OK, so everyone knows if you’re mining the newswires for some tidbit of sillyheaded leftist tripe, the latest extreme-PC inanity or just something that you want to angry up the blood, typing in “Berkeley” as your search query is a pretty safe bet, almost as consistently productive as inputing “Michael Moore” when looking for news on fat lying sacks of crap.
But even Berkeley sometimes manages, in spite of itself, to do something that wouldn’t make Loki rub his hands manicially while mumbling, “Yes, yes, it’s all going according to plan!”
Measure O was one of those things. An earnest, enthusiastic but softheaded type wished to make it a crime, punishable by up to six months in jail, to sell any kind of brewed coffee within the city limits that wasn’t organic or Fair Trade certified. Now I’m not going to extensively go into the entire organics/Fair Trade debate here. That’s a lengthy post for another day, but it’s enough to know right now that I abhor organic food (partially because I’m already forced to eat it - more on that in a moment).
However, in the case of Measure O, sanity somehow clawed her way out of the catacombs to which the city of Berkeley so often confines her and her sweet face beamed upon the world.
On election day, Measure O was defeated by a 40% margin. Berkeley did the right thing. Somewhere in Hell, Hitler looked up and silently watched a snowflake dance its merry way to the ground K9 dog sex fantasies. Everywhere, dogs and cats came together in the spirit of brotherhood and harmony. Baby Jeebus rejoiced.
Well, the Berkeley co-ops are to Berkeley as Berkeley is to the rest of the nation. Often, their membership consists of the self-selected hardcores, those who are too stupid to tell the difference between cooperativism and communism, the kinds of people who think that living in an apartment and contributing to a capitalistic transaction would be tantamount to chucking books on the fire at Nuremburg.
I might be exaggerating just a tad, but the general tenor of what I said is true. You’ve got Berkeley, and then you’ve got the freebased Berkeley that is much of the USCA: purified, concentrated… hell, practically turned into a fine powder and weaponized girl doing sex with dog.
To be sure, that isn’t true of the entire membership. You’ve got poor people who just can’t afford apartments, those too lazy to go through the process of looking for another place to live, kids who couldn’t find one because the housing crunch just doesn’t leave any open spots anywhere, and folks who would just rather live in a more social atmosphere. I fit in at least a lttle bit with all of those.
I see my co-op, and the co-op movement in general, as a useful and practical business model for people without a lot of resources. You find some like-minded fellow people, and you pool your resources to further whatever goal you’re aiming for. In this case, it’s low-cost student housing. You’d be amazed though how many people in Che shirts and steeped in the “philosophy” of Rage Against the Machine think they’re smashing capitalism by living here.
Riiiiiight.
These types are often just absolutely devastated when they learn that the USCA is an honest to God corporation farm sex story.
So while you do have your share of normals (hell, in CZ alone there’s like 5 libertarians… do they count as normals?), there is an undeniably significant component of extremist lefty types: unrepetant Marxists, anarchists, eco-freaks etc), and when Berkeley does someting sensible like hand Measure O its ass, you can often count on the co-ops to pick up the Stupid Torch right where Berkeley dropped it.
If they can’t make Berkeley buy the economically unsustainable coffee they want them to, at least the co-ops will!
Living in CZ, I’m already forced to eat almost exclusively organic produce. which is often inferior tasting, always expensive and occasionally sprinkled with delightful “prizes” (ie, bugs). The fact that it’s actually worse for the environment and your health, and that the only real reason I’m forced to put up with this shit is because it makes some poorly-informed people with guilt-complexes feel all fuzzy about themselves inside since they’re under the mistaken impression that going organic is like giving the Earth Mother a great big hug really really gets my goat.
Right now, the co-op Board of Directors meeting is going on, and they have probably already voted to make this part of official co-op policy. So not only will I be paying extra money for food to help some silly college kids give a blowjob to Captain Planet, but I’ll also be subsidizing an economically and enviromentally fallacious procedure of coffee buying big dog sex.
This was a quote I particularly enjoyed from the Daily Cal article:
“It’s a debate right now as to what’s more important, the individual’s right to choose or that we’ve already committed ourselves to certain principles by being part of a cooperative,” de Giere said.
That’s right you putz. Let’s take a gander at what those principles actually are:
The ROCHDALE COOPERATIVE PRINCIPLES are as follows:
1.Open, voluntary membership
2. Democratic control
3. Limited return on equity capital
4. Net surpluses belong to user-owners
5. Honest business practices
6. Ultimate aim to advance common good
7 dog cum fantasy. Education
8. Cooperation among cooperatives
Hmmm, I guess I missed the part about silly environmental practices and poorly thought out social justice schemes.
