The nutcracker survived the move

It is a nice nutcracker, 33.5 inches tall, black trousers and black boots, a red and green jacket, black Guards helmet.

I wrapped it like Cleopatra's delivery to Caeser.

Baal

Here is a representation of Baal, a Canaanite god. The statue was found at Ugarit and is now at the Louvre.

Baal looks alien. It looks evil.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaanite_religion#mediaviewer/File:Baal_Ugarit_Louvre_AO17330.jpg

Weird dreams

I was a dog handler in Korea. (I was in 1965, with 1st Cavalry Division and then 2d Infantry Division, but not like in the dream.) My dog and I were assigned to a large city. Our job was to kill rats. Poisoning was out of the question, since the rodents were a primary food source for city people. We killed lots of rats, the dog and I. So many rats that the Army gave me a herd of cats … 20 cats. Each night I released the cats in the city and followed the cats until morning. So in addition to being a dog handler, I became a cat herder as well.

Another: I operated a small front-end loader at a refuge camp in Sudan or Somalia. There were hundreds of tents and thousands of people. I moved dirt from place to place and delivered charcoal for cooking fires. The job was pleasing. I was disappointed when waking up.

Today: With another soldier. I returned from a mission, dressed in camouflage uniform and carrying a rifle, pistol and large rucksack. I had to go into the Fort Worth Star-Telegram office, so I procured cases for the weapons. Still, when I went into the newspaper office, people were all “Oh, goodness! How did those soldiers get in here?”

That religion of peace disovered Earth is a sphere. No, really. Really.

And Russians invented baseball. And electricity. And flew the first powered airplane. Really.

“Speaking at a reception for business leader in the Central Anatolian province of Konya late Nov. 28, Minister Fikri Işık stressed the contributions of the Islamic world to science throughout history. ‘Some 700-800 years before Galileo, 71 Muslim scientists led by al-Khwarizmi convened by the order of the Caliph Al-Ma’mun and revealed that the Earth is a sphere,’ he said. Işık added that a copy of the original document is currently in the Museum of Islamic Science and Technology in Istanbul.”

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/muslims-discovered-earth-is-round-turkeys-science-minister-says.aspx?pageID=238&nID=74989&NewsCatID=338

Link at: http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/muslims-discovered-earth-is-round-says-religion-that-believes-its-flat/

Second link at maggiesfarm.

A sphere? Well …

“What I say is based on Koranic science. He bases his arguments on the kind of science that I reject categorically – the modern science that they teach in schools. This science is a heretic innovation that has no confirmation in the Koran. No verse in the Koran indicates that the Earth is round or that it rotates. Anything that has no indication in the Koran is false.” – frontpagemag link

(Flat Earth stuff you might expect from desert goat herders, but Turks are supposed to have a bit more realization of reality. If the Turks go all goat herder and toss out Ataturk, the world will be in more trouble. Especially Greeks and Armenians and Russians and Azeris and Georgians …)

Nazi assistance to Stalin in the 1940 Winter War

“What was the Nazi reaction to the Soviet invasion of Finland? Most historians simply note that Finland was part of the Soviet sphere of influence in the nonaggression agreement, so Germany could not openly oppose Russia. In fact, Germany strongly supported the Soviet attack on Finland. German media simply reproduced as its own stories the Soviet reporting of the Winter War. The Nazis blocked the shipment of arms to the Finns, threatening Sweden (and also Denmark) with war if Sweden allowed transit of arms from the West, and blocking arms from every other nation that tried to help the Finns.”

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/11/the_hidden_history_of_the_winter_war.html#ixzz3KbkzvUXw

Stuck a needle in his eye

Sir Isaac Newton, the 17th century’s smarter Stephen Hawking:

“I tooke a bodkine (needle) & put it betwixt my eye & [the] bone as neare to [the] backside of my eye as I could: & pressing my eye [with the] end of it (soe as to make [the] curvature a, bcdef in my eye) there appeared severall white darke & coloured circles r, s, t, &c. Which circles were plainest when I continued to rub my eye [with the] point of [the] bodkine, but if I held my eye & [the] bodkin still, though I continued to presse my eye [with] it yet [the] circles would grow faint & often disappeare untill I removed [them] by moving my eye or [the] bodkin.”

http://neveryetmelted.com/2014/12/01/sir-isaac-newton/

Castro's plan to blow up Macy's

“Castro’s agents had targeted Macy’s, Gimbels, Bloomingdales, and Manhattan’s Grand Central Station with a dozen incendiary devices and 500 kilos of TNT. The holocaust was set for detonation the following week, on the day after Thanksgiving.”

http://townhall.com/columnists/humbertofontova/2014/11/28/the-blackest-of-fridays-planned-by-fidel-castro-and-che-guevara-n1924230#!

Link at faustasblog.