Armenak

http://youtube.com/watch?v=JYIxEFSKPBg I did not see one "Kosovo flag" in the above video. So we all know what the ultimate plan is here...

Almost every single one. For the past few years. And even non-English selections result in abominations. I did not say Americans were perfect. I said that the crap fest known as Eurovision shows that Europop is just as trashy and crappy as American pop (if not crappier). And sorry for insulting such a prestigious competition. I didn't know that people living in California held it in such high regard. In my earlier post I said that Eurovision makes Europeans look like idiots. I should clarify. It makes some Europeans look like idiots. It makes some others look like hypocrites.

No. But isn't linguistic diversity something that makes Europe unique? Identifying tackiness isn't something that has to be taught. I don't know, stuff like this? Yes, it is all America's fault.

The Celebration is definitely not for the youngsters. I'm assuming most of the attendees are over 16 years old?

I will be very disappointed if Armenia recognizes Kosovo's "independence." I am assuming (and hoping) they will take Russia's position on the issue.

I was pleasantly surprised to learn that Herbie Hancock's River: The Joni Letters won the Grammy award for Best Album of the Year. I thought either Kanye West's or Amy Winehouse's album would have won. Hancock's album is a tribute to singer and musician Joni Mitchell. Most of the tracks feature vocals by famous singers such as Norah Jones, Tina Turner, as well as Joni Mitchell herself. Two of the tracks have been uploaded to YouTube... Court and Spark (Norah Jones) (Tina Turner) Here are the other winners (for the main categories)... Record of the Year: "Rehab" by Amy Winehouse Song of the Year: "Rehab" by Amy Winehouse Best New Artist: Amy Winehouse

I don't understand why this is being made into such a big deal.

Eurovision blows. It is an embarrassment. Europeans always tout themselves as smarter and more cultured than Americans but Eurovision makes them look a bunch of idiots (especially considering the fact that nearly every song is performed in English).

Listen to the child count in of a Hamsheni film:

You'll notice there are prostitutes of many different ethnicities... Stanford Shaw (Jewish), Justin McCarthy (American). There are even Armenians who we can call that. So don't say Dutch and just call him a prostitute and a pig. He lashes out at anyone who disagrees with him, so why bother leaving him any comments?

Scandalous.

I posted a link that website a while back. Unfortunately, it was not well received here.

I wouldn't be so sure (especially about the Arabs). I doubt this ever occurred, so photographic evidence would be nice.

I assume they are not counting people of English descent from the United States, Australia, or Canada.

I'm not from there but I think there's also an Armenian Catholic church.

I was watching Scenes from a Marriage. It actually sucks the romance right out of you. Jerry Maguire was pretty good.

With a little Anglo-American help.

Well, I've seen a film of his called Smiles of a Summer Night, and that was sort of romantic. And a comedy, if you can imagine.

Beauty and the Beast Do animated films count? I mean the Disney version of course. Haven't seen any live-action, though I vaguely remember the television series. Before Sunrise / Before Sunset An American guy meets a French girl in Europe... Ghost Fantasy romance with Whoopi Goldberg providing comedic relief. Moonstruck Surprisingly not bad? So the plot is a little silly. Who cares?

Genocide? What Genocide? Critics are right that Congress has no business weighing in on historical controversies. But there is no controversy here. By Mark Krikorian The House Foreign Affairs Committee has passed a non-binding resolution recognizing the Armenian Genocide, and Turkey is in a tizzy. A few thoughts. First of all, it is simply inarguable that the Ottoman Empire tried to eradicate the Armenian people under the cover of World War I. Despite the Turkish government’s efforts to purchase a different historical narrative (by, for instance, using government funds to endow chairs in Turkish Studies at American universities), genocide denial is finding an increasingly small audience. As the International Association of Genocide Scholars has put it, “to deny its factual and moral reality as genocide is not to engage in scholarship but in propaganda.” But that, of course, doesn’t give House members much direction in considering whether to vote for the actual resolution that will soon reach the House floor. It wouldn’t matter much one way or the other if Congress were voting on whether to condemn the Mongols’ extermination of 90 percent of Persia’s population in the 13th century, for instance, because that doesn’t have much political saliency. But, for whatever reason, the modern Turkish Republic has adopted a monomaniacal position of genocide denial, similar to the ChiComs’ insistence on the fiction of “One China,” or the Greeks’ obsession with FYROM, or the Arabs’ demand that we pretend Jerusalem is not the capital of Israel. This is despite the fact that the genocide was the policy of a long-defunct state and its architects were actually condemned to death in absentia by Turkish military courts specifically for committing the genocide. The smart thing would be to simply acknowledge the crimes of the ancien regime, and move on. Nonetheless, Turkey will brook no argument. Simply asserting the existence of the Armenian Genocide there is a criminal offense, and just yesterday two Turkish-Armenian journalists were convicted on such charges, including the son of another journalist murdered earlier this year for asserting the reality of the genocide. As a result of the House committee vote, Turkey has temporarily recalled its ambassador and Washington fears that if the genocide measure passes the full House, Turkey will limit our use of an air base in southern Turkey used to supply troops in Iraq. They may well make good on their threat, though the Turkish government’s pique is likely to be short-lived, since they need us more than we need them. And we’ve coped just fine with earlier efforts at Turkish obstruction of our efforts in Iraq; in 2003, Turkey refused to allow U.S. troops to pass through on their way to overthrow Saddam. What’s more, Turkey is moving toward sending its own troops to invade Kurdistan, the only part of Iraq that isn’t at war, in order to flush out separatist guerrillas. The context for Turkey’s reaction to the House resolution is the fact that Turks are the most anti-American people on Earth. A 47-nation Pew survey earlier this year showed that ordinary Turks had the least favorable view of the United States, more negative than even the Palestinians or Pakistanis. Mein Kampf is a bestseller there, and the luridly anti-American and anti-Semitic film Valley of the Wolves — Iraq drew record audiences and thumbs-ups from Turkey’s political leadership. The Turkish people’s deep-seated hatred of America obviously wouldn’t get any better because of passage of the genocide resolution, but it couldn’t get any worse. Back home, it’s particularly amusing to see opposition to the genocide resolution from those who want to use American foreign policy to promote human rights abroad. If you’re going to stick your nose in other people’s business, and tell Burma’s junta how to behave, and pass judgment on every nation’s commitment to religious freedom, etc., this is what you’re going to be stuck with. In other words, once you start moving along the spectrum toward foreign-policy Idealism, don’t be surprised when this sort of thing happens. If there’s any real problem with the genocide resolution it’s precisely that it feeds into an excessively idealist view of foreign policy. While its many findings are largely restatements of facts in the public record, its “Declaration of Policy” states that “The House of Representatives — (1) calls upon the President to ensure that the foreign policy of the United States reflects appropriate understanding and sensitivity concerning issues related to human rights, ethnic cleansing, and genocide documented in the United States record relating to the Armenian Genocide and the consequences of the failure to realize a just resolution.” Our foreign policy is already reflects inordinate “sensitivity concerning issues related to human rights” — we hardly need more of it. None of this would have happened if subsequent presidents had simply followed Ronald Reagan’s lead in commemorating the Armenian Genocide along with the Holocaust, without lots of specific “findings,” without declarations of policy, without even mentioning Turkey or the Ottomans. Our policy toward modern Turkey should have nothing whatsoever to do with acknowledgement of the Armenian Genocide. But caving to Turkish pressure never to use “Armenian” and “genocide” in the same sentence is what has given the current resolution its impetus. Critics are right that Congress has no business weighing in on historical controversies. But there is no controversy here. This isn’t even a matter of the polite fictions necessary to international diplomacy. Denying the Armenian Genocide is simply a lie, and a lie propagated at the behest of a foreign power. It’s unworthy of us. — Mark Krikorian is executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies. National Review Online

