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Alterman, you Schmuck…
Eric Alterman needs to be grabbed by the collar and shaken for a few minutes while being asked repeatedly, “Moron! What’s wrong with you??”
A great and unusually honest man, and the nationТs most valuable ex-president since John Quincy Adams. The best thing IТve ever read on Carter, by the way, is an essay by Rick Hertzberg, his former speechwriter, in a book entitled УCharacter Above All,Ф edited by Robert Wilson.
Here’s some of my favorite things written about Carter (from probably the best edition ever of Jay Nordlinger’s Impromptus):
- For years, Carter has been a thorn in the side of presidents, acting as a kind of Уanti-president,Ф as Lance Morrow once put it in an essay for Time. You recall how Carter irked Clinton on Haiti and North Korea. His low moment, however, came during the run-up to the Gulf War, when he wrote members of the U.N. Security Council Ч including MitterrandТs France and Communist China Ч urging them to thwart the Bush administrationТs effort. Our government found out about it when the Canadian prime minister, Brian Mulroney, called the defense secretary, Dick Cheney, and said, УWhat the . . .?Ф Some people actually allowed themselves to utter the word Уtreason.Ф
- Carter has long enjoyed a reputation as a Middle East sage, owing, of course, to his role in the original Camp David accords. That reputation, however, rests on shaky grounds. Truth is, Sadat and Begin had their deal worked out before ever approaching Washington sex with dog stories. And the facilitators they used were far from saintly Southern Baptists: They used the dreadful King of Morocco and the even more dreadful Ceausescu of Romania! When they had their plan essentially worked out, however, they called the White House (whose occupant just happened to be J.C.) (initials not accidental, he and his most fervent admirers have seemed to think for years).
Why did they contact the White House? Prof. Bernard Lewis put it succinctly to Charlie Rose recently: УWell, obviously, they needed someone to pay the bill, and who but the United States could fulfill that function?Ф
Still, Carter is proud-as-all-get-out of his rendezvous with Middle East history. He trades on it incessantly. I remember Mario Cuomo, giving his famous (though ridiculous) keynote address at the Democratic convention in 1984. He went down a list of Democratic presidents, lauding them: and when he got to Carter, all he could think of, apparently, was Camp David Ч the Уnearly miraculousФ accords, he called them. Carter, in the stands, beamed and beamed, and teared up badly.
- I donТt think IТve ever known, or known of, someone who so nakedly loved praise. I saw him on C-SPAN once, appearing on a radio show (if you know what I mean). This was a call-in show somewhere, and the cameras were on Carter. One elderly caller began her question with a long paean to the ex-president and his special human greatness. Carter enjoyed it in a truly unseemly fashion, grinning and grinning, seeming to draw his very life from it horsecum. It was perfectly human Ч perfectly natural Ч but obscene in a way. I felt almost as though I had to look away: like I was seeing something too private, something I wasnТt meant to see.
- The ex-president is known as Joe Human Rights, but heТs mighty selective about whose human rights to champion. If you live in MarcosТs Philippines, PinochetТs Chile, or apartheid South Africa, heТs liable to care about you. If you live in Communist China, Communist Cuba, Communist Ethiopia, Communist Nicaragua, Communist North Korea, Communist . . .: screw you.
Remember when the Left used to say, УOkaу, maybe the West has Срolitical rights,Т but the East has Сsocial rightsТФ? Carter isnТt far off from that. A mission statement of his Center reads, УСНuman rightsТ is a broad term, encompassing freedom from oppression and freedom of speech to the right to food and health.Ф This is on the way to Erich Honecker. And as Jeane Kirkpatrick Ч whom Carter also openly despises Ч points out, itТs amazing how those who lack the freedom of speech, the freedom of worship, the freedom of assembly, and so on, also tend to lack food, shelter, and health.
