Tag: random musings
member name: Sean Paul Kelley
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August 05, 2006 10:41 PM EDT --
Just a short notice: odds are now in my favor that I will go to Afghanistan in the October-November timeframe (Iran is pretty much a done deal before Afghanistan). I don't think I'll travel from . . .
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August 03, 2006 01:05 AM EDT --
We've all heard lots about the Palestinian children dressed up as suicide bombers. I find it grotesquely appalling that children are taught to hate at so young an age.
Of course, there are two sides . . .
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July 04, 2006 09:33 PM EDT --
Interesting anecdote from this news story at the Columbus Dispatch.
At the end of the story is this graf:
The newly released Yearbook 2006 draws from data maintained by Sweden's Uppsala University. . . .
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August 25, 2006 07:23 PM EDT --
The trip my father and I have planned for Iran is now a virtually certainty, as we just received final visa approval from the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. I haven't been this excited about . . .
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June 27, 2006 12:30 PM EDT --
I'll be back to blogging later today. I'm going to try and wrap up the last 100 or so pages of Ron Suskind's new book, "The One Percent Doctrine."
In the interim, from page 65, here's . . .
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April 11, 2006 08:16 PM EDT --
Spent a lot of my day thinking about Iran. Spent a lot of my day reading about Iran. Here's where I am: first off, the trip. Because of personal commitments I made earlier this year, if I don't . . .
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June 12, 2006 03:25 PM EDT --
With terms like these I won't be posting much at You-Tube any longer, rather I'll host it here.
Get this:
In its Terms & Conditions, the wildly popular video sharing site YouTube emphasizes . . .
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September 28, 2006 05:18 PM EDT --
I was browsing through an old copy of To The Finland Station by Edmund Wilson last night and a few lines from Louis Menand's foreword reached out at me, grabbed me by the neck and threw me on the floor. . . .
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January 12, 2009 10:51 PM EST --
Memo to President-Elect Obama:
"Now it is folly to go against men who could not be kept under even if conquered, while failure would leave us in a very different position from that which . . .
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April 21, 2006 04:40 PM EDT --
Sometimes I read stuff that just amazes me, especially as it is clearer and clearer that Ahmed-i-Nejad is Bush's doppelganger. Seriously, just read it and insert Bush for Ahmed-i-Nejad and it sounds . . .
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April 21, 2006 05:26 PM EDT --
Yesterday's events with Chinese President Hu Jin-tao prove how incompetent Bush and his administration are when it comes to the real work of diplomacy, not to mention things like security!?!
But let's . . .
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April 24, 2006 11:28 PM EDT --
E&P writes today on how "God Shapes His Foreign Policy."
Sayeth our George W. Bush:
I base a lot of my foreign policy decisions on some things that I think are true. One, I believe there's . . .
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April 27, 2006 07:38 PM EDT --
I used to smoke. I used to climb mountains. I used to climb mountains and smoke.
Now I don't smoke, but I will climb mountains when I get to China next week.
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April 28, 2006 01:36 AM EDT --
In less than a week I will leave for China. I can't wait. I am so ready. It's been almost two years since I've been anywhere.
We checked the weather in Mongolia today: 31° and snowing. . . .
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May 17, 2006 03:23 AM EDT --
Video Blogging Can be Found Here.
My father and I are currently in Guangxi Province, the city of Yangshou, Garden of the Earth as the Chinese poets call it. Magnificent. It's my father's favorite . . .
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June 02, 2006 12:12 AM EDT --
For the next ten years at least, the only threat to America China will mount with any amount of credibility will be an economic threat. As I said to my father early week before last, upon my first trip . . .
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June 03, 2006 12:14 AM EDT --
Ever wondered where silk comes from and how it is made? Ever wanted to watch the process?
Well, wonder no more and watch this video I made of my trip to China recently.
Enjoy!
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June 30, 2006 04:31 PM EDT --
I'm appalled at what the Israelis are doing to the Palestinians right now. What is happening right now is out of all proportion to anything the Palestinians did or possibly were planning to do. I watched . . .
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July 04, 2006 09:43 PM EDT --
Here's a question about economics I'm curious to have others opine about.
The underlying assumptions are that the Japanese have begun reducing the liquidity of the Yen. That the Chinese are facing . . .
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July 22, 2006 06:16 PM EDT --
There is no way to justify or rationalize this:
But she confirmed that FEMA does not allow the media to speak alone to residents in their trailers.
"If a resident invites the media to the trailer, . . .
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