You have to love those advertising Mad Mullah Men of Tehran. Faced with the challenge of naming their new unnamed bomber, the Iranians have dubbed the 4-meter-long drone “The Ambassador of Death.”
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad unveiled the aircraft, which can carry four cruise missiles and will have a range of 620 miles.
Here’s the marketing pitch: “The jet, as well as being an ambassador of death for the enemies of humanity, has a main message of peace and friendship.” A bit convoluted but catchy. It is basically a product that brings peace in the form of four potentially nuclear tipped cruise missiles.
Before you laugh too loud, try to recall that we named one of the most lethal handguns in history (the single action Colt 45) and the Convair B-36 bomber the “Peacemaker.” Then there was the MX missile dubbed the Peacemaker, bringing peace to the world in the form of 10 re-entry vehicles, each equipped with a 300-kiloton W87 warhead.
“Residents from communities alongside the expressway have seen opportunity in the traffic slowdown, setting up food and drink kiosks for the drivers.
Some drivers have complained of price gouging. One truck driver, identified by his last name Huang, told the Global Times that “instant noodles are sold at four times the original price while I wait in the congestion.
“Not only the congestion annoys me, but also those vendors,” he added.”
capitalism at it’s finest. Initiative and high prices, as more competitors enter the market the price of his noodles will drop. High prices bring goods and services to places that need them, once competitors arrive the price falls dramatically. Once again the superiority of capitalism to provide for the people is demonstrated.
The guy should quit his bitching and be lucky he has any noodles at all or wait until the price falls which it will. It was only a generation ago or less that China would not have had to worry about a traffic jam.
Maybe Paul Krugman and Turbo Tax Tim Geithner could learn something from watching what happens to the price of noodles in China.
When the cowboys and Arabs draw down
On each other at noon
In the cool dusty air of the city boardroom
Will you stand by a passive spectator
Of the market dictators
Will you discreetly withdraw
With your ear pressed to the boardroom door
Will you hear when the lion within you roars
Or will you take to the hills?
-Roger Waters, “Home”
Buckeye
1, August 23, 2010 at 3:53 pm :
Heres your answer.
““Not only the congestion annoys me, but also those vendors,”
9 Buckeye
1, August 23, 2010 at 3:53 pm :
Good Question.:=)
eniobob
What happened to all the bicycles?
Hey! They may be a repressive regime, bent on destabilizing the region, but I give them credit for some good branding! A little wit and panache goes a long way!
Hopefully the people in china don’t panic when they hear this news for they would seem to be the least prepared:
Worst traffic jam ever? Gridlock spans 60 miles
Motorists in China play card games and chess as traffic is slowed to a crawlAdvertisement | ad infomsnbc.com
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Share Print Font: + – A traffic jam stretching more than 60 miles in China has entered its ninth day with no end in sight, state media reported.
Cars and trucks have been slowed to a crawl since August 14 on the National Expressway 110, which is also known as the G110, the major route from Beijing to Zhangjiakou, Xinhua News reported.
Officials expect the congestion to continue until workers complete construction projects on September 13, the report said.
State media reported that Chinese drivers have become accustomed to the severe delays, noting a similar jam in July that slowed traffic for close to a month.
Britain’s Sky News reported that the snarls have been commonplace since May as a result of a spike in the number of trucks using the roads, with the daily peak reaching about 17,000.
“Insufficient traffic capacity on the National Expressway 110 caused by maintenance construction since August 19 is the major cause of the congestion,” a Beijing Traffic Management Bureau spokesman told the Global Times.
Chinese national radio reported Sunday that minor traffic accidents and broken-down vehicles have complicated the traffic mess, Xinhua reported.
Approximately 400 police officers are patrolling the road 24 hours a day in an effort to keep the situation calm, Sky News said.
Concerts?
Motorists have taken to card games or chess to pass the time, Sky News reported. Others joked that “concerts should be held at each congested area every weekend, to alleviate drivers’ homesickness,” the report said.
Residents from communities alongside the expressway have seen opportunity in the traffic slowdown, setting up food and drink kiosks for the drivers.
Some drivers have complained of price gouging. One truck driver, identified by his last name Huang, told the Global Times that “instant noodles are sold at four times the original price while I wait in the congestion.
“Not only the congestion annoys me, but also those vendors,” he added.
peace through strength, I like it.
I wonder why we won’t allow anyone else on the moon? hmmmmmmmm….just curious about this…..
In this case, seems like a fitting name for a boomerang.
Sounds like our Iranian friend has gangraped one too many close cousins in the past…
I’ll see your “Ambassador of Death” and raise you a fleet of Predators flown by guys who’ve been glues to their Nintendo’s and X-Boxes since they were eight instead of herding goats or running from the SAVAK.
And who said violent video games were a waste of time.
During World War II the deadliest weapon was created by Ernest Scribbler, a British “manufacturer of jokes” who wrote the funniest joke in the world and promptly died laughing. Later the British Army translated the joke into German. Each translator translated only one word, so as not to be killed by reading the entire joke. One translator accidentally saw two words and was hospitalized for several weeks. In 1944, British Tommies ran into the Ardennes shouting the German translation of the joke, “Wenn ist das Nunstruck git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!” Many Germans were killed and the war in Europe was soon over. After the war, of course, Joke Warfare was outlawed by the Geneva Convention.(The above information is courtesy of Monty Python with help from Wickipedia.) I speak a bit of German and was badly injured by typing the joke- I am leaving now for the emergency room. Wish me luck.