Saturday, November 13, 2004
DOMESTIC ISSUES
Sorry about the quiet yesterday. In a dilemma that would be familiar to many of you, I handle foreign policy, while my spouse is in charge of domestic issues. We have had a series of necessary local concerns, which have made great demands on my time.
You know, little things . . . like moving.
I'll be back as soon as things are placed where they generally should be. However, I saw this in yesterday's print Telegraph. Of course, I couldn't resist:
Second, "magazine editor"? Oh, good grief.
Worst of all, this:
Hmmm. Fighting the enemy in Fallujah and in Iraq generally, as well as in Afghanistan, in two relatively small campaigns in which are engaged fewer U.S. troops in total than were in one U.S. army alone in the European campaign in WWII, is the equivalent to being at war with EVERY small country? Yep.
Presumably, he is an excellent architect, and has a better grasp of measurements, balance and proportionality when it comes to buildings. ¶ by Robert, Saturday, November 13, 2004
Sorry about the quiet yesterday. In a dilemma that would be familiar to many of you, I handle foreign policy, while my spouse is in charge of domestic issues. We have had a series of necessary local concerns, which have made great demands on my time.
You know, little things . . . like moving.
I'll be back as soon as things are placed where they generally should be. However, I saw this in yesterday's print Telegraph. Of course, I couldn't resist:
. . ."Every meeting I go to, every social occasion, even when I'm out shopping, someone hears my accent and challenges me to a debate," says Annie Ouroussof Jordan, an executive headhunter who, though American, spent years in France and the Middle East before moving to Britain 15 years ago. She did not vote.RULE NUMBER ONE: NEVER pretend to be what you are not.
"There wasn't a proper candidate as far as I'm concerned and I wasn't going to vote for Kerry just not to vote for Bush. The truth is that I would have voted for Bush if I had to make a choice. Many of us Americans feel this way because we don't know what Kerry believes in. He stands for nothing. I have gotten flak for it but part of being an American is speaking up. I am often provoked in social situations and have taken to avoiding the subject altogether." Still, this is nothing compared with French anti-Americanism. "It's pure hatred there," she says.
Anti-Americanism is running so high in some British circles that, at a recent party, I resorted to saying: "I'm Canadian". . .
. . . "I don't know what I'm talking about half the time, do you?" says Lauren Crowe, a magazine editor. "I've never spent time in the heartland of America. As far as I can see, they're all insane." She does, on occasion, hear people making fun of Americans. "They say we're inarticulate and dumb, but that same person when drunk says: 'I wish I could live in California'.". . .One doesn't know what to do that. I mean idiotic, is the first thing that comes to mind.
Second, "magazine editor"? Oh, good grief.
Worst of all, this:
. . . To pretend there's a war when there isn't is really terrifying," says American architect Alfred Munkenbeck. "One terrorist incident doesn't mean you go to war with every small country. I think we overreacted hopelessly. . .Yeh, "one terrorist incident". I presume he is referring to 3,000 people being annihilated in NYC and in Washington D.C. Ah, to be ever so detached, and above it all. In any event. . .
Hmmm. Fighting the enemy in Fallujah and in Iraq generally, as well as in Afghanistan, in two relatively small campaigns in which are engaged fewer U.S. troops in total than were in one U.S. army alone in the European campaign in WWII, is the equivalent to being at war with EVERY small country? Yep.
Presumably, he is an excellent architect, and has a better grasp of measurements, balance and proportionality when it comes to buildings. ¶ by Robert, Saturday, November 13, 2004
