There Is No Escaping.
I was thinking about Karma yesterday a good bit. And especially how, if you’re dwelling and wishing people ill will, it’ll come back to you like tenfold. Sometimes I see things that I think.. DAMN. Karma. You know? Sometimes it’s a good feeling, and other times it’s a terrifying one. I think I’ve experienced BOTH this week.
HEY– did you see the president of Iran is planning a trip to the UN on September 19th, the SAME day President Bush is going to be there and he hopes to debate Bush. You know what? I think Bush should do it. But he won’t. He’ll just call the guy a radical nutball…. but I’ll give the guy this, he’s got giant balls. He’s willing to come to home turf here and call out our president, and he’ll likely look like a HERO and Bush will look like a coward if he doesn’t meet with him. I think that would be one of the greatest debates of our time. Could you imagine that guy breaking down Bush’s intelligence?? — Although, I do think the president of Iran is a nutcase, that whole believing the holocaust didn’t happen thing. I’m not saying I LIKE the guy, just that maybe some real open, public conversation could actually HELP things. Instead, we get war drums beating all the time. I think Americans are just tired of it. I know I sure am.
Recent Topics: Death, Grim Reaper, Keenspot, Iran, Bush, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, UN General Assembly, ISNA, Non-Aligned Movement
September 7th, 2006 at 3:29 am
Powerful stuff, man. Really well done.
I was thinking about Karma earlier this week too. How sometimes she’ll come up behind you for a bit of a nibble to kind of give you a heads up that some major stuff is coming your way. If you don’t pay attention and consider her nibbling a minor nuisance you may be hurting later when she really flips it round on you and bites you in the ass….hard.
September 7th, 2006 at 7:54 am
Let’s not go all glass half empty on this. Karma sometimes swings in your favor when your beat down and dragging something someone pulls you up.
Gotta love Karma man
September 7th, 2006 at 8:10 am
Oh, yeah.
There’s sometimes when she gives you that sweet reach around too. I’m an optimist…just one who thinks in figuratives and hypotheticals when it comes to stuff like this.
September 7th, 2006 at 1:41 pm
just a correction to the Iranian “former president” visiting. the one that wanted to debate Bush wasn’t Khatami. : “Iran’s hardline president challenged the U.N. on Tuesday two days before a Security Council ultimatum demanding Tehran roll back its nuclear program and instead proposed a televised debate with U.S. President George W. Bush. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad…..” (http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/08/29/africa/ME_GEN_Iran_Nuclear.php)
the one speaking at harvard is the former president and he’s not the one spouting the anti-holocaust nonsense: “The dean of Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government defended the decision to invite former Iranian President
Mohammad Khatami” (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060907/ap_on_re_us/harvard_khatami). and to be fair I’m not convinced that Ahmadinejad really believes that so much as he’s using it as a rallying point for the conservatives in his country. Kind of like a certain compassionate conservative used the lie of WMD’s? lol.
September 8th, 2006 at 8:10 am
Perhaps Ahmadinejad is saying there is no Holocaust just to show he’s got the biggest balls to say it, not that he disbelieved it. He seems to mean to say “Come & get me, mother-effers!” to his detractors.
Well, I do believe that the Holocaust happened too, I just don’t like how some assholes would abuse the Holocaust history to defend their wrongdoings, as much as assholes never acknowledging it happened at all. And I swear that on Norman Finklestein’s dashing good looks!
Also, don’t forget that the Holocaust don’t just happend to the Jews, other minorities like Blacks, gypsies, Homosexuals, & migrants from neighbouring countries next to Germany suffered as well. You can find out more from here:
http://www.holocaustforgotten.com/
Oh, awesome expressions on Drew’s mom. Did you read Facial Expressions: A Visual Reference For Artists?
September 8th, 2006 at 8:24 am
Saying the holocaust didn’t happen doesn’t mean you have big balls, it means he has a small brain and lacks historical intelligence.
I think any educated person knows how many different minorities were killed in the holocaust, but it was mostly Jewish people. No one can debate that, ever.
September 8th, 2006 at 12:55 pm
Did you see the interview of Ahmadinejad in 60 Minutes, btw? If not:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=MpyU8Tv1OG4
http://youtube.com/watch?v=5Oq0xqlM-jw
http://youtube.com/watch?v=G4iFaZM05xQ
And I’m sure you know by now, he has his own blog:
http://www.ahmadinejad.ir/
I think you’re just too quick to judge Ahmadinejad as an “idiot.” You have to understand the context of why he would say such things about the Holocaust, beyond mere stupidity. Perhaps he’s trying to appease his people; perhaps his trying to draw out both the US & Israel into his turf; perhaps he’s trying to liven up the spirits of his people anytime Israel tries to harass them. Maybe he does know about the Holocaust but chose to “deny” it just because.
Sun Tzu tactics, Deej, Sun Tzu.
Then again, he’s just a politician.
September 8th, 2006 at 1:22 pm
I believe the Iranian people are MUCH smarter than that. He’s trying to appease RADICAL MUSLIMS if anyone. Denying the holocaust “just because” is the most retarded thing I’ve heard all week. Maybe all year.
Hey, don’t get me wrong, I’m not siding with Israel on the whole Israel vs Palestine thing that this is ALL about… but I do think there is a better way than war, death, and similar things.
September 13th, 2006 at 5:05 pm
The last image of her face is seriously hauntng…disturbing…and moving. It has stuck in my mind for days, now. Powerful stuff.