Archive for December 2005
December 27, 2005
Silly Terrorists
1:46 pm | Culture | History | Comments: 4
Surprisingly enough, high-profile Islamic terrorists do not like Steven Spielberg’s new film “Munich”. The film itself supposedly deals with the abduction and murder of 11 Israeli athletes (and an Israeli police officer) during the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany by the terrorist group Black September. Black September is a classic example of what happens when terrorists split from larger groups to form their own. Black September, like the Abu Nidal Organization, was a splinter group of the P.L.O. Historically, these splinter groups are always more violent than the group from which they split. The most interesting part about it all is reading what terrorists themselves have to say about all this.
Mohammed Daoud planned the Munich attack, and to this day is unrepentant, to say the least. His perception of reality is also in need of a tune-up. Dauod refers to himself, as all good anti-Israel Islamic terrorist wackos do, as a “revolutionary fighter”. He also claims that his plan for the Munich Massacre did not target civilians; a great statement, but for the fact that the only people that died in the attack were actually civilians. Daoud considers all Israelis to be “Zionist” soldiers, as do many thousands of Islamic terrorists around the world.
The other side of the story of Munich is Israel’s response. Mossad, the highly-renowned Israeli intelligence agency, responded by assassinating possibly as many as 18 Palestinians thought to be connected with Black September and specifically the Munich attack. Some, obviously including Daoud, consider this to be state-sponsored terrorism. Others believe it to be a justified and typically hardline response by Israel to an assault on her citizens.
The Munich attack of 1972 was an act of international terrorism that caught Germany completely off-guard, and was a turning-point in how the world as a whole viewed terrorism. Germany responded by forming Grenzschutzgruppe 9 (GSG-9), now perhaps the best counter-terrorist unit in the world. GSG-9 has formed a basis on which many other similar groups have been formed. The Munich incident, aside from being a senseless act of violence, was perhaps the first major battle in the global war against terror.
December 26, 2005
Parting Shot
1:41 pm | Culture | Pictures | Religion | Comments: 4
“Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.”
December 23, 2005
Fa La La La La, La La La La!
5:46 pm | Poetry | Comments: 5
Twas the weekend of Giftmas and all through the blog
No keyboards were stirring, nor raving ’bout smog
Polluting our atmosphere, wrecking the air;
The Government’s fault in the matter laid bare.
Tonite the world’s problems would just have to wait.
No half-decent blogger would break through the state
Of silence surrounding the world as a whole;
The stillness continued exacting its toll.
Santa was coming, the Blogger had heard.
Over and over the radio slurred
With one stupid song after similar song;
Somehow, and somewhere, the world had gone wrong.
The Blogger knew better, for Santa was not.
Santa, he heard, had messed up and got shot
By Cossacks in Russia way back in the day.
My story’s as good as the next one, okay?
The point is that Santa, though already dead,
Must die one again, this time in the head
Of all who continue to push all this trash
With all sorts of merchandise, dreaming of cash.
So why was it quiet, perhaps you might ask.
We’re wond’ring ourselves, for it’s not a small task
To look down in the depths of a Blogger’s odd brain
And fish out the meaning, his posts to make plain.
Take this as a comfort, that reading this blog
Will expose the great danger of filthy, black smog.
Smog is no good; it’s the Goverment’s fault.
Flee while you can, just leave me some Vault.
December 7, 2005
Dude, I Just Got Out Of Class
1:58 pm | College | My Life | Random | Comments: 7
I thought I would take a moment out of my stupe-tastically busy life and write about what I did today. Besides, I have 10 minutes to burn before German 301 and there’s only 45 people waiting in line frantically to print off their paper before classtime. Today I got out of bed at 8:30 after listening to Free Beer and Hot Wings for a half-hour. Getting out of bed is usually the best way to begin your day. That’s a tip, kids. Write it down.
So then I got trashed and all that. I realize now that I meant to type “dressed”, but rather typed “trashed”, I know not why. At any rate, I got dressed and had the usual Corn Flakes with far too much sugar added for breakfast, washed down with good, stiff Lanning coffee. I brushed my car off with what remains of my telescoping Ultrascrapernbrush, which snapped in half rather unfortuitously about a week ago. I had high hopes of using it to smack down some would-be hooligans, alas now it’s much too short. Five minutes to go.
Have you ever noticed how it’s at least 15 degrees colder in the Parking Ramp than it is outside the Parking Ramp? One would do well to study the Coolitude of the Parking Ramp. I parked my Honda in the Parking Ramp, as has been alluded to previously in the discussion about the Parking Ramp’s coolitude. This time I remembered to turn off my lights, so as not to have my evil world-domination plans foiled by the ins and outs of electricity and how batteries go dead if you leave lights running on cars. You’d think that we would have invented a means by which such batteries do not go dead by now. I mean, forget the whole cancer bit. I want electrical security for my transport apparatus!
It’s time for class. Huzzah!
December 5, 2005
Beyond Mediocrity
2:59 am | Culture | Thoughts | Comments: 6
As promised to ex-blogger and sellout John, I’m talking about Harry Potter. Potter! What a noob. Sorry folks, but the kid hasn’t gotten a clue yet, and he’s almost allowed to drink in Germany. That’s pretty scary. I have always maintained that as far as movies go, the Harry Potter movies are O.K. movies. Not the best by any stretch of the imagination, mind you. There’s just a few minor issues I have with the films, and no I am not talking about witchcraft.
The biggest problem is the li’l fella himself. From the very first moments of the first movie, people have recognized and been in awe of Harry Potter. Why does he still act so freaking surprised about it? He’s dumb as a box of rocks, that’s why. Seriously Harry, after four years of being Mr. Celebrity why is it still such a big deal when random people know who you are? If Potter were smart, he could make some major bones with advertising gigs, maybe a sponsorship or two. Instead he wanders around in a state of clueless wonderment stumbling through one amazing coincidence after another.
What’s the deal with the Hogwart’s teachers, anyway? Seems to me that in every movie there’s some terrible danger threatening the very lives of the students and these amazing magical “masters” have no idea what’s going on or how to stop it. The fact that everybody at the school is at risk of dying in each movie doesn’t seem to send the message to parents that it’s not exactly safe to be sending their kids off to the place. In the fourth movie, Dumb-bledore not only doesn’t know what’s going on around him, he actually allows kids to enter a contest that might kill them. Yea, nothing says quality education like getting fried to death by a dragon or drowning in the lake while your professors watch helplessly. I hope Hogwart’s has a policy for giving out diplomas posthumusly.
Lastly, what ever happened to Draco? In the first couple movies he was actually a decent bad guy. In the latest film he got maybe 3 minutes of screen time. Pathetic. Another dumb thing about Harry Potter & Co. is the way they hold their magic wands like pistols. What’s next? Gangsta magicians holding their wands sideways? Is that even possible? I rate the new Harry Potter film 1 out of 10, because if I were 14 years old I would think Hermione was pretty cute.
