Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter is probably more embarrassed than anyone to learn of North Korean leader Kim Jong Ilâs unexpected visit to China Thursday. Nah. The man has no shame.
The Northâs official news media said Carter did not have the chance to meet Kim Jong Il. The North Korean leader went to China on an exclusive train that crossed the Chinese border on his previous China visits, and will probably return in about a week. They have a tour of North Korea out of Beijing, and Americans can go. It's by train, and I'll get to use this exact bridge if I go. I wanna go!
Because of this, it was deemed virtually impossible for Carter to meet Kim Jong Il.
The main purpose of the former U.S. presidentâs visit was to gain the release of the detained American Aijalon Mahli Gomes. Carter, however, also spoke of a âgrand visionâ of bringing Pyongyang back to the negotiating table and tackling the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and regional peace through a meeting with Kim Jong Il. I'm sure Kimmie would give up his power of life and death over an entire nation if Carter just explained how it would hurt bunnies and duckies.
Given the situation, Carter might very well feel embarrassed and disappointed.
Gomesâ release was virtually a done deal even before Carterâs visit. As such, Carter could be seen as returning home empty handed.
Park Han-sik, an international affairs professor at the University of Georgia who arranged Carterâs visit, said Wednesday, âFormer President Carter has sought a North Korea visit since tension heightened on the Korean Peninsula due to the Cheonan sinking, and flew to Pyongyang under the condition of holding a meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il,â indicating that such an encounter was assured. People from shame cultures really know how to make others lose face. People from Western cultures often have no idea that they are made to look like fools. Seen it a million times in my years in Asia.
If no meeting is held, this will probably perplex the Obama administration since it has repeatedly stressed that Carter made the visit for humanitarian purposes in his capacity as a private citizen. Since Washington permitted the trip despite the scheduled announcement of additional financial sanctions on Pyongyang, the U.S. probably feels dumbfounded over Kimâs unexpected trip.
Beck could have hosted his "Restoring Honor" rally on any date besides the 47th anniversary of the March on Washington, and at any other location besides the same location where King led activists to demand an end to legal discrimination and inequality.
For the same reason, the Progressive Left could protest the military at locations other than Marine recruiting stations, but they don't ...
But Beck couldn't resist sticking it to leaders of civil rights organizations. Yea, having MLK's niece on stage with him will really stick it to them?
The whole point of a rally is to stick it to someone ...
His antics are designed to pander to the extremists in the Republican Party who feel threatened by a black man in the White House.
For instance, when Beck called President Obama a "racist," it was shocking, even if it didn't make much sense.
"I'm not saying he doesn't like white people. I'm saying he has a problem. This guy is, I believe, a racist," Beck said.
What bothers the professional Left the most is that Beck uses the word 'racist' the way most people understand the ordinary use of the word as opposed to the way it's defined in an academic department of race and gender studies ...
Apparently, it didn't matter to Beck that Obama was surrounded by white strategists during his campaign or that whites outnumber blacks in his administration. There's a news flash!
But it's cool because the white folks are all card-carrying democratic socialists, and all understand the proper way to use 'racist': that is, against Republicans ...
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THat's the problem. To any normal person. racism means favoring one race over the other for no apparent reason. To these so-called "Black Leaders" and the liberal who use them as poltiical slave plantations, racism is the act of not treating blacks liek helpless small children, victims of white opression and in constant need of government assistance, preferences, and liberal "leadership" by peopel the liberals (in the press) anoint. Apparently their view of black people is they are too shiftless to choose their own leadership, too lazy to work hard enough to get anything without assistance, and too stupid to decide any issue on its own merits without direction for liberals... so liberals TREAT blacks as if they were shiftless, lazy and stupid. Hmmm. Just who are the racists after all?
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I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Beck could have hosted his "Restoring Honor" rally on any date besides the 47th anniversary of the March on Washington
Oh and I hate to point out the obvious Mary you being a really smart progressive and all but do you think just maybe Beck chose the date for his rally for some other reason?
Oh...I dunno maybe
Romans 8:28
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
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Schlessinger, who was forced off her long-running radio show after she said the N-word 11 times during a broadcast, has been in the media long enough to know that whites can't get away with using the word.
Yes, I recognize this prohibition is a double standard.
But given the painful history the word carries, this is a double standard that whites ought to be able to live with.
Now Remember, boys and girls, that Mary Mitchell is not a racist. Repeat after me, "Mary Mitchell is not a racist. Mary Mitchell is not a racist. Mary Mitchell is not a racist."
[Bangla Daily Star] Shah-e-Roon doesn't have the energy, money or support from Pakistan's government to help Madyan recover from floods that decimated the small town nearly a month ago.
He has been walking for two days with a 20-kg (44 lb) sack of wheat on his back. Food shortages caused by the disaster have sent prices soaring and the only market he can afford is many kilometers away.
"How can I think about rebuilding? I have no way of making money and I am just too tired," said the 50-year-old farmer.
Madyan, in the northwest Swat valley, looks more like an earthquake zone than a flood-stricken area.
Four-storey hotels that fuelled the local economy vanished. Buildings have been flattened, with cars sandwiched between slabs of concrete. Roads were dragged down and all that's left behind are 30-meter (100-foot) dirt cliffs crumbling into a river.
Pakistan's government was heavily criticized after its sluggish response to the floods, which hit about one-third of the country, made more than 6 million homeless, and threaten to the bring the economy to its knees without outside intervention.
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VERSUS
TOPIX + PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > PAK ARMY FLOOD DUTIES TO AFFECT TERROR WAR, US TOLD.
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Pakophile Walter Russell Mead has an interesting post to this point. Time for tough love he says. Time for India I say.
Funny how these cradles of civilization seem unable to join the modern world and somehow it's always our job to clean up their messes and hang around to take the blame for the mess they made.
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Bugger the lot They've had enough resources to finance a successful nuclear program, maintain an 'on again - off again' decades old conflict neighboring India, and provide arms and financing to terrorists in Afghanistan. Let them become an aquatic society.
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If they cancel the Swedish AWACS order, the French submarine order and the Chinese fighter order they can free up tens of billions of dollars for rebuilding
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A close colleague from Pakistan working in Dubai and clearly (to me) a member of Pakistans uppermost of upper class, recently met Musharraf at a Ramadan iftar (breaking of the fast) dinner. As my colleague has a very low opinion of Musharraf, I was not surprised to hear that his impression was awful. Musharraf came across as arrogant and crass, extremely self-centered, and was quick to get drunk on Scotch whiskey (Why do all those old military guys like whiskey?). The more he drank, the more he spoke openly about how he was ready to lead Pakistan again.
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This is outrageous. Congress should pass a law - NO elections are certified until military votes are received and counted. No excuses, no waivers. Not holding my breath with this Congress.
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..or their own voting Senator and Representative.
[Actually a cheap move because history is rather repetitive in showing that when you screw the military like this, they eventually end up with all the Senators' and Representatives' seats.]
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