Twelfth Bough

One of these days some bad thing will happen in America, maybe in Arizona, and we may learn that the evildoers came out of Mexico. And a bread crumb trail of evidence will lead through South America, and perhaps through parts of Africa, and perhaps over to Lebanon, and eventually to the House of Cake, which may possibly be located in Iran. Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. Hansel and Gretel and Other Stories by the Brothers Grimm. Kay Nielsen, illustrator. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1925. http://www.martinfrost.ws/htmlfiles/jan2009/fairy-tale-reality.html And we suppose this because, from time to time, we read these fairy tales. http://www.investigativeproject.org/2794/ human-smuggling-case-evokes-south-america-terror A Somali man used Brazil as a staging ground to smuggle people, including members of a terrorist group into the United States, witnesses are expected to testify during a sentencing h...

More narrative gold... saving the Russian people from corruption... "Russia has threatened Obama administration that will stop cooperation on Iran and prevent further deliveries of supplies to Afghanistan if Congress passes a law which has been criticized in the Russian practice of human rights." Stop cooperating on Iran and cut supplies to Afghanistan? Somehow we have the feeling this smallish incident, this law, is the rattling lid on a big big pot of boiling nasty. S. 1039 To impose sanctions on persons responsible for the detention, abuse, or death of Sergei Magnitsky , for the conspiracy to defraud the Russian Federation of taxes on corporate profits through fraudulent transactions and lawsuits against Hermitage, and for other gross violations of human rights in the Russian Federation, and for other purposes. First clue. Introduced by: Mr. CARDIN (for himself, Mr. MCCAIN, Ms. AYOTTE, Mr. BEGICH, Mr. BLUMENTHAL, Mr. DURBIN, Mr. JOHANNS, Mr. KIRK, Mr. KY...

What a quaint idea from the old days. No, you know what we need now in the USA? We need to keep making the pits that power nuclear weapons. In fact we need to spend $6 billion dollars that we don't have on a plutonium lab, and we need to build said expensive plutonium lab on an earthquake fault. Damn fucking straight.  http://timirving.blogspot.com/2010/08/nikon-f2-style-icon-yeah-baby.html WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG???? Ideas brought to you by the same government that in 2004 decided that, rather than waiting for nature to spawn a deadly mutant flu virus, they should create one in the lab "IN THE NAME OF PREPAREDNESS." Now, rather than waiting to see if nature spawns such a hybrid, US scientists are planning to try to breed one themselves— in the name of preparedness. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will soon launch experiments designed to combine the H5N1 virus and human flu viruses and then see how the resulting hybr...