know what it is? Well you are stuck listening to the left independant writers on the web, for it is wiped out on all the main encyclopedias beside wikipedia, and its definition has been changed in the last few months. So there! And Huricane Katrina is his excuse. And you wanted Bill Impeached for following Ginrich's advice in a 1995 Vanity Fair profile of the speaker,one of Newt's former female playmates was quoted as saying that he demandedoral sex "because then he can say, 'I never slept with her.'" Talk about working betwen the isles. I would describe the impeachable offenses like,having standing military in civilian areas, profiting from the military,and more. But I have to find hard copy to quote, because the web has been wiped (at leats on google).

Farenheit 451
September 11, just missing one digit.

Michael Moore is a wimp.

Has Star Wars Gone Political?

A recent article at the LA Times has Lucas explaining the line in Revenge of the Sith "So this is how liberty dies, with thunderous applause."

Lucas;
"That really came from an original concept written 30 years ago," he said, explaining that the "Star Wars" series was inspired by ancient Rome, the French Revolution and the rise of Adolf Hitler in Germany. "In all of those countries, a democracy fell through nefarious manipulations behind the scenes, and the people didn't seem to mind."

Well I am looking for some country that is happy just being number 25 or something in the world.

Quinky Dinks!

The burning of the Reichstag six days before the election was the pivotal event of the campaign. A mentally-disturbed one-time Dutch Communist was arrested in the building after lighting his shirt on fire and throwing it down on the floor of the marble and concrete foyer of the building. Within five minutes this city block long building was in flames beyond the third floor. While the circumstances of the fire are disputed and will never be conclusively known, the fire was portrayed by the Nazis as the beginning of a communist revolution. With the threat of Communism looming, Hitler's government persuaded President Paul von Hindenburg to authorize several emergency powers in the Reichstag Fire Decree, which (among other things) suspended civil liberties and habeas corpus rights. To be followed by the Enabling Act that gave the Nazi excutive power.

The Russian apartment bombings were a series of bombings in Russia that killed nearly 300 people and led the country into the Second Chechen War, against "illegal Military Units" or terrorists. They happened over a span of two months in 1999, Starting in September. Chechenya is the western side of one of the world's largest oil fields that sits North of Afganistan. Ever wonder why all those Russian Gas Stations are popping up? Some blame the FSB (Russian Secret Service) stagging it after a long distance call was followed back to an FSB office on September 22, 1999 outside a failed bomb attempt. This led many to believe that the explosions were carried out by FSB to provide justification for the continuance of the Chechen War, which in turn helped Putin, who once headed the KGB, beat the communists in the presidential election of 2000. There is some doubt concerning Berezovsky's, Russian Oligarch, impartiality in this case, as he allegedly had extensive business dealings with Chechen rebels. However, nearly 40% of the Russians gave credence to Berezovsky's accusations at the time.

Richard Colvin Reid the Shoe bomber was arrested for attempting to light his shoe on fire. Some claim that the plastic explosives had a TCAP detonater. But TCAP if not always kept below 10 degrees celcius is highly unstable and is known to ignite spotaneously after turning into dicycloacetone peroxide. TCAP is heat, friction, and shock sensitive and not something you want to walk your way home to the airport in your shoe. Others say his shoe lace was lined with Det Cord. Det cord (known to most as “Cordex”), looks like white plastic washing line with a black core. Though a high explosive in its own right, Cordex needs a detonator to initiate an explosion. If you light the end of a piece of Cordex with a match it will start to melt, and eventually drip all over the floor. A welding torch might have more disastrous results, so please do NOT try this at home! But all in all Reid was only a man a little insane trying to light his shoe lace on fire to blow up his shoe. Not a comunist, but maybe a terrorist.

The foundations for serfdom were laid during the later years of the Roman Empire. During the wars of the crisis of the third century, during the raids of Germanic tribes, many small farmers sold or abandoned their lands, and land ownership become concentrated in large estates (latifundia) worked by tenant farmers (coloni) for the protection the lords could offer. This continues throughout the Caroligian dynasty to the rise of feudalism when not only was one a serf but his family and generations for this safety. A time of fear, control, and safety.

Trivia History

Here is some quirky facts that folklore has twisted or forgotten!

Machiavelli's tyrant the Prince was based on Pope Alexander VI. Born Rodrigo Borgia and father to Lucrezia Borgia (The poisoner) and Cesare Borgia. It has also been said that today's pictures of Christ was taken from Cesare likeness!

There has been 42 antipopes including the famous Avigon Papcy.

The promise of virgins after death dates to the Hashshashins during the Crusades. Hasahashin is the root of assasin.

The Washington D.C. was Burned down on Sept 11 for the third time, by the British.

How many Gods of the Old Testament are there?

Or how many Writers were there to the good book?

If you did not believe them at first, do not worry neither did the people living in those times either.

Introduction

This blog will take us through out the vast culture of the world and show how they all connect throughout the centuries. I will present the links, but not the conclusions. That will be your job.

We will bring up historical details and juxtapose them throughout the ages. Example?


"In essence, then, the maintenance of so large a Samurai class in unproductive idleness put a premium on underemployment. At higher levelsthis worked against excessive accumalation of personal power; at lower levels it spread the work and matained dependency."
The Making of Modern Japan; Marius B. Jansen

This can be seen also in England, the western counterpart to Japan's island Empire of knights, with Henry the Second dimminsioning large estate holders to only the Scottish and Welsh March. To today's Japanese trend to reverse life long employment, by dishonoring workers by giving them offices in broom closets with no objective but to waste away. Ever wonder why after your promotion you end up doing less work?

This is just one small fact that prevails our culture today. Nothing springs from a vacumn.

This blog will be set up with two sections in mind. One will be the myth of present day, the collective unconscious or mood that comes from trends, movies, and stories that comment on our modern day. The other will be historical facts from time itself. For logic and the will of the people create the history.

History may not be what it had seemed in the end, but you got to agree it is always changing, but the song remains the same. But in the end it is there to make you think. For a man who does not know his history falls folly to it.

I hope you enjoy this pulse.....