Is that a plastic model of Obama with his hand on the proverbial button?
Turns out, it is a little red phone. The product is an “Obama 3 am Phone Call Squeezable Figure.”
It reminds my of my favorite Onion headline in recent years: Obama Makes It Through Another Day Of Resisting Urge To Launch All U.S. Nuclear Weapons At Once.
Let’s have a little Randy Newman after the jump.
slow news day?
I teach today. Just busy.
He’s looking pretty spiffy, not to mention caffeinated, for 3 AM.
Slightly less slow news day today:
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/09/intelligence-committee-chair-describes-explosive-confrontation-between-netanyahu-and-american-ambassador/262056/
Question is, whose account is more accurate….
Oh, you mentioned The Onion. Just for a few more bits of humor, here’s a list of my favorite Onion stories related to Iran’s nuclear program:
(To make sure my comment doesn’t end up in the spam folder, I haven’t provided links except for the first two. Just google them)
June 2006- Iran Ready To Talk About How Awesome Nuclear Program Is
September 2006- Report: Iranian Science Teachers May Be Enriching Students
August 2007- Report: Iran Less Than 10 Years Away From 2016
November 2007- U.S. Intelligence: Iran Possesses Trillions Of Potentially Dangerous Atoms
December 2008- Iran’s Nuclear Operation Revealed To Be Cover For Greatest Roller Coaster Ever
February 2012- Iran Worried U.S. Might Be Building 8,500th Nuclear Weapon
No one is blogging about that alleged DF-41 launch?
Some people claim that Chinese didn’t test anything, but their official sources claim otherwise.
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90786/7930833.html
We have the infrasound data. There was a test.
There is no official confirmation from the Chinese government.