It makes you wonder how anyone born pre late 1980's and kid-proof homes, physical exercise cut from schools and all the other you get an A+ for self esteem nonsense survived.
Is there any yarn unwound retracing the way out of this labyrinth? In this age where cultural differences among people is explained away as genetic fact by delusional elitist on
Charlie Rose---Schools across the 50's now ban hugging among students.
Sam McGowan the superintendent at Mascoutah Middle School after suspending 8th grader Megan Coulter for hugging her classmates, defended the policy and action with the conclusion "Hugging can lead to something else."
I wonder if this is Solomonic Wisdom or Philistine reaction?
Nah!! Philistine Reaction!
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Saturday, November 24, 2007
Friday, November 9, 2007
Aw shucks naivete and Musharraf's Pakistan
A few weeks ago, scampering Benazir Bhutto, big business anointee to play the role of opposition in Pakistan politics returned to Pakistan after what had obviously been a brokered experiment, to the welcoming violence of an assassins bomb. Which narrowly missed her but accomplished another possibility the evidence of a topical imperative that had nothing to do with suppositions of business as usual and sphere of influence politics.
The conventional wisdom then among self-proclaimed experts real politick past masters, was the usual hapless bogeyman, Al Qaeda was behind the blast and attempted assassination. The probability that the Cabal of Musharraf, the current Pakistan Military Dictator could have been behind the convenience of the bombing was not explored in any serious manner. Whether this failure was deliberate disinformation of mere analytical liberalism is left to be seen. What is known is the babble tweaking ears of apathy is, Pakistan is a U.S. ally in the global war on terrorism so analysis of events must be reduced to basic Aw Shucks Naivete.
Developments of the past days, bus loads of Pakistani intelligentsia Judge, Lawyers, Journalist being driven off to detention and torture centers, in response to the imposition of Martial Law by Musharraf and his Cabal is now revealing that it fits. if Musharraf is willing to go down the draconian and tumultuous route of Martial Law then the inference comes easy that the bombing which welcomed Bhutto was the easy logic and Al Qaeda fulfilling it's Oswaldian role easy to blame.
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The conventional wisdom then among self-proclaimed experts real politick past masters, was the usual hapless bogeyman, Al Qaeda was behind the blast and attempted assassination. The probability that the Cabal of Musharraf, the current Pakistan Military Dictator could have been behind the convenience of the bombing was not explored in any serious manner. Whether this failure was deliberate disinformation of mere analytical liberalism is left to be seen. What is known is the babble tweaking ears of apathy is, Pakistan is a U.S. ally in the global war on terrorism so analysis of events must be reduced to basic Aw Shucks Naivete.
Developments of the past days, bus loads of Pakistani intelligentsia Judge, Lawyers, Journalist being driven off to detention and torture centers, in response to the imposition of Martial Law by Musharraf and his Cabal is now revealing that it fits. if Musharraf is willing to go down the draconian and tumultuous route of Martial Law then the inference comes easy that the bombing which welcomed Bhutto was the easy logic and Al Qaeda fulfilling it's Oswaldian role easy to blame.
By Apropos
Mile High Club and the A380
Didn't the puritans on their wretched Mayflowers have carnal knowledge of their wives during the miserable passage of their sailings to Plymouth Rock? So why should the possibility of passengers on the A380, the world's largest commercial plane, in the privacy of cubicles having sex arouse so much ire, huffing, puffing and denouncements of immorality.
Or is this just another example of critical jealousy , the idea of competitor airlines losing out.
Singapore Airlines is being criticized for having private cubicles on A380's it operates. Critics claim passengers will have sex. So? And if access to the Mile High Club is made so convenient only hypocrites and jealous competitor airline executives who didn't think of the idea can have the gall to express outrage. This criticism against Singapore Airlines is tantamount to Victoria Secret being blamed for adultery.
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Or is this just another example of critical jealousy , the idea of competitor airlines losing out.
Singapore Airlines is being criticized for having private cubicles on A380's it operates. Critics claim passengers will have sex. So? And if access to the Mile High Club is made so convenient only hypocrites and jealous competitor airline executives who didn't think of the idea can have the gall to express outrage. This criticism against Singapore Airlines is tantamount to Victoria Secret being blamed for adultery.
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Ode to Navy, Midshipmen win.
For 43 years of defeat the Midshipmen of Navy Gnashed their teeth and spat out turf in their bows from the cleats of those insufferable Northerners! The fighting Irish of Notre Dame.
Till Saturday 11/3/07; a triple over-time classic even with a late questionable and inexcusable call by a zebra attempting to hyper warp destiny, the 2007 Navy team prevailed. Giving Notre Dame a taste of turf flavored with navy cleats, winning 46-44 over the haughty Irish whom even in defeat had a hard time acknowledging the iconic event it was.
Charlie Weis, Note Dame's coach in true petty fashion understated what had become a rite of passage for Notre Dame teams a win over Navy, when he stated during his post gave interview that he didn't even acknowledge Notre Dame's 43 year old winning streak over Navy. A Backhanded attempt at ridiculing Navy's historic accomplishment.
