Apparently I missed out on a lot of news since last night. We were still catching up on the Royal Wedding details which Amanda recorded and never even heard the big news until today about Bin Laden. I would be remiss without inclusion of such a big event on this blog and will include 3 links for your own perusal. Firstly, quotes from sundry world leaders about the event. I find these meaningful and they help depict many countries' formal positions on the event. Second is a day in pictures of the celebrations and events marking Bin Laden's death. These pictures aren't as poignant as such a big event should dictate, but I think they still capture the feeling of the moment. Lastly is the BBC live feed. Unlike CNN it isn't duplicative in its entirety, instead trying to have many different people on the interviews, including those people who were close to Osama Bin Laden himself.
And then three of my own thoughts from this. It is good that such an abomination to world peace, human rights and mutual understanding has been removed from a position of power. I think this event spans far beyond just an American event even though the US has certainly been the focus of attention. It is also ironic that the CIA misinformation got us into a lot of this mess about a decade ago, and that the CIA got this result too. Also ironic is the fact that Obama got this "result" just as everyone was really starting to put the heat on him and his many flawed campaign processes. Now time will tell how this impacts world events, but hopefully this has weakened the influence of global terrorism.
There are some really big, defining moments in history and this day in my life as a citizen of the US stands alongside other such days as watching the Bosnia conflict on TV, hearing about 9/11 from my sister, hearing about our second invasion of Iraq and the later the discovery of Hussein when in church on Sunday, and then this on the radio this morning. I heard it, and didn't believe it and still now am having trouble grasping the vastness of the announcement. But it doesn't really change anything in my own world until we actually make progress towards fixing the problems that Bin Laden represented.
Showing posts with label Pakistan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pakistan. Show all posts
02 May 2011
22 October 2010
Randoms
To entertain you on the randomness of my mind, I'll take you through these as I read them this morning. I'm trying to lift my brain out of the dump after I ran out of time on another biochem quiz.
My igoogle today thought it was top priority to tell me about a nuclear submarine running aground in Scotland. Oddly enough, the HMS Astute's crew didn't seem to realize they were in shallow water. If you scroll down to the first video you can listen to some entertaining Scottish accent as the guy describes what "ee's seein' outsigh 'is 'ouse".
I figured I'd be putting together a blog this morning so I signed in and scrolled my Dashboard. Unfortunately nobody else seemed determined to waste their time last night so I was short on blogs to read and switched to recommended blogs of the day. That's when I stumbled upon this delicious looking apple cake recipe. I don't even like cake but this looks like the texture won't be similar and I think I could eat this for dessert and breakfast on the following day.
Facebook was also empty and boring. Pretty much the only posts were about people's night out last night and since I already heard enough gossip about people's nights out last night in biochem this morning I was pretty burned out on it. Instead I scrolled through BBC news and read all about how the French snuck in and broke the protest at one of the refineries because they were all shut down at this point. It's inconceivable to me that all these people are complaining about having to work a couple of extra years. And then the guy goes on to talk about this being a democracy and it's failing. Well, I don't know the last time France really looked like a democracy. Don't fool yourselves folks. And who ever heard about fairness towards strikers. Honestly, you're trying to put a country on its knees, who's got a right to talk about fairness here?
Then I noticed a soccer section and the World Cup in me flared up for just a minute. Ireland isn't the only place people get killed over soccer, I guess they had some issues in Italy this past week with overzealous fans. It makes the Crew sound even more boring than they already seem. And all over a 0-0 draw? It's Liverpool for goodness sakes people, not like a Man Utd at Barcelona.
I had some more controversial news as well, but it's best you read for yourself about how the US is spending their deficit to try and buy out their friends overseas.
My igoogle today thought it was top priority to tell me about a nuclear submarine running aground in Scotland. Oddly enough, the HMS Astute's crew didn't seem to realize they were in shallow water. If you scroll down to the first video you can listen to some entertaining Scottish accent as the guy describes what "ee's seein' outsigh 'is 'ouse".
I figured I'd be putting together a blog this morning so I signed in and scrolled my Dashboard. Unfortunately nobody else seemed determined to waste their time last night so I was short on blogs to read and switched to recommended blogs of the day. That's when I stumbled upon this delicious looking apple cake recipe. I don't even like cake but this looks like the texture won't be similar and I think I could eat this for dessert and breakfast on the following day.
