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Transcript of BriefingsDirect Podcast on the Future of Enterprise Search
Edited transcript of BriefingsDirect[TM] podcast on search advancements with host Dana Gardner, recorded Jan. 3, 2007.
Listen to the podcast here. Podcast sponsor: FAST Search & Transfer.
Dana Gardner: Hi, this is Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions, and you're listening to BriefingsDirect. Today a sponsored BriefingsDirect podcast discussion on search, the role of search, how search relates to today's mega trends of Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) and even mobile lifestyles.
Joining us in this discussion are executives from FAST Search & Transfer, a global company based in Oslo, Norway. Joining us is John Markus Lervik, the CEO. Also, Bjorn Olstad, CTO, and Zia Zaman, the Senior Vice President of Strategic Marketing. Welcome to the show everyone.
John Markus Lervik: Good morning, Dana.
Gardner: While search has been around for many years, it seems like we've had somewhat of a philosophical shift in the last few years, in the sense that people are no longer thinking of information based on its origins, but really they've supplanted these data structures with how they can use it and how they can access it. That cuts across desktop, intranet, and Web; and it seems that access to information quickly and in the way that any individual wants it has really changed the notion of fleet and agile business.
In fact, business process is increasingly being driven by how people access content and then inject that into business goals. So, I want to first talk to you about business goals because many companies are very practical, of course. They're looking at their top line and they're looking at their bottom line. I want to throw this out perhaps to John Markus, how are companies using information discovery to further their business goals in a way now that's perhaps different from ever before?
Lervik: Dana, I think that one way of looking at technology is always in the light of the business processes that they're enabling. Many of our customers are thinking about ways in which they can achieve competitive advantage through productivity change, and they're looking for something new. What we enable is for search to help facilitate communications between individuals.
We've all heard of Web 2.0 applied to the "Websphere," but in the enterprise, Enterprise 2.0 trends of social networking are also taking hold, allowing people to collaborate better and allowing individuals to streamline business processes. What's interesting for us in the future is search as an entry point into facilitating improved business processes, and business process improvement leads to improved business goals, as well as business-model innovations.
Gardner: Is there an impact here for applications themselves to start to be created based on what search can bring to the table rather than having search perhaps be an afterthought? What do you see as the future of search-driven applications?
Bjorn Olstad: This is Bjorn, and I'll have a go at that. The fundamental difference between search and such things as database, content management, and document management systems is that search starts with the user and then does reverse engineering -- what is necessary to realize this user's experience. It's starting with the content and then trying to deduce what should we do with this content. When you do that, you end up with a user-driven experience.
As you're starting off, Dana, the user doesn't care about the origin of the content. So, the ability to go into content sources and then chop that into information nuggets that can then be re-orchestrated and put into the context of what is useful for that specific individual user in what he's trying to accomplish right now is a very powerful paradigm. It's also a paradigm that can be used as the basis for building applications.
We see search more and more becoming the framework for the metaphor in how the user interface is being defined and also for how the application is actually defined by the source of the framework and then embedding functionalities in a source-stream framework.
Gardner: Is this really a shift of intent or are there some technologies that are newly arriving that empower this shift? Bjorn, can you tell us a little bit more about what's happening technically that is allowing an expansion of the role of search?
Olstad: Let's go back a little bit. As you said, search used to be an afterthought. Typically, you had an application that was kind of hard-wired, done in HTML, or hard-coded down to the logic that usually resided on some type of database. So there was hard-wiring between the schemas and the data model and the database, and then the user interface.
Going forward, I think increasingly the user experience will be driven by algorithms and will be dynamic, so that you can actually optimize the user experience and the business efficiency. This is valid for both consumer-facing portals that you've seen on the Web but also on other applications internally. So then you get that framework and you say. "Let's not hire system integrators to hard wire my content. Let the user decide, and when we deduce what the user likes, the algorithms can populate the user experience."
This will include both content and relevant services, and maybe a connection to people, so that you can find people to collaborate with. That becomes a framework, and search has matured from being merely access to documents to being this umbrella environment where you can provide access both to structured data and unstructured data and transform them into structure by putting additional metadata onto it. You can do the same with rich media, and search suddenly becomes that framework that can give you access to everything, as opposed to just the text that didn't fit into the hard wire or the schema model.
Gardner: I suppose that with the increasing use of SOA, where applications are decomposed into services with the productivity coming from reuse as much as possible, and with governance providing an overlay for managing and organizing services, that search could have quite a powerful impact on how services are put together on the fly to create unique business processes. Do you see search moving in that direction as well?
Olstad: Absolutely. If you think about Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0, one way to interpret this is that Web 1.0 included these monolithic Web services. Then, in Web 2.0, it's about the different services that make up atomic individual services and then having technologies to mash up and combine them to create new services on top of that, the same way as SOA. It seems nice at first because they are driven toward reuse, et cetera, but you move the complexity to the next level. How do you actually orchestrate? How do you put together these atomic content components and atomic service components? How do you actually do that and how to do that in a user-centric way, so you can gain the right user experience?
With search, it's actually designed to do exactly that, to bring both components and services to atomic units and then bring the orchestration level that is able to recompile these content and service elements into what makes sense for the end user. Hence, it brings 3.0 integration levels on top of the atomic components that we have in Web 2.0.
Zia Zaman: This isn't just our idea, if I can build upon that. I was talking to an information provider that provides information to financial services firms. What he asked for was the ability to atomize information, allowing the users the flexibility to consume it in their own way. So, it's exactly what Bjorn was talking about. In Enterprise 2.0, we allow for the atomization. And then the re-organization around the business processes is what happens in the next phase.
Gardner: Zia, there is already quite a bit of difference of opinion on how to define Web 2.0, never mind Web 3.0, but let's try to just get a handle on Web 3.0 for our audience. To me this is really getting towards the Semantic Web, where there is context on an automated basis, with much more rich metadata involved, and therefore the ability to apply algorithms more generally across the Internet. Is that your understanding at FAST about this Web 3.0 or how would you further that definition?
Zaman: Dana, I think you've got it right. Metadata is the key, but I'm going to pass this one over to Bjorn to talk a little bit more about Semantic Web.
Olstad: There are so many opinions about the Semantic Web. First of all, what I don't like with the approach of Semantic Web is that you have to put in structure, and it's not really useful until almost everybody has started to put structure into it.
So, how do you leap from that and actually make it useful before everybody has adopted this new scheme? Search can actually play a role, because search can auto-generate metadata and find ways to use that structure and to improve the discovery. Then, the allocation elements that the traditional Semantic Web talks about can be aimed at how to improve algorithms, as opposed to starting from scratch. In doing that, I think search has the opportunity to deliver on the premise of the Semantic Web, by applying algorithms as opposed to altering tools.
