victims of our own invention? :)
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Pressure is mounting on George Bush's
national security adviser to give open
testimony to the US commission probing
the September 11 attacks.
Condoleezza Rice claims she would like
to speak out, but "a long-standing
principle" means sitting security
advisers do not testify to Congress.
Her refusal sparked widespread anger,
with one commissioner calling it a
"political blunder of the first order".
(UK Teletext News)
### - heh i've personally always kinda had the 'hots' for the
obviously rather intelligent + attractive ms Rice:) - but this 'old'
way of dealing with things was all very well, plus perhaps actually
used to work in more insular + darker/shadowy times (particularly
before the onset of the 'global-village' scenario i mean) - but is a
method i rather doubt will suffice in todays current climate where
just about everyone knows (or is getting to know:) everyone else's
business anyway?
potentially a more open, healthier place in many ways... but also a
place where (increasingly) old-fashioned types sometimes 'forget'
we're living in the age of fairly recent inventions like the humble
'magnifying glass' - an age where everything (eventually:) is being
openly examined 'by' that growing global community to the nth degree
for correctness... (cue comical image of everyone running-around with
big magnifying-glasses looking at everything:)
e.g. not saying we're 'slow' or myopic or anything heh... but if i
wanted to be generous towards a fumbling + crawling humanity i'd
probably have to say it just maybe takes us humans a little while to
realise (or for it to 'perculate' up into our minds then) all the
possible/potential applications that our sometimes clever little
inventions (often only initially fascinating and then shelved) which
may later turn out to have much deeper significance, meaning +
implication than we first suspected? (grin:)
plus with something like rank & file 'science' at the helm... i guess
anything in the future that can't stand-up to (and/or bear with) that
kinda close-scrutiny will just have to fall by the wayside then, wont
it... outdated politics & politicians included if necessary
(plus lol, there's actually hope for the future in this stuff... like
if one-day maybe even science 'itself' could be (somehow:) enticed
into a similar, plus thorough 'self' examination... then perhaps we
could ultimately all look forward to the whole 'edifice' (of so-called
knowledge) disappearing up its own asshole at some point! :)
just a metaphor? who knows... one can only hope for a better world heh
heh :))
"Come Senators, Congressmen, please heed the call
don't stand in the doorways don't block up the halls
for he who gets hurt will be he who has stalled..." :)
Songsmith
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>
> ### - heh i've personally always kinda had the 'hots' for the
> obviously rather intelligent + attractive ms Rice:) -
> PRESSURE MOUNTS ON RICE
Dude, I'd like to mount her....I'll probe her any day of the week! I would
LOVE to make her testify....lol. GLORY BE! I'd eat a big ol' bowl of her
rice.
I'd even sing this song to her...
http://www.sargenti.org/mp3/LEON_01.mp3
;o)
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Songsmith wrote
> - heh i've personally always kinda had the 'hots' for the
> obviously rather intelligent + attractive ms Rice:) -
> PRESSURE MOUNTS ON RICE
Dude, I'd like to mount her....I'll probe her any day of the week! I
would LOVE to make her testify....lol. GLORY BE! I'd eat a big ol'
bowl of her rice.
### - FILTHY beast! (lol)
I'd even sing this song to her...
http://www.sargenti.org/mp3/LEON_01.mp3
;o)
### - go sing it on the mountain? heh heh (i'll check it out later
tonite :)
hey vin, ever read any of Jack Kerouac's stuff? - 'Desolation Angels'
is the story of 'his' version of finding a thunder mountain + the
effect it had on him (on his vision/outlook) when he returned to
wallyworld... nice book :)
"Did you remember to sweep your floor clean today?" --(line from
'Desolation Angels' :)
Songsmith
"Slider"
I read Dharma Bums and a bunch of his poetry.
yeah, Kerouac was a tripper.
I also had a copy of Ginsberg's The Howl.
But my favorte writer right now is Jon Krakauer.
v!
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Songsmith wrote
> ever read any of Jack Kerouac's stuff?
read Dharma Bums
### - that's a nice book too... (evolved 'karmabum' nic. from same:)
yeah, Kerouac was a tripper.
### - he just told it as it is kinda thing... lived fast, peeled back
a few layers... saw a bit of the hidden (gem) behind the (human)
fascade... witnessed a bedraggled humanity (his: desolation angels)
just struggling to barely survive... plus saw yet another type of
human wandering around: bedraggled seekers (like himself) bums
searching after truth - 'truth-bums' (dharma bums) as he called
them... something that doesn't seem all that unusal these days to
people like us but which was pretty revolutionary back then...
only problem being that the rest of the world is still living as
though there hasn't even 'been' a jack-k (or others like him, since or
before) going right back to Arthur Rimbaud! which basically means
we're still all living about 150 years in the past society-wise...
almost as if 150 years of 'rather important' historical records have
kinda convieniently fallen down the back of some obscure filing
cabinet somewhere never to be found until it's safe to find them
again? (ref: Galileo and his telescope being banned for 150 years,
imho for very similar reasons:)
in fact it wasn't until 1999 (500 friggin' years later!) that the
church owned up to making a bit of a blunder over Galileo... (which
maybe also kinda offers us some sort of waiting-time (time-lag) we can
look forward to before the world catches up (is 'allowed' to catch up)
with just our modern history:)
funny old world sometimes ain't it... :-)