Punch... line
: The Observer finds the, ahem, humor in 9.11.
And they just don't stop; the laughs keep coming:
Tony Blair publicly drains every drop of blood from his wife to help the injured of New York.
Taking his time, George W. Bush formulates a measured response - which turns out to be the most expensive bollocking ever unleashed against shepherds.
Figures show that even as the second tower fell, people were switching off their televisions, complaining they'd seen it all before.
If it were amusing, it would be offensive. Instead, it is just incredibly stupid.
Oh, those clever Brits. I just wish we were so damned witty.
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Where is the outrage?
: Where is the Arab outrage at this abhorrent story: Fifteen girls were killed in a school fire in Saudi Arabia because the country's religious police -- the ludicrously yet frighteningly named Commision for Promoting Virtue and Preventing Vice -- allegedly prevented the girls from leaving the building without their head coverings. And they were trampled to death.
If this happened in America or most any country I'd call civilized, there would be deafening outrage. But I looked at every Arab source I can find online, and I could find no outrage. I could barely find any coverage.
In a story in Saudi Arabia's Arab News, they treated this as a scandal about building codes and only toward the end mentioned as obliquely as possible the true scandal:
The press pointed fingers of accusation at the Commission for Promoting Virtue and Preventing Vice on grounds that they obstructed rescue operations....
The press also charged that officials from the commission prevented Civil Defense men and other male volunteers from entering the school to rescue the girls for fear of “exposing females to male strangers.”
After Sept. 11, we heard no moral outrage from the Arab and Muslim world about the murder of thousands of American innocents. We do not even hear any moral outrage about this horrid crime against Arab children. This from a land that creates a Commission for Promoting Virtue and Preventing Vice. What slime.
This is a clash of civilizations. No, this is a war against the uncivilized.
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: See also William Quick and Ken Layne and Moira Breen. And Muslim Pundit calls the Commission for Promoting Virtue and Preventing Vice "Taliban-esque."free ogame skins download
Right v. wrong
: I kept shaking my head this week reading stories about the imminent death -- the execution, they called it, but I say it's the suicide -- of Arthur Anderson and I was struck by the simplicity of the sin that did them in: This once-great, once-huge company was destroyed by its own executives who didn't know the difference between truth and lies, between right and wrong.
Enron, too, was brought down by the ethically inept but Enron was different; it was all bull from the beginning, like the worst of the Internet: Enron (and much of the Internet) promised to fundamentally change the way we do business when, truth is, business has not changed since the post-ape generation started trading shells for bananas. It's about value and demand and profit.
But Anderson was real: lots of clients, lots of revenue, lots of respect. But one day somebody looked the other way when Enron turned into a get-rich-quick scheme. And then somebody ordered tons of documents to be shredded to hide the lies.
And now Anderson is destroyed because its executives forgot that their only real asset was credibility. When they aided Enron's lies, they lost their credibility and their business. They didn't know right from wrong and they've paid the price.free ogame skins download
Now let's visit the Catholic church, where for years God knows how many child-molesting priests were protected -- while the children of the church were not. I say that a few bishops and cardinals should be indicted for obstruction of justice, as accessories to felonies (but there isn't a prosecutor/politician who'd have the balls to do it). The executives of this institution are destroying their moral credibility because they, too -- they, of all people -- lost sight of the difference between right and wrong. free ogame skins download
I predict that this all will lead to some fundamental moral changes in society in our time. Because of Enron and Anderson and the Catholic crimes (not to mention the black-v.-white fight against terrorism and religious evil and not to mention President Clinton's moral lapses), I think people will seek simpler, clearer moral rules (and they won't necessarily look to religion to help formulate them). On the one hand, this could be good and healthy: We will raise a generation that comes to expect and demand truth and adherance to laws. On the other hand, this could lead to a moral absolutism that could be just as dangerous and difficult to live with as religious fundamentalism. All this destruction, all this change, all this danger because a few people, a powerful few chose to ignore the difference between right and wrong. What a sin. free ogame skins download
: Matt Welch adds his prediction that all this will lead to a new responsibility
...along the lines of wrestling down hijackers and such. People will be more likely to believe it is up to them to guarantee things like their own family’s safety, and will probably fight back when attacked, and jump into burning buildings to pull out humans. Unlike, say, Saudi Arabian moralists.
