Monday, September 24, 2007

In Another Dimension, You Rule

Parallel universes really do exist, according to a mathematical discovery by Oxford scientists described by one expert as “one of the most important developments in the history of science”.

The parallel universe theory, first proposed in 1950 by the US physicist Hugh Everett, helps explain mysteries of quantum mechanics that have baffled scientists for decades, it is claimed.

In Everett’s “many worlds” universe, every time a new physical possibility is explored, the universe splits. Given a number of possible alternative outcomes, each one is played out - in its own universe.

A motorist who has a near miss, for instance, might feel relieved at his lucky escape. But in a parallel universe, another version of the same driver will have been killed. Yet another universe will see the motorist recover after treatment in hospital. The number of alternative scenarios is endless.

It is a bizarre idea which has been dismissed as fanciful by many experts. But the new research from Oxford shows that it offers a mathematical answer to quantum conundrums that cannot be dismissed lightly - and suggests that Dr Everett, who was a Phd student at Princeton University when he came up with the theory, was on the right track.

Commenting in New Scientist magazine, Dr Andy Albrecht, a physicist at the University of California at Davis, said: “This work will go down as one of the most important developments in the history of science.”

Of course, all of this is based on math theory. But I always loved the idea of a multi-verse. 

Friday, April 27, 2007

Hello, Lefties

Oops. Another bad Iraq myth brutally shot down. Al Qaeda and Saddam did have a connection.

The al-Qaeda leader who is thought to have devised the plan for the July 7 suicide bombings in London and an array of terrorist plots against Britain has been captured by the Americans.

Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, a former major in Saddam Hussein’s army, was apprehended as he tried to enter Iraq from Iran and was transferred this week to the “high-value detainee programme” at Guantanamo Bay.

A lot of myths being told by the left will inevitably be shot down. Hopefully before they manage to turn Iraq into another Vietnam style withdrawal. 

Saturday, April 21, 2007

Windsurfing in Beautiful Iraq

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Hometown Baghdad

Three Iraqi Video Bloggers give a series of short films about their lives in Baghdad. It’s interesting stuff. It also shows how, the problems there aren’t caused by he US. It’s caused by revolutionaries who try to stop progress there. In this one you see how they target intellectuals. That’s what they did in South-East asian in the 60s, also. In Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.

Friday, April 06, 2007

It’s All About the Oiiiiillll!!! Wait…

Remember that clichéd argument the left trotted out when we invaded Afghanistan, and the Iraq? It turned out there were no real plans to build an oil pipeline in Afghanistan as they claimed. See, Afghanistan is mountainous and that would make it insanely unpractical. That and the fact that all the tribes there have been warring amongst themselves for hundreds of years, making it unstable with or without the Taliban. But hey, logic is not a friend of the left, it seems.

Now another one of their tired arguments is brutally shot down.

Despite claims by some critics that the Bush administration invaded Iraq to take control of its oil, the first contracts with major oil firms from Iraq’s new government are likely to go not to U.S. companies, but rather to companies from China, India, Vietnam, and Indonesia.

Oops!

Oh, wait, here’s a factoid for you to chew on.

Rosy estimates even have Iraq producing 6 million barrels a day in the long term, which would make it the world’s No. 4 producer behind Russia, Saudi Arabia and the United States.

Yes, we produce more oil than Iraq or Iran or a lot of other Arab nations. We produce more oil that our largest oil seller, Canada. More than Mexico and Venezuela.  We’re number 3. and most of what we import comes from the Western Hemisphere.

Naturally, the left wants to believe that anything the US does is evil, therefore we invade countries to steal their resources and kill civilians. Cause that’s how we roll, baby!

The facts are not on their side however. They rarely are. Which is why I am not a leftie. 

Monday, April 02, 2007

Awww

Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Long Overdue

The Baghdad security operation has been under way less than three weeks, but it has already registered a success: a sharp drop in the number of bullet-riddled bodies found in the streets - victims of sectarian death squads.

The number of bodies found so far this month in Baghdad - most of them shot and showing signs of torture - has dropped by nearly 50 percent to 494 as of Monday night, compared with 954 in January and 1,222 in December, according to figures compiled by The Associated Press.

Iraqi Officials Say Crackdown Working

They should have done this kind of stuff years ago. It’s not impossible to control this anarchy despite what some people think It takes will and a concerted effort. Now, it seems, they are doing that. But they only started doing it when teh Dems threatened to pull the plug on Iraq. I guess the Dems were useful after all. 

Saturday, February 24, 2007

Rudy! (Not the Sean Astin movie)

It’s way too early for this to be meaningful at this stage, but--bwa ha ha!

In a match-up between the early 2008 frontrunners, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) leads New York Senator Hillary Clinton (D) 52% to 43%. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds Giuliani’s lead growing in recent months. His current nine-point advantage is up from a six point lead in January and a four-point lead in December.

I have a feeling Rudy is the guy to beat. He is articulate and likable and he has an actual track record, unlike Hillary (who votes one way and says something entirely different). Do I agree with Rudy on everything? No. But no president will ever satisfy that way. I do think, of the people I’ve seen he’s the best qualified and would be a great antidote for 8 years of Bush’s malapropisms and bungled PR.

UPDATE: The most dangerous candidate in America (for Democrats, that is)

Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Outrage of the Day

The US sent billions of dollars in cash to Iraq on pallets and it’s gone without a trace.

“Who in their right mind would send 363 tons of cash into a war zone? But that’s exactly what our government did,” the California Democrat said during a hearing reviewing possible waste, fraud and abuse of funds in Iraq.

On December 12, 2003, $1.5 billion was shipped to Iraq, initially “the largest pay out of U.S. currency in Fed history,” according to an e-mail cited by committee members.

It was followed by more than $2.4 billion on June 22, 2004, and $1.6 billion three days later. The CPA turned over sovereignty on June 28.

Paul Bremer, who as the administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority ran Iraq after initial combat operations ended, said the enormous shipments were done at the request of the Iraqi minister of finance.

“He said, ‘I am concerned that I will not have the money to support the Iraqi government expenses for the first couple of months after we are sovereign. We won’t have the mechanisms in place, I won’t know how to get the money here,”’ Bremer said.

This is one Democrat investigation that deserves to happen. One of the worst things about the Bush presidency is the flagrant way it has dumped taxpayer money down rat holes. It’s a sad day when a Republican is being investigated by Democrats for blowing the people’s money. 

Tuesday, February 06, 2007

The Soldiers Speak

What the media won’t show you.