2010-04-12, 02:38 | Link #6841 |
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This was the first thing that ran through my mind when I heard of that incident. Knowing how stubborn the Kaczynski brothers are/were, this would perfectly fit into Lech's mannerism... killing him and so many other people, just for his stupid pride (or whatever it is). I could not believe any pilot would pull that thing off without a clear order to do so.
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2010-04-12, 06:37 | Link #6842 | |
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2010-04-12, 20:50 | Link #6845 |
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
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Just another reason their choice of the current Pope was an exceptionally poor one. The last Pope was more progressive and seemed to be moving towards the future. This pope is a bureaucrat, a retrogressive, and is entrenched in his mental fortress.
Whatever, with its current track that religion is on its way to being mortally wounded outside of the sole areas it is increasing membership -- the extraordinarily poor and under-informed of the world.
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2010-04-12, 21:36 | Link #6847 | |
Le fou, c'est moi
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Thaksin was a genuine populist, charismatic, power-hungry and utterly corrupt. And they're right that he built his power base in the provinces. Bangkok disliked him when he was in charge -- while the rural districts received government subsidies, it saw first hand his increasing monopolization of economic sectors (eliminating telecommunication rivals for one). The military is even worse, because they aren't just corrupt, they're corrupt and willing to pull coup d'etats to get their way. Filthy corrupt old men, reactionaries at their most disgusting, I'll be glad if they all just die. I really think they'd rather have a junta under the King (of which they'll broadcast how magnificent and civilized it is under His Majesty's benevolence compared to neighboring Burma, that shithole of a military dictatorship -- sorry, Myanmar), though if he's going to be a puppet or a real power broker is a question. The King is deeply honored and loved by everyone in Thailand -- publicly. Reinforced by official indoctrination. No politician worth a salt would dare say anything bad about the King. It's like the ancient noblesse oblige -- I know, I used to live under it. Westerners are of course free to criticize as much as they want, question Bhumibol of his supposedly pure motives, and I'm glad they do. Noblesse oblige is bad. Bad. Bad. It's a big, big lie. Abhisit...the poor fool. He represented -- emphasis on the past tense -- in spirit the Bangkok elite: well-groomed, foreign-educated, absolutely disconnected from the rural majority that Thaksin won over. I remember years ago he was pretty much the star protegé of the Democrat Party's then-leader. I also imagine he didn't expect his much-hoped for government (a hope dashed by Thaksin's meteoric rise earlier on) to be as the military's puppet. What ugly bedfellows. 'Course, my family used to be of upper middle class position in Bangkok, so my parents had sympathies for the Democrat Party which courted the Bangkok middle class (+ it was also the "Party of the South," where they came from). But that was way back when, and I think they gave up on paying attention to the Homeland after the coup disillusioned them of politics there (they didn't like Thaksin, but I imagine they didn't like a coup d'etat either. Way to set Democracy back a whole fucking decade). As for me, I matured politically in America, so my remembrance to this nation is essentially a look into the past through a child's eye + remembering indoctrination efforts that I once believed in, and feeling disgusted and vaguely Jacobin about it. One wonders if it wouldn't have been so much more interesting if the communists really managed to take over after World War II. Then again, Southeast Asian communists did not exactly build the happiest regimes [=extreme euphemism]. |
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2010-04-13, 00:10 | Link #6850 | |
Kuu-chan is hungry
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2010-04-13, 07:30 | Link #6851 | |
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How Lehman hid its risks — via an 'alter ego'
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2010-04-13, 08:14 | Link #6852 | |
Komrades of Kitamura Kou
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Another month, another killer quake:
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2010-04-14, 12:16 | Link #6854 |
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leftist trolls to try to infiltrate Tea Party
Arizona outlaws outlaws (wonder if this will catch on with other states...) Last edited by mg1942; 2010-04-14 at 13:47. |
2010-04-14, 16:46 | Link #6856 | |
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2010-04-14, 19:26 | Link #6857 | |
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2010-04-14, 21:25 | Link #6858 |
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can't wait to see their comedy posters tomorrow
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2010-04-14, 23:20 | Link #6859 | |
Le fou, c'est moi
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Location: Las Vegas, NV, USA
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I mean, what is so "top" about "Thank God[underlined] for Glen[sic] Beck?" Is Glenn Beck God? Is the underlined God funny? Am I just feeling liberal rage at this reactionary humor that went old the moment Eisenhower left office? I shan't touch the utterly discredited, racist "Obama bin Laden" "joke" |
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