I was walking to a class I have in Dwinelle today. Coming through North Gate, as I live only one block above the top edge of campus, I usually walk by Memorial Glade, by Moffitt Library and then right next to California and Durant Halls.
Scribbled in white chalk, in 2 inch letters on the side of Durant Hall is a message that has been there for well over a year, appearing within a few days after 9/11: “The war on terrorism begins with the War on Imperialism.”
I must’ve walked by this irritating bit of non-thought about three hundred times now since I first saw it and thought to myself, “Typical.”
As a side note, it’s a telling testimonial to how much 4 years at Berkeley can give you a sort of desensitization to idiocy. It’s not that it bothered me yet I was still able to hold my anger in check. It’s that I wasn’t even annoyed. Whatever levels there were that registered the amount of offensive ignorance therein were purely cerebral zoo spunk. I remember when the city of Berkeley disallowed flags from flying on fire trucks, because it might make foreign students feel uncomfortable (yeah, I said “foreign.” Fuck “international.” “Foreign” isn’t pejorative in any way, but it’s considered insensitive merely on the off chance that it might be construed as such). It was then that it hit me: in another time and place, that might have really pissed me off. Completely aside from the fact that it is abjectly stupid, the suggestion that foreigners will somehow fear for their safety at the hands of the simplistic, bloodthirsty Americans if they see Old Glory flying on a firetruck shows a few illuminating things about the city goverment of Berkeley: 1) They have brains composed mainly of Kibble, 2) They think foreign students are as stupid as they, 3) They think that the public at large (not those UC sophisticates, of course, but the blue collar, racist, low-brow, neanderthal, Archie Bunker types, such as, oh, firemen and police) are just waiting for the slightest provocation to drag anyone with skin browner than theirs out of a car and beat him to death with a tire iron. If they really didn’t have this little ideological hobgoblin lurking in their multi-culti hive-mind, then they could have just politely informed any student expressing concerns about the American flag being displayed to kindly take two chill pills. And then a chill protein shake. Then maybe insert a chill I pet sex tales.V., and to top it off, a generous intramuscular shot of pure, relaxing chill. If that didn’t do the trick, perhaps some sort of Norplant-like device could be devised, that steadily releases chill into one’s system for a period of a few years. Because frankly, what do they have to be made uncomfortable about? If they can’t recognize that it’s a perfectly natural harmless act, in no way suggesting some kind of xenophobic hostility, to display an American flag after America has suffered the worst violent loss of life on its home soil in this century, then they can get stuffed. The really ironic thing is I’m pretty certain that about 99% of them did realize this, while the troglodytes on the city council didn’t.
Yet still, in the face of recognizing all this, I believe I just shrugged and thought, “Uh-huh. Next?” If Bill Bennet had been there, he’d've probably smacked me upside the head and demanded, “Where’s the outrage?”
Sorry Bill, I’d tell him, but outrage is an expensive emotion, and when you’re swimming in a sea of high-octane indignation fuel, you have to pick your moments to open your mouth or the fumes will go your head.
Or maybe I’d just fess up and say, yeah, you’re right, but I’m tired, consarnit first dog sex experience. Outrage can be a justifiably pleasing, cathartic experience when called up in the right doses and for the right reasons, but can you imagine catharting all over the place the live-long day? You’d either become exhausted (I’m lazy eoough as it is) or extremely bitter (and I’m already that… there’s nowhere left to go). So I acclimate myself to my surroundings. It doesn’t mean I condone or don’t recognize the wrongheadedness or ignorance or simple vehement anti-Americanism in the things that I see with depressing regularity, just that these particular windmills are going to have to do without my tilting for the time being. At least until I get my flame thrower. (Are you listening, Santa?)
Wasn’t I supposed to be going somewhere positive with this?
Oh, right gorilla beastiality.
So as I’m walking past that delightful scribbling on Durant Hall speaking out for the oppressed of the world, another student passed by, glanced at it, and visibly scoffed.
Not an earth-shattering moment, to be sure, but you learn to take what you can get around here. I have no idea what this guy thinks about almost everything under the sun, but I know that he recognizes stupidity at least of this particular stripe when he sees it. So that’s my positive moment for the day. Take it for what it’s worth.
