Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani is gay

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/08/world/middleeast/08gay.html?_r=1&hp

clean coal

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/us/07sludge.html?hp

friedman’s mustache is good

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/opinion/09friedman.html

To all those Europeans, Canadians, Japanese, Russians, Iranians, Chinese, Indians, Africans and Latin Americans who are e-mailing their American friends about their joy at having “America back,” now that Obama is in, I just have one thing to say: “Show me the money!”

Don’t just show me the love. Don’t just give me the smiles. Your love is fickle and, as I said, it will last about as long as the first Obama airstrike against an Al Qaeda position in Pakistan. No, no, no, show me the money. Show me that you are ready to be Obama stakeholders, not free-riders — stakeholders in what will be expensive and difficult initiatives by the Obama administration to keep the world stable and free at a time when we have fewer resources.

Examples: I understand any foreigner who objected to the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the gross mishandling of the postwar. But surely everyone in the world has an interest in helping Obama, who opposed the war, bring it to a decent and stable end, especially now that there is a chance that Iraq could emerge as the first democracy, albeit messy, in the heart of the Arab-Muslim world. Obama was against how this Iraq war started, but he is going to be held responsible for how it ends, so why don’t all our allies now offer whatever they can — money, police, aid workers, troops, diplomatic support — to increase the odds of a decent end in Iraq? Ditto Afghanistan.

The U.N. says it doesn’t want Iran to go nuclear and doesn’t want the U.S. to use force to prevent Iran from going nuclear. I agree. That’s why I want all those people in China, France, Russia, India and Germany who are smiling for Obama to go out and demand that their governments use their tremendous economic leverage with Iran to let the Iranians know that if Tehran continues to move toward a nuclear weapon, in opposition to U.N. resolutions, these countries will impose real economic sanctions. Nothing — and I mean nothing — would more help President-elect Obama to forge a diplomatic deal with Iran than having a threat of biting Chinese, Indian and E.U. economic sanctions in his holster.

President Bush, because he was so easily demonized, made being a free-rider on American power easy for everyone — and Americans paid the price. Obama will not make it so easy.

So to everyone overseas I say: thanks for your applause for our new president. I’m glad you all feel that America “is back.” If you want Obama to succeed, though, don’t just show us the love, show us the money. Show us the troops. Show us the diplomatic effort. Show us the economic partnership. Show us something more than a fresh smile. Because freedom is not free and your excuse for doing less than you could is leaving town in January.

nyt needs a science editor

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/05/us/05garage.html?ref=science

God damn the New York Times. You can read that whole article titled, “At Specialty Garage, Making Hybrids Even Greener” and notice there’s not one mention of where the electrical energy comes from. I’ll tell you where it comes from: dirty, dirty coal. So now any unsuspecting reader comes away from that article thinking he should be driving an electric car, too. Sorry, but it doesn’t make any sense at all with today’s electricity sources.

mccain

His concession speech was excellent, sincere.

america

i love america

eat shit, republicans

I want every asshole in this country who thinks poor people deserve to die, who thinks gay people are evil, who thinks the only way to interact with the world is through war, who thinks climate change is a hoax, to eat shit tomorrow because your own country told you to eat shit through an enormous Obama victory.

mccain quote

We can eliminate our dependence on foreign oil by building 45 new nuclear plants, power plants, right away.

verbage

I hereby declare war on the assembly of letters, “verbage.”

small town values

“Several municipal law enforcement agencies in the state did have trouble budgeting and paying for the evidence collection for sexual assault victims,” Henry said. “What I recall is that the chief of police in the Wasilla police department seemed to be the most vocal about how it was going to affect their budget.”

Fuck these fuckin people. According to this article (see previous post) Alaska has 2.5 the national average of rapes and these fuckin people, with their small town values, don’t want to pay for rape kits? Fuck. I don’t want to hear one more fucking word about sarah palin’s experience as a small town mayor. She couldn’t push around some money in her enormous, federally-funded budget to pay for this?