Failed dictator profession: Would you let Doctor Assad prescribe you progressive lenses? | EUROtoday

Who wants a white Christmas when you will get Christmas in black and white? A physicist has lastly performed one thing significant and calculated that if Santa Claus wished to respect each good youngster on Christmas Eve, he must shoot via the evening at a velocity of round 711 kilometers per second. Metin Tolan writes within the e-book “Silent Night, Hurry Night” that his sleigh weighs an excellent 257,400 tons, which might require a practice of round 117,000 reindeer. He must cowl round 82 million kilometers – and that with a sleigh weighing effectively over 200,000 tons, assuming that every youngster obtained a present weighing round one kilogram.

That appears sporty. We do not even wish to think about what Deutsche Bahn feels within the face of this overperforming competitor. In any case, your emblem has a blush of disgrace written throughout its face.

Incidentally, the numbers refer modestly to youngsters of Christianity. Of course, it could possibly be that Santa Claus additionally considers the unbelievers, if solely as a result of the supposed believers are now not what they was. The Spanish pop singer Rosalía, for instance. They have simply launched a Catholic idea album on which the songs are referred to as “Reliquia”, “Mio Cristo piange Diamanti” (My Christ cries diamonds) and “Dios es un Stalker” (God is a stalker). Sounds considerably blasphemous should you ask us. In the great outdated days, you’ll have been burned on the stake for this. There is now the blessing of the Vatican. Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça, head of the papal Ministry of Culture, believes that Rosalía addresses “a deep need of contemporary culture for spirituality, emphasizing religious experience as a fundamental experience of humanity.”

The Bishop of Catalonia even wrote her a loyal letter: “I cannot understand you, but I would like to.” He quietly criticizes the “provocation” of the songs, however on the similar time struggles to reward the singer for talking about her private idea of God “with absolute freedom and without reservations.” Of course, you too can name heresy that means. After all, based on the bishop, Rosalía’s grandmother is recurrently seen at church. On the album cowl, the singer is reportedly carrying a spiritual gown. It appears to us that the piece seems extra like a straitjacket, as a result of non secular robes often have sleeves, proper?

If we had been Santa Claus, we’d reasonably fly by Moscow, for instance to go to the Assad household, who most likely want consolation greater than pop brats who come alongside. The Assads are formally Alawites, i.e. followers of a secret faith of which nobody is aware of precisely what’s going on, supposedly one thing between Islam and Sufism. In actuality, the household has most likely deserted all religion, which is what occurs if you run torture prisons lengthy sufficient and do not know what to do with the thousands and thousands you have squeezed from the ravenous folks. Such a life is a form of reverse proof of God. After his failed profession as a dictator, Patriarch Bashar al-Assad is now presupposed to brush up on his data of his chosen occupation, ophthalmology, which isn’t any extra conciliatory. Or would you let Doctor Assad prescribe you progressive lenses? Be that as it could, standing within the chilly in some oligarch suburb and apparently with none contact with the skin world, Assad may reply sure for the primary time in a very long time when requested by Santa Claus whether or not he had been good final 12 months.