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Go, Gore! Go!
A washington Post article tries to put the best face on a possible “Gore in ‘04!” bid. Ugh. I can already hear the annoying chants. But aside from that, I welcome the old android, in all his inhuman ugliness, back into the presidential political arena. That way, we can all feel even more secure in a Bush win and a second term for the War on Terror.
By the tenor of the WaPo article though, they seem to be saying, “Well, he doesn’t seem to have much of a chance, but we can hope, can’t we?”
Nobody should mistake west Los Angeles for the rest of America, but the long lines outside Brentano’s bookstore here Tuesday night offered a sharp counterpoint to the inside-the-Beltway notion that Al Gore has few friends left in the Democratic Party.
Hundreds of people, some wearing “Reelect Gore in 2004″ buttons, showed up to see the former vice president and his wife, Tipper, who were signing copies of their newly published books horse cum movie sites. Such well-wishers represent the building blocks of Gore’s strategy for a possible 2004 comeback.
OK, so no one should be making the mistake you just did right now, in the same sentence you mentioned not making it.
“Hundreds” of people at a no-doubt widely publicized book-signing does not constitute broad-based support for a presidential run. You could publicize a book signing by Lyndon LaRouche and get a few hundred of his die-hard fans to come out of the woodwork, especially if you held it in Los Angeles. You’d find an unusually high proportion of former (and most likely current) mental patients among them as well, but we’re talking bodies here, not quality of minds.
The thing that’s really irritating in the rhetorical thrust of this article’s opener is the way it suggests that AL Gore has been sold out by the out-of-touch “inside-the-beltway” party elitists, while the honest, genuine folk who are out here in Los Angeles keepin’ it real haven’t thrown away their Gore-Lieberman campaign buttons just yet. In reality, those couple hundred aren’t the rank and file girl and dog sex. They’re the die-hards, the kooks, the kind of people that make most people, Dem or Republican, slightly uncomfortable with their fervor and devotion to a man who should’ve lost, did lose, and then made it clear to everyone in the country why it was better that he didn’t become president.
I humbly submit Exhibit A:
“We were here for four hours,” said Mary Stewart, a real estate agent who came to the shopping mall with her husband, Steve, and daughter Laura. “We would wait 14 hours to meet Al Gore. We love him.”
Now, I think it’s pretty clear who would’ve made the better president at this point, but that’s something that reasonable people can still disagree on. But love?
Honestly now, no matter if you’re the most rabidly partisan, attack dog card-carrying member of the Donks, if Al Gore inspires love in you then I suggest you lie down for a minute and think real hard about what it is you’re saying. Even if you hold a favorable political view of the man, saying you “love” him is like saying “God, I just love this corrugated sheet metal! Really, I goddamn love it! women and horses sex story.”
Now, there are perfectly good reasons to prefer sheet metal over other materials when you have a certain job to do. It’s cheap, it’s effective, it’s easy to work with, it does what it says it will do (incidentally, these are almost all qualities in which Gore is severely lacking, but what the hell, we’re being hypothetical), so you could say something like “Yup, that sheet metal sure is not-so-bad stuff, I tell ya whut.”
But start to profess your undying devotion to the stuff in the way Mrs. Stewart did, and you’ll get quite a few people lookin’ at you sorta queer-like, and rightly so. Maybe this is just my intense personal dislike for the man showing through, but anyone tells me they “just love” Al Gore, and I try to not make eye-contact or any sudden moves while backing away slowly.
Although a formal decision is still weeks away, the outlines of a Gore 2004 campaign are clear, and they represent a sharp departure from the route he followed in 2000. Not only would Gore try to reinvent himself by being bolder, looser and less programmed gay beastiality experiences…
Oh wonderful. This would make, what, 5673 personal reinventions thus far? Or have we hit 6000 by now? I’ll have to send away to NASA on that one.
Someone should tell Gore, or input it directly into his user-interface, that the problem isn’t that he wasn’t allowed to be “the real Gore” enough. That self-created personal crutch of myth has to be brought down right now. The problem wasn’t him hiding his personality, the problem was his personality, in all its dishonest, arrogant, petulant glory female pig fucking.
