More on Iraq

To continue with following up on countless late night monologue comments from our late night hosts, here is an easy-to-find site, named "Iraq Companies.com", with lots of information in English, I can't find a click for the Arabic page. There are plenty of Iraqi companies in the Business Directory list, if you really give a care to click and learn. Perhaps one is really anti-Halliburton; here is a way to find out what is really going on. Or perhaps one doesn't care for the way the media covers the issues in Iraq; why not click and see for yourself?

There are computer hardware companies, business consultants, construction companies, construction materials, aviation, accountants, trading, petroleum-related, much more than is currently covered on the English Wikipedia.

Sitting on the center aisle, one knows that people like to go to work, just the same as you. Sitting on the far right or far left, there is no real way of knowing what the attitude is. Usually one is using the ongoing events or issue to describe various other events that are going on. A border dispute in Iraq becomes a symbol for the Immigration Bill in Congress. It's Sunday morning and I feel so alacritous. Spry. Delightful. What one really wants is to think like Jim Halpert, the sales representative on The Office (US) and look like you are actually poring through, scanning through, taking a look at, becoming familiar with, feeling mildly conversant with, finding something interesting in, this topic that is broached again and again every single day, the first thing up on The Daily Show, The Tonight Show, The Late Show, Saturday Night Live, and all regular news in general.

iraqdirectory.com

I suppose if one is going out to a steakhouse, one would read the sports pages beforehand, if one was going out to a soul food restaurant one would listen to some De La Soul before going out, et cetera et cetera. In light of all the attention, one would try to get in the mood for understanding the war by putting on some rai music, available on the web. Blurbs say that it is some kind of revolutionary music for young people, similar to rap; I found it to be more like dub reggae in its nature, somewhat soothing and mildly, unobtrusively interesting, rai is relaxing.

Of course this whole approach to Iraq is based on the sarcastic sentiment of "If one really gave a care about the war, one would be familiar with normal Iraq stuff (like companies, dating services, radio stations, magazines, fashion, pop music etc). If the media is willing to put this issue on tv then the media may as well share my attitude and stop alienating old people who watch the news at 6:30 while all the rest of the people resolutely turn to something else.