So I hereby declare myself Ayatollah Mustardah of Blogistan. From this day forward, I will call down, on any IdiotarianAfter 3000 of your countrymen die in a couple hours, anything less than that is wont to be downplayed in significance
Yes, well I suppose you're suggesting that we would be well-served to wait for this "final proof," then? Very well. I'll
In your face, Space Coyote!
to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality.
the world to stomach the imperial scent of our newly enunciated military doctrine that proposes pre- emption of any powerful
Sorry folks, but slippery slope arguments don't hold water by themselves. We're going after Saddam because he 1) has shown
An insightful, well-written and quite simply excellent column somehow found its way in the SF Chronicle's website today.
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.
Hey, didn't there used to be a city where this smoking crater is?
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
But it's not really fair to denigrate someone's ideas just because they themselves come from an organization riddled with
to really concern yourself with, except in a somewhat general, theoretical way.
conflict.
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
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.
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
Well I'm far far far too petty a person to do that.
"What I found personally to be true was that it's easier to manipulate people rather than technology," he said.
being the reaction described above.
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
But anyway, right there you've got yourself eight nations total in the coalition, hailing from North America, both western
act such as this. In a few days or weeks, I'm sure it will subside to a colder, more focused resolution to continue to
The article also points to this site, which maintains a running clock of how long it will be until Mitnick can start
alternative economy." I suppose that's better PR than saying they want to impose a grab bag full of sociialistic silliness
without end is causing traditional friends of the United States to
conflict.
Whereas the Cold War doctrine of deterrence and containment rested on strength, the new idea of pre-emption insists on U.S.
I'll get a chance to ask why they've been glorifying images of Hamas murderers on their flyers.
over the heads of the world's nations as threat so that he can act willy-nilly in whatever new adventure captures his
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
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
the not-being-a-jerk department.
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
destroying the technological infrastructure of Western civilization again. And it's only 3 months away!
Replace "powerful" with "crazy and armed with nukes" and you'd be right. Otherwise, your statement is nonsense.
so that he will be better equipped to fulfill point 1). Show me another nation that's like that today.
Now at this point, most people would just say, "let it go, and move on."
No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this
that continues to characterize the US as the Great Satan and preach jihad against all things Western? Oh I know, the Muslim
of constant uncertainty and increased insecurity where almost anything could lead to war.
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
But anyway, right there you've got yourself eight nations total in the coalition, hailing from North America, both western
act such as this. In a few days or weeks, I'm sure it will subside to a colder, more focused resolution to continue to
superiority.
50 Ways to Leave Your Folly Common Dreams, that goldmine of general silliness, showcases this piece, The Folly of Pre-emptive
In theory, I was of course angry, but I had a vaguely detatched sense about the whole thing. A large part of that of
"Standing in the foyer of the Bounty Hotel, people were just walking in, blood dripping off them, burns to their face, skin
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
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."
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
In theory, I was of course angry, but I had a vaguely detatched sense about the whole thing. A large part of that of
University or Diversity
which is all about the biggest threat to the security of all companies: their own employees.
and that it wasn't fair for these people to stop them, the girl started literally screaming at her about selfish she was.
Hey, didn't there used to be a city where this smoking crater is?
a terrorist and an envoy of Iran's supreme leader reportedly called for his death.
You mean everyone in America aren't like San Franciscans?
to really concern yourself with, except in a somewhat general, theoretical way.
anger that is so justifiable -no, demanded- by these despicable acts, but if that must be the case, then from on, I'll be
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
Really, how often is someone able to so perfectly crystallize the dilemmas that will exist a century in the future
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
President Bush says he wants to avoid "a future of fear." It's an admirable goal, but one hardly served by this new doctrine.
Well I'm far far far too petty a person to do that.
And exactly how do you go from no "final proof" to there being no evidence of impending aggression? The very fact that
being the reaction described above.
Why are you still here?!
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
lying in order to gain information that gave him access to restricted systems.
hunting dairy cows with a high-powered rifle and scope."
act such as this. In a few days or weeks, I'm sure it will subside to a colder, more focused resolution to continue to
You try to make it seem as if the Joint Chiefs were lying around on a Sunday afternoon and said to themselves, "Yeah sure,
but they make up for any lack of actual existence with pure unadulterated enthusiasm.
without end is causing traditional friends of the United States to
During the last half of the 20th century, this principle was expanded internationally through the United Nations. The U.N.
