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muser,
LOL! Her lack of vision may well have to do with fashion, if only fashions of thought...
posted by
Nautikos
on January 27, 2007 at 8:30 AM
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maybe her scarf/veil has been slipping down and covering her eyes?
posted by
muser
on January 26, 2007 at 8:34 AM
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Nautikos
LOL Yes, but Aurelius' battles with those barbarians made a hell of a philosopher out of him.
posted by
WileyJohn
on January 23, 2007 at 6:39 PM
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Wiley,
LOL! I understand your Aurelian reference, and of course,
sub specie aeternitatis both he and you are right! However, I have to remind you that his stoic philosophy did not prevent Marcus Aurelius from battling the barbarians for most of his life as emperor...
posted by
Nautikos
on January 23, 2007 at 4:28 AM
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Nautikos
Quite the take on Christiane, I've always rather enjoyed her work, don't find her particularly appealing as a woman though.lol-;)
As to the rest, it would be interesting to read possible solutions in a blog as well written as this one. Do you have any suggestions as to what the solutions may be?
It seems to me that some comments rather dismiss many of us here in Blogit as simply inane prattlers, yes perhaps we are, but albeit, kindly sober ones that are here for peace and pleasure.
My take on all of it, and it gives me some sense of peace, is as Marcus Aurelius might have thought;
"Asia and Europe: distant recesses of the universe.
The ocean: A drop of water.
Mount Athos: A molehill.
The present:a split second in eternity.
Miniscule, transitory, insignificant."
Kind of like this Muslim problem. Thanks for writing my friend.
posted by
WileyJohn
on January 22, 2007 at 9:21 PM
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cp
LOL! I barely know the Bible...I have to start reading the Koran now? (I prefer the old-fashioned, non-pc spelling...)
posted by
Nautikos
on January 22, 2007 at 8:01 PM
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Allah Made Her Do It
Qu'ran, Surah 8:18
"... Allah is the weakener of the struggle of the unbelievers."
such as it is...
Carl Peter
posted by
cpklapper
on January 22, 2007 at 6:46 PM
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Ariel
you're right of course, but people do chat, across the fence, like...
Talking about fences, I have always wanted to do something on the difference between the walls that separate properties in Britain, and the fences we have in North America...
Of course, now we also have 'gated communities', but that's different again...
But you're right, and I too am distressed at the lack of resonance to my stuff...
posted by
Nautikos
on January 22, 2007 at 5:52 PM
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Justi,
it isn't odd at all - it is at the very core of the problem. And you know that this is an agnostic speaking...
posted by
Nautikos
on January 22, 2007 at 5:37 PM
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bel
it is often the case that we believe what we prefer to believe, rather than see what reason asks us to see...
posted by
Nautikos
on January 22, 2007 at 5:35 PM
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Joe Love,
thanks for your comment. I too have never been completely blinded by her charms, but nonetheless, I have allowed them to cloud my better judgment...
posted by
Nautikos
on January 22, 2007 at 5:33 PM
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Naut
There truly are none so blind as those who won't see ; none so deaf as those who won't hear.
I can't believe it sometimes, when I log on to Blogit in the mornings, and see the iinane, banal, trivial, and let's face it, utterly pointless chit chat going on among the same old group of people.
then I read you, or maybe Corbin, and I think " Hey you! You over there nattering away, what is this, a chat room? Don't you, can't you ever stop chuntering on and read about what actually going on out there in the big wide, perilous world?"
Naut, my friend, I really and truly believe that we in the west don't serve to survive. we deserve to have a merciless sharia law clamped around our necks.
Then maybe ... just maybe, we can get the guts, the commitment, the grasp of reality to mount a resistance movement.
If we can stop wittering on about nothings that is.
No doubt this will offend some folks, but tough! Tell it as it is, I say.
In the next coupla days, I'm gonna email you an article on a different subject to illustrate the total lack of comprehension in here and without.
posted by
ariel70
on January 22, 2007 at 12:48 PM
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Nautikos
Just got up, and got a busy day, but I'll comment at some length later.
