August 7, 2005
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SUNDAY GOOD NEWSWhile I was sleeping last night, I guess, the lid to the top of the mini-sub trapped at the bottom of the Pacific off the Kamchatka Peninsula way in the northeastern part of Russia popped open and seven super cold and tired Russian dudes crawled out and fell into the arms of a speedboat crew after a remote-controlled British Super Scorpio cut away the cables and fishing net that had pinned the little sub to the ocean floor for three days. Flash back to five years ago when the nuclear submarine Kursk sank in the Barents Sea killing 118 crew members and the Russians refused to ask for help from outside. President Putin took some serious jam in the face for that decision. This time not only Britain but the U.S. and Japan were asked to pitch in. Now there’s a message for today’s “united nations” – Together We Can. In the meantime,
check out Kamchatka for your next vacation plans. It looks fantastic – wild life, thermal springs, very few people and oh by the way economically depressed so your visit will be deeply appreciated. While you’re at it, read Grizzly Heart:
Living Without Fear Among the Brown Bears of Kamchatka by a couple of Canadians who have been studying the bears for years now. And be glad when you’re tucked in bed again tonight that you’re not waiting breathlessly under the heavy freezing ocean for someone to fly a machine from Scotland to save your life.
Deep Thought: “I don’t think I can be hypnotized. This hypnotist tried to hypnotize me one time, but he couldn’t. And I tell him that each time I go over to wash his car, which is every Wednesday.”
Today I am grateful for: Having a stake in my world.
Guess the Movie: “Great balls of fire. Don’t bother me anymore, and don’t call me sugar.” Answer: Gone With the Wind, 1939.
Winner: thenarrator.
As Bush War Gets Personal, Nation Must find its Outrage
by Marilou Johanek
One of the great mysteries of the Bush War in Iraq has been the incredible acquiescence of the American people to the unfolding tragedy. There is a seemingly passive acceptance of the conflict-without-end. Some have called the unquestioning silent assent obscene.
It is surely that and more. Where, in God’s name, is the outrage? Where are the protests in the streets against a government that has lied to its citizens and taken them for everything they hold dear? (Rest of article here.)
End of Day: 8:23 pm
+ = Lung cancer is going to get some energy put into it probably.
- = Unfortunately because Peter Jennings died and now Dana Reeve has it.
Comments (12)
Gone With the Wind
This is great news. And its about time we remembered that old phrase: “A lone ape is a dead ape.”
Now the last nation to ever ask for help is the US. I’d like to see us take up Cuba’s offer to train 300 doctors per year for free if they’ll simply work in poor communities for five years. (Cuban medical schools do this for every other nation in the hemisphere, only the US refuses to let students go)
Yup, Gone With the Wind.
And yup, I saw the movie about the Emperor penguin with my grands yesterday and you could say that about them, too – a long penguin is a dead penguin.
good thing they did get them all out…
I have a friend with a son that’s on a submarine crew. She says that he is not allowed to talk about the war, but she gets the impression that it is worse than we know. Here in the midwest there is almost a news blackout on the war except for the glorification of those killed in it. The Downing Street memo story was buried on page 13 of the newspaper. People don’t know what it says. They don’t get it about Halliburton either. As per the comments above, does the public know that medical schools have cut admissions numbers twice in the past ten years because they fear a doctor glut?
I was so happy to hear this good news. Just goes to show what we can do if we work together.
Last night my husband and I were watching the local news. Imagine our frustration when the story of the sub was over and the reporter never really said if the sub’s crew was out or not. It was good to hear that this morning!
That is happy news.
TY for the link regarding Bush. Nodding in agreement.
The Blade article was fantastic. Thanks for the link. I have no idea what the voters were thinking, last November. Ugh. Three+ more years to go. And then what?
Yeah, in my fog, I heard about the rescue. Imagine that — we can all get along. Huh.
i’m so glad they made it!
thanks for the comments on my site
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we watched this over the weekend, I’m so glad they asked for help sooner than later!