Consulting the Magic 8 Ball for answers on Iran
Did you know that the Magic 8 ball was co-invented by Abe Bookman?
“Oh really?” you might respond. “Was Abe a relative?”
No, not that I know of. Or as the all-knowing Magic 8 Ball would answer the question, “My sources say no.”
However, I’d be curious what your Magic 8 Ball, Ouiji board, bird entrails or other predictive device of your choosing has to say about what’s going to happen next with Iran. The 8 Ball’s answers might not be as accurate as the various intelligence reports coming out about Iran, but given the conflicting substance of those reports, they might not be less accurate either.
Over the weekend, Mohammed elBaradei, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, announced that Iran had set a date of Oct. 25 to allow UN inspectors to visit the newly revealed nuclear facility outside Qom. Earlier, in direct talks with the United States and other UN Security Council members, Iranian officials have also agreed in principle to temporarily ship much of their officially declared supply of enriched uranium out of the country for conversion into reactor fuel, a step that would render it more difficult to weaponize.
So, are these things really going to happen?
Will Iran allow inspections at the Qom facility? My Magic 8 Ball says: “Signs point to yes.”
Will Iran turn the “agreement in principle” into action by shipping its fuel to Russia and France for conversion to reactor fuel? My Magic 8 Ball says: “Outlook not so good.” I’m guessing the Iranians find some excuse to wriggle out of that one, and by doing so increase pressure for sanctions.
Your guess?
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Turd Ferguson
October 5th, 2009
8:01 am
Is Mohammed elBaradei, the head of the International Atomic Agency, quite naive and a complete/utter failure.
8-Ball SAYS…”Without a doubt”.
Turd Ferguson
October 5th, 2009
8:04 am
For those without an available majic 8 ball that would stilly like to play here is and “online majic 8-ball”.
Thank me later and you’re welcome!
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~ssanty/cgi-bin/eightball.cgi
USinUK
October 5th, 2009
8:06 am
“Is Mohammed elBaradei, the head of the International Atomic Agency, quite naive and a complete/utter failure.”
yep – other than being 100% right about Iraq, what does he know …
Normal
October 5th, 2009
8:07 am
I hope Iran is just “playing the crowd” like North Korea does. They shoot a missle off and everybody has hissy fits about a nuclear Iran. Every missle they have fired so far can be shot down. I hope that Iran knows what will happen if they aquire nucs and I hope they know they will cease to exist if they were to ever use one. I have no fear of that for our country, but should Isreal be popped, Isreal would retaliate in the biblical sense, 10 fold. It wouldn’t be pretty…
Paul
October 5th, 2009
8:10 am
We’ve just had one war based on faulty intelligence and the faulty interpretation of intelligence….
Fly-On-The-Wall
October 5th, 2009
8:14 am
I agree with Paul, one war with faulty intelligence is enough especially when it wasted 4,000 American lives.
AmVet
October 5th, 2009
8:15 am
I predict the uber-valorous Dick Cheney and a cadre of a small number of highly trained, highly experienced operatives in the shadowy Chickenhawks ‘R Us (trained by Ollie North and Saxby Chambliss), will sneak in, take it out and return without a scratch.
No answer
October 5th, 2009
8:17 am
Obama can’t consult the Magic 8 Ball for Iran. He’s got it tied up on how to proceed in Afghanistan.
USinUK
October 5th, 2009
8:18 am
AmVet –
thanks for that … now I have an image of Cheney, Rice and Michael Ledeen all blacked-up, ab-seiling down the side of a building in Iran, going “hut-hut-hut” like the Feds did at the end of the Blues Brothers …
Tony DeFranco
October 5th, 2009
8:22 am
The Iranians are very much misunderstood. Perhaps if American, Iranians, Latvians, Eskimos, Bushmen of the Kalahari, The FruitBats, Orangatans, Llamas, The French/Weasels, Peruvians, and the rest of the World Family held hands and sang this historical crisis could be overcome!
And I have just the song to make us feel all warm and gooey inside….
