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Olympic Torch – San Francisco

…until today when I read the Sunday edition of the San Francisco Chronicle 4-6-2008. The articles “2 views of Beijing as Olympics approach,” contained “Tibetan Americans: Bay Area exiles fight to keep culture alive” and “Chinese Americans: Most proud of Olympics, hurt by protests.” At first, I was intrigued and thought I might gain some insight into the differing views concerning the Olympic torch. However, both articles quickly came to disappoint…

OIC takes fight against freedom of speech to the UN

…that if they can stick together, they at least have some kind of clout vis-à-vis the United States and the other powerful countries.” “The Committee is concerned that, faced with these bloc politics, there is little that human rights defenders such as Canada can currently do on the Human Rights Council. The Western Europe and other states group of members is effectively outnumbered. Government officials noted that Canada is missing many of its na…

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Please Do Generalize

…just going to have to see how what happens. I say, go ahead and generalize. Don’t let anyone tell you that no conclusions based on the past have any relevance to the future. If you think you see a pattern in the world, tell me. I might agree. I might disagree. But patterns are interesting and useful. So go ahead and be a bloody human.  Share this: Twitter Reddit…

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Nationalism, Tribalism, Political Affiliation and Favorite Sports Teams

…merican. I can even sense some readers being appalled at this and that proves my point. It’s ok to get out and explore and not be bound by anything limiting, sports teams, political affiliation and yes, even nationality. If we harp on Freedom so much then how about the Freedom to be completely free? Could I have a global passport? Or how about a passport to let me into countries I’m curious about and promise to learn the language and history. Is t…

Letter to My Descendants on the State of the USA

…it. Then they would have a spot where they show off and brag about all the latest American weaponry. Barbarians the lot of them. CNN is awful and over the past decade and a half Fox turned into a hate spewing network. I turned it on for 1 minute after not watching anything for 10 years and saw Tucker Carlson with a face twisted by hate spew some rage at Gavin Newsom. Wow, that isn’t news, that is straight up hate and the MAGA crowd eats it up. Fox…