tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36458792012-04-12T03:05:50.845+03:00FifteenMinutesEveryone gets theirs.Shaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16413698395623660192noreply@blogger.comBlogger209125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645879.post-1110799579202313592005-03-14T13:26:00.000+02:002005-03-14T13:54:08.556+02:00Over the past few weeks I've attempted to ressurrect this blog... but truth be told, too many heated altercations with those of opposed alignments have left something of an unpleasant taste in my mouth over the months. Also, for months - no, years - I've been running this blog and my LiveJournal simultaneously - the idea being, this blog would be solely dedicated to serious meanderings on Shaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16413698395623660192noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645879.post-1110533447791283742005-03-11T11:30:00.000+02:002005-03-11T11:30:47.790+02:00This is what the U.N needs : a good, square, kick in the teeth. The U.N is a mess. Time to quit hiding behind diplomatic niceties. Time to say it like it is. And Bolton seems like the man for the job.Shaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16413698395623660192noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645879.post-1110207230767792952005-03-07T16:53:00.000+02:002005-03-07T16:53:50.766+02:00What have the Yanks ever done for us?"ONE OF MY favourite cinematic moments is the scene in Monty Python?s Life of Brian when Reg, aka John Cleese, the leader of the People?s Front of Judea, is trying to whip up anti-Roman sentiment among his team of slightly hesitant commandos.?What have the Romans ever done for us?? he asks.?Well, there?s the aqueduct,? somebody says, thoughtfully. ?The Shaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16413698395623660192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645879.post-1109861057871726522005-03-03T16:44:00.000+02:002005-03-03T16:44:17.870+02:00As noted by a CNN reporter , I forget his name : something's in the air in the middle east. Protest demanding democratic reform appear to be gathering momentum. It started in Lebanon, with demonstrations leading to the pro-Syrian government resigning, Egypt and Saudi Arabia are nervously shuffling their feet and attempting to placate their people by holding sham elections (which in itsself is a Shaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16413698395623660192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645879.post-1109689096983555082005-03-01T16:58:00.000+02:002005-03-01T16:58:16.983+02:00Ted Rall relents? Holy crap. I bet there are hordes of flying pigs darkening the sky right now.Some may know about Ted Rall's challenge to the right-wing blogosphere.This is what he had to say on Feb 25 :"So here's my challenge: Please email your worst, most vicious examples of liberal/leftie blogger vitriol (with links, natch), and I'll post 'em right here. If they exist, obviously.If not, let'sShaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16413698395623660192noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645879.post-1109681985066353862005-03-01T14:59:00.000+02:002005-03-01T14:59:45.066+02:00Mark Steyn's latest makes for some thought provoking reading. It's certainly hopeful. The short : he notes that maybe - just maybe - with Iraq's successful election in January, the oppressed civilians of the Middle East are waking up to the truth. That they don't have to take it (hums) No, they don't have to take it. They don't have to take it, anymore.Here's hoping the sentiment lasts. Hopeful Shaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16413698395623660192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645879.post-1109319759025660112005-02-25T10:22:00.000+02:002005-02-25T10:22:39.026+02:00Looks like the cops are doing something right for a change.Shootout on highway.My stepdad was actually involved. This event occurred just up the road from where he lives. Hearing the gunfire, he did the rather brave(stupid?) thing of climbing in his pickup and driving out onto the highway to see just what the hell was happening and possibly assist. Whereupon he came upon the police searching for Shaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16413698395623660192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645879.post-1109319207292699532005-02-25T10:13:00.000+02:002005-02-25T10:13:27.293+02:00Found this over at Fark :Some Arabs embrace democratisation.On a side note, I guess this post represent my tentative return to blogging. It's just been a busy last couple of months, hopefully things will mellow out enough to allow me some time during the day to reflect on things.Shaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16413698395623660192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645879.post-1104484135674185582004-12-31T11:03:00.000+02:002004-12-31T11:08:55.676+02:00VDH offers some tips for lefties.
Great read. Heartily reccommended.Shaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16413698395623660192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645879.post-1103879369432671482004-12-24T10:56:00.000+02:002004-12-24T11:09:29.433+02:00VDH says : Leave Rumsfeld Alone.
In particular, this struck me as very true :
"The blame with this war falls not with Donald Rumsfeld. We are more often the problem — our mercurial mood swings and demands for instant perfection devoid of historical perspective about the tragic nature of god-awful war. Our military has waged two brilliant campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq. There has been an Shaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16413698395623660192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645879.post-1100768861538253672004-11-18T11:02:00.000+02:002004-11-18T11:07:41.536+02:00Election results thus far :
"so far, the status is this.
in presidential regions, a total number of 40000 votes have been counted and confirmed so far, mostly in the northern regions. Pohamba leads by 81.odd %, and by as much as 96.5% in one constituency." - Bent_Anat (emphasis mine)
Looks like the land reform issue hit a note with the poor, disillusioned electorate whose lousy lives haven't Shaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16413698395623660192noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645879.post-1100688767094410112004-11-17T13:49:00.000+02:002004-11-17T12:52:47.093+02:00
You Are a Pundit Blogger!
Your blog is smart, insightful, and always a quality read.
Truly appreciated by many, surpassed by only a few.
What kind of blogger are you?
Heh. Well. Within the coming weeks I should be resurfacing from my hiatus to resume blogging. Well, hopefully at least. I'll have a bit of info on our elections tomorrow, as info becomes available. Otherwise, still busy withShaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16413698395623660192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645879.post-1100598593515618152004-11-16T11:44:00.000+02:002004-11-16T11:49:53.516+02:00A quick emergence from my hiatus to forward any interested to my comment over here on the Namibian elections, which were held yesterday and are continuing through today. Results should be known Thursday.