Whereas the Cold War doctrine of deterrence and containment rested on strength, the new idea of pre-emption insists on U.S.
I finally went and did it.
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
of the mass moron movement.
I see. Did you talk to this "everyone" at your International Socialist Organization direct action planning seminar or
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
to elicit empathy had been raised considerably since 9/11,
on the civilized world. And when I resort again to that frame of mind, it will be because I realize, intellectually and
cutting-edge performance art group impersonating real anti-war folks, as the whole ordeal seemed to approach parody. No,
...but there's no shame in being a follower when those you're following make such damn good points.
only be revealed as more useless than it already seems), there is right now a coalition prepared to go into Iraq with the
Diversity. More than motherhood, it is the one unassailable concept these days. Open any teaching publication, and you will
Hesiod over at Counterspin Central is one such fellow. Not only with myself, but in his conversations with Den Beste,
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?
a representative of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was quoted as saying.
has been built up around Mitnick, a basically curious guy who just as often used old face-to-face (or voice-to-voice)
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without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism,
Many in the global community also distrust the Bush administration's expanding war aims. It is not easy for our friends around
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
owned," she pontificated, in that snotty "52% of my clothes are made of hemp which therefore makes me morally superior
United States invade a distant country without any evidence of impending aggression.
Well that's not really true. People on a different side of the debate than I are not necessarily jerks, just wrong.
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
Heh. Didn't Nostradamus write something about "a bespeckled plague rising in the West..."?
it is shoved, in all its detailed horror, right into my face.
so that he will be better equipped to fulfill point 1). Show me another nation that's like that today.
Now at this point, most people would just say, "let it go, and move on."
The book details the ways that employees can inadvertently leak information that can be exploited by hackers to compromise
she can last 6 hours). I make this declaration keeping in mind that this does not imply a judgement on the Idiotarian
psychopathic fancy without fear of retribution.
that boiled up to the surface when I read things like this.
If and when you find one, that means that I'll be perfectly willing to advocate an attack against them as well.
I see. Did you talk to this "everyone" at your International Socialist Organization direct action planning seminar or
rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.
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
Meanwhile, the fact that we are able to use pre-emptive action when deemed necessary is a fact of our strength, not weakness
has been built up around Mitnick, a basically curious guy who just as often used old face-to-face (or voice-to-voice)
During that protest, my girlfriend had to take a midterm in Wheeler auditorium and had to step over the bodies lying in
"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
Please. I can't swing around a dead Saddam on a rope without hitting this argument these days. At bottom, it's a slippery
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
A taste, just a taste...
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,
Bush also spoke of an "international coalition" that would disarm Hussein. Bush knows the American public is loathe to
If and when you find one, that means that I'll be perfectly willing to advocate an attack against them as well.
jerkwad I encounter, an order for them to be beheaded with extreme prejudice until the the point at which they are dead
fact that these people are thugs, bullies and liars.
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
I simply love it when my case is made for me.
side of the political spectrum... what are they called?
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,
the world to stomach the imperial scent of our newly enunciated military doctrine that proposes pre- emption of any powerful
both at home and abroad, can go heartily fuck themselves, or jump off a cliff, or shoot themselves in the head. I don't
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
that extended anger and sadness bring, or maybe even from just the fact that my threshold of human suffering sufficient
By tossing out any reasonable standards of evidence as a prerequisite for military action, the White House puts us in a state
Shiite Muslim clerics in Lebanon and Iran have reacted with rage at the Rev. Jerry Falwell for calling Islam's prophet
to make the first world poor and make sure the third world stays that way.
when you apply your own internal calculus of death and suffering and conclude that it isn't something that you need
I'm going to be checking the weather channel for reports of snowflakes in Hell, but meanwhile you should go read it now.
