……..therefore I work on not erring
Don’t miss this guest post over at LaGringa.
A small taste:
Are we to believe that Jose Manuel Zelaya returned to Honduras, at great risk to himself, in order to be re-instated as president only to turn power over to the newly elected president less than eight weeks later? I’ve still got that beach front property available. Any takers?
Here is a link to the BBC who has a video of an ugly wave coming in.
And here is a link to UMCOR, my personal favorite disaster charity.
There is too much information out there for my tastes today.
1. On Al-Qaeda. Do we really need to know and should we know that infiltrated spies en masse are helping us get the upper hand and whew, do we have a lot of them!
Current and former senior U.S. officials, who spoke about intelligence matters on the condition of anonymity, confirmed what one former CIA official called “our penetration of al-Qaeda.” A senior administration official said that success had come “because of, first of all, very good intelligence capabilities . . . to locate and identify individuals who are part of the al-Qaeda organization.”
Dude…you’re a CIA official. Learn to keep a secret!!!!
2. Sarkozy’s disgust with Obama. France and the UK wanted to unite with the US and take on Iran at the UN. Obama didn’t want to (more on that in number 3) and instead wanted to hold off until the G20 meeting.
Le Monde’s diplomatic correspondent, Natalie Nougayrède, reports that a draft of Mr. Sarkozy’s speech to the Security Council Thursday included a section on Iran’s latest deception. Forced to scrap that bit, the French President let his frustration show with undiplomatic gusto in his formal remarks, laying into what he called the “dream” of disarmament
I understand diplomacy. A bit anyway – not being very diplomatic myself. These 3 major countries decided to do this thing (confronting Iran) together. They really wanted Obama on board and he wanted to push it back a few days. And so they all went together and did this thing at the G20 meeting.
So how on earth was Sarkozy a) “forced” to NOT confront Iran while at the same time b) sharing all his feelings about this later a diplomatic thing? Either he didn’t follow through or the US has some serious leverage on him that even tiny little Honduras won’t put up with and so Sarkozy is just a talkative tool.
3. On that Obama not wanting to confront Iran at the UN meeting. Apparently it’s because :
But the Administration told the French that it didn’t want to “spoil the image of success” for Mr. Obama’s debut at the U.N.
Again – I know that images count. The image of success is important to big shots.
BUT I don’t want to hear that’s how they’re making their decisions else it doesn’t actually count as a true image!!!!
The hazards of being a country without resources that other people want.
* Zelaya is crying to the UN to reinstate him. This tells me a few things.
1 – Zelaya believes the UN gives a rip
2 – Zelaya knows darn well this isn’t a “coup” because if this was a coup and the UN came to re-instate him, they would have to stay there and keep him in power as he currently does not hold power with the courts, the congress or the police/military.
3 – Zelaya is clearly no leader.
* How hard is it to figure out how many people have died in a riot? Yet we keep getting this in every story:
The government says three people have been killed since the coup, while protesters put the number at 10.
Obviously no one gives a rip enough to find out the true number or else they would use it.
* This man is a reasonable person.
Micheletti said he had been swayed by a delegation of congressional leaders who asked him to revoke the decree. He acknowledged his government was concerned about the decree’s affect on the election, in which all the major candidates oppose Zelaya’s policies.
Dear Conservative Person,
No matter what, it’s your fault.
Just ask Europe.
In this article titled “Even in Capitalists’ Bad Times, Socialists in Europe Suffer”
So in an article supposedly about European Socialists not being able to win elections against the European right you get this:
Some American conservatives demonize President Obama’s fiscal stimulus and health care overhaul as a dangerous turn toward European-style Socialism — but it is Europe’s right, not left, that is setting its political agenda.
Europe’s right IS our left! Europe’s left is our whackjob left.
In other words, the left in Europe is setting the agenda and things aren’t going good and their whackjob left can not win elections even during these times.
Do you want to know why? Because in hard economic times, it’s clear to see the right, or conservatism IS the correct way to go. If Europe had a right wing, (that wasn’t whackjob crazy) then it would be winning elections.
Example 2. David Brooks blames conservatives for the crappy financial culture in this country. (people want what they want even when they can’t afford it leading to our current problems) How?
Apparently when conservatives starting focusing on marriage and abortion, they completely dropped the ball on financial responsibility.
