Gaddafi the Cool

THE ABSURD TIMES

In case you wonder how to spell his name, or transliterate it, above is the banner for his website.




And this is a full-sized photo of him with a bunch of things pinned on his shirt. Well, actually that photo got lost, so here is one of him making his speech.

Now, after a long time of just hearing crazy stuff from our right wing loonies, we actually are hearing alot of pertainant information from the leaders of the world as the United Nations begins. The first thing to do is to get to the website from the UN and download the speeches along with translation. You have to use Realplayer to do it -- I guess they supply the stream or format free for them. You can down Realplayer and, I think, the free version will let you download the speeches.

Next, catch Gaddafi on CNN at 12 CDT for an hour interview with Fareed Za(and whatever). He's a pretty good interviewer and certainly knowledgable. Ahmedinejad was on CNN with Larry King and drove him nuts. King tried to confront him on the holocause and he instead started asking King questions. We would have seen a live heart-attack ahd King not been able to run to a commercial every 2 minutes. Maybe it will be re-run.

After that, we can really talk about what has been happening. Morales said he wouldn't talk as long as Gaddafi as he "said it all" and then applauded. What bothers western media was 1) the speech lasted 90 minutes and 2) there were no breaks for commercials. Additionally, since he had never addressed the General Assembly, he went back to the UN establishment and discussed its history and shortcomings. He said it was time to just thank the US for all its trouble and move the entire thing to another continent. Additionally, most of what he said was factually accurate.

Normally, he looks as if he is on hash, but this time he didn't. However, there were additional interviews lately where he is is old self. Anyway, we'll catch up on all this, but I wanted to let you know first about the material.

The next post should contain some links. Nah, why not have them here?

UN: http://www.un.org/ga/

You can find CNN yourselves.

On the UN: Right above the "present Speaker" are the archives. Khaddafi was on day one (1) as was Ahmedinejad. Morales on the second day. You can check them out and then download the ones you want. There are plenty of conversion programs as "Freeware" what you can use if you prefer another format. The typescript of the speech should also be available, but it is in PDF. I hate PDF. Who likes it? Also, conversion to ascii programs available as freeware.

Later we can talk about the UN and the salient points made.