If you then move to Web 3.0, then using algorithms increasingly becomes a component of it. I think an immediate step, which is an opportunity that FAST is looking at right now, is how can you use search at this level to go from atomic services to the rich environment, where you effectively can develop and deploy services. That's kind of the orchestration: how you put services and content components into meaningful context for the end users. That is what brings business value. It brings time to market value for companies that are trying either to develop Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 applications or move their current models to a more collaborative approach.
Gardner: I suppose one of the frustrations we've heard quite often from users is that they can find things easier on the World Wide Web, than on their own hard drive or their own enterprise network. We've come a long way to assuage those concerns, but it seems to me like perhaps we're at a point where we can go and leapfrog the Web.
If we're thinking about a Semantic Web, that's something that requires a lot of standardization. It could take a number of years and a high level of complexity, but moving to the "Semantic Enterprise" seems something that's quite a bit more attainable in the short term. Do you think, and I'll throw this out to anyone, are we going to move to a point where we can apply these benefits to the Enterprise and then the Web will catch up to them or is the Web always going to be a bit easier to manage?
Olstad: Maybe I could start, and, Zia, you could give some business examples. This is an excellent question, Dana. First of all, just so that we're on the same page about what the Web experience is all about, there are two types of queries. There is the type of query where you know what you're looking for. So you search for some properties and what you're actually looking for.
The other type of query is when you don't know what's there, but you throw out a wide, open-ended query, and you want the data to talk to you. In Web search, there is no completeness requirement. Web search is defined when you type in one or two query terms, which is a nice starting point for your browsing. So you get a link to a Website where you can start. There is no completeness. There is no overview of the other elements that didn't end on the first result page.
Web search has moved outside Web search and can be used inside the Enterprise for this semantic analysis. It can also identify facts inside documents, combine it with the information structure databases, and provide discovery. You can start to do analytics, so that you can relate concepts and enable people to make decisions and get completeness and overview. That is why you see a merger between business intelligence and search starting to appear.
Gardner: So, perhaps moving toward a business intelligence (BI) benefit vis-à-vis search, and of course the other tools that are available for BI, is it first a necessary step to the Semantic Enterprise?
Olstad: Yes, I think so. To give just one example of a company that is trying to use search in an innovative way, what about all communication internal in the company? What about instant messaging, email, Voice over IP (VOIP), Skype, et cetera, and how to improve the quality of that communication and also derive analytics from it.
For example, if I call you, Dana, I should call you as a conceptual entity and you should actually be the one who decides if that ends up as a Skype call or cell phone call. This company is doing that and using search to orchestrate all the communication, allowing you, as the recipient of the call, to configure how you want to be accessed. By having that system, you can also create analytics that understand what is really happening in the company: who are the experts, what's happening, what are the trends, etc.
Zaman: I actually think that it could be a lot simpler than that. The expert location is something that Bjorn just touched upon, which may be one of the next killer apps in the enterprise. What we're finding more and more when we talk to our customers is that information discovery isn't just about connecting users to results. It's about connecting users to answers, to analytics, and to services -- but most importantly, to people. Connecting people to other people, so that they can do their job better. To improve decision-making throughout the enterprise is a big part of what information discovery tools are about to enable.
One way of looking at it is, if I can find the expert in the organization or outside the organization who can help me best in the decision process that I'm currently in -- and I can find that expert in the shortest period of time, using insights about who this person might be by using metadata about this individual, by actually discovering this path that I didn't know existed upfront -- then I have actually added value to the business. So, we believe that search as a matching service is really one of the killer applications.
Gardner: So, what we're talking about here is bringing the tacit knowledge that's available to any organization into play with the semantic knowledge that's gathered across all modalities, all types of media and information, but allowing those to come together in real-time based on someone's specific needs through a very simple query.
Zaman: That's right. I often like to talk about Greek philosophers, and Socrates is one of my favorites. The reason is because of what he did with a seeker. He didn't answer a question with an answer. Rather he asked another question, and that allowed the seeker to refine his or her question, until finally they got to what they were looking for. In many ways, technology -- whether it's information discovery, search, and business intelligence, whatever it might be -- shouldn't insult the intelligence of the seeker. Rather it should allow individuals to find the answer that they're looking for, either through tacit information that's stored in the enterprise, or semantic information, or structured information, whatever it might be. What we're trying to do is mimic the type of dialogue that Socrates had.
Gardner: Sure, because people are quite good at peeling away the layers of an onion, as a metaphor, to find what it is they're looking for. There is no beginning or end to this peeling, but we certainly want to get him or her close to where they can extract real value.
Zaman: You got it.
Gardner: All right. Now people have been talking about this for years. I deal with developers a lot. I think they understand a lot of these theories. They understand the value and the goals, but putting it into practice, putting it into execution seems to be where there is still a need for some work. When we go to developers, we try to encourage them to start exploiting these capabilities of changing the mindset of how an application, specifically the UI, is actually constructed to make the entry point into an application more amenable for search and for gathering of these layers within an organization's assets and resources.
Are there tools? Are there APIs? Are there SDKs? Is there a mindset? How do we bring the developer into play here? I'll throw this out to anyone.
Olstad: I think Gartner predicted that in 2012, 75 percent of the world's applications will use search as the dominant metaphor for how an application is being operated by the end-user. That is a very powerful statement. And it means that all those developers that you're asking about, Dana, they have to adapt to that.
Simplicity in an application [means] that you have a powerful metaphor that you can use to deduce what you should expect the application to be doing. Search is exactly that. So, obviously, search is evolving to not only provide access to text, but to provide value to all types of elements.
Another change in search technology is that it handles content natively, and previously it did not. In Web search you type some queries and you get a URL link to the content. Now you can take XML or SQL databases, and you can get native content. You can search in native content with queries that emulate what you can do in the database or in an XML database. This means that you can build the same type of application with the freedom to access data in an ordinalistic way, and have a mechanism to prioritize and do exactly what Zia talked about with Socrates.
Technically, if you use an open-ended query like, "List the innovative people in my company," or something, you could get back kind of a menu of people that have been referred to in the documents or discussions where there is talk of innovation, and then get the facts related to these people. So it's not coming back with an answer, but it is coming back with an analysis -- and giving you the opportunity to refine the query.
Gardner: Another thing with developers is that they're interested in seeing examples. Are there folks out there doing this now who are really on the cutting-edge, who have been able to instantiate rather than theorize? Maybe, Zia, you could address this. Are there folks that are out there using FAST Search & Transfer technologies or other technologies who are actually realizing some of these benefits? And, who are they, and how are they doing it?
Zaman: All over the landscape of the economy, people are using search in interesting ways. I think that the message to the developer is: "Think about the app that you're working on right now, and think about how the users are accessing either the application or the information."
Take a consumer perspective and you'll definitely think that search plays an important part in whatever it is that you're doing. So, get involved and talk to people about search. I think you will find that, even in your own sphere, there are people who are already working on search technologies. In one particular investment bank, 15 or 16 different applications of FAST Search have been put into place across the business to help with everything from getting access to research reports to improving customer service.
