It ain't Carter in the White House, Mahmoud!

So Iranian military officers are getting captured in Iraq or defecting and we’re not giving them back, prompting President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to flap his gums about kidnapping Americans or Israelis in retaliation.

From a Times Online story:

“We’ve got the ability to capture a nice bunch of blue-eyed blond-haired officers and feed them to our fighting cocks,” he said. “Iran has enough people who can reach the heart of Europe and kidnap Americans and Israelis.”

The first sign of a possible campaign against high-ranking Iranian officers emerged earlier this month with the discovery that Ali Reza Asgari, former commander of the Revolutionary Guard’s elite Quds Force in Lebanon and deputy defence minister, had vanished, apparently during a trip to Istanbul.

Asgari’s disappearance shocked the Iranian regime as he is believed to possess some of its most closely guarded secrets. The Quds Force is responsible for operations outside Iran.

I’m not even going to touch that thing about feeding officers to fighting cocks…not gonna touch it.

Slim Pickens riding the bomb...Yeee, haw!

The thing Mr. Ahm-a-dinner-jacket needs to remember is this is not 1979 and Jimmy “Give Peace a Chance” Carter is not sitting in the White House harboring lust in his heart for all the D.C. hotties. Nope, the one with his finger poised longingly over The Button is none other than Chimpy McBushitler, the raving lunatic christofascist, imperialistic, war-mongering soul brother to Yosemite Sam who is the nightmare of every far-left loony and dictator out there. To them, he’s like Slim Pickens in Dr. Strangelove, just waiting for a chance to drop a nuke and ride it all the way to its target.

Go ahead, Mahmoud, make his day.

For one, I’m happy to see that we are finally taking this shadowy proxy war in a minor way to the Iranians – they’ve gotten a free pass by operating in the shadows for far too long.

Don't chain my V-Dub!

Now they’ve gone and done it…human-caused global warming disciples have turned their attention to Europe, are dipping their paint brushes in black paint and getting all set to put up some speed limit signs on Germany’s famous autobahn.

From the AP:

"There are so many areas in which we waste energy in a completely senseless way and burden the climate," Dimas told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper."A simple measure in Germany could be a general speed limit on highways," he added, according to the newspaper. "Speed limits make a lot of sense for many reasons and are completely normal in most EU states, as in the U.S.A. — only in Germany, strangely, is it controversial."

The reaction was predictable:

Dimas' comments drew a slew of largely negative responses Sunday on the daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung's Internet site. One respondent described the debate as a "farce" and questioned the environmental record of Dimas' native Greece. Another demanded "free driving for free citizens" — quoting one of Germany's most popular and well-known slogans.

My take : Germans like their fast cars and like to be able to unwind them on the autobahn. I don’t see them easing up on the accelerator any time soon – speed limits or no speed limits.