Probably because they know we’ll take it. Remember ol’ goatse? No dick too big, no assfuck too brutal? That’s the American motorist at the pump. Bring it aaawwwnnn!!!
Anderson Cooper just played an audio tape from a girl in Libya. the sounds of gunfire on the tape were horrible. It sounded like machine guns because there were so many going on at nearly the same time. So many deaths. It is all about money. Gadaffi wants to keep it all.
BBC has news sharing agreements from different outlets all over the world. From what I’ve noticed, it looks like the exact makeup of programming varies in different parts of the world.
Libya’s status as a recently-elected member of the UN Human Rights Council might provide it some insulation.
One commentator on CNN was noting that the Libyan military is by no means fit or prepared to take power like the Egyptian military did . . . so, there is nobody to take power, when Gaddafi falls; power-vacuum situation.
The Libyan ambassador to Australia has renounced any ties to Gadaffi. Even got his portrait out and stomped on in the streets.
I must say, Gaddafi is a fellow who has a positive genius for inspiring admiration and loyalty in his subordinates.
He’s getting soft. In his prime, he would have Force-strangled them!
It would also probably require the UN HRC to be the kind of body which would not include Libya in the first place. Don’t worry though, they night snap to their senses and draft a harsh resolution, with teeth, criticizing Zionism.
I gotta bookmark this thread for the perenial threads on why we still need aircraft carriers.
Declan
Money? Money is for dilletants and amateurs. Qaddafi wants power, which is much move valuable.
I believe you’re right.
Also, if the insurgents succeed, I suspect he won’t flee the country, contrarily to what his friends on the east and west did, and will die there.
Might be he is playing for all the marbles, like Saddam Hussein ( pre invasion), he simply might have done the math and figured he would be dead in six months if he skipped the country rather than go down with the ship.
Declan
Or maybe he believes his own mythology - that he and the country are one, and if Muammar Qaddafi does not rule Libya, Muammar Qaddafi does not exist.
That would be the greatest MythBusters episode ever.
Jamie: “Are Muammar Qaddafi and Libya one? Today we are going to find out if Qaddafi and Libya are actually the same.”
Adam: "Well, how are we going to test that? To see if they are one and the same, don’t we need to remove Libya and see if Qaddafi still exists?
Jamie: “No, that is the beauty of it. Based on the symmetry principle, if Qaddafi can’t exist without Libya, then Libya can’t exist without Qaddafi. So instead of removing Libya, we are going to remove Qaddafi.”
Adam: “How do you propose to do that?”
Jamie: “We are going to have Grant build a robot replica of Qaddafi and substitute him for the real one. Then we will dispose of the real Qaddafi. After that, then Grant will detonate the explosives inside the replicant killing Qaddafi’s bodyguards and immediate family.”
Adam: “Sounds kind of harsh, don’t you think? And how do you intend to dispose of Qaddafi?”
Jamie: “First, it’s all in the name of science. Second, we never did get a good result on the freezing a human head in liquid nitrogen and see if it shatters.”
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Jamie: “Well, Kari and Tory have returned with from kidnapping Qaddafi and replacing him with the replicant. Grant, are you ready with that detonator?”
Grant: “Fire in the hole!”
Everyone watching a satellite feed showing Qaddafi’s palace. A large explosion creates a pile of rubble and a dust cloud that can be seen from Italy.
Jamie: “Okay, now we wait and see if Libya is there tomorrow.”
Adam: “One day seems like not enough time. How about after a month?”
Jamie: “Sounds goods. Let’s check back in after one month - based on the Gregorian calendar, not the Islamic calendar.”
Graphic showing the difference between the two.
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Jamie: “Well, there was a threat of civil war, but after the UN peacekeepers landed, order was soon restored, and Libya is preparing for new parliamentary elections.”
Adam: “So Qaddafi and Libya are one? Busted?”
Jamie: “Busted!”
Adam: “So what were the results of the liquid nitrogen experiment?”
Jamie: “That is the subject of our next episode. Be sure to watch and find out!”
We’ll find out soon enough – the UN Security Council is meeting this morning to consider the Libya situation.
money=power There is really little difference. Ask the Koch brothers for a lesson.
“. . . But, we both know money can’t buy happiness. Only power can do that. Who do we own?”
– The Rev. Armageddon T. Thunderbird (Andy Kaufman), talking to G.O.D. in In God We Tru$t.
Money can bring power, and power can bring money, but the two are not synonymous. There are richer people than the Koch brothers with less power - because the Koch brothers actively seek power. And even they can’t bring tens of thousands of supporters to the streets, nor can they order an air strike. In certain ways, your average African tinpot dictator has more *immediate *power than they do.
Agnostic Pagan you forgot the Warning Science Content message! You have to prep your audience before unleashing graphs about the difference between calendar types…
(Plus, I’d suggest that they use Kaddafi to test out the scene from Demolition Man where the bad guy gets complete frozen alive and then shatters with a single boot to the head. I think Grant could make a boot kicking robot pretty easily, and it would be fun to see what happens to Kaddafi if someone dumped a lot of liquid nitrogen on him slowly until he froze solid!)
-XT