MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 12, 2021 4:49 pm
cradleandshoot wrote: ↑Sun Sep 12, 2021 4:37 pm
Farfromgeneva wrote: ↑Sun Sep 12, 2021 1:30 pm
MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Sat Sep 11, 2021 9:24 pm
cradleandshoot wrote: ↑Sat Sep 11, 2021 1:12 pm
MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Sat Sep 11, 2021 1:00 pm
+1
Today should indeed be a day of remembrance and reflection.
Quite a few us lost friends or family that day.
Today is a day to remember and reflect. It also should be a day to assure all Americans that it will never again. I don't know if that is the case anymore.
Bad people with bad intentions still want to kill as many Americans as possible.
That's been true for a very long time; was reflecting on Lockerbie this evening with my wife, who lost 2 HBS classmates, Bain colleagues/friends on that flight. Not actually that long ago from our perspective. Know their families.
And it's surely going to be the case as long as the US continues to claim it's "exceptional" status in the world (which I believe is true)...but, moreover as an excuse to bomb other countries, exploit other countries' labor and natural resources. We put that target on ourselves.
I don't expect the latter aspects to really change much in my lifetime. So, the question is how best to balance the interests. How do we do more good in the world, while serving our own economic interests as well, and when do we take action to interdict potential threats militarily...tough questions. The balance will never be perfect, however it's definitely worth wrestling on an ongoing basis.
But risk isn't going to go away. Not while we remain a major superpower with very specific characteristics that are anathema to other human beings.
Who blew up Oklahoma? (A line from A hip hop song about scrutiny of blacks)
I must have missed that. When was Oklahoma blown up? How do you blow up a whole state and keep it on the downlow? How did the media overlook that news flash?
I think he's referring to a hip hop song reference to the Oklahoma City bombing by right wing nut job Timothy McVeigh.
Response to the part I bolded. We have a serious domestic terrorist issue this current decade, actually greater than foreign terrorism, though both are darn serious.
Correct, I was framing the specific lyric as it is copied below. Song is called Free Mumia by KRS One
I don’t subscribe to all of this but some of it is poignant and it was from 1995
Why sure! Back before we were born they sold us out
Yeah Dade Jackson we know what you about
Youse a Slave Mason, not a Free Mason
Before long the Goddess Tiamat through hip-hop you'll be facin
Don't start me, cause I be the, lyricist
At the nineteen ninety-nine millennium party held at Giza
Sayin he's a, fraud, oh my Goddess
Never in your life should you disrespect an artist
Instead, focus your attention on astronomy
And the up and coming, shift in the economy
If you can't do that, then heed the final call
To free Mumia, Abu-Jamal
Hate to be so rough, it could be the White Owls
House niggaz are full of crap, like my Colin Powell
Kickin vowels, is how we relieve the tension
Until we start to bounce white people like suspension (revolution)
You paint the pictures, the black man on the corner
But tell me, who blew up Oklahoma?
The City, ain't no pity, for the beast
It's Hakim that voice from the East
Warner, Elektra, Atlantic equals WEA
Instead of fighting them why don't you go free Mumia
(repeat 2X)
Buck buck! Buck buck buck!
It sound like gunshots but it could be the plot
Of a chicken, definition, is what you're missin and
Listen to your children instead of dissin em
Senator Dole doesn't understand the young people
Like they be sayin want to, but we be sayin want to
They gettin dumber every summer as they walk the rope
Maybe because they cannot understand the quotes
Word, in actuality, this Norman Bates mentality
Always seems to represent, minus three-sixty percent
For degrees full circle, dead from the purple
Rays of the sun I gots melanin so check it
Bag your nuts quick or get sick from being naked
Suspect it, was it a means for the end
For just a few to drive the Benz while you eat the pigskins
Turned you into mannequins, cause the trick of technology
A revelation, revelations
Sensation gives me inspiration of revolution
That's my solution, there will be no sequels
I'm Audi hundred forty four thousand with my people
From Caligula to Hitler, now it's Schwartzeneggar
A lust for the violence is the science of their behavior
Who enslaved ya (it's the Devil) but the God of virtuosity
And of the world created, could it be mental sodomy
Got my mind twisted like the blades of fonta leaf
I sit in disbelief as he crawls underneath
The rock cock back the glock, cause I don't trust
The Devil I rebel until Babylon is dust
Warner, Elektra, Atlantic equals WEA
Instead of fighting them why don't you go free Mumia
(repeat 2X)