Talk Radio Show: Castro to Chavez (a Sham)

Talk Radio: Castro to Chavez (a sham)


I read the transcript of the Talk Radio Show, between what Castro and Chavez spoke about 2-27-2007), and they sounded like two pigs in a blanket. If indeed they talk like that in person, I would think they were two sissies, trying to get a date with one another. I couldn’t believe the conversation. Now let’s get serious, both compliment one another on world affairs, and how much they read, and how much they know, and have done for their countries. All this was talked about live on the “President’s Show” or hour, on National Radio, in the transcript of the conversation between Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez and Cuban leader Fidel Castro, edited for brevity, the two mongooses’’ whom are quite compatible for one another, put on quite a show, I couldn’t stop laughing, but it proves one think, if anything, they are out of reality, which most dictators like them are, they actually think, and feel, believe and have reasoned, they are the champions, the Heroes of the Western Hemisphere, that they have done mankind a favor for breathing their air, when in spirit, these two are really the revolutionary kings of plunder.
They have driven their counties into a foggy existence, drained their countries to the limits, to be and live grandiose; Castro even throws a pun to his mate, saying he will speak a few words in English, and laughs. I think Castro is trying to tell the world he reads newspapers, not just takes girls through his back door entrances into his palace, at night, which he thinks no one knows, and everyone in Havana talks about (and fears they will be found out for laughing about it, sadly laughing for it costs them tax money); and how he lives in his palace, guarded from the so called people that love him. Anyhow, it was a witless show of stupidly; do they have nothing else to do?

The Eight Greatest Engineering Feats of Mankind

The Eight Greatest Engineering Feats of Mankind

Seeing is Believing


[Advance] I tried to word this right, the title, for surely there are many Engineering feats, throughout history, the Roman walls in England, and the Greeks Acropolis, in Athens, and the legendary labyrinth, in Crete, and so on and so forth. But these are the ones I’ve seen, and feel are worthy to be called among the greatest of mankind. Some are ancient, some are contemporary, all are great, and until I see something better, this will remain written in stone in me, and I am not adding the space programs, or moon landing in this overview, or scenario. Man has accomplished a lot, with his blood and sweat,
Perhaps too much blood and sweat went into these feats, but then, that is part of the human race is it not, to be and seek challenges. So here we go:


1—The Panama Canal: The Panama Canal, one of the world’s most impressive achievements, with three locks, and a long canal 51-miles long is perhaps the Greatest Engineering Feat of Man kind. I visited the site three times, in 2006.
The city of Panama, an old city dates back to 1673 AD (and some structures to 1519 AD: I’ve seen them all, impressive); it was once burned down (the old city), I walked among its ruins, which is a UNESCO site now; or World Heritage Site.
What is the Panama Canal? It is a 51-mile waterway, linking the Atlantic with the Pacific oceans. That is it, in a nutshell. I saw large and small ships going through the canal. In the 1880s, France tried to build this waterway, fighting yellow fever and malaria, killing 22,000-people. There was a canal treaty in 1903, and in 1904 the Americans took over the building, and accomplished it in 1914 (it only took ten years to build). They purchased the rights for $40-million dollars from France, who had started the project but could not complete it, at which had $375-million dollars invested into the project; and then the USA invested $300-million. Mountains had to be split in two, creating a crack between them, and manmade lakes created. I saw pictures of the ongoing construction, it was breathtaking, the task.


2—The Great Wall of China: I walked on the Great Wall of China, in 1996, it was a haunting experience. Built between 250 BC and 1450 AD, it expands over mountain rangers and across unforeseeable terrain it is spellbinding to walk up and down its wall, knowing it kept the nomad tribes, or better put, the so called barbarians out (or was suppose to). It stretches two-thousand miles across China, and can be seen from outer space. An ancient engineering feet only surpassed (I believe) 500-years later when the Panama Canal was created. You could put six of the pyramids of Egypt into the construction of the Canal, and have leftover debris.

