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Obama's Blunder

So we are going to take 9/11 terrorist and bring them to "justice" under the most screwed up judicial system in the developed world? You can see the next set of moves as plain as day:

- Islamic terrorists get best jewish lawyers in New York

- They show up wearing nice western clothes

- They claim innocence and their lawyers claim evidence against them as inadmissible because it was obtained using some harsh tactics

- They plead guilty to destruction of property

- They serve 10 years and 2 yeas later are returned to middle east as part of a hijacking deal behind the scenes

Hello? Have we lost the will to live? have we collectively lost any sign of a backbone?

I hope not. I hope that this will trigger the people who have been uncertain about Obama to see the man for what he is: Dangerous Demagogue and Dilettante. Up to now his decisions, while misguided, have been consistent with what he sold to his supporters (even if they didn't always understand what he was selling). This one breaks that pattern. It is an incredible blunder, obvious for being such from the start. And the Friday delivery of this idea by one Eric Holder (who has built a career on pardoning terrorists) while Obama is in Japan, makes it cowardly and smelly.

Ukranian pop group's social commentary

 

Check out this video clip of ukranian pop group taking on the culture of diets, plastic surgery, and cult of youth. Even if you don get the words, you will get the meaning.

http://www.ahzapad.org/ptrusy.html

From the department of "Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8118721.stm Russia's energy giant Gazprom has signed a $2.5bn (£1.53bn) deal with Nigeria's state operated NNPC, to invest in a new joint venture.The new firm, to be called Nigaz, is set to build refineries, pipelines and gas power stations in Nigeria.

My 10 step Health Care Solution

1 - Outlaw malpractice awards in excess of actual damages - its life, shit happens
2 - Outlaw insurance coverage of medical procedures  - they only add costs and headaches
3 - First $1000 of each persons medical costs per year are his responsibility - carry your own weight
4 - Goverment reimburses you for 90% of costs over $1000 per year - shop for better deal
5 - No coverage for illegal immigrants - what part of "illegal" is so hard to understand ?
6 - Foreign tourists and students are covered - They bring money
7 - If a designated medical board determines that you are likely within 6 months of dying, no expensive procedures for you - its time we learn that everyone dies eventually and how to do it gracefully
8 - Sorry, no cosmetic or any sort of "feel good" surgery is covered
9  - Increase income tax on anyone above the "higher limit" of their height - 1% for every 5 pounds
10 - Apply surcharge tax on any prepared food with content higher than certain fat/salt/sugar content

If we do this, our health care costs will be 50% less than today within 2 years, people will be healthier, and goverment will not be in healthcare business.

Michael Jackson - Mass Hysteria

So this troubled guy, freak to be more precise.... Uncomfortable in his own skin, out of touch with the world and for that matter anything human, dies. You would think a great statesman or a visionary passed away. Mass hysteria fed by media's fawning over this perfectly forgettable pop "star" followed. Yet if history tells us anything is that 50 years from now no one under 40 will know who he was. Some star.

Heard Susan Boyle

Amazing gift. When you come across that kind of a talent you feel that it is "given" to a  person. Makes you want to believe in something greater.

The Horror of Extreme

 

It does not take a man of wisdom

To look at horrors of mankind

And point to common ugly flaw

Extremism there we always find

 

From times of murdering crusaders

To modern day Islamist lot 

Extreme beliefs, extreme religions

Have killed and raped for mighty God

 

How righteous and smug they feel

As Hitler showed us oh so clearly

He loved his own, killed all the rest

Loved Wagner, mankind paid so dearly

 

Through time and weary observation

I loathe the crowds, avoid religions

I neither wave nor burn the flags

And fight one thing - extreme decisions

Living Socially

It's been a while since I added to my unblog. But that's the freedom of not having a blog. You don't have to share if you don't feel like it.

Lately I have been hearing the term "living socially" a lot. Basically it gets back to the blogging phenomenon. When I maintained this web site a lot in the 90's, I used to write about where I am and sometimes post pictures of my surroundings. It was a way to inform my family and friends who frequently lost track of me and always greeted me with "How was your flight?". Call me a pioneer of blogging, but at  the time I had no idea that i was engaged in such activity.

Then blogging really took off. First as a way for select well informed people to comment on the subject they were well informed on. Then, the great unwashed masses followed. Since most of them were not experts on anything and were not particularly well informed all the way around, their blogging resembled that of a diary made public. It used to be that a diary was kept under lock and key so that strangers would not be informed of your half baked ideas, fears, and personal information. Blogging turned that concept upside down. Share everything with the world. As if the world is supposed to CARE.

Facebook picked up on the phenomenon and created an orgy of non stop blogging.  No longer was it one person "sharing" with the world. Now it was many people sharing their ideas, activities, thoughts, and fears with the COMMUNITY. And "living socially" was born. People became addicted and removed themselves from large stretches of their REAL life to participate in sharing information for what remains of their real lives with virtual friends.

Things got kicked into the next (and what appears to be the frothy stage with the arrival of Tweeter. Its an abbreviated version of blogging which takes blogging on the road and shortens the message to less than 140 characters. Now you can let your friends know of your indigestion or other bodily functions while you are on the move. How exciting. Now EVERYONE gets to hear your half baked incomplete sentences. And all to what end? How does it enrich our lives? Ummmmm....well....that appears to be less certain.

I am, however, fairly certain that 10 years from now we will look back and blogging, facebooking, and tweetering will seem seem as passe as 70's leisure suits. No one will admit to having ever used it, everyone will claim that they opposed it. Very similar to the fabled french resistance of world war II.

For now, living socially is all the rage. No more secrets, nothing private, not even dirty laundry to air. Regular information paradise which in my book falls under TMI (Too Much Infromation). 

Maybe the old man wasn't so far off .. at least in his prediction if not in his cure

Owners of capital will stimulate working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable. 

The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks, which will have to be nationalized, and State will have to take the road which will eventually lead to communism.

— Karl Marx, 1867

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