Hurried Pace of Modern Life

And to think what these people would say if they could see Twitter.   I think they would roll over in their graves.

http://xkcd.com/1227/

Death for life

Someone sent this to me in a mass mailer.  Since, I do not send out mass mailers as a matter of personal decency, I will instead preserve and disseminate this via my blog.

Only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you, Jesus Christ

 and the American Soldier;

 one died for your soul,

the other for your freedom.

Thank a soldier today for their offer to maintain your freedom.

Azerbaijan: An oft forgotten nation

Stratfor published an interesting piece regarding Azerbaijan.  There are a few key points that I want to highlight.  First, he points out that America is adolescent in its use of the global power that it wields now by being the last major economic power still standing well enough.  Between partisan politicking and a general idiocy regarding the rest of the world, America has crippled itself in terms of foreign policy.  Second, he makes a point regarding the Western idea of avoiding nepotism (the hiring of family and friends), as "neither universally shared nor admired."   His final key point is one regarding the "Arab Spring" and the fantasy of the Western media of portraying the rebels as liberal people seeking freedom and democracy, when the small fact of the matter is they seek neither freedom nor democracy.