I posted this at Darfur an Unforgivable Hell on Earth , but in case you don’t read it — which I know most of you don’t — Jan Pronk was booted out of Darfur.….……
I had a busy weekend, went to a concert to which part of the proceeds went to Darfur; there were a quite a few local people there working in various forms for Darfur.
John sent me this link to a post at Shakespeare’s Sister; it’s the picture which I want you to note not the prattle.
I admit it. I love John Murtha — there I said it.
If our media was composed of real journalist they would not have addressed the comment — credited to Clinton’s Republican challenger John Spencer — which alluded to Clinton looking better now than in the past and other useless comments.
Buy ya see we don’t have real journalists.
Just think how many things could have taken the place of all that in media attention.
1.An article about the murdering, racist, dictator in Darfur.
2.An article on how we totally fucked up in Afghanistan.
3.An article on what exactly needs to be done to increase and equalize the quality education in this county.
4.The major news agencies and cable news might as well give up and get go blog only — they do the same thing all those silly pundit blogs do, only in a less entertaining way.
After all a blogger is nothing more than blagueur — farceur gros bête va, as are most journalists these days.
Blaguer — Blogger.
Ironic .…true?
Peut-être, peut-être pas
I’m going to sit down and read blogs tonight.
Yea.
I hope those blogspot blogs are fixed.
“I love John Murtha — there I said it”
That’ll go over well.
Darfur is a tragedy beyond words… I do my catching up on that here on the news where they do talk about it a lot… something to be said about Spain I guess…
But it makes my blood boil and my heart ache and I do not understand, and hope I never will, how those with the power to change things do nothing… a callous and shitty world we live in…
how those with the power to change things do nothing
They ain’t “doin’ nothin’”, Mizzy B. Especially here in the USofA, they’re doing exactly as We the People wish them to do.
Not in terms of polls and pronouncements (Blageur, ma fois. C’est vrai. De trop. Merde.), but in terms of actions. I just read yesterday how property taxes in Bath, Maine went up this year, and the school budget was cut. And the noise is about a referendum (TABOR) to cut those taxes.
We the People are going to stand for sending an armed force to save Dar … huh? Is he a cornerback for the Cardinals? What about gas prices so I can put those cut property taxes in my SUV?
Say I made the statement “Any persons who do not vote to DOUBLE their taxes, and see the money spent on education, social programs, and other projects to PREVENT … ok, MINIMIZE violence and injustice in this world, are COWARDS and TRAITORS.” How many votes am I going to get for that? Bring your microscope.
The world is callous and shitty? Well, changing it has got to start somewhere. Unfortunately, Yeats called it in 1917, and it’s still true …
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
bluaguer –not you.
Hidden among the sarcasm, wit and provocative prose, which is there more to get people to listen to the real truths you slide in there so effortlessly, no pandering, no pretense.
That’s a great picture of Murtha btw, and our media sucks is true.
My blogspot blog has it’s moments; it’s like apoilt child.
You know, I do have a tiny bit of empathy for the media. I mean, everytime they say anything regarding a political candidate it’s morphed and twisted into a campaign advertisement for the other side. You know those commercials… The Star Tribune called Candidate X’s latest ad “misleading”… is this the kind of person you want in office… Vote Candidate Y.
The Get those Bloggers a Room Committee is responsible for the content of this ad.
Which brings to mind another thing. If you’re a proud member of your party, why do you have to distance yourself from ads your party creates?
I love all old boys clubs. Churches, governments, media, graveyards.
Which one did you go to?
I haven’t read much online, I’m training rats this week.
Skinner is my nemesis.
To say what you mean and be cast out only to be brought in to the fold again when the tide turns.
Such is American Politics.
you’ve posted fast recently, when I arrive you’ve already posted three posts and my thoughts can’t seperate them.
Love the picture and what you said, I’m going above now.
John: This does not surprise me.
Mizzy B: It is beyond frustrating.
OC: I guess I don’t worry about property taxes, but do find it difficult to understand how property taxes can be raised and school funds cut.
That is the fault of the voters.
We are talking about UN troops, and although there is much discussion as to whose responsibility is, and how this is not the job of the world and how it would be pretentious of us to go into Darfur I think sending UN troops in to Darfur to specifically save the people being targeted is the only was to save them. However our government supposedly is using information they get from the murdering dictator in Sudan for intelligence on the Taliban — people in other parts of Sundae live quite well, and I find it hard to care about taxes when a genocide is occurring. I sometimes don’t care about anything at all going on in this country. I do care about education or the lack there-off which contributes to the continued oppression of people on the lower end of the socioeconomic ladder.
Jacob: “bluaguer –not you.” – Every last one of us Jacob.
Dan: I have no empathy for the media, and if the question about being a proud member of my party was for me – and it may have been rhetorical it’s hard to tell on line – I never said I was a proud member of my party, I am merely a member hoping it will morph into something better.
G: D.C.
JOEG: going above?