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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 nation?s most valuable ex-president since John Quincy Adams. The best thing I?ve ever read on Carter, by the way, is an essay by Rick Hertzberg, his former speechwriter, in a book entitled ?Character Above All,? 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 ?anti-president,? 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 ? including Mitterrand?s France and Communist China ? urging them to thwart the Bush administration?s effort. Our government found out about it when the Canadian prime minister, Brian Mulroney, called the defense secretary, Dick Cheney, and said, ?What the . . .?? Some people actually allowed themselves to utter the word ?treason.?
- 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: ?Well, obviously, they needed someone to pay the bill, and who but the United States could fulfill that function??
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 ? the ?nearly miraculous? accords, he called them. Carter, in the stands, beamed and beamed, and teared up badly.
- I don?t think I?ve 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 ? perfectly natural ? but obscene in a way. I felt almost as though I had to look away: like I was seeing something too private, something I wasn?t meant to see.
- The ex-president is known as Joe Human Rights, but he?s mighty selective about whose human rights to champion. If you live in Marcos?s Philippines, Pinochet?s Chile, or apartheid South Africa, he?s 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, ?Oka?, maybe the West has ??olitical rights,? but the East has ?social rights??? Carter isn?t far off from that. A mission statement of his Center reads, ???uman rights? is a broad term, encompassing freedom from oppression and freedom of speech to the right to food and health.? This is on the way to Erich Honecker. And as Jeane Kirkpatrick ? whom Carter also openly despises ? points out, it?s 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 ?It?s Wrong to Demonize China? (also for the New York Times), Carter wrote ? and forgive the awkward prose ? ?American criticism of China?s 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 China?s fragmentation by an independent Taiwan or Tibet. The result is excessive punishment [excessive punishment!] of outspoken dissidents and unwarranted domination of Tibetans.?
Carter said that ?ill-informed commentators in both countries have cast the other side as a villain and have even forecast inevitable confrontation between the two nations.? You see the exquisite moral equivalence between a giant and repressive Communist state and the American republic. He then said, ?Mutual 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.? Carter arrogant or self-righteous, ever? Improvements made by the United States, too?
In a 1999 op-ed piece (USA Today) called ?Let?s Keep Chinese Spying in Perspective,? Carter said that ?some . . . American leaders, who have habitually demonstrated animosity toward the People?s Republic of China [note the mimicking of the Communists? own false description of themselves], have attempted to drive a deeper wedge between our two countries at what is already a troubled time.? Anyone who doesn?t demonstrate ?animosity? toward that horrible state, Realpolitik or no, is no friend to mankind.
- A walk down Memory Lane? While in office, Carter hailed Yugoslavia?s Tito as ?a man who believes in human rights extreme horse sex.? He said of Romania?s barbaric Ceausescu and himself, ?Our goals are the same: to have a just system of economics and politics . . . We believe in enhancing human rights.? While out of office, Carter has praised Syria?s 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 C?dras that he was ?ashamed of what my country has done to your country.?
He did even better in North Korea, singing praises to Kim Il Sung, one of the most complete and destructive dictators in history. Kim?s North Korea, as Kirkpatrick says, was, and is, truly a ?psychotic state.? Said Carter of the ?Great Leader,? ?I find him to be vigorous, intelligent, surprisingly well informed about the technical issues, and in charge of the decisions about this country? (well, he was absolute ruler). He said, ?I don?t see that they [the North Koreans] are an outlaw nation.? Pyongyang, he observed, was a ?bustling city,? where shoppers ?pack the department stores,? reminding him of the ?Wal-Mart in Americus, Georgia.? Carter also employed his longstanding technique of praising the beauty of a dictator?s wife. Kim Jon Ae, he noted, ?is a very attractive lady.?
Then there?s Carter?s 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 here?s the (classic) Carter twist: ?We want the folks down there to know that some American Christians love them and that we don?t all hate them.? In 1990, of course, Carter traveled to Managua to monitor the elections and to certify what he figured ? and hoped, it seemed ? 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.
