This week, natural disasters and national monuments came together to make news. First, Tuesday's earthquake caused cracks in the Washington Monument, something Pat Robertson interpreted as a sign that Jesus is coming. Then, worries about Hurricane Irene caused the postponement of today's official dedication of the Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial. The arc of the moral universe is not only long, it's susceptible to high winds. Elsewhere: Steve Jobs stepped down, DSK walked free, and Libyan rebels ransacking Gaddafi's compound found an album filled with photos of Condoleezza Rice, with whom Gaddafi once shared a private dinner, showering the Secretary of State with an estimated $212,000 worth of gifts -- including a diamond ring, a lute, and a locket with Gaddafi's picture inside. File this under: "Creepy Yet Oddly Endearing Obsessions of Murderous Dictators." Finally, to my fellow New Yorkers: please stay safe.
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As for DSK, I'm not surprised. I believe the whole debacle was a set up from the beginning for "political reasons" and nothing more. If DSK actually did rape this woman then her voice should be heard very loudly.
What can I say about steve jobs? NOTHING...
I wonder if Condi kept the goods??? Who knows what a Schizoid dictator is thinking. Maybe she looked like one of his wives or maybe he was enamored with her piano recitals...
It's quite a statue .. but a disgrace to have on our Mall, angers many Americans .. also, MLK's family is getting 1.4 million for use of MLK's name and quotes .. what a greedy, ungrateful bunch of SOB's .. I mean C'mon ..we're spending 10's of millions to Honor the man and they want a cut??
A hurricane hits the eastern seaboard just as we're ready to dedicate MLK's memorial?
Didn't I hear something about hurricanes following the path that slave ships used?
Maybe Mother Nature is saying better late than never?
Brilliant and oddly accurate description of the dictator himself.
On the other hand, they could talk about shared interests. The Administration she represented's support of torture. The bombing of innocent civilians. The curtailment of their respective society's freedoms. It must have seemed like they were kindred spirits.
And she could play piano and serenade him. What's not to love? ;-)
this is coming in three parts this is my Sunday round up to...after reading Vencinti Fox’s article and commenting on it myself I have had time to think more about it ..these are further thoughts...I do not speak just from a academic view but from a personal experience with my daughter ...I have found through the years there are few Ozzie and Harriet families..or if that goes back to far for you.. Leave it to Beaver and that again may be too far back for some of you.. most of our families have from some to huge amounts of disfunction that we bury..until they manifest them selves one way or another..and when they spill out into society on a grand scale you have problems...yes sir right here in River City (the USA) we have problems that Meredith Wilson can’t solve with a song and a new band.
I am talking about our mental capacity to cope..we run on caffeine 5 hour drinks...Red Bull, trying to squeeze in more than is healthy than we go to the real drugs...and this is where our life style start to hurt others besides our self...we have created such a demand for our fixes the people in the supply chain.. that are trying to meat our demand have become so competitive they are willing to kill to meat them by some accounts
Last week we got all bent out of shape over 35 people being killed in Afghanistan by terrorist what kind of terrorist are we when our needs for drugs killed 22,000 in Mexico ?
Legalize drugs, and the problem will vanish.
Meanwhile, presidential hopeful Rep. Michele Bachmann decried what she called "radical environmentalists" for impeding efforts to harvest America's oil and gas riches. Declaring the U.S. to be the "King Daddy Dog" of energy, she repeated her call for abolishing the EPA. Onward, Christian soldiers.
Appearing this morning on Fox News Sunday, Bachmann congressional colleague and fellow presidential aspirant Ron Paul stood by his remarks from Friday that there's nothing "magic" about FEMA, whose systematic dismantling he has called for. To bolster his case, he cited the dubious example of early 20th-century and pre-FEMA hurricane responses in Galveston, TX, where thousands of people died in the storms and their aftermath. Welcome to Libertarianism for Dummies.
In short, the rhetoric of Beck, Palin, and Paul represent the monumental natural disaster that marks today's right-wing philosophy. That our culture elevates their discourse into the mainstream conversation leaves me with little faith that FEMA, the EPA or any regulatory agency or disaster-relief group can protect us from the apparent impending landfall of G.O.P. policies.
In other words, "What do we care if they ruin the environment, we're going to die anyway?"
God really does spoil his children...