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World's First Hydrogen Fuel Cell Powered Island
Albanach writes "According to this article in The Herald Newspaper, the island of Islay, on the West coast of Scotland is set to become the world's first Hydrogen Fuel Cell powered island. Scientests at Napier University wish to use the existing Wave Power Station to treat sea water and store the resulting hydrogen in fuel cells. The first plan is to power a building, moving on to powering the entire island in a decade."
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A brief overview of the situation is always valuable, so as a service to all
Americans who still don't get it, I now offer you the story of the Middle
East in just a few paragraphs, which is all you really need.
Don't thank me. I'm a giver. Here we go:
The Palestinians want their own country. There's just one thing about that:
There are no Palestinians. It's a made up word. Israel was called Palestine
for 2000 years. Like "Wiccan," "Palestinian" sounds ancient but is really a
modern invention. Before the Israelis won the land in war, Gaza was owned by
Egypt, and there were no "Palestinians" then, and the West Bank was owned by
Jordan, and there were no "Palestinians" then. As soon as the Jews took over
and started growing oranges as big as basketballs, what do you know, say
hello to the "Palestinians," weeping for their deep bond with their lost
"land" and "nation." So for the sake of honesty, let's not use the word
"Palestinian" any more to describe these delightful folks, who dance for joy
at our deaths until someone points out they're being taped. Instead, let's
call them what they are: "Other Arabs From The Same General Area Who Are In
Deep Denial About Never Being Able To Accomplish Anything In Life And Would
Rather Wrap Themselves In The Seductive Melodrama Of Eternal Struggle And
Death." I know that's a bit unwieldy to expect to see on CNN. How about
this, then: "Adjacent Jew-Haters."
Okay, so the Adjacent Jew-Haters want their own country. Oops, just one more
thing. No, they don't. They could've had their own country any time in the
last 30 years, especially two years ago at Camp David. But if you have your
own country, you have to have traffic lights and garbage trucks and Chambers
of Commerce, and, worse, you actually have to figure out some way to make a
living. That's no fun. No, they want what all the other Jew-Haters in the
region want: Israel. They also want a big pile of dead Jews, of
course-that's where the real fun is-but mostly they want Israel. Why? For
one thing, trying to destroy Israel-or "The Zionist Entity" as their
textbooks call it - for the last 50 years has allowed the rulers of Arab
countries to divert the attention of their own people away from the fact
that they're the blue-ribbon most illiterate, poorest, and tribally backward
on God's Earth, and if you've ever been around God's Earth, you know that's
really saying something.
It makes me roll my eyes every time one of our pundits waxes poetic about
the great history and culture of the Muslim Mideast. Unless I'm missing
something, the Arabs haven't given anything to the world since Algebra, and,
by the way, thanks a h-ll of a lot for that one.Chew this around and spit it
out: Five hundred million Arabs; five million Jews.
Think of all the Arab countries as a football field, and Israel as a pack of
matches sitting in the middle of it. And now these same folks swear that if
Israel gives them half of that pack of matches, everyone will be pals.
Really? Wow, what neat news. Hey, but what about the string of wars to
obliterate the tiny country and the constant din of rabid blood oaths to
drive every Jew into the sea? Oh, that? We were just kidding.
My friend Kevin Rooney made a gorgeous point the other day: Just reverse the
numbers. Imagine five hundred million Jews and five million Arabs. I was
stunned at the simple brilliance of it. Can anyone picture the Jews
strapping belts of razor blades and dynamite to themselves? Of course not.
Or marshaling every fiber and force at their disposal for generations to
drive a tiny Arab State into the sea? Nonsense. Or dancing for joy at the
murder of innocents? Impossible. Or spreading and believing horrible lies
about the Arabs baking their bread with the blood of children? Disgusting.
No, as you know, left to themselves in a world of peace, the worst Jews
would ever do to people is debate them to death.
Mr. Bush, God bless him, is walking a tightrope. I understand that with
vital operations coming up against Iraq and others, it's in our interest, as
Americans, to try to stabilize our Arab allies as much as possible, and,
after all, that can't be much harder than stabilizing a roomful of
supermodels who've just had their drugs taken away.
However, in any big-picture strategy, there's always a danger of losing
moral weight. We've already lost some. After September 11 our president told
us and the world he was going to root out all terrorists and the countries
that supported them. Beautiful. Then the Israelis, after months and months
of having the equivalent of an Oklahoma City every week (and then every day)
start to do the same thing we did, and we tell them to show restraint. If
America were being attacked with an Oklahoma City every day, we would all
very shortly be screaming for the administration to just be done with it and
kill everything south of the Mediterranean and east of the Jordan. (Hey,
wait a minute, that's actually not such a bad id . . uh, that is, what a
horrible thought, yeah, horrible.)
I had a lot of pizza tonight and I think I could power that island with methane right about now.
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I think Lagavulin is nicer -- Laphroiag is a bit, er, over the top. Lagavulin still has the strong Islay character (think ultrasmoke), but stops short of whacking you over the head with a crowbar; instead, it ... seduces you. Christ I can't begin to explain how perfect the stuff is. Just try it.
We live, as we dream -- alone....
Is that you, Mr. Vice-President?
Bleh. Whiskey tastes like what I imagine shoe leather would taste like(based upon the smell of shoe leather).