Nov. 11 - Sorry about my sudden absence, folks. Danged computer died and it took awhile to get it back up and running which was complicated by an intense work load.

Best amend that to just "running." There are still some features that disappeared and had to be re-installed and some old features that reappeared - like just how freaking old is Morpheus, anyway? and how many times do I have to uninstall Wild Tangent until goes away and leaves me alone?

At least I no longer need to wrestle over whether to get rid of Kazaa, and in one blazingly cheering revelation I realized that not only was it gone but that all its accompanying adware was also gone yet all my downloads remain. It doesn't seem quite cricket somehow, but I'll take it.

Recent news items have left me shaking my head. Some chickens may have come home to roost but other members of the fowl family cluck cheerfully along. The terror attacks in Jordan showed the futility of trying to fool all of the people all of the time. The latest reports are all about the shock that Palestinians were the victims of the bombings:

SILET AL-THAHER, West Bank -- In this village, the Akhras clan mourned 17 relatives killed by a suicide bomber in Jordan -- the first time Palestinians have been a target in a suicide attack.

"Oh, my God, oh, my God. Is it possible that Arabs are killing Arabs, Muslims killing Muslims?" asked Najah Akhras, 35, who lost two nieces.

In the West Bank and Gaza Strip yesterday, Palestinians expressed outrage over suicide attacks aimed at civilians.

Then there's France, where the rioting of "insurgents" are in part a consequence of a country which has successfully fooled most of its people all of the time.

I don't believe that those who advocated multi-culturalism were actively or knowingly promoting racist policies, but it does seem that one result has been to isolate rather than genuinely embrace non-European immigrants and the events of the past two weeks have perhaps been hardest of all on the parents and grandparents of these young Molotov tossers who moved to France in pursuit of a better future for their children. Their reward was to be denied protection by the law from lawlessness - after all, whose cars, schools and businesses were torched?

Was I the only person yelling "Use tear gas!" every time clips came up on the news? The kind of thinking that dictated that it would be racist to confront and stop the rampaging led to the French government's choice to deny these "other" citizens their indisputable right to be protected by the law from lawlessness. But then it wasn't whitey's car a-burning, you know?

But they did rouse themselves sufficiently to put out full police presence to protect a military parade.

The ease with which people are willing - even desperate - to be fooled was indicated in Canada when the initial Gomery report exonerated Paul Martin from any involvement in much less knowledge of Adscam or, as Doug Fisher put it, "Gomery's whitewash of Martin is both thorough and repetitious" and the report also cruised past what senior government bureaucrats knew or did not know (we already know that they did nothing.)

Mark just called and for some reason emails being sent to him are being bounced back. I need to "fix" it and then tackle my own email. The universe can be so very unkind.

Posted by: Debbye at 09:19 AM | Comments (4) | Add Comment
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1 Avalanche You lied, I lied, we all lied at one time or another it's the motivation behind the lie that's important. This is serious business. This jihadist thing is like a rolling avalanche. I think it really got going when Soviet Russia backed off from trying to gain control on Uzbekistan  . Russia didn't want to waste any more lives and money on the Jihadists, but the insurgents considered this as a paramount victory. I'm willing to bet that OBL used this David against Goliath example to fire up his fundamentalist converts. Now after Night club bombings in Sri Lanka, hotel bombing in Egypt and three major hotel blasts in Jordan, not to mention the London tube, we seem to have self feeding destruction with no goal and no leader to talk settlement with. Here is a short great news video. Are they saying we should have let Saddam gas these people because they were [awful}? http://Strongworld.blogspot.com http://My.Opera.com/T-G/

Posted by: TonyGuitar at November 11, 2005 04:31 PM (rmMzv)

2 You are going to like this. Bill Strong pointed it out. It's great. http://www.TheOtherIraq.com The guys in Iraq and Afghanistan would get a boost of of this. TG

Posted by: TonyGuitar at November 12, 2005 05:17 PM (rmMzv)

3 Yay! Debbye's back!!! Er... Nice post, too! :/

Posted by: Tuning Spork at November 12, 2005 08:18 PM (ihwr7)

4 Dragnet, Here are the facts, just the facts, nothing but the facts: You can hang them out to dry with this stuff. This ex-cop is now a security and public speaking consultant. His professional reputation is on the line, so I suspect most of this is gold. http://tinyurl.com/8zogn TG

Posted by: TonyGuitar at November 13, 2005 03:28 AM (rmMzv)

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