tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post7773383158321579248..comments2024-03-15T00:12:57.489-07:00Comments on Covenant Zone: Ill Djuchetruepeershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16401984575637492845noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post-72171225779510691492009-06-02T15:16:30.860-07:002009-06-02T15:16:30.860-07:00Heh, mistakes make the man, unlike the mask.Heh, mistakes make the man, unlike the mask.truepeershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16401984575637492845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post-6727901113991746452009-06-02T12:41:20.254-07:002009-06-02T12:41:20.254-07:00I know better than to type after my bed time, but ...I know better than to type after my bed time, but I do so anyway, leading me to write, for example, autocracy when I obviously mean autarky. <br /><br />I am very forgiving of other people's mistakes, if only because of this.Daghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10664271893389366772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post-21098544862790754642009-06-02T01:35:40.833-07:002009-06-02T01:35:40.833-07:00Here is a link I got off a private list - it is co...Here is a link I got off a private list - it is collection of publicly available satellite views of North Korea - <br /><br />"Amateurs Use Google Earth To Uncover Kim's Sinister Secrets"<br /><br />===============<br /><br />http://www.nkeconwatch.com/north-korea-uncovered-google-earth/Rogerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04855892384323493219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post-7248082398587782472009-06-02T00:44:29.708-07:002009-06-02T00:44:29.708-07:00About my headline:
In 1925 Mussolini declared him...About my headline:<br /><br />In 1925 Mussolini declared himself "Il Duce." Similar to the Doge, and so on. <br /><br />Kim 2 is ill, as I've read in the news. <br /><br />And Juche, (rhymes with duce,) is the NoKo term for autocracy, or "self sufficiency." <br /><br />Hence: Ill Djuche. <br /><br />That's what passes in my mind as a sense of humor.Daghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10664271893389366772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post-18002306238470355112009-06-02T00:40:00.233-07:002009-06-02T00:40:00.233-07:00Good luck, Roger. As you know, many people come ac...Good luck, Roger. As you know, many people come across information on the Internet long after it was first posted, so you may get lucky today or sometime later. If this helps, I'm certainly happy. <br /><br />Regarding the East Asians being too -- What? <br /><br />I read an interesting piece recently on speech codes and double standards at our universities" Alan Charles Kors and Harvey Silvergate, "Codes of Silence: at Reason-online. <br /><br />I read something I can't find at this time on discrimination against Asians at American universities. <br /><br />Maybe this will be a good substitute:<br /><br />http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/06/11/asiansDaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10664271893389366772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post-16664267890594987322009-06-01T20:08:01.218-07:002009-06-01T20:08:01.218-07:00I would be very interested in the source material ...I would be very interested in the source material that discusses these battles between Bradley Fighting Vehicle and Iraqi T-55 tanks. The Abrams did on at least one if not many more occasions survive first round hits from T-55s before killing the attackers with one round each from 120mm main gun firing a DU kinetic energy penetrator sabot round. The Bradley carries a 25mm chain gun with DU penetrators and I expect that it would be about as effective as the 30mm DU penetrator fired by the A-10 Warthog (which also would be employed in Korea if the North came streaming across the border), but the Bradley would be much more vulnerable to attack from the T-55s. Thanks, for the information.<br /><br />Roger<br />DUStory-owner@yahoogroups.com<br /><br />(If anyone reading this is Desert Storm or OIF tank crew member who used DU munitions against Iraqi tanks, please, do write to me)Rogerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04855892384323493219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post-68755741500587258422009-06-01T18:39:48.321-07:002009-06-01T18:39:48.321-07:00Having said all that, I'm not entirely convinc...Having said all that, I'm not entirely convinced Obama will fight if push comes to shove. Everything he seems to do is about abandoning AMerica's traditional allies, as if preparing the world for an age without any superpower. And besides, I really think financing anything, let alone what he really wants - medicare, etc. - is going to get difficult very quickly.truepeershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16401984575637492845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post-6224047344406252672009-06-01T18:29:56.161-07:002009-06-01T18:29:56.161-07:00Hmm, what do I know but I don't see N. Korea a...Hmm, what do I know but I don't see N. Korea as a serious conventional force: the population is half starved and its strategic resources rather limited. Sure, with a good use of surprise, they might go gangbusters for a short time, until they quickly ran out of gas, but with their antique weapons systems they could then be systematically destroyed, I imagine. That is why they are now putting efforts into the nuclear program, which is the one threat that will be taken seriously and might limit a response to their attacks. And it seems to me they are presently testing Obama to look for signs that he is weak and will not really threaten their nuke program. They want to know how risky it is to build up their blackmail option, possibly in tandem with Iran.<br /><br />But if they invaded the south and America went to war, would that cause great qualms among the AMerican left? Some, but I wouldn't imagine too many. As you suggest, the thing about white guilt is that it is not based on a serious commitment to ending pain and suffering among the poor and non-white wherever they are - where is/was the help for Darfur, or Congo, or Rwanda, for example? - nor is it about upholding notions of justice irregardless of race or wealth. It is all about insuring one can appear to have some guarantee of self-denying moral superiority when one has to come to terms with one's own "privilege" in direct contact with an Other who represents some larger victim identity with serious claims on your privilege. The Other's suffering has to plausibly be seen to benefit oneself and I rather doubt the obviously self-imposed Nork suffering can fit that bill, whatever our trade with SOuth Korea and Japan.<br /><br />And East Asians are not, in American eyes, an obvious victim group. The North Koreans may be the most pathetic, but as a whole East Asians are no longer readily considered candidates for affirmative action. As I understand it, some American universities now seek to limit enrollments from East Asian-Americans who are seen, in some respects, as too successful and perhaps not sufficiently guilty for it.<br /><br />Mass destruction of human lives will lead to guilt but as long as the Norks are seriously fighting, and throwing the first punches, I doubt there will be much opposition to the obliteration of their military capacity. Who would then want to take responsibility for the country will be interesting however. Would even the SOuth Koreans want to invest the billions and re-educate the millions for a generation in this fallen land, without much American and other help? Maybe then the Norks could become poor terrorists trying to blackmail America into providing it aid that it might grow from beyond its war-destroyed poverty.<br /><br />Moslems are today the symbolic leaders of third-world anti-Americanism for reasons worth reflecting on (having to do with the longer history of Islam and the West). Not just anyone can be taken seriously in this role, especially when they are intent on killing their racial "brothers and sisters". The Norks have little ideological capital because they are not a vanguard for the billions whose suffering invokes white guilt and they were not, with a short exception at MacArthur's battlefield apex, ever occupied, let alone colonized, by a Western power. Only the crazies still enamored of the Stalinist past will take any interest in Nork propaganda. Their cause is truly past and in destroying them America will not be advancing a vision of the future that will do much to provoke a reaction from the nihilism of the bicoastal secularists.truepeershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16401984575637492845noreply@blogger.com