#rsrh He must have gotten some distance.

Quote of the Day, ‘Blew himself up’ Edition:

A man whom the U.S. described as a key figure in Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula accidentally blew himself up, U.S. military officials told Fox News.

The officials say Nayif Al-Qahtani was “messing with a bomb” when it went off. U.S. officials had been watching him, but Fox News’ sources insist the U.S. had nothing to do with his death.

Al-Qahtani was “a vibrant guy linked to ongoing operations planning, and his death will have an impact,” one official told Fox News.

Via @allahpundit, and bolding mine. Also, I put ‘Blew himself up’ in quotes because the guy was in Yemen (where we’re probably not supposed to be dropping smart bombs on terrorists) at the time. Now, of course, he’s on Yemen…

OK, my wife looks skeptically pedantic at that one. How about, ‘That’s just Al Qaeda all over*?’

Moe Lane Continue reading #rsrh He must have gotten some distance.

So, the bee people came…

…and the bees… apparently swarmed away in response.  Interesting facts:

  • Bees can slap together a hive fairly quickly.
  • There’s anywhere from 10K to 20K bees in a swarm.
  • That’s a lot of freaking bees.
  • And apparently bees are ninja: they can just… disperse, and you’ll never know where they went until they swarm again.
  • You can tell European bees from African bees from the lack of bodies associated with the former.
  • People who collect bees are very, very eager to collect more bees.
  • And, generally, people who collect bees are kind of nice.  Everybody I talked to about this was of cheerful temperament and civil demeanor.

That’s it.  I just wish I knew where the swarm went.

Moe Lane

PS: I got my wife to admit today “Yeah, Moe, that’s a swarm.”  She knows I’m phobic – big time – so she half-thought that five or six was my swarm.

HA!

Mayor Daley points gun at reporter.

As a ‘joke.’

I understand that Mayor Richard Daley is a liberal Illinois Democratic politician – which is semantically equivalent to ‘pig-ignorant about guns’ – so let’s go over some of the basics for him about firearm safety. Let’s also discuss some core assumptions that Dick needs to embrace:

  • GUNS ARE NOT TOYS.
  • GUNS ARE NOT PROPS.
  • IF YOU DO NOT KNOW WHETHER OR NOT A GUN IS LOADED, IT IS.
  • IF YOU DO NOT KNOW WHETHER OR NOT A GUN IS READY TO FIRE, IT IS.
  • NEVER POINT A GUN AT A LIVING CREATURE UNLESS IT IS A MATTER OF EITHER SELF-DEFENSE OR RESPONSIBLE HUNTING.
  • NEVER POINT A GUN AT A REPORTER.

Continue reading Mayor Daley points gun at reporter.

Sen Ben Nelson (D, NE): ‘I know about holograms.’

This is one of those ‘funny when it happens to other countries’ stories. Some background: Senator Tom Harkin (D) of Iowa, having happily participated in saddling the American people with trillions of dollars of generational debt at the behest of his liberal party leadership, has decided to make things right for folks by introducing a bill to cap ATM fees.

Gee. Thanks, Tommie.

Anyway, the bill died, but not before Senator Ben Nelson (D) of Nebraska reminded us that he lives in a wonderful, magic bubble land where things just sort of… happen… for him. By invisible gnomes, no doubt: Continue reading Sen Ben Nelson (D, NE): ‘I know about holograms.’

#rsrh Naomi Campbell, War Crimes witness?

If you’re like me – specifically, operating on a touch too little sleep and not yet adequately caffeinated – you probably read that as ‘Campbell Brown, War Crimes’ witness.  Turns out that this is actually not any kind of News of the Weird, though:

WAR crimes prosecutors want to subpoena supermodel Naomi Campbell to testify over a so-called blood diamond she allegedly received from Liberia’s ex-president Charles Taylor.

“Ms Campbell’s testimony is necessary as there is evidence that Ms Campbell was given rough diamonds by the accused (Taylor) in September 1997,” said a prosecution motion filed with the Special Court for Sierra Leone.

“Ms Campbell’s anticipated evidence concerns ‘a central issue’ in the case: the accused’s possession of rough diamonds,” states the document, a copy of which was obtained by AFP.

Via Ed Driscoll.  To be honest, I’ve never really delved deep into the Blood Diamond thing – I haven’t even seen the movie – but what I have read has been uniformly… unpleasant.  As is Charles Taylor; if he only existed in books the character would be denounced as a heavy-handed, racist caricature of African dictators.

Moe Lane

Meet Rob Simmons (R CAND, CT-SEN).

I had the opportunity to talk with Rob Simmons (R CAND, CT-SEN) this afternoon, so of course we discussed the recent art theft in Paris… no, of course I’m joking. We talked about Dick Blumenthal’s lying about his military record:

Rob Simmons’ site is here: details about the Vets for Freedom PAC endorsement here.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to RedState.