Sunday Morning Montage
This morning I think about how my blog has lost some of it's fire since the Democratic sweep last November. While the holidays kept us busy, the punditry paused until the 110th circus begins. Myself, I've about exhausted my positions on the Anti-Bush front, and my beating the pulpit of how screwed up society is only goes so far. It all seems so trite in retrospect. I struggle to find something that engages my muse.
There's so much that needs discussion. Unfortunately, I lack insight as I excel in ignorance. But sometimes a cursory view can tell a deep story without effort. So I assemble a montage of words to assemble a picture:
"I kept thinking how life is cheap, how so many innocent people are killed."
HADI FARIS, whose son Hamza, 11, was one of 34 boys killed in a 2005 suicide bombing in Baghdad.*[…]
The Bush administration is expected to announce next week a major step forward in the building of the country’s first new nuclear warhead in nearly two decades. It will propose combining elements of competing designs from two weapons laboratories in an approach that some experts argue is untested and risky.
The new weapon would not add to but replace the nation’s existing arsenal of aging warheads, with a new generation meant to be sturdier, more reliable, safer from accidental detonation and more secure from theft by terrorists.*
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"This is the South, so of course everybody's going to say it was some white guy shooting a black guy," said Dr. Terry Welke, the Calcasieu Parish coroner who ruled that Washington killed himself.**
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US Army urges dead to re-enlist.***
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Iraq's massive oil reserves, the third-largest in the world, are about to be thrown open for large-scale exploitation by Western oil companies under a controversial law which is expected to come before the Iraqi parliament within days.****
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ISRAEL has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons.
Two Israeli air force squadrons are training to blow up an Iranian facility using low-yield nuclear “bunker-busters”, according to several Israeli military sources.*****
People are worried about Iraq and it's citizens, the future of warfare and prospects of nuclear aggression, the real meaning behind the whole mess America is in. They take in stride the latent racism and disharmony within our borders. They show resignation over problems they didn't create and cannot control. The world stage and it's players are disconnected from the people. Perhaps this has always been true.
*Source: NY Times
**Source: CNN
***Source: BBC News
****Source: The Independent
*****Source: Times Online