3—The Central Railroad of Peru (completed in 1907): The Central Railroad of Peru the most distinguished in the world (historically); an engineering feat of land and steal where it reached to heights of fifteen-thousand eight hundred and thirty feet (above sea level) to the city of Ticlio, then down to Bone City (La Oroya) and onto Huancavelica: One thousand miles of rail through mountains, across 41-bridges, around 13-zigzags, through 60-tunnels. It goes alongside the Mantaro Rio, in the Mantaro Valley of Peru (as you can see there were many technical engineering difficulties involved in its making). I have not been on this railroad, but I’ve seen the bridges, and the tunnels they carved and built for this accomplished, while traveling throughout the Andes of Peru, and the Mantaro Valley itself, and been to the Rio.


4—The Pan-American Highway: While in South America, I’ve been on this highway a dozen times, but while in Bogota, Columbia, I found it was a little different in that those folks who died on the highway, their loved ones planted trees for them, and you see these trees all about. What a kind gesture.
This was no little project, 29,800 miles of highway (the whole system); from beyond Fairbanks, Alaska to Ushuaia, Argentina in South America (with a 54-mile gap in the rainforest). It is the Americas supper highway, it is really too big, and too complex to put into a small paragraph like this, but let me say, it is a tourist haven; perhaps the best way to travel in the Americas besides the jet.


5—The Plateau of Giza: and its Pyramids and Sphinx (Egypt): When I was in Egypt, I took a tour of the Plateau, and of course the three pyramids, and went into the pyramid of Khafra, with its tunnels, and sections, and all. And got a front row tour of the Sphinx, which only a few people get, and very few, it has to be at midnight to get that special tour, and costly (perhaps as much as the trip to Egypt itself), but you get what you pay for, to touch it, and perhaps a little more). The Great Sphinx is north side of the court, in front are temples, ruins. When you see this combination, and all its linking connections, throughout the Plateau, and the connections with the heavens, astronomical associations, it is a gallery of Engineering on a grand scale.


6—The Siberian Railroad: I’ve only been on what one may call, a small section of it (Perhaps the European Section), for it goes from England to Brussels, Belgium, to Cologne, Germany, and on to Moscow, Russia, and then on to capitol of Mongolia (Ulan Bater), and to Beijing, China. Not sure who gets the credit for building it, perhaps those countries I just mentioned, it is, if anything, a United Nations Achievement, in that it crosses the boarder of so many countries. But the miles involved, for such a trip I just mentioned would take six-days on the train that in itself is an Engineering feat unsurpassed in a railroad.


7—The Alaskan Pipeline: On my way to Barrow, Alaska and during a flight while in Barrow, across its tundra, I saw pipeline, it is massive, and like a long unending snake. It bewilders me how one might have to go out and fix a link, oh well, the week in Barrow, in 1996, was a long week to say the least, and you see nothing in the Arctic but white, no trees, no anything, except, white bears, white this and that, and the pipeline, which looks white after a while also but is perhaps more silver looking. Back in 1968-‘69, when I went to San Francisco, many folks were heading up there to work on oil projects, anticipating the pipeline, as if it was a gold rush. I remember quite well, Dan, a friend of mine, back then; his stepbrother’s father was heading up there, to work in oilfields.
The 800-mile-long Trans Alaska Pipeline, it started up in 1977, and pumped, successfully transporting over 15-billion barrels of oil since. It crosses three mountain ranges and over 800 rivers and streams; it cost $8-billion to build, and was mostly from privately funds. It took three-years, and two months to build between 1974-1977, I assume the planning stages were complicated, for they had to build seven airfields to accommodate the construction.