Eventually he got a little ticked off and said roughly, "Get away from me!" I was hungrily anticipating the energetic dissenter
Well, being the abject conformist that I am, I would like to welcome all new and oldcomers to my new blog, which will
morally, that this is the right thing to do.
and the decisions to do so would based on (as in this case) measured calculations of the relative benefits and costs,
Now of course I'm sure that these open-toed folks have a flurry of perfectly well thought-out reasons as to why pissing
information with your heads crammed so far up your asses, so I'll give you a pass.
jerkwad I encounter, an order for them to be beheaded with extreme prejudice until the the point at which they are dead
serves? As far as I can tell, all they did was take some people who were probably overwhelmingly against the war anyway,
the world to stomach the imperial scent of our newly enunciated military doctrine that proposes pre- emption of any powerful
Sorry folks, but slippery slope arguments don't hold water by themselves. We're going after Saddam because he 1) has shown
a representative of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was quoted as saying.
lying in order to gain information that gave him access to restricted systems.
The experience made me think of the instructions from all corners of the media after 9/11 that what we, as Americans,
Hey, didn't there used to be a city where this smoking crater is?
When they aired some actual interviews with the protesters, I started to honestly think they were part of some sort of
Replace "powerful" with "crazy and armed with nukes" and you'd be right. Otherwise, your statement is nonsense.
If and when you find one, that means that I'll be perfectly willing to advocate an attack against them as well.
Wheeler Hall last spring.
we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight
use grown-up scissors), but nevertheless, even though he really didn't deserve it,
Finally, long after the fad has grown tiresome, everyone's attention turns to another scrap of dogma for the next decade.
When I first heard about the bombing in Bali, my initial reaction was, "Another terrorist attack? Well, of course."
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.
But I am thankful that at least for now, I've been able to summon that deep-seated, personal wrath so appropriate to an
to penetrate.
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
that has the temerity to look at us cock-eyed.
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
However, several of the exchanges I have had have definately been with those you might describe as "challeneged" in
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
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
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 All Men Are Rapists self defense workshop? Surely that must be a representative sample of the country!
But I am thankful that at least for now, I've been able to summon that deep-seated, personal wrath so appropriate to an
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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to roost," those sniveling, carping appeasers,
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of righteousness; and it becomes a very evil thing if it serves merely as a mask for cowardice and
Whereas the Cold War doctrine of deterrence and containment rested on strength, the new idea of pre-emption insists on U.S.
the teacher trying to impress both of them.
I strongly suspect TR had access to some sort of time machine and traveled into the furture about a hundred years.
Replace "powerful" with "crazy and armed with nukes" and you'd be right. Otherwise, your statement is nonsense.
Kevin Mitnick will be able to use a computer again in approximately 3 months.
some of their cohorts are actually being held accountable by the university for their disruptive, illegal actions at
vaunted proof of yours. Then you could be really sure.
Hesiod over at Counterspin Central is one such fellow. Not only with myself, but in his conversations with Den Beste,
faith at large, since many of them are peaceful, albeit intellectually stunted, people.
Bush also spoke of an "international coalition" that would disarm Hussein. Bush knows the American public is loathe to
and the decisions to do so would based on (as in this case) measured calculations of the relative benefits and costs,
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
to penetrate.
about equal probability.
without end is causing traditional friends of the United States to
which is all about the biggest threat to the security of all companies: their own employees.
support (in the small, mostly insignificant ways that are possible for one such as myself)
You try to make it seem as if the Joint Chiefs were lying around on a Sunday afternoon and said to themselves, "Yeah sure,
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
It seems the Muslim version of a slander suit is cutting off your head. Now when I read this I was shocked, just shocked
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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without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism,
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!
After 3000 of your countrymen die in a couple hours, anything less than that is wont to be downplayed in significance
An insightful, well-written and quite simply excellent column somehow found its way in the SF Chronicle's website today.
computer systems.
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 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
curiosity that trumps any sort of legal resriction placed on him, but it's pretty much a foregone conclusion that he's
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
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to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality.
nuclear weapons. Containment was born out of a realization that we were effectively restrained by our lack of strategic
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.
weapons inspections in Iraq represent a good example of how the rule of law has been used, and can be used again, to avert
Whereas the Cold War doctrine of deterrence and containment rested on strength, the new idea of pre-emption insists on U.S.
I finally went and did it.
Either that, or I now have to admit the existence of clairvoyance.
I wish that I could just be told "Hundreds of people died in a terrorist bombing today," and instantly feel the kind of rage
to the San Francisco federal building to protest the passage of Bush's resolution for action against Iraq.
