(Evita: Jerry Brown)
It won't be easy, you'll think it strange
When I try to explain how I feel
that I still need your love after all that I've done
You won't believe me
All you will see is a girl boy you once knew
Although she's dressed up to the nines
At sixes and sevens with you
I had to let it happen, I had to change
Couldn't stay all my life down at heel
Looking out of the window, staying out of the sun
So I chose freedom
Running around, trying everything newBut nothing impressed me at all
I never expected it to
Chorus:
Don't cry for me Argentina California
The truth is I never left you
All through my wild days
My mad existence
I kept my promise
Don't keep your distance
And as for fortune, and as for fame
I never invited them in
Though it seemed to the world they were all I desired
They are illusions (so isn't the California economy)
They are not the solutions they promised to be
The answer was here all the time
I love you and hope you love me
Don't cry for me Argentina california
(Backround Humming chorus)
(chorus)
Have I said too much?
There's nothing more I can think of to say to you.
But all you have to do is look at me to know
That every word is true
Don't read it, just suffice to say it was not as hard as he thought.
It was then that I realized I had nothing to worry about. Palin was not going to make real news in February, or, most likely, at any other time. At most, she was going to make noise - enough to earn that $1 million Fox pays her a year. See, Dana, I got over her 15 months ago. If she runs, she runs. If she drives you nuts on Fox, that's great, too. But you helped make her, so it was tough to give her up. She gives you a chance to be vicious.
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The dirty little secret (as revealed in the article) is "I used Michelle Bachmann as methadone."
That doesn't count, Dana. Neither does using Christine O'Donnell. Real survival is spending a month without acting like rabid piranha with tourettes syndrome. Which for Dana is impossible.
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I wonder if those of us who lean-the-other-way could have a month free of Obama.
According to Bismarcks best-known maxim on Europes most troublesome region, the Balkans are not worth the bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier. Americans could be forgiven for harboring similar sentiments after the murder of two U.S. airmen in Germany by a Kosovar Muslim.
Remember Kosovo? Me neither. But it was big at the time, launched by Bill Clinton in the wake of his Monica difficulties: Make war, not love, as the boomers advise. So Clinton did and without any pesky U.N. resolutions, or even the pretense of seeking them. Instead, he and Tony Blair and even Jacques Chirac just cried Bombs away! and got on with it. And the Left didnt mind at all because, for a modern Western nation, war is only legitimate if you have no conceivable national interest in whatever war youre waging. Unlike Iraq and all its supposed blood for oil, in Kosovo no one remembers why we went in, what the hell the point of it was, or which side were the good guys. (Answer: Neither.) The principal rationale advanced by Clinton and Blair was that there was no rationale. This was what they called liberal interventionism, which boils down to: The fact that we have no reason to get into it justifies our getting into it.
A decade on, Kosovo is a sorta sovereign state, and in Frankfurt a young airport employee is so grateful for what America did for his people that he guns down U.S. servicemen while yelling Allahu akbar! The strange shrunken spectator who serves as president of the United States, offering what he called a few words about the tragic event that took place, announced that he was saddened, and expressed his gratitude for the service of those who were lost and would spare no effort to work with the German authorities but it was a stark reminder of the extraordinary sacrifices that our men and women in uniform are making . . .
The passivity of these remarks is very telling. Men and women in uniform (which its not clear these airmen were even wearing) understand they may be called upon to make extraordinary sacrifices in battle. They do not expect to be lost on the shuttle bus at the hands of a civilian employee at a passenger air terminal in an allied nation. But then I dont suppose their comrades expected to be lost at the hands of an army major at Fort Hood, to cite the last tragic event that took place which seems to be the presidents preferred euphemism for a guy opening fire while screaming Allahu akbar! But relax, this fellow in Frankfurt was most likely a lone wolf (as Sen. Chuck Schumer described the Times Square bomber) or an isolated extremist (as the president described the Christmas Day Pantybomber). There are so many of these lone wolves and isolated extremists you may occasionally wonder whether theyve all gotten together and joined Local 473 of the Amalgamated Union of Lone Wolves and Isolated Extremists, but dont worry about it: As any Homeland Security official can tell you, Allahu akbar is Arabic for Nothing to see here.
[Asharq al-Aswat] US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Tallyrand ... said that Iran is seeking to influence the Arab revolutions, including the Egyptian revolution, by utilizing Hezbullies which has good relations with the [Egyptian] Moslem Brüderbund affiliated Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, organization. She also said that Tehran is in constant contact with opposition forces in Bahrain.
Just one day after Clinton made these remarks, the Iranian Supreme Guide told a group of his country's security cadres that the revolutions taking place in the Arab world represented an Islamic awakening inspired by the Iranian revolution. So what is more likely, that Iran is influencing the revolutions that are taking place in our region, or that Tehran is trying to exploit the situation in the Arab world?
