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Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina 2007

My brother is in Bosnia and Herzegovina currently doing research for his dissertation. He lives in our native city of Mostar. There is no war or fighting since 1995 and city fell into what I call “post war coma”. Meaning, nobody cares about anything. Everyone minds its own business. No one rushes to do anything. If you are tourist or a stranger, you would not notice any national tensions. Or would you? Story below is a testament that city is still psychologically divided between Muslims and Catholics and my brother experienced it first hand.
Last week he got caught up in the middle of hooligan fight between soccer fans, and this is a short story of his experience in his own words.
Just click on the link to read the story.

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Let me start this article by addressing the issue of sex; the most evil act a human being can perform, or this is what the right wingers would have you believe if they had their way. Fortunately they don’t, or not completely at least.
US really need to get grow up as far as the sex and porn goes. When I say US I mean all of you who think about sex as a taboo or some sort of tribal ritual which will turn your kids into sex crazed lunatics. In short, conservatives. This is the only country where sex is treated as something evil or not good, and yet it is the country with the highest rate of rapes and divorces. So this kind of conservative views about sex, family and porn is obviously not working. Read the rest of this entry »

I just wanted to post my thoughts about news and media role in todays events.
Let me tell you one thing.
I am originally from Balkans (living in US now) and I lived through the horror of war and I know what media can do to the nation.
I can see how most Americans are pro-Israel. It is hard not to be when every news channel is pro-Israel. No exceptions. It is almost like brain washing. It is the same in Middle East with Arab stations.
The only real news are the ones you get first hand on the battle ground, and most of us will never have privilege to do that, so i suggest doing what I do. Read the rest of this entry »

It took me 6 years of agonizing research to finally find one thing that I agree with Bush. Immigration reform.

Here is my view (not much different from Bush’s):

1. Don’t let anyone in US illegally
2. All 11 million illegal immigrants have to go back to their country of origin and re-apply for entrance in US through legal channels (tourist visa, work visa or green card)
3. Border patrol needs to be tough and thorough (I don’t think we need “wall of China” but come on! Today’s security is a joke)

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Just watching and reading about Bush’s campaign trying to promote eavesdropping on American public.

This is a quote from the man himself:

“I wake up every morning thinking about a future attack, and therefore, a lot of my thinking, and a lot of the decisions I make are based upon the attack that hurt us.”
First question: He thinks?
Second: What a hell is that mean?
Personally I have nothing against eavesdropping. Simply because I have nothing to hide and I don’t plan to blow up anything, but from moral standpoint any sane human being would reject the idea. If some NSA agent wants to listen dirty conversations between my wife and me, let him. Maybe he’ll learn something.

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Republican legislator Clel Baudler from Des Moines (Iowa) said and I quote:
“We could simplify law enforcement’s job if we didn’t have rock concerts. We could simplify their job a lot quicker if we just didn’t have football games there where we arrest hundreds of drunks over the weekend.”

I think that’s not a bad idea. Even better. We could simply invoke marshal law again and there wouldn’t be anyone to arrest after lets say 7PM (time for cartoons yeey)

Or, even better. We could simplify law enforcement job if there were no people at all in Iowa. Read the rest of this entry »