Keeping your eye on the ball

[gilliam]

The fusty will undoubtedly spend the next few days hashing over every teeny factoid regarding the five servicemen in Guantanamo who “mishandled” the Koran, even to the extent of dribbling or accidentally spraying (depending on what you read) urine on it, trying to make that sound like the moral equivalent of murdering ten million human beings in the Gulag (when it isn’t even remotely the equivalent of murdering *one *human being) Meanwhile, in the real world of life and death and the struggle for a decent life, a single human being has indeed been murdered in a vastly more important case.

The good news is that assassination of journalist Samir Kassir seems to be galvanizing the democracy movement in Lebanon once again. It is worth nothing that Lebanese columnist Rami Khouri writes his column describing the current situation under the headline: A death that hastens the liberal victory
. In the Middle East, at least, the word liberal is attached to the causes I remember it being associated with in the old days. I wish our own liberals would understand that. It’s not about Guantanamo. It’s about Lebanon.

rogerlsimon.com/mt-archives/2005/06/keeping_your_ey.php

 

[space_ghost]

…oh, we are all keeping our eyes on the ball, as it were… thanks to several media sources, **the truth has ways of seeping out… **the trick is not paying too much attention to those that spend hours and hours trying to sell their spin on the story…Peace:thumbsup:

 

[tom.wineman]

Now that we have come clean about Quran abuse when are the Arabs going to come clean about Christian Bible abuse ? I’m tired of their always the victim posture but never a perpetrator.
When do we start beheading Arabs ?

 

[jjwilkman]

space ghost:

…oh, we are all keeping our eyes on the ball, as it were… thanks to several media sources, **the truth has ways of seeping out… **the trick is not paying too much attention to those that spend hours and hours trying to sell their spin on the story…Peace:thumbsup:

space ghost, where are your famous pictures? and what is “spin”? i can guess somewhat from context, but i have never heard the term. spin = side?

 

[catsrus]

dribbling or accidentally spraying (depending on what you read) urine on it

Just how is this accomplished “accidentally”?
If we read the same in relation to the Bible, should we not be outraged? Would that not be a desecration?
“Do unto others…”

 

[space_ghost]

jjwilkman:

space ghost, where are your famous pictures? and what is “spin”? i can guess somewhat from context, but i have never heard the term. spin = side?

…i am eluding to the propagada spin… those that attempt to spin a story or circumstances to suit their purpose or opinion… regardless of the facts…