BC PC AD FU: My friend
NIck Denton should be careful that he doesn't create the new PC with his listing of officially sanctioned liberal blogs.
So who determines the definition of orthodox liberalness. Who issues membership cards in the club? What gets you blackballed?
Now that I'm a hawk and recovering pacifist does that make me not-a-liberal?
I can't bear reading the self-absorbed catalogues of what bloggers think as they try to place themselves in one club or camp or another. It's not so simple; it's not so stupid.
Now I agree that blogdom has many loud conservative voices -- a din of them.
But blogdom is not alone. I was talking with my sister the (liberal) minister just yesterday about why conservatives are taking over and ruining her (and my former) denomination, Presbyterianism (with bigotry against gays and even efforts in one area to convert heathen Jews). Why are conservatives thick? Because conservatives have easy answers, she said. True. My sister is very smart.
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Free speech, even outrageous free speech
: An excellent Tom Tomorrow post today defending free speech even when it is Ted Rall speaking. We can all hate and abhor his cartoon and him but we don't want any Commission for Promoting Virtue and Preventing Vice (see next post) deciding what we should and should not see. free ogame skins download
But a terrorist is a terrorist is a terrorist
: I have to say that I will look at St. Patrick's day differently this year -- not just as the Amateur Drinker's Official Holiday but also as the day when terrorists and former terrorists wear green. I don't look at them sympathetically. Anyone who uses violence against innocent civilians to spread terror for political aims is a terrorist. free ogame skins download
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: Monkey with brain implant moves cursor just by thinking.free ogame skins download
Punch... line
: The Observer finds the, ahem, humor in 9.11.
And they just don't stop; the laughs keep coming:
Tony Blair publicly drains every drop of blood from his wife to help the injured of New York.
Taking his time, George W. Bush formulates a measured response - which turns out to be the most expensive bollocking ever unleashed against shepherds.
Figures show that even as the second tower fell, people were switching off their televisions, complaining they'd seen it all before.
If it were amusing, it would be offensive. Instead, it is just incredibly stupid.
Oh, those clever Brits. I just wish we were so damned witty.
free ogame skins download
Where is the outrage?
: Where is the Arab outrage at this abhorrent story: Fifteen girls were killed in a school fire in Saudi Arabia because the country's religious police -- the ludicrously yet frighteningly named Commision for Promoting Virtue and Preventing Vice -- allegedly prevented the girls from leaving the building without their head coverings. And they were trampled to death.
If this happened in America or most any country I'd call civilized, there would be deafening outrage. But I looked at every Arab source I can find online, and I could find no outrage. I could barely find any coverage.
In a story in Saudi Arabia's Arab News, they treated this as a scandal about building codes and only toward the end mentioned as obliquely as possible the true scandal:
The press pointed fingers of accusation at the Commission for Promoting Virtue and Preventing Vice on grounds that they obstructed rescue operations....
The press also charged that officials from the commission prevented Civil Defense men and other male volunteers from entering the school to rescue the girls for fear of “exposing females to male strangers.”
After Sept. 11, we heard no moral outrage from the Arab and Muslim world about the murder of thousands of American innocents. We do not even hear any moral outrage about this horrid crime against Arab children. This from a land that creates a Commission for Promoting Virtue and Preventing Vice. What slime.
