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THE TERROR ALERT LEVEL
| EXPAND YOUR MIND - END CENSORSHIP! |
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| Laws in America |
| 04.25.04 (6:31 pm) [edit] |
"The more laws and order are made prominent,
The more thieves and robbers there will be."
-Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu
I pondered this quote and found it quite interesting. No other nation on earth probably has as many laws and ordinances, or lawyers for that matter, than America. And no other nation has more people in prison percentage wise, than the United States.
When I thought about it i realized that Americans are so fearful of crime that they criminalize about everything. It is illegal for me to walk across the street from one bar to another holding a can of beer. Imagine that law in Germany!
Americans, like other nations, abhor crime, but they think that by creating new laws they can be safer. After all, the more people behind prison the safer they will be. But the fact of the matter is if I were to have a beer, walk across the street to another bar, be arrested for public intoxication, then I would have a damn hard time afterwards to get a job because it would show up on my record.
One criminal action on your record pretty much bars you from future employers in America, and its zero tolerance of crime, means that you will not be able to get a decent job and will have to turn to either poorly paid jobs, or turn to a life of crime. Sadly both are bad alternatives.
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| X-Files quote |
| 04.23.04 (4:03 pm) [edit] |
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My favorite quote from Cancerman in the X-Files:
"Life is like a box of chocolates. Cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that nobody ever asks for. Unreturnable because all you get back is another box of chocolates, so you're stuck with this undefineable whipped mint crap that you mindlessly wolf down when there's nothing else left to eat. Sure once and a while there's a peanut butter cup, or an English toffee, but they're gone too fast and the taste is fleety. They end up nothing but broken bits filled with hardened jelly and teeth shattering nuts, if you're desperate enough to eat those all you've got left is an empty box filled with useless brown paper wrappers."
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| an original quote from me! |
| 04.21.04 (9:26 pm) [edit] |
Here is my quote:
"Somewhere in between insanity and reason there is confusion." :P
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| Arab countries |
| 04.15.04 (9:25 am) [edit] |
Wow, little Finland produces more than all of the Arab nations combined! What are you talking about? What does Finland produce, you ask? Ever heard of Nokia? :)
According to Sarkis Khoury, professor of economics and finance at the University of California: "Arab nations, except for oil, are considered as consumers, and will never succeed unless they reverse the trend and become producers... On a comparative note, Finland, with a population of 5.5 million, produces far more than all the Arab nations with a population of 300 million."
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| Sadly, the hatred continues |
| 04.14.04 (6:10 pm) [edit] |
National Post [Canada], April 08, 2004:
Blaming Israel for child bombers?
Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook
In a bold attempt at damage control fit for the PR hall of fame, the Palestinian Authority (PA) has come up with an innovative -- albeit bizarre -- response to the tide of world disapproval of recent foiled Palestinian attempts to use youths as suicide bombers.
It's all Israel's fault, of course - but with a twist.
We know the usual pattern of assigning blame to Israel for Palestinian terror attacks. If only Israel would stop targeted killings of terrorist leaders and stop building the wall to keep out terrorists, then the Palestinians wouldn't be driven to blow themselves up, killing and maiming Israeli civilians in the process. Indeed, a good chunk of the world still buys this argument.
But even the most loyal Palestinian sympathizers have had trouble with the Palestinians' recent exploitation of minors, such as planting remote-controlled explosives on an unwitting 11-year-old in Gaza, or duping a naive 16-year-old in Nablus into becoming a suicide terrorist for 100 shekels (about $22 U.S.) and a date with 72 virgins in Paradise. Both attempts were foiled by the Israeli army before the youths could kill or be killed.
News surfaced last week Israel had arrested three more Nablus teens who had been recruited as suicide bombers by Islamic Jihad. The plot was discovered when the older brother of 15-year-old Tamer Khawireh was suspicious of the new cellphone, clothes and cigarettes the Grade 9 student was flaunting.
So the new twist on the "Blame Israel" strategy had to become more inventive. Despite the fact that terrorist organizations have already claimed responsibility for these would-be attacks, the creative PA spin is that Israel -- not terrorist groups -- recruited the kids, planted the explosives and made sure the world media stayed overtime to capture the events for posterity. All in the name of discrediting the Palestinians.
So how did an 11--year-old walk into Israel with a bomb in his bag? According to official PA sources, "...the intelligence services of the occupying authorities [Israel] were the authors, directors and the organizers of the script....As [the boy] was coming home from school he was stopped by soldiers, who placed part of a rifle in his bag together with hand grenades and gas bombs, and then made the boy stand by his open bag so the weapons would be seen .... " [Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, March 27, 2004]
The PA story says that Israeli intelligence collaborators "played with" the mind of 16-year-old Hussam Abdo of Nablus so he would blow himself up. He was caught with an explosive belt March 24 and safely disarmed by Israeli soldiers.