8—Borobudur (the Magnificence): A master piece of art, and engineering (assembly): temple, or shrine to Buddha, with 504 Buddha’s statues in sitting or standing positions around the shrine. It is wider than the Great Pyramid of Egypt, built on a mound. I went there in 1999, summer and it encircled me, until I got to its peak, Built in the 8th Century, AD. It has two-million blocks of volcanic rock, to the total building structure, the area is 14,165 square meters, with a width of 120 M. With a total weight of 3,500,000 tones. Only about 5000 visitors go there a year it is not one of your regular stops, to say the least, You have to fly into Yogyakarta, central, Java, to get there (from the Midwest, you go to Alaska to Japan, to Guam, to Bali, and a small plane can take you into the city. On the top of the shrine, is a giant Stupa; there is also a calm, about, and around the whole area.

2-23-2007

Egypt, the world’s Internet umber one Nose puller

Egypt, the world’s Internet umber one Nose puller

I have been in Egypt, and I am not surprised with their on going fear and pressure they try to put on their citizens. We are dealing with the Middle East, where they have been for as long as I’ve been around pulling their citizens by the nose, and telling them when to, and what to do. They are used to that. I’m surprised the young blogger is still alive (Abdel Karim Suleiman, a 22-year-old who went against the system on the internet). He wrote about Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, eight articles, and now has to go to jail, do time. I’m not surprised either, that the USA is not stomping their feet, if it was Cuba, they would. But many sites are afraid, even Enzinearticles, who I usually write for fears the backlash of the Arab whip. That is a lot of control.
Bloggers are going to be watched now perhaps and the freedom we had will be gone…or at least in the Middle East. Amnesty International and the United Nations might get involved, and should, although I don’t care for the groups, perhaps they might be of some influence for once in their life. Their past jobs have been bogus in most cases, or simply worthless. The motive behind this of course, is to tighten up the free space in-between. Better put, keep your mouth shut, out of sound out of mind, or out of sight out of mind, or out of print, out of mind.
The Egyptians want their rights and freedoms when they go to the Western World, but even when you are tourist their, you get roughed around; the people are much like the government, controlling, so I can’t blame the government for trying. But Good luck Abdel Karim Suleiman.

Terror to Come to Europe

Western Europe thought they could buy their way out of Terror:

…think again, they are learning a hard lesson, what America learned in 2001, you don’t appease them, and you eliminate them. If need be you fight terror with terror, or as the old saying goes, to beat the bully, you get a bigger bully. Israel has known this for a long, long time. They don’t play around with the Arabs, or Islamic yoyos, they break them apart, even if the UN cries and stomps their feet (saying unfair) to stop hurting the mass murders such as Hamas, the PLO, and all of the secret Iranian groups in Iraq, and Syria, and the Lebanon missionaries. Europe will still have to learn the hard way, Paris and Madrid, and Germany and a few other hot spots for the Islamic Jihad, who know they will get a fair deal when they war with that part of the west. The reason they hate America, is America stands erect, and they can’t stand that, they want the west, Europe and America to bow, and Europe has. In Madrid they want to put the seven killers in jail for 38-years. Now figure it out, how much money is that going to cost the Government. If it was in the US, that cost would be: $45,000 per person, per year, so that is 45,000 x 38-years, $1, 710, 000 per individual, x 7 individuals=$11,270,000, tax dollars. Now I like the way the old Romans used to do it. If they could not use you for labor, you went to the butcher shop, they were not going to have their society feed and cloth and shelter, anyone they could not get some use out of; why use up resources on a dead horse. No society should be burdened with such a task, as to feed your enemy who is going to do nothing but get fat in his or her cell.
But back to the premise of this letter, Europe is not free from the scorn of the Arab world. They cannot find or buy their way out, as they thought they could. Iraq has a good policy, get rid of the trash. I think all these Human Right groups play a big part in this, fighting for the rights of the criminal, and now the EU and UN, seem to have gotten some kind of devil policy like that also, to save the terrorist so they can kill another day (this is called, rights without responsibility). How they got that into their system is beyond me, but it tells me something, I am glad I’m not there, but here. If the US was under the World Court, I would fear for l my life; I might just as well become a Muslim, or take my life, because there goes my freedoms and rights all in one trash bag. The laws in Europe are simply a Christmas gift to the terrorist.

