Posted by sigismund on May 10, 2011, at 12:49:11
In reply to Re: Trump This....! » sigismund, posted by floatingbridge on May 10, 2011, at 11:00:47
Well, I have always liked this.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb-xyh5f5x4
part of a kind of contest between Thomas Tallis and Alessandro Striggio. I'm not that keen on visions of the Christian heaven, but this feels so heartfelt, almost pleading. My son prefers Tallis's Spem in Alium. I'm very fond of Handel and Bach.
I wouldn't want to have to explain waterboarding to a 7yo who believes in Santa Claus either. My main problem with President Obama is that he never got financial regulation as the quid pro quo for bailing out the banks. We saw "Inside Job" where the young Harvard academics who were also government insiders were shameless when it came to conflict of interest. They didn't even see conflict of interest. Perhaps it is a concept that is in some way unacceptable today....sort of kind of the residue of our marxist heritage (someone could be saying this, you know). We also saw "Gasland" which reminded me of Cormac McCarthy in the great sadness felt for the destruction of the environment.
So Shock Doctrine is Naomi Klein (not to be confused with Naomi Wolf). I haven't read it. Our leaders are sometimes good at using a situation to advance their agendas. I was interested in the responses to bin Laden's death. Robert Pinsky was on. He was great. The younger nun was fine. But the young kid talked about evil. The attacks were dreadful, spectacular and irreducible to the number of dead, I suppose. I have to suppose that because when 3000 or so Indians died by poisoning from Union Carbide they were finally offered some small amount of money as compensation, telling you what everybody knows. What I find particularly bad is when a leader uses a catastrophe as a pretext for an unrelated agenda. I don't see why the US should be required to protect the Libyan democracy people either. It was horrible to contemplate Ghaddafi's troops entering Benghazi, but outcomes are so hard to predict accurately.
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