Not only did Israel arrange the would-be suicide mission, according to this revisionist history, but it cleverly manipulated world media to make sure the event received maximum publicity.
According to the PA twist, the Israeli army had asked journalists to stay late at the Nablus checkpoint that day, in anticipation of the arrest. The army then "put pressure on the foreign journalists to focus on the incident."
And the PA allegations go a step further. According to an account in the official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Israel goes out of its way to publicize the use of children as suicide bombers - not just to discredit the PA, but to encourage more Palestinian children to blow themselves up.
"The occupation [Israel] in this situation and with this lie, is playing with its own blood, and it is like they are encouraging children to go from stone-throwing to use of explosives.... Israel's focusing accusations about children [in suicide terror] is in fact an open invitation to other children to imitate the accusations, because it is characteristic of children to blindly imitate." [Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, March 18, 2004].
In fact, it is the Palestinian Authority, not Israeli intelligence, that has preyed on the tendency of children to "blindly imitate" the actions of their peers and elders, with its systematic and relentless indoctrination of children to seek Shahada, martyrdom for Allah.
Music videos directed at children call child martyrdom "sweet" and offer enticing images of child paradise. One, broadcast hundreds of times since Dec. 26, 2000, features child martyr Muhammad Al Dura in paradise flying a kite, frolicking on a beach and riding a Ferris wheel.
"I am waving to you not in parting, but to say, 'Follow me,'" he tells other child martyrs-in-waiting.
Palestinian textbooks contain poems glorifying child martyrs. Yasser Arafat has called dead Palestinian children "the greatest message to the world" [PA TV, Jan. 15, 2002]. Soccer tournaments and summer camps are named after teenage suicide bombers, thus encouraging children and youth to follow these role models.
Asked on a June 2002 PA TV broadcast whether she prefers Shahada or peace and full rights for the Palestinian people, an articulate 11-year-old girl replies without hesitation, "Shahada."
And according to Palestinian surveys, between 70 per cent and 80 per cent of Palestinian children share her aspiration. Taught to overcome their natural fear of death, they are the young suicide bombers of the future - and they won't all be lucky enough to be intercepted.
Itamar Marcus is founder and director of Jerusalem-based Palestinian Media Watch (www.pmw.org.il). Barbara Crook, a writer and university lecturer in Ottawa, is PMW's North American representative.
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| Why cellphones are banned on planes! |
| 04.13.04 (8:52 am) [edit] |
From the April 3rd (2004) issue of The Economist:
"Contrary to popular belief, mobile phones do not pose a safety threat to airliners. On an average transatlantic flight, several phones are usually left switched on by accident, and the avionics systems on modern aircraft are hardened against radio interference. No, the use of phones on planes is banned because they disrupt mobile networks on the ground. An airliner with 500 phones on board, whizzing across a city, can befuddle a mobile network as the phones busily hop from one base-station to the next." :shock:
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| How about a glass of water, Mister? |
| 04.11.04 (11:44 am) [edit] |
Foreign policy is a cruel mistress. For some nations it is the essence of power projection, the ultimate pissing contest, but other nations see it more as a chance to help other people and bring some sort of hope and order to this otherwise troubling world.
The giants of foreign involvement usually concentrate on giving military aid to allies, overthrowing regimes who are not favorable to them (even if those regimes were democratically elected!), and generally don't give a damn about other people. So giving money to "allies" such as Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and other nations battling terrorism is terrific, but I think money would be better spent on something as simple as offering clean drinking water to people around the world.
More than one billion people in the world do not have access to clean drinking water. Never mind that they can't take a shower, they don't have any clean water to drink, period. Instead they are forced to drink unpure water, giving them dysentery and cholera or other diseases which kill them. 6,000 children a day die because they lack access to clean water. That's 6,000 CHILDREN A DAY!
Instead of buying a new hightech fighter aircraft, or giving military aid to propping up tyrannical regimes, how about spending some money giving people some clean water to drink? Doing so will no doubt buy us some more good will than bombing ever will. Remember that next time you complain there isn't any Evian in your fridge or Fiji water at your five star restaurant! 8)
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| Nixon reconsidered |
| 04.10.04 (9:12 pm) [edit] |
Quoting Michael Moore's book DUDE, WHERE's MY COUNTRY:
"Nixon was more liberal than the last five presidents we've had. His administration opened up dialogue with China. He was instrumental in establishing affirmative action in hiring and protecting the rights of women. He was the first president to sign agreements on nuclear weapons control. Nixon was responsible for the 1970 Clean Air Act and created the Department of Natural Resources and the Environmental Protection Agency. He gave us Title IX to force tax monies to go to women's sports. He also attempted a type of welfare reform that would have guaranteed an income for the poor. Nixon still should have been run out of office, and the millions dead in Southeast Asia will haunt him throughout eternity. But to think that he was the last 'liberal' in office just makes me want to puke." p.193.
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