The Bug-eyed Monkey Man: Darwin, and the Kansas Debate on Evolution

Saint Darwin, the Monkey Man, and Kansas´ Debate on Evolution

When I was a kid, and that was long ago, life was simple, there was no fighting in educational establishments over how man was created. Now we go on forever trying to prove one mans concept, or should I say, faith, or belief, since it has not been proven, which is none other than Saint Darwin, and his ever lasting theory of Evolution, why everyone is stuck on, which is beyond me. Kansas seems to be leading the fight for God or a Higher Power, being responsible for life (or was, and is no more). Whereas, the well educated folk can’t seem to adjust to such a simple faith called God Almighty, and select, the extreme, the bug-eyed monkey to be our long lost link, or God.
How did this all start? I mean, life was simple when I was young, the zoo had the monkey, and we got to visit him looking through bars, now we teach our children we got to accept them as our long lost ancestors. I think it is easier to believe in the faith called, a Higher Power created us, rather than coming from a lower power the monkey who can’t tell us a thing but make funny faces at us all day.
I’m no scientist, and I know I think in simple terms, but just because it says so in the book, or in the eyes of a few educated people, don’t make it right.
When I was in the hospital dying several years ago, and the doctors said to my mother: he’s going to be a Fruitcake when he wakes up (no brain left is what he meant), I had a stroke, a bad one, and heart surgery, I was not suppose to have survived and the doctors could not do a think about it. In three days I healed, and the doctors were in shock. I suppose the Lower Monkey God did that, Saint Darwin sent him I expect.
Call it what you will, but it is wrong thinking…you can’t coddle a monkey god, and Darwin was no more of an authority on such matters than a bird watcher; if he did anything, he did create a fantastic fantasy movie, in the form of a book (like Jack London’s “Before Adam,” which I enjoyed reading, as I have enjoyed reading, “Charles Darwin's 1859 book "The Origin of Species" but I’m grown up now, and I got to put kids stuff away, the fantasy collection, is what I’m speaking of, it is good stuff for my grandchildren, but to have a whole nation believe in one mans delusions is insane, but he got peoples attention, did he not. The best thing I can say about the man was he was ahead of his time, like Victor Hugo’s, “The Time Machine” by H.G. Wells; and like Hitler once said: it is easier to fool the masses, than the few, how right he was. From what my research shows, Darwin just before he died, said: "I really didn't believe so many people would believe me." Fools believe foolish things.

Ramadan (Hang him Quick and Hang Him High))Baghdad Commentary, 2-13-2007))

Ramadan (Hang him Quick and Hang Him High)) Baghdad Commentary, 2-13-2007))

I’m not sure why, how and when the UN came up with a policy to not kill, killers, or to save killers, or to preserve them for posterity in prison cells, but it is a bad policy. And so thinks the Iraqi government, or legal process:“Iraq's High Tribunal has sentenced Saddam Hussein's former vice-president Taha Yassin Ramadan to be hanged. He was tried alongside the former Iraqi leader over the killing of 148 Shias in the village of Dujail in the 1980s.” Now anyone in their right mind knows this high ranking devil of Iraq had his hands bloodier than simply killing only 148 Shias, which is a lot in itself, perhaps he should take credit for the mass murders across Iraq during his whole term in office. In any case, I think the UN, as I have often said, is the devils playground for world disorder. America seems to need it for a platform to speak I guess, but at such a price. The Iraq judge paid little attention, as has Israel, and the US and Russia, and China to the UN, when it comes to self interests, and perhaps with good reason, it is the devils backyard, as I repeat myself. So good for the judging and sentencing and the good men of Iraq, who do not want to pay taxes to feed fat killers like Ramadan. Good work boys. You saved the nation a headache. Plus I’m sure if you would have let him live he would have boasted between his cell mates, how brave he was in killing this person and that person, and so forth and so on (or having them killed). He was indeed, a deadly cockroach.
Now if only we could get the rest of the world behind this policy we’d get rid of a lot of trash, save money, and give a good message to the world’s future legal assassins.

