Friday, December 21, 2007

Made it to Israel

After 40 hours of traveling. Not too bad, overall. Slept a bit, but I am still recovering. The first buisness of the day is to read the weekend newspapers.

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Wednesday, October 24, 2007

[Vanity of Vanities, all is Vanity] Comment: "Did you know that..."

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Author : Sariel Har-Peled (IP: 74.134.236.181 , 74-134-236-181.dhcp.insightbb.com)
Comment:
Now it all makes sense:
<img src="http://www.bestweekever.tv/bwe/images/2007/10/PEOPLE_dumbledore_ImGay.jpg"/>

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Monday, July 30, 2007

Quote

> Then you must begin a reading program immediately so that you man understand the crises of our age," Ignatius said solemnly. "Begin with the late Romans, including Boethius, of course. Then you should dip rather extensively into early Medieval. You may skip the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. That is mostly dangerous propaganda. Now, that I think about of it, you had better skip the Romantics and the Victorians, too. For the contemporary period, you should study some selected comic books."
>
> "You're fantastic."
>
> "I recommend Batman especially, for he tends to transcend the abysmal society in which he's found himself. His morality is rather rigid, also. I rather respect Batman."

-- **A confederacy of Dunces**, _John Kennedy Toole_

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Monday, June 11, 2007

[Vanity of Vanities, all is Vanity] Comment: "Generalissimo Sariel"

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this is what happens when sariel emails me the morning after i've seen The Last King of Scotland -- which i highly recommend. the fine dictator-wear is courtesy of Idi Amin, in the mid-seventies (google-image-search the nice man, it's on the first page of results).

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Sunday, June 3, 2007

Comment on Korea 13 - Only a pawn in their game by Sariel Har-Peled

It might be a lie, but it is also seems to be a generally accepted fact that North Korea helped the communists in China during the civil war. See for example the wikipedia [entry][1]:
_North Korea also played an important role, with 30-40 thousand Korean troops from Soviet-occupied North Korea were provided[6] in addition to allowing the CCP to use North Korea as a sanctuary in general,[7] and repairing Manchurian railroads and bridges which were used by Mao.[8]
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[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Civil_War

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Friday, April 27, 2007

[Vanity of Vanities, all is Vanity] Comment: "Korea 4 - My name it is nothing"

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Well, hopefully you are not Korean...

But really, every "letter" is made out of (up to) three characters, so the alphabet is in fact reasonably easy to learn.

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