Well, Randi Rhodes gets perplexed by certain developments like NBC documentaries. I am frankly perplexed by President Obama winning a peace prize I thought was only given out to people with notible achievements in the world of Peace. But there is no peace in the world and no recent accords have been achieved. Now they are saying that Albert Nobel merely wanted to promote "efforts" tword peace among nations. My worry is that this will only make Obama a bigger target for all the right wing nuts to shoot at, verbally or actually. Republicans also don't like being reminded that this move of the committee may simply be a reaction against eight years of George Bush. Some Republicans still think Ronald Reagan should have his imagage carved on Mount Rushmore. I have not tuned in Rush Limbaugh today and shudder to think the sort of things he is saying about our President at this moment. What we know is that General Mc Crystal or whoever, wanted MORE than 40,000 additional troops shipped to Afghanistan. He wanted 50,00 or perhaps even more, and was convinced to "compromise". Others are advising our President just to step up the bombing using the drone planes. But once again I fail to see how this will win us any votes in the public relations department. Once again it looks like we are supporting just another corrupt leader, the way our country has done for decades, or in short "business as usual". I don't think anybody has sucked in a breath and given real thought to just what our actual goals are in Afghanistan. Back when Bin Laden was alive our actions of hot pursuit made a lot of sense. But the experts are now saying that Bin Laden died in late 2001 of a lingering illness, and that those in the know say there was a funeral held for him. Other than provide a last minute campaign commercial for George Bush on the eve of the 2004 election, I don't know what keeping the image of Bin Laden alive in the minds of the American people has done for us. Some say that Alexander the Great didn't even want to fight in Afghanistan. Even back then the area was too inhospitable. There are even some intent on playing political Russian roulette, who want to bring back the draft, again, for various motives. This would be going from the frying pan into the fire. Senator Santorum was on some video the other day and if there is one thing I agree with him on is that we should keep our eye on Iran rather than Afghanistan. The US always seems to be making plans for the "last war" when the march of reality has moved forward.
If you were to listen to Randi Rhodes the other day you might have thought you were listening to Rush Limbaugh or O Riley. Because she trashed some Keith Oberman documentary on Health Care. Of course one thing we bloggers can do is revise our remarks, with no one the wiser, should we mis speak. Radio commentators don't often get that chance. Personally I think we need more and not less "liberal propaganda on the media. We used to get a lot more of it. I wish I had seen that program because it looked like a good one. It featured historical perspective, and quoted all sorts of people from Winston Churchhill to Charles Dickens, to Homer or whoever wrote the Oddesy or Iliad or one of those things. (How about a movie called "The Many Lives of Homer Simpson) But the whole idea in making reference to Joanas Salk or Albert Sabin, the inventers of polio vaccines, was to gain perspective on the reality of death and suffering in this country today. The way I figure it, cranking up the emotion tear jerker index is just another means of trying to shake people on the center and right of this health care issue out of their lethargy. I find it amazing that President Roosevelt made his revolutionary statements nearly eighty years ago. Yet in this, the 21st. Century, we are way behind the vision of enlightened people a century ago. There must be some way people can be shamed into living with the realities of today. As Dylan said, "Your old road is rapidly fading. Get out of the new one if you can't lend your hand- - ". Bernie Sanders seems content to say "Only a select few will be ellagable for Publicly funded health care". The past few weeks the whole health care issue has been pretty much off the radar screen as far as the media is concerned. Just looking at the situation, I don't see any bill being passed at all. They will talk and talk and decided it can't be done.
Mick Ronson seems to be known almost exclusively for being a good guitar player. And yet Mick is not "indespensable" because both Diamond Dogs and Space Oddity have excellent and ingenious guitar playing on them, yet Ronson does not appear on either album. The fact of Ronson's Mormonism provides a key to his personality and a glimps to his mind set on metaphysics. Beings who inhabit other planets is one of these realities we shouldn't close our eyes to. The Mormons as you know, believe in pre existance of our karma before we were born. Our whole way of looking at reality will one day be put to shame, when we see how the rest of the universe lives.
Fractals, other than a turm used by Lisa Simpson, is one of those words I didn't know what they were except wolframalpha.com states they are symmetrical designs. There is a lot of graphic "truths" that wolframalpha.com does and I don't totally understand all the mathmatical concepts behind them. On Star Trek, they don't have five year olds doing calculus, but I believe there is reference to twelve year olds routinely being introduced to calculus. Our karmic brains must be getting more intelligent.
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