December 2007
23 posts
Short announcement →
I’m breaking the sudden silence of the blog, to tell you that we are going to be in New Hampshire from January 4th.
We, finally, made up our mind and volunteered as a family to go help the efforts in the NH primaries. I didn’t volunteered to any political activity since I was 16 years old, 24 years ago, and I’m rather excited. It is great to be part of those who are making history. What makes me...
Captured moments →
Lately I find it hard to get excited about the “real” important things - politic, foreign policy and maters of war and peace. I don’t really feel like writing about things of substance (and I guess some might argue that I never wrote anything of substance). I simply enjoy the time with my family. Seeing the girls growing up and developing is a great source of joy to me.
As usual more...
Happy birthday →
Time really fly, I can’t believe that it is already two years.
More picture can be found here.
Nice spin →
I love watching the political game, and how the political spin is working. Ron Paul’s remarks from today is a great example: a less known candidate which got some media attention for a very successful fundraising keep the with a controversial remarks aiming at the frontrunner. This is, when working, ensuring more media time and opportunity to increase the candidate’s “name recognition”. Increasing...
Elephant in a china store →
I am far from being fond of Mike Huckabee. His ideology and political agenda are completely the opposite of mine and He represent all the gone wrong with the GOP. While I believe in individual rights and liberty, Governor Huckabee promote the worse of all worlds - Big Government Conservatism - a brand of social conservative who believe in harnessing the power of government to impose their social...
Winter at home →
It is winter already, and we already had some snow and ice. And it is nice in the evening to watch some TV covered with blankets.
10 years →
Is it a decade already?
It is hard to remember the world without blogs. Now it is time to find some tools that help us sort through the flood of content.
It is different, because… hmmm…. →
Gotcha, McCain.
The truth is that there is no real difference between the two situation - only that during the peace keeping mission in Somalia was during the Clinton administration and the non neoconservative in the GOP advocated for limited intervention.
The mainstream ideas →
This short clip is a good reminder that non-intervantionism was the mainstream republican policy not so far ago. It is interesting, and sad, to see how easy it become to make it into fringe ideology. One might argue that the 9/11 terror attacks change everything, but I doubt the wisdom of such argument. Yes, the 9/11 terror attack were horrifying - I will never forget the horror of that damned day...
Who do they protect? →
The latest consumer protection, the French version, is so typical - the consumer has to pay more in the name of competition:
Amazon.com may not offer free delivery on books in France, the high court in Versailles has ruled. The action, brought in January 2004 by the French Booksellers’ Union (Syndicat de la librairie française), accused Amazon of offering illegal discounts on books and even...
Heroic leadership →
Mugabe’s acceptance speech this week is nothing less than extraordinary:
“Every one of them matters to me. Can I let them down?” AP news agency quotes Mr Mugabe as saying during his keynote address to delegates before his endorsement.
“No. Their welfare is my welfare. Their suffering is my suffering. I dare not abandon them,” he said.
It is not the complete...
Honesty →
One of the strongest points in Taliban Mike’s campaign, along with being a fundamentalist and paternalist, was his integrity. But while you can explain opinion changes in changes that are relevant it is harder to accept this explanation as valid reason for flip-flopping:
“What changed was I’m running for president.”
– Mike Huckabee, on why he changed his position on Cuba,...
Taliban Mike →
I guess we will see more and more of this sort:
Here’s part of the text of a Southern Baptist Convention full-page ad in USA Today in 1998 that Mike Huckabee signed:
“A wife is to submit herself graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits to the headship of Christ.”
This should not be surprising, and it demonstrates, yet again, how...
“Useless politicking” →
I avoided writing about Romney’s speech about faith and the political system because I don’t really think he has anything profound to say. Unlike Kenedy’s famous speech, a statesman speech, Romney’s address yesterday was a petty craft of a politician. I was glad to read today that Ron Paul had similar feeling toward the non-event:
He seemed only faintly aware it was happening. “Useless...
Revelation →
The realization that wealth isn’t created simply by wishing so must be painful to France:
Pleasant as it is to find a backstreet bistro run by lace-hatted crones, where nothing appears to have changed for centuries, the changelessness in France is an expensive illusion. The crones will be paying 50 per cent income tax and 19.6 per cent VAT, plus property tax, business tax, rubbish collection...
As always, focusing on the least important issues. →
I was hoping that the Huckabee smearing will focus on issues of substance. I was hoping that his foreign policy will be examine and that things like this will be picked by the MSM:
Kuhn: I don’t know to what extent you have been briefed or been able to take a look at the NIE report that came out yesterday …
Huckabee: I’m sorry?
Kuhn: The NIE report, the National Intelligence Estimate on...
I’ll drink to that →
This is a holiday I was fast to adopt - happy Repeal Day everyone.
Sorrow →
I just found out that I have few pictures in my camera that I did not downloaded yet. I really like this one:
Few more can be found here.
It is getting hot →
Now that the Huckster’s surge is basically a fact it is only a question of time when the threatened campaigns will move on the attack. We can already see some, small, evidences of the coming offense, but it will be interesting to see which candidate will be the first to openly attack the new darling of the GOP primaries. If I need to bet I will risk and say that it will be probably Romney on the...
Impressive →
One have to be impressed by the Iranian abilities to have nuclear weapon by 2009 while not developing it since 2003…
I am the forgotten man →
The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide what C shall be made to do for D. The radical vice of all these schemes, from a sociological point of view, is that C is not allowed a voice in the matter, and his position, character, and interests, as well as the ultimate effects on society through C’s interests, are...
We are going to a party →
Where will you be on December 16th?
We will be in Boston, joining the Boston Tea Party and Freedom Rally. We will start the day with our share of donation and than we are going to join the many others who are are going to simply say - this country was founded on the bases of individual freedom idea. It is time to reclaim it.
It is going to be fun!
Crash course →
Bye Bye Rudy?
I said before that his electability is a legend that would be blown as the Clinton start giving him personal treatment, but apparently his rivals at the GOP didn’t want to leave her the pleasure.