Saturday, May 23, 2009

Beware of Darkness

Ho, ho, those jolly open-minded wags at the NU are at it again...

NU spokesman Abdul Muid Shohib said communication using mobile phones was prone to adultery, especially between the sexes.

"Communicating through mobile phones could lead to extramarital affairs," Abdul told The Jakarta Post through his mobile.

The only communication allowed between different sexes is that which spreads Islamic teachings, he said.

[From After Facebook, NU targets mobile phone calls between sexes | The Jakarta Post]

How we break each other's hearts / And cause each other pain

I gotta re-post this. It comes via Glenn Greenwald.

Bam

It took Obama how many days to come off the rails and become just another American president?

Sunday, May 17, 2009

Like a record baby / Like a Record

I like this search engine...

Human Discourse

Might have some human discourse with my lovely wife.....

Or I could just talk to Wolfie...


Wolfie talks


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Might have some human discourse with my lovely wife.....

At the dark end of the street / That's where we always meet

Words fail....

“Sometimes when I sit at home I look at the picture and everything seems fresh,” he said. “I think of the suffering she endured, and I wonder how long she stayed alive.”

Mr. Bou Meng has since remarried twice, but he remains shackled to his memories. “I know I should forget her,” he said, “but I can’t.”

She visits him, he said, in visions that are something more than dreams, looking just as she did when he last saw her — still 28 years old, leaving Mr. Bou Meng to live on and grow old without her.

Sometimes she appears with the spirits of others who were killed, he said. They stand together, a crowd of ghosts in black, and she tells him, “Only you, Bou Meng, can find justice for us.”

[From Survivors Shed Light on Dark Days of Khmer Rouge - NYTimes.com]

In Indonesia, the right wing coup, CIA backed, produced similar stories, but largely forgotten since they were our guys I guess. They don't even teach it to the kids here....the generally accepted figure by historians is about a half million dead.

Some of the heirs to the architects of that horror are even proudly standing for President here in July.

I like It like that...

Owww, this this glorious...JA's finest voice bar none. It makes me shiver

Just gimme the truth / all I want is the truth

Oh dear...

Born to be wild...

This is brill....