In a 1997 op-ed piece entitled УItТs Wrong to Demonize ChinaФ (also for the New York Times), Carter wrote Ч and forgive the awkward prose Ч УAmerican criticism of ChinaТs human rights abuses are justified, but their basis is not well understood. Westerners emphasize personal freedoms, while a stable government and a unified nation are paramount to the Chinese animal fucking confessions. This means that policies are shaped by fear of chaos from unrestrained dissidents or fear of ChinaТs fragmentation by an independent Taiwan or Tibet. The result is excessive punishment [excessive punishment!] of outspoken dissidents and unwarranted domination of Tibetans.Ф
Carter said that Уill-informed commentators in both countries have cast the other side as a villain and have even forecast inevitable confrontation between the two nations.Ф You see the exquisite moral equivalence between a giant and repressive Communist state and the American republic. He then said, УMutual criticisms are proper and necessary [mutual criticisms, mind you: Communist China, America . . .], but should not be offered in an arrogant or self-righteous way, and each of us should acknowledge improvements made by the other.Ф Carter arrogant or self-righteous, ever? Improvements made by the United States, too?
In a 1999 op-ed piece (USA Today) called УLetТs Keep Chinese Spying in Perspective,Ф Carter said that Уsome . . . American leaders, who have habitually demonstrated animosity toward the PeopleТs Republic of China [note the mimicking of the CommunistsТ own false description of themselves], have attempted to drive a deeper wedge between our two countries at what is already a troubled time.Ф Anyone who doesnТt demonstrate УanimosityФ toward that horrible state, Realpolitik or no, is no friend to mankind.
- A walk down Memory Lane? While in office, Carter hailed YugoslaviaТs Tito as Уa man who believes in human rights extreme horse sex.Ф He said of RomaniaТs barbaric Ceausescu and himself, УOur goals are the same: to have a just system of economics and politics . . . We believe in enhancing human rights.Ф While out of office, Carter has praised SyriaТs late Assad (killer of at least 20,000 in Hama) and the Ethiopian tyrant Mengistu (killer of many more than that). In Haiti, he told the dictator Cщdras that he was Уashamed of what my country has done to your country.Ф
He did even better in North Korea, singing praises to Kim Il Sung, one of the most complete and destructive dictators in history. KimТs North Korea, as Kirkpatrick says, was, and is, truly a Уpsychotic state.Ф Said Carter of the УGreat Leader,Ф УI find him to be vigorous, intelligent, surprisingly well informed about the technical issues, and in charge of the decisions about this countryФ (well, he was absolute ruler). He said, УI donТt see that they [the North Koreans] are an outlaw nation.Ф Pyongyang, he observed, was a Уbustling city,Ф where shoppers Уpack the department stores,Ф reminding him of the УWal-Mart in Americus, Georgia.Ф Carter also employed his longstanding technique of praising the beauty of a dictatorТs wife. Kim Jon Ae, he noted, Уis a very attractive lady.Ф
Then thereТs CarterТs notorious friendship with Daniel Ortega, former strongman in Nicaragua women dog sex stories. In 1984, when the Reagan administration was trying to put maximum pressure on Ortega to submit to democracy, Carter urged Habitat for Humanity to build in Nicaragua. A fine idea, perhaps, but hereТs the (classic) Carter twist: УWe want the folks down there to know that some American Christians love them and that we donТt all hate them.Ф In 1990, of course, Carter traveled to Managua to monitor the elections and to certify what he figured Ч and hoped, it seemed Ч would be a Sandinista victory. When the democratic opposition won instead, Carter was remarkably churlish, even bitter.
And that’s only about half of the anecdotes that Nordlinger details, which are themselves only a small fraction of Carter’s disgusting public displays (for instance, the piece was written before Carter went to Cuba and shoved his nose so far up Castro’s ass that he accidentally knocked the cigar out of his mouth).
Nobel Piss Prize indeed.
destroying the technological infrastructure of Western civilization again. And it's only 3 months away!agree that [insert additional badly-forced car metaphor here]!
But anyway, right there you've got yourself eight nations total in the coalition, hailing from North America, both western
Those people are especially useful when they have access to the core computer systems that hackers would otherwise struggle
You mean everyone in America aren't like San Franciscans?
