Sunday, January 30, 2011

All Of My Favorite Phrases, NAMBLA In Afghanistan, Eatin Jesus Chikin

Paul Krugman
Elliot Abrams
John Barry
"Which brings me back to Paul Ryan and his response to President Obama... Mr. Ryan is widely portrayed as an intellectual leader within the G.O.P., with special expertise on matters of debt and deficits. So the revelation that he literally doesn’t know the first thing about the debt crises currently in progress is, as I said, interesting — and not in a good way." - Paul Krugman
"A social networking revolution has started in Saudi Arabia. Over 10 million Saudis are now online. In fact, the most popular social networking site for women in Saudi Arabia: 'Cover-Your-Facebook.'" – Jay Leno

"Egypt is in the second day of angry street protests. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is calling for calm. Because nothing calms an enraged Arab country like a powerful woman ordering it around." – Conan O'Brien

I didn't post anything last Friday, but still wanted to link to Paul Krugman's column, because he always has interesting critiques, this one is on Rep Paul Ryan, who gave the GOP response to the State of the Union speech. He reiterates what I keep saying, that even at their best and brightest, the extreme conservatives are not too bright after all. But, then, we knew that. During the last two years, when they could have come up with comprehensive legislature to help solve our economic problems, they were content to do nothing, take the lazy way out and criticize Obama for every sentence he uttered. Then, they sit around complimenting Mitch McConnell for his genius, where did you ever think of such strategy Mitch, Senator from Kentucky, home of almost every maker of bourbon whiskey sold in America... Elliot Abrams' opinion piece proves what arrogant dumbasses George Bush surrounded himself with, although I will grant George with having some good intuition on some things that happened in the Middle East, it's been proven that even a monkey throwing darts randomly at stocks taped to the wall can come up with a winning Wall Street profile now and then... And John Barry profiles the State Department's reaction to the news in Egypt and Tunisia, think of those same monkeys running around and throwing their feces against the wall...

Today Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made a speech saying that change had to come to Egypt, and the papers commented on her lack of mentioning any strategy regarding Hosni Mubarak. Hillary is a bit of a hawk, she has an aggressive nature that hates to lose, and can best be summed up in this quote:
"If you love something set it free. If it comes back to you, it's yours. If it doesn't come back, hunt it down and kill it."
So, of course she's a bit disgruntled to be losing someone whom she has successfully negotiated with before. In this, she's more old school Democrat, from the Lyndon Johnson frame of mind: "He may be a sonovabitch, but he's our sonofabitch!" Mubarak is a known entity, what may replace him we don't know how friendly they will be. Certainly, our relationship will change, but as long as we don't send any condescending bastards over to negotiate with the new government, things should work out fine. The whole Middle East will work out fine, with more people interested and taking part in their governments, protecting human rights, they may become a beacon for the rest of the world. Let them deal with Islamic extremism in their own way, let them tackle the root causes, and all we have to do is support them in a real and honest fashion...

The NY Times interviewed representatives from the other, non-democratic countries in the region, who were attending the economic summit in Davos, Switzerland: "Few of the executives present expected a revolution to spread across the oil-rich nations of the Gulf, where the governments are monarchies, which often do not create the types of expectations that accompany a democracy. Rulers in these countries use their oil wealth to invest in social stability by ensuring that their own people lead comfortable lives through subsidies on things like electricity, education and food. “Saudi Arabia and the Gulf countries are going to be spared because they are not democratic regimes,” said Jamal Khashoggi, the general manager of Al Waleed 24 News Channel. People in those countries “don’t feel cheated because there are no elections,” he said. By contrast, he said, “I can feel the agony of an Egyptian when he sees how democracy is mocked.”


On Thursday, the Saudi prince Turki al-Faisal al-Saud had this answer when asked whether a wave of democracy across the Middle East might be even more destabilizing than a nuclear Iran: “I don’t know; in Saudi Arabia, we have neither nuclear weapons nor democracy.”
“What counts is jobs. This is not just a problem in the Arab world; it’s a global issue that’s hitting the United States and Europe, too.” - Sheik Mohammed


Then we can begin to point out instances where certain traditions conflict with human rights and dignity, such as the time honored practices of pedophilia in parts of Afghanistan.: "The government will for the first time officially acknowledge the problem of child sex slaves. As part of the Afghan tradition of bacha bazi, literally “boy play,” boys as young as 9 are dressed as girls and trained to dance for male audiences, then prostituted in an auction to the highest bidder. Many powerful men, particularly commanders in the military and the police, keep such boys, often dressed in uniforms, as constant companions for sexual purposes.


United Nations officials say they believe that there are hundreds of cases of under-age boys in the police, “mostly because of falsification of papers, also bribes, and there’s been a big push to get the numbers up,” one official said.


Afghanistan hopes that its participation in the action plan will lead to the removal of the Afghan National Police from the list of organizations condemned by the United Nations for using children in armed conflict. The others in Afghanistan also include the Taliban, the Haqqani network and the Islamic Party, insurgent groups that often use children to hide bombs, and in some cases to act as suicide bombers." Creepy, huh? Yet the use of young boys goes back 300 years and at one time widely spread throughout Central Asia. Gives a new meaning to the phrase Old Asia Hand... to the Taliban's credit, they, too, were against this practice. I never heard of this contemporary practice of having boy toys, only read about it in history books and the fiction of Gary Jennings, and wonder why it has taken the newspapers nine years to getting around to reporting this story. Perhaps softening us up for the time when we withdraw our troops??? Makes one wonder if Afghanistan is a member of NAMBLA...





I have to admit that I don't get out much, and we do tend to eat fast-food at our house. And I watch a lot of television at night, and I am just as susceptible to the lure of commercials. MMMMMmmm, that looks good, let's go to burger King and try that, or, I wonder if there's a Sonic drive-in nearby... I have to admit that I had never heard about the fowl clashes between gay advocates and Evangelical Christians over Chik-fil-a.. I had never heard their sandwiches referred to as "Jesus chicken" and hoped it wasn't in the same way that Michael Jackson referred to "Jesus Juice..." I began to worry that those shadowy cow-like creatures weren't really Jesuit enforcers dispatched from the Vatican, adding another cryptic layer to the marketing phrase of:



Especially since it quickly becomes indoctrination for our younger generations:


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