In Afghanistan, either your cell phone plays Taliban ring tones, or you can die

They actually have check points in the countryside and they'll look at your cell phone, and if they don't like what they see, you might have a date with the business-end of an AK-47.

The article says that some people carry a second SIM card, and if they get stopped, they pop out their normal one and replace it with the one with the approved ring tones.

Chalk it up as a win for the good guys?

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/12/taliban-ringtone/

Uh, no?

"Every barrel of oil that comes out of those sands in Canada is a barrel of oil that we don't have to buy from a foreign source."
— Gov. Rick Perry

"Sand oil" is called that because it comes from a special type of sand and requires a lot of additional processing before it gets to the crude state, where the normal refining process can begin. It ain't a 1:1 replacement. I especially love the number of jobs that Republicans are claiming the pipeline will create. I guess a candidate's true job is to tell the people what they want to hear, who cares if it's accurate. Wikipedia has a good description: Making liquid fuels from oil sands requires energy for steam injection and refining. This process generates two to four times the amount of greenhouse gases per barrel of final product as the "production" of conventional oil.[3] If combustion of the final products is included, the so-called "Well to Wheels" approach, oil sands extraction, upgrade and use emits 10 to 45% more greenhouse gases than conventional crude.[4] They actually describe the extraction process as mining, not drilling/pumping. So the only thing that might make it cheaper than OPEC oil is lower transport costs.

The Red Hot Chilli Pipers

MUCH better than the Red Hot Chilli Peppers, if you like bagpipe music (and who doesn't?).

http://www.redhotchillipipers.co.uk/

http://www.youtube.com/user/RedHotChilliPipers

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dpopular&field-keywords=red+hot+chilli+pipers

I'm definitely ordering some.

Obligatory bagpipe joke: why do pipers always walk? To get away from the noise.