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Hey Folks, I'm looking to move....again....as my lack of tech savvy necessiate the requisite change to Wordpress, as blogger and xanga are neither sexy enough, nor user-friendly enough - I may keep updating the xanga during my wordpress-orientation and skill acquisition season, but we shall see. Feel free to join me at my new, user-friendly home - www.larsalmquist.wordpress.com, or here if you like links instead. Good night, and good luck.
Keith Olbermann intrigues me afresh with his interesting critique of W's 5 year anniversary of 9/11 speech Monday night. Rather than attack the subtle militarism that pervaded the speech from the Oval Office, or to fully dismantle the rhetoric that spews political spin of 9/11 from the White House for political gain, Olbermann asks as he reports live in front of the crater of the Twin Towers, "Look into this empty space behind me, and the bipartisanship upon which this Administration also did not build, and tell me this, 'Who has left this hole in the ground?' We have not forgotten, Mr. President, you have. May this country forgive you." An interesting critique indeed - certainly not unpatriotic or un-American, as this Administration simultaneously brandishes the detractors of it's concurrent wars in Iraq, in Afghanistan, and in the nebulous 'War on Terror' as sufferers of 'moral and intellectual confusion' (see Rumsfeld-Fascism post) while also proclaiming the greatness of our 'freedoms,' and still simultaneously taking credit for both the presence of those freedoms and their being spread across the globe in a form of intellectual neo-colonialism wrapped inside a bacon-flavored ribbon of supply-side globalization and free market economics. Evidently we're allowed to listen to rhetoric about how 'great' our freedoms are (even when they come at the cost of foreign lives and the economic and political stability sovereign nations), yet we're unable to actualize and apply said freedoms to everyday life in America, even as the President politicizes the most tragic event to occur on US soil for his party's own foreign and domestic agenda and political gain. May the words of Jesus echo solemnly in our souls this week....'Love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you'....simultaneously with 'forgive them, Father, for they know not what they do;' though in this case it appears from the recent speeches of the past week and a half that the 'transient occupiers of the Oval Office,' to quote Keith from a previous post, know precisely what they are attempting to do...
Stay tuned for my response to the 'comments' sections from previous posts about my views on the reality, legitimacy, and alleged necessity of the military and armed forces in our nation. I value the comments posted, I'm just a little swamped with my actual life, and so I'm purposely diminishing my blogging life to sporadic bursts of quasi-necessary views and updates strategically positioned to follow major addresses and events surrounding blindingly patriotic phenomena in this country.
