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Dec. 31st, 2008

  • 2:45 PM

Всех друзей, реальных и виртуальных - с Новым Годом!

Happy New Year! Felice Ano Novo!

Elections- Another POV

  • Nov. 6th, 2008 at 12:21 AM

Here is another look at elections - a dispassionate one (courtesy [info]nyuanshin ). I am sure lots of people will find this POV very controversial.

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Elections - Предвыборное

  • Nov. 3rd, 2008 at 10:32 PM


We've seen  “perhaps the greatest wealth transfer since the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917,” (says Michael Mandelbaum, author of “Democracy’s Good Name” )“It is not a wealth transfer from rich to poor that the Bush administration will be remembered for. It is a wealth transfer from the future to the present.”


HOW  ARE THE NEXT PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS GOING TO DEAL WITH IT  AND OTHER IMPORTANT FORGOTTEN ISSUES (IMMIGRATION, OUR SELF-IMPOSED ISOLATION  FROM THE WORLD)  WE ARE FACING?  

ПОДПИШУСЬ ПОД КАЖДЫМ СЛОВОМ.


Now please get out and vote  -  for  the candidate of your choice.





On Wall Street Bailout

  • Sep. 21st, 2008 at 6:32 PM

If  the Federal Government cannot properly manage  a railroad retirement system, how can we trust them to manage financial markets?

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О Павлике Морозове

  • Aug. 13th, 2008 at 9:13 PM

Для меня Павлик Морозов является символом СССР. Государствa которое cделало героем и примером для других детей ребенка погубившего своего отца.

Обамское

  • Jun. 21st, 2008 at 3:38 PM

Внизу – несколько строк из книги, которую Барак Обама написал о себе – его собственные слова:
From Dreams of My Father: 'I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.'
From Dreams of My Father: 'I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race.'
From Dreams of My Father: 'There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.'
From Dreams of My Father: 'It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.'
From Dreams of My Father: 'I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, Du Bois and Mandela.'
и последняя цитата, самая интересная из всех:
From Audacity of Hope:
'I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.'


Украдено у [info]art_of_arts

Заметьте - это не его пастор, это САМ Обама так высказывается.





A Nice Surprise

  • Apr. 17th, 2008 at 8:01 PM

I had a nice surprise yesterday - one of my LJ friends turned out to be someone I casually knew for years in RL . I've always liked and respected him, a few months ago we've had a lunch together, we've talked about business, our careers and so on, but we've never touched upon things we both deeply care for (as I've found out from his journal). Well, I am glad that I now have a glimpse of that other side of his, and he of mine.

Good luck to you and best wishes!

Вчера жизнь преподнесла мне прекрасный сюрприз: один из моих ЖЖдрузей - оказался моим многолетним знакомым в реале. Я всегда уважал этого человека, но даже не подозревал что ему не безразличны те же вопросы что и мне. Я очень рад что в ЖЖ  мы увидели те стороны друг друга которые в силу спешки мы не видели в реале.

Удачи тебе во всех твоих начинаниях!



Надо выбрать Обаму президентом США, а Эхуда Барака - премьером Израиля. И создать комиссию из трех человек - Барак, Барак и Мубарак. Они договорятся!


To have Barack Obama elected as the US president and Ehud Barak as Israeli Prime Minister. And then to create a Peace Commission of three people: Barack, Barak and Mubarak. Together they can do it!

(via [info]rezoner)

Civil War - Eye of The Storm

  • Feb. 17th, 2008 at 9:49 AM

Всем интересующимся историей США и Гражданской Войной хочу порекомендавать замечательный первоисточник:
"Eye of The Storm" by Private Robert Knox Sneden - недавно обнаруженный дневник одного (очень образованного) рядового участника войны. С великолепными картами и иллюстрациями сделанными автором.

To all those interested in the US history in general and Civil War in particular, I would like to recommend an amazing book: "Eye of The Storm" by Private Robert Knox Sneden -  recently discovered war diary by one (very educated) Union soldier, beautifully illustrated by its author.

Private Sneden was a cartographer (despite his humble rank,  so his diary abounds with beautiful maps, battle plans  and other drawings.