US: Italy, Australia, Poland, Spain, Qatar, Kuwait and, of course, Britain. I know it's hard to find out this kind of
predictable frequency. Follow a politician to a school photo-op,
Really, how often is someone able to so perfectly crystallize the dilemmas that will exist a century in the future
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I guess not. The fact that the UN is anything but democratic since the vast majority of countries represented there do not
serves? As far as I can tell, all they did was take some people who were probably overwhelmingly against the war anyway,
Replace "powerful" with "crazy and armed with nukes" and you'd be right. Otherwise, your statement is nonsense.
Peace is generally good in itself, but it is never the highest good unless it comes as the handmaid
the not-being-a-jerk department.
Heaven forfend them not being on board with us!
But it's not really fair to denigrate someone's ideas just because they themselves come from an organization riddled with
I've been blogging since July 2005, and in that time, I've had a few inter-blog arguments with the folks on the other
I'll get a chance to ask why they've been glorifying images of Hamas murderers on their flyers.
just now. Admittedly they do face significant challenges in carrying out their duties due to their imaginary nature,
join the majority of the world's nations in distancing themselves from Washington in a fashion not seen since the Vietnam War.
the way. Apparently that wasn't enough for the however, because they then started pulling at her legs to keep her from
the efforts to find these people and eradicate them, to ferret them out from their cowardly hiding places and vaporize
"approach parody" is too mild. They sprinted towards parody, jumped on top of it and proceded to give parody a spirited
coming off them. It was really a terrible sight," she said. "You could just hear people crying up in the Bounty foyer -
I guess not. The fact that the UN is anything but democratic since the vast majority of countries represented there do not
to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality.
cutting-edge performance art group impersonating real anti-war folks, as the whole ordeal seemed to approach parody. No,
coming off them. It was really a terrible sight," she said. "You could just hear people crying up in the Bounty foyer -
And exactly how do you go from no "final proof" to there being no evidence of impending aggression? The very fact that
The article also points to this site, which maintains a running clock of how long it will be until Mitnick can start
hacky-sack?"
During the last half of the 20th century, this principle was expanded internationally through the United Nations. The U.N.
computer systems.
You try to make it seem as if the Joint Chiefs were lying around on a Sunday afternoon and said to themselves, "Yeah sure,
democratically decided laws - - not the capriciousness of individual rulers -- should govern human affairs.
you could see stink lines of self-satisfaction coming off her so that he could simply get to his job. She of course started
I was already in a state of "moving on" and being "over it" before I even heard about the Bali attacks, with the result
but they make up for any lack of actual existence with pure unadulterated enthusiasm.
Really, how often is someone able to so perfectly crystallize the dilemmas that will exist a century in the future
to elicit empathy had been raised considerably since 9/11,
curiosity that trumps any sort of legal resriction placed on him, but it's pretty much a foregone conclusion that he's
(or to have their genitalia eviscerated by a rabid Rosie O'Donnell
In your face, Space Coyote!
But it's not really fair to denigrate someone's ideas just because they themselves come from an organization riddled with
US: Italy, Australia, Poland, Spain, Qatar, Kuwait and, of course, Britain. I know it's hard to find out this kind of
predictable frequency. Follow a politician to a school photo-op,
Finally, long after the fad has grown tiresome, everyone's attention turns to another scrap of dogma for the next decade.
Heh. Didn't Nostradamus write something about "a bespeckled plague rising in the West..."?
threaten the United States, he said we must "assume the worst." Essentially, the White House is proposing that the
I suppose you mean that it's not "multilateralist" unless France says so?
I see. Did you talk to this "everyone" at your International Socialist Organization direct action planning seminar or
If a good education is meant to produce independent thinkers, I've seen precious little evidence it does. Education is
Another Australian tourist, 18-year-old Rachel Hughes, said she and her boyfriend had just arrived in Kuta when the blast
satisfy you. I'd be much more amendable to the idea however if you were willing to be a personal eye-witness to this
use grown-up scissors), but nevertheless, even though he really didn't deserve it,
Replace "powerful" with "crazy and armed with nukes" and you'd be right. Otherwise, your statement is nonsense.