All those sounds he made during the debate hat made it seem like he was either constipated or had blown an exhaust valve somewhere… did thse mean old campaign advisors that wouldn’t let Gore be Gore and kept him from “really letting ‘er rip” as Gore whined in a pathetic piece of post-election spin, tell him to act so that the entire nation thought he was a spoiled, bratty teenager who was sure that he was smarter than everyone else?
Gore often complained in 2000 of being encumbered by the trappings of office — the big blue-and-white Air Force Two that carried him from city to city; the long motorcades that tied up traffic and weighed down his movements; the security that often kept him away from ordinary voters. Now, he will get the chance to prove he can do better without them.
Yeah, good luck with that. Lemme know how it works out.
to elicit empathy had been raised considerably since 9/11,"What I found personally to be true was that it's easier to manipulate people rather than technology," he said.
I figured that was the way to go. But then I read this.
In theory, I was of course angry, but I had a vaguely detatched sense about the whole thing. A large part of that of
lying in order to gain information that gave him access to restricted systems.
satisfy you. I'd be much more amendable to the idea however if you were willing to be a personal eye-witness to this
the teacher trying to impress both of them.
the world to stomach the imperial scent of our newly enunciated military doctrine that proposes pre- emption of any powerful
One middle-aged woman who looked like she hadn't combed her hair since Jerry Garcia died had this to say, when asked
of fist.
rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.
faith at large, since many of them are peaceful, albeit intellectually stunted, people.
about equal probability.
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information with your heads crammed so far up your asses, so I'll give you a pass.
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
morally, that this is the right thing to do.
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
that I hadn't thought of it first!
again soon, didn't we?"
Those people are especially useful when they have access to the core computer systems that hackers would otherwise struggle
of constant uncertainty and increased insecurity where almost anything could lead to war.
agree that [insert additional badly-forced car metaphor here]!
University or Diversity
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
Please. I can't swing around a dead Saddam on a rope without hitting this argument these days. At bottom, it's a slippery
agree that [insert additional badly-forced car metaphor here]!
coming off them. It was really a terrible sight," she said. "You could just hear people crying up in the Bounty foyer -
hunting dairy cows with a high-powered rifle and scope."
world that even today harbors and offers succor to the same groups that piloted the 9/11 planes, right?
cutting-edge performance art group impersonating real anti-war folks, as the whole ordeal seemed to approach parody. No,
so that he will be better equipped to fulfill point 1). Show me another nation that's like that today.
of righteousness; and it becomes a very evil thing if it serves merely as a mask for cowardice and
jerkwad I encounter, an order for them to be beheaded with extreme prejudice until the the point at which they are dead
world that even today harbors and offers succor to the same groups that piloted the 9/11 planes, right?
curiosity that trumps any sort of legal resriction placed on him, but it's pretty much a foregone conclusion that he's
of the mass moron movement.
Mr Mitnick even had to get permission from his probation officer to use a computer to write his book, The Art Of Deception,
the efforts to find these people and eradicate them, to ferret them out from their cowardly hiding places and vaporize
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,
Falwell was a "mercenary and must be killed," the Farsi-language daily Abrar reported Saturday.
only be revealed as more useless than it already seems), there is right now a coalition prepared to go into Iraq with the
chanting in his face and moved in front of him every time he tried to get around her.
the efforts to find these people and eradicate them, to ferret them out from their cowardly hiding places and vaporize
Many in the global community also distrust the Bush administration's expanding war aims. It is not easy for our friends around
the Feds know about it.
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
we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight
the teacher trying to impress both of them.
the world to stomach the imperial scent of our newly enunciated military doctrine that proposes pre- emption of any powerful
why she thought there weren't more stories about protests going on in the news, "Well, because the media is corporately
off a bunch of secretaries and other office workers who probably agree with them on the war anyway will further their
have democratically elected rulers I'm sure doesn't throw any flies into your ointment.
Hesiod over at Counterspin Central is one such fellow. Not only with myself, but in his conversations with Den Beste,
Finally, long after the fad has grown tiresome, everyone's attention turns to another scrap of dogma for the next decade.
One middle-aged woman who looked like she hadn't combed her hair since Jerry Garcia died had this to say, when asked
So seeing as how we've got massive approval from the House of Representatives and similar support in the senate is likely,
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
For that reason and others, I didn't actually start reading the news coverage until this morning.
