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Cut and run!  Cut and run!  No more kite-flying; it’s way too dangerous!  Let’s hunker down in fear until it goes away.

Save America; boycott the MSM.

That sounds like the time when dozens of kids in Rob’s home town were injured in a sledding accident.

What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.

This happens every year there. At least 10 dead. They use either metal kite strings or cotton ones rolled in glue and broken glass bits. That way they can cut other kites down.

Yun Chu said, “You must strictly not express in words what is very significant. Both dragon and snake are killed in one blow.”

Kite-flying is a mess, a quagmire, a disaster!  Run away, run away!  We can’t deal with this.

Save America; boycott the MSM.

There’s a fantastic book that centers around this tradition of competitive, and dangerous, kite-flying in Afghanistan.  It’s called The Kite Runner.  Fantastic, heart-wrenching story.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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Can’t say I’m surprised.

If you have worked, studied or lived overseas for a bit, particularly in the Third World, you will know that folks really do think differently out there.

What you and I (assuming that you are from the USA or a First World country), would consider common sense, is often completely missed in the Third World.  Our concept of safety, really driven home by the threat of lawsuit and at the very least, bad press, keeps things here in the USA at least moderatly safe.  The term of art is that a danger is “reasonably foreseeable” and that failure to avoid a reasonably foreseeable danger can result in liability. 

But not in the Third World.  Case in point, folks who have worked in overseas construction showed me the difference in setting up temporary worksite electrical junction boxes in a US-approved site.  Full metal enclosure, wires neatly terminated and insulated, secured to a dry mount, properly isolated by distance and configuration to be safe from sparking, shorts and accidental electrocution.

Then, what they found at a Pakistani site:  plywood board on a post, open, screw-on connectors, bare wires coming in from every angle, tangled at the open board, and the best of all, the entire thing sitting in the center of a deep puddle.

Exhortations to think safety, use precautions, were all met with ‘Imshallah’ (If Allah wills it).  Very lackadasical, very slipshod and very dangerous. This attitude infused their society and touched on almost everything they did, making ‘Western’ concepts of order, safety and promptness alien to them (and many other Third World cultures) .

What the PC-types, who laud Third World cultures have failed to point out are the strengths of what we consider to be common sense and oftentimes, exclusively Western thought: independence, initiative, logic, safety, promptness, efficiency and a general ‘can-do’ spirit.  What they leave to the Will of Allah, we look at, recognize, and square away.

That’s why you are always hearing about 100 people in a Third World bus dying after it goes off a cliff.  That’s why I can easily believe that fatalities can result from something that seems as innocuous as kite-flying.

It really is different out there.

Bring your own water, toilet paper and a gun.

...for great justice

Now we know why those little girls were flying kites in Iraq in Michael Moore’s movie!

(Michael Moore...shouldn’t he at least be an honorary Dixie Chick?)

Barack Obama: All hat and no cattle since 1997!

MZ, Inshallah is exactly the problem. This mental abberation runs through Muslim society like a naked high voltage line. Want a thrill that will knock 10 years off your life? Hop in a vehicle and drive through a Muslim city. It makes NASCAR and demolition derbies look tame and sedate.

This kite issue happens every year. People stand in the street and on roof tops and pay no attention whatsoever to what is going on around them, and any attempts by governments to educate people about the dangers roundly ignored. Why? Inshallah. If you are going to die or be crippled there is nothing you can do to stop it. It is The Will of God.

Una Salus Victus Nullam Sperare Salutem

(Michael Moore...shouldn’t he at least be an honorary Dixie Chick?)

Moore???

In a bikini????

My eyes! My eyezzzzzzz!!! [clawing them out]