Hesiod over at Counterspin Central is one such fellow. Not only with myself, but in his conversations with Den Beste,It seems the Muslim version of a slander suit is cutting off your head. Now when I read this I was shocked, just shocked
satisfy you. I'd be much more amendable to the idea however if you were willing to be a personal eye-witness to this
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
The fact that this is being published in the Chronicle is no small feat. Even more reason for you to go read it.
Another Australian tourist, 18-year-old Rachel Hughes, said she and her boyfriend had just arrived in Kuta when the blast
let you know when there's a mushroom cloud over New York, because that's the only "final proof" that seems to be able to
And exactly how do you go from no "final proof" to there being no evidence of impending aggression? The very fact that
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!
or any other simply crappy country in the world, because none of them satisfy both those propositions.
The Muslim world -- whose support is vital to any real effort to end the causes of terrorism -- is adamantly opposed.
That is, until this morning. Now I'm glad to say that I've gotten over getting over it, and am thoroughly pissed again.
Watching Channel 7 news today (the Simpsons were in a commercial), they reported on a wad of dingbats who blocked access
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
he revealed himself to be a seriously dishonest debater (that, or he was so stupid that it wouldn't be safe for him to
we could go and stop the Soviets and all their expansionist hijinks, but then we'd like, have to go all the way over to
that boiled up to the surface when I read things like this.
sloth, or as an instrument to further the ends of despotism or anarchy.
No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this
over the heads of the world's nations as threat so that he can act willy-nilly in whatever new adventure captures his
Stand up to these thugs This Wednesday, the 16th at noon, an apparent composite of the Students for Justice in Palestine
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
The fact that this is being published in the Chronicle is no small feat. Even more reason for you to go read it.
After 3000 of your countrymen die in a couple hours, anything less than that is wont to be downplayed in significance
information with your heads crammed so far up your asses, so I'll give you a pass.
"The lethal combination is when you exploit both people and technology," Mr Mitnick told BBC News Online.
be replacing the old site that was hosted on that evil of evils, that bane of banes, that something-really-awful of
curiosity that trumps any sort of legal resriction placed on him, but it's pretty much a foregone conclusion that he's
According to the president, "we cannot wait for the final proof" that Saddam Hussein's government is planning an imminent
, "I don't believe the American people support this war. Everyone I've talked to is against it!"
vaunted proof of yours. Then you could be really sure.
that continues to characterize the US as the Great Satan and preach jihad against all things Western? Oh I know, the Muslim
morally, that this is the right thing to do.
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
At the very least, don't let me hear any of these things when you're standing in my presence, unless you want a faceful
conflict.
the not-being-a-jerk department.
on the civilized world. And when I resort again to that frame of mind, it will be because I realize, intellectually and
we could go and stop the Soviets and all their expansionist hijinks, but then we'd like, have to go all the way over to
If and when you find one, that means that I'll be perfectly willing to advocate an attack against them as well.
that I hadn't thought of it first!
However, several of the exchanges I have had have definately been with those you might describe as "challeneged" in
she can last 6 hours). I make this declaration keeping in mind that this does not imply a judgement on the Idiotarian
who like to chant slogans and can't come up with any better rhyme than something that has to do with the number "four" and "war."
be harried by idiots who have full compliments of heads and genitals! With the ranks of my imaginary gnomes rallied,
to all of you warmongering neanderthals" tone of voice. She then struck a pose of righteous exasperation when she asked
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
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and make them wish that congress had instead passed a resolution authorizing military force against people
War, by three fellows that hail from Global Exchange. You know who I'm talking about. The folks that want to "build an
join the majority of the world's nations in distancing themselves from Washington in a fashion not seen since the Vietnam War.
United States invade a distant country without any evidence of impending aggression.
and eastern Europe, Australia and the middle east. Is that not multilateralism?
to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality.
