http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/09/us/politics/09etiquette.html?_r=1&ref=politics&oref=slogin
So far, the McCain-Palin hugs have been brief and a little stiff, in part because Mr. McCain cannot raise his arms up high because of injuries sustained as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. But Ms. Palin, too, appears to keep a distance
--That's harsh, but so funny.
Tuesday, September 09, 2008
Saturday, September 06, 2008
Rice meets Gadhafi on historic visit to Libya - Yahoo! News
Rice meets Gadhafi on historic visit to Libya - Yahoo! News
Libya has changed, American has changed, the world has changed," Foreign Minister Abdel-Rahman Shalgam said following a meeting with Rice. "Forget the past."
They then exchanged pleasantries, with Rice offering Gadhafi greetings from President Bush and Gadhafi asking about the hurricanes that have hit or are headed to the U.S. mainland, before dozens of reporters, photographers and television cameramen were ushered out.
Their small talk belied almost 30 years of dismal U.S.-Libyan relations that hit their low point in the 1980s when Reagan ordered the retaliatory airstrike and Gadhafi swore revenge.
Gadhafi is known for often unpredictable behavior and has cultivated images as both an Arab potentate and African monarch since taking power in a 1969 coup. In a televised address to the nation this week he said he considers the United States neither a friend nor an enemy.
In an interview with Al-Jazeera television last year, Gadhafi spoke of Rice in most unusual terms, calling her "Leezza" and suggesting that she actually runs the Arab world with which he has had severe differences in the past.
"I support my darling black African woman," he said. "I admire and am very proud of the way she leans back and gives orders to the Arab leaders. ... Leezza, Leezza, Leezza. ... I love her very much. I admire her, and I'm proud of her, because she's a black woman of African origin."
Rice is the first secretary of state to visit Libya since John Foster Dulles in 1953 and the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit since then-Vice President Richard Nixon in 1957.
Libya has changed, American has changed, the world has changed," Foreign Minister Abdel-Rahman Shalgam said following a meeting with Rice. "Forget the past."
They then exchanged pleasantries, with Rice offering Gadhafi greetings from President Bush and Gadhafi asking about the hurricanes that have hit or are headed to the U.S. mainland, before dozens of reporters, photographers and television cameramen were ushered out.
Their small talk belied almost 30 years of dismal U.S.-Libyan relations that hit their low point in the 1980s when Reagan ordered the retaliatory airstrike and Gadhafi swore revenge.
Gadhafi is known for often unpredictable behavior and has cultivated images as both an Arab potentate and African monarch since taking power in a 1969 coup. In a televised address to the nation this week he said he considers the United States neither a friend nor an enemy.
In an interview with Al-Jazeera television last year, Gadhafi spoke of Rice in most unusual terms, calling her "Leezza" and suggesting that she actually runs the Arab world with which he has had severe differences in the past.
"I support my darling black African woman," he said. "I admire and am very proud of the way she leans back and gives orders to the Arab leaders. ... Leezza, Leezza, Leezza. ... I love her very much. I admire her, and I'm proud of her, because she's a black woman of African origin."
Rice is the first secretary of state to visit Libya since John Foster Dulles in 1953 and the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit since then-Vice President Richard Nixon in 1957.
Monday, February 12, 2007
Wednesday, September 08, 2004
Tuesday, September 07, 2004
Friday, July 09, 2004
Bureaucrash -
Bureaucrash - Dispatches Absolutely disgusting right wing propganda, Pro-corporate sludge masking as a quasi-libertarian activist group. Gross.
Tuesday, June 15, 2004
Wednesday, May 12, 2004
from proletarian internationalism to populist russocentrism -- an interesting history paper about the shift in ideology in 1930's Russia.
Click Here for the Article
This is where I'll go in the future for any questions concerning nationalism.
This is where I'll go in the future for any questions concerning nationalism.
Friday, April 16, 2004
New Liteterature
Click Here for the Novel
This is a free novel, told in the hypermod. email epistolary form. Supposedly the special software interface is much better than just publishing e-mails in book form, like the very funny novel I read, called "e." It's great to see writing follow the short attentioneers. Before reading it, I judge it experimental, and annoyingly so.
This is a free novel, told in the hypermod. email epistolary form. Supposedly the special software interface is much better than just publishing e-mails in book form, like the very funny novel I read, called "e." It's great to see writing follow the short attentioneers. Before reading it, I judge it experimental, and annoyingly so.
Friday, April 09, 2004
Sociolotron - The Next Level in Role-Playing Games
I'm now a gamer, too. Look, same week as a blog. It's so easy, even a monkey can do it. Sociolotron - The Next Level in Role-Playing Games
Tiger Woods vs. painter Rick Rush
When the two clashed, according to NYT, thanks to: [rumori] Tiger Woods vs. painter Rick Rush
And more,
News on same, from www.artworldnews.com
I might have a different view.
And more,
News on same, from www.artworldnews.com
I might have a different view.
Crazy Religious Science Fair.
Creationist Science
Read the study summaries. This could not possibly be fake, (or brilliantly so), because such rediculous awefulness could only be real. Like religious war, or the Iraq invasion.
Read the study summaries. This could not possibly be fake, (or brilliantly so), because such rediculous awefulness could only be real. Like religious war, or the Iraq invasion.
Tiger Woods Autographed "2001 Masters": Golf Links to the Past
Buy this or not, but at least note where secondary benefits of fame are straight cash cows. Tiger Woods Autographed "2001 Masters": Golf Links to the Past
Tuesday, April 06, 2004
The Badger Herald Online - Students speak out about Seiler case
Ahh, Madison, WI. Our alma mater always good for a crazy story. Sometimes it even goes national. Beautiful in summer.
Ahh, Madison, WI. Our alma mater always good for a crazy story. Sometimes it even goes national. Beautiful in summer.
Monday, April 05, 2004
What Is the Price of Experience? William Blake and the Economics of Illuminated Painting
This is some detailed research, like the title suggests. Might come in handy.
This is some detailed research, like the title suggests. Might come in handy.
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