Former Unocal exec and first president of Afghanistan Hamid Kharzai visited Pres. Bush today in DC. Karzai towed the party line about prisoner abuse and even softened the degree of outrage he had towards the Qu'ran-toilet issue. Karzai sounded a lot bolder before he left Afghanistan than he did at today's presser with Dubya. And Bush didn't do anything to make him feel any safer or more in charge back in Kabul.
At the presser with Karzai one reporter asked Dubya about the filibuster-Nuclear clash and Bush went through the whole Up-or-Down Vote talking point line or two and how it's all he asks, they're entitled. Whatever. There will be no compromise coming from him that is certain. 95% is way too little when you are that arrogant.
Should be interesting to watch how life plays out for Hamid Karzai since the current administration expects nothing less than obedience from him. Karzai really can't ever hope to be much more than a US satelite state where the peace in Afghanistan is balanced with our need to keep bases and lots of weaponry there. Anyway...
24 ends tonight. Can't say I'm upset about it. It flaunted with that whole leaping over the cartilaginious fish phenomena--Can you tell I refuse to use that phrase?--when Jack staged the convenience store robbery. I think it still had some great moments after that, like the 12 minutes when Jack stormed the hideout and foiled the webcast execution. That was amazing. But then it has really sucked out loud since the F117 shoot down--they blew that on a lot of levels. I'll get into it some other time...I am looking forward to how it ends tonight. I get this feeling there will be some war or major issue created with China--my guess is Jack gets taken as a prisoner of state to China. They will demand it I gotta figure because of the incident when they stole that dude. I suck with names on that show. Peace.
Monday, May 23, 2005
Saturday, May 07, 2005
Welcome to my Blog!
Hello Cyberspace, with this post I am officially joining the Blogosphere and the news/information revolution. Yes, I'm a liberal and I'm not afraid of the word or the connotations that seem to have gotten attributed to it over the years. Does it mean I'm pro-abortion and anti-death penalty? Yes. It also means I'm pro-civil rights and I'm against nationalist aggression in the name of economic growth or natural resource acquisition.
So, what's got me steamed today?
How about this little tid-bit involving a beheaded little girl's body found 4 years ago on a walking trail. In these days of runaway brides, neighborhood sexual predation, laci peterson and terry schiavo there is no way media would have ignored this story had little Erica Green's headless body been white. The outrage that would have been generated by such a find in a white neighborhood would have launched manhunts and candlelight vigils and a nation of mourning. This nation is divided into political camps these days that is certain but to think we have reached some racial detente is ludicrous. There are still two Americas, a white one and a black one and occasionally they rub up against each other and still generate age-old tensions and hatreds. We have a long way to go.
Interesting piece here by Ted Rall about free speech and how much influence an employer has on that right.
Terrifying news coming out of Red State America where Darwin's radical and controversial(yes, read that as sarcasm!) theories of evolution are being challeneged by christians and supporters of the non-scientific horseshit known as Intelligent Design. How do you convince people the earth is getting warmer and wetter when they don't even believe in one of science's fundamental truths?
If you visit my homepage, have patience, I'm still working on it.
Any boxing fans out there? You can read my preview of tonight's big lightweight showdown here. Enjoy.
So, what's got me steamed today?
How about this little tid-bit involving a beheaded little girl's body found 4 years ago on a walking trail. In these days of runaway brides, neighborhood sexual predation, laci peterson and terry schiavo there is no way media would have ignored this story had little Erica Green's headless body been white. The outrage that would have been generated by such a find in a white neighborhood would have launched manhunts and candlelight vigils and a nation of mourning. This nation is divided into political camps these days that is certain but to think we have reached some racial detente is ludicrous. There are still two Americas, a white one and a black one and occasionally they rub up against each other and still generate age-old tensions and hatreds. We have a long way to go.
Interesting piece here by Ted Rall about free speech and how much influence an employer has on that right.
Terrifying news coming out of Red State America where Darwin's radical and controversial(yes, read that as sarcasm!) theories of evolution are being challeneged by christians and supporters of the non-scientific horseshit known as Intelligent Design. How do you convince people the earth is getting warmer and wetter when they don't even believe in one of science's fundamental truths?
If you visit my homepage, have patience, I'm still working on it.
Any boxing fans out there? You can read my preview of tonight's big lightweight showdown here. Enjoy.
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