Ooh when I’m alone with you
I get a feeling through and through
Telling me that love is coming on
My head starts spinning round and round
And I don’t care what’s up or down
Deep in my soul, I’m outta control
When I start to hear the sound
Of a heartbeat
It’s a love beat
And a love beat
Is a good vibration
Oh a heartbeat
It’s a love beat
And when we meet
It’s a good sensation
Listen to my heat pound
Listen to my love sound
Feeling getting stronger
Can’t hold back any longer
For the heartbeat
It’s a love beat
And a love beat
Is a good vibration
Oh a heartbeat
It’s a love beat
And when we meet
It’s a good sensation
Listen!
Pictures pass before my eyes
Like a vision in disguise
Trying to explain the way I feel
And there’s a movement
In my mind
Like a rhythm counting time
Breaking down all my defenses
Over coming all of my senses
Oh a heartbeat
It’s a love beat
And a love beat
Is a good vibration
Oh a heartbeat
It’s a love beat
And when we meet
It’s a good sensation
Listen to my heat pound
Listen to my love sound
Temperature is rising
Girl there’s just no disguising
That a heartbeat
It’s a love beat
And a love beat
Is a good vibration
Oh a heartbeat
It’s a love beat
And when we meet
It’s a good sensation
A heartbeat
It’s a love beat
And a love beat
Is a good vibration
Oh a heartbeat
It’s a love beat
And when we meet
It’s a good sensation
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
October 5th, 2009
8:27 am
Well, every 8 ball I ever seen in a pool hall didn’t say nothing. But if you knocked it in a pocket before the others you lost big-time.
Anyhow, I think Old Man McCain was right. Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran. Only wait till the people doing the inspecting leave. We don’t want nobody but Iran mad at us. Cheney would take care of it and tell My President what to do, but the Obama supporters kicked them both out of office. Bunch of Traders.
That’s my opinion and it’s very true. Have a good day everybody.
Scooter
October 5th, 2009
8:30 am
Well, OK, I used Turd’s on-line 8 ball and asked if Iran would get nukes.It said Maybe. So there’s your sign!( thanks Mrs.G )
Former Chicago Olympic community organizer
October 5th, 2009
8:30 am
mmm, mmm,mmm
Barack Hussein Obama
mmm, mmm, mmm
DeFranco Family fan
October 5th, 2009
8:32 am
Whatcha been doin’ the past 35 years, Tony?
Paul
October 5th, 2009
8:32 am
I suppose all the hoopla over the latest facility is because of what the IAEA wrote a month or so ago: Iran has over 8000 centrifuges either enriching uranium, under vacuum or installed at Natanz; oversight there is lacking (but Iran has agreed! sound familiar?) but weapons breakout capability could be achieved there in 3-6 months or at a clandestine gas centrifuge facility.
The pattern seems clear.
Part two of the earlier ‘faulty intelligence’ observation’: Saddam could have averted the American invasion quite easily, but he did not believe the Americans would do what they did. Iran’s in pretty much the same position.
It isn’t just our miscalculations that could lead to war.
Paul
October 5th, 2009
8:33 am
IAEA report on Natanz and enrichment status:
http://www.isis-online.org/publications/iran/Analysis_IAEA_Report.pdf
Bill Campbell
October 5th, 2009
8:35 am
So what am I supposed to do with all the merchandise I planned to sell at the Chicago Olympic tent city?
Taxpayer
October 5th, 2009
8:39 am
Jay, my magic future-telling device says that Iran can have whatever money can buy. By the way, the next time you are out on the golf course, try to remember to bring your own water, and respirator. Remember, the enemy comes in many forms and the most insidious forms are those that appear so outwardly inviting.
Scooter
October 5th, 2009
8:40 am
Bill Campbell
October 5th, 2009
8:35 am
Go to RIO?