AK-47, did you know she was a member of the AYF? The Glendale chapter, I think.

Leukemia patient dies at 17 Family may pursue manslaughter or murder charges against Cigna for delaying transplant. http://static.crooksandliars.com/2007/12/cigna-transplant.jpg By Ryan Vaillancourt LOS ANGELES — Attorneys for the family of 17-year-old Northridge resident Nataline Sarkisyan, who died Thursday hours after Cigna HealthCare reversed a decision to deny coverage for a potentially life-saving liver transplant, said Friday they will seek murder or manslaughter charges against the Philadelphia-based insurance provider. Nataline's parents and only brother were joined by some 150 supporters in Glendale on Thursday to demonstrate at Cigna's office on North Brand Boulevard, and urged the company to reverse a decision to deny coverage for a liver transplant recommended by Nataline's doctors at UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital. Supporters credited the rally as what sparked a change in heart for the company, which put out a statement less than an hour after the event announcing its decision to cover Nataline's surgery if doctors could proceed with the operation. But Nataline, a leukemia patient who was besieged by a lung infection while on life support, took a turn for the worse Thursday night and the family took her off life support at about 5:15 p.m. Thursday, said Mark Geragos, the attorney planning to present a murder or manslaughter case to the Los Angeles district attorney. She died at 5:50. The Sarkisyan family blamed Cigna for Nataline's death, which they said could have been averted if doctors had been able to proceed with a liver transplant. Doctors first sought coverage from Nataline's family's insurance provider on Dec. 10 for the transplant, but the coverage was denied. Nataline, who has suffered from recurrent leukemia since age 14, received a bone-marrow transplant from her brother on Nov. 21. But complications tied to the surgery and ensuing chemotherapy caused her to develop veno-occlusive disease, a condition that shut down her kidneys and liver, Hilda Sarkisyan said. Doctors immediately sought approval from Cigna to perform the liver transplant, a procedure they describe in a Dec. 11 letter to the insurance company as having a six-month survival rate of 65% in similar medical scenarios. The company denied coverage, twice, calling the procedure "experimental, investigational and unproven." http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2007/12/21/PH2007122101494.jpg During the 10-day period between when doctors first sought to operate and the company's decision Thursday to provide coverage, Nataline developed a lung infection that would have had to subside before doctors could proceed with a transplant. The company's statement on Thursday defended the initial decision to deny coverage and called their reversal a rare exception. "Based on the unique circumstances of this situation, and although it is outside the scope of the plan's coverage and despite the lack of medical evidence regarding the effectiveness of such treatment, Cigna HealthCare has decided to make an exception in this rare and unusual case and we will provide coverage should she proceed with the requested liver transplant," the statement said. Nataline's liver-attacking disease, combined with her respiratory and kidney failure after the bone-marrow transplant, "is associated with an extraordinarily high mortality rate regardless of intervention and would be expected to substantially negatively impact the successful completion and/or outcome of transplant surgery," Cigna officials said in a Dec. 10 memo to Nataline's doctors on behalf of the company's medical director, Stephen Crawford. The company's delay amounted to criminal behavior, enacted in order to save money, Geragos said. "It's not only callous, it's not only conscious disregard for life, I believe it's also criminal," he said. Nataline's brother, Bedig Sarkisyan, 21, said the surgery would have cost $300,000. Cigna did not return calls seeking comment. http://glendalenewspress.com/articles/2007...-nataline22.txt

I think Jivan Gasparyan has collaborated with Brian May.

They should start sending Russian women.

How did you get Armenian fonts on your computer? Do you use Windows Vista? I haven't been able to download *any* Armenian fonts for Vista.