The BBC has a story about the so-called "master hacker", in which it does a good job of destroying the mythos that
vulnerability.
nuclear weapons. Containment was born out of a realization that we were effectively restrained by our lack of strategic
agree that [insert additional badly-forced car metaphor here]!
has been built up around Mitnick, a basically curious guy who just as often used old face-to-face (or voice-to-voice)
The Muslim world -- whose support is vital to any real effort to end the causes of terrorism -- is adamantly opposed.
The fact that this is being published in the Chronicle is no small feat. Even more reason for you to go read it.
I strongly suspect TR had access to some sort of time machine and traveled into the furture about a hundred years.
University or Diversity
The book details the ways that employees can inadvertently leak information that can be exploited by hackers to compromise
Heaven forfend them not being on board with us!
that boiled up to the surface when I read things like this.
Peace is generally good in itself, but it is never the highest good unless it comes as the handmaid
the not-being-a-jerk department.
Many in the global community also distrust the Bush administration's expanding war aims. It is not easy for our friends around
democratically decided laws - - not the capriciousness of individual rulers -- should govern human affairs.
United States invade a distant country without any evidence of impending aggression.
to get a good smack upside the head (or as I call it, a "hippie hello"), but that was apparently too much for the niggardly
I figured that was the way to go. But then I read this.
Another Australian tourist, 18-year-old Rachel Hughes, said she and her boyfriend had just arrived in Kuta when the blast
Maybe I can't change the fact that I have to be intimately confronted with the death and pain in order to really feel the
And exactly how do you go from no "final proof" to there being no evidence of impending aggression? The very fact that
Saddam will use these nukes when he gets them, whether that use takes the form of vaporizing a city or merely being hung
to all of you warmongering neanderthals" tone of voice. She then struck a pose of righteous exasperation when she asked
In theory, I was of course angry, but I had a vaguely detatched sense about the whole thing. A large part of that of
Mr Mitnick even had to get permission from his probation officer to use a computer to write his book, The Art Of Deception,
Do you mean the Muslim world that celebrated 9/11, saying the US deserved it all along? Or perhaps you mean the Muslim world
but I hope to do that soon. I also hope to win the Nobel Prize in Kickboxing, and judge each of those things to be of
The BBC has a story about the so-called "master hacker", in which it does a good job of destroying the mythos that
them into a thin paste of protein on a cave wall, to wipe out every last vestige of the disgusting stain they have left
Sorry folks, but slippery slope arguments don't hold water by themselves. We're going after Saddam because he 1) has shown
, "I don't believe the American people support this war. Everyone I've talked to is against it!"
assures everyone that "Don't worry, the problem is being taking care of by the inspectors."
Bush also spoke of an "international coalition" that would disarm Hussein. Bush knows the American public is loathe to
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vaunted proof of yours. Then you could be really sure.
to penetrate.
lap dance.
But anyway, right there you've got yourself eight nations total in the coalition, hailing from North America, both western
assures everyone that "Don't worry, the problem is being taking care of by the inspectors."
hacky-sack?"
looks like a green light, no?
Saddam is so hot to get his grubby hands on nukes is enough evidence of aggression. What's he going to do with them once
and make them wish that congress had instead passed a resolution authorizing military force against people
...but there's no shame in being a follower when those you're following make such damn good points.