I'm predicting the continuation of the ruling party's 2/3rds majority. People here are too deathly afraid of change, the largest opposition party has diminished due to a band of members Shaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16413698395623660192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645879.post-1099908099799901192004-11-08T11:56:00.000+02:002004-11-08T12:05:16.806+02:00Regarding the recent American presidential election, and Dubyas second term, I think the following quote sums up my stance perfectly :
"It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions" - Daniel Defoe
Despite everything, the world seems to have shown some sense. Well, at least the average American voter.
I'm going to be cutting back on Shaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16413698395623660192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645879.post-1099376159657764102004-11-02T08:15:00.000+02:002004-11-02T08:15:59.656+02:00So I watched Fahrenheit 9/11 last night, on our local sattelite cable chanel.
I thought it was pretty poignant. Agitprop? Sure. But it came from the heart. (Certainly not the head, though.)
One thing that struck me is how much xenophobia Moore showcases - judging by the film, Moore would have us believe that all Saudis are shady, evil people.
The irony is almost too much to bear, him Shaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16413698395623660192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645879.post-1098780289348880242004-10-26T11:43:00.000+03:002004-10-26T11:44:49.346+03:00Here's the latest October surprise.
380 tons of explosives went missing, and Kerry goes completely ape.
The only problem is, it went missing in 2003, before US troops were even in the area.
Political? Biased media?
Naah. Shaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16413698395623660192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645879.post-1097846267406441722004-10-15T16:01:00.000+03:002004-10-15T16:17:47.406+03:00Wow. A bit of good news out of Zim.
"A court in Zimbabwe has acquitted opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai of treason charges. Mr Tsvangirai was accused of plotting to kill President Robert Mugabe in 2002 just ahead of elections controversially won by the Zimbabwean leader. He said he felt "really relieved and vindicated" by the verdict.
Mr Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Shaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16413698395623660192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645879.post-1097671508856256292004-10-13T15:41:00.000+03:002004-10-13T15:45:08.856+03:00I picked this up off a certain forum, with the thread description, "Aren't you glad you don't live in the states?" (Nice.)
A few minutes ago, a police officer passed the bench where I was sitting outside the [edit: Nantucket] Athenaeum, enjoying the mild temperature and the wifi signal, and he said, “Sir, you can’t use the Internet outside the library.”
I said, “What?” (I’m pretty clever under Shaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16413698395623660192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645879.post-1097653437344284462004-10-13T10:33:00.000+03:002004-10-13T11:03:32.686+03:00Kerry's Fahrenheit 9/11?
It's weird to see the sheer volume of anti-Kerry ads and documentaries airing these days. I guess the assumption that the media is entirely for Kerry, probably is merely just that.
The DNC also wants it shut down.
Ahem.
"The Bush-Cheney campaign didn't file a complaint with the FEC after what it says were unfair allegations that were widely broadcast against Shaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16413698395623660192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645879.post-1097488622030090462004-10-11T13:53:00.000+03:002004-10-11T13:05:57.246+03:00Well, the Afghans aren't letting some petulant ex-dictators push them around anymore.
Looks like they're starting to enjoy & appreciate the freedom bought with American bullets, bombs, and blood.
"It is amazing, as an Afghan, to see the turnout, see how many people have come out to cast their votes - especially as it was an exercise that was new to them," says Shoaib Sharifi, a senior Afghan Shaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16413698395623660192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645879.post-1097047936483366272004-10-06T10:28:00.000+03:002004-10-06T10:32:16.483+03:00Arafat thinks he's Mandela...
This had me choking on my morning cup o joe.
"CAIRO, Egypt - Comparing himself to South Africa's Nelson Mandela, Palestinian Authority (news - web sites) President Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) said in an interview published Tuesday that he will step down from office after he has ruled an independent Palestinian state.
Arafat, in an interview with the Shaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16413698395623660192noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645879.post-1096537402725062912004-09-30T13:38:00.000+03:002004-09-30T12:43:22.726+03:00Welcome to Nambabwe.
"Govt ready to take next step on land reform
CHRISTOF MALETSKY
SOME white farmers who have been approached by Government to sell their land to the State for resettlement purposes have refused to do so, says Lands Minister Hifikepunye Pohamba.
But, he said, Government was in the process of expropriating those farms whose owners had refused to co-operate.
"Government is Shaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16413698395623660192noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645879.post-1096281804608797522004-09-27T13:36:00.000+03:002004-09-27T13:43:24.606+03:00If you've seen Fahrenheit 9/11, be sure to catch the flip side of the same coin.
It's pretty interesting, even inspiring. Theres this, and there's Michael Moore Hates America - two documentaries being released, with the same agenda. To cast some doubt on the 'truths' in F9/11.
Personally, I can't wat to see both F9/11 and it's two critics. I will try and watch them all in one sitting. That way Shaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16413698395623660192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645879.post-1096016432830458692004-09-24T11:43:00.000+03:002004-09-24T12:00:32.830+03:00Regarding the whole Cat Stevens-deportation thing...
The thread linked above, I believe, more or less illustrates the two general views people have on the issue. There are those who now question whether Mr Stevens is a bona-fide Islamofascist, but have nothing much to go on, and those mewling "But that's unpossible! And by the way, the US = racialist! SQUEEEEEE!"
To the former group, I say - Shaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16413698395623660192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645879.post-1095753924023299722004-09-21T11:02:00.000+03:002004-09-21T11:05:24.023+03:00Rather admits defeat.
Even as he apologises, though, he blurbs, "It was meant in good faith"
Hmf. Blogosphere 1, Liberal Media 0.Shaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16413698395623660192noreply@blogger.com0