When buying art supplies for my child, I avoid the readily available products sold at general outlets, because they are characterized by lousy materials.
If you buy "crayons" they are so diluted and void of pigment that they will not color properly. Plain decent quality paper sketchbooks are not to be found, mostly newsprint "drawing books" already with drawings in them, and lousy drawings at that! I have no doubt that the creative ability of children is hampered because they either can not see the drawings they're trying to make or are trained to just color in the blanks of lousy drawing, truly the most difficult and uncreative way you can train in art. If I can't see what I draw with, using these colors, why should children?
That brings us to a central issue: Are there no limits to what thieving conniving cheapskate desperate salesmen and "product makers" are allowed to do? Do they have a totally blank check when it comes to screw you over, because of market ideology fanaticism that runs the whole country like a totalitarian regime? I have long ago come to see the market ideology like an enormous mafia-like web of corruption that thieves most of our experiences, whether it be buying or renting a place to live, putting money into "savings" accounts or finding art supplies for children.
Wednesday, February 04, 2009
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Sunday morning listening to some pastor.
The other day I was in church on a Sunday morning. Family appearance thing, you know. The priest was blathering some totally idiotic nonsense about hell and Satan. It got me thinking, that if people didn't go to church and sing hymns, they might go crazy and have sex. Like animals! So people would be much better off. Instead of going to church on Sundays, they'd just have sex. Let there be a lesson in every ceremony.
Walking in the rain
The other night I was walking in the heavy rain with my cheesy long rubber raincoat on. Two flustered scantily dressed chicks come running towards me. Their hair gel and make-up plastering their face in some monstrous swirls. As they passed I thought to myself; learn how to dress, girls, there is not enough time in one's life trying to piece all that cuteness back together.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
McCain wasn´t tortured.
Turns out that McCains captives and co prisoners say he was not tortured.
My question to him would be related to his bombings in North Vietnam in the mid to late sixties. USA at war with Vietnam in Vietnam. Did McCain bomb civilians? Villages? Women and children? How many people died at his hands? It must be tough living with these sort of things and these sort of questions.
So is he one tortured soul, running on this large a heap? First he wasn´t the victim portrayed, second, not coming to terms with his own victims.
My question to him would be related to his bombings in North Vietnam in the mid to late sixties. USA at war with Vietnam in Vietnam. Did McCain bomb civilians? Villages? Women and children? How many people died at his hands? It must be tough living with these sort of things and these sort of questions.
So is he one tortured soul, running on this large a heap? First he wasn´t the victim portrayed, second, not coming to terms with his own victims.
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Senator protests Olympics
I recently saw a self righteous and pompus US senator on some TV trash station (CNN or sim.) express an outrage at upcoming olympic participation in China, comparing it to a 1936 nazi olympic participation.
While such comparisons have more to do with propagandists blather, it is a fact that Jesse Owens made a great political statement with his victory in 1936. And that at 1936 the main crimes of the nazis were yet to be commited.
So while war monger senators speak of war-barbarism in Tibet for the sake of geopolitocal chess playing, it is true that these senators are guilty of the same type of criminality in Iraq. And it is unfortunate but true that many people around the world similarly draw comparisons between nazis and the actions of recent American foreign adventures. Since they in numerous ways resulted in policy disaster-created- humanitarian crisis. And the senator expresses an utter ignorance to this critical issue, fingering himself to a mirror, without looking.
While such comparisons have more to do with propagandists blather, it is a fact that Jesse Owens made a great political statement with his victory in 1936. And that at 1936 the main crimes of the nazis were yet to be commited.
So while war monger senators speak of war-barbarism in Tibet for the sake of geopolitocal chess playing, it is true that these senators are guilty of the same type of criminality in Iraq. And it is unfortunate but true that many people around the world similarly draw comparisons between nazis and the actions of recent American foreign adventures. Since they in numerous ways resulted in policy disaster-created- humanitarian crisis. And the senator expresses an utter ignorance to this critical issue, fingering himself to a mirror, without looking.
