birds

I shared an Ultra Light Beer tonight with a veteran of the Korean war. His friend was there, a veteran from the second world war.
"We should fight house to house, blow the buildings up as we go, then offer compensation. This is how we could win the war in Iraq."
I disagreed, pointing out that Iraq is not a country, but rather an agglomeration of different tribes, stuck within a border once artificially constructed by the Brits. And then we went on to talk about Israel, an other mostly British flavored product, but I will spare you that part of the conversation for an other time...
So, birds fly over borders and checkpoints without passport or/and visas.
Maybe humans can learn something from them birds.

The tower of babble

Despite the rapid increase in communication, the acceleration in technology - we are being stunned with muteness.
Every teenager (adults too) spend time running around blabbing at a cell phone each day for hours on end, bloggers (like me) litter the virtual space we have created while the REAL space we live in and the person next to us is being more and more ignored.
Is the imagery of the "Tower of Babel" a re-occurrence or are we just on our way out as human species to become bio-energetic machines instead? Next time you look around, people will have a permanent implant in their skull, serving as phone, video and music generator.

P.S. ... at least BETA and REGULAR blogger seem to communicate now :)

Options

* We can disentangle politics and religion
* Separate state and economics
* Leave cultural life to work in freedom (arts, education, religion) and disconnect them from politics and economic pressures
(every child should be educated in order to free their mind and excel in independent thinking, and NOT to fit into societal rasters and limitations)

Culture of Fear

I do not have much to say about the anniversary of 9/11, but here you can read why I believe this incident still leaves many questions unanswered.
What I find startling though from my own present perspective, is that this event which happened five years ago gave the green light for the US government to fight three simultaneous wars. Afghanistan, Iraq and the war on Terror. None of them winnable except maybe the war on terror if the mindset of people in charge understood anything about history, culture and additionally would aim to work towards peace. Therefore it is this last one, the war on Terror that bothers me the most where all energy is funneled into an abstraction of fear instead of creating new thoughts and strategies. As the administration widens the front of conflict, it almost seems that they do this with a purpose. You see, all the actions now equal to that people must remain living in perpetual fear, fear from an invisible enemy they can't even address.
Dominance of fear amongst the population makes people act like slaves, following the demands that come from above.
"We have nothing to fear, but fear itself!" Which president said that?
I don't think that the founders of this country had oppression and fear in mind, at least I can't find it in the constitution - no matter how hard I look.

September

What shall I do with these magazines, sell them on eBay? They have been collecting dust for some years. I wonder what their value would be - and to whom!

Which reminds me to tell you that I will fly to Europe in a few weeks. Will be a sober flight, not even a water bottle allowed as carry on, thanks to our beloved muslim adolescent wannabe freaks. By them all fun to fly in an airplane has been positively eradicated. Why can't those guys ever come up with something better or more effective to voice their discontent? I mean for Christ's sake, even Mohammed wasn't trying to conquer Mecca in a day and instead retracted to Medina at his convenience to catch some breath while converting everything around him with the mighty threat of the sword.

Dhimmitude (compliance) of the so called Western world will never be gained by highjacking airplanes and/or using them as projectiles of destruction. Subordination (dhimmitude) of the "West" towards the "East" will never happen, especially not towards countries who adopted Islam in such a way that law, state, culture and religion are ruled as one and the same, namely by the Qua'ran.

I remember the first time I visited the US, I was still a kid then, just about seventeen. The stewardess came up to me and asked me: "Would you like to come to the cockpit and see how they fly a 747?" - "Sure!!!" So I went and got my portion of excitement. Those were the days!

Nowadays you can't even cough loudly, that might end up of your plain getting send back to the originating airport, escorted by two F-16 fighter jets.

My Arab friends, you must understand that you took away all the pleasures of flying. For that I despise you very much and also for your accompanied resistance and arrogance that "Mohamedanism" as represented by many Arab countries, is still an issue to be pushed forward in the 21st century.
It's destructive, a waste of time, it's retardation - and it only makes flying miserable.
Think about it.
For those who haven't followed my blog might assume that I unjustly wish to lash out against Arabs and Muslims. If you have payed attention, you must have noticed that I criticized Israel, the Anglo-Saxon empire and all others who impose the law of "dhimmitude", intentionally or unintentionally. The laws, rules and privileges of the superior to the lesser must find an end so slavery can be abolished for good . Any philosophy or religion contrary to such a move must either be tranquilized or eradicated .