Navy! Give charlie another post game squirm, when you hand him his face in 2008 win!
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Till Saturday 11/3/07; a triple over-time classic even with a late questionable and inexcusable call by a zebra attempting to hyper warp destiny, the 2007 Navy team prevailed. Giving Notre Dame a taste of turf flavored with navy cleats, winning 46-44 over the haughty Irish whom even in defeat had a hard time acknowledging the iconic event it was.
Charlie Weis, Note Dame's coach in true petty fashion understated what had become a rite of passage for Notre Dame teams a win over Navy, when he stated during his post gave interview that he didn't even acknowledge Notre Dame's 43 year old winning streak over Navy. A Backhanded attempt at ridiculing Navy's historic accomplishment.
Navy! Give charlie another post game squirm, when you hand him his face in 2008 win!
By Apropos
Bill Richardson, The Vice-Presidency and the end game gambit.
Come on Bill Richardson, you haven't conceded in your quest for the Democratic nomination for President. But sucking up to Hillary during the 10/30/o7; debates at Philadelphia when she was rightfully and correctly being attacked was your Gerber moment.
Sucking up to Hillary and the Clinton machine whose zeal for the Presidency is simply Office for the sake of Office, because if Bill Clinton, the husband couldn't realize whatever ideas they had in 8 years as President, Why then should anyone think Hillary has any real direction of which way forward through the morass of this albatross strangle of archaic Colonial and Neo-Colonial Political-Economy foisted the Walmart way?
Bill Richardson can calculate all he wants to for the Vice-Presidential slot, but his characterization of the sort of political-action displayed by Obama, Edwards, and Dodd against Hillary during the debate as mud slinging or negative politics is preposterous, and pathetic. But then it's his end-game gambit.
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Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Denzel Washington: American Gangster The Movie and sanctimonious sermonizing.
On 10/28/07; Denzel Washington made a point on the Matt Lauer hosted plug in on NBC for the biopic American Gangster, that he wasn't glorifying the life of the drug dealer Frank Lucas whose life was portraying in the movie.
What sanctimonious sermonizing . Who is Denzel Washington kidding? Or is it that historical onus, that when the issue is the Black Experience , ( American Gangster is about A Black drug dealer) The human condition Has to be examined from the perspective of misery loves company, so all the enfeebled minds who have no idea of the contradictions defining the progress of the Human Condition, can engorge on the senseless satisfaction that I'm morally good and they are basely wrong. But the Consequence of this reality is as it's always been, the status quo irrespective of mask maintain the alienation necessary for their survival.
If Denzel Washington feels that strongly about his affiliation with a movie, which I'm quite sure he's being well compensated for--- What are his plans for his take?
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What sanctimonious sermonizing . Who is Denzel Washington kidding? Or is it that historical onus, that when the issue is the Black Experience , ( American Gangster is about A Black drug dealer) The human condition Has to be examined from the perspective of misery loves company, so all the enfeebled minds who have no idea of the contradictions defining the progress of the Human Condition, can engorge on the senseless satisfaction that I'm morally good and they are basely wrong. But the Consequence of this reality is as it's always been, the status quo irrespective of mask maintain the alienation necessary for their survival.
If Denzel Washington feels that strongly about his affiliation with a movie, which I'm quite sure he's being well compensated for--- What are his plans for his take?
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Jack Croddy's Lament: Assignment Baghdad, A death sentence.
Where is the Republican outcry, where is the Conservative outrage??
Why is the land so quiet with the din from all those who equated any sort of critique of the Republican led, Bush Iraq War fiasco --- I can't hear you---Over this bizarre spectacle, State Department employees squealing protest, wetting and pissing in their foggy bottom diapers in opposition to the proposed policy that they can be ordered to Iraq.
At a meeting on 10/31/07; Jack Croddy a State Department official had the temerity to squeal that an assignment to Baghdad was a "Potential Death Sentence".
Why should Jack Croddy's life be any more relevant than all those 19,20 and 21 year old lives sweating in their tin can Humvees on patrol, not in the barricaded luxurious coffins of the Green Zone but on the duty streets of Baghdad.
"Some are more equal"
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Why is the land so quiet with the din from all those who equated any sort of critique of the Republican led, Bush Iraq War fiasco --- I can't hear you---Over this bizarre spectacle, State Department employees squealing protest, wetting and pissing in their foggy bottom diapers in opposition to the proposed policy that they can be ordered to Iraq.
At a meeting on 10/31/07; Jack Croddy a State Department official had the temerity to squeal that an assignment to Baghdad was a "Potential Death Sentence".
Why should Jack Croddy's life be any more relevant than all those 19,20 and 21 year old lives sweating in their tin can Humvees on patrol, not in the barricaded luxurious coffins of the Green Zone but on the duty streets of Baghdad.
"Some are more equal"
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