There are search policies at law firms or at pharmaceutical companies or retail or e-commerce searches for Christmas shopping. Or just B2B searches, so that one individual can find another professional in the shortest amount of time in the right region. All these applications are about the user consuming information in a way that is most effective for them -- and search technologies are enabling each of these examples. Maybe John or Bjorn, you want to talk about a European example and I can talk about an American example?
Olstad: Sure. Let me start off with our broad business goals, and there are some that have nice benefits for the businesses. We have many customers that don't have a choice because if you look at media, entertainment, and telcos, there are so many disruptive changes going on. You have print transforming to electronic. You have advertising on the Internet, where search-based advertising is now bypassing traditional banner advertising. You have telcos, where telephone calls may soon be free because there are alternative ways to monetize it. And you already have Skype, Voice over IP, etc.
So, if what a telco provider, for example, is providing today is going to be free, then the name of the game is going to be who is able to create applications and to have service delivery platforms that use that customer base to derive new services. They're not very well equipped for that. The key enabling-technology that actually helps with this has got to be the user-driven applications. And they see search from a monetization perspective and from the perspective of building the end-user experience. So for lot of customers that we work with from media, entrainment, and telcos -- it's not that it's "nice to have," but it's "How do we survive?"
Zaman: An example of that in the back office is AutoTrader.com, which is a phenomenal example of how search was used to fundamentally rethink the way in which records were served up. The database administrator at AutoTrader says that they tripled their performance at half the cost, using a highly scalable search platform, which was very easy to deploy and a lot more dynamic than their traditional database architecture. So, even in the back office for applications as diverse as AutoTrader, we are seeing search being used to really disrupt the way in which you think about information delivery.
Gardner: It also seems that the younger generation, as they come into play here, are probably already automatically thinking "search." The people who have grown up with the Web around them start almost any activity with search. So, this is becoming imbued into the society and into the behavior and culture?
At the same time, these folks are also quite used to mobile devices and small handheld devices. Can you explore for me a little bit of how search plays into young people in mobile devices? Perhaps we're seeing some activities in early-adopter environments, South Korea for example, where search has to be the only way in a small-form factor that vast amounts of information could be managed. Help me understand the impact of use and mobile search?
Olstad: That's a very interesting question, Dana. As you said, most exploration starts with a search on the Web. You start with a search on a Web search engine, and then you come to the site of this company. Then that company has some options. Should we let the user continue with the search experience or should we force him to go back and understand the text and how we have orchestrated all our content? Then, he is not allowed to do anything meaningful before he has completed that education. That's slowing down the progress of the users.
Moving to mobile, if we go back to 2001-2002, we were trying to educate mobile operators that they needed to use search. That was a difficult discussion, a difficult sell. In Europe and Asia, at least, it was very popular to download ringtones and wallpapers and things like that. The operators felt that it was sufficient to have a chart with the most popular items and have them available on the static page, allowing people to choose from that.
When they moved to search, what they experienced was that a good way to measure the UI or the usability for the user is how many operations it took to actually perform the action. One of our customers is Vodafone. They measured how many operations young people had to do, from coming into the portal until they could complete a transaction, which in this case was to download a ringtone or music, etc. That used to be 3.5-operations, or something like that, when it was based on the charts and navigation mechanisms. When they substituted search, it went down to 1.5, which means that almost always you go directly to something that you can download. And, once in a while, you have to do one iteration before you get it. That drove revenue and traffic tremendously.
Zaman: You're right. Generation Y and the younger generation are very used to unfettered access to their data, their content. What does that mean in the Enterprise? This is something that I hear increasingly on Wall Street and in the City of London. I know how to deal with the managing director, who is in his 40s. It's very easy. For their relationship with their data, they ask someone junior.
But for that younger investment banker who's just grown up with unfettered access to their personal data, they keep asking why they can't get access to enterprise data with the same facility. The information technology people who are serving this younger generation have to change. They don't quite understand that search and other technologies, including Web 2.0 technologies, are forcing them to rethink the way in which they have access to their information, because that's the way they can be creative and allow for them to get the data they need in order to make the right decisions. I think it's having a cultural effect, even in more staid industries.
Olstad: Then, if you go to Japan or to Asia, you have also this competition between the telco providers, where the name of the game now is how do you add video services, and with extremely high bandwidth on the phones, how to do that? You see multimedia screening, where you are serving video quality down to the cell phones. So there is a tremendous interest in how to capitalize on new user experience to combine rich media assets, and then use this to build the community stuff you have seen in YouTube in the U.S. This is happening on the mobile side at a tremendous speed in Asia.
Gardner: Very interesting. So we're really still in the early stages of search. It sounds like there is going to be a lot to discuss at your forthcoming FASTforward '07 event. Perhaps as a little tease for our audience, is there anything you can tell us about this event in terms of some additional technologies, products or approaches? I will throw this out to anyone.
Olstad: If I could start from the technology side. There will be a lot of cool introductions and some new technology. We will look at how to interface search with repositories, from structured data to rich media and to traditional text. We think there is a game-changing opportunity in doing that and also to enable the Semantic Web in a more powerful way, as we talked about.
We also really believe that, as we have touched on here, that search is not just a feature, but it will become the framework for building search-driven, user-driven applications, to actually make that a reality and make it possible to build those applications. We are introducing new components to do that.
We see that search is driving the connective role in Web 2.0 in the evolution towards Web 3.0 by being a service-delivery platform. So we are introducing a Web 2.0 platform that uses search as the main orchestration -- both for monetization purposes and for understanding both content and the user. We'll be tracking the user and understanding his preferences, building personalized experiences, and creating this platform where you can take the atomic components of content and services and effectively roll that out as user-centric services. We're building a service delivery platform around search for doing that and you will see applications that already have been built on top of that platform.
Zaman: I think it's going to be a very hands-on conference in San Diego. There will be customers. There will be developers. There will be case studies, demos, and a lot of learning going on, interacting and sharing of ideas. Sure, there will be the predictions and the analysts and the advice that goes along with it. But really I think that the value of this search conference will be in the exchange of innovative ideas that takes place, not just from FAST to the rest of the community -- but also from the community to other members within the community. I think it's going to be great.
Gardner: Thanks. John Markus, just to return back to the business value, we've been discussing this at a fairly technical level -- developers and business intelligence folks -- but for CEOs, for the leadership at many enterprises, what are some of the salient messages that you think they need to understand in order to better appreciate search and why it makes a good deal of sense to invest in it?
Lervik: In general for most information-intensive companies -- media companies, financial services companies, telecom companies and pharmaceutical companies -- search is becoming both a key part of the infrastructure to enable these companies to make decisions, but also -- more importantly -- to drive and increase business online.
Because we see more and more of these companies relying on effectively connecting customers or end-users to their products, to their contents, and to their services. That's where search comes in as a mission-critical application, or at least to enable these mission critical applications. At FASTforward, there will be a great number of speakers who will talk about how these have effectively implemented a solution that drive and increase business.
