ugh. is it just me or did everyone else also get a sugar rush from reading that tufts article?
and that picture! so cute! any cuter and i might have sent it over to the folks at cute overload.
I don't think anyone has asked this question yet, but has anyone thought of putting pressure on / giving aid to other countries, e.g., Mexico, to make their citizens' lives sufficiently tolerable that the citizens don't feel that migration is their best and only strategy?
yes, actually. then the US Congress decided that they were just a bunch of brown people who weren;t worth worrying about and passed NAFTA.
and teresa, interest in this (stupid non-)story has only spiked very recently, according to this nifty new tool. sounds like an election year "rile up the racists" by karl rove.
thank you mr mcdonald.
that was much needed
What nature doesn't do to us --
Will be done by our fellow man...
it's a race between a mushroom cloud and a coupla viruses. :-D
So, the US attacks an Islamic, elected, government, for less than what has just got India a `strategic alliance'.
and India's coalition government includes (at least BTS) COMMUNISTS!!
have we learnt nothing from the cold war?
tom scudder, i was only partly serious. i have heard many people say things both ways about the iranian oil exchange but the US is probably more concerned about the gas pipeline to india and the chumminess with China than said bourse.
having said that, who ever said that Bush needs a real reason to go to war against anyone?
and thanks for the link. it appears many commenters at dKos agree with me. i think i'll go drown myself now
well, apart from that there is the fact that the iranian oil bourse is opening in oh 4-5 days... can't have anyone challenging the petro-dollar now, can we?
good call btw.
it's like fine literature, except run through a blender carelessly such that there are lumps that stick to your mouth when you try and gulp it down. and then you realize that it didn't even taste that good.
that's pretty much my da vinci code experience.
PS: props on the foucault's pendulum references
ARY, do you also remember good old donnie mc don don rumsfeld shaking hands with the evil and terrible saddam hussein who was encouraged in the I-I war to use Made in the USA weapons? and what was the deal with the shah of iran? oh and before i forget, ollie north did something too, didn't he?
to me, it just seems like we are all living in a bad tom clancy novel.
Serge, i do not think that is a coincidence.
someone should submit a patent for 5 human-driven robot lions that fuse together to make an invincble humanoid mecha with a sword.
wait.... no presidential medal of freedom?
he must be big-time player hatin on George Tenet
97F here in athens,oh.... with heat index 105. a great day to go to the county fair i suppose.
my possible conclusions:
a hip, a hop... no,wait.... that doesnt fit in here.
how about summer, the heat and mosquitoes?
Teresa, for the real nerds a giveaway is any use of #42.
What was the question anyway ?
as far as i can determine, it is "how many roads must a man walk down?"
SLATFATF, ladies and gentlemen
The other thing I keep hearing is "We like Americans, it's just the government we can't stand."
the problem is that the american propaganda machine has for the longest time(even after the end of the cold war) portrayed america as a model for all democracies to follow. in doing that, it presented to many people an idealized version of what america stood for, even while its leadership was actively and cynically betraying that ideal in the foreign policy sphere, from the iran-contra days to desert storm to the aspirin factory to the current quagmire in the middle east. when people are presented with the fact that the real leadership of this idealistic version of america that they have dreamt of is every bit as corrupt and dishonest(or more) as their own government there is a spectacular feeling of betrayal, both of their dreams and their trust.
well well well. who knew he could actually put all those airmiles to decent use?
I am glad that he has pointed out to his readership the ridiculous posture of american diplomatic stations abroad, and i might now be able to hope for an enlightened discussion on the blunders of american foreign policy and how best to rectify them. but i am convinced like doug above that this is going to take a leadership change.
i was going to write a long rant, but decided it belonged in its own blog post. check out the TB. that's yours truly
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