I haven't been on Aurelius's blog for a while, but was scanning just about five minutes ago, and please forgive me for not being on for a while. In a post about the July 21 London attacks, the following comment was made -
'A fortnight after the attack on London the organisers are being rounded up and arrested. Four years after the New York attacks, the organisers are free, and reaping a bonanza of financial and recruitment results, courtesy of the US response.
Which seems to be working better?
It's not just in the production of quality comedy that the British have it all over the Yanks.'
Now that's wisdom LOL.
The Israeli's complained to the Vatican about Benny Sixteen condemning the London and Sharm el Sheik bombings, but saying nothing about the Palestinian attacks on Israeli soil. The response to this initially unanswered question was that the Vatican condemned Israel for the responses it undertakes to abovementioned Palestinian attacks.
'In a 1300-word communique, the Vatican said: "It has not always been possible to follow every attack against Israel with a public declaration of condemnation."
It said one reason for this was that "the attacks on Israel were sometimes followed by immediate Israeli reactions not always compatible with the norms of international law... it would thus be impossible to condemn the [terrorist operations] and pass over the [Israeli retaliation] in silence."
The statement also expressed irritation with the reaction of the Israeli government to the Pope's original comments and said it was not prepared to "take lessons or instructions from any other authority on the content and direction of its own statements."'
'A fortnight after the attack on London the organisers are being rounded up and arrested. Four years after the New York attacks, the organisers are free, and reaping a bonanza of financial and recruitment results, courtesy of the US response.
Which seems to be working better?
It's not just in the production of quality comedy that the British have it all over the Yanks.'
Now that's wisdom LOL.
The Israeli's complained to the Vatican about Benny Sixteen condemning the London and Sharm el Sheik bombings, but saying nothing about the Palestinian attacks on Israeli soil. The response to this initially unanswered question was that the Vatican condemned Israel for the responses it undertakes to abovementioned Palestinian attacks.
'In a 1300-word communique, the Vatican said: "It has not always been possible to follow every attack against Israel with a public declaration of condemnation."
It said one reason for this was that "the attacks on Israel were sometimes followed by immediate Israeli reactions not always compatible with the norms of international law... it would thus be impossible to condemn the [terrorist operations] and pass over the [Israeli retaliation] in silence."
The statement also expressed irritation with the reaction of the Israeli government to the Pope's original comments and said it was not prepared to "take lessons or instructions from any other authority on the content and direction of its own statements."'
If you don't have something nice to say, don't say it, and if something nice hasn't been said, there usually is a reason, oh Israeli Foreign Ministry people LOL. How soon before the Pope's Hitler Youth past is raised again?
Hmm, would love to comment on this story, but since I am in the industry, albeit at a low low rung, I shouldn't. Delta airline hostesses, Washingtonian interns anyone?
And no, before I did my space the final frontier piece in the previous entry, I had not read John Tierney's piece in the NYT about what the shuttle is doing in orbit for the moment (have just heard in a news update that the shuttle will stay in orbit a couple of more days doing even MORE safety checks) -
'The Discovery, meanwhile, is gazing at its navel. The astronauts' primary mission is to discover, with the aid of new cameras trained on the shuttle, whether it's safe for them to be up there.
Oh, and one possible reason for all this is just in case oil or minerals are found underneath the place. Don't tell the Washington Beltway that, or they may do a pre-emptive strike on Copenhagen or Ottawa LOL.
Talking of the States, is it just me or does the politics in Washington seem to have calcified somewhat, in a Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire kind of way? I know I can't really comment on it in a historical perspective, being in the here and now, and outside the Beltway the USA seems to be as dynamic as ever, although more feared and less respected than say before March 2003 - but just look at two examples.
The Sinophobia in Congress is against the principles of free trade - ie, if the customers know the company is Chinese owned, let them decide whether to buy their products or not. Secondly, the whole stem cell thing is leaving the USA behind other countries that don't have as many hang ups on the whole research thing - again with the whole freedom of choice thing, some scientists wouldn't want to do stem cell research, others would. So there you go, two quick examples where politics gets in the way of economics and science.
Again til later peeps
Pauly
And no, before I did my space the final frontier piece in the previous entry, I had not read John Tierney's piece in the NYT about what the shuttle is doing in orbit for the moment (have just heard in a news update that the shuttle will stay in orbit a couple of more days doing even MORE safety checks) -
'The Discovery, meanwhile, is gazing at its navel. The astronauts' primary mission is to discover, with the aid of new cameras trained on the shuttle, whether it's safe for them to be up there.
The answer was clear well before the latest bits of foam fell off. Sending astronauts on the shuttle isn't worth the risk, and not simply because of its design flaws. For all its problems, the shuttles have safely returned from 98 percent of their missions, which may well be the highest success rate of any exploration program in history.
The real problem with this exploration program is that it doesn't explore anything. Three decades after going to the moon, NASA is sending astronauts a few hundred miles above Earth to conduct high school science experiments. Can you name anything - besides repairing the Hubble Telescope - they've accomplished?'
Geez, just imagine being given the job of sorting out your government's policy on an uninhabited 100 metre wide island in the wastes of the high Arctic. That must sound like career advancement on a grand scale LOL, although in actuality, Canada and Denmark are having a major argument about Hans Island, between Ellesmere Island (Canadian) and Greenland (Denmark). And a citizen of each country has bought the top Google advertising spot when Hans Island is searched for. And how much tax revenue is Hans Island going to bring in for either country? Irrational stupidity is the explanation perhaps LOL.Oh, and one possible reason for all this is just in case oil or minerals are found underneath the place. Don't tell the Washington Beltway that, or they may do a pre-emptive strike on Copenhagen or Ottawa LOL.
Talking of the States, is it just me or does the politics in Washington seem to have calcified somewhat, in a Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire kind of way? I know I can't really comment on it in a historical perspective, being in the here and now, and outside the Beltway the USA seems to be as dynamic as ever, although more feared and less respected than say before March 2003 - but just look at two examples.
The Sinophobia in Congress is against the principles of free trade - ie, if the customers know the company is Chinese owned, let them decide whether to buy their products or not. Secondly, the whole stem cell thing is leaving the USA behind other countries that don't have as many hang ups on the whole research thing - again with the whole freedom of choice thing, some scientists wouldn't want to do stem cell research, others would. So there you go, two quick examples where politics gets in the way of economics and science.
Again til later peeps
Pauly
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