Blogger is your passport to the world
Hit that link in the upper righthand corner of this page that says "Next blog." A whole new world will open before your eyes.
Blogger, which is owned by Google, offers blogging free to the world. Anyone who wants a blog can get one. All they need is some computer literacy and access to the web. Communication is liberating!
I hit that link and instantly I'm transported to The Philippines, Portugal, Kuwait, Italy, Indonesia, Malaysia, just to name a few countries I've visited recently by way of their citizens' blogs.
I hit that link and I know that teenage girls the world over are depressed about their body image and are worried about dating, and teenage boys the world over love video games. That nearly every one of them -- boy and girl alike -- is shy and doesn't know what to do Friday night. And they're all worried about tests.
I hit that link and I find the mother of teenage sons trying to please her mother yet trying to understand why her 14-year-old son doesn't want to go to church anymore. (It's that age of rebellion. I went through it. I figure God's not the kind you have to wind up on Sunday and that church is in session whenever I feel like talking with God ... or He feels like talking with me.)
I'll also find stay-at-home moms across the world reaching out into the ether for a penpal to share their concerns.
So stop reading my blog and head out the door. Follow the "Next Blog" brick road ... and walk a mile in their ether shoes. They've thrown a message in a Blogger bottle out into the world and they're waiting for you to find it!
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IMPORTANT NEWS WE MISSED: As Benjamin Franklin wrote: "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." The government of Spain, following the worst terrorist attack in the country's recorded history -- a train explosion that killed 191 men, women and children -- pulled its troops from Iraq. Not only did the move not placate the terrorists but it appears to have emboldened them, according to the International Herald Tribune.
Islamists, apparently in the belief that Spain can be easily cowed and will fold under pressure, continue to plot against the Iberians, say that government's intelligence experts. And despite all this in-your-face evidence moonbeam academics from ivy towers in the U. S. and Europe still say violence against terrorists will anger them and create more terrorism. (No doubt when the dead terrorists are made into a ambulatory metabolically-challenged Islamist army.) We missed this news but "Barcepundit" didn't, so that blog gets our nod as:
Islamists, apparently in the belief that Spain can be easily cowed and will fold under pressure, continue to plot against the Iberians, say that government's intelligence experts. And despite all this in-your-face evidence moonbeam academics from ivy towers in the U. S. and Europe still say violence against terrorists will anger them and create more terrorism. (No doubt when the dead terrorists are made into a ambulatory metabolically-challenged Islamist army.) We missed this news but "Barcepundit" didn't, so that blog gets our nod as:
Blog of the Day:
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Fax mentis incedium gloriae - The passion of glory is the torch of the mind
posted by NEWS4A2, blood-sucking journalist @ 13:15
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2 Comments:
On the Madrid bombing:
Shortly after the bombing in March the Spanish government pulled its troops out of Iraq . . . but it was not the same government. Right-wing Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar had been in power at the time of the attacks, which just happened to be three days before general elections where socialist candidate Jose Luiz Zapatero ousted Aznar. Zapatero pulled his country's soldier out of Iraq but not as a direct result of the terror attacks, but because it was one of his campaign promises. Obviously the attacks influenced how the Spanish people voted, but the attack and the military withdrawl are not as directly related as many believe.
Just something interesting I learned while researching a paper for my political studies class.
Thanks for the comments James. I enjoyed reading some things from your blog too and will make it a regular stop on my blog-walk.
I don't see it as two separate and distinct events. Aznar would have kept the troops in Iraq if he were elected. The majority of the Spaniards, fearing terrorism at home because of the country's alliance with the coalition forces, elected the opposition candidate who essentially had said to them "Elect me, and there will be no terrorism. I will withdraw the troops and show the hardline Islamists we mean no ill will toward them. Stay with Aznar and incur the wrath of those who oppose who he allies himself with." The fact that the bombing came days before the election only served to superficially reinforce the message of Zapatero. The truth has since become clear to Zapatero's supporters that concession is not the answer. It wasn't when Chamberlain bowed to Hitler and it's not now when Zapatero bowed to bin Laden and al Zarqawi.
I believe that one might obtain a view such as the one you've posted from reading the Washington Post and New York Times, but I think they're at least slightly biased toward the left and would claim the moon could be made of green cheese if it served the cause of liberalism as they define it.
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