Christmas 2007
Dec. 25th, 2006 11:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aggienaut Merry Yule-oriented rotation of the Earth fellow humanlings! I hope you all had a pleasant celebration of the birth of Santa ... or something about an ancient case of Peak Oil for those of the Jewish tendency.
When in doubt, remember that we have been granted guidance by the US Supreme Court during this confusing holiday season through the miracle of the "Plastic Reindeer Test."
Anyway, I got a wicker hat for Christmas.
In other news, Christmas is being celebrated in East Africa through large troop mobilizations in Somalia. A few thousand troops from neighbouring Ethiopia have entered the country to support the Somalian provisional government, but the radical Islamic Courts Union (ICU), which controls most of the country, has mobilized its forces in opposition and armed hostilities commenced on the 20th of this month. Yesterday (the 24th) combat escalated to armour assaults and aerial bombardment -- no word on what happened today.
The ICU claims the Ethiopian forces are puppets of the United States, while Ethiopia claims the ICU is linked to al-queda. To make matters worse, there are reports that Ethiopias arch-rival Eritrea may have sent troops into Somalia as well, which could cause the issue to escalate into a general multi-state war.
Completely Unrelated: "American Jedi" - I think this is pretty hilarious and sounds not unlike a lot of silly movies they do make. Also, counting down the days until Mexico for the traditional New Years adventure!
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Date: 2006-12-26 11:11 am (UTC)2. You may find this weird but my friend and her bf invited me to have Xmas dinner in Amsterdam--which was fun even though I don't celebrate anything but new years every end of the year since I'm a Moslem. And we met some people from Uva (Universiteit van Amsterdam) who are also Public International Law people. And we just found out from one of them that Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania are merging into a one "East Africa" on 2k9. WE COULDN'T BELIEVE WE DIDN'T KNOW THAT!
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Date: 2006-12-26 11:12 am (UTC)3. I hate radical/fanatic/extremist Moslems, they give us a bad name!
East Africa Conspiracy of 2009
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