Tony DeFranco
October 5th, 2009
8:41 am
Past 35 years? Sitting in my 70’s memorobilia room looking at old Tiger Beat mags, listening to Donny Osmand 8-tracks & 45’s, watching reruns of The Partidge family, singing Heartbeat. Since they canceled our contract I just cant get a singing gig but during the 80’s I did get a very cool mullet.
*Sigh* when the mullet didnt work I just sank into a deep depression, returned to my room and drank Sunny-D by the case.
Bill Campbell
October 5th, 2009
8:43 am
Scooter
October 5th, 2009
8:40 am
So maybe I could pass off the t-shirts that say “Chicago” Olympics as saying “Chicano” Olympics, right?
DeFranco Family fan
October 5th, 2009
8:44 am
Tony DeFranco
October 5th, 2009
8:41 am
Tony, glad to hear you’re still groovin’.
Jimmy62
October 5th, 2009
8:48 am
Qom is such an obvious delaying tactic. That’s not where they are keeping the really important stuff. So the buildup to the inspection will take months and months, the diplomacy another few months, and all the while they will be building a nuke elsewhere and laughing at our stupid diplomacy and lack of backbone to do anything concrete to stop them.
jt
October 5th, 2009
8:49 am
Enter your comments here
“and by doing so increase pressure for sanctions”.
Saddam Huessein made millions after our last sanction experiment. Only the Iraqi people suffered. Same with North Korea.
The Iranian people are not our enemies. Keep flooding their markets with cell phones, note-books and computers,
park a few communication satilytes over the country,
waiver the inter-net superhighway tolls,
and let the Iranian people determine their own destiny.
It never hurts to let the rulers KNOW what to expect if they misbehave.
Sanctions are stupid and in-effective when levied by the worlds biggest debtor nation.
Normal
October 5th, 2009
8:50 am
I was just listening to the “Oldies” station and the DJ’s have a skit using “The Fulton County Library Information Line” The question of the day was: Iran has denied the ability to produce,
A. Weapons grade nuclear material
B. Solar Power
C. Soap
I had to go get another cup of coffee…
Bill Campbell
October 5th, 2009
8:51 am
How ’bout I set up my Olympic tent city in Iran and sell those cell phones, note-books and computers?
FrankLeeDarling
October 5th, 2009
8:52 am
They want something,but like a passive- aggressive lover ,they want us to guess.
My Magic eight ball says Iran will get a nuke just to prove they are big boys now.
RollerGirl
October 5th, 2009
8:52 am
I asked 5 times of the great and powerful Magic 8-Ball: even if the IAEA(laughable toothless multinational agency) says Ahmedinijad has bomb parts spread out on his living room floor with a tv dinner and watching some camel on tv with lust in his eye, would B. HUSSEIN act with anything more than the lame threat of sanctions?
5 straight answers:
● Don’t count on it
● My reply is no
● My sources say no
● Outlook not so good
● Very doubtful
Scooter
October 5th, 2009
8:53 am
Bill Campbell
October 5th, 2009
8:43 am
Yeah right,all you have to change is one letter.Couldn’t be that hard to do!
Bosch
October 5th, 2009
8:53 am
“We’ve just had one war based on faulty intelligence and the faulty interpretation of intelligence….”
Yeah, we’ve so got the t-shirt on that one.
Paul and USinUK,
Mrs. G’s Mimi died this weekend. I dont’ know if you saw the post yesterday.
jokerman
October 5th, 2009
8:54 am
unfortunately for you Bill Campbell in Brazil they speak Portugese not Spanish.
Bosch
October 5th, 2009
8:54 am
Normal,
But, what was the answer?
Bill Campbell
October 5th, 2009
8:56 am
jokerman
October 5th, 2009
8:54 am
Portugese and Spanish? I thought Brazil spoke Mexican.
RollerGirl
October 5th, 2009
8:56 am
I thought the osmonds’s were banned in the late 1970’s by the consumer protection agency? Kinda like lawn darts.
El Jefe
October 5th, 2009
8:57 am
I trust Iran, like I would trust Chicago slumlord Valerie Jarrett.
I trust Iran like I would trust my daughter visiting Bill Clinton.
