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Happened to notice a newspaper article about the movement of Pakistani troops to the Indian border in the Saturday paper a few hours ago. I haven't watched the news lately, but I read the headlines on the internet and spent more than an hour watching CSPAN this evening and I had no idea this was happening until just a while ago, which is surprising. Is it just not getting a lot of coverage? Because I'm fairly sure that now that they both have nukes, a Pakistan/India rematch would be pretty much a really bad thing.
Did some more research, and NDTV (an Indian news source) is calling it a bluff to blackmail the west (read: America) into placating them with stuff. Like we can give them anything, our economy the way it is, LOL. They also claim that the Pakistani movements aren't nearly as serious as the media is presenting, and declare that Whatever movement of Indian tanks and troops are noticed in Rajasthan is part of the annual firing exercises that various units conduct in Rajasthan's Lathi, Mahajan and Pokhran ranges in the winter months.
It's like they're saying "yeah, all the media is saying that the Pakistanis are moving troops. But we found out that they're not. So believe us, not. . . you know, everybody else. And while you're doing that, if anybody tells you that we're moving guys around in response, they're wrong. Rather than hold off on our annual firing exercises right next to Pakistan, we're just doing them right on our normal, everyday schedule even though it's liable to escalate this into bringing all manner of shit down on our collective global heads."
This article seriously makes no sense. It doesn't feel like a bad translation in terms of the normal syntactical errors that you'd expect, but the sentences just don't line up:
There are reports all over the media about heavy redeployment of forces along the Line of Control and International Border.
But NDTV has learnt that there is no significant movement of forces towards the Indian border.
Meanwhile, newspaper reports say that thousands of troops have been moved towards the Indian border.
Okay, guys? Let's just stop with the posturing. Neither of you is going to attack the other, because nuclear war is not a fun thing to play with. So why waste your resources like this? Wouldn't it be so much better to just make the other guy look stupid by not showing up? Or just go play a soccer match or something, a la Christmas Day in WWI.
To move on to a totally different topic. I realized I meant to mention: the cover of the Oregon Catholic Press reading book things ("Today's Missal") that we (and tons of Catholic churches around the US) use? They have religious art on the covers, both of the reading book and the music issue that come in pairs but always have different covers. Sometimes you can't really tell it's religious art (last month on the music one, it was this blue and purple cover cut into stained glass-esque rectangular pieces that if you squinted, you could make into a sort of 3d outline of a cross if you were looking for it), but on the reading one this quarter/season/however they divide them is a really nice piece of a Korean Madonna with Child. I was pleased, both because it was kind of pretty and because it's something different. I've always been a fan of multicultural representations of these images that are so often white-breadified. We had this Santa decoration that I think was a set of window clings of Santas in all different ethnicities, and all of them also had little tweaks to the outfit that just subtly reinforced the differentness. It was really cool. Because seriously, if you think about it? Where was Jesus from? Not America, I'll tell you that much, so I find it very highly unlikely that he's as pasty and blue-eyed as often presented.
Edit: Ooh, found
Did some more research, and NDTV (an Indian news source) is calling it a bluff to blackmail the west (read: America) into placating them with stuff. Like we can give them anything, our economy the way it is, LOL. They also claim that the Pakistani movements aren't nearly as serious as the media is presenting, and declare that Whatever movement of Indian tanks and troops are noticed in Rajasthan is part of the annual firing exercises that various units conduct in Rajasthan's Lathi, Mahajan and Pokhran ranges in the winter months.
It's like they're saying "yeah, all the media is saying that the Pakistanis are moving troops. But we found out that they're not. So believe us, not. . . you know, everybody else. And while you're doing that, if anybody tells you that we're moving guys around in response, they're wrong. Rather than hold off on our annual firing exercises right next to Pakistan, we're just doing them right on our normal, everyday schedule even though it's liable to escalate this into bringing all manner of shit down on our collective global heads."
This article seriously makes no sense. It doesn't feel like a bad translation in terms of the normal syntactical errors that you'd expect, but the sentences just don't line up:
There are reports all over the media about heavy redeployment of forces along the Line of Control and International Border.
But NDTV has learnt that there is no significant movement of forces towards the Indian border.
Meanwhile, newspaper reports say that thousands of troops have been moved towards the Indian border.
Okay, guys? Let's just stop with the posturing. Neither of you is going to attack the other, because nuclear war is not a fun thing to play with. So why waste your resources like this? Wouldn't it be so much better to just make the other guy look stupid by not showing up? Or just go play a soccer match or something, a la Christmas Day in WWI.
To move on to a totally different topic. I realized I meant to mention: the cover of the Oregon Catholic Press reading book things ("Today's Missal") that we (and tons of Catholic churches around the US) use? They have religious art on the covers, both of the reading book and the music issue that come in pairs but always have different covers. Sometimes you can't really tell it's religious art (last month on the music one, it was this blue and purple cover cut into stained glass-esque rectangular pieces that if you squinted, you could make into a sort of 3d outline of a cross if you were looking for it), but on the reading one this quarter/season/however they divide them is a really nice piece of a Korean Madonna with Child. I was pleased, both because it was kind of pretty and because it's something different. I've always been a fan of multicultural representations of these images that are so often white-breadified. We had this Santa decoration that I think was a set of window clings of Santas in all different ethnicities, and all of them also had little tweaks to the outfit that just subtly reinforced the differentness. It was really cool. Because seriously, if you think about it? Where was Jesus from? Not America, I'll tell you that much, so I find it very highly unlikely that he's as pasty and blue-eyed as often presented.
Edit: Ooh, found