Tibet and Darfur protests
Recent Tibet and Darfur protests have increased in their intensity levels on the news buzz. This is certainly something to be welcomed, as the suffering of people needs to be addressed. However I often feel the anti-Tibet movement is somewhat a double edged sword, as it seems conveniently geopolitical in nature as well. The expansion of the Chinese influence sectors around the world are certainly a "worrysome issue" for western investors who like to see other world regions as market opportunities.These same are owners of the western media/propaganda comlex and are serving the interests of investor-elitist groups rather than some democratic process.
Sudan is also a complex issue and while the genocide deserves our attention. It is a coincidence of course that oil is found in Sudan or that the Chinese are making investments in Sudan. We fail to see that we are also guilty of our own genocides, as in Vietnam and Iraq.
Its high time that we call things for what they are and stand for injustice wherever it occurs. Especially if "our own" are responsible for the death of a country and hundreds of thousands.Justice needs to be served where it is required and we start with the weed in our own yard before pointing fingers at our neighbor's poor upkeep.
So while we speak of other peoples wars as barbarism, as correctly tagged, we need to see that our own war makings are no less inexcusable forms of barbarism in full force.
Peace.
Sudan is also a complex issue and while the genocide deserves our attention. It is a coincidence of course that oil is found in Sudan or that the Chinese are making investments in Sudan. We fail to see that we are also guilty of our own genocides, as in Vietnam and Iraq.
Its high time that we call things for what they are and stand for injustice wherever it occurs. Especially if "our own" are responsible for the death of a country and hundreds of thousands.Justice needs to be served where it is required and we start with the weed in our own yard before pointing fingers at our neighbor's poor upkeep.
So while we speak of other peoples wars as barbarism, as correctly tagged, we need to see that our own war makings are no less inexcusable forms of barbarism in full force.
Peace.
Sunday, November 04, 2007
911 double whammy
Internal terrorism for 911 residents.
Money bezzlers move into our 911-area to clear out this neighborhood of remaining residents and small businessess. Rents go up, neighborhood stores close down, small businessess and the few services that have maintained a degree of residential quality in this neighborhood. Old massive buildings that contain hundreds of smaller businessess are cleared out and each and every floor chopped up into dormitory style apartments that serve as rental-market-investments for high profit seekers that live elsewhere. Ground floor businessess shut out for chainstores and franchises and a promise for maximum profits only. Smaller building-lot-footprints erazed and combined into megablocks for monolithic and unvaried non-urban non-culture. The domestic terrorists of the American Financial big-player system have come into our neighborhood to lay waste to numerous buildings, vestiges of neighborhood cohesion and a history of the totally unique American urban center that modeled so many other cities via some postcard architecture. Mostly ignored residents of the areas adjacent to the WTC site have survived a criminal attack by foreign agents, only to endure various hardships imposed by an all-consuming self centered financial culture set on re-writing the language, color and population of an already traumatized neighborhood. Now we´re part of this wave, having to do our final evacuation of 911.
Below: Slated for demolition: 50 Trinity Place white terra cotta discreet masterpiece from 1907. Endangered: One of last actual-urban New York vestige in the area near Rector and Greenwich. Slated for demolition: The mansard roofed 50 West Street (47 West) you may find in so many historic photos of the country you love. Also endangered is the Trinity church graveyard because of a potential total-shadow due to a new structure... the list is long.