Gardner: I'm afraid we're about out of time. We've been discussing search, the role of search, Enterprise 2.0, Web 3.0. Clearly the role and impact of search is increasing rapidly and will increase further over the coming years.
I'd like to thank our guests and sponsor, FAST Search & Transfer. We've been talking with John Markus Lervik, the CEO. Also, Bjorn Olstad, the CTO, and Zia Zaman, the Senior Vice President of Strategic Marketing. This is Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Thanks for joining us for this BriefingsDirect podcast.
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He was married to a real ballbuster. She demanded and ordered him around incessantly. I don't know if he loved her or was afraid of her, he never disagreed or disobeyed her.
We were leaving for WestPac, and the ship's Legal Officer was preparing Power of Attorney documents for married personnel giving their wives authority to act in their behalf during their absence. Chief Daddy-O's wife insisted on an unlimited Power of Attorney, and he acquiesced.
Seven months later the ship returned to Pearl Harbor. All the Brown-baggers were excited because Puss and the kids would be on the pier to welcome them home. Chief Daddy-O was as excited as a Seaman Deuce on his first run to the Samari. I was standing with him as he searched the pier for his wife. She wasn't there. My wife was in Japan and would be coming to Hawaii in a couple of weeks.
He waited nervously while a phone was installed into the CPO mess and called his house only to get a message that the number was no longer in service. An old shipmate had kept my car for me while I was in WestPac and brought it to the ship. Daddy-O asked me to drive him to his house in CPO Housing. I reluctantly did so. I was fairly sure what he would find. I followed him to the door and inside after he unlocked it.
There was nothing in the apartment except a pile of stuff in the center of the living room. The one bowling trophy he had won the night divine intervention had caused him to bowl a 225 with his 130 average, a stack of documents and photos commemorating graduations from Navy Schools and promotions. The album containing their wedding photos was also there. She had used a magic marker to cover his face in each picture.
If you are thinking, "That's not so bad, at least he is free of the bitch," hang on to your asshole, that was just the beginning. She had shipped all their furniture to Virginia charged to his next transfer. She had maxed out their credit cards and contracted for new ones using the Power of Attorney and maxed those. She had taken loans from three different credit unions and a couple of banks.
When the smoke finally cleared, he found that he owed sixty seven thousand dollars. Navy legal helped him trim that down some and helped lower the interest rates. But the bottom line was, "he had given her the pawer of attorney." In other words, he was fucked.
Shortly afterward, I transferred to Pearl for shore duty. Three years later I transferred to an FF homeported in Yokosuka and there was Daddy-O. He told me he hadn't been on liberty in over four years. He said he had less than twenty thousand dollars left to pay off and he would finally be free.
But look in his locker and her picture was displayed on the inside of the door.
I guess it was love…
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Love can ,certainly be a strange affair.
williamcloonan says:
Thought the ending would be a bit different…but, as another poster said "love is strange". Poor bastard!


The internationally known underground comic artist who created Vancouver's first counterculture hero is dead. Rand Holmes died on March 15 in Nanaimo, B.C., while awaiting chemotherapy treatment for Hodgkin's lymphoma. He was 60.
The misadventures of Harold Hedd appeared in the Georgia Straight back in the psychedelic seventies when the paper was still a radical hippie weekly. Mr. Holmes's comic strip, which featured standards of draftsmanship and satirical sophistication rarely found in the underground press at the time, is often compared to such U.S. favourites as Gilbert Shelton's Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Robert Crumb's Mr. Natural.
Riddled with pot references, long-haired hippies and free love, the strip was a classic of its time. It earned Mr. Holmes a legion of devoted fans, including Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead, who hired Mr. Holmes to do a comic just before he died in 1995.
Hedd, a bespectacled dope smoker who was forever being hassled by the superstraight Constable Leroy, lived in a dilapidated house in Kitsilano with his biker cousin. Mr. Holmes would sometimes send his hero down to Gastown, where he would busk on the streets and sells baggies of "oregano" to tourists, or off to Mexico, where he would pilot Second World War bombers loaded down with marijuana back to Canada.
But more often than not, Hedd could be found making fun of then-Vancouver mayor Tom Campbell, or commenting on the Vancouver police vice squad and the obscenity charges it was forever slapping on the Straight.
Georgia Straight publisher Dan McLeod says Mr. Holmes was instrumental in the Straight's early battles against censorship. "Here was one of the greatest artists in the history of underground comics, living in our building and churning out major satirical work about those who were out to destroy us, turning them into buffoons. He was a sweet, gentle man who helped us to seize the moral high ground when we were feeling beaten."
Mr. Holmes published three Harold Hedd collections in the early seventies and also contributed to the All Canadian Beaver Comix, White Lunch Comix, Fog City Comix and other underground collections. His talent was showcased on the cover of The History of Underground Comics, published by Rolling Stone magazine's book wing, Straight Arrow.
Born in Truro, N.S., Randolph Holton Holmes moved with his family to Edmonton, where he grew up, married young and had two children. He went to B.C. for a visit in 1967 and fell into the hippie scene, where he later met his second wife, Martha Holmes. They left Vancouver in 1982 to live off the land on Lasqueti Island. When Mr. Holmes died, they were still living there in the house that took them 10 years to build.
During the eighties, Mr. Holmes enjoyed some success in Europe with a series called Hitler's Cocaine and continued creating artwork for the science-fiction comics Death Rattle, Alien Worlds and Twisted Tales. Although contracted to do some work for a mainstream U.S. comic-book publisher, Martha said Mr. Holmes had given up on deadline work.
"It's really a young person's job, staying up until 2 or 3 in the morning," she told the Georgia Straight.
As Mr. Holmes's comic-book output slowly petered out, he did carpentry to supplement his income and took up oil painting.
"He was a hippie to the end," said Martha, citing one of his last paintings, The Bud Clippers, which depicts an extended family, from grandparents to children, sitting around a kitchen table processing their marijuana crop.
With about a dozen works completed before he died, Mr. Holmes was contemplating an exhibit this year. She says she hopes to organize a retrospective of his work, including the oils and early comic-book art, in Vancouver this summer.
As his birthday came and went last month, Martha said Mr. Holmes often spoke about moving from Lasqueti.
"He had realized that, at 60, it was time to start giving back to the community and being more involved in it. Not that he hadn't done quite a bit already in his commentary over the years."
Mr. Holmes leaves his wife, their 14-year-old son, Sirett; two adult children from his first marriage, Ron and Michelle; and grandson, Denten Rand Holmes.


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It's Nobel season—science's "Super Bowl and the Oscars wrapped in to one," says Lauren Wolf, head of the science and technology group at Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), ACS' weekly newsmagazine.