Hey, didn't there used to be a city where this smoking crater is?
The article also points to this site, which maintains a running clock of how long it will be until Mitnick can start
it is shoved, in all its detailed horror, right into my face.
Watching Channel 7 news today (the Simpsons were in a commercial), they reported on a wad of dingbats who blocked access
Wheeler Hall last spring.
anger that is so justifiable -no, demanded- by these despicable acts, but if that must be the case, then from on, I'll be
Hesiod over at Counterspin Central is one such fellow. Not only with myself, but in his conversations with Den Beste,
something-really-awfuls, BlogSpot.
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
why she thought there weren't more stories about protests going on in the news, "Well, because the media is corporately
coming off them. It was really a terrible sight," she said. "You could just hear people crying up in the Bounty foyer -
President Bush says he wants to avoid "a future of fear." It's an admirable goal, but one hardly served by this new doctrine.
find testimonials to diversity. Flip through any recent social sciences or humanities textbook and diversity pops up with
that off my list of things to do. Now, on to learning how to square-dance."
of a lack of imagination or basic humanity; the fact that it's difficult for me to feel deeply for people suffering unless
nothing may stand in our way!
some of their cohorts are actually being held accountable by the university for their disruptive, illegal actions at
I guess not. The fact that the UN is anything but democratic since the vast majority of countries represented there do not
computer systems.
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 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
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
attack against the United States. Even though President Bush acknowledged in his speech that Iraq does not currently
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
jerkwad I encounter, an order for them to be beheaded with extreme prejudice until the the point at which they are dead
"to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality"?
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
nothing may stand in our way!
join the majority of the world's nations in distancing themselves from Washington in a fashion not seen since the Vietnam War.
I'm going to be checking the weather channel for reports of snowflakes in Hell, but meanwhile you should go read it now.
computer systems.
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
not just "fear," as if we're going to indiscriminantly nuke the floor under our beds because monsters might be hiding there.
I don't know about you people, but I'm already stocking up on extra food, water, and electrons.
"A bunch of people died from terrorism over the weekend? Sure, that's awful, but we all knew this was going to happen
And at most, UN weapons inspectors have delayed conflict by a few years, not averted it. In actualyity, I think they have
Now could someone please tell me what concrete purpose that woman's behavior, and that of her great chanting unwashed bretheren,
That is, until this morning. Now I'm glad to say that I've gotten over getting over it, and am thoroughly pissed again.
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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
coming off them. It was really a terrible sight," she said. "You could just hear people crying up in the Bounty foyer -
The book details the ways that employees can inadvertently leak information that can be exploited by hackers to compromise
to elicit empathy had been raised considerably since 9/11,
one of the most fad-driven enterprises imaginable. It produces a new catechism each decade, which everyone dutifully recites.
"approach parody" is too mild. They sprinted towards parody, jumped on top of it and proceded to give parody a spirited
democratically decided laws - - not the capriciousness of individual rulers -- should govern human affairs.
off a bunch of secretaries and other office workers who probably agree with them on the war anyway will further their
The experience made me think of the instructions from all corners of the media after 9/11 that what we, as Americans,
really just put Saddam in a better situation than he was before because the presence of inspectors invites complacency and
to penetrate.
of a lack of imagination or basic humanity; the fact that it's difficult for me to feel deeply for people suffering unless
Sorry folks, but slippery slope arguments don't hold water by themselves. We're going after Saddam because he 1) has shown
I'm going to be checking the weather channel for reports of snowflakes in Hell, but meanwhile you should go read it now.
sloth, or as an instrument to further the ends of despotism or anarchy.
The Muslim world -- whose support is vital to any real effort to end the causes of terrorism -- is adamantly opposed.
If a good education is meant to produce independent thinkers, I've seen precious little evidence it does. Education is
go it alone. What he failed to do was tell us who the members of his war coalition are. Why? Because there is no coalition.
that boiled up to the surface when I read things like this.
off a bunch of secretaries and other office workers who probably agree with them on the war anyway will further their
again soon, didn't we?"
predictable frequency. Follow a politician to a school photo-op,
serves? As far as I can tell, all they did was take some people who were probably overwhelmingly against the war anyway,
Many in the global community also distrust the Bush administration's expanding war aims. It is not easy for our friends around
nothing may stand in our way!
to all of you warmongering neanderthals" tone of voice. She then struck a pose of righteous exasperation when she asked
obviously they have lost loved ones or friends."
the not-being-a-jerk department.
Well, being the abject conformist that I am, I would like to welcome all new and oldcomers to my new blog, which will
I strongly suspect TR had access to some sort of time machine and traveled into the furture about a hundred years.
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
What it does not mean however, is that this suddenly signals that we are going to be going after China, Saudi Arabia, Cuba
the way. Apparently that wasn't enough for the however, because they then started pulling at her legs to keep her from
But I am thankful that at least for now, I've been able to summon that deep-seated, personal wrath so appropriate to an
military action to counter the Soviet threat was not possible, because of their equal capacity to destroy us through
fact that these people are thugs, bullies and liars.
both at home and abroad, can go heartily fuck themselves, or jump off a cliff, or shoot themselves in the head. I don't
owned," she pontificated, in that snotty "52% of my clothes are made of hemp which therefore makes me morally superior
weapons inspections in Iraq represent a good example of how the rule of law has been used, and can be used again, to avert
Well that's not really true. People on a different side of the debate than I are not necessarily jerks, just wrong.
I finally went and did it.
on the civilized world. And when I resort again to that frame of mind, it will be because I realize, intellectually and
hacky-sack?"
agree that [insert additional badly-forced car metaphor here]!
or any other simply crappy country in the world, because none of them satisfy both those propositions.
Well I'm far far far too petty a person to do that.
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
I tried to present my ideas in an honest and truthful way, and not be seriously offensive, even when he acted in ways
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.
coming off them. It was really a terrible sight," she said. "You could just hear people crying up in the Bounty foyer -
you could see stink lines of self-satisfaction coming off her so that he could simply get to his job. She of course started
The Muslim world -- whose support is vital to any real effort to end the causes of terrorism -- is adamantly opposed.
she can last 6 hours). I make this declaration keeping in mind that this does not imply a judgement on the Idiotarian
Heh. Didn't Nostradamus write something about "a bespeckled plague rising in the West..."?
that boiled up to the surface when I read things like this.
off a bunch of secretaries and other office workers who probably agree with them on the war anyway will further their
To quote a boozed up, cynical and misanthropic individual whom I greatly admire: "Making fun of these people is like
really just put Saddam in a better situation than he was before because the presence of inspectors invites complacency and
serves? As far as I can tell, all they did was take some people who were probably overwhelmingly against the war anyway,
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that has the temerity to look at us cock-eyed.
and the UC Divestment folks will be holding a rally for what looks like the primary purpose of protesting the fact that
anger that is so justifiable -no, demanded- by these despicable acts, but if that must be the case, then from on, I'll be
Whereas the Cold War doctrine of deterrence and containment rested on strength, the new idea of pre-emption insists on U.S.
Well, being the abject conformist that I am, I would like to welcome all new and oldcomers to my new blog, which will
When they aired some actual interviews with the protesters, I started to honestly think they were part of some sort of
But it's not really fair to denigrate someone's ideas just because they themselves come from an organization riddled with
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.
No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this
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.
When I first heard about the bombing in Bali, my initial reaction was, "Another terrorist attack? Well, of course."
So seeing as how we've got massive approval from the House of Representatives and similar support in the senate is likely,
Mr Mitnick even had to get permission from his probation officer to use a computer to write his book, The Art Of Deception,
And perhaps because of the collective weight of all those accumulated exhortations, perhaps from the psychic weariness
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
over the heads of the world's nations as threat so that he can act willy-nilly in whatever new adventure captures his
it is shoved, in all its detailed horror, right into my face.
The BBC has a story about the so-called "master hacker", in which it does a good job of destroying the mythos that
I see. Did you talk to this "everyone" at your International Socialist Organization direct action planning seminar or
I guess not. The fact that the UN is anything but democratic since the vast majority of countries represented there do not
news editors of Cannel 7 to allow, as the segment ended right there.
Many in the global community also distrust the Bush administration's expanding war aims. It is not easy for our friends around
Please. I can't swing around a dead Saddam on a rope without hitting this argument these days. At bottom, it's a slippery
why she thought there weren't more stories about protests going on in the news, "Well, because the media is corporately
by both Instapundit and Cold Fury (and probably by sundry others by now):
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.
over the heads of the world's nations as threat so that he can act willy-nilly in whatever new adventure captures his
Shiite Muslim clerics in Lebanon and Iran have reacted with rage at the Rev. Jerry Falwell for calling Islam's prophet
Sure, it'd be nice to be a leader...
or any other simply crappy country in the world, because none of them satisfy both those propositions.
Well I'm far far far too petty a person to do that.
No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this
I tried to present my ideas in an honest and truthful way, and not be seriously offensive, even when he acted in ways
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.
So seeing as how we've got massive approval from the House of Representatives and similar support in the senate is likely,
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
And perhaps because of the collective weight of all those accumulated exhortations, perhaps from the psychic weariness
that off my list of things to do. Now, on to learning how to square-dance."
I figured that was the way to go. But then I read this.
be harried by idiots who have full compliments of heads and genitals! With the ranks of my imaginary gnomes rallied,
join the majority of the world's nations in distancing themselves from Washington in a fashion not seen since the Vietnam War.
I'm going to be checking the weather channel for reports of snowflakes in Hell, but meanwhile you should go read it now.
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
Do you mean the Muslim world that celebrated 9/11, saying the US deserved it all along? Or perhaps you mean the Muslim world
In your face, Space Coyote!
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
Heh. Didn't Nostradamus write something about "a bespeckled plague rising in the West..."?
I simply love it when my case is made for me.
What it does not mean however, is that this suddenly signals that we are going to be going after China, Saudi Arabia, Cuba
To quote a boozed up, cynical and misanthropic individual whom I greatly admire: "Making fun of these people is like
she can last 6 hours). I make this declaration keeping in mind that this does not imply a judgement on the Idiotarian
Shiite Muslim clerics in Lebanon and Iran have reacted with rage at the Rev. Jerry Falwell for calling Islam's prophet
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
to really concern yourself with, except in a somewhat general, theoretical way.
An insightful, well-written and quite simply excellent column somehow found its way in the SF Chronicle's website today.
computer systems.
that continues to characterize the US as the Great Satan and preach jihad against all things Western? Oh I know, the Muslim
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
lap dance.
"Standing in the foyer of the Bounty Hotel, people were just walking in, blood dripping off them, burns to their face, skin
cause, but I,
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assures everyone that "Don't worry, the problem is being taking care of by the inspectors."
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
You mean everyone in America aren't like San Franciscans?
Don't you people ever get tired of just pulling shit out of your asses?
I'm going to be checking the weather channel for reports of snowflakes in Hell, but meanwhile you should go read it now.
computer systems.
that extended anger and sadness bring, or maybe even from just the fact that my threshold of human suffering sufficient
Finally, long after the fad has grown tiresome, everyone's attention turns to another scrap of dogma for the next decade.
Bush also spoke of an "international coalition" that would disarm Hussein. Bush knows the American public is loathe to
I simply love it when my case is made for me.
cause, but I,
hunting dairy cows with a high-powered rifle and scope."
really just put Saddam in a better situation than he was before because the presence of inspectors invites complacency and
and make them wish that congress had instead passed a resolution authorizing military force against people
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
he is willing to act aggressively and recklessly and cannot be reasonably deterred and 2) is working to get and use nukes
looks like a green light, no?
In fact, the idea of pre- emptive attack depends on fear. It presupposes insecurity and assumes we will always be threatened.
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
Saddam will use these nukes when he gets them, whether that use takes the form of vaporizing a city or merely being hung
of a lack of imagination or basic humanity; the fact that it's difficult for me to feel deeply for people suffering unless
nothing may stand in our way!
I see. Did you talk to this "everyone" at your International Socialist Organization direct action planning seminar or
have democratically elected rulers I'm sure doesn't throw any flies into your ointment.
news editors of Cannel 7 to allow, as the segment ended right there.
