Dumb idea

How many different ways are there to foolishly spend tax money? Anatoly Perminov, a Russian pseudo-scientist has come up with one. He wants to have several nations fund a project which he dreamed up. He needs several hundred million dollars, he said. hehehe The project involves coming up with a way to deal with an asteroid which might hit Earth sometime in 2029. The asteroid is about the size of a city block. American scientists who have calculated the trajectory of the asteroid have stated that the worst case scenario is that the thing will miss Earth by 18,000 miles. Perminov, in the meantime, wants to start working on his foolish idea immediately. He is getting on in years and wants to make sure he has time to enjoy some of the funding. Of that I'm absolutely certain. Please. Even this topless woman knows better.

Old secrets

England has started declassifying government documents from 30 years ago and a few interesting details are coming out. It is common knowledge that hardly anyone wanted the dying Shah of Iran to establish residency in their country after he was deposed by the revolution. That included England. Evidently, the British government wanted to look good in the eyes of the new regime. What a bunch of ungrateful goats, especially as the Shah had always been a good friend to the English. This topless woman is not English - I have no idea what she is. Swedish?

Executed

Well, it looks like the Chinese could not be persuaded to let this guy off - Akmal Shaikh was executed on Tuesday. In China, the penalty for drug smuggling is death. They consider it a very serious crime because it destroys the fabric of society - slowly but surely. The Chinese tend to think as one. They protect their economy too - in the same way. They have executed some men who stole money from investors. They also executed people involved in manufacturing poisoned milk and defective toys. They do not execute topless women. Topless women are not a threat to anyone. On the contrary.

Akmal Shaikh

Some English diplomats have gone to Beijing, China to ask for clemency for Akmal Shaikh, the person convicted of smuggling drugs into China about two years ago. It was reported that China executes more criminals than all other nations combined. Shaikh is scheduled to be executed tomorrow, December 29, 2009. The diplomats are saying that Shaikh didn't know what he was getting into. It will be interesting to see what the Chinese do. They are not negotiating this at all. This topless woman could intervene but she won't.

Sinking again

Another ferry has been washed away in the Philippines. About 20 people are dead. This country is the most prone to passenger ship catastrophes than any other. I wonder why. They do not maintain their ships (ferries) and almost always overload them with people. Irresponsibility yields bad results. Will they ever learn? Nope. Not even this topless woman could ever convince them.

Money exchange

OK. Here we go again. It seems like the brother of the guy who is about to be executed for importing illegal drugs into China is appealing for mercy. He sent a letter to the Chinese Ambassador begging for mercy for his brother. That, of course, is naive. He knows nothing about diplomacy and is getting bad advice from people who are anti-capital punishment. If he wants his brother released, he should think about sending this topless woman with a briefcase full of money (perhaps $10-20 million pounds sterling) to the Chinese embassy in London as a goodwill or humanitarian gesture. Diplomacy without money or guns is worthless. To think otherwise is simply naive.

Odyssey Marine

A judge has ordered the return of half a million dollars worth of gold coins to Spain. A company named Odyssey Marine Exploration found the coins in a sunken ship. The ship had been carrying the loot to Spain from Peru when it was sunk in the 1800s. If the Spaniards wanted the treasure, why didn't they look for it? Now that someone else has done the hard work, they start whining. The Spaniards are famous for looting other countries. To this day, nobody knows what they did with all the gold that arrived safely from Mexico, the Carribean, and South America. Finders keepers I say or return it to Peru. Maybe we should ask this topless woman - she might know a couple of things about gold.

The Popes again

It seems that Pope Benedict has again annoyed some Jews - this time over his decision to have the late Pope Pius considered for election to sainthood. On a prior occasion it was due to his lifting of the excommunication of a bishop who was forever denying the Holocaust. Then, there was the deal with the Latin Mass. And his visit to some Jewish site (where he did not mention the murders at the concentration camps or something to that effect) also annoyed them. In the meantime, Benedict has perfected a way of just brushing the complaints to one side and pushing forward. One of these days, Benedict will propose a merger of Church and State as a realistic solution to tensions around the world. That might annoy everybody, except perhaps this topless woman.

Going to the moon

A recent report from the Pan American Development Foundation says that about 225,000 children in Haiti live as unpaid household servants. These kids come from households that are too poor to care for them. In other parts of the world, people clamor for more funding for space exploration programs. This topless woman does not care either way. She did not create this problem.

Death penalty

A man named Akmal Shaikh is scheduled to be executed on or about December 29, 2009. He smuggled 9 pounds of heroin into China and was caught. He was sentenced to death back in October of 2008. The case has gone all the way up the chain in the Chinese justice system. The British Prime Minister has personally asked the Chinese government to show clemency. He was ignored. If he sends this topless woman with a pile of cash, they might listen, no?

Melting ice so what

Well - Al Gore and a few other people are saying that there might be no ice on the Arctic pole (in the summers) as soon as 2014. I told them this was bound to happen given the number of autos and factories spewing heat into the atmosphere. Did they listen to me? No. However, what do we want ice for anyway? Would it not be nice if the entire Earth were tropical year-round???? Let Nature take its course please. This topless woman knows better than to express an opinion on the matter. I think she likes warm temperatures.

Right wingers

They say that Chile could not decide (in recent elections) on whether it wants a new right wing or an old left wing party to govern. They will have to schedule a runoff election for January, 2010. I was surprised to learn that Chile is the most prosperous country in South America - thanks to copper. The Middle East has its oil and Chile has its copper. The poverty rate there is only 13%. It used to be 40%. Other countries should learn from it. How did they do it? Who did they learn from? Nobody is born knowing anything so they had to learn it from somewhere. I want to know. This topless woman might be from Chile - if I find her, maybe I can ask her.

Sorry Tuvalu

It seems that Tuvalu, an island nobody knows (it is not too far from Australia) will have to find other digs for its inhabitants. The people meeting in Copenhagen over the turmoil regarding global warming ignored its pleas to make the global warming agenda more restrictive. It seems that if things continue as they are, the little island will be covered by water in the near future. After all, the oceans' water level is rising and, for them, there is nowhere to run except to one of the continents. They do not want to have to relocate. Things are pleasant there. Sorry, but Saudi Arabia said no, we cannot be too restrictive because then we won't sell as much oil as we do now and then what??? We have to be serious about climate change but too much. This topless woman is not concerned - she does not live in Tuvalu.

Executed for stealing

China today executed a securities trader for stealing money from his company. It is what we call a white collar crime - non-violent. There is still money missing - about ten million - and he would not say where he stashed it. What would be the point of telling the authorities where the loot was and then letting them execute you??? Maybe he gave it to some charity? This topless woman knows nothing about this, by the way. I wonder what the Chinese would do to American Wall Street executives, such as Bernie Madoff. Ask them.

A hoax

So global warming is all a hoax - oh my. I just read some report about some emails sent among pseudo scientists working at some joint called the CRU. I should not be surprised. It turns out they have been faking the data on temperatures in order to.... In order to.... I have no clue what these pseudo scientists are up to. It can't be good if they are all a bunch of hooligan liars. Oh my!!! I think I trust this topless woman more. Scientific research nowadays is all a big scam - it is just about money. Nothing more. A big fraud.