Contact with the Greeks

  Found the Greek capital.  They are a pretty strong early army, got to make sure I don’t get rushed.

  Discovered Calendar – cool, now it is time for me to start keeling the barbarians to buy a worker.  Actually, I am behind.  The Continent is pretty big and I lost track of time.  Ah well, so it is written - so it is done.

  In addition to Calendar, I have the opportunity to found a religion.  I am the first.  Yippee!  The map shows I will have a fair number of plantations – so I’ll take that bonus.

  Even though I haven’t been building many military units, I am still in 5^th place.  Not to bad.  I have a shrine up and running, working on a monument, and after that is complete – I will start another Pathfinder.

  I can adopt a policy – I went with Liberty.  I want the worker and settler.  And the Great Person will be nice eventually.

  My civ just discovered Horse riding.  I think I should go ahead with Archery to beef up the military.  If you don’t stay at least reasonably strong, the AI will start to go after your civ.

  It is RAMPAGING BARBARIANS time – goodness gracious.  Finally cleared out enough of the barbarians to make it worth buying a worker.  Off he goes to the Banana Plantation!  Oh wait, I can’t clear the jungle yet – sigh.  Time to build a farm I guess.

   Cap City completed an Archer.  I think there is a need for a bit more gold (there are only so many barbarian camps and I have lost one unit already.)  So, Cap City will build a caravan.

Obamacare, Hitler, hilarity is the result

You knew it was only a matter of time:

H/T Patterico's Pontifications

The Coming Ice Age

Via Instapundit:

So, how many people remember the Times cover about the coming Ice Age?

  What are the odds that some professor will claim the declining world temperatures are the result of pollution?  Oh. wait. that's been done.

Pollution blocks the warming rays of the sun.

Craptacular

The ability of Prezzy O to talk about the exact opposite of what he doing.

Remember:  If you like your coverage, you can keep it.  'cause.

Another Day, Another Civ Found

  I met the first of the other Civs – the Byzantines.  Hopefully, we aren’t together on a small continent where her special naval units have the advantage.

  Pottery!  As soon as I complete the warrior, time for a shrine.

  First natural wonder discovered.  Unfortunately, it may not be close enough to get inside my countries borders.  We will see which way I start pushing out the new settlements.

  Second warrior is on the map.  Now I can really start exploring.  Started a Shrine instead of a Monument – my native bonus is more land acquired upon establishing a settlement than any other civ.  I need the religion first as I want to maximum latitude in select belief bonuses.

  I am indeed fortunate.  I have met 3 spiritual city states on the continent.  I was ‘first’ at two of them, and not ‘first’ at one.  I have 20 points toward a religion.  Only need 10 more.   I hope.

  Just met my second Civ foe, they are the Egyptians.  Fortunately, there is a fair amount of jungle between them and me.  Their horse archers should be less of a threat.

  Greeks identified.  I guess I barely beat them to Jerusalem.  

That's it for today!

My Civ V Game

  Started a new Civ V game - Initial set up:  no ruins, max number of city states, max number of civilizations and the map is huge.  Yes, I am a glutton for punishment, and yes, it takes a while.

  And so, the madness begins. 

   I took a chance and moved NE along the river and nearer a pasture.  Founded my capital city – we shall call it (in an incredible amount of originality) “Capital City”.  

  Whoo hoo!  Cotton and sugar!!!  I am going for Pottery so I can leap to calendar and start using the luxury items.  Plus, I should get a jump towards founding a religion.  This is especially important as there are no ‘ruins’ in this game.

I'll up date more as I progress in the game.

USA and KSA (Kingdom of Saudia Arabia) aka Saudi Arabia

Well, the U.S. seems to have hit a bit of a rough patch:

“They [the Americans] are going to be upset—and we can live with that,” said Mustafa Alani, a Saudi foreign policy analyst. "We are learning from our enemies now how to treat the United States.”

Smart.  Diplomacy.  'cause.

Armed Citizens to help prevent terrorism, in EUROPE????

Really, this is awesome: Interpol Chief - Armed Citizens

Not really related, but I think the Man from UNCLE was part of Interpol.

This will end well - I hope:  Pivot to the Pacific