Between October 5 and 12, the Nobel committee will award prizes to scientists, thinkers, and leaders whose work has changed humankind. And like those other high-stakes events, the lead-up to the big reveal is half the fun.
For the third year running, C&EN will host an interactive webinar to predict the winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Panelists will discuss the history and selection process for the Nobel Prize, and then offer their guesses as to what chemist (or chemists) will take home the medal.
How easy is it to pick a winner? According to Wolf, many people speculate by looking at past Nobel laureates and trends. Using data on past winners, it's possible to make inferences about an individual's chances based on their age, institutional affiliation, and even whether they wear glasses (apparently, being bespectacled increases your odds).
The factor that really matters, of course, is one's contribution to the field. Explains Wolf, "A Nobelist in chemistry must have done pioneering work—work without which other chemists couldn't do what they do now." This means that winners also tend to be among chemistry's biggest names.
Jillian Buriak, a professor at the University of Alberta and the editor-in-chief of Chemistry of Materials. Last year, she watched the event with her class—this time, they'll see her in the spotlight.
Philip Ball, a freelance writer who's contributed to Nature, Chemistry World, the New York Times, and more. He'll be joining the call from the United Kingdom, and has a keen eye for top science around the world.
Paul Bracher, a professor at Saint Louis University and author of the blog ChemBark. Paul is no stranger to the Nobel prediction game—he's been posting his guesses on the blog for years.
Wolf and C&EN's Matt Davenport will cohost the webinar (the two are also cohosts of the web series "Speaking of Chemistry"). Wolf correctly guessed one of the 2014 winners and is hoping to defend her title.
Webinar listeners can get in on the fun, too. For the first time this year, the session will be hosted on the ACS Webinars platform, which means listeners can ask questions of the panelists and weigh in on polls and trivia. They can also follow along on Twitter using the hashtag #ChemNobel.
The webinar will take place on Thursday, October 1 from 2–3 p.m. EST—and it's free to attend. You can register here.
In the meantime, come up with your own prediction and tweet it using #ChemNobel. You've got nothing to lose—and major bragging rights to gain.


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Opera in one act. Running Time: 1 hour 1 minute.
PLOT: By a river in Russia, time unspecified. Aleko is a Russian who lives with the gypsies. His girlfriend is Zemfira, but she is two-timing him with one of her own tribe. He eventually kills them both and is banished from the gypsies.
0: The prelude * is an agitated and brooding piece, but mercifully short and rather good as well with one sweet tune towards the end.
3: Some gypsies camp out for the nice to an Italianate opening chorus **.
7: An Old Gypsy (bass) tries to tell a story **: As a youth he was the lover and baby daddy to one Mariula who left him holding the baby to pursue another man. This baby is his daughter Zemfira, who is now herself the lover and baby mamma of Aleko, a Russian who has deserted civilization for the gypsy nomadic life.
12: Aleko, upon hearing this story, takes umbrage, he thinks the Old Gypsy should have killed his lover for leaving him. This leads to a good trio with Zemfira and the Young Gypsy (Tenor) who she has moved on to **. We then go into an intermezzo (actually it is a series of dances for the gypsy women and men in turns) and a bear (you might remember him from Francesca) does some gymnastics for us. Then there is another movement, all of this is okay but nothing all that interesting.
19: Suddenly, we get something with a little more octane *, the men's dance.
24: We return to opera land with a tranquil sleepy time chorus *.
26: A sedate love duet for Zemfira and the Young Gypsy *.
29: Zemfira taunts Aleko for being an "old man" **.
31: Much of the next ten minutes is spent in a cavatina for Aleko and recurring taunts from Zemfira although she does break into a brief song *.
34: Aleko's cavatina *** has a strong orchestral accompaniment. Look out for the semi-quotation from Swan Lake towards the end. This is the apex of the opera.
43: The Young Gypsy's Romance **, to a harp accompaniment.
45: Now we get something chromatic and a little jazzy too *.
47: Aleko confronts the lovers ** and stabs them both fatally, first the Young Gypsy and then Zemfira who gives an impassioned death throw before herself dying.
52: The gypsies come on and the Old Gypsy confronts Aleko with the murders **. But Zemfira isn't quite dead yet (pulling of a Desdemona) and gives some info to her father before finally kicking the bucket.
55: An old contralto gypsy woman preps everyone for the double funeral *.
57: A requiem **, very Russian and gentle in its own way with a good tune.
59: The opera ends with a brief monologue for Aleko as he is banished from the gypsies *.
Unlike his two later operas (which suffer from grim and gloom libretti and horrid dramatic pacing), I actually like Aleko. Strangely enough it seems to combine, through through-composition and the melding of singing and ballet, the same principles as Wagner's concept of a "total art work" without at any time imitating Wagner. As with the other operas I find the production values to be bizarre (I'm not into harlequins or modern updates of operatic stories that have obvious period settings, here the colourful world of 19th century Russian Romani, hardly uninteresting), however here the music makes up for a lot of the artistic short comings far more consistently than in the other two operas. The poorest drawn of the four main characters is definitely Zemfira, who unlike the three men doesn't get a particularly great theme song. All three operas betray strong influence from Tchaikovsky, who himself praised this work, a conservatory final exam if you can believe it as Rachmaninoff was only 19 years old when he wrote it. Aleko himself is very excellently portrayed as a tormented man who wants to life a simple life. There is a lot of padding even though the opera is very short, and the libretto does come out in patches of stop-go dramatic action, but never feels tedious. B+.


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Experience New Twist on Mini-Golf at Discovery Green December 1, 2011
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Houston Health Museum Hosts 'RACE: Are We So Different?' November 27, 2011
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John McCain? WHY?
The word is being used and abused without too many of us even realizing what it means
by hamidbak
The word gets thrown around a lot, especially lately, HERO.
The firefighters, who went up the stairs while others were running down to escape fire, are heroes. The policeman who got shot last night is a hero, soldiers who are fighting in Iraq are heroes, and the one that is really having me hit the dictionary lately refers to John McCain as a hero. WHY?
Why is McCain a hero? He enlisted to the Navy voluntarily mainly because his father and his grand father were both Navy boys. He knew joining the Navy means possible fighting in a time of war, which America, thank you very much, is almost always involved in some corner of the world. He knew going to Vietnam runs a risk of getting shot down, in fact he got shot down a few times before he got captured. He knew there is a chance to get hurt, captured, or even killed.
He went to fly planes and rain bullets and bombs on everything that moved in North Vietnam thousands of miles away from his home, when his country was in no danger and no one had attacked it. He was paid for the job done and due to his hard headedness and stupidity got shot down one last time and was captured.
Everyone keeps talking about the time he served in the air force for his country. That makes him a hero. How, exactly?
For that matter, any soldier in today's America, who makes a decision to join the armed forces and goes to a country far away to fight a nation who never considered itself an enemy of U.S. and never attacked the United States and even the White House announced that there were no evidence leading Iraq to the attacks of 9/11, knows that he is going to a place where he may get hurt or killed. When he does not get killed that makes him a hero? He was getting paid for a job and he was doing his job. Part of his job is to kill or get killed.
