Soldier: Stop Blek! The Redcoats are our allies anymore.
Blek: Damnd people! You crossed my path here, too.
We grew up with Il Grande Blek comics. He was a patriot during the American Revolutionary War and fought against the cruel Redcoats, the symbol of British colonialist oppression. My generation loved him because he was an anti-imperialist. Time has past and old enemies have become friends in same goal, occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq. If Blek lived today he would be surprised.
A two-year corruption and international money-laundering investigation stretching from the Jersey Shore to Brooklyn to Israel and Switzerland culminated in charges against 44 people on Thursday, including three New Jersey mayors, two state assemblymen and five rabbis, the authorities said.
You see signs that say “Don’t feed the pigeons” in New York’s parks. The reason may be to keep pigeon population under control or possible diseases. You can’t see that kind of signs in Turkey. People believe that feeding birds are “sevap” (good works religiously). Stray pigeons usually live in large squares and near historical mosques, like Taksim, New Mosque, Bayezid Mosque, Eyup Sultan Mosque. There are some people who sell bird seeds. Children love to chase them. I always think whether Turks are so religious that even they don’t care their health (!) or careless.
After 6 years visiting, finally, the U.S. troops are withdrawing from Iraq. They brought freedom, peace, democracy and left a lot of good memories behind.
