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I saw the movie Pi this week. It is an incredibly moving, and disturbing, movie. It was filmed in black and white – in grainy, high contrast. They used obsolete PCs, and they glued old circuit boards together and called it a mainframe. It was seriously low budget. It was about good and evil, obsession and migraines, patterns and the Universe.

It was great – especially if you are like me and have a background in science.

Patterns and the Universe. Have you noticed them? There is a rhythm, a beat, to the Universe. Sometimes it pulses quietly. Other times it pounds. And, when it’s syncopated and unpredictable, it’s only because we can’t hear the underlying tempo.  

I saw the movie Pi this week. It is an incredibly moving, and disturbing, movie. It was filmed in black and white – in grainy, high contrast. They used obsolete PCs, and they glued old circuit boards together and called it a mainframe. It was seriously low budget. It was about good and evil, obsession and migraines, patterns and the Universe.

It was great – especially if you are like me and have a background in science.

Patterns and the Universe. Have you noticed them? There is a rhythm, a beat, to the Universe. Sometimes it pulses quietly. Other times it pounds. And, when it’s syncopated and unpredictable, it’s only because we can’t hear the underlying tempo.  

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Now, let me get something straight here. I’m a little confused.

The Sarkozy government wants the rest of Europe to SCALE BACK on its involvement with Iran?

I hope that you don’t mind my incredulity, but isn’t that a bit tepid?

I’ve been racking my brain to find a suitable metaphor, and I think that I’ve hit on one. Y’all feel free to help me out with a better one. 

What would you do if, say, a gang set up a gas station near your neighborhood with the goal of using the profits to create a drug lab? Near your neighborhood?

Now, let me get something straight here. I’m a little confused.

The Sarkozy government wants the rest of Europe to SCALE BACK on its involvement with Iran?

I hope that you don’t mind my incredulity, but isn’t that a bit tepid?

I’ve been racking my brain to find a suitable metaphor, and I think that I’ve hit on one. Y’all feel free to help me out with a better one. 

What would you do if, say, a gang set up a gas station near your neighborhood with the goal of using the profits to create a drug lab? Near your neighborhood?

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In my last post, I said that It Ain’t Gonna’ Happen.

Can there be anything more frustrating than to see unquestionable disaster march toward you and find that the people responsible for averting disaster are doing nothing?

You scream yourself hoarse that the world is going to end, and no one does anything?

Six million Jews died in concentration camps because no one did anything. African-Americans had more melanin in their skin, so millions of them suffered horribly because no one did anything. Rwandans and Sudanese and Armenians and Ukrainians and American Indians were massacred by the tens of millions because we did nothing.

In my last post, I said that It Ain’t Gonna’ Happen.

Can there be anything more frustrating than to see unquestionable disaster march toward you and find that the people responsible for averting disaster are doing nothing?

You scream yourself hoarse that the world is going to end, and no one does anything?

Six million Jews died in concentration camps because no one did anything. African-Americans had more melanin in their skin, so millions of them suffered horribly because no one did anything. Rwandans and Sudanese and Armenians and Ukrainians and American Indians were massacred by the tens of millions because we did nothing.

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Most people do not know that Hitler’s Germany could not have developed into a threat without outside help. Bankers and investors lined up to give loans and make investments. Even while Hitler was demonstrating his evil intentions, they loaned and invested.

Without that support, Hitler would have been just one more ineffectual crackpot.

This century’s version of Hitler is as much a threat as Hitler ever was, and guess what… we’re doing it again. 

That’s right. We’re giving him loans and making investments. Here’s a quote from the Washington Post:

Most people do not know that Hitler’s Germany could not have developed into a threat without outside help. Bankers and investors lined up to give loans and make investments. Even while Hitler was demonstrating his evil intentions, they loaned and invested.

Without that support, Hitler would have been just one more ineffectual crackpot.

This century’s version of Hitler is as much a threat as Hitler ever was, and guess what… we’re doing it again. 

That’s right. We’re giving him loans and making investments. Here’s a quote from the Washington Post:

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Carol just sent me an email with an interesting article written by Paul Marek, who writes a blog here:

http://cjunk.blogspot.com/

Anyway, the article that is interesting is this one:

http://cjunk.blogspot.com/2006/02/why-peaceful-majority-is-irrelevant.html

It’s a bit more than a year old, but absolutely timeless. I’ll give you a couple paragraphs from his blog entry, and ask you to go and read the rest yourself.

He writes about a German friend:

Carol just sent me an email with an interesting article written by Paul Marek, who writes a blog here:

http://cjunk.blogspot.com/

Anyway, the article that is interesting is this one:

http://cjunk.blogspot.com/2006/02/why-peaceful-majority-is-irrelevant.html

It’s a bit more than a year old, but absolutely timeless. I’ll give you a couple paragraphs from his blog entry, and ask you to go and read the rest yourself.

He writes about a German friend:

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