Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Biden Calls Ties Between U.S. and Israel ‘Unshakable’

Sounds like famous last words to me. Israel does not appear to be a pillar of moral superiority, even given the faults of the radical portion of Islam. We must concede that the radical portion of Islam has been inspired in part by what they view as hypocrisy and moral degeneracy on the part of the West and Christianity.

Israel should get busy with serious attempts at reconciling with the Muslim, Christian and other Palestinians. Even if rocket attacks and terrorism never ended, the majority of Palestinians either could be reasonable or could be forgiven for being forever angry after all that has happened to them.

Muslims have many serious and valid reasons to be resentful so - even though I question Islam and its most radical wing - the West should approach Islam in humility and asking forgiveness for countless abuses and misunderstandings. Even though this would not end terrorism, it would at least somewhat diffuse the middle of the road Muslims who presently are rather sympathetic to the underlying positions of the terrorists (though they do not approve of their violent and indiscriminate tactics).

Conservative Christians in the USA have enabled Israel to be reckless and excessively violent, as they support Israel no matter what.

Nonetheless, I empathize with the embattled Jews of the Middle East, carving out (right or wrong) a safe haven in lands traditionally theirs. But their aggressive stance fuels radical Islam and radicalizes the rest of the Islamic nations. This is highly unwise, as terrorists need only a small force to ruin many lives.




Friday, March 5, 2010

About "On the News"

I've spent a few days setting up the skeletal structure of several blogs (five related to Charles Saline). Hopefully, its now time to start reviewing the news!

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Scientific American


http://www.scientificamerican.com/


The Official Google Blog


http://googleblog.blogspot.com/


I do plan on organizing the many links I am posting...just getting this blog started

CNN on the web

http://www.cnn.com/

Telegraph.co.uk - a UK news blog

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/

The Top 100 Blogs in any language

http://www.twingly.com/top100

Moscow alarmed by Chinese maneuvers


FROM JOSEPH FARAH'S G2 BULLETIN

Military exercises suspected of targeting Russian Far East


World Net Daily - news blog

http://www.wnd.com/

Living in Sin before marriage

http://www.salon.com/life/broadsheet/feature/2010/03/02/living_together_marriage

Living together before marriage has been shown to have a negative effect, statistically, making divorce somewhat more likely. Perhaps this could be explained because people who live together before marriage are both more likely to accept divorce as an option and are more open to the idea that this partner is questionable (which may be the reason they tested the relationship in the first place).

Salon - news blog

http://www.salon.com

Newsmax.com

http://www.newsmax.com/

3D Sidewalk Art That Will Blow Your Mind (PHOTOS)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/01/3d-sidwalk-art-that-will_n_478649.html

The Drudge Report

http://www.drudgereport.com/

Top 20 Most Popular Political News Websites | February 2010 - from eBizMBA

http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/political-news-websites

The 25 most popular video websites - from eBizMBA

http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/video-websites

Boing Boing has strange and interesting news articles.

http://www.boingboing.net/

eBizMBA

eBizMBA | The eBusiness Knowledgebase: eBizMBA is an eBusiness Knowledgebase that helps you find the webs best answers to your online business questions.

eBizMBA lists the top 25 Blogs

http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/blogs