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Twitter weekly updates by crimulus for 2009-09-13

13 Sep
  • People, if you respect this country, respect its leaders and seek logical debate, don’t give your kids signs like this: http://abv8.me/17F #
  • Off to the homeplace to see how many people ask me what crazy beer I’m drinking :) #
  • @THETETRA Yeah … I really can’t believe it’s been 10 years. #
  • It can take only seconds to forget, continuous repetition to remember, but quite often a lifetime to forgive. Also takes a lifetime to die. #
  • Rather than focus on the bad, I would like to now reflect on Sept. 11, 1999. I had just bought a Dreamcast (9/9/99) and Sonic. Good times. #
  • <?php @jeremytharp (); ?> :( #
  • RT @NPRPOLITICS What were you doing #on911? Driving down I-68 on my way to class in Morgantown. Got out of class at 11am & towers were gone. #
  • and the legend of the RENT was WAY HARDCORE!!!!!!!!!!!! #
  • In the days of the caveman, mammoths, and glaciers … bugs and trees were your food then. No pyjamas or doctors …… #
  • Finally ordered the sound card I need to make my studio come back to life. http://abv8.me/15y 1U Rackmount, 14 input channels + USB=SWEEEET #
  • http://abv8.me/15v Apology made, apology accepted. Now, can we move on and deal with the whole innovating-to-fix-the-damn-problem thing? #
  • RT @TheOnion [video] Americans Observing 9/11 By Trying Not To Masturbate http://bit.ly/11ZD7y LMFAO #
  • Good job, Mr. President, calling the Congress to action. Way to call out the naysayers (on both sides) and proffer a real compromise. #
  • Coolest thing ever! Wardensville on CNN … http://abv8.me/14O Makes me very proud :) #
  • About the coolest picture ever :-D http://abv8.me/14L (Crasher Squirrel) #
  • @NBA Clyde Drexler #Fathead Twivia (20k pts, 6k rebs, 6k asts) #
  • RT @factcheckdotorg Q: Did Obama change his back-to-school speech in response to pressure from conservatives? A: http://bit.ly/KVJxO #
  • @silverclassics Hey if you think about it today call about the FF table, see what’s up with that. #
  • RT @TheOnion [audio] President Obama Holds Surprise Rooftop Press Conference http://bit.ly/1CX2f #
  • Life tip: You are only as good as the ice cream you eat. Mmmmm … I am real good. :-D #
  • http://abv8.me/13d Focus on McCain’s comments. This is the guy who would be President if Obama weren’t. If he can move on and compromise… #
  • @GSTEPHANOPOULOUS Wow! :-D (Al Franken draws the US) http://abv8.me/13c #
  • http://abv8.me/13b AGREE: ‘the country has “become so polarized that we believe that our president is an enemy and not our leader.”‘ #
  • When you spend less time working on your focus, you can spend more time focusing on your work. I know. The profundity is eternal. #
  • I spent all morning and all night thinking about it, and all I got was this lousy update. #
  • RT @TheOnion White Sufficiency Movement Asserts Whites Right Up There With Other Races http://bit.ly/2bg1CC #
  • Wow, Obama wants so bad to indoctrinate your children that he’s letting you read his speech first …. http://abv8.me/12d … {{ crickets }} #
  • Screw reality, I’m going home. (A la Cartman?) #
  • A good read (essential, in a way) for anyone interested in understanding the foundations of this country (more to come) http://abv8.me/11L #

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So Barack Obama bowed to a foreign minister …

08 Apr

Ok the uproar over this gesture (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WlqW6UCeaY) is completely out of hand. Conservatives see it as an admission of Middle Eastern sovereignty over the United States. Liberals see it as a simple miscue.

Is it either? Well, it is both, but let’s be reasonable. Does the Saudi King now believe he has absolute sovereignty over the United States? Has he claimed the United States and its possessions into the domain of Saudi Arabia?

Hardly.

It is ignorant to continually dispute things like this. These are dignitaries. They are not gods. That is, they make mistakes, and they realize people from other cultures make mistakes.

I am not 100% convinced that Obama is bowing, because it looks more like he’s bending over to pick up a quarter he dropped or something. However, if he did bow, it was undoubtedly a gesture of good faith. President Obama did not hand the keys of the United States over to King Abdullah. Yes, a bow to that nature in the Muslim culture is a gesture of complete submission. Obama is not a Saudi citizen however, and Abdullah must be accustomed to interacting with people of different cultures. To that point, it is not likely that the Saudi King recognized this gesture as anything but one of good will.

You’ve got to remember. Leaders constantly get immersed in different cultures and have no choice but to be lenient in their interpretations both in spoken and body language. Look at it this way: if King Abdullah would have smacked Obama on the butt like a basketball player in the locker room, would we really think they were good buddies? You can be certain that the first glance interpretation we made of the gesture would be accompanied by a great deal of skepticism and debate.

If the Saudi King believes he has gained any control over the United States, he did so because of the failed policies of our previous, incompetent, arrogant former President. You know, Dubya? He is the most significant cause of our dwindled respect from our worldly observers.

The “terrorist attacks” of September 11th, 2001 occurred approximately 8 months after George W. Bush was inaugurated the 43rd President of the United States of America. Therefore, Bush’s failure to demonstrate a firm stand against the terrorist powers of the world directly led to this attack.

Disagree? Not preventing that attack is equally as at fault for Muslim sovereignty over the United States as Obama’s apparent faux pas.

Get over it, and, instead of nit-picking Obama’s non-godly ability to make mistakes, help us regain respect, not some ill-conceived reverence, in the international community.

We are not THE power, we are a communal power, and everyone is trying to get along.

But that is another entry …

 
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