tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2083200247132907218.post2223259931879581065..comments2024-03-23T08:51:09.577-08:00Comments on Progressive Alaska: Saradise Lost - Book 5 - Chapter 60: More LiesPhilip Mungerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14601488767955084836noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2083200247132907218.post-63906902303925912522011-05-20T01:27:13.674-08:002011-05-20T01:27:13.674-08:00As long as innocent civilians are dying in Barak D...As long as innocent civilians are dying in Barak Drone Obama's attacks, this speech will fall on deaf ears in the Arab world.<br /><br /> Ok, so Obama took out Osama. Yahoo. Tell that to the families of the 80 people who died in the recent tit for tat suicide attack. There are more on the way.<br /><br /> To Obama I offer the words of two of my musical hero's as inspiration.<br /><br /> To quote Jaco Pastorius who referred to himself as the "World's Greatest Bass Player"; "It ain't braggin' if you can back it up".<br /><br /> The human riff, Keith Richard's first solo album was titled "Talk is Cheap".<br /><br /> OK Obama, let's see you earn that Nobel Peace Prize. The world is waiting.Geirnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2083200247132907218.post-38218902650789597632011-05-20T01:10:55.495-08:002011-05-20T01:10:55.495-08:00Philp Weiss commenting at Mondoweiss on Obama'...Philp Weiss commenting at Mondoweiss on Obama's speech:<br /><br />Well, democracy and nonviolent protest are great for the Arab world, says Obama, but not for Palestine. So there is reference to the "humiliation of occupation" but not to the fact that the people under occupation have no rights. A friend says the speech could have been delivered to AIPAC.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2083200247132907218.post-3284759270549816022011-05-20T00:44:51.679-08:002011-05-20T00:44:51.679-08:00Phil,
I hope I'm not straying to far off ...Phil,<br /> I hope I'm not straying to far off topic from this post; here goes.<br /><br /> As an American expat living in SE Asia it's been my observation that some Buddhists enthusiastically participate in heinous crimes against their fellow human beings yet they do not seem to invoke Buddhist religious text nor do they make claims to a particular piece of real estate based on these texts. <br /><br /> In the south of Thailand there is a Muslim minority whom one could argue has been historically marginalized and oppressed. In the last several years several thousand have died. Buddhist monks beheaded, gov't schools burned, teachers beheaded.Praise be to Allah indeed.<br /><br /> When Forrest Gump's business partner informed him that Bubba Gump Shrimp had become a multi-million dollar enterprise, they were rich, Forrest's response was "Well, that's one less thing to worry about."<br /><br /> If religion disappeared tomorrow my guess is Man's Inhumanity to Man would continue unabated, that said we'd have one less thing to worry about and one less excuse.<br /><br /> To those who would argue what about Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot. The cults of personality surrounding them were de facto religious in nature. Hitler was a Catholic who was never excommunicated despite having committed the mortal sin of suicide (among others).Geirnoreply@blogger.com