Justi too, eh? Your comment section's gonna get overwhelmed.
Or, if recent history is any guide ; underwhelmed!
Be well, amigo
posted by
ariel70
on January 22, 2007 at 1:06 AM
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Nautikos
Excellent post. It is odd that the decay of Europe coincides with their lose of Christianity. I will post on this later.
posted by
Justi
on January 22, 2007 at 12:54 AM
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I think overall we prefer to believe
that it's not the norm. if we believe it's a limited few it's not as scary. I suspect, she is probably of the same mind.
posted by
bel_1965
on January 21, 2007 at 7:59 PM
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You wow-ed me again.
Mind you, nothing you wrote changed my opinion about
Christiane Amanpour. That view was formulated yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeears ago (on my own). But, to see ANYBODY come out and call her out. . . , well--I tip my hat to you! I loved your analysis on her. It was. . . , shocking! LOL
By the way, recently you visited my blog for a review of "Child of Men". Though I did not like this movie, while I was watching it, I thought, "I bet Naut would totally like this movie".
posted by
Joe_Love
on January 21, 2007 at 7:13 PM
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OFFBEATS
Thanks for your extensive comment! You are absolutely right in what you say! And you mention an important point, namely that a lot of Islamist terrorist activity is financed through 'normal' criminal activity, something that is often overloked!
posted by
Nautikos
on January 21, 2007 at 5:47 PM
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TAPS
thanks Taps. I think she really has to learn a lot...
posted by
Nautikos
on January 21, 2007 at 5:43 PM
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Kingmi
thanks for your comment! One really would have expected a little more from the 'CNN Senior International Correspondent'...
posted by
Nautikos
on January 21, 2007 at 5:36 PM
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Naut
I used to like her too back in the days when she covered the first gulf war but after the invasion of Iraq my views on her quickly turned. I thought how can someone be so darn smart and dumb at the same time..
The clips that Corbin is posting about is a true and accurate description of the real terror going on inside Great Britain today. I am amazed they have gotten that far because of the Brits being so traditional but I think they have turned a blind eye and now it is costing them...Radical Islam is deeply embedded in England and the U.S. I saw a report on Fox specials about the growth of Hezbelloh in the US and I find that very disturbing as well. If you get a chance check it out..What blew me away was how far back these cells go...1996..way back to the Clinton adm...and of course nothing was done...only monitoring. They funded arms and money to Hezbelloh thru legitimate business ventures and via theft of cigarettes... and regular meetings to raise cash. Also theft of credit card.Then after 911 they were prosecuted and found guilty but some dumb s*it lawyer is now taking the case saying they were victims of a witch hunt... the case now goes in front of the US Supreme Court.. the defense being "George Bush was looking for scape goats." Now I find that unbelievable!
posted by
Offy
on January 21, 2007 at 2:39 AM
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Nautikos
It sounds as if
Christiane Amanpour needs to read some of your blog posts.
posted by
TAPS.
on January 20, 2007 at 9:27 PM
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Nautikos, this just about sounds like the last word on Christiane. I've
Often wondered how my life might have been different had I ever met a lady like her. Yet her politics, green to the bark, defines the blindness in her soulful view of the world.
To have assumed that the young Islamic males were trustworthy is positively
priestly. And the kind of self-defeating behavior America is all too capable of.
posted by
kingmi
on January 20, 2007 at 9:16 PM
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I did a bit of digging,
and found one which was done by some guy who calls himself 'aerosolarabic' (whew), where she interviews some cat named Mohammed Ali, but the dialogue was inaudible because of the soundtrack...
posted by
Nautikos
on January 20, 2007 at 7:31 PM
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Naut.....
I remembered I needed to search for those videos right after I read your post......there's also a video of her and it's not a good one.......
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on January 20, 2007 at 7:14 PM
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