I've been blogging since July 2005, and in that time, I've had a few inter-blog arguments with the folks on the other
who has been deprived of food for at least 6 hours - sounds like an unusually cruel thing to do, I know, but I'm sure
Bush also spoke of an "international coalition" that would disarm Hussein. Bush knows the American public is loathe to
It seems the Muslim version of a slander suit is cutting off your head. Now when I read this I was shocked, just shocked
to get a good smack upside the head (or as I call it, a "hippie hello"), but that was apparently too much for the niggardly
Many in the global community also distrust the Bush administration's expanding war aims. It is not easy for our friends around
the real fault of that government or its citizens, or the West in general, or capitalism, or any other ridiculous boogeyman
During that protest, my girlfriend had to take a midterm in Wheeler auditorium and had to step over the bodies lying in
they're done, hang them on his wall next to the framed heads of Iraqi dissidents and say to himself, "Well, I can check
a terrorist and an envoy of Iran's supreme leader reportedly called for his death.
The BBC has a story about the so-called "master hacker", in which it does a good job of destroying the mythos that
and eastern Europe, Australia and the middle east. Is that not multilateralism?
one of the most fad-driven enterprises imaginable. It produces a new catechism each decade, which everyone dutifully recites.
the Feds know about it.
I'm going to be checking the weather channel for reports of snowflakes in Hell, but meanwhile you should go read it now.
No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this
It may be a sad illustration of my lack to find sympathy within myself without reading descriptions or seeing pictures,
over the heads of the world's nations as threat so that he can act willy-nilly in whatever new adventure captures his
hacky-sack?"
of fist.
And perhaps because of the collective weight of all those accumulated exhortations, perhaps from the psychic weariness
one of the most fad-driven enterprises imaginable. It produces a new catechism each decade, which everyone dutifully recites.
Sorry folks, but slippery slope arguments don't hold water by themselves. We're going after Saddam because he 1) has shown
I see. Did you talk to this "everyone" at your International Socialist Organization direct action planning seminar or
support (in the small, mostly insignificant ways that are possible for one such as myself)
cutting-edge performance art group impersonating real anti-war folks, as the whole ordeal seemed to approach parody. No,
"Standing in the foyer of the Bounty Hotel, people were just walking in, blood dripping off them, burns to their face, skin
to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality.
to make the first world poor and make sure the third world stays that way.
If and when you find one, that means that I'll be perfectly willing to advocate an attack against them as well.
In your face, Space Coyote!
Finally, long after the fad has grown tiresome, everyone's attention turns to another scrap of dogma for the next decade.
care. Just don't let me hear anything about how this bombing that specifically targeted Australian civilians was somehow
I see. Did you talk to this "everyone" at your International Socialist Organization direct action planning seminar or
I finally went and did it.
just now. Admittedly they do face significant challenges in carrying out their duties due to their imaginary nature,
course grew out of the experience of 9/11.
the All Men Are Rapists self defense workshop? Surely that must be a representative sample of the country!
I'll get a chance to ask why they've been glorifying images of Hamas murderers on their flyers.
Why are you still here?!
of the mass moron movement.
lying in order to gain information that gave him access to restricted systems.
"What I found personally to be true was that it's easier to manipulate people rather than technology," he said.
of a lack of imagination or basic humanity; the fact that it's difficult for me to feel deeply for people suffering unless
Now of course I'm sure that these open-toed folks have a flurry of perfectly well thought-out reasons as to why pissing
The experience made me think of the instructions from all corners of the media after 9/11 that what we, as Americans,
I urge anyone in the bay area who has the time on the 16th to come as well and lend credence with your example to the
It is time for a new day to dawn in the Blogosphere, my gnome brothers. A glorious day. A day when no longer will we
If and when you find one, that means that I'll be perfectly willing to advocate an attack against them as well.
needed now was healing, closure; in short, to "get over it" and "move on."
I urge anyone in the bay area who has the time on the 16th to come as well and lend credence with your example to the
be harried by idiots who have full compliments of heads and genitals! With the ranks of my imaginary gnomes rallied,
of fist.
and eastern Europe, Australia and the middle east. Is that not multilateralism?
world that even today harbors and offers succor to the same groups that piloted the 9/11 planes, right?
to make the first world poor and make sure the third world stays that way.
cause, but I,
to get a good smack upside the head (or as I call it, a "hippie hello"), but that was apparently too much for the niggardly
I tried to present my ideas in an honest and truthful way, and not be seriously offensive, even when he acted in ways
We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but
By tossing out any reasonable standards of evidence as a prerequisite for military action, the White House puts us in a state
It seems the Muslim version of a slander suit is cutting off your head. Now when I read this I was shocked, just shocked
have democratically elected rulers I'm sure doesn't throw any flies into your ointment.
to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality.
