Monday, September 24, 2007

...Columbia University's Guest

But was he treated as a guest or a target? Columbia's president honors promise to tear up Iranian President, Ahmadinejad in opening commentary. I wonder whether the President of Columbia University would ask these tough enough questions to President Bush were he to be invited to speak there. That is just my personal perception of the whole thing...

Before you read the following CNN article and then my commentary, please note that CNN interrupted the Iranian President's Address and started commenting on it even before he had finished greeting the forum. I think this is the most inebriated form of disrespect because no one should be insulted as much as Iran's President had been right there in his face and then not given a chance to respond or not at least listened to even if he is going to try and circumvent the answering any questions posed or if he was going to try to avoid the matter altogether. This seems to be the approach that the American government has adopted since they seem to be happy with passing their opinion on everyone else. How come they allow the president of Columbia insult the president in the name of free speech and then start interrupting the very next address to those insults. The media has played a great part in tinting the American public's views on a lot of these political things and it is hard because most people believe that journalists really are impartial unless they are on FOX NEWS but I guess this is far from a truism.

CNN seemed bent on portraying the Iranian President as a bad man and we all know many people have been called bad in the media only to be discovered later that this was not true. I must also point out here that CNN also seemed to summarily think that marching for the Jena 6 was pointless. They had some gentleman on a show that argued that Mychal had prior convictions on battery and assault and was on probation and tried to make sense of the fact that these poor highschoolers were victims of an overzealous DA with a racial agenda.

Just read the CNN article about Pres Ahmadinejad...

My Comments:

I don't feel this man was given enough time to explain himself but that shouldn’t make me an idiot because I want to listen to what he has to say no matter what others have said about him already...

Imagine that the USA supported Iraq in the early 1990s to fight a war against him and now are calling the President of Iran all sorts of names. I am not a pro-Iranian but we as advocates of the truth should seek truth. The US dismissed claims of the Nuclear Inspectors that Iraq did not have WMDs and waged on with their war only to find out that the inspectors were right.

The US now has turned its attention on Iran saying they too are in possession of enough Uranium to build WMDs now how should the US be trusted when they blew it so badly in Iraq even turning down UN calls for more patience and a diplomatic solution in Iraq? It is ridiculous that we as a free people love to hate people we don't know or people who tend to pose honest questions but we really are proving to the world that we are the ignorant ones not the President of Iran...and booing him when he spoke? Please! what he said consisted his views and they will never change just as our views are pretty much set and we would not allow another person's views to even be spoken.

Bush to me is the worst and greatest dictator in the world. Wiretapping; attacking Iraq and Afghanistan; ruining the US economy; making a liar of a decorated War veteran (Colin Powell) amongst a lot of other things. He even succeeded in making a joke of the US justice system-imagine what nonsense we students of International Law and Policy have to face with the whole war on terror versus the recent firings of the Attorney Generals debacle. The President of the US even condones revealing the identity of a CIA operative's name just because her husband didn't accept his lies for without seeing facts. He promised to follow the issue and assured the nation that the culprits will be punished accordingly but what became of that? He hindered investigations by telling his former staff they had immunity and shouldn't even speak to Congress about anything he didn't want them to and Americans just sat back and kept quiet.

Friday, September 21, 2007

... Peak of Randomness (mind me not, trying to catch up)

I haven't been on blogger for a while. Routinely, going from a nine-hour work day to a three hour evening school class and from school, homework; falling asleep on top of the books stacked on my computer desk; and waking up with a jolt to realise I am running about 30 minutes late for work, and then amidst the mad rush to catch up with time, realise I haven't eaten anything in 24hrs is the life I always dreamed of in America. Of course I rush out and get to work a minute late and have to get scolded by a supervisor that just came back from a three week vacation in Hawaii; God save her soul I was a little winded else, I'd be writing this piece from within three walls and bars with a peep hole for a window. The Peak of my ramdomness...here it goes:

....Zimbabwean Parliarment has set a new precedence for African countries still under draconian law of dictatorship by offering a retirement package to Robert Mugabe. Really, I doubt that they saw any other way of asking their president to leave the country and leave it in peace. I think Cameroonian Parliarmentarians should start thinking about a retirement package for Bi Mvondo and his Etoudi entourage. READ MORE

....And the Senator from Idaho who is gay but actually doesn't think he is...Courting an undercover police officer in the bathroom at the airport in Portland? The funny thing is that he pleaded guilty quietly and when the media is unto him, he decides to take back his plea, etc..This is the second gay Republican Senator that has been outted in half a year. There is the one who was not only a gay man but a pedophile also targetting Congressional Pages. I am seriously tired of Republicans in the US. The war in Iraq is going well; the US economy is doing very well; We know Iraq has weapons of mass destruction; the list is unend. More Republican balderdash here!

....Oh! The Jena 6 Neocivil-liberties-era racism at its best is all I can say. Why hasn't the prosecutor been summoned by Congress? Mike Nifong, the former prosecutor in the Duke rape case has been disbarred, served a 24hr sentence in jail, had to pay a fine and is now facing a multimillion dollar lawsuit from the students whose lives he ruined.

....Oh and my birthday was September 6th. HA!

....still thinking... we will catch up in the next piece. Thanks for reading and making sense out of my randomness this morning. God speed.