September 2008 Archives

September 26, 2008

pantyhose politics

we're having a debate party tonight. mine is private but there are public ones set up. check the obama website for one in your area.

palin- unqualified, we know. however this very obviously surpasses the danger zone of ineptness:

This is a direct excerpt from Katie Couric’s One-On-One interview with Sarah Palin, which aired Wednesday on CBS.

COURIC: Why isn’t it better, Governor Palin, to spend $700 billion helping middle-class families struggling with health care, housing, gas and groceries? … Instead of helping these big financial institutions that played a role in creating this mess?

PALIN: Ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health care reform that is needed to help shore up the economy– Oh, it’s got to be about job creation too. So health care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions.

 

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September 18, 2008

closer than you think deux

in january 2002 i ventured off to dubai to start a business venture. while visiting i met u.s. soldiers who were vacationing there from kuwait. at the time they didn't know the extent of their visit.

from my window in abu dhabi u.s. navy ships stationed or just circling the area were visible without visual aids.

one year later gw bush astonished even the media when he appeared on tv in the evening to declare "military operations on iraq have begun"




marina mall in the persian gulf abu dhabi uae

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September 17, 2008

despicable

conservatives believe the right to life begins at conception and ends at birth. and apparently this insatiable thirst for blood doesn't apply only to humans:
http://www.grizzlybay.org/SarahPalinInfoPage.htm
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September 16, 2008

closer than you think

considering a possible vp of the usa hadn't gotten a passport until 2007- well into her 40's- i wanted to touch on the impertinence of not having foreign relations knowledge.

israel feb - mar 2008

golan heights: while there took a 6 hour ride to golan heights (syrian, occupied territory). never before seen pictures of this area. it's completely isolated amidst high mountains. on the border a fence separates the nations. UN signs hang warning: 'keep back 15 kilometers united nations regulations' in hebrew, arabic and english.

residents of golan heights although offered israeli citizenship, have refused.

lebanese border: on the ride back briefly stopped by qiryat shemona. 30 minutes later hezbollah launches missles striking a mall parking lot and injuring 6 people. perhaps more.

western jerusalem, a couple of weeks later: the previous day had rained. while collecting material for my recent art project, i came across a poster on a brick wall. it was peeling perfectly when a voice of a man behind me interrupts, lama! lama! (hebrew why! why!). not turning around i walk away. when i get to the car i'm told that was a funeral announcement. glad i left it.

2 days later an israeli gunman walks into that same building and opens fire on the seminary students while observing evening prayer. many die.

the idf by dawn had collapsed the gunman's family home to the ground. nobody was home.

school children overlooking mount olive in old jerusalem

i'll post more from other countries later.

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