The problems continue.
These problems have happened less often now, but they do keep happening.
I'm also posting a LOT less political stuff these days, so that is probably why.
But just now, something very strange happened. I read this piece by Glenn Greenwald:
http://www.salon.com/2012/06/04/obama_a ... singleton/Which includes this:
In February, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism documented that after the U.S. kills people with drones in Pakistan, it then targets for death those who show up at the scene to rescue the survivors and retrieve the bodies, as well as those who gather to mourn the dead at funerals: “the CIA’s drone campaign in Pakistan has killed dozens of civilians who had gone to help rescue victims or were attending funerals.” As The New York Times summarized those findings: “at least 50 civilians had been killed in follow-up strikes after they rushed to help those hit by a drone-fired missile” while “the bureau counted more than 20 other civilians killed in strikes on funerals.”
This repellent practice continues. Over the last three days, the U.S. has launched three separate drone strikes in Pakistan: one on each day. As The Guardian reports, the U.S. has killed between 20 and 30 people in these strikes, the last of which, early this morning, killed between 8 and 15. It was the second strike, on Sunday, that targeted mourners gathered to grieve those killed in the first strike:
At the time of the attack, suspected militants had gathered to offer condolences to the brother of a militant commander killed during another US unmanned drone attack on Saturday. The brother was one of those who died in the Sunday morning attack. The Pakistani officials said two of the dead were foreigners and the rest were Pakistani.
Note that there is no suggestion, even from the “officials” on which these media reports (as usual) rely, that the dead man was a Terrorist or even a “militant.” He was simply receiving condolences for his dead brother. But pursuant to the standards embraced by President Obama, the brother — without knowing anything about him — is inherently deemed a “combatant” and therefore a legitimate target for death solely by virtue of being a “military-age male in a strike zone.” Of course, killing family members of bombing targets is nothing new for this President: let’s recall the still-unresolved question of why Anwar Awlaki’s 16-year-old American son, Abdulrahman, was killed by a U.S. drone attack in Yemen two weeks after his father was killed.
I ask this sincerely: what kind of country targets rescuers, funeral attendees, and people gathered to mourn? If a Hollywood film featured a villainous King ordering lethal attacks on rescuers, funerals and mourners — those medically attending to or grieving his initial victims — any decent audience member would, by design, seethe with contempt for such an inhumane tyrant. But this is the standard policy and practice under President Obama and it continues through today.
When I tried to share it on Facebook, it wouldn't work. The "share" page wouldn't come up right.
So I c&p the link, to just stick it into my "status". That crashed my browser completely. Twice. I reset the browser (Safari, on a Mac). Still won't work. Just sits-n-spins.
So I restart the computer. Try to call up Facebook. And Facebook won't even come up. At all! I get
"Safari can’t open the page.
Safari can’t open the page “http://www.facebook.com/” because the server where this page is located isn’t responding."
Gee, I guess I crashed Facebook! I can only assume the entire Facebook site is down! Ha, yeah right.
By the way, "resetting" Safari gets rid of everything, cookies, history, supposedly all of it. Uh ..... apparently not.
Why would little old me have these issues? Again this all started when I tried to share a link about 9/11 that REALLY kinda blew my mind.
Again, I took this computer to the "genius" bar and they basically told me what happened to my computer simply couldn't happen.
What's silly is that I found this article on Facebook? Posted by George W. Obama. So .... WTF?
"He who wounds the ecosphere literally wounds God" -- Philip K. Dick
you'll be amazed, it'll work like new again. and/or get a live cd of knoppix or ubuntu and boot with that.