The reality, as we have said before, is that it is difficult to measure everything that is happening in our region with one yardstick. This is because it is not easy to compare the problems arising in our region with each other, even if Arab states share certain features such as having a young population or the presence of an urgent need for reform; this is not to say that the situation in one country is the same as the situation in another. For example, the situation in the Gulf States cannot be compared to the situation in the rest of the Arab region, whilst the internal makeup of Gulf States also differs, and each country in our region has its own special circumstances.
Here somebody might ask, does this mean that Iran is influencing the revolutions in our region? Of course, the answer to this is no, and it would not be fair to the revolutionaries to say this, however Iran is not hesitating to interfere in our region and exploit the prevailing feelings today. On the other hand, what is allowing Iran to exploit the situation is that the protestors' demands are not being taken seriously, whilst protestors in some states are attempting to copy the revolutions that have taken place in others, and these are two features that are dominating the scene today. There is a huge fire raging in our region, and some people are under the impression that in order to fix all their problems all they have to do is topple their regimes; however those who believe this are not taking the situation seriously. How will the Yemenis, for example, deal with a decaying economy and a confusing tribal system should the Yemeni president suddenly decide to step down from power? Early elections, or indeed waiting for the president's term in office to end, represent the ideal solution for the situation in Yemen, rather than what happened in Egypt, because Yemen is different. The other example is Bahrain, and is it reasonable that the demonstrators there failed to announce their demands until yesterday?
These are the problems, and these are the gaps that the Iranians are exploiting in order to infiltrate our region, and they are doing so for a number of reasons. Most importantly, Tehran wants to escape from its internal crisis, and anybody who believes that the Iranian crisis with our region is solely due to [Iranian president] Ahmadinejad is wrong and would be displaying their ignorance, for this crisis is represented by the entire Iranian regime. One of the objectives of the Khomeini revolution was to export this Islamic revolution to our region, and particularly the Gulf States and Soddy Arabia. Therefore, the attempt to copy the Egyptian revolution in the Gulf States would certainly be futile, for all problems are not the same, nor are all regimes, and for example, is there a figure such as Qadaffy in the Gulf States?
We all want freedom, prosperity, and an end to corruption, but we cannot support pulling the roof down on the house due to glamorous slogans. The difference between us and Iran is that we want reform, whilst Iran wants to incite the region and fan the flames. Are some people, aware, for example, that there are no Friday prayer services for Sunnis in Iran?
I think this is something that we need to think more deeply about.
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The brevity and lucid clarity of this speech by Hillary is amazing.
After reading it what would you say she said? How much of it is striking and memorable?
Quote one line from memory. OK. what was the first line or the last line, for instance. Do it without notes.
What one should remember about the Middle East is that is primarily Moslem, and it has a lot of Arab Culture and Islamic Values. And the majority of the people who live there hate the Jewwzz.
There is a lack of free speech and there is a lot of kaboom and you have to watch what you step in on the street. And what IS that smell?
Other than that its...well....Moslem. Drink bottled water.
And as to Iran and their " Revolution"? If you want to understand that get on your knees , yell allah and shove your head in a Farsi toilet. It will clear your mind remarkably concerning Islam.
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does this mean that Iran is influencing the revolutions in our region? Of course, the answer to this is no, and it would not be fair to the revolutionaries to say this, however Iran is not hesitating to interfere in our region and exploit the prevailing feelings today
Here we have a typical state dep't miasma of a compound oxymoron. Can one please explain how you can "interfere" and "exploit" without "influencing"?
These people should all be shown the bottom of the Marianas trench with some custom Chicago footwear.
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Reread the piece. The first paragraph is a summary of Secretary Clinton's statement, the rest comes from the Asharq al-Aswat editor's pen. Dribble apparently thinks as clearly as he writes: a great deal of dramatic emoting but very little actual analysis.
In recent months, I've written in these pages about a higher education bubble the notion that America is spending more than it can afford on higher education, driven by the kind of cheap credit (and mass infatuation) that fueled the housing bubble.
Nothing has happened to make me doubt that, and in fact, we're beginning to see universities (like the University of the South at Sewanee, and several major law schools) actually cutting tuition, or freezing it, in the face of newfound customer price-resistance.
But, while the higher education bubble begins to deflate, I think we're also starting to see the deflation of what might be called a lower education bubble that is, the constant flow of more and more money into K-12 education without any significant degree of buyer resistance, in spite of the often low quality of the education it purchases.
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When the Rev. Fred Phelps and his parishioners came back to Laramie the next year to protest at the trials of the men who murdered Matthew, they were in for a bit of a surprise. Several friends and I led a counter-protest, dressed as angels, silently encircling them, our huge outstretched wings blocking their vicious signs from view.
All Phelps and his followers want is attention. They cheered this lawsuit that brought their cause to the highest court. They love the news stories and the controversy. It is what they want. Indifference is their greatest fear. Backs turned in silence worked great for us in Laramie. How you choose to use your voice is up to you. Just like Osama - I don't want him caught, I just never want me or anyone else in this country to see him again - alive or dead. I want him to die alone, in the dark, unremarked and forgotten. Like Phelps. Who pays for his travels?
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Link seriously broken. I can't even guess what it should have been.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Hillary Clinton