Facebook was also empty and boring. Pretty much the only posts were about people's night out last night and since I already heard enough gossip about people's nights out last night in biochem this morning I was pretty burned out on it. Instead I scrolled through BBC news and read all about how the French snuck in and broke the protest at one of the refineries because they were all shut down at this point. It's inconceivable to me that all these people are complaining about having to work a couple of extra years. And then the guy goes on to talk about this being a democracy and it's failing. Well, I don't know the last time France really looked like a democracy. Don't fool yourselves folks. And who ever heard about fairness towards strikers. Honestly, you're trying to put a country on its knees, who's got a right to talk about fairness here?
Then I noticed a soccer section and the World Cup in me flared up for just a minute. Ireland isn't the only place people get killed over soccer, I guess they had some issues in Italy this past week with overzealous fans. It makes the Crew sound even more boring than they already seem. And all over a 0-0 draw? It's Liverpool for goodness sakes people, not like a Man Utd at Barcelona.
I had some more controversial news as well, but it's best you read for yourself about how the US is spending their deficit to try and buy out their friends overseas.
05 October 2010
News update
Just to make sure that you've gotten all of the headlines from today, I'll start off with a really classy entry. I'm not trying to make light of a serious situation here, but when people talk about being burned by the mud flowing through their house, wouldn't you figure they'd wonder why they lived there? I'm just shocked by the chemical spill in Hungary and the chain of command isn't expected to take any of the blame for it. Apparently they aren't as lawsuit-crazy there as we are, otherwise they'd be blaming someone for it already.
Next, I can't imagine why you would want to admit that your government trained Pashmir militants, but apparently that's what Der Spiegel was told. Another interesting topic addressed in the interview was former Pakastani president Musharraf's use of facebook and his effort to raise money for his people after the flood. Interesting interview.
On a lighter note, an author's glasses were stolen and then a helicopter used to chase down the suspect who held such glasses ransom for 100.000 pounds. Isn't that a ridiculously high price for the glasses? I would've just made the guy look like a fool by buying a new pair. Just me, though.
Next, I can't imagine why you would want to admit that your government trained Pashmir militants, but apparently that's what Der Spiegel was told. Another interesting topic addressed in the interview was former Pakastani president Musharraf's use of facebook and his effort to raise money for his people after the flood. Interesting interview.
On a lighter note, an author's glasses were stolen and then a helicopter used to chase down the suspect who held such glasses ransom for 100.000 pounds. Isn't that a ridiculously high price for the glasses? I would've just made the guy look like a fool by buying a new pair. Just me, though.
30 September 2010
France reads
Just a little side-note from yesterday. More people in France read my blog yesterday than people here. I have no idea what that should mean to me but apparently I captured someone's attention.
Anyhow, for today I'll start with Pakistan. I'll admit that as soon as I saw the headline I knew what my position on the issue would be. I don't blame Pakistan for blocking convoys after 3 of their people were killed. I'd be very frustrated to be shot down by what you thought was your own ally and then to be told that they did it intentionally is even more aggravating. However, they should not then have gone on to say that their people were shooting at the NATO chopper. Hello? If you admit to shooting at a friendly vehicle, you can't really expect the right to give them grief for shooting your men, right? The whole thing gets even more ridiculous when it says that they were shooting at the helicopter to tell it that it was in their territory.
On a complete sidenote, this picture was in the Pakistan article and even though it has nothing to do with that article, someone was probably just bragging about catching a rocket on film. I'd probably use the picture too.
And if this other guy who is running for the Chicago mayoral position doesn't look like the Grinch, I don't know who does.
Finally today (yeah, sorry about the short day) is the key to long life from the World's oldest twins. I'll buy it, they seem pretty happy, and who doesn't want to drink whiskey?
Anyhow, for today I'll start with Pakistan. I'll admit that as soon as I saw the headline I knew what my position on the issue would be. I don't blame Pakistan for blocking convoys after 3 of their people were killed. I'd be very frustrated to be shot down by what you thought was your own ally and then to be told that they did it intentionally is even more aggravating. However, they should not then have gone on to say that their people were shooting at the NATO chopper. Hello? If you admit to shooting at a friendly vehicle, you can't really expect the right to give them grief for shooting your men, right? The whole thing gets even more ridiculous when it says that they were shooting at the helicopter to tell it that it was in their territory.
On a complete sidenote, this picture was in the Pakistan article and even though it has nothing to do with that article, someone was probably just bragging about catching a rocket on film. I'd probably use the picture too.
And if this other guy who is running for the Chicago mayoral position doesn't look like the Grinch, I don't know who does.
Finally today (yeah, sorry about the short day) is the key to long life from the World's oldest twins. I'll buy it, they seem pretty happy, and who doesn't want to drink whiskey?
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