Heaven forfend them not being on board with us!
that has the temerity to look at us cock-eyed.
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President Bush says he wants to avoid "a future of fear." It's an admirable goal, but one hardly served by this new doctrine.
Diversity. More than motherhood, it is the one unassailable concept these days. Open any teaching publication, and you will
that blatantly called for some rhetorical bitch-slapping.
The fact that this is being published in the Chronicle is no small feat. Even more reason for you to go read it.
why she thought there weren't more stories about protests going on in the news, "Well, because the media is corporately
The BBC has a story about the so-called "master hacker", in which it does a good job of destroying the mythos that
getting an education. When she tried to talk to one of the organizers after her test about how some people were just
Containment and deterrence were responses to US weakness, you silly-headed dunderpate. It was obvious that using direct
on the civilized world. And when I resort again to that frame of mind, it will be because I realize, intellectually and
Iranian cleric Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari, addressing weekly Friday prayers in the northwestern town of Tabriz, said
so that he will be better equipped to fulfill point 1). Show me another nation that's like that today.
I'm going to be checking the weather channel for reports of snowflakes in Hell, but meanwhile you should go read it now.
Hesiod over at Counterspin Central is one such fellow. Not only with myself, but in his conversations with Den Beste,
the teacher trying to impress both of them.
Heh. Didn't Nostradamus write something about "a bespeckled plague rising in the West..."?
Watching Channel 7 news today (the Simpsons were in a commercial), they reported on a wad of dingbats who blocked access
to all of you warmongering neanderthals" tone of voice. She then struck a pose of righteous exasperation when she asked
we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight
to elicit empathy had been raised considerably since 9/11,
over the heads of the world's nations as threat so that he can act willy-nilly in whatever new adventure captures his
I wish that I could just be told "Hundreds of people died in a terrorist bombing today," and instantly feel the kind of rage
care. Just don't let me hear anything about how this bombing that specifically targeted Australian civilians was somehow
obviously they have lost loved ones or friends."
vulnerability.
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
Shiite Muslim clerics in Lebanon and Iran have reacted with rage at the Rev. Jerry Falwell for calling Islam's prophet
Watching Channel 7 news today (the Simpsons were in a commercial), they reported on a wad of dingbats who blocked access
and the UC Divestment folks will be holding a rally for what looks like the primary purpose of protesting the fact that
Yes, well I suppose you're suggesting that we would be well-served to wait for this "final proof," then? Very well. I'll
And perhaps because of the collective weight of all those accumulated exhortations, perhaps from the psychic weariness
"to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality"?
of a lack of imagination or basic humanity; the fact that it's difficult for me to feel deeply for people suffering unless
he is willing to act aggressively and recklessly and cannot be reasonably deterred and 2) is working to get and use nukes
An insightful, well-written and quite simply excellent column somehow found its way in the SF Chronicle's website today.
In fact, the idea of pre- emptive attack depends on fear. It presupposes insecurity and assumes we will always be threatened.
the teacher trying to impress both of them.
I tried to present my ideas in an honest and truthful way, and not be seriously offensive, even when he acted in ways
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University or Diversity
Mr Mitnick even had to get permission from his probation officer to use a computer to write his book, The Art Of Deception,
Well I wouldn't be surprised if this Wednesday at Sproul there will be similar behavior, and I plan to be there. Maybe
and make them wish that congress had instead passed a resolution authorizing military force against people
War, by three fellows that hail from Global Exchange. You know who I'm talking about. The folks that want to "build an
join the majority of the world's nations in distancing themselves from Washington in a fashion not seen since the Vietnam War.
has been built up around Mitnick, a basically curious guy who just as often used old face-to-face (or voice-to-voice)
and that it wasn't fair for these people to stop them, the girl started literally screaming at her about selfish she was.