Fire fighters job description and also the police's include danger, high grade danger. They know chances of a building collapsing on top of them, getting burned, get hurt in a car accident or getting shot is a part of their job.
You never hear of doctors, nurses, technologists, lab technicians, and anyone who deals with death and disease as heroes. Why? They save a lot more lives than any fire fighter, police, and especially any soldier, so why not a hero label?
Does anyone have an idea what a medical researcher does hours and hours behind a microscope, sifting through tubes of diseased ridden fluids looking for a cure? Any idea what a doctor goes through trying to find a medication to prolong someone's life? Any idea what goes through a chemist's mind when he/she is trying to come up with just the right mixture of chemo therapy solution for a cancer patient? One that doesn't kill the patient but allows him/her to live for a few months or years longer?
The word is being used and abused without too many of us even realizing what it means and how one becomes to be recognized as a hero.
Hero is a father who has to work extra hours and gives up his food for his wife and kids saying, "ohh, I'm not that hungry".
Hero is a grandmother who gives up her life savings and her best years of her leisure years to look after a grand child or help her adult child who has fallen on hard times.
Heroes were the young men who went to the front lines of Iran Iraq war, for the first couple of years at least, and fought valiantly to save their mother land.
Hero is one of those young boys, in particular, that I spoke with in length in Iran. He was 18, the son of a decorated colonel in the army. Nephew of three uncles who had served in the armed forces in Iran and each one of them could have easily lined up a desk job for him to serve his two years of service. He told them all, "No", "I want to go to the front and I want to fight for my country". He was not a soldier of fortune -- he fought enemy forces on his country's soil and pushed them back.
To me, that is a hero. Quite a long definition, but I think the dictionary ought to have some sort of reference to a real meaning of the word HERO.
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Heroism matters -- because it show the strength of character !
by Anonymous on Wed Oct 01, 2008 08:35 PM PDT
I wish being a HERO was a prerequisite for all running candidates. Heroism means that you put your country first before your party.. Heroism means you do stand for something beyond your selfish agenda. Heroism matters!
Not like Obama who has written 2 autobiography before turning 42. isn't that a selfish agenda?
Read more about Obama here: www.obamasgaffes.blogspot.com
Here is what he said today:
Here is the offhand remark Obama made regarding his talent to reach out to ABC's John Berman:
"I don't think me calling House Republican members would have been that helpful, I tend not to be that persuasive on that side of the aisle," he said.
Ooops, what happened Mr. O? lost your magic wand? I thought you were the uniter and that's why you won over Hillary! hmmm
Anonymously, Germany
by Farhad Kashani on Sat Sep 27, 2008 01:25 PM PDT
Anonymously,
Germany and Japan and Eastern Europe and African countries. "Intervention" is not just military invention, its economic, social, political intervention too.
by MRX1 (not verified) on Sat Sep 27, 2008 07:31 AM PDT
he is got my vote.
by Anonymously (not verified) on Fri Sep 26, 2008 11:36 PM PDT
Again I'll ask you, WHERE? Do you have any examples? Don't just ramble on names. Give us couple of good examples of successful intervention that yielded democracy.
Calling one an idiot is not an insult if it is true. You want to be really insulted? Write for Iranian.com.
Anonymously, Ironic
by Farhad Kashani on Fri Sep 26, 2008 03:04 PM PDT
Ironic that you insult me by calling me "an idiot", but you cant see the part where I clearly said I'm not voting for McCain!
Anyways,
Post WWII intervention not only by the U.S, but by organizations which U.S was pioneer in establishing, namely the U.N, ended colonialism and many wars, and prevented many other wars, justified or not, from taking place. Yes, the number of independent countries post WWII as oppose to pre WWII is huge.
Hero or not
by IRANdokht on Fri Sep 26, 2008 02:31 PM PDT
Hero or not he's not qualified to lead the country in the event of economical turmoil
//www.indecision2008.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=186055
who cares if he's called a HERO or if the actual war hero John Kerry gets swift-boated and stripped of his glorious heroism. Being hero is not the issue now.
McCain is not capable of fixing what Bush and Cheney have broken
"the freedom fighters blew up the Baghdad bazaar (again)
by Damon Jaan (not verified) on Fri Sep 26, 2008 11:25 AM PDT
The Iraqi National Army is searching for those responsible, however they dont want to be named because the local power hungery murderers i.e.(freedom fights) will retaliate against there loved ones.
I wont question your intellect, because im not 12 years old however...
On Communism. (comes from community)its a disease that spreads rapidly. Especially among the piss poor peasants of Iran circa 1960's-70's. These super-lazy ultra-liberal hippies want everything to be provided at someone elses expense. Armed with great poets i.e Khosro Gole'sorkhi and financial means from the Soviets, they nearly took power in Teheran. Until the prevailing ideaolougy of the people,which was Shia Islam which has a "Pope" like figure an "Ayyatollah" forcibly removed them from ever imagining turning Iran into a communist state. They were encouraged to submit there information to the government. They were rounded up and executed. In the provinces far from Teheran if any one was found with communist propaganda (i.e. possibly a simple piece of paper) they were taken, usually never to return. Im not aware if the Soviets supported there commie allies at this point,but due to there history I doubt it.
Nope this idiot is voting
by skatermom (not verified) on Fri Sep 26, 2008 07:46 AM PDT
Nope this idiot is voting for Obama because the senile idiot's heroism ended upon return from captivity.
woooooo
by Anonymously (not verified) on Thu Sep 25, 2008 08:32 PM PDT
Just because someone writes about his/her opinion does not mean he/she is a US hater or IRI lover. Where do you knuckle heads come up with that result anyway?
So, other countries were "swallowing" little countries before US started intervening ha? Care to compare the history time line before and after 1940's to see how American interference has made that much of a difference?
And you're voting for McCain, the senile idiot, because he is a hero?
You are the biggest idiot I've seen on this site in a long long time.
The dirtiest and oldest
by Farhad Kashani on Thu Sep 25, 2008 07:21 PM PDT
The dirtiest and oldest trick of anti American IRI supporters is to assassinate someone's character, rather than try to counter someone's argument. This article exactly engages in that.
I'm not gonna vote for McCain, but he is definitely a hero. Signing up for military service is not the same as signing up for fraternity. Are you too naïve to think that anyone who signs up for an army, any army in any country, doesn't foresee a combat duty? Are you serious? Not even members of the Swiss Army could be 100% sure they are not gonna get into combat at some point. So McCain is a hero, he is a hero when he refused the freedom they gave him for the benefit of other captives whom were there before him. That takes a character none of these IRI supporters will ever have. All they do is sit on their comfy sofas in San Francisco, smoke weed and bash America think IRI is a "savior".