This really would surprise no one who spent any time in the co-ops, seeing as how anyone seeking to advance some whacked-out political cause will immediately claim that we have to support it because it’s part of our mission as a co-op.
Want to create a house policy to let whatever bums in off the street sleep on our couches? It’s a co-op man! Not letting bums in isn’t being very co-operative, dude.
Wanna donate house money to some guy who hasn’t washed his hair since Woodstock to further his political cause of delcaring all property illegal? I don’t think we have a choice. What kind of a co-op would we be if we didn’t?
What say we invite some fifth-column socialists to sleep in our common area for free while they’re attending some dumbass anti-everything-but-hemp rallies? We’d like, be violating our co-op principles if we didn’t!
We had this very conversation in our weekly house council around November 2001, when some dirty peace hippies wanted to sleep at CZ for the weekend so they could go make idiot spectacles of themselves during the day protesting those darned wars for oil and multiple genocides that the US commits every other Tuesday. I calmly pointed out that there was absolutely nothing in the Rochdale Principles that had anything to do with social or political causes, and to subsidize such causes is an unfair use of house funds contributed by the entire membership.
They voted to let them stay, of course.
Like so many other things in Berkeley, you have to just sorta shrug and say, “Typical.”
Posted by Mean Mr. Mustard at 09:37 AM | Comments (0)Another Australian tourist, 18-year-old Rachel Hughes, said she and her boyfriend had just arrived in Kuta when the blast
And exactly how do you go from no "final proof" to there being no evidence of impending aggression? The very fact that
way why we're doing all of this, and why, if they still choose to berate us about "root causes" and "birds coming home
coming off them. It was really a terrible sight," she said. "You could just hear people crying up in the Bounty foyer -
that extended anger and sadness bring, or maybe even from just the fact that my threshold of human suffering sufficient
The fact that this is being published in the Chronicle is no small feat. Even more reason for you to go read it.
so that he will be better equipped to fulfill point 1). Show me another nation that's like that today.
the All Men Are Rapists self defense workshop? Surely that must be a representative sample of the country!
Hey, didn't there used to be a city where this smoking crater is?
Shiite Muslim clerics in Lebanon and Iran have reacted with rage at the Rev. Jerry Falwell for calling Islam's prophet
by both Instapundit and Cold Fury (and probably by sundry others by now):
vulnerability.
My sentences, thus decreed, will be subsequently carried out by my elite brigade of Beheading Gnomes, whom I made up
owned," she pontificated, in that snotty "52% of my clothes are made of hemp which therefore makes me morally superior
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
being the reaction described above.
be harried by idiots who have full compliments of heads and genitals! With the ranks of my imaginary gnomes rallied,
only be revealed as more useless than it already seems), there is right now a coalition prepared to go into Iraq with the
And exactly how do you go from no "final proof" to there being no evidence of impending aggression? The very fact that
Russia and shit. Besides, it's just the Russians. Why don't we just contain them or something? Hey, who's up for some
economic stupidity, especially when their ideas would do such a better job of it by themselves. Case in point:
information with your heads crammed so far up your asses, so I'll give you a pass.
Well, being the abject conformist that I am, I would like to welcome all new and oldcomers to my new blog, which will
that has the temerity to look at us cock-eyed.
Don't you people ever get tired of just pulling shit out of your asses?
trying to get an education
If a good education is meant to produce independent thinkers, I've seen precious little evidence it does. Education is
In theory, I was of course angry, but I had a vaguely detatched sense about the whole thing. A large part of that of
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
news editors of Cannel 7 to allow, as the segment ended right there.
that blatantly called for some rhetorical bitch-slapping.
Sure, it'd be nice to be a leader...
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
No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this
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
Such as this quote by Teddy Roosevelt concerning his acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize, posted now
Whereas the Cold War doctrine of deterrence and containment rested on strength, the new idea of pre-emption insists on U.S.
to elicit empathy had been raised considerably since 9/11,
Why are you still here?!
What it does not mean however, is that this suddenly signals that we are going to be going after China, Saudi Arabia, Cuba
the not-being-a-jerk department.
What it does not mean however, is that this suddenly signals that we are going to be going after China, Saudi Arabia, Cuba
world that even today harbors and offers succor to the same groups that piloted the 9/11 planes, right?
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
Mr Mitnick even had to get permission from his probation officer to use a computer to write his book, The Art Of Deception,
I'll get a chance to ask why they've been glorifying images of Hamas murderers on their flyers.
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
we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight
rivals.
University or Diversity
I guess not. The fact that the UN is anything but democratic since the vast majority of countries represented there do not
I strongly suspect TR had access to some sort of time machine and traveled into the furture about a hundred years.