Money bezzlers move into our 911-area to clear out this neighborhood of remaining residents and small businessess. Rents go up, neighborhood stores close down, small businessess and the few services that have maintained a degree of residential quality in this neighborhood. Old massive buildings that contain hundreds of smaller businessess are cleared out and each and every floor chopped up into dormitory style apartments that serve as rental-market-investments for high profit seekers that live elsewhere. Ground floor businessess shut out for chainstores and franchises and a promise for maximum profits only. Smaller building-lot-footprints erazed and combined into megablocks for monolithic and unvaried non-urban non-culture. The domestic terrorists of the American Financial big-player system have come into our neighborhood to lay waste to numerous buildings, vestiges of neighborhood cohesion and a history of the totally unique American urban center that modeled so many other cities via some postcard architecture. Mostly ignored residents of the areas adjacent to the WTC site have survived a criminal attack by foreign agents, only to endure various hardships imposed by an all-consuming self centered financial culture set on re-writing the language, color and population of an already traumatized neighborhood. Now we´re part of this wave, having to do our final evacuation of 911.
Below: Slated for demolition: 50 Trinity Place white terra cotta discreet masterpiece from 1907. Endangered: One of last actual-urban New York vestige in the area near Rector and Greenwich. Slated for demolition: The mansard roofed 50 West Street (47 West) you may find in so many historic photos of the country you love. Also endangered is the Trinity church graveyard because of a potential total-shadow due to a new structure... the list is long.
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Milton Friedman again
I frankly and really don´t see what people see in this guy.
Recently I saw a portion of an interview with Mister Milton Friedman, the high priest of todays black or white logic in a colorful world. He claimed that "companies had no social responsibilities, just like a building." He then went on to explain that "a building has no social responsibility, it [was] just some structure."
Aha, I thought. Here is another self proclaimed genious who does not realize that a building in fact DOES have a social responsibility. And not just in providing handicap access, minimum requirements for fire, egress, light, air and certain life quality standards and so on, but also a deeper and more complex social responsibility to neighboring buildings and especially to the sidewalk/street it fronts.
Cities are being destroyed by eratic bumper-sticker bird brains who do not see what enormous social responsibility buildings have. They think buildings are just something to make money off of, or something to make them famous. These are the internal enemies of the nation.
I guess thats what pissed me off today. Thanks.
Recently I saw a portion of an interview with Mister Milton Friedman, the high priest of todays black or white logic in a colorful world. He claimed that "companies had no social responsibilities, just like a building." He then went on to explain that "a building has no social responsibility, it [was] just some structure."
Aha, I thought. Here is another self proclaimed genious who does not realize that a building in fact DOES have a social responsibility. And not just in providing handicap access, minimum requirements for fire, egress, light, air and certain life quality standards and so on, but also a deeper and more complex social responsibility to neighboring buildings and especially to the sidewalk/street it fronts.
Cities are being destroyed by eratic bumper-sticker bird brains who do not see what enormous social responsibility buildings have. They think buildings are just something to make money off of, or something to make them famous. These are the internal enemies of the nation.
I guess thats what pissed me off today. Thanks.
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Coffee shops in America
I don't drink coffee at Starbucks except I buy whole beans, as they tend to be fresh at the green/round consumer hypnotizer. People buzz out of Starbucks with that paper cup in hand, eyes glazed and stary, alert, nerves stretched to the limit: "Don't do that you FUCK!"
At first I thought what a great idea. Introduce Americans to coffee shops. But years ago when I was sitting in one of them looking into another one across the street, I realized here was too much of the good stuff. Starbucks had become a green colored Dunkin Donuts classic. Couches were gradually removed and replaced with uncomfortable chairs, tippy tables and unflushed toilets after someone´s fieldday with number two.
But one thing Starbucks succeeded in is to introduce Americans to coffee shops. In this era of Starbucks basically not cool anymore, we see other coffe shops springing up all over the place, delivering decent to good coffee.
However, I do have one way of deciding a good coffee shop: Can I sit in there and read a book? And the answer is that my type of coffee shop is quite rare. Piped music is played out loud and obnoxious, void of any artistic inspiration. Air conditioners are blasted to the maximum, one catches a cold in the summertime and Billy Joel echoes from one ear to the other for way to long after the coffee shop visit. No, good taste and a sense of proper atmosphere isn't there in spite of the determined looks of the starry-eyed-bucks-spenders in the green/round hypnotizer claiming to have found a new drug to propel them forward into an exciting new buzz era.