Mugabe: King of the Wild Kingdom

Too Many Kings in the World
(Dedicated to: King Mugabe)

King Robert Mugabe has more expressions in his face and arms than a dog has wiggling his tail. The old coot, I kind of like, if only he could stop acting like Castro, and settle down, and take off that overly proud look of his. He is king, and will remain so until he dies, and like Castro, many a folk are waiting to celebrate that day (I am not, simply because he cannot rule me, if he could, I WOULD probably celebrate with those poor folks also), but why can’t he have a little mercy for his own race, the Zimbabweans, hard to figure out the old man. Unfortunately, when we get old we forget those suffering around us, Castro has, the North Korean leader has, and so many other leaders have, so to condemn him, we must condemn many others, and some would prefer to name President Bush, who is bankrupting America, among that group. No, Mugabe is not alone in this world of shameless robbery of his own kind, his own people, he has company galore. We could even go to Saudi Arabia, or Iran, or Jordan even to Cambodia for kingship, or Yangon (old, Rangoon), to name a few shameless countries that could keep Mugabe company.
Mugabe’s birthday is coming up, and I’d like to attend it, but I don’t have the time, he will be 83-years old. He’s now ruled Zimbabwe for some 27-years; he must have gotten his leadership criteria from Castro (he has survived everything)—Castro being his old friend of course. How long will he last, I’m sure a few more years, and then hand his kingship to one of his loyal followers, and a new regime will be born, unless… the country rises up and a revolt starts, or everyone leaves the country and there will only be animals to rule over, sad to say, but true, more pain is in store for that country whom ever decides to stay, animal or human, but the old saying is very true: you deserve the king you allow to rule you, and his government. So why complain.

America's Milk and Honey goes to North Korea

North Korea Black Mails the West

Call it what you want, but at the end of the tunnel, it is pure blackmail, and no true American can be proud of such a fate. Yes, I say fate, because what comes out of blackmail is more blackmail. The US government condemns its citizens for such criminal activity, and disregards it internationally, and who picks up the tab? Every American Tax payer is going to be blackmailed, legally, and internationally. So you say: what else can we do? There are solutions to the problem. Perhaps Japan and Twain need to let China know, if North Korea has nukes, they will have them also. North Korea will simply be 100-yards away from making the necessary warheads when needed, for they’ve already proven they’ve got the rudiments of the bomb—they’ve shot one over the Japanese Sea. They can stop and start at will. I am ashamed of our Government today for allowing this blackmail to go on. If South Korea and Japan want to appease North Korea, so be it, with their tax money, but for me, I don’t like it. Our freedom is being taken away by the terrorist country, legally, North Korea. They are robbing us and laughing all the way to the bank, and making us pave their roads with lilacs, for nothing. Iran will do the same, and so will every country in the world—if blackmail works, we will have every beggar in the world at our doorsteps. Just work on getting the bomb, and you got a blank check from the US Treasury, with the blessings of the American President, that is suppose to be protecting our economy, not giving it away.

How is the President going to pay, or reward North Korea? I mean, where is the money coming from? America is almost broke, I would it is going to come from the Medical Services he wants to cut out of the budget, for the poor Americans, along with other Social Services. He has gone too far with his righteous roughhouse Christian Flag.