I trust Iran like I would trust the current President with my tax money.
USinUK
October 5th, 2009
8:58 am
Bosch –
aw, man … thanks for passing that along … it sounded like she fought a good fight and had “good innings” (as they say here) …
that’s the problem with anon. boards – I wish we could do a collection and send flowers …
Normal
October 5th, 2009
8:59 am
Bosch
October 5th, 2009
8:54 am
Normal,
But, what was the answer?
I think it was soap!
GEORGE AMERICAN
October 5th, 2009
8:59 am
MAJIC 8-BALLS, WILL OBLARMA FAIL?
ANSWER: “HE MUST FAIL TO PRESERVE OUR FREEDOMS AND LIBERTIES THAT AMERICANS HAVE DIE FOR!!!”
Nothing is Free
October 5th, 2009
9:01 am
We have nothing to worry about. Ahmedinijad is terrified of the community organizer. He knows that he could be facing a subpoena if he blows Israel off the face of the earth.
Isn’t it good to know that, in this world of military trained leaders that are intent on spreading their 13th century religion onto the parts of the earth where people dare to live in the 21st century, that we have a community organizer / lawyer steering this great ship that we call the US of A.
Sleep tight America. Iran probably has nukes and Obama wants to talk to them about it I’m pretty sure he has them scared to death. .
El Jefe
October 5th, 2009
9:01 am
Here is a question for everyone -
Qom, is a holy city for Iran. Why would you build a “peaceful” nuclear facility underground near a holy city, a shrine and a center of religious learning?
Paul
October 5th, 2009
9:02 am
Bosch
I did not see that. My condolences to you both. It’s going to be a sad time around the Bosch home.
jt
October 5th, 2009
9:02 am
Enter your comments
Keep focused freedom lovers.
The 500+ “representatives in DC are a bigger threat to our freedom than anything Iran can lob.
Don’t let these people wag the dog.
RollerGirl
October 5th, 2009
9:03 am
Ok I’m taking the rest of the day off..cough cough…
I gotta rush home and design my ghetto magic 8 ball…will all new ghetto style answers. Its got to be in ATL stores in time for kwanzaa
will this make me rich? all signs point to yes, M*^%$er F#%$^R
Shawny
October 5th, 2009
9:07 am
One site. They have agreed to one site. Nevermind the others that we know are cranking out the stuff. The underground network, etc.
lame.
Taxpayer
October 5th, 2009
9:09 am
My magic 8-ball says that the roller derby did not go as well as was hoped.
Turd Ferguson
October 5th, 2009
9:10 am
I miss those Lawn Darts…*sniff, sniff*
And in case you missed them then Heeeeeerrrrrreeee’sss JOHNNY!!
http://jarts-lawndarts.com/PICTURES_OF_SETS.php
PS…Safety glasses, shoes, gloves, helmets, knee pads, chin-guards, thigh highs (OH MY), arm protectors, shoulder pads, etc sold separately!
Bosch
October 5th, 2009
9:12 am
Paul,
It wasn’t my relative, it was Mrs. G’s Mimi – the one she’s been caring for. No, mine are still clunkin’ along.
Nothing is Free
October 5th, 2009
9:12 am
RollerGirl
I like it!!
It’s actually not a bad idea.
Roller boy
October 5th, 2009
9:12 am
Taxpayer
October 5th, 2009
9:09 am
You’re right, it didn’t. The newly appointed Roller Czar showed up, raised the admission prices, added an additional tax on all foods, allowed Bill Campbell to set up a tent city hawking Chicago Olympic merchandise, and told the DJ that his song selections must first go up the chain of command. The DJ complied, but refused to play mmm, mmm, mmm, Barack Hussein Obama, mmm, mmm, mmm.
Turd Ferguson
October 5th, 2009
9:13 am
Here is a game of which I was unaware and looks to be much more fun than lawn darts. This one was an acceptable alternative to Lawn Darts and fun for outdoor as well as indoor play!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornhole