Mark's Views, Perhaps — from behind my eyeballs
I’ve been using that word for years to refer to bureaucrats.
I thought my friend StevenH made it up way back when.
So I thought to post a question today: “Who make better burrocrats, elephants or donkeys?”
But in doing a Web search, I find quite a few hits for burrocrat.
Oh well.
| Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has warned Western leaders to follow the path of God or “vanish from the face of the earth”.
“These oppressive countries are angry with us … a nation that on the other side of the globe has risen up and proved the shallowness of their power,” Ahmadinejad said in a speech in the northern town of Ramsar, the semi-official news agency Mehr reported Wednesday. “They are angry with our nation. But we tell them ‘so be it and die from this anger’. Rest assured that if you do not respond to the divine call, you will die soon and vanish from the face of the earth,” he said. |
Somehow I’m not seeing much flexibility in his negotiating stance.
How will you dialogue with him, oh ye Western leaders and members of the Iraq Study Group?
Not with Baker’s anti-Israel track record.
When I first learned he was on the ISG, I figured it was bad news.
Oh well.
There’s surely some lemonade to be made.
🙂
| Question: What’s the most dangerous geopolitical development in the 21st century? Answer: Iran’s emergence as the Middle East regional superpower. Why? Because it places the center of the world’s increasingly stretched energy resources more and more under the influence of an oil-rich, fundamentalist, pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic regime that has not only nuclear ambitions but the means to realize them. |
The next question is….
Has the current culture (or previous culture) produced anyone in this generation that will rise to the need of the hour?
I suspect not.
Perhaps not till antiChrist rises.
Just curious.
We live in exciting times.
And perilous ones.
Beware.
Recent aggression against evangelicals in Ethiopia concerns mission agency
Annan: Average Iraqi’s life is worse now
Mexico’s new president cuts own salary
Kofi Annan Says UN Lacks the ‘Will’ to Confront Darfur Situation
Episcopal Churches May Split From U.S. Body
Cows power plan for alternative fuel
Clinton Holds Up Cambodia’s AIDS Effort as Model
Lebanese army increases forces in tense Beirut
US losses mount ahead of Bush talks with Iraq Shiite leader
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wins re-election by wide margin
France sees possible deal on Iran resolution
Philippines fears 1,000 killed in typhoon’s wrath
Congress prepares to wrap up unproductive year
Women face emotional wounds of war
Congress expected to pass immigration/citizenship bill
No, I didn’t read any of those stories.
This fall I flew on 14 USAirways flights.
As I learn more about the imams incident, I am more grateful for how USAirways handled matters.
| Contrary to press accounts that a single note from a passenger triggered the imams’ removal, Captain John Howard Wood was weighing multiple factors. |
and
| So the captain made his decision to delay the flight based on many complaints, not one. He also consulted a federal air marshal, a U.S. Airways ground-security coordinator and the airline’s security office in Phoenix. All thought the imams were acting suspiciously, Rader told me. |
and
| “I think it was either a foiled attempt to take over the plane or it was a publicity stunt to accuse us of being insensitive,” Pauline told me. “It had to be to intimidate U.S. Airways to ease up on security.”
So far, U.S. Airways refuses to be intimidated, even though the feds have launched an investigation. “We are absolutely backing this crew,” Rader said. |
mph
Cellphone photo taken while driving west on Hwy 211 between Molalla and Woodburn (Oregon). I was hoping for better results. Ah well.