DISQUS

Thanks for the post. I like the blog!

Upside: Nice charts. Thanks for pointing out two key points. Support and Resistance and VOLUME.


Much appreciated. Always nice to see some really good TA that I can continue to learn from.

Good luck on your new mission. It sounds exciting and I'm sure they'll benefit from your expertise at YHOO.

How would you compare it with the original 2-CD Bar Kokhba set?

"i'm just saying" is a good and quite extended saying nowadays.

here's a text about the second amendment i read some time ago. yeah, it's by a brit. and i did find it inspiring. aren't there some valid points here?






NO SHOCK, JUST HORROR AT TRIGGER-HAPPY USA

Brian Reade 19/04/2007





THE redneck response to the Virginia Tech massacre could not have been more haunting had it been hollered to the accompaniment of duelling banjos.

Thirty-two deaths would never have happened, argued countless websites, activists and politicians, if the kids had utilised their right to bear arms, taken guns to class and shot back.

So the gun-worshippers' solution to America's serial school-slayings is clear. Arm the kids. I can just picture the scene in kitchens across the land each morning:

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Mom: Waddaya want in your lunch-box with your pastrami-onrye, honey? A Glock 19 semiautomatic or a Colt AR-15?

Junior: Whatever.

Naturally Tony Blair was off the blocks quicker than Carl Lewis to tell America of our "deep shock". But I've yet to meet anyone remotely shocked by this, the USA's 19th gun rampage in 10 years.

Why should we be? When an Indian train crash kills 1,000 we shrug shoulders, deride them for not sorting out a recurrent problem, and give it five seconds on the tea-time news.

What do you recall of the methane blast at a Siberian coal mine last month that killed 110 men? Anything? Of course you don't. Those Russkies don't give a hoot about factory safety, so why should you? Yet when there's another US college shooting, we wipe out entire TV schedules, and indulge in a frenzy of fraternal soul-searching. Even though most of us feel contempt for a government which allows 200 million guns in private ownership, killing 30,000 people every year.

If we'd had 18 more Dunblanes after Dunblane, would we expect our allies to send messages of shock and sorrow, or hard advice on the need to address our uniquely horrific problem?



Why don't our leaders reflect the communal derision towards a people who twist their own constitution? (The Second Amendment originally applied to organised militias, not individuals, fending off outside armies like the British).

Why not protest at the political puppets who do the bidding of the powerful billion-dollar gun industry? Puppets like George W Bush, who allowed Bill Clinton's ban on the sale of semi-automatic rifles to lapse. The same little rich boy, put in power simply to do rich men's bidding, who viewed his War On Terror as a game of cowboys and injuns.

This is a country in thrall to gratuitous violence. It's why it elected the Terminator as Governor of California.

It's why they whoop like billy-oh when Charlton Heston says gun law reformers will have to take his rifle from his "cold, dead hands."

Virginia Tech is the latest copycat mass murder, performed by loners who feel ostracised from the most aspirational, paranoid, dysfunctional and de-sensitised nation on Earth.

These are serial cullings of young innocents, which America is prepared to take in its stride to preserve its citizens' right to kill by bullet.

It's why, when the funerals of these 32 victims are done, and all the tear-stained flags folded away, normal service will be resumed.

And in a few months, a screwed-up inadequate who was hypnotised by the pictures from Blacksburg, will throw his credit card down in a gun shop in another town we've never heard of, and be handed the means to blow away his insignificance.

When it does, Prime Minister, tell them not of my deep sorrow but my deep disgust.



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so, isn't the second amendment a totally moot point nowadays?



i, for one, do think so.

well, no. it is not addiction. this country was founded on genocide and build up by slave labor.


on the other hand, officially it's the beacon of freedom and democracy.



so it's not addiction, it's dissociative identity disorder at best, and a continuation of past criminal behavior at worst.



pick your choice.

wow! first they play a commercial. the one i saw was about... cotton.


really smart.

ok, peg, i won't put words in your mouth. let's see what came out of it: "white person and your comments bare that out".


i wonder when i have last used the "you're obviously black" in connection with "you don't understand".



anyways, i must concede you one: i truely can't jump.

peg, i just had to be told! because i don't get it even if people try to explain.


