Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will be in Bali later tonight. At the moment he is in Jakarta and will attend Friday prayers at the Grand Mosque in Jakarta, before flying out. President Ahmadinejad told Indonesian Muslim leaders, that Iran wants to live in peace, and will use nuclear power for that end.
Friday night means I will be heading down the street, to the Jaya Pub, close to Jl. Double Six, to watch my friend Richard perform. Richard is a guitarist / singer who has built a recording studio in the mountains at Batukaru. He lives there with his family, and ventures out into the villages, meeting Balinese and learning about Balinese gamelan music. Richard told me he dreams of creating some kind of western / gamelan fusion, which is a hard nut to crack, due to the syncopated rhythms used in gamelan. Anyway tonight he’ll be on guitar, and if President Ahmadinejad cares to stop by, I’ll but him his first beer.
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Take him up and down Jl.Dhyana Pura about midnight on Saturday, that might lighten him up a little.
Today is a beautiful sunny day. If that doesn’t brighten his attitude, nothing will.
I think it is an amazing coincidence that the volcano goes off a day after Ahmadinejad shows up. I know it is just a coincidence but a lot of the people over there think that God is pissed at them. Maybe this opportunity could be used to launch some type of campaign to make the religious crazies think they are cheering for the wrong team.
Brian, who determines that it is the “wrong” team?
Any time there are 2 opponents in a major conflict in which one of them will succeed the other, it is clear that outcome has an effect upon the future. Sometimes it is the lesser of two evils, but nonetheless one is better off prevailing. This could either be in your personal view or just for the good of humanity.
Instead of saying “wrong” or “right” put a mark next to one of the following if you think one is “better” or “worse”.
- The confederates during the U.S. civil (trying to keep slavery)
- Abraham Lincoln and the Union Army.
- Hitler and the spread of Nazi fascism.
- The allied armies.
- The spread of communism and Marxism from the Cold War which puts up walls to keep people from escaping the country and cuts off communication from the rest of the world.
- Democracy and civil liberties.
- Ahmadinejad who would prefer to see every women in the world either dead or wearing a durka.
- Another more moderate form of government in Iran.
I am sure not everyone would mark these questions the same way but half of these choices have something in common (lacking of freedom). Call it what you want, I really don’t care.
be great brian if it were all as black and white as you portray it.
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