Over the past few years, however, there clearly has been an erosion in the country’s financial values. This erosion has happened at a time when the country’s cultural monitors were busy with other things. They were off fighting a culture war about prayer in schools, “Piss Christ” and the theory of evolution. They were arguing about sex and the separation of church and state, oblivious to the large erosion of economic values happening under their feet.
See? It’s YOUR fault we’re in this mess.
Can you please fix it?
Not sure what happened to my post this morning, but basically it’s go read LaGringa.
I am completely ashamed of this country right now as we interfere with Honduras after so many years of me defending us and our interferences.
And watch Newt Gringrich’s short bit on Honduras.
I’m off to Nebraska for my stepbrother’s wedding to a fabulous woman. Enjoy this photo of Kenny who is growing up so handsome that he’s getting halter trained for show time.
In today’s Washington Post Michael Gerson whines about the meanness of the internet.
Somehow he’d like to banish all “cyber-bigots” from speaking their peace because well – they’re bigots and it’s a step towards Naziism.
But the challenge of this technology [the net] is not merely an isolated subculture of hatred. It is a disorienting atmosphere in which information is difficult to verify or critically evaluate, the rules of discourse are unclear, and emotion — often expressed in CAPITAL LETTERS — is primary. User-driven content on the Internet often consists of bullying, conspiracy theories and racial prejudice. The absolute freedom of the medium paradoxically encourages authoritarian impulses to intimidate and silence others. The least responsible contributors see their darkest tendencies legitimated and reinforced, while serious voices are driven away by the general ugliness.
Michael Gerson is of the main stream media. So he’s having a hard time watching his paper news fall but let’s think this through.
Nazi Germany used technology to their advantage. Mostly radio. Regular citizens didn’t have access to radio in the rise of Germany in order to argue the other side. There were not millions of people across the world at the ready to refute the lies told by propagandists.
The current internet is absolutely filled with lies. AND it’s filled with those who refute those lies just as loudly. The part Gerson probably can’t take is that the current internet and it’s bazillion users also refute the lies told in the newspapers. How do you fight that?
Ethicist Clive Hamilton calls this a “belligerent brutopia.” “The Internet should represent a great flourishing of democratic participation,” he argues. “But it doesn’t. . .
When you start saying what free people should or shouldn’t be, you lose the democratic part.
The exploitation of technology by hatred will never be eliminated. But hatred must be confined to the fringes of our culture — as the hatred of other times should have been.
One of the beautiful things about this country is the first amendment. We get to say what we want when we want to and you get to dispute it equally as loud. The internet is basically a free forum for this. When people “exploit technology” for hate, others use it for good.
Good content wins because it’s better. Not because someone outlaws bad content.
Netanyahu has it right. Let Gaddafi speak. If you choose to sit and listen you will be outed.
Both things done freely.
China has become popular of late. Maybe Gerson should go there where “hate” is just not legal.
ps Gateway Pundit has a video of Val Prieto of Babalu Blog. This guys knows of liberty and it’s importance. Liberty is not just for me, it’s for thee too.
Original global temperature data proving climate change on the warming side of things eaten by dog.
But don’t worry – because it DOES prove human caused global warming. The guy who lost it, says so.
Honduras
Don’t miss LaGringa’s latest on Zelaya. He’s apparently crying “torture” now. Funny how that’s become so widespread.
He’s sleeping on chairs, and he claims his throat is sore from toxic gases and “Israeli mercenaries” are torturing him with high-frequency radiation.
Wisely all who leave the Brazilian embassy are being examined by doctors first thing.
Be sure to read LaGringa’s depictions of what Zelaya’s supporters are doing to the area also.
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Obama Celebrity
Karl Rove on Obama’s media blitz.
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Under Obama’s Bus
Obama throwing GITMO detainees under the bus. Yes – he’s using Bush’s “evil” law to keep detainees without trial indefinitely. But only the ones who need it mind you.
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Under Obama’s Bus part II
Get back there Israel. You know that I get to tell you how to run your affairs. Along with telling Honduras how to run theirs, and Gr Britain how to run theirs and yes, we should definitely stay out of the affairs of Iran/Venezuela/Russia.
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Dear Sara Palin
When you’re overseas, do us a favor and go ahead and support the President even if his/her priorities are different than yours. Or don’t say anything at all about it. Your subtle pressures do nothing for your stature and they do not convince this administration that “oh – she’s right”.
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Iraq Marshes
The marshes in Iraq were making a comeback without Sadaam drying them out. They aren’t so lucky with their neighboring countries drying them out during a drought.
