Daily Archives: March 2, 2012

Burning of Korans in Afghanistan

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Truthout has an essay Burning of Korans in Afghanistan. Near the top of the essay is the following startling statement:

This past weekend, two senior American military officers were shot and killed within the Interior Ministry in Kabul by an Afghan colleague, who was allegedly provoked, according to Afghan government sources, by the Americans’ open mockery of the protests.

I have not heard such an allegation reported in the lame stream press.  If true, it would go a long way to explaining some of what is happening.  (I said explaining, not condoning.)

This definitely falls under Greenberg’s Law of Inexplicable Behavior, “When the media report on the existence of some seemingly inexplicable behavior, they owe us a report on what are the reasons that the actor uses to justify this behavior. Until you are able to read such an explanation, you have to realize that the media is not reporting the whole story.”

With a lot of justification in the intervening parts of the essay, it concludes with the following:

We are staring into a terrifying abyss of our own making. Were the Korans burned by accident or not? Does that really matter anymore? The following truism is all that matters; any sufficiently advanced incompetence is completely indistinguishable from malice. Ten years of brutal war, hundreds of billions of dollars expended, thousands of lives lost and destroyed, and we still have not learned the sine qua non of that most basic maxim.

And I don’t want to hear any rejoinders that the Afghanis or Muslims are just as intolerant.  We can’t control how other people behave (Duh!! isn’t that obvious now?), so we rightly need to concentrate on controlling our own behavior.

Israel’s Last Chance to Strike Iran

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The New York Times has chosen to publish the op-ed piece, Israel’s Last Chance to Strike Iran.

I won’t bother to quote anything from the op-ed.  You can read it yourself if you are so inclined.

I don’t know why the newspaper doesn’t just change its name to The War Mongering Times.

I suppose publishing such pieces would be a service in the name of balance if it weren’t for the fact that I don’t think The War Mongering Times ever missed a chance to goad and lie the U.S. into some war.

Obama heckled over Iran war threat

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The Tucson Citizen carried the story Obama heckled over Iran war threat from USA Today.

“Use your leadership!,” a woman yelled at Obama. “No war in Iran!”

There is not much to the story, but I note it as perhaps the first public protest that has come to my attention.

It seems like yelling at public figures at public appearances is the only thing we have left to do to get their attention.  Obama’s defenses against hearing a message are well honed.  Maybe he was hoping the deep bass of the rumbling drums of war would be inaudible to most people and he could silence the few people who can see what is going on.

Readers of this blog might be able to think of another public figure whose attention I have been trying to grab without any success.  It makes you wonder if a person has to go through an operation to disconnect the auditory nerve (if there is such a thing) before they can run for office.

Google’s New Privacy Policy: Invasive, Innovative or Both?

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I was disgusted with the other news channels yesterday, so I happened to surf to the PBS News Hour.  I caught the tail end of this “debate”.  It just confirmed why I never watch the PBS News Hour.  The woman in this debate is nuts, bonkers, absolutely off the wall.

I watched the first few minutes of the video below to see what I missed, but had to turn it off after the woman in the video uttered a few sentences.



If anyone is brave enough to watch the whole thing, let me know if the woman says even a single sentence that is truthful or makes sense.