OK, so I want to start off tonight… by giving full props to my man Magnus for leaving a blog worthy commentary on my entry from 9/24 (and especially referring to it as his rant – that’s all me baby)… I have pasted his comments below for they are well worth of ‘front page’ treatment… and front page on Sivyxa… is high end real estate indeed…
Now let me address some of Magnus’s points… regarding the fact that UN assembly is in NY is an honor… I know… though unfortunately most of us… especially myself… take no advantage of this whatsoever… except for wondering through the UN park once every seven years… looking at the black overfed squirrels who reside there – they are fat and obese creatures indeed… and then posing for pictures next to the well hung elephant whom our own beloved despot, rudy-boy guiliani tried having de-masculanized…. Thank god the elephant is still in one piece, all pieces included…
To a degree I feel like my complaint is still valid… but yea… I guess end of all ends… I don’t have a car… I do take the subway… and all the hoopla surrounding these hypocrite gatherings really is kinda funny to watch… especially when one of their motorcades gets stuck in Rockefeller center traffic and you see the secret service agents start going apeshit…. (this I witnessed on Friday)…
Next point on Magnus’s commentary – my boy Mahmoud Ahmadinejad… I still stick to my guns here… I do totally agree that he should not have been allowed to stand on his Hitler pulpit and spit out his usual idiocies… on the other hand… I am not sure trying to embarrass and humiliate him was the best way to open up a ‘meaningful’ dialogue… for after all, all good people of Persia are going to hear is how their elected representative (Hitler was kind of elected too, now to think of it) got treated like a one eyed leper at a beauty colony by these ingrate American intellectuals…
Magnus – regarding beating you to Burmese commentary – I didn’t think of it before – but the pleasure is all mine J
And finally regarding Burma… who the hell knows… end of all ends… I hope it sorts itself out… what else can be done, by us at least, outside of telling anybody and everybody what an unbelievable place it is – I am not sure…
On other points of the day… I was provided these two fine youtube clips in the last couple of days… one of them is by a deranged queen of a Britney spears fan… and the other (in Russian) is by the mayor of my beloved hometown, Kharkov… both qualify as perhaps some of the funniest things I have ever seen in my life…
Now let me address some of Magnus’s points… regarding the fact that UN assembly is in NY is an honor… I know… though unfortunately most of us… especially myself… take no advantage of this whatsoever… except for wondering through the UN park once every seven years… looking at the black overfed squirrels who reside there – they are fat and obese creatures indeed… and then posing for pictures next to the well hung elephant whom our own beloved despot, rudy-boy guiliani tried having de-masculanized…. Thank god the elephant is still in one piece, all pieces included…
To a degree I feel like my complaint is still valid… but yea… I guess end of all ends… I don’t have a car… I do take the subway… and all the hoopla surrounding these hypocrite gatherings really is kinda funny to watch… especially when one of their motorcades gets stuck in Rockefeller center traffic and you see the secret service agents start going apeshit…. (this I witnessed on Friday)…
Next point on Magnus’s commentary – my boy Mahmoud Ahmadinejad… I still stick to my guns here… I do totally agree that he should not have been allowed to stand on his Hitler pulpit and spit out his usual idiocies… on the other hand… I am not sure trying to embarrass and humiliate him was the best way to open up a ‘meaningful’ dialogue… for after all, all good people of Persia are going to hear is how their elected representative (Hitler was kind of elected too, now to think of it) got treated like a one eyed leper at a beauty colony by these ingrate American intellectuals…
Magnus – regarding beating you to Burmese commentary – I didn’t think of it before – but the pleasure is all mine J
And finally regarding Burma… who the hell knows… end of all ends… I hope it sorts itself out… what else can be done, by us at least, outside of telling anybody and everybody what an unbelievable place it is – I am not sure…
On other points of the day… I was provided these two fine youtube clips in the last couple of days… one of them is by a deranged queen of a Britney spears fan… and the other (in Russian) is by the mayor of my beloved hometown, Kharkov… both qualify as perhaps some of the funniest things I have ever seen in my life…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU-WwG9-LAI&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fforum%2Emediaport%2Einfo%2Fread%2Ephp%3F5%2C425346
Finally… on other matters… a special threat goes out to Lena & Yoga for brainwashing my Mila into thinking that Southern France is quaint and boring and not worthy of a first European visit… the guilt trip on this one, my friends, will be quite large… trust me!!! It took me a full evening last night to sort the mess you made out!!!
MAGNUS’S COMMENTARY –
On Myanmar - first off all, the thought of you beating me to commenting on this issue has hampered my productivity at work all week. Secondly, I think you are very right - The people of Myanmar are on their own. Sitting as they do in the shadow of and under the protection of China, Nobody will do Anything to help them - not if they lined up their people outside a pagoda and chopped their heads off one by one on CNN. Sanctions don't mean anything to a country with three trading partners - China, India and to a small extent Thailand - who won't participate. As long as all those brainwashed eighteen year olds in the army keep taking orders to shoot from the Generals, the nation is screwed. It makes me angry, and it makes me upset - but there's nothing I can do about it.On having the UN in New York - dude, deal with it. What I wouldn't do to have the world's decision makers - or scratch that, anything of enough international significance so that it would be worth spending a career working on - at my family's doorstep. New Yorkers, unlike the rest of Amercia you're blessed with a functioning public transport system - use it. I've never understood why one would want a car in New York anyway - it's consistently faster to walk across town. Here's an idea... congestion charge...Ahmadinejad - I did not approve of the rude name calling. But everything else I thought they did right. Of course they were right to invite him - students and faculty got engaged, and intellectual debate and awareness was stimulated. Those voices calling in outrage for him not to be allowed to speak - I hate to point this out, but that's just another form of the self-righteous cencorship he practises in Iran. As for how to manage the discussion and letting him say what he wanted to say - the man is an accomplished demagouge. He could have stood there for hours and spewed propaganda, some valid and some not. But the only way the discussion has any value is if there is frank debate. Not rude debate - but ask the tough questions, and when he doesn't answer, tell him he didn't answer. It's the same as a TV interview - if you want something new to come out, ask some real questions.Enough ranting for now...
1 comment:
Appreciate the respect, my man :)
Wish I could understand what your governor is saying... still funny though :) but the other link doesn't work.
What do you think about my congestion charge idea? :)
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