Silflay Hraka

Daydream Believer.

You spend more time than the average individual ‘lost in thought’ or mind-wandering.

Your daydreams are more creative than most.

Ages ago, at least in Internet time, I wrote that one of the ways to know that we’ve won the War on Terrorism was

Mecca celebrates Mardi Gras, and the Saudi Girls get all the beads.

Getting closer.

Behind closed doors and far from any supervising eyes, they remove their shame and turn their backs on all customs and traditions. Girls display their bodies in chat rooms on the Internet, in most cases, free of charge. As soon as one of these girls places the camera in front of her, she begins to strip, displaying her seductive charms to more than 300 young men of different ages. Some believe that the phenomenon of stripping over the Internet may be understood within the framework of social hypocrisy, especially since they believe that our religious and educational discourse does not attribute importance to the strengthening of self-restraint, and prefers the appearance over the essence. This drives some people to play several roles and wear several masks.

I wonder if we could speed this up some. Is there an “International Mail A Pornographic Image to A Saudi” Day? I know who I’d send one to.

Google is spying on your cat.

I’m all for mapping, but this feature literally gives me the shakes. I feel like I need to close all my curtains now. I’m going to look into whether it’s possible for a person to have pictures of their home removed from Google Maps. Meanwhile, I’m happy to show bb readers the photo in the interest of illustrating creepy privacy violations. Heck, the whole world can see him anyway.

Getting ready for the Euphrates, by training on the Cape Fear.

“The Cape Fear is more like the Euphrates River in Iraq than any other place in the country,” he said. “We really need this training area to get our sailors ready for war. Just like the Euphrates, the Cape Fear is narrow and uncharted without navigation aids. There are a lot of obstacles in the water such as floating logs.”
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Their 40-foot patrol boats are built for difficult water. The 800-horsepower diesel engines can push the boats to more than 40 knots in 9 inches of water when on plane. They use jet drives instead of props, enabling them to run in shallow water and turn quicker. Skippers run the boats in the dark with night-vision goggles.

Postscript: They also serve who stand and fish.

The Last Days of Europe – Unlike the Euro-bashing polemics of a few of those authors, Mr. Laqueur’s short book is measured, even sympathetic. It is mercifully free of references to cheese-eating surrender monkeys and misplaced historical analogies to appeasement. The tone is one of resigned dismay rather than grave-stomping glee.

Then why would anyone read it?

Get to Atlantic Beach while you can. Carteret County ranks #1 in the list of areas most likely to get hit by a hurricane this summer.

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