Wampum

I think that Ali Akbar Hachemi Rafsandjani just announced his availability to be drafted as the war-time President of the Islamic Republic. See "What Wampum's Reading" on the left sidebar.

President Seyed Mohammad Khatami has been in Africa the past week. He's in Zimbabwe yesterday and today. I've been putting together the details and I'll post those soon. Its wicked smart. Senegal, Sierra Leone, Mali, Benin, Zimbabwe and Uganda. Europe is done. Turkey is done. The UK is done. The CIS (except for the states the Americans "own" via proxy) is done. China was done before this began (or is the cause within all causes), and now Africa.

Apropos of nothing, the Revolutionary Court has notified Nobel Prize winner Shirin Ebadi that it erred in issuing her a summons to explain her activities.

If I were in Tehran this week I'd be watching the seismographs. The earth may have moved.

The house is warmer now that it is snowing. One of those odd northern facts. When the temprature is below 17° Farenheit, it is too cold to snow.