Yours Truly
Janet Fauble at home
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Wikileaks problem
Much news is being made about Wikileaks and so a video showing a former CIA agent discussing the fact that journalists should be emulating Julian Assange instead of scapegoating him is worth noting. I did appreciate his remarks so I posted it here after reading it at Twitter late this evening.
My own personal feeling is that the government is who is making me feel, look, and behave more sensibly and responsibly than they do. I have always known never to be fool enough to place faith in the world of computers. To me, that is a nobrainer, but then I have been concerned for sometime that the only people we elect to high officer are also a bunch of nobrainers...Sometimes I wonder at this game that Americans play with right and left, party above all, and the people and their needs totally forgotten. Congress thinks of one thing only, and that is itself!
But to realize that they now want to blame somebody else for their own foolishness is totally typical of pass the buck and do it to them before they do it you politics.
The citizens do have to share the responsibility. One thing must be done and asap, and that is to limit terms of office so that we do not continue to have these career politicans who feather their own nests while making fools of the people who bother to vote to put them into office anyway.
When they do wrong, they should be exposed. I know that biblically there is a passage that says there will come a time when there are no secrets. I think that congress should stop trying to kid itself into thinking it is above the law itself.
Let freedom of the press prevail even in cases of embarrassing decisions...So what? Hasn't the Clinton faction already proved that people have very short memories. Who but a rare few will ever even bother to open a newspaper to read this wikileaks anyway?
Follow the advice of the CIA agent. Go get the story, and don't try to cover it up!
My own personal feeling is that the government is who is making me feel, look, and behave more sensibly and responsibly than they do. I have always known never to be fool enough to place faith in the world of computers. To me, that is a nobrainer, but then I have been concerned for sometime that the only people we elect to high officer are also a bunch of nobrainers...Sometimes I wonder at this game that Americans play with right and left, party above all, and the people and their needs totally forgotten. Congress thinks of one thing only, and that is itself!
But to realize that they now want to blame somebody else for their own foolishness is totally typical of pass the buck and do it to them before they do it you politics.
The citizens do have to share the responsibility. One thing must be done and asap, and that is to limit terms of office so that we do not continue to have these career politicans who feather their own nests while making fools of the people who bother to vote to put them into office anyway.
When they do wrong, they should be exposed. I know that biblically there is a passage that says there will come a time when there are no secrets. I think that congress should stop trying to kid itself into thinking it is above the law itself.
Let freedom of the press prevail even in cases of embarrassing decisions...So what? Hasn't the Clinton faction already proved that people have very short memories. Who but a rare few will ever even bother to open a newspaper to read this wikileaks anyway?
Follow the advice of the CIA agent. Go get the story, and don't try to cover it up!
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Zardoz trailer
This morning one of the facebook members posted a photo from the movie Zardoz starring Sean Connery. I have not seen the movie but did want to put the trailer here so that I don't forget to look for it. It was released in 1974.
The other trailer which is of Richard Chamberlain performing a ballet scenario in the role of Apollo I added to go with the previous post about MacDonald's book on the subject of the Man in the Iron Mask.
In the last chapter of MacDonald's book he does explain why and how Voltaire and Dumas combined to have the story the Man in the Iron Mask evolve. Years ago, one of my favorite stories was called Bimbo, a story about a dog with a cookie in its mouth found after the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in Italy.
It is sad to think that life was so bleak for the French that they would actually listen to rumors and come out in person to watch a man being taken prisoner and transported secretly. One wonders if they did actually do that or if that is part of the Tall Tale. Most people would not bother but it proves something about rumor control or gasconnades!
Thinking of Office Wetherby now...just so we always remember to spell his name right.
The other trailer which is of Richard Chamberlain performing a ballet scenario in the role of Apollo I added to go with the previous post about MacDonald's book on the subject of the Man in the Iron Mask.
In the last chapter of MacDonald's book he does explain why and how Voltaire and Dumas combined to have the story the Man in the Iron Mask evolve. Years ago, one of my favorite stories was called Bimbo, a story about a dog with a cookie in its mouth found after the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in Italy.
It is sad to think that life was so bleak for the French that they would actually listen to rumors and come out in person to watch a man being taken prisoner and transported secretly. One wonders if they did actually do that or if that is part of the Tall Tale. Most people would not bother but it proves something about rumor control or gasconnades!
Thinking of Office Wetherby now...just so we always remember to spell his name right.
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