Iran Still Wants to Nuke Israel (11 Feb., 2007)

Iran Still Wants to Nuke Israel (11 Feb., 2007)

Where there is smoke, assume there is fire, or get burnt when it reaches you. The president of Iran said several times it wants to crush Israel, and it sent a missile over the Persian Gulf, over head of an American Ship recently, now that they got the attention of the UN, EU, China and Russia, and Israel, their spokesman said, it is for a peaceful mission, for fuel, when they got a horde of oil in their backyard. Now I’m no nuclear scientist, but I smell, see smoke, it’s is coming from over the horizon; if it isn’t Iran, than whom? Could it be, they got a few American ships in the Gulf now on ready alert, or perhaps because the UN has put a few sanctions on them, withdrew a few care packages? Not sure what it is, but the President of Iran is not boasting what he intends to do with Israel these past weeks, but I’m sure it is not a belated Christmas greeting in store. I would prefer negotiated settlement with Iran on this issue, but something tells me we will get a little less than what we want. I doubt they will dismantle anything, perhaps stop what they are doing to appease us for a month or year, and start back up again. So what is the solution? Go in there and take them out, down, or blow them up. Do they have a right to have them? So they think so. Does a crazy man have a right to have a 38-gun in the middle of a panic attack?

I Eat what I want…and feed a few folks in-between (dedicated to Teun van de Keuken)

I Eat what I want…and feed a few folks in-between (dedicated to Teun van de Keuken)

I was reading an article today called: “Dutchman: Jail me, I ate slave-made Ivory Coast chocolate” the article goes on to say “-- A Dutch journalist asked an Amsterdam court on Friday to convict him for eating chocolate, saying by doing so he was benefiting from child slavery on cocoa farms in Ivory Coast.”
Now here is my point, I’m an American that lives in Lima, Peru and St. Paul, Minnesota. If you ever go down to Miraflores, in Lima, any day, any time of the day, of the year, you will see children selling candy (this is also happen in the downtown area in Huancayo, Peru). This is normal, and yet I do not hear anyone hollering about that. If you ask the kids why they do this, they will say: “We have no mother and father, and live with other relatives, if we want cloths and food, this is what we have to do.” How old are the kids…between six and perhaps twelve. After that age, I’m not sure what happens to the girls, but the boys become shoeshine boys. Maybe Teun van de Keuken, who is causing all this yuck in the Ivory Coast, should take a trip to Lima. If you stop buying from the kids, as Teun suggest, who is going to pick up the tab for feeding them. You see we all have our moral request, without any long term solutions. Maybe he wants to feed them, care for them. They don’t want to do what they got to do, they just got to do it, to survive. What little they have is in the hands of the few folks that are willing to care for them, that make but a few dollars themselves a day. Take that ugly loving parent away, and they got an even uglier life ahead of them. It is easy for many folks coming to Peru to say: you should do this, and look at that…etc., and go home and sit on their fat…you know what, and thank God they don’t have to return.

The only thing worse than being poor, is starving to death.

Iran's Junkyard: Tehran

Iran’s Junkyard: TEHRAN


“Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed Thursday the Islamic republic would hit back at U.S. interests worldwide if attacked.”
That is what is coming out of Iran. The point is, what they say is what they are already doing, not going to do, so who cares if we start a war with Iran, not me. The sooner the better, if indeed they will have the nuke, which Israel believes, and the US knows, and the rest of the world suspects, will have it soon. They kill at will in Iraq, and don’t expect a backfire, and now they are worried. I suggest they get out of the terrorism business, and then talk about right and wrong. It is a two way street in the new world order, not a one way path in the sands. The war will come sooner or later, it is better to have it sooner, simply because, they will later have Russia and China on their side, now they still may have them, but they cannot do anything without drowning with the Ironies, so I suspect it is better now. Sink their boat before they shoot the nuke, I say. They even talk about destroying our war ship in the gulf, before they’ve even thought this through, and they have now the missile to do it (we gave them time to build it, and as I’ve said all along, what they have is what they will surely use, sooner than later). If we are going to do business in the gulf area, then we best, make it safe now, or get out. Perhaps if we make Iran a junkyard (or at least, Tehran), like they’ve done to Iraq (and: Baghdad), possibly we will have another decade of peace in the Middle East.