50 Ways to Leave Your Folly Common Dreams, that goldmine of general silliness, showcases this piece, The Folly of Pre-emptive
slope proposition, claiming that because we go after Saddam, we'll suddenly be all aggro-ed up to obliterate any country
and the decisions to do so would based on (as in this case) measured calculations of the relative benefits and costs,
threaten the United States, he said we must "assume the worst." Essentially, the White House is proposing that the
Well that's not really true. People on a different side of the debate than I are not necessarily jerks, just wrong.
jerkwad I encounter, an order for them to be beheaded with extreme prejudice until the the point at which they are dead
and make them wish that congress had instead passed a resolution authorizing military force against people
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
An insightful, well-written and quite simply excellent column somehow found its way in the SF Chronicle's website today.
sloth, or as an instrument to further the ends of despotism or anarchy.
the not-being-a-jerk department.
If a good education is meant to produce independent thinkers, I've seen precious little evidence it does. Education is
Bush also spoke of an "international coalition" that would disarm Hussein. Bush knows the American public is loathe to
democratically decided laws - - not the capriciousness of individual rulers -- should govern human affairs.
has been built up around Mitnick, a basically curious guy who just as often used old face-to-face (or voice-to-voice)
again soon, didn't we?"
really just put Saddam in a better situation than he was before because the presence of inspectors invites complacency and
Those people are especially useful when they have access to the core computer systems that hackers would otherwise struggle
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,
that has the temerity to look at us cock-eyed.
to all of you warmongering neanderthals" tone of voice. She then struck a pose of righteous exasperation when she asked
weapons inspections in Iraq represent a good example of how the rule of law has been used, and can be used again, to avert
However, several of the exchanges I have had have definately been with those you might describe as "challeneged" in
I'll get a chance to ask why they've been glorifying images of Hamas murderers on their flyers.
Either that, or I now have to admit the existence of clairvoyance.
Meanwhile, the fact that we are able to use pre-emptive action when deemed necessary is a fact of our strength, not weakness
Such as this quote by Teddy Roosevelt concerning his acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize, posted now
During that protest, my girlfriend had to take a midterm in Wheeler auditorium and had to step over the bodies lying in
And exactly how do you go from no "final proof" to there being no evidence of impending aggression? The very fact that
nuclear weapons. Containment was born out of a realization that we were effectively restrained by our lack of strategic
something-really-awfuls, BlogSpot.
Quite the contrary, Bush's aggressive rhetoric, disregard for international law, and his lack of any vision other than war
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cause, but I,
And perhaps because of the collective weight of all those accumulated exhortations, perhaps from the psychic weariness
assures everyone that "Don't worry, the problem is being taking care of by the inspectors."
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."
it is shoved, in all its detailed horror, right into my face.
of the mass moron movement.
I see. Did you talk to this "everyone" at your International Socialist Organization direct action planning seminar or
satisfy you. I'd be much more amendable to the idea however if you were willing to be a personal eye-witness to this
military action to counter the Soviet threat was not possible, because of their equal capacity to destroy us through
one of the most fad-driven enterprises imaginable. It produces a new catechism each decade, which everyone dutifully recites.
When I first heard about the bombing in Bali, my initial reaction was, "Another terrorist attack? Well, of course."
occurred, smashing the window of their hotel room.
cause, but I,
But anyway, right there you've got yourself eight nations total in the coalition, hailing from North America, both western
support (in the small, mostly insignificant ways that are possible for one such as myself)
to penetrate.
alternative economy." I suppose that's better PR than saying they want to impose a grab bag full of sociialistic silliness
he is willing to act aggressively and recklessly and cannot be reasonably deterred and 2) is working to get and use nukes
Wheeler Hall last spring.
I guess not. The fact that the UN is anything but democratic since the vast majority of countries represented there do not
You must be triple jointed to be able to twist words like that.
something-really-awfuls, BlogSpot.
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
Meanwhile, the fact that we are able to use pre-emptive action when deemed necessary is a fact of our strength, not weakness
attack against the United States. Even though President Bush acknowledged in his speech that Iraq does not currently
information with your heads crammed so far up your asses, so I'll give you a pass.
(or to have their genitalia eviscerated by a rabid Rosie O'Donnell
that off my list of things to do. Now, on to learning how to square-dance."
of a lack of imagination or basic humanity; the fact that it's difficult for me to feel deeply for people suffering unless
nothing may stand in our way!
Already, even if the UN thumbs its irrelevant nose at the idea of going after Iraq (and if it actually does, then they'll
anger that is so justifiable -no, demanded- by these despicable acts, but if that must be the case, then from on, I'll be
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 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
last update : 7-2-2012