So a handful of coffee shops allow me enough quiet to read a book in there. Those coffee shop owners who turn down the music, and keep the light a bit lower and keep the bloody AC lower. They give a good start to this way to loud and interrupting world.
At first I thought what a great idea. Introduce Americans to coffee shops. But years ago when I was sitting in one of them looking into another one across the street, I realized here was too much of the good stuff. Starbucks had become a green colored Dunkin Donuts classic. Couches were gradually removed and replaced with uncomfortable chairs, tippy tables and unflushed toilets after someone´s fieldday with number two.
But one thing Starbucks succeeded in is to introduce Americans to coffee shops. In this era of Starbucks basically not cool anymore, we see other coffe shops springing up all over the place, delivering decent to good coffee.
However, I do have one way of deciding a good coffee shop: Can I sit in there and read a book? And the answer is that my type of coffee shop is quite rare. Piped music is played out loud and obnoxious, void of any artistic inspiration. Air conditioners are blasted to the maximum, one catches a cold in the summertime and Billy Joel echoes from one ear to the other for way to long after the coffee shop visit. No, good taste and a sense of proper atmosphere isn't there in spite of the determined looks of the starry-eyed-bucks-spenders in the green/round hypnotizer claiming to have found a new drug to propel them forward into an exciting new buzz era.
So a handful of coffee shops allow me enough quiet to read a book in there. Those coffee shop owners who turn down the music, and keep the light a bit lower and keep the bloody AC lower. They give a good start to this way to loud and interrupting world.
Monday, October 08, 2007
NPR's "Marketplace"
I find myself turning off NPR these days.
It used to be called News, now they call it Marketplace. The most narrow subject news program on the planet, yawn stories for office-memo-addict-types. The exciting news from some meeting about buying this and shifting money here and there, like this company bought that, like this guy is rich from that... how exciting advertisment is, like money this money that, like... think in terms of money, not content, you silly brainless consumer twit.
And all these meaningless story-bits regurgitated to no end with ideology brainwashing from Milton Friedman and Ronnie Reagan idolizing, sequenced with really cool 5 sec. soundbites from different music from all over. No coherent direction, just whatever man, sounds so cool, no thought though or connection. As if the program is "too cool, man" if just for the soundbites. Sound bites of the music mixed in with the sound bites of shopping mall news. Like... hyped up advertisment in the form of a news program.
In reality, the program is geared for some office bloak investor-wannabe while ignoring almost all other social strata in the society. This program is I must presume the result of corporate sponsorship and the receiver suckling on the thumb of the hand that feeds it.
And the most important oft repeated punchline is:
"Im sooo and sooo. For marketplace."
It used to be called News, now they call it Marketplace. The most narrow subject news program on the planet, yawn stories for office-memo-addict-types. The exciting news from some meeting about buying this and shifting money here and there, like this company bought that, like this guy is rich from that... how exciting advertisment is, like money this money that, like... think in terms of money, not content, you silly brainless consumer twit.
And all these meaningless story-bits regurgitated to no end with ideology brainwashing from Milton Friedman and Ronnie Reagan idolizing, sequenced with really cool 5 sec. soundbites from different music from all over. No coherent direction, just whatever man, sounds so cool, no thought though or connection. As if the program is "too cool, man" if just for the soundbites. Sound bites of the music mixed in with the sound bites of shopping mall news. Like... hyped up advertisment in the form of a news program.
In reality, the program is geared for some office bloak investor-wannabe while ignoring almost all other social strata in the society. This program is I must presume the result of corporate sponsorship and the receiver suckling on the thumb of the hand that feeds it.
And the most important oft repeated punchline is:
"Im sooo and sooo. For marketplace."
Saturday, April 28, 2007
14 arrested in Washington DC for hanging up a sheet
So 14 people were recently arrested in Washington DC for meeting up in a building in Washington DC and hanging a banner.
