In Junot Diaz's book he talks about how Dominicans believe the Kennedy family is cursed with fukú because JFK called for the assassination of Trujillo.
Oh yeah! I loved that book.
OK, who else has a Kennedy family curse theory?
Do I wish I was somebody else right now. Somebody not... married, not madly in love with a beautiful woman who can kill me with her pinkie!
Wash ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 58: Let's call Venezuela!
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - May 21, 2008 4:40:40 am PDT #8103 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Shir - May 21, 2008 4:40:42 am PDT #8104 of 10001
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Thank you very much for the explanation, CaBil. I'm just quite baffled, since every other headline in the paper is something about the US demanding Israel and Hamas to talk, or you know, something like that. So I just assumed US was also talking with Hamas, after all those Rice visits to the Palestinian Authority where I assume she talked with someone there (though now I understand why Bush didn't go there when he was here).
(Wow, seems like my assumptions are slightly disorganized)
Shir - May 21, 2008 4:45:18 am PDT #8105 of 10001
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Ah, it's hard to figure out exactly what the US position is, but it seems to be try to deal only with Abbas in the West Bank and try to ignore the Gaza Strip as much as possible...
Hey, it's OK. Everyone are trying to ignore the situation in Gaza Strip as much as possible. I think that Egypt rushed into the role of the mediator so that the dealing with this boiling potato won't fall on it later on.
billytea - May 21, 2008 4:51:22 am PDT #8106 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
OK, who else has a Kennedy family curse theory?
I believe they were cursed by Joe DiMaggio for porking his wife. All the best curses in the US seem to involve baseball in one way or another.
CaBil - May 21, 2008 4:51:47 am PDT #8107 of 10001
Remember, remember/the fifth of November/the Gunpowder Treason and Plot/I see no reason/Why Gunpowder Treason/Should ever be forgot.
The papers may be talking about the US Congress. The Democrats in Congress have been urging talking to Hamas/Hezbollah, but the US Congress is far weaker in foreign policy areas that the President.
Rice may be talking to folks at the PA, but in the US, she has been basically off the radar since the Annapolis Conference back in Nov, 2007, which was widely portrayed in the US as a substantive failure. Despite the conference articulating a two-state solution, there has been no real mention of the two-state solution from the US government since.
Shir - May 21, 2008 4:57:33 am PDT #8108 of 10001
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Thank you so much again. It really helps me to understand some things better.
the Annapolis Conference back in Nov, 2007, which was widely portrayed in the US as a substantive failure.
Oh yes, the only thing I can remember about the Annapolis Conference right now is that they didn't aired the Muppets that night because of it and I was pissed about it.
tommyrot - May 21, 2008 5:00:24 am PDT #8109 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
the only thing I can remember about the Annapolis Conference right now is that they didn't aired the Muppets that night because of it and I was pissed about it.
Heh. A lot of people my age are still pissed about the Camp David peace accord (in 1978-ish) because news of it preempted the premier of the original Battlestar Galactica.
Jesse - May 21, 2008 5:00:53 am PDT #8110 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I have a random question for people who know about canning, etc. I opened up a jar of homemade jam this morning, and it had mold on it. Does that mean I have to chuck the whole thing, or can I just take off the top layer?
Tom Scola - May 21, 2008 5:01:21 am PDT #8111 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Condi Rice is seriously persona non-grata in the US right now. I don't think I've seen her at all this year.
Shir - May 21, 2008 5:03:21 am PDT #8112 of 10001
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Heh. A lot of people my age are still pissed about the Camp David peace accord (in 1978-ish) because news of it preempted the premier of the original Battlestar Galactica.
I can understand them.