Plan B - One shot one kill, no exception
One interesting bit was the terrorist responsible for the kidnappings was -- guess what -- formerly a detainee at (drum roll) Gitmo. Now we all know that the friendly detainees at Gitmo are ALL innocent victims of the U.S. imperialistic, hegemonic, colonialistic, barbarity, so this fellow, Mehsud, must have been so embittered by the experience at Gitmo that he became a terrorist when released by the U.S. Imagine that!
More meaty part to chew on from Munir Ahmad Associated Press Writer
Mehsud, 28, returned to Pakistan in March after about two years' detention at the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Pakistan officials say he has forged ties with al-Qaida since then.
It was not clear why U.S. authorities released Mehsud, who has used an artificial leg since he lost his own to a land mine while fighting for the Taliban. He became a rebel leader when he returned to South Waziristan, and has opposed Pakistani forces that are hunting al-Qaida fighters in the semiautonomous area.
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Gun, Germs and Steel
The author asks: Why weren't Native Americans, Africans and aboriginal Australians instead the ones who enslaved or exterminated the Europeans?
Diamond uses evidence from archaeology and many other disciplines in an attempt to explain the general thrust of history. He makes a strong case that, for example, agriculture and cities were bound to originate in what was once "the fertile crescent", no matter who was living there.
My favourite part is: how he answer his question, his thesis was that those from the EuroAsian multi-continent had built up quite a bit of genetic resistance to various diseases, other more isolated cultures had not, so part of the ability to conquer these people was based on the accident of resistance.
I do not have science, anthropology linguistics educational or experiential knowledge in these fields, so I learned a lot of from this book. Gun, Germs and Steel has excellent points, provides a clear, well researched, non-reacist, and unbiased, view as to why human races are, imperatively, different and divergent in many ways. I would highly recommended it.
Thanks Chainsaw for recommending it!Listen to DJ Shadow - Midnight in a perfect night
R.I.P Christopher Reeve
Reeve was just mentioned Friday in the second presidential debate by John Kerry. Kerry said he was in favor of further stem cell research because Reeve could walk again one day thanks to
such science . . ."
Too bad we won't be able to see Reeve walk again, I hope the next elected American president will expand stem cell research, believe in science and won't allow his religious beliefs to interfere with his judgment.
God rest Reeve's weary soul.Listen to A Perfect Circle - Hollow
Couch Potato eh?
While we were enjoying our show and having junk food, I said "We'll be couch potato very soon if we do this every Sunday afternoon."
Eddie, soon-to-be-Fortune-500's employee, often called himself proletariat, said:
What's wrong with being a couch potato? Before becoming a couch potato, you have to be able to pay for electricity bills, pay the rent, cables and choose a telly. Living a life without anything to worry, you can spend most of your life on a soda, doing little more than just sitting there and watching some telly. Isn't that wonderful?"
It sounds like fun. It is making sense, almost. I guess the answer is yes if you're content to be a couch potato, but I want something more from life than food and telly, the conversations led us nowhere. We took a coffee break after X-files and the boys decided to play Winning Eleven 8 til 8pm. It was fun to watch them playing Classic Germany Vs Bayern Munich or England Vs Netherlands.
Anyway, I just want to say we had a great time together.
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