"approach parody" is too mild. They sprinted towards parody, jumped on top of it and proceded to give parody a spirited
that I hadn't thought of it first!
the way. Apparently that wasn't enough for the however, because they then started pulling at her legs to keep her from
I'll get a chance to ask why they've been glorifying images of Hamas murderers on their flyers.
about equal probability.
occurred, smashing the window of their hotel room.
sloth, or as an instrument to further the ends of despotism or anarchy.
and make them wish that congress had instead passed a resolution authorizing military force against people
rivals.
So seeing as how we've got massive approval from the House of Representatives and similar support in the senate is likely,
making a point of reading in depth about any such future atrocity to ensure that I don't allow myself to be instantly "over it."
Saddam will use these nukes when he gets them, whether that use takes the form of vaporizing a city or merely being hung
Really, how often is someone able to so perfectly crystallize the dilemmas that will exist a century in the future
owned," she pontificated, in that snotty "52% of my clothes are made of hemp which therefore makes me morally superior
Diversity. More than motherhood, it is the one unassailable concept these days. Open any teaching publication, and you will
Hey, didn't there used to be a city where this smoking crater is?
to roost," those sniveling, carping appeasers,
I don't know about you people, but I'm already stocking up on extra food, water, and electrons.
which is all about the biggest threat to the security of all companies: their own employees.
I tried to present my ideas in an honest and truthful way, and not be seriously offensive, even when he acted in ways
Shiite Muslim clerics in Lebanon and Iran have reacted with rage at the Rev. Jerry Falwell for calling Islam's prophet
Another Australian tourist, 18-year-old Rachel Hughes, said she and her boyfriend had just arrived in Kuta when the blast
anger that is so justifiable -no, demanded- by these despicable acts, but if that must be the case, then from on, I'll be
they're done, hang them on his wall next to the framed heads of Iraqi dissidents and say to himself, "Well, I can check
in words so much more exacting than even those who actually live in that time would be able to produce?
and the UC Divestment folks will be holding a rally for what looks like the primary purpose of protesting the fact that
Well I'm far far far too petty a person to do that.
them into a thin paste of protein on a cave wall, to wipe out every last vestige of the disgusting stain they have left
in words so much more exacting than even those who actually live in that time would be able to produce?
to really concern yourself with, except in a somewhat general, theoretical way.
The experience made me think of the instructions from all corners of the media after 9/11 that what we, as Americans,
be replacing the old site that was hosted on that evil of evils, that bane of banes, that something-really-awful of
be harried by idiots who have full compliments of heads and genitals! With the ranks of my imaginary gnomes rallied,
The BBC has a story about the so-called "master hacker", in which it does a good job of destroying the mythos that
without end is causing traditional friends of the United States to
Either that, or I now have to admit the existence of clairvoyance.
and the decisions to do so would based on (as in this case) measured calculations of the relative benefits and costs,
Mr Mitnick even had to get permission from his probation officer to use a computer to write his book, The Art Of Deception,
world that even today harbors and offers succor to the same groups that piloted the 9/11 planes, right?
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when you apply your own internal calculus of death and suffering and conclude that it isn't something that you need
Kevin Mitnick will be able to use a computer again in approximately 3 months.
vaunted proof of yours. Then you could be really sure.
that blatantly called for some rhetorical bitch-slapping.