Now I don't understand why the media in the USA is criticizing other countries for silencing people. What is the difference here? Get a mirror. Why arrest 14 people for assembling at all? Why would they be arrested for assembling? Why aren't they just left alone, if they are not harming anybody or threatening violence etc? If they are in the way, they can be asked to leave.
If they unfolded a banner asking for the impeachment of the president, so what? A banner is totally harmless and there is no threat from these individuals who are simply stating what they are thinking. There have been cases of people not allowed on airplanes because of a tshirt theyre wearing. What the hell is going on?
There is an ongoing suppression of the right to free expression and speech in this country. Sadly there is an oppression induced locally by various "security" personnel and in the large picture by the absolute prevention of ordinary citizens to speak on the podiums offered by the major networks. You can blather all you want, as long as you are not in a to much a noticeable spot.
I know many communities ban the hanging up of laundry outside. Even though its the ecologically responsible way to do laundry, its apparently bad for home the appliance manufacturers, energy sales companies and the alike semi-communist type control apparatuses that rule USA in the name of some free-market religiosity.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Fourteen anti-war protesters were arrested in a Senate office building Thursday after unfurling a banner calling for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.
U.S. Capitol Police spokeswoman Kimberly Schneider said the 14 were arrested for unlawful assembly in the Hart Senate Office Building just north of the Capitol.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-6590157,00.html
Now I don't understand why the media in the USA is criticizing other countries for silencing people. What is the difference here? Get a mirror. Why arrest 14 people for assembling at all? Why would they be arrested for assembling? Why aren't they just left alone, if they are not harming anybody or threatening violence etc? If they are in the way, they can be asked to leave.
If they unfolded a banner asking for the impeachment of the president, so what? A banner is totally harmless and there is no threat from these individuals who are simply stating what they are thinking. There have been cases of people not allowed on airplanes because of a tshirt theyre wearing. What the hell is going on?
There is an ongoing suppression of the right to free expression and speech in this country. Sadly there is an oppression induced locally by various "security" personnel and in the large picture by the absolute prevention of ordinary citizens to speak on the podiums offered by the major networks. You can blather all you want, as long as you are not in a to much a noticeable spot.
I know many communities ban the hanging up of laundry outside. Even though its the ecologically responsible way to do laundry, its apparently bad for home the appliance manufacturers, energy sales companies and the alike semi-communist type control apparatuses that rule USA in the name of some free-market religiosity.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Fourteen anti-war protesters were arrested in a Senate office building Thursday after unfurling a banner calling for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.
U.S. Capitol Police spokeswoman Kimberly Schneider said the 14 were arrested for unlawful assembly in the Hart Senate Office Building just north of the Capitol.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-6590157,00.html
Friday, April 20, 2007
Murders in Virginia Tech vs. the worst day in Iraq
News reports are filled with grief about the terrible news of thirty some students murdered in Virginia Tech by a crazed gunman student. Understandably.
I overheard on NPRs Talking Point the day after, a rep for weapons manufacturers, claim that if the other students were armed also, the shooter would have been shot before killing to many. In other words; all students should buy guns? Another low point in the history of news reporting in this great country, USA. NPR sponsored by weapons manufacturers to get a salesman pits in so-called news. "Hey everyone should get a gun!"
The cancer hits the nation's hypothalamus.
But the stories of students, families hit ones heart. Pain and suffering of the relatives. A video of the deranged murderer hits the net and news. People indulge in a perverted obsession with getting inside the murdere's mind. I wonder why and what it says about the state of the nation.
A day later a similar attack occured in Iraq, by bombing, but killing something in the order of 200 people. This is also mass murder but I guess since theyre foreigners they become statistical entities rather than people. The story of the murders in Iraq dissappeared within a day or two, while the ongoing stories from VTech go through the media. The fact remains that the Iraqi murders are also mass murders and they are also people.