Now could someone please tell me what concrete purpose that woman's behavior, and that of her great chanting unwashed bretheren,
So welcome. If this is the first and/or only post you can see, it means I haven't imported my archives from Blogspot yet,
going to be monitored so closely that I'd be surprised if he were able to put in a phony name at a porn site and not have
...but there's no shame in being a follower when those you're following make such damn good points.
During that protest, my girlfriend had to take a midterm in Wheeler auditorium and had to step over the bodies lying in
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
that continues to characterize the US as the Great Satan and preach jihad against all things Western? Oh I know, the Muslim
in words so much more exacting than even those who actually live in that time would be able to produce?
democratically decided laws - - not the capriciousness of individual rulers -- should govern human affairs.
What it does not mean however, is that this suddenly signals that we are going to be going after China, Saudi Arabia, Cuba
Diversity. More than motherhood, it is the one unassailable concept these days. Open any teaching publication, and you will
You must be triple jointed to be able to twist words like that.
Finally, long after the fad has grown tiresome, everyone's attention turns to another scrap of dogma for the next decade.
curiosity that trumps any sort of legal resriction placed on him, but it's pretty much a foregone conclusion that he's
to the San Francisco federal building to protest the passage of Bush's resolution for action against Iraq.
the way. Apparently that wasn't enough for the however, because they then started pulling at her legs to keep her from
The book details the ways that employees can inadvertently leak information that can be exploited by hackers to compromise
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
psychopathic fancy without fear of retribution.
But it's not really fair to denigrate someone's ideas just because they themselves come from an organization riddled with
Already, even if the UN thumbs its irrelevant nose at the idea of going after Iraq (and if it actually does, then they'll
conflict.
the not-being-a-jerk department.
Hey, didn't there used to be a city where this smoking crater is?
Russia and shit. Besides, it's just the Russians. Why don't we just contain them or something? Hey, who's up for some
so that he will be better equipped to fulfill point 1). Show me another nation that's like that today.
that I hadn't thought of it first!
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
Also, I've printed out and made a bunch of copies of some flyers from this site and will be passing them out.
Heh. Didn't Nostradamus write something about "a bespeckled plague rising in the West..."?
agree that [insert additional badly-forced car metaphor here]!
when you apply your own internal calculus of death and suffering and conclude that it isn't something that you need
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
I suppose you mean that it's not "multilateralist" unless France says so?
Hey, didn't there used to be a city where this smoking crater is?
of a lack of imagination or basic humanity; the fact that it's difficult for me to feel deeply for people suffering unless
Don't you people ever get tired of just pulling shit out of your asses?
obviously they have lost loved ones or friends."
In fact, the idea of pre- emptive attack depends on fear. It presupposes insecurity and assumes we will always be threatened.
really just put Saddam in a better situation than he was before because the presence of inspectors invites complacency and
I figured that was the way to go. But then I read this.
that has the temerity to look at us cock-eyed.
It seems the Muslim version of a slander suit is cutting off your head. Now when I read this I was shocked, just shocked
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
Well I wouldn't be surprised if this Wednesday at Sproul there will be similar behavior, and I plan to be there. Maybe
serves? As far as I can tell, all they did was take some people who were probably overwhelmingly against the war anyway,
50 Ways to Leave Your Folly Common Dreams, that goldmine of general silliness, showcases this piece, The Folly of Pre-emptive
going to be monitored so closely that I'd be surprised if he were able to put in a phony name at a porn site and not have
United States invade a distant country without any evidence of impending aggression.