Falwell was a "mercenary and must be killed," the Farsi-language daily Abrar reported Saturday.
weapons inspections in Iraq represent a good example of how the rule of law has been used, and can be used again, to avert
But I am thankful that at least for now, I've been able to summon that deep-seated, personal wrath so appropriate to an
in words so much more exacting than even those who actually live in that time would be able to produce?
why she thought there weren't more stories about protests going on in the news, "Well, because the media is corporately
I'm going to be checking the weather channel for reports of snowflakes in Hell, but meanwhile you should go read it now.
support (in the small, mostly insignificant ways that are possible for one such as myself)
psychopathic fancy without fear of retribution.
owned," she pontificated, in that snotty "52% of my clothes are made of hemp which therefore makes me morally superior
A taste, just a taste...
them into a thin paste of protein on a cave wall, to wipe out every last vestige of the disgusting stain they have left
psychopathic fancy without fear of retribution.
of the mass moron movement.
you could see stink lines of self-satisfaction coming off her so that he could simply get to his job. She of course started
Hesiod over at Counterspin Central is one such fellow. Not only with myself, but in his conversations with Den Beste,
the world to stomach the imperial scent of our newly enunciated military doctrine that proposes pre- emption of any powerful
democratically decided laws - - not the capriciousness of individual rulers -- should govern human affairs.
of righteousness; and it becomes a very evil thing if it serves merely as a mask for cowardice and
Those people are especially useful when they have access to the core computer systems that hackers would otherwise struggle
it is shoved, in all its detailed horror, right into my face.
Another Australian tourist, 18-year-old Rachel Hughes, said she and her boyfriend had just arrived in Kuta when the blast
to roost," those sniveling, carping appeasers,
chanting in his face and moved in front of him every time he tried to get around her.
faith at large, since many of them are peaceful, albeit intellectually stunted, people.
course grew out of the experience of 9/11.
"A bunch of people died from terrorism over the weekend? Sure, that's awful, but we all knew this was going to happen
and you'll get diversity in the speech by the politician, in the one by the principal who welcomes him and in the one by
way why we're doing all of this, and why, if they still choose to berate us about "root causes" and "birds coming home
predictable frequency. Follow a politician to a school photo-op,
that boiled up to the surface when I read things like this.
lying in order to gain information that gave him access to restricted systems.
Well I wouldn't be surprised if this Wednesday at Sproul there will be similar behavior, and I plan to be there. Maybe
But it's not really fair to denigrate someone's ideas just because they themselves come from an organization riddled with
but I hope to do that soon. I also hope to win the Nobel Prize in Kickboxing, and judge each of those things to be of
when you apply your own internal calculus of death and suffering and conclude that it isn't something that you need
A taste, just a taste...
Hey, didn't there used to be a city where this smoking crater is?
cutting-edge performance art group impersonating real anti-war folks, as the whole ordeal seemed to approach parody. No,
I suppose you mean that it's not "multilateralist" unless France says so?
War, by three fellows that hail from Global Exchange. You know who I'm talking about. The folks that want to "build an
that I hadn't thought of it first!
And perhaps because of the collective weight of all those accumulated exhortations, perhaps from the psychic weariness
But for now if you all don't mind, I'd just like to stew in my rage for a while, and remind myself in a truly visceral
and the UC Divestment folks will be holding a rally for what looks like the primary purpose of protesting the fact that
I guess not. The fact that the UN is anything but democratic since the vast majority of countries represented there do not
The article also points to this site, which maintains a running clock of how long it will be until Mitnick can start
to the San Francisco federal building to protest the passage of Bush's resolution for action against Iraq.
However, several of the exchanges I have had have definately been with those you might describe as "challeneged" in
world that even today harbors and offers succor to the same groups that piloted the 9/11 planes, right?
Sorry folks, but slippery slope arguments don't hold water by themselves. We're going after Saddam because he 1) has shown
the All Men Are Rapists self defense workshop? Surely that must be a representative sample of the country!
(or to have their genitalia eviscerated by a rabid Rosie O'Donnell
of constant uncertainty and increased insecurity where almost anything could lead to war.
without end is causing traditional friends of the United States to
again soon, didn't we?"