It also contains the description of  life in the infamous Andersonville POW camp where Sneden was confined late in the war.

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On Failed Relationships

  • Jan. 8th, 2008 at 9:05 PM

Неудачные отношения - это своего рода испытание которое разделяет людей на  тех которые могут меняться и расти, и тех которые не могут.

Те, которые могут, превращают свои неудачные отношения  в ступеньки ведущие вверх, на следующий уровень, к следующей панорамe.

Те же которые не могут, делают то же самое снова и снова, но почему-то ожидают другого результата..



Each failed relationship is a challenge that separates those  who  change and grow  from those who don't.

Those who do, turn  their failed relationships  into  upward steps leading higher and higher, onto  different  levels,  different vistas..

Those who don't  do the same thing over and over, but  somehow expect different results....

Intimacy

  • Oct. 28th, 2007 at 9:49 AM

"As you develop intimacy with another human being - and here I'm not even saying this in a necessarily sexual way - you get a sense of the contours of their mindscape; their unconscious expectations, their unexpressed desires, the taste of the space that is their unused capacity for strong emotion. The raindrops of their accumulated experience, one by one, have etched a series of paths of least resistance in the brain, like the whole of the person is a question waiting in perpetuity to be answered."  (c)

Wow!

Looking Back ..

  • Oct. 13th, 2007 at 8:15 PM

...I realize I did it all wrong, So here is a recipe to having a successful life for a modern Western male: while you are young,  travel around the world, learn about people (and women in particular). Then fight your battles, have a career. And only then, after you had established yourself, and you are are a senior vice president  or a managing director, in your mid 40-s, marry a sweet  young woman, have a family and children - when you do not have to struggle anymore and can devote lots of  resources and LOTS OF TIME to your wife and your children.

Trying to have it all at once  - finding yourself, and fighting your battles and pushing your career, and having family and children at the same time is going to kill you. Your relationship and your children are going to pay the price...

Gen. Ricardo Sanchez (Ret.)

  • Oct. 13th, 2007 at 7:25 PM

..a former commander of US troops in Iraq, came out publicly (and truthfully) calling the present situation in Iraq a "nightmare", and the war conduct by our civilian national leadership "incompetent".

Heads will roll. The Republican party is in tatters. Deservedly, I hasten to add.

But  let's turn our  attention for a moment  to the main player of this small drama - LT. GENERAL RICARDO SANCHEZ.  Not   Norman Schwatzkopf, or  Douglas McArthur. Ricardo Sanchez, born in poverty in Rio Grande Valley. It would not be possible a generation ago.

There would be many more Ricardo Sanchez'es in the annals of  future US history.

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The Perpetual Orgy

  • Oct. 13th, 2007 at 6:36 PM

A  novel by Mario Vargas Llosa , a Peruvian writer and a onetime presidential candidate (he lost to Alberto Fujimori). A story of good boy forever in love with a bad girl. Definitely worth reading.

Sep. 28th, 2007

  • 10:01 PM

For  those who do not know what rail trails are - those are former railroads whose beds and right-of -ways were converted into walking/bicycling trails. It is a great idea as the railroad beds were perfectly graded for bicycling, and often go through areas of great historic interest (like centers of historic New England towns) and great natural beauty.

A  couple of weeks ago my wife and I did Norwottuck Rail trail in western Massachusetts (19mi RT), and the last week we did the East Bay Rail trail in Rhode Island (30 mi from Providence to Bristol, RI and and back). The East Bay Trail views are out of this world - especially in the beginning (E. Providence) and end (Bristol) parts. (Although I have to qualify this statement - the  views from a kayak or a yacht on Narragansett Bay looking onto mainland are even better).

Tomorrow we going to do the Nashua River Rail Trail - and we are going to make a different rail trail every (good weather) weekend  thereafter. All New Englanders are welcome to join us - as long as you are comfortable biking 30 miles at a moderate pace..;-)

Ukaliq - the Arctic Hare

  • May. 19th, 2007 at 10:21 AM

Some really amazing videos - here

They are beautiful and lightning fast...

Jose Carreras

  • May. 16th, 2007 at 10:36 PM

Jose Carreras rules!  The only one who can compare is Albert Kuvezin of Yat-Kha fame..