On Vox: Happy Thoughts
Trying to think them. Haven't posted any new entries for several weeks due to the winding down of the summer teaching season. Hope to catch up on rest and resume posting shortly.
On Vox: Don't Go There!
Brad R. at Sadly, No! lays down the snark with authority, as usual. If you're not familiar with that fair blog, then you're missing out on the funniest blog this side of Fafblog! How they can maintain the level of snarkiness they do is beyond me. Must be drugs in the water.
On Vox: We'll Always Have Paris
Interesting. Very interesting. So maybe some more of her vids will make it into the wild? She's gotta be feeling pretty nice right about now.
On Vox: Trojan Leaders
Abu Aardvark has a must read post about how this current Israeli barrage is playing right into the Islamists' hands. I won't even bother to excerpt from it. Just go read the whole thing.
On Vox: Accountability Moment
This reminds me of the famous (to paraphrase) 'yeah, we had accountability, it was the 2004 election': Israel says world backs its offensive in Lebanon (Reeeally?!?). From the reports of non-US media sources, and from watching the press conference following the Rome meeting, it seems that the opposite is true, unless the spokesman means US=world. By bombing so many non-Hizbullah targets (the Lebanese army barracks? The red cross vehicles? The ambulances? The Christian north?), Israel seems almost to be goading someone, anyone, or at least an enemy (lots of those in the neighborhood) into attacking it with a conventional force, i.e., a national army. Then the big dog stationed right behind it can come in and do some regime change.
On Vox: Frikkin' Lasers!
The current US administration has every reason to feel confident about being able to turn the corner in the ongoing conflict in Iraq; they're using frikkin' lasers! When can Israel get its hands on some of these bad boys? No fuss, no muss, invisible, and silent. What's not to like?
On Vox: Deliberate?
Nah. The post was hit by a precision-guided missile after six hours of shelling, diplomats familiar with the probe say.
On Vox: Whoa Nellie
Sadly the only English language news available on basic cable is CNN. BBC was around for nearly a year, but got pulled just as I moved into my new place. They (CNN) had the press conference on the Lebanon crisis a short while ago, the one that took place in Rome. Rome, Italy. And the conference was delayed for something like an hour and a half. So this press conference had some members of the press at it. And naturally, being in Rome (Italy), some of the reporters were Italian, and asked their questions in the local language (Italian). But CNN couldn't find a frikkin' Italian translator for all of us who don't speak Italian. They couldn't find an Italian translator in Rome (Italy). Instead we had the anchor (one I really, really dislike, to the point of having to hit the mute button when her smug mug starts droning on) telling us her version of what we all needed to know about the crisis in Lebanon. And when the Lebanese Prime Minister, Mr. Fuad Siniora, started by thanking everyone except the current US Secretary of State (who was standing directly to his left)and began talking about Hezbullah's good works and Israel's continued occupation of the Shebaa Farms region of Lebanon, on the bitter suffering that the Lebanese people were undergoing and the incredible destruction being done to the entire Lebanese nation, Ms. Smug-Mug Anchor interrupted and went to a reporter and droned over what he was saying, completely drowning him out. Then when the current US Secretary of State started talking, the smug-mug immediately cut away to listen raptly to what was being said (nothing of note). It's gotten to the point that CNN won't countenance showing anything that goes against the current "wisdom" prevailing in Washington, D.C.; pretty soon they won't be able to show the weather (current record heat waves have nothing to do with Global Warming!).
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