Well, being the abject conformist that I am, I would like to welcome all new and oldcomers to my new blog, which will
way why we're doing all of this, and why, if they still choose to berate us about "root causes" and "birds coming home
Don't you people ever get tired of just pulling shit out of your asses?
A taste, just a taste...
(or to have their genitalia eviscerated by a rabid Rosie O'Donnell
to roost," those sniveling, carping appeasers,
If and when you find one, that means that I'll be perfectly willing to advocate an attack against them as well.
trying to get an education
on the civilized world. And when I resort again to that frame of mind, it will be because I realize, intellectually and
to roost," those sniveling, carping appeasers,
What it does not mean however, is that this suddenly signals that we are going to be going after China, Saudi Arabia, Cuba
vulnerability.
superiority.
"approach parody" is too mild. They sprinted towards parody, jumped on top of it and proceded to give parody a spirited
to all of you warmongering neanderthals" tone of voice. She then struck a pose of righteous exasperation when she asked
Diversity. More than motherhood, it is the one unassailable concept these days. Open any teaching publication, and you will
she can last 6 hours). I make this declaration keeping in mind that this does not imply a judgement on the Idiotarian
slope proposition, claiming that because we go after Saddam, we'll suddenly be all aggro-ed up to obliterate any country
Wheeler Hall last spring.
hunting dairy cows with a high-powered rifle and scope."
fact that these people are thugs, bullies and liars.
nuclear weapons. Containment was born out of a realization that we were effectively restrained by our lack of strategic
"I said it's being taken care of, dammit. Mind your own business."
One of the great advances of the modern era has been the spread of the rule of law. This is the now common idea that
of righteousness; and it becomes a very evil thing if it serves merely as a mask for cowardice and
You must be triple jointed to be able to twist words like that.
Many in the global community also distrust the Bush administration's expanding war aims. It is not easy for our friends around
the real fault of that government or its citizens, or the West in general, or capitalism, or any other ridiculous boogeyman
the All Men Are Rapists self defense workshop? Surely that must be a representative sample of the country!
support (in the small, mostly insignificant ways that are possible for one such as myself)
I have to admit I'm pretty curious just to see what he's going to do. The guy has shown himself to have an overpowering
Well I'm far far far too petty a person to do that.
Heaven forfend them not being on board with us!
the Feds know about it.
side of the political spectrum... what are they called?
that continues to characterize the US as the Great Satan and preach jihad against all things Western? Oh I know, the Muslim
It is time for a new day to dawn in the Blogosphere, my gnome brothers. A glorious day. A day when no longer will we
only be revealed as more useless than it already seems), there is right now a coalition prepared to go into Iraq with the
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one of the most fad-driven enterprises imaginable. It produces a new catechism each decade, which everyone dutifully recites.
care. Just don't let me hear anything about how this bombing that specifically targeted Australian civilians was somehow
During that protest, my girlfriend had to take a midterm in Wheeler auditorium and had to step over the bodies lying in
In your face, Space Coyote!
My sentences, thus decreed, will be subsequently carried out by my elite brigade of Beheading Gnomes, whom I made up
nothing may stand in our way!
for the life of me, cannot see it. The news showed a clip of a guy trying politely to walk around a woman so self-righteous
You must be triple jointed to be able to twist words like that.
You try to make it seem as if the Joint Chiefs were lying around on a Sunday afternoon and said to themselves, "Yeah sure,
I wish that I could just be told "Hundreds of people died in a terrorist bombing today," and instantly feel the kind of rage
weapons inspections in Iraq represent a good example of how the rule of law has been used, and can be used again, to avert
rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.
and make them wish that congress had instead passed a resolution authorizing military force against people
and the decisions to do so would based on (as in this case) measured calculations of the relative benefits and costs,
I mean come on, when you're arguing with someone who's just going to call you a Nazi when you spend 2,000 words making
have democratically elected rulers I'm sure doesn't throw any flies into your ointment.
By tossing out any reasonable standards of evidence as a prerequisite for military action, the White House puts us in a state
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