So why this discrepancy in reporting? Are relatives of VT students more human than relatives in Iraq? Ok, so Iraq is a foreign country and home is closer. But as for the murders in Iraq, the situation is created by us, and as such, we need to hold up to our responsibilities and properly report the entirety of such mass murders. And the fact is that it is an ongoing every-day a mas murder is a much more serious picture. So when we don´t report it properly it says to everyone, ourselves included, that we don´t care. Even Senators are claiming that its the Iraqis own fault. Stunning ignorance. But when we say we don´t care, the situation will get worse because it confirms our real intentions to begin with. The fact is that we went POSTAL in Iraq. "We'll bring the war to the terrorists!" And unleashed this ongoing murderous conflict. No wonder why a Europen friend of mine said the other day: "Oh yes but thats just America. Everyone knows theyre all screwed up." Disturbing, yes. Especially since he was a staunch USA-admirer 3 years ago.
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Oh yes, it is the Iraqi's own fault
"When are the Iraqis going to wake up and take responsibility for their own matters." Something like that sounds the voice of some senator today, regurgitated on NPR without comment. Are the reporters at NPR retarded or don't they see how arrogant this comment is? Blaming the Iraqis for the disaster that America has brought on them has to stand next to some of the worst declarations in history, right next to McCarthy's bullying, the resistance against the rights of blacks in America and National Guard shooting unarmed civilians at Kent State University and so on. And the NPR reporter presents this without comment.
Then NPR goes into a description of "the protesters" and how incompetent they are. How pathetic the U.S. media has become, incompetent and useless as a tool of scrutiny, criticism and finder of injustice.
Then NPR goes into a description of "the protesters" and how incompetent they are. How pathetic the U.S. media has become, incompetent and useless as a tool of scrutiny, criticism and finder of injustice.
WNYC fund-drive me away
State of Radio in the USA.
Currently one of US best radio stations has been engaging in a fund drive.
What a GREAT way to drive away listeners! Instead of having short clips between programs every day reminding people to donate money and providing the easy way to do so, with small amounts, they have to have week(s) worth of beggar drives that nobody listens to. Americans have big reservations with giving money to peddlers. This puts the radio station in the category of riddled AD stations which are desparate for money while not being able to continue their programming, further reinforcing what I have been saying (to deaf ears) for years that there should be fully funded State-radio stations in every State. With quality programming, AD free and educational, disgussing politics, school issues, world issues etc. It actually is really cheap compared to the other crap the government spends money on. Cruise missile for lunch, anybody?
Clearly this fund drive stuff isn't working, as WNYC is becoming stale, engaging in "star hosts" behavior which replicates the problems all around the media. Miserable Jonathan Schwartz's elevator music makes the weekends off as far as WNYC is concerned. As soon as we have these self indulgent STAR hosts, we see a decline in the quality of the programs. My last hold out is Leonard Lopate, who is on par with New York Review of Books and really amazing and inventive, doesn't seem so concerned with his personality as other hosts.
Otherwise, the default is the Icelandic State radio. Far superior.
Currently one of US best radio stations has been engaging in a fund drive.
What a GREAT way to drive away listeners! Instead of having short clips between programs every day reminding people to donate money and providing the easy way to do so, with small amounts, they have to have week(s) worth of beggar drives that nobody listens to. Americans have big reservations with giving money to peddlers. This puts the radio station in the category of riddled AD stations which are desparate for money while not being able to continue their programming, further reinforcing what I have been saying (to deaf ears) for years that there should be fully funded State-radio stations in every State. With quality programming, AD free and educational, disgussing politics, school issues, world issues etc. It actually is really cheap compared to the other crap the government spends money on. Cruise missile for lunch, anybody?
Clearly this fund drive stuff isn't working, as WNYC is becoming stale, engaging in "star hosts" behavior which replicates the problems all around the media. Miserable Jonathan Schwartz's elevator music makes the weekends off as far as WNYC is concerned. As soon as we have these self indulgent STAR hosts, we see a decline in the quality of the programs. My last hold out is Leonard Lopate, who is on par with New York Review of Books and really amazing and inventive, doesn't seem so concerned with his personality as other hosts.