now, certainly, you get it all. you get what blacks say and mean, and you get what whites say and mean.



ok, in my world it's all a wee bit more complicated. i do understand what was said here, i just happen to disagree.



not being black must be the reason.

haven't laughed so much for some days. what an admirable piece.


revealing.

squarepeg, i have said before that i'm white. so, as such things don't tend to change much, i can safely say again: i'm white.


now that we have that settled, i'd like to remind you that color was only an issue in my comment you refer to insofar as that i, as a white man, could relate to what obama said. the problems he spoke about are (oh, again) no exclusives for blacks.



and i could relate to what he said for how he said it. i did see the criticism, and i did not see him as being negative, but quite the contrary. i'm quite happy to repeat: there was the yes we can in it all over.



and i think the fact that a normal guy who just happens to be white sees himself in that speech might possibly show that he was not pandering to the white conservatives. in the very worst case they would anyway just see their preconceived ideas confirmed, not enough to make them vote him.



so, in the end, obama wins over a white guy who anyways thinks him to be a good candidate.



i don't think obama counted on winning any klansies, i don't think he was pandering, pandering would not work anyways here and i don't think that obama is stupid.

with all my love, ms.martin, i was referring to the religious community he was speaking to and where he did community work for years. he did grow up in other places, but his chicago experience has been very much forming him.


as a matter of fact, i as an "open minded" white man could read things into his speech which were not at all limited to black folks. i could see myself in there. so it was me who he won over (again), not any conservatives.



i think i'll leave it at that.

only the brave dare open cans of worms.


and did he really pull the black community down, or wasn't he rather telling them "yes we can"? was he asking too much?



and who else should do what he did? a white guy?



now he should talk to appalachia the same way...



but have you forgotten where his roots are? so he cannot anymore talk to his community because now that he's running for prez his words gain importance and some could get itchy? that, in my opinion, would have been an artificial and political-at-its-worst approach.

wasn't he speaking to his own community church?


my, it's tough when you take your time but anyways some always will go back to stereotypes.

some might not have realized it, but this speech was "ask not what your country can do for you" ten times over. and he did not even mention that precedent. and yes, he said this to his black community, but no, this was not a play for conservatives.


it took guts to say these words, and many commments here confirm it. but this is how a leader has to talk. not to appease each and every group and person, but to take those to task who need it. not to offer cheap solutions, but to ask everybody to cooperate. not to put himself on top of everybody, but to lift everybody up with him.



not to demand blind submission to the leader, but to insist on the responsibility of every person so they can be leaders, each of them.



obama could have stayed silent. he did not need to speak on this occasion. he did not need to make this any more than a standard holiday speech and be a nice guy. but obama did not seek the easy way out. this is quite a unique man.

methinks this is the right issue: how much were many in the media duped, how much were they tools of the regime, and in how far does one have to take into consideration the overall situation.


american media, even flagships like nyt and the post, lost a lot of credibility in the world in 2002/03. maybe that was not correct, maybe the context was not taken into consideration... or maybe all too many american journalists were all too little objective and, as someone put it, didn't do their fucking job.



this issue trascends the figure of russert, who may rest in peace. it is an issue very much worth talking about at length.



i suggest a special entry for this subject: the so-called war on terror is still very much on.

oh well looks like a drop stilton,some ripe pears, and a pair of tights!!!!!!! going to open it tomorrow night will let you know what happens.




thank for your info.

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i have to come to belle's defense: i've read her many times here and i always had the impression that she has, above all, a big heart.


i am sad tim's gone, and much too early. i liked his program when i watched it, but i watched it only few times and i don't know if belle's observations are true.



what i think is that they are sincere, and when everybody claims him to have been a professional above all, and belle has the very opposite impression, then she has the right to reply.



we should not tell her to shut up, but argue gainst her view those who can.

i certainly see no use in limiting this to "black". i'm as white as goes and i love this blog. it's one of my favs, among all blogs i know.


on another note: good idea, cpl. i always tend to try and ignore that guy, but that's maybe not feasible.

ok. so she said the words any democrat would have had to say.


now i can only say to her.



thanks. bye.

i really believe she is STILL waiting for her opportunity.


(very clear allusion, i think.)