Stuff below the fold

the Jack Wheeler case gets stranger: Wife claims a hit job, but it looks like someone was using his credit card after he died, suggesting he was a victim of a robbery.
more HERE.
And one wonders if his confusion was due to a stroke.
Freepers have a long thread with discussion here.

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Who's behind the "Jasmine" tweets in China?

StrategyPage had a column last August on their hidden problems.

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a new movie being made about what happened to the lost Roman Ninth Legion...sort of Braveheart prequel... Were they lost, disbanded, or both? More HERE.

Yet if they were massacred, there should be bodies somewhere...even Cambyses lost Persian army and the massacre of the Romans in the Teutoburg forest in Germany have finally been found.

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and what is it with Hollywood ignoring helmets? Compare and contrast



heck, even in 300 they had helmets. Not a lot of clothing, but they did wear helmets.
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Heh. A governor with a New Jersey Attitude.

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My take on the Wisconsin Kerfuffle: Luddite redux.

the Luddite movement:

… the conventional picture of the Luddism of these years as a blind opposition to machinery as such becomes less and less tenable. What was at issue was the `freedom’ of the capitalist to destroy the custom of the trade, whether by new machinery, by the factory system or by unrestricted competition, beating down wages, undercutting his ‘rivals and undermining standards of craftsmanship.

Yeah, but they lost anyway...not a lot of hand loomed cloth in the clothing at Walmart nowadays...

and remember: If they want to save money in Wisconsin, there are a lot of Pinoy teachers who would love to work for $25000 a year, and a lot of the paperpushing state jobs could be outsourced to Makati.

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Polish priest killed in Tunesia...

New film about if one should stay in danger or leave when Islamicists threaten...

it's the radicalism, not the religion per se: we had the same choice when the communists took over the rebellion in some parts of Zimbabwe, and went out of their way to kill (black and white) pastors/nuns. Our area had the less radical, but not all my friends were so lucky.

and of course, radicals of both sides killed clergy in Colombia, who often were silenced because they witnessed atrocities.