MSM and Whimsical Links.......

I was reading an article on the Quebec budget, where the epitomy of liberals, Charet, (lib.PC/cons.lib/power! power!at any cost!) is proposing to bribe voters with OUR money, when the trailer headline list caught my eye-

B.C.'s premier finds environmental soul mate
Mob boss, Vito Rizzuto, sentenced to 10 years in prison

One has to wonder if the webguy looks at the page, just bangs the stuff in, or bored almost to tears, just has to have some fun with the news.

Once Upon A Time In Kazakhstan

Found a great article over on Russell Sietz' site, ADAMANT

To most Americans , Central Asia means the Kazakh Never Never Land of Sascha Cohen's alter ego. But Borat was shot on location in Romania, while once upon a time , the real Kazakhstan was the Wild West of the Soviet Union-- vast, horsey, dusty, and above all heavily armed. The Evil Empire ran its strategic weapons programs and its nuclear gulag side by side in Kazakh badlands , once home to literally thousands of tons of plutonium and weapons grade uranium.

But then, so were Nevada, New Mexico and Texas- so what ?.

The answer is that while the US government is still very much in charge of the former--and present-- nuclear weapons facilities in our none too wild west, The Kremlin cut loose Kazakhstan and the half dozen other 'Stans hosting its arsenals a generation ago. Much of the dangerously weaponizable content of those far flung facilities were rounded up with considerable derring-do in the first few years after the Soviet collapse.

Go read the rest, it's excellent.

Ian