Otherwise, the default is the Icelandic State radio. Far superior.
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
New York Times
I sometimes read the New York Times. I subscribed 3x but cancelled because of dubious news quality and advertisment horror.
Take todays article on Samarra, for instance. A year ago someone blew off the dome in a holy Shiite shrine. So an article remembers this by saying in its first line that "It has been a year since Sunni insurgents ripped a hole in the glorius dome here of one of Iraq's most sacred Shiite shrines."
Now, its clear as day that there is no hole were talking about. The dome is gone altogether aside from its substructure. So why the talk about a "hole"?? Is it to downplay some issue? And the article also says the explosion "unleashed a tide of sectarian bloodletting." Now those of us who are not in la-la land know that this statement is also sort of half-accurate. The sectarian violence magnified but had been going on for some time already.
So why these nuanced inaccuracies in the news reporting?
article: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/13/world/middleeast/13samarra.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin
Thursday, February 01, 2007
James Baker
James Baker gets a lot of air time. Why is it that the press lets him in? This is a man who stopped the Florida recount altogether. Stopping a recount in an American election is like treason, or being democracy´s enemy #1, you know, lets not find out who really won the election type a guy.
So the question is why this guy gets a free ride in the media. Why is he someone who gets to decide anything and be a sayer in political situations? Why isn´t the enemy of the American democratic process and barred, like a David Duke, or a molester?
So the question is why this guy gets a free ride in the media. Why is he someone who gets to decide anything and be a sayer in political situations? Why isn´t the enemy of the American democratic process and barred, like a David Duke, or a molester?
Senator Biden. Off the mark
A few weeks after the James Baker lookalike Senator Biden tried blaming the Iraqis for the situation created by his own countrymen commenting that the Iraqis have to fullfill their obligations with their sceutrity forces etc. Nobody notices. He now slips another one, this time noticed by the press:
That Senator Barack Obama, was “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.” Perhaps its just semantics, with the word "first" or "who is".
Now the question is, if Mr. Biden himself is bright and articulate enough for his own post.
And regarding African Americans and Iraqis, is Mr. Biden thinking kindly of them?
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Death penalty
Mr. Bush today said "While "pleased" with the trials of Saddam Hussein and two of his aides, he also expressed concern about the way their executions were conducted.
I was disappointed and felt like they fumbled, particularly the Saddam Hussein execution." He said the manner of the execution made it harder for him to convince Americans that Iraq had a serious government that wanted to unify the country. 1)
These words from our great leader who during his duty as Texas Governor oversaw 155 state killings of various inmates, but also made fun of one 2). Aah, please don't kill me he is to have said in a squirmy voice as she was pleading for her life. With this moral flip-flop, it is sure is hard to convince Americans that we have a serious leadership. Besides, fumbling an execution in Iraq is pittance compared to deliberately bringing a war onto the people of an entire country. Remember the line: We'll bring the war to the Terrorists wrapped in with the same sentences about the 911 attack. Now we have had THAT war and terrorism -previously unknown in Iraq- is today its daily bread.
1) BBC today
2) Republican presidential candidate Gary Bauer criticized Gov. George W. Bush Tuesday for making fun of an executed Texas woman in an interview Bush gave to Talk magazine. "I think it is nothing short of unbelievable that the governor of a major state running for president thought it was acceptable to mock a woman he decided to put to death," Bauer said of Bush. Bush is portrayed in Talk as ridiculing pickax killer Karla Faye Tucker of Houston for an interview she did with CNN broadcaster Larry King shortly before she was executed last year. Just before her execution date, Tucker appealed for clemency on the grounds that she had become a born-again Christian.
smá test
A small test here from NYC. This is a little vision of what we are hiding in our studio. As seen via a reflection through the small self contained and pressurized miniature global ocean of my vitrous humour.
Sunday, March 26, 2006
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