Frankie Laine: Mostlly forgotten, down here on Earth

Frankie Laine: Mostly forgotten, down here on Earth

Frankie Laine, let’s hope they remember him up yonder, because only a hand full of folks remember him down here, perhaps hard core Frankie Laine groupies (from the 40s and 50s). Every time I hear of a movie star, or General, or record recording singer or writer dying, the media of course picks up on it as they should, and the ones that love him tell the world, what they think, and they think he will live on forever in the eyes of the world. Not sure where they got that idea but that is not even reality.
“He (Frankie Lain) will forever be remembered,” someone said (he died at 93—today, Tuesday). I asked my wife who is 12-years younger than I, if she ever remembered Frankie (I can call him Frankie because I remember him, I’m 59-years old, and he was going out when Elvis was coming in, and that was long ago). Anyhow, my wife said, “No, who was he?”
My mother, who now has passed on, some three years ago (at age 83), would have remembered him quite well I suppose, not sure if she enjoyed his music (not everyone enjoys every singer out there, and there are a lot out of them out there), but perhaps, Americans (I didn’t care for his music all that much to be honest), anyhow, old Americans will remember him, and I’m an American. He was just before the hamburger culture and rock and roll culture came into the spot light. Of course Frankie, was not a rock and roll person, he was perhaps a little rhythm and blues, with a touch of Nat King Cole, if I remember right, a few spicy songs to boot.
“No,” I’m afraid not, he will be lost in the shuffle of some aging encyclopedia, (American most likely) historical pages, with a little burp (a few lines perhaps, maybe), that says something like this: ‘He was a person from 40s and 50s who was a popular singer in the United States; and then, like most singers 99.9% of t hem, faded out.’ But of course, the main thing is, let’s all hope he anyway, he will be remembered up yonder, where it counts, where I hope I will be remembered myself. But let’s say he had his day, under the sun: Frankie Laine. Here is a poem (Haiku) for him:

Haiku for: Frankie Laine?

Who was Frankie Laine?
Let us simply say, he had his day
Under the sun…!

#1684 2-7-2007

Iran, Crybaby (Diplomat Kidnapped)

Iran, Crybaby (Diplomat Kidnapped)


I think Iran got a taste of their own medicine, and they don’t like it. They think they can kill Americans and Iraqis at free will, disrupt Israel through Syria and Lebanon, send military snipers over to Iraqi, and be immune to terrorism itself, when it is part of the lot. It’s about time they get payback. Iranian President said the abductors “…acted under U.S. supervision." I say, all the better, they got my support. If I hear right, it is a crybaby, I hear over there, but it is all an act. You get what you plant, if it is bad seeds, you get black roses. If I had the power, and I don’t, we’d have been doing this long ago, the day we found out Iran is poking their nose into Iraqi, we should have been poking our noses the same way into Iran. Perhaps, Iraqi is tired of Iran meddling into their affairs, and Washington, is just looking the other way and saying: do what you want, we can’t tell them a thing, and they won’t listen, so perhaps this will get their attention (kidnapping is not a good thing, don’t get we wrong, it is just a normal thing over there, and Iran has thus far been immune to it). In my old neighborhood, on Cayuga Street, in St. Paul, Minnesota, it is called: fighting back the same way. The diplomat was in Baghdad, where everyone is killing everyone else, perhaps he should know he is in a war zone, and that means war.
I think I will celebrate this evening, and toast the Iraqi folks for once are fighting back at the folks fighting them, instead of fighting Americans whom are trying to help them; thus, taking a little step forward in this terrorist war, that Iran has been sending over to the Iraqi people now. I think the only thing that has slowed down the retreat of the Iran military forces infiltrating Iraqi lands is the Americans under order to maintain peace. Arabs know how to fight Arabs, throw the rules in the gutter, and fight. Americans have too many rules that is why we are losing the peace, why we lost Vietnam, and why we are bogged down in the first place.