This is a clash of civilizations. No, this is a war against the uncivilized.
free ogame skins download
: See also William Quick and Ken Layne and Moira Breen. And Muslim Pundit calls the Commission for Promoting Virtue and Preventing Vice "Taliban-esque."free ogame skins download
Right v. wrong
: I kept shaking my head this week reading stories about the imminent death -- the execution, they called it, but I say it's the suicide -- of Arthur Anderson and I was struck by the simplicity of the sin that did them in: This once-great, once-huge company was destroyed by its own executives who didn't know the difference between truth and lies, between right and wrong.
Enron, too, was brought down by the ethically inept but Enron was different; it was all bull from the beginning, like the worst of the Internet: Enron (and much of the Internet) promised to fundamentally change the way we do business when, truth is, business has not changed since the post-ape generation started trading shells for bananas. It's about value and demand and profit.
But Anderson was real: lots of clients, lots of revenue, lots of respect. But one day somebody looked the other way when Enron turned into a get-rich-quick scheme. And then somebody ordered tons of documents to be shredded to hide the lies.
And now Anderson is destroyed because its executives forgot that their only real asset was credibility. When they aided Enron's lies, they lost their credibility and their business. They didn't know right from wrong and they've paid the price.free ogame skins download
Now let's visit the Catholic church, where for years God knows how many child-molesting priests were protected -- while the children of the church were not. I say that a few bishops and cardinals should be indicted for obstruction of justice, as accessories to felonies (but there isn't a prosecutor/politician who'd have the balls to do it). The executives of this institution are destroying their moral credibility because they, too -- they, of all people -- lost sight of the difference between right and wrong. free ogame skins download
I predict that this all will lead to some fundamental moral changes in society in our time. Because of Enron and Anderson and the Catholic crimes (not to mention the black-v.-white fight against terrorism and religious evil and not to mention President Clinton's moral lapses), I think people will seek simpler, clearer moral rules (and they won't necessarily look to religion to help formulate them). On the one hand, this could be good and healthy: We will raise a generation that comes to expect and demand truth and adherance to laws. On the other hand, this could lead to a moral absolutism that could be just as dangerous and difficult to live with as religious fundamentalism. All this destruction, all this change, all this danger because a few people, a powerful few chose to ignore the difference between right and wrong. What a sin. free ogame skins download
: Matt Welch adds his prediction that all this will lead to a new responsibility
...along the lines of wrestling down hijackers and such. People will be more likely to believe it is up to them to guarantee things like their own family’s safety, and will probably fight back when attacked, and jump into burning buildings to pull out humans. Unlike, say, Saudi Arabian moralists.
BC PC AD FU: My friend
NIck Denton should be careful that he doesn't create the new PC with his listing of officially sanctioned liberal blogs.
So who determines the definition of orthodox liberalness. Who issues membership cards in the club? What gets you blackballed?
Now that I'm a hawk and recovering pacifist does that make me not-a-liberal?
I can't bear reading the self-absorbed catalogues of what bloggers think as they try to place themselves in one club or camp or another. It's not so simple; it's not so stupid.
Now I agree that blogdom has many loud conservative voices -- a din of them.
But blogdom is not alone. I was talking with my sister the (liberal) minister just yesterday about why conservatives are taking over and ruining her (and my former) denomination, Presbyterianism (with bigotry against gays and even efforts in one area to convert heathen Jews). Why are conservatives thick? Because conservatives have easy answers, she said. True. My sister is very smart.
free ogame skins download
Free speech, even outrageous free speech
: An excellent Tom Tomorrow post today defending free speech even when it is Ted Rall speaking. We can all hate and abhor his cartoon and him but we don't want any Commission for Promoting Virtue and Preventing Vice (see next post) deciding what we should and should not see. free ogame skins download
But a terrorist is a terrorist is a terrorist
: I have to say that I will look at St. Patrick's day differently this year -- not just as the Amateur Drinker's Official Holiday but also as the day when terrorists and former terrorists wear green. I don't look at them sympathetically. Anyone who uses violence against innocent civilians to spread terror for political aims is a terrorist. free ogame skins download
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: Monkey with brain implant moves cursor just by thinking.free ogame skins download
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