Also, if it wasn't for U.S, we wouldn't se half of the countries today in the world exist. If it wasn't for the fear of U.S, Russia would've swallowed Georgia and Ukraine and Estonia. If it wasn't for the fear of U.S, China would've swallowed Taiwan. If it wasn't for the fear of U.S, N Korea would've swallowed its southern neighbor. Examples are everywhere. U.S has been a great source of stability and promotion of democratic ideas in the world.
This isn't about Iran and
by skatermom (not verified) on Thu Sep 25, 2008 05:29 PM PDT
This isn't about Iran and its record on warfare. It's about the definition of heroism and wether a paid soldier such as John Mccain would have been considered a hero.
Frankly I think there are many types of heroes paid or unpaid. I don't think my mother gets paid enough for the tireless 30 years she's given the Veterans administration just to see her retirements next year mean crap thanks to the current market. As far as I know she worked probono after seeing her portfolio plummet. She's a hero. My brother-in-law, a local fire fighter/paramedic just pulled a tombstoned surfer out of the water on his day off and did cpr for 30 minutes reviving him just in time. He's a hero. My father who is stuck in Iran for 14 years with a confiscated passport, hasn't met his only grandchild ever! but still stays married to my mother in hopes that he will someday reunite with his family a hero.
John Mccain may have once been a hero. That day ended when he came home, left his dissabled wife for another woman. Involved himself with the Keating 5 scandal that caused 125 billion dollars in tax payer bailout. Aligned himself with Bush on most policies. Has the temperment of a 2 year old. Been involved with lobbyists who were profiting from Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac and last but not least chose a woman who would retard women's rights years as a running mate.
AW,
Don't worry about anonymous on. I swear she/he has those 2 spam links on auto pilot. It's the only 2 things she/he ever contributes. The Fannie/Freddie thing was hillarious. Perhaps the paperboy forgot to hit she/he's house this week.
Oh and yes we should definately not consider a Harvard/Yale graduate as the leader of the free world but a guy who ranked 5th to last in the Naval Academy and a gal who went to 5 different colleges before finally getting a BA.
In recent history, at least the past 50 years that all of us have been alive, Iran has never put soldiers in planes to fly half way across the world to fight a country, a regime, or an ideology, EVER!
So, chew before you swallow. There is no comparison between those men who fought for their land when Iraq, with the US' initiation, attacked Iran and occupied my land.
Since Pearl Harbor, there has not been any attacks on American soil by another country, yet soldiers in this country have had to fly to tens of locations in the world to fight on behalf of US.
Read a bit for your family's sake. Be informed.
mccain-palin supporter
by American Wife on Thu Sep 25, 2008 03:42 PM PDT
Ok... I watched the video. Nothings changed for me. Regarding the video itself, the main issue appears to be Iran as a threat. I don't think it is either. So that debunks the whole video as a reason for McCain being more qualified. I think we've got ALOT more serious problems than Iran right now. If you want to know specifics of Obama's tax proposal... just read. Obama's tax plan is pro-middle class and small business. I personally think that BIG BUSINESS (as in oil companies and Enron and other Bush buddys) have had a free ride long enough. And McBush wants to give them MORE breaks????? Small businesses need to be encouraged for the growth of the economy. Your last comment is almost too ridiculous to respond to. Do you really think we're in good shape? Good god man... we're in the most severe crisis since the depression and you're talking about low inflation???
//online.wsj.com/article/SB121867201724238901.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries
I'm middle class white American and I'm absolutely PRO-CHOICE and an advocate for gay marriage.
I respect your right to have an opinion and your right to vote. Let's see what white middle America has to say come November.
Please take a little time to
by An Iranian McCain-Palin Supporter (not verified) on Thu Sep 25, 2008 02:36 PM PDT
Please take a little time to look at this 30 second clip. I am interested to know your opinions regarding it. I view it as a clear outline of the Iranian regime and how Senators McCain and Obama would treat it differently.
Are these quotes representative of Sen. Barack Obama?
If they are, do you support these views?
Whatever you think of this video, it is a clear example of how Sen. McCain will have an offensive foreign policy platform as opposed to Obama's defensive one.
In my opinion this is what B. Hussein Obama believes. I disagree with him, and I disagree strongly, but I will try not to insult him. Many people, including myself, view him as under-qualified to be president. Especially when taking his 'present' votes in the IL state senate into account. He is a respectable human being, especially because he admitted his mistakes on the O'Reilly Factor, but so is Senator McCain. Sen. Obama's social policies are very out-of-touch with "White middle America" who is pro-life and anti-gay marriage. Obama opposed something similar to the Born Alive Infants Act in the IL State Senate. Also, Obama opposed the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Sen. McCain supported. Obama is for the radical redefining of marriage. This is our chance to also take back the supreme court. Regarding Senator McCain's economic policy, I believe it is truly brilliant! He will cut the corporate tax rate from 35% to 25%. 35% is the second highest corporate tax rate in the industrialized world. Only Japan's is higher. Also, for those of you who do your own taxes and know, Sen. McCain will increase the dependent exemption from $3,500 to $7,000. In addition, Sen. McCain will "tax-exempt" the amount of your income (up to a limit) that is paid, in any way, towards your insurance, whether you pay it or your employer does. All of this, in addition to making permanent President Bush's prodigious tax-cuts and fixing loopholes such as cell phone taxes and internet taxes, will be sure to keep our low inflation and HIGH GDP growth rate.
He is a "hero" because......?
by farokh2000 on Thu Sep 25, 2008 11:21 AM PDT
So, if he advocated the "Surge", which means sending more soldiers to kill more Iraqis, he is a "hero"?
Wow, someplaces they call murdering innocent people criminal not heroic.
He was shut down in Vietnam because he was murdering innocent people who had done no harm to him and his Country. He could have not joined, when he knew his Country was killing innocent people half way around the World.That would have been heroic.
So, what other qualifications does this man have?. Supporting GW, who will go down as the worst president this Country has had in it's entire short history gives him any kind of qualifications?
Please get informed and get real. Harvard educated is no good for you but a murderer is?. You need help BIG TIME.
'hero'
by No_Name (not verified) on Thu Sep 25, 2008 11:07 AM PDT
The "soldier of fortune" rhetoric is what made me want to reply. I consider anyone who is working towards the betterment of human life i.e. doctors as 'heroes' and the whole parent part was touching and yes parents are often 'heroes' or 'heroines' .
Sir, if you consider living in a tent in a splendid nation such as Iraq or Afghanistan and the meager salary as 'fortunate' and if these living conditions are the reason they joined...
Im sure many Americans, care about the people of South Vietnam,South Korea,Iraq,France etc. Im not sure how many would be willing to take up arms, and help defend them against a hostile threat. Im guessing not as many.
