Abdelhamid Abaaoud is in his late 20’s and is apparently a fugitive (apparently he wasn’t one of the imbeciles who blew himself to bits). Might have had a role in previous attempted terrorist acts in France.
Keep an eye out for this potential splodeydope:
This will go over well…
Competitive athletics: could I give a damn? If someone paid me to, I’m sure I could gin up some enthusiasm for a game of sportsball or whatever. But in general, watching millionaires run around playing kids games… meh. Still, the politics of sports can get entertaining. I actually used to watch the Olympics, back when it was a Titanic Struggles Against The Soviets. Looks like politics might come into sports again, now that the Russians have been booted out of things like track-and-field Olympic events because of their doping up their athletes.
Personally I think this is the wrong decision. I say: rather than booting out doped-up athletes… segregate them. Instead of holding back scientific experimentation… go with it! Divvy up, say, a marathon into *four* categories:
Transhumanism *is* coming, in perhaps a whole range of ways. Might as well accept it and see what we can get. A lot of the tinkering, especially with genetics, will have problematic side effects… might as well test them out of athletes first. They will be well compensated for the risk, unlike regular schmoes who’ll get upgrades because they *need* them for medical reasons.
That would certainly make the Olympics more interesting. Not only for the pure spectacle, but because, at last, average people could watch Olympians and *honestly* think that, just maybe, *they* might be able to do that too.
Goes more than half a kilometer up. Not bad.
Some religions are quite clear that “evil” is a Real Thing. Other religions are vaguer. A lot of secular worldviews hold that evil is not an objectively real thing. But even the athiest of atheists generally accept that “evil” is often a useful way the sum up a value judgement. And then there’s this guy:
Dumb. Dumb, dumb, dumb.
Here’s a firearm I’ve never seen before: the French “Union” pistol dating from the 1930’s. The pistol itself is fairly conventional; where it’s different is the 35-round magazine, bent into a horseshoe shape. The far end of the magazine simply fits up against the underside of the pistol frame. Manufacturing quality is apparently high. This was a select-fire .32, justifying the large magazine capacity. Not explained: how you holster the thing.
First up: finally got a very, very brief look inside Raedthinns mouth by way of gettign lucky filming him when he yawned. This happened earlier today, and was the first time I’ve seen him yawn since the initial injury almost a week ago. This would seem to indicate progress… it doesn’t hurt to stretch out his mouth. You can clearly see the lack of the lower right fang, the broken nature of the upper right fang, and the lack of lower incisors. I *think* he still has one or two tiny little incisors near the left lower fang.
Second: Bruce remains in quarantine. So long as he has a disease that’s fatal to felines, that’s the way it’s gonna stay. But I’ll take him to a different vet clinic in a month or so and get him re-tested. If he comes up negative for FLV, I’ll take him back to the first and retest *again.* If he’s clear twice at two different places, I’ll give him the run of the house and start looking into options for re-homing him.
He spends a distressing amount of his day all alone. Sad, but unfortunately it can’t be helped. One result of that is that he has gone slightly out of focus.
Once again, thanks to everyone who helped out.
Earlier today:
Well, that’s good news. I guess we won’t be hearing from them beyond the patch of land Islamic State is holed up in in Syria and Iraq.
“Moonwalkers” looks utterly goofy, but it might just be entertaining.
Well, hell.
A little vague and lean on the details. Hostage situations, AK-47s and explosions.
Shootings at at least three restaurants and explosions at a stadium.
UPDATE:
Additionally, at least 100 hostages in a theater.
UPDATE: Now it’s 60 dead.
UPDATE: Deputy mayor of Paris announced at least 118 dead. France has closed its borders, something I would’ve thought problematic in the European Union with the whole freedom-of-movement thing.
Car bomb in Iraq caught on video…