But anyway, right there you've got yourself eight nations total in the coalition, hailing from North America, both western
without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism,
That is, until this morning. Now I'm glad to say that I've gotten over getting over it, and am thoroughly pissed again.
to roost," those sniveling, carping appeasers,
"The death of that man is a religious duty, but his case should not be tied to the Christian community," Shabestari,
cause, but I,
So I hereby declare myself Ayatollah Mustardah of Blogistan. From this day forward, I will call down, on any Idiotarian
Now could someone please tell me what concrete purpose that woman's behavior, and that of her great chanting unwashed bretheren,
about equal probability.
curiosity that trumps any sort of legal resriction placed on him, but it's pretty much a foregone conclusion that he's
by both Instapundit and Cold Fury (and probably by sundry others by now):
the way. Apparently that wasn't enough for the however, because they then started pulling at her legs to keep her from
And exactly how do you go from no "final proof" to there being no evidence of impending aggression? The very fact that
I was already in a state of "moving on" and being "over it" before I even heard about the Bali attacks, with the result
that has the temerity to look at us cock-eyed.
and the decisions to do so would based on (as in this case) measured calculations of the relative benefits and costs,
off a bunch of secretaries and other office workers who probably agree with them on the war anyway will further their
Don't worry, I'll sit here with my rifle ready to take out any airborne porcines, should they come flying by.
serves? As far as I can tell, all they did was take some people who were probably overwhelmingly against the war anyway,
So welcome. If this is the first and/or only post you can see, it means I haven't imported my archives from Blogspot yet,
going to be monitored so closely that I'd be surprised if he were able to put in a phony name at a porn site and not have
According to the president, "we cannot wait for the final proof" that Saddam Hussein's government is planning an imminent
only be revealed as more useless than it already seems), there is right now a coalition prepared to go into Iraq with the
vaunted proof of yours. Then you could be really sure.
be replacing the old site that was hosted on that evil of evils, that bane of banes, that something-really-awful of
psychopathic fancy without fear of retribution.
economic stupidity, especially when their ideas would do such a better job of it by themselves. Case in point:
"A bunch of people died from terrorism over the weekend? Sure, that's awful, but we all knew this was going to happen
We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but
The Muslim world -- whose support is vital to any real effort to end the causes of terrorism -- is adamantly opposed.
morally, that this is the right thing to do.
it is shoved, in all its detailed horror, right into my face.
he is willing to act aggressively and recklessly and cannot be reasonably deterred and 2) is working to get and use nukes
a careful, precise argument, what point is there in engaging them verbally anymore?
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
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
When they aired some actual interviews with the protesters, I started to honestly think they were part of some sort of
economic stupidity, especially when their ideas would do such a better job of it by themselves. Case in point:
when you apply your own internal calculus of death and suffering and conclude that it isn't something that you need
Yes, well I suppose you're suggesting that we would be well-served to wait for this "final proof," then? Very well. I'll
And perhaps because of the collective weight of all those accumulated exhortations, perhaps from the psychic weariness
By tossing out any reasonable standards of evidence as a prerequisite for military action, the White House puts us in a state
Replace "powerful" with "crazy and armed with nukes" and you'd be right. Otherwise, your statement is nonsense.
care. Just don't let me hear anything about how this bombing that specifically targeted Australian civilians was somehow
obviously they have lost loved ones or friends."
vulnerability.
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
and make them wish that congress had instead passed a resolution authorizing military force against people
be harried by idiots who have full compliments of heads and genitals! With the ranks of my imaginary gnomes rallied,
to all of you warmongering neanderthals" tone of voice. She then struck a pose of righteous exasperation when she asked
of righteousness; and it becomes a very evil thing if it serves merely as a mask for cowardice and
and eastern Europe, Australia and the middle east. Is that not multilateralism?
that off my list of things to do. Now, on to learning how to square-dance."
It may be a sad illustration of my lack to find sympathy within myself without reading descriptions or seeing pictures,
Sorry folks, but slippery slope arguments don't hold water by themselves. We're going after Saddam because he 1) has shown
looks like a green light, no?
Well that's not really true. People on a different side of the debate than I are not necessarily jerks, just wrong.
the teacher trying to impress both of them.
who like to chant slogans and can't come up with any better rhyme than something that has to do with the number "four" and "war."