Unlike the strangle hold that the regime in Teheran had on the press in the 80's and till today for that matter.Many Americans even in the Armed Forces believe it or not are quite aware of the situation. Im not sure how many 'Shaheeds' were aware that the war was prolonged in order to remove Sadam from power.As far that I am aware of, soldiers,even high ranking generals dont get to chose which war to fight and when to stay at home and eat pizza and watch t.v.
Also unlike Sadam's forces (and many others) The US doesnt encourage its troops to rape and pillage the local population, quite the contrary.
Yes it would be alot easier to say f it , and lets get the f outta here.
Im not sure how much of my tax dollars is going to build the Iraqi and Afghani and Egyptian etc. nations, but I wish the Sunnis,Kurds,Shiites would do more to stabilize and work towards building there country and less to 'terrorize' one another and gain power. Then if help was needed im sure the men and women that joined the US Armed forces would be willing to lend a hand.
The point being is that yes the men and women from this great,vast nation as well as from all over the world that signed up to become a part of something far greater than themselves, The United States Military are heroes. And may God Almighty bless them, and theres.
Lastly, as for Sen. McCain. He is called a hero not just because he supported the South Vietnamese in fighting the Communists but because he was held prisoner by the Viet Cong and when they were going to release him early because of his father's rank he refused and stayed in line with the rules of the military. i.e. first captured, first released, rather than run away and leave his fellow men at the mercy of the Viet Cong. Maybe because he is an American you may have a biased view, however Im willing to bet that if he was Iranian being held by the Baathist, youd consider him a hero.
Also in reply to the last comment, most people dont like war,killing or even hurting there fellow man,myself included. However Im not sure I want the men and women of America to put down there arms, unless of course the rest of the world does as well, and we can agree to all live together in peace. Until that happens I am happy to know that any Government on earth is wiser than to want to provoke the United States in an act of war.
by American Wife on Thu Sep 25, 2008 10:53 AM PDT
While I PERSONALLY agree with you... it's nothing more than a personal opinion. Again, whether right or wrong, he did obey his Commander-in-Chief. That's a very narrow line to draw. I'd have sent my kid to Canada in a heartbeat. But my son joined the Marine Corp and served 4 years. Am I going to call him a traitor because he served in an unpopular war? Not hardly. I need to remind you that disobeying a direct order from your superior is considered treason. Those are legal definitions and while I might not agree with it... it is what it is. I consider the young men who died in Vietnam VICTIMS... not murderers. And mass killing? Come on... you make it sound like the Iraqi's were standing there with a white flag and brutally gunned down. Your sentiments are valid and I agree with them... but your tossing words like "murderer" and "mass killing" invalidate your argument.
A murderer can not be a hero
by Bavafa on Thu Sep 25, 2008 10:22 AM PDT
I would honor a person as a hero who will put his/her life in line to defend his country yet will put down his gun when his country is unjustly murdering/attaching another nation. For all of those American soldiers who left their livelihood and went to Canada or other locations so they won't be participating in this mass killing in Iraq, those are my heroes.
Had McCain stood against the murdering of innocent Vietnamese, he would have be my heroes. I think he got what he had coming to him.
hero...
by definition... "A person noted for feats of courage or nobility of purpose, especially one who has risked or sacrificed his or her life: soldiers and nurses who risked their lives in an unpopular war".
I'm no McCain fan... far from it. But I won't be a hypocrite or unfair about it either. Whether you agreed with or supported the Vietnam War (I did not), he DID serve his country. He was shot down and he was held prisoner. It's not taking anything from firefighters or policemen or teachers or whomever to acknowledge that he risked his life. So if a young man goes to war for Iran he's a hero... but if a young man goes to war on behalf of the US, he's not? ooooookay.
BUT... that does NOT make him eligible to run the country!!! He's NEVER walked the walk... although he's definitely talked the talk. He's a blowhard. As far as picking a woman VP... that's been discussed ad naseum and I consider it a blatent insult for him to think he can buy the woman's vote by picking Sarah Palin... who? So you're all over her because she spoke out for Iranian women. More TALK. If you're here.. in the US... you're voting for leaders of the UNITED STATES... not for some chick who speaks out for Iranian women. Let's get OUR shit in order before we worry about everyone else. Isn't that what everyone is always saying... "let US worry about Iran"? The Clinton's have done more for women and civil rights than all Republicans put together. What about admiring them?
Don't think for a moment that I don't support rights for women in Iran. But I'm not going to buy into the Republican BS because Sarah Palin said something!
If you believe that... I've got some waterfront property in Arizona you might like as well.
McCain a hero
by Anonymous-not republican and not democrat (not verified) on Thu Sep 25, 2008 09:30 AM PDT
It's interesting how many people post on this site without actually knowing anything about what they are posting. McCain is not regarded as a hero because his plane was shot down, nor is he regarded as a hero because he was tortured and left for dead when he was shot down or any of that stuff. There are plenty of soldiers that have gone through that sort of nightmare. He is regarded as a hero because according to the people with whom he was imprisoned, after all that he went through, he was given a chance to leave and he refused to leave until all his co-prisoners (POW's) were released. How many of the doctors (I am one by the way), firefighters, nurses, etc. that you have in mind, do you think would have done that?
Why don't you get your facts straight before you post? Lack of education led to our country's fall in the hands of these people; sure we should continue to run our mouths without knowing anything, that helps.
To the blind Republican
by Anonymousity (not verified) on Thu Sep 25, 2008 04:53 AM PDT
Your boy McCain is no hero; he was in the armed forces and now he is running for a job for which he has very few qualifications. Neither of these acts qualifies him as a hero.
But he definitely is George Bush III, which does disqualify him from hero status, and which should disqualify him from being president.
Hamindback:Your definition is too naive
by Anonymous Republican (not verified) on Thu Sep 25, 2008 02:08 AM PDT
In your patently anti-McCain and pro-IRI drivel, your bias doesn't let you go beyond the cliche definitions and popular misunderstandings. No volunteer soldier or fireman goes into this type of job for "money". Obviously you come from a background that "money" matters most to you. Any individual who puts his/her life at risk for whatever reason doesn't do it for financial gains, though this may be a by product of his/her activities. No amount of money can substitute loss of life or even loss of a limb or an eye or any other sever physical or mental handicap. So do you realize Hamibak that you are talking utmost BullS***t?
Sometimes you have to take lives in order to save lives. That is an unfortunate evil. Anyone who, in the course of duty, places his or her life at risk, is a HERO.
He Is My Hero Too!
by Anonymous on Wed Sep 24, 2008 11:38 PM PDT
It's time for someone really serious to hold the White House office. Enough of Harvard and Yale graduates. It's time for someone that walks the talk. McCain is the only one that has consistently challenged his own party. He is the only one that warned about Fannie/Freddie 2 years ago. He is the only one that advocated surge policy 1 year before it actually got implemented.
I also like the idea that he picked a woman governor for his VP. Sarah Palin spoke out for Iranian women. The only American politician to do it.
It's time for Hero's to run this country.
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