Monthly Archives: June 2009

Alaska Next for the Fears

June 6, 2009 – 11:25 pm

Alaska is the US State closest to the Asia and citizens of the 49th state have been expressing their concern about the possibility of North Korean missiles attacking their canneries and cruise ship harbors. Defense Secretary Robert Gates’ attempts to placate their fears further fueled their paranoia in the face of the Obama regime cutting […]

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Edgar Allan Poe Illustrations

June 6, 2009 – 8:12 pm

My grandmother had this book in her library. THE COLLECTED STORIES OF EDGAR ALLEN POE. This image scared me and all my friends, but even more terrifying was another with rats tearing at a captive man’s flesh. My grandmother bequeathed this book to me. I loved Edgar Allan Poe. Especially The Narrative of Arthur Gordon […]

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Poor Grasshopper

June 6, 2009 – 12:49 pm

Most Americans’ introduction to eastern thought was via the TV show KUNG FU starring David Carradine. The lanky actor played a Eurasian Shaolin monk, Kwai Chang Caine wandering the Old West. Wisdom was dispensed through flashbacks to the young man’s studies with his tutor, Master Po. Master Po: Close your eyes. What do you hear? […]

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Where is Tank Man?

June 4, 2009 – 7:12 am

A Chinese protester blocks a line of tanks heading east on Beijing’s Cangan Blvd. June 5, 1989 in front of the Beijing Hotel. Twenty years ago a single man stopped a convoy of tanks near Peking’s Forbidden City one days at the Tiananmen massacre. Cameras and videos captured the young man’s defiance of governmental power. […]

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Only the Dead are Guilty – Tak Bai verdict

June 4, 2009 – 6:43 am

A Thai court in Songkla ruled that the army was no responsible for the deaths of 85 protesters, including 78 who died in detention after a confrontation at a police station in Tak Bai. Court officials have refrained from speaking with the media after this verdict. The dead are dead, because they were in the […]

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