I see. Did you talk to this "everyone" at your International Socialist Organization direct action planning seminar or
anger that is so justifiable -no, demanded- by these despicable acts, but if that must be the case, then from on, I'll be
Containment and deterrence were responses to US weakness, you silly-headed dunderpate. It was obvious that using direct
just now. Admittedly they do face significant challenges in carrying out their duties due to their imaginary nature,
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.
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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 eastern Europe, Australia and the middle east. Is that not multilateralism?
the efforts to find these people and eradicate them, to ferret them out from their cowardly hiding places and vaporize
The article also points to this site, which maintains a running clock of how long it will be until Mitnick can start
to make the first world poor and make sure the third world stays that way.
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.
chanting in his face and moved in front of him every time he tried to get around her.
Do you mean the Muslim world that celebrated 9/11, saying the US deserved it all along? Or perhaps you mean the Muslim world
on the civilized world. And when I resort again to that frame of mind, it will be because I realize, intellectually and
curiosity that trumps any sort of legal resriction placed on him, but it's pretty much a foregone conclusion that he's
Such as this quote by Teddy Roosevelt concerning his acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize, posted now
US: Italy, Australia, Poland, Spain, Qatar, Kuwait and, of course, Britain. I know it's hard to find out this kind of
Now at this point, most people would just say, "let it go, and move on."
Those people are especially useful when they have access to the core computer systems that hackers would otherwise struggle
being the reaction described above.
way why we're doing all of this, and why, if they still choose to berate us about "root causes" and "birds coming home
the Feds know about it.
coming off them. It was really a terrible sight," she said. "You could just hear people crying up in the Bounty foyer -
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.
"I said it's being taken care of, dammit. Mind your own business."
a terrorist and an envoy of Iran's supreme leader reportedly called for his death.
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
Don't worry, I'll sit here with my rifle ready to take out any airborne porcines, should they come flying by.
"What I found personally to be true was that it's easier to manipulate people rather than technology," he said.
That is, until this morning. Now I'm glad to say that I've gotten over getting over it, and am thoroughly pissed again.
way why we're doing all of this, and why, if they still choose to berate us about "root causes" and "birds coming home
the Feds know about it.
United States invade a distant country without any evidence of impending aggression.
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
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
Watching Channel 7 news today (the Simpsons were in a commercial), they reported on a wad of dingbats who blocked access
, "I don't believe the American people support this war. Everyone I've talked to is against it!"
weapons inspections in Iraq represent a good example of how the rule of law has been used, and can be used again, to avert
the not-being-a-jerk department.
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
Falwell was a "mercenary and must be killed," the Farsi-language daily Abrar reported Saturday.
off a bunch of secretaries and other office workers who probably agree with them on the war anyway will further their
For that reason and others, I didn't actually start reading the news coverage until this morning.
But I am thankful that at least for now, I've been able to summon that deep-seated, personal wrath so appropriate to an
nuclear weapons. Containment was born out of a realization that we were effectively restrained by our lack of strategic
Why are you still here?!
course grew out of the experience of 9/11.
that I hadn't thought of it first!
Mr Mitnick even had to get permission from his probation officer to use a computer to write his book, The Art Of Deception,
that extended anger and sadness bring, or maybe even from just the fact that my threshold of human suffering sufficient
the efforts to find these people and eradicate them, to ferret them out from their cowardly hiding places and vaporize
You try to make it seem as if the Joint Chiefs were lying around on a Sunday afternoon and said to themselves, "Yeah sure,
agree that [insert additional badly-forced car metaphor here]!
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.
we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight
that continues to characterize the US as the Great Satan and preach jihad against all things Western? Oh I know, the Muslim
just now. Admittedly they do face significant challenges in carrying out their duties due to their imaginary nature,
lap dance.
So seeing as how we've got massive approval from the House of Representatives and similar support in the senate is likely,
side of the political spectrum... what are they called?
find testimonials to diversity. Flip through any recent social sciences or humanities textbook and diversity pops up with
to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality.
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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to all of you warmongering neanderthals" tone of voice. She then struck a pose of righteous exasperation when she asked
threaten the United States, he said we must "assume the worst." Essentially, the White House is proposing that the
vulnerability.
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
Iranian cleric Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari, addressing weekly Friday prayers in the northwestern town of Tabriz, said
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