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Browsing the archives for the United States category
https://manageknowledge.us/blog/?p=452
If using your mind to think logically doesn’t scare you, doesn’t represent your worst nightmare, then you should be able to handle this series of eight videos. It starts out seeming to be only about the growth in world oil consumption — and maybe about economic growth itself — but it becomes about something even more important. Oh yeah, it seems to rely heavily on mathematics, or at least on arithmetic. Viewing all of it takes about 80 minutes, but you don’t have to it all in one sitting.
https://manageknowledge.us/blog/?p=441
These men were released. Their captors — acting on our behalf — decided they had really done nothing wrong, the same decision ultimately given about the Japanese-Americans that the United States interred during World War II.
https://manageknowledge.us/blog/?p=434
Well, let’s see: the Taliban are really, really nasty people. You do know, don’t you how they treat women and children, and criminals. You don’t want to be caught stealing in Taliban territory, not using a hand that’s a favorite of yours. But, there are also nasty people in Darfur, and in Somalia, and actually in some neighborhoods here in Los Angeles. We could be trying to clean them out, too, right, if nastiness is the criterion for directing the firepower and youth of the United States of American to get rid of nastiness or at least correcting nasty behavior.
I heard another idea today. Since the guy from Denver arrested as a probable terrorist is from Afghanistan, then obviously we must keep up the war; otherwise we’ll be troubled with more like him. But, but, he trained in Pakistan not Afghanistan. Pakistan is where the anti-American guys are nesting now. Also, in my humble opinion continuing to bomb innocent Afghan civilians in our efforts to root out Taliban bad buys might actually be motivating more folks with links to Afghanistan to want to do something bad to us.
OK, then how about this, the Taliban supported the Al Qaeda guys. Yes, they did, but those guys seem to have melted into Pakistan now. Well, they did it in the past, and they deserve to be punished.
Another idea is that we’ve got to keep on keeping on. We’re in there now; we’ve been mucking around in the country for 8 years now. It would really look bad to leave now and the United States would lose credibility. After all we do want the world to believe we continue wars even if they’re pointless, wasteful, impolitic and possibly evil. What kind of a reputation would that give us if we were to quit now? People are still laughing at Russia and England, and way back, even at Genghis Khan, for running away from Afghanistan and calling it a quagmire.
So, I guess we’ll keep on keeping on. The one job I really wouldn’t want is having to come up with the words that come after: “Your son/daughter died in Afghanistan to…”
https://manageknowledge.us/blog/?p=414
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24 Jun, 2009
Mark Sanford is back — he says from Argentina. Did he read my blog entries here and develop a strong case of BA-envy (Buenos Aires)?
It sounds like the devil made him do it.
All you’ve got to do, Mark, is get invited to the weekly Senators lunch meeting where you’ll get a round of applause and all will be forgiven. That certainly would be easier than trying to track down a Catholic priest to hear your confession.
Don’t you just love all the [male] friends who are already speaking up in support of him, many of them in Southern drawls? Oh, and would you get me some coffee, then call Jenny for me and express my sympathy, y’all.
BTW, so far he has said this dear friend was “she,” didn’t he?
https://manageknowledge.us/blog/?p=391
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9 Jun, 2009
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https://manageknowledge.us/blog/?p=377
18 May, 2009
The President spoke at last Saturday’s White House Correspondents Dinner. A lot of it was LOL stuff, so I include it here:
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