Mikhail Gorbachev: Happy Birthday (2007)

Mikhail Gorbachev: Happy Birthday (2007)

There are not a whole lot of heroes nowadays worth their salt; it seems the young folks want movie stars and sport players, whom maybe good at what they do, but do very little to contribute to a better world, or so I feel anyhow. Of the many men that have played a role in peace keeping, and making a difference in the world, few can match Mikhail Gorbachev. Perhaps the most worthy Russian President ever, he was the last Soviet Union president, since it perished in January of 1992. But it was he who brought the Iron Curtain down, broke the back of the Cold War. We can claim Ronald Reagan had something to do with that, but very little, he just asked the man across the Berlin wall, to tare it down. And willingly, he did but America tried for 40-years unsuccessfully.
Mikhail Gorbachev was man of the year in 1988 (‘Time,’ magazine), and well deserved at that. And he took note in the uprising for democracy in the Lithuanian part of Russia, where my Grandfather came from; and the universities their voice.
Yes, I came from Russian stock, and am proud to say Russia had a great man in my time, thank God.
He came to Minnesota once, St. Paul (where I live part time, between there and Lima, Peru), I wanted to meet him, and sorry I couldn’t. He went to Summit Ave, an area in St. Paul, and I was waiting for him down by the Capitol, and wished I was on Summit Avenue to greet him, he was shaking everyone’s hand, and so forth and so on. Then he came with his long black vehicle, to the Capitol area. His wife was on the left side of the car I remember, and I on that side of the street, thus, she rolled the window down, and I waved, but so did a 1000-other folks, and I got a glimpse, profile of her, and not her husband (but that was even a privilege, for a good woman, molds an already good man). Oh well, what can you say, I tried.
But in all fairness, it was worth my efforts, for the once Soviet President, born in 1931, who brought down the old Communist Party; so happy birthday, Mikhail; it will be March 3 soon, if I’m correct with my data, and you deserve a nice birthday card: this one.

Global Climate Change: we need Psycological Scientists

On Global Change: We Need Psycological Scientistgs

I just can’t take it anymore, dump, silly, if not foolish, statements, by the so called high paid scientists giving us old news, when it is psychological drama that is needed. We got the official report from IPCC (the International folks), and Green Peace and a few others saying:

“Global climate change is "very likely" to have a human cause, an influential group of scientists has concluded.”

I’m not sure how long and how much this report cost, but I could have told you 20-years ago this every something free, I mean it is something we all, already knew. They (the scientists) even go back to 1750, to document their findings. Again I say, 20-years I heard this, and for twenty-years, it has been in Newspapers, on TV, in Magazines, on the Radio, but now this week, it’s an official report from IPCC, thus, written in stone. My gosh how lucky can we be to get this report))they even add the future temperatures will rise; this might be good for a lot of house holds in the far northern part of the world). No one cared about it 20-years ago, and not many do today.
It reminds me of smoking. I’m 59-years old. I smoked for 22 of them, and have stopped for 22-of them; I started smoking when I was 15-years old, everyone back then (1962) was talking about how bad cigarette smoking was. Then down the road of life, they made folks put “Danger” signs on the packs of cigarettes, as if we didn’t know it was bad for our health; of course we all knew, but like food, we liked to smoke. Then the National, and official stamp was put onto the packages, upgrading its concern, saying, “For sure we know…it is bad for your health (something like that).” But that didn’t stop me, nor many of my friends. What did was, it cost too much, and I wanted to travel, I had better things to do with my money. Thus, one must find something better to replace the something we must grieve, and let go of, if indeed we wish to let go of it; sometimes it is better to hang onto a bad habit, such as smoking, than to suffer its consequences (and there can be some). Yes, I said grieve, that is what we got to do with cigarettes, just like drinking, or gambling, or any bad habit; even moving from a house or apartment we’ve had a long relationship with needs to be grieved.
And so, if we want to stop the modern world from contaminating the atmosphere, we will have to come up with something better to occupy us with, and not so called, Environment Programmers, or Green Peace folks, telling us what we already know.

To change a persons actions, attitudes, you first must change his formal reasoning…scientist or not, this is human nature speaking.