The pinnacle of stupidity ("Peace in our time"...)
Path to political power: Attempt revolution and fail, retreat, dig in, and call for peace negotiations, then demand and be given given control over the police and military.
Am I the only one who thinks that this is stupid? Yet the Ivory Coast is doing just that in a French mediated "peace deal". I give the Ivory Coast three years until the Moslem rebels soon to be running the ministries of defense and interior impose Sharia law* and send the Ivory Coast into a dark age.
Does anyone else remember what happened after Nevil Chamberlain declared "Peace in our time"?
There can never be peace, only less war. All we can do is hold fast to what is right and not let insurgents and rebels win. What worth does life have without freedom?
* I couldn't care less how nice and peaceful academic Sharia law is, what matters it how it is practiced in "Muslim" nations today.
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Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo has returned to Abidjan after approving peace deal in Paris
to end his country's four-month civil war.
President Gbagbo is expected to speak to supporters later Monday.
On Saturday and Sunday, Abidjan was hit by waves of anti-French protests by government supporters who said France had imposed an unfair peace deal that gives too much power to rebels. Police had to fire tear gas to control mobs attacking the French embassy and other French institutions there.
In a televised appeal from Paris Sunday, Mr. Gbagbo urged calm, while in Abidjan a top army official called the accord "humiliating." It gives northern-based rebels control over the key ministries of Interior and Defense. President Gbagbo has named Seydou Diarra, a Muslim from the north, to be prime minister in the reconciliation government.
Meanwhile, the European Union has offered to donate more than $400 million in aid to Ivory Coast over the next five years, to help the country rebuild after the rebel uprising that started last September.
Some information for this report provided by AFP and Reuters. " from
VOAnews.com
BSD & UNIX rock
The 5.0-RELEASE of FreeBSD supports the MemoryStick reader on my laptop, sound should be supported as well. FreeBSD is going to be the major OS on the laptop with Windows XP remaining for occasional use. OpenBSD 3.2 is working fine on my desktop with the only concern being IPv6 configuration. HP-UX on a C180 is the core behind the OSIAH project and the only concern with it being IPv6 support for HP-UX 11.00. The home file server is currently running RedHat 8.0 but as soon as I get a second processor and larger disk for it, it is going FreeBSD. That means that I will finaly be free from the overly politicized and innefficent mass that is Linux today.
Pondering John 6:25-
This passage in John is especially deep, I have been pondering on it for a few weeks now but it is as if a screen is keeping me from understanding it in full.
If I am reading it correctly it means that what I was taught as the basics of becoming a christian, the whole "ask Jesus into your heart and he shows up" bit is wrong, that they go as far as John 3:16 and stop.
What I seek it to know that I believe, to seek God with my whole heart. To serve Him with all my abilities so that He who is the author of my story will be pleased with the work that I have done and call me home to eternal rest.
John 6:25-
When they found him on the other side of the lake, they asked him, "Rabbi, when did you get here?"
Jesus answered, "I tell you the truth, you are looking for me, not because you saw miraculous signs but because you ate the loaves and had your fill. Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. On him God the Father has placed his seal of approval." Then they asked him, "What must we do to do the works God requires?" Jesus answered, "The work of God is this: to believe in the one he sent." So they asked him, "What miraculous sign then will you give that we may see it and believe you? What will you do? Our forefathers ate the manna in the desert; as it is written: He gave them bread from heaven to eat." Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world." "Sir," they said, "from now on give us this bread." Then Jesus declared, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty. But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe. All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all that he has given me, but raise them up at the last day. For my Father's will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day." At this the Jews began to grumble about him because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven." They said, "Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, 'I came down from heaven'? "Stop grumbling among yourselves," Jesus answered. "No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day. It is written in the Prophets: 'They will all be taught by God.' Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him comes to me. No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father. I tell you the truth, he who believes has everlasting life. I am the bread of life. Your forefathers ate the manna in the desert, yet they died. But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which a man may eat and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world." Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?" Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him. Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your forefathers ate manna and died, but he who feeds on this bread will live forever." He said this while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum. On hearing it, many of his disciples said, "This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?" Aware that his disciples were grumbling about this, Jesus said to them, "Does this offend you? What if you see the Son of Man ascend to where he was before! The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life. Yet there are some of you who do not believe." For Jesus had known from the beginning which of them would betray him. He went on to say, "This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has enabled him." From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him. "You do not want to leave too, do you?" Jesus asked the Twelve. Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We believe and know that you are the Holy One of God." Then Jesus replied, "Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!" (He meant Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, who, through one of the Twelve, was later to betray him.)
Perl modules are good
I played with perl modules some more today. It appears that if I write most of my current project (OSIAH) as perl modules everything will be simple to write, manage, and improve.