Why are you still here?!
and the UC Divestment folks will be holding a rally for what looks like the primary purpose of protesting the fact that
you could see stink lines of self-satisfaction coming off her so that he could simply get to his job. She of course started
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serves? As far as I can tell, all they did was take some people who were probably overwhelmingly against the war anyway,
The fact that this is being published in the Chronicle is no small feat. Even more reason for you to go read it.
One middle-aged woman who looked like she hadn't combed her hair since Jerry Garcia died had this to say, when asked
attack against the United States. Even though President Bush acknowledged in his speech that Iraq does not currently
To quote a boozed up, cynical and misanthropic individual whom I greatly admire: "Making fun of these people is like
No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this
That is, until this morning. Now I'm glad to say that I've gotten over getting over it, and am thoroughly pissed again.
slope proposition, claiming that because we go after Saddam, we'll suddenly be all aggro-ed up to obliterate any country
I simply love it when my case is made for me.
or any other simply crappy country in the world, because none of them satisfy both those propositions.
jerkwad I encounter, an order for them to be beheaded with extreme prejudice until the the point at which they are dead
"What I found personally to be true was that it's easier to manipulate people rather than technology," he said.
but they make up for any lack of actual existence with pure unadulterated enthusiasm.
lap dance.
Such as this quote by Teddy Roosevelt concerning his acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize, posted now
again soon, didn't we?"
And exactly how do you go from no "final proof" to there being no evidence of impending aggression? The very fact that
I was already in a state of "moving on" and being "over it" before I even heard about the Bali attacks, with the result
of constant uncertainty and increased insecurity where almost anything could lead to war.
"The death of that man is a religious duty, but his case should not be tied to the Christian community," Shabestari,
of fist.
A taste, just a taste...
Now could someone please tell me what concrete purpose that woman's behavior, and that of her great chanting unwashed bretheren,
something-really-awfuls, BlogSpot.
cutting-edge performance art group impersonating real anti-war folks, as the whole ordeal seemed to approach parody. No,
Such as this quote by Teddy Roosevelt concerning his acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize, posted now
I see. Did you talk to this "everyone" at your International Socialist Organization direct action planning seminar or
we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight
Do you mean the Muslim world that celebrated 9/11, saying the US deserved it all along? Or perhaps you mean the Muslim world
psychopathic fancy without fear of retribution.
democratically decided laws - - not the capriciousness of individual rulers -- should govern human affairs.
of the mass moron movement.
Don't worry, I'll sit here with my rifle ready to take out any airborne porcines, should they come flying by.
he revealed himself to be a seriously dishonest debater (that, or he was so stupid that it wouldn't be safe for him to
one of the most fad-driven enterprises imaginable. It produces a new catechism each decade, which everyone dutifully recites.
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
Watching Channel 7 news today (the Simpsons were in a commercial), they reported on a wad of dingbats who blocked access
the All Men Are Rapists self defense workshop? Surely that must be a representative sample of the country!
Eventually he got a little ticked off and said roughly, "Get away from me!" I was hungrily anticipating the energetic dissenter
be replacing the old site that was hosted on that evil of evils, that bane of banes, that something-really-awful of
When they aired some actual interviews with the protesters, I started to honestly think they were part of some sort of
nothing may stand in our way!
some of their cohorts are actually being held accountable by the university for their disruptive, illegal actions at
Yes, well I suppose you're suggesting that we would be well-served to wait for this "final proof," then? Very well. I'll
And perhaps because of the collective weight of all those accumulated exhortations, perhaps from the psychic weariness
Saddam will use these nukes when he gets them, whether that use takes the form of vaporizing a city or merely being hung
rivals.
he is willing to act aggressively and recklessly and cannot be reasonably deterred and 2) is working to get and use nukes
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
chanting in his face and moved in front of him every time he tried to get around her.
