"Breaking News" is what they call it
when there's nothing else to air.
msnbc has dragged two "experts" onto the air to grill them about this israeli helicopter that was just shot down by a sophisticated chinese-made rocket from hezbollah. it already is a world war, not in the traditional sense, but in thomas friedman's "globalization" sense--people are using weapons purchased from other nations, which are based on models of weapons from still other countries.
in the same way that my blue jcrew pants were assembled in indonesia with fabric from egypt, and shipped back to states for distribution, under the direction of corporate headquarters in new hampshire, perhaps, using funds from a swiss bank account, hezbollah has launched a chinese-built, russian-modelled rocket that it probably secured from either iran or syria.
similarly, israel is fighting mostly with weapons we have given them.
maybe tonight i could go to a bookstore and read one of my books for school, to get it out of the way, and get me out of the house. i should also pick up a french textbook from the used bookstore to help my grammar next year.
i can't stand laura bush, so i'd better change the channel, because msnbc is doing a special on her.
now we have some silly guy on CNN waving his hands at an interactive satellite map of lebanon, talking about how well dug-in hezbollah is.
we have a new phenomenon emerging here, people--the taliban were hard for us to root out from the caves of afghanistan, just the way saddam's army disappeared back into the civilian population, and hezbollah disappears into lebanon when israel comes looking for it.
quite different from the portrayal of world war II i've been watching over the last several nights on Band of Brothers.
i should sort out my pants between the ones that fit and the ones that don't, and either shrink the big ones in the washing machine or take them to the seamstress.
i have a cracked molar that i'll eventually have to have taken care of, so i'm trying to chew on the other side for now.
msnbc has dragged two "experts" onto the air to grill them about this israeli helicopter that was just shot down by a sophisticated chinese-made rocket from hezbollah. it already is a world war, not in the traditional sense, but in thomas friedman's "globalization" sense--people are using weapons purchased from other nations, which are based on models of weapons from still other countries.
in the same way that my blue jcrew pants were assembled in indonesia with fabric from egypt, and shipped back to states for distribution, under the direction of corporate headquarters in new hampshire, perhaps, using funds from a swiss bank account, hezbollah has launched a chinese-built, russian-modelled rocket that it probably secured from either iran or syria.
similarly, israel is fighting mostly with weapons we have given them.
maybe tonight i could go to a bookstore and read one of my books for school, to get it out of the way, and get me out of the house. i should also pick up a french textbook from the used bookstore to help my grammar next year.
i can't stand laura bush, so i'd better change the channel, because msnbc is doing a special on her.
now we have some silly guy on CNN waving his hands at an interactive satellite map of lebanon, talking about how well dug-in hezbollah is.
we have a new phenomenon emerging here, people--the taliban were hard for us to root out from the caves of afghanistan, just the way saddam's army disappeared back into the civilian population, and hezbollah disappears into lebanon when israel comes looking for it.
quite different from the portrayal of world war II i've been watching over the last several nights on Band of Brothers.
i should sort out my pants between the ones that fit and the ones that don't, and either shrink the big ones in the washing machine or take them to the seamstress.
i have a cracked molar that i'll eventually have to have taken care of, so i'm trying to chew on the other side for now.
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