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
The article also points to this site, which maintains a running clock of how long it will be until Mitnick can start
Anyway, take the new site for a test drive. Take her easy on the clutch and go steady on the hills, and I think you'll
why she thought there weren't more stories about protests going on in the news, "Well, because the media is corporately
Yes, well I suppose you're suggesting that we would be well-served to wait for this "final proof," then? Very well. I'll
needed now was healing, closure; in short, to "get over it" and "move on."
the efforts to find these people and eradicate them, to ferret them out from their cowardly hiding places and vaporize
It may be a sad illustration of my lack to find sympathy within myself without reading descriptions or seeing pictures,
Sorry folks, but slippery slope arguments don't hold water by themselves. We're going after Saddam because he 1) has shown
University or Diversity
In fact, the idea of pre- emptive attack depends on fear. It presupposes insecurity and assumes we will always be threatened.
(or to have their genitalia eviscerated by a rabid Rosie O'Donnell
that blatantly called for some rhetorical bitch-slapping.
but they make up for any lack of actual existence with pure unadulterated enthusiasm.
owned," she pontificated, in that snotty "52% of my clothes are made of hemp which therefore makes me morally superior
Peace is generally good in itself, but it is never the highest good unless it comes as the handmaid
hunting dairy cows with a high-powered rifle and scope."
they're done, hang them on his wall next to the framed heads of Iraqi dissidents and say to himself, "Well, I can check
Many in the global community also distrust the Bush administration's expanding war aims. It is not easy for our friends around
both at home and abroad, can go heartily fuck themselves, or jump off a cliff, or shoot themselves in the head. I don't
So seeing as how we've got massive approval from the House of Representatives and similar support in the senate is likely,
In fact, the idea of pre- emptive attack depends on fear. It presupposes insecurity and assumes we will always be threatened.
predictable frequency. Follow a politician to a school photo-op,
I tried to present my ideas in an honest and truthful way, and not be seriously offensive, even when he acted in ways
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
why she thought there weren't more stories about protests going on in the news, "Well, because the media is corporately
threaten the United States, he said we must "assume the worst." Essentially, the White House is proposing that the
find testimonials to diversity. Flip through any recent social sciences or humanities textbook and diversity pops up with
news editors of Cannel 7 to allow, as the segment ended right there.
fact that these people are thugs, bullies and liars.
Quite the contrary, Bush's aggressive rhetoric, disregard for international law, and his lack of any vision other than war
According to the president, "we cannot wait for the final proof" that Saddam Hussein's government is planning an imminent
For that reason and others, I didn't actually start reading the news coverage until this morning.
really just put Saddam in a better situation than he was before because the presence of inspectors invites complacency and
military action to counter the Soviet threat was not possible, because of their equal capacity to destroy us through
morally, that this is the right thing to do.
Falwell was a "mercenary and must be killed," the Farsi-language daily Abrar reported Saturday.
cause, but I,
a careful, precise argument, what point is there in engaging them verbally anymore?
news editors of Cannel 7 to allow, as the segment ended right there.
fact that these people are thugs, bullies and liars.
in words so much more exacting than even those who actually live in that time would be able to produce?
But it's not really fair to denigrate someone's ideas just because they themselves come from an organization riddled with
"A bunch of people died from terrorism over the weekend? Sure, that's awful, but we all knew this was going to happen
have democratically elected rulers I'm sure doesn't throw any flies into your ointment.
military action to counter the Soviet threat was not possible, because of their equal capacity to destroy us through
Finally, long after the fad has grown tiresome, everyone's attention turns to another scrap of dogma for the next decade.
Meanwhile, the fact that we are able to use pre-emptive action when deemed necessary is a fact of our strength, not weakness
I don't know about you people, but I'm already stocking up on extra food, water, and electrons.
To quote a boozed up, cynical and misanthropic individual whom I greatly admire: "Making fun of these people is like
"The lethal combination is when you exploit both people and technology," Mr Mitnick told BBC News Online.
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
Really, how often is someone able to so perfectly crystallize the dilemmas that will exist a century in the future
last update : 5-2-2012