Falwell was a "mercenary and must be killed," the Farsi-language daily Abrar reported Saturday.
I've been blogging since July 2005, and in that time, I've had a few inter-blog arguments with the folks on the other
who has been deprived of food for at least 6 hours - sounds like an unusually cruel thing to do, I know, but I'm sure
Bush also spoke of an "international coalition" that would disarm Hussein. Bush knows the American public is loathe to
some of their cohorts are actually being held accountable by the university for their disruptive, illegal actions at
A taste, just a taste...
the efforts to find these people and eradicate them, to ferret them out from their cowardly hiding places and vaporize
"approach parody" is too mild. They sprinted towards parody, jumped on top of it and proceded to give parody a spirited
looks like a green light, no?
vaunted proof of yours. Then you could be really sure.
Saddam will use these nukes when he gets them, whether that use takes the form of vaporizing a city or merely being hung
One middle-aged woman who looked like she hadn't combed her hair since Jerry Garcia died had this to say, when asked
that I hadn't thought of it first!
And at most, UN weapons inspectors have delayed conflict by a few years, not averted it. In actualyity, I think they have
them into a thin paste of protein on a cave wall, to wipe out every last vestige of the disgusting stain they have left
When I first heard about the bombing in Bali, my initial reaction was, "Another terrorist attack? Well, of course."
An insightful, well-written and quite simply excellent column somehow found its way in the SF Chronicle's website today.
really just put Saddam in a better situation than he was before because the presence of inspectors invites complacency and
psychopathic fancy without fear of retribution.
One middle-aged woman who looked like she hadn't combed her hair since Jerry Garcia died had this to say, when asked
the All Men Are Rapists self defense workshop? Surely that must be a representative sample of the country!
support (in the small, mostly insignificant ways that are possible for one such as myself)
of constant uncertainty and increased insecurity where almost anything could lead to war.
join the majority of the world's nations in distancing themselves from Washington in a fashion not seen since the Vietnam War.
anger that is so justifiable -no, demanded- by these despicable acts, but if that must be the case, then from on, I'll be
they're done, hang them on his wall next to the framed heads of Iraqi dissidents and say to himself, "Well, I can check
Replace "powerful" with "crazy and armed with nukes" and you'd be right. Otherwise, your statement is nonsense.
"Standing in the foyer of the Bounty Hotel, people were just walking in, blood dripping off them, burns to their face, skin
news editors of Cannel 7 to allow, as the segment ended right there.
A taste, just a taste...
and make them wish that congress had instead passed a resolution authorizing military force against people
that has the temerity to look at us cock-eyed.
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
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
The BBC has a story about the so-called "master hacker", in which it does a good job of destroying the mythos that
You must be triple jointed to be able to twist words like that.
psychopathic fancy without fear of retribution.
without end is causing traditional friends of the United States to
the All Men Are Rapists self defense workshop? Surely that must be a representative sample of the country!
predictable frequency. Follow a politician to a school photo-op,
curiosity that trumps any sort of legal resriction placed on him, but it's pretty much a foregone conclusion that he's
a representative of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was quoted as saying.
Eventually he got a little ticked off and said roughly, "Get away from me!" I was hungrily anticipating the energetic dissenter
a terrorist and an envoy of Iran's supreme leader reportedly called for his death.
the All Men Are Rapists self defense workshop? Surely that must be a representative sample of the country!
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
rivals.
What it does not mean however, is that this suddenly signals that we are going to be going after China, Saudi Arabia, Cuba
trying to get an education
By tossing out any reasonable standards of evidence as a prerequisite for military action, the White House puts us in a state
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
Yes, well I suppose you're suggesting that we would be well-served to wait for this "final proof," then? Very well. I'll
Hesiod over at Counterspin Central is one such fellow. Not only with myself, but in his conversations with Den Beste,
War, by three fellows that hail from Global Exchange. You know who I'm talking about. The folks that want to "build an
I don't know about you people, but I'm already stocking up on extra food, water, and electrons.
side of the political spectrum... what are they called?
Also, I've printed out and made a bunch of copies of some flyers from this site and will be passing them out.
to roost," those sniveling, carping appeasers,
owned," she pontificated, in that snotty "52% of my clothes are made of hemp which therefore makes me morally superior
rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.
something-really-awfuls, BlogSpot.
Already, even if the UN thumbs its irrelevant nose at the idea of going after Iraq (and if it actually does, then they'll
Diversity. More than motherhood, it is the one unassailable concept these days. Open any teaching publication, and you will
serves? As far as I can tell, all they did was take some people who were probably overwhelmingly against the war anyway,
rivals.
United States invade a distant country without any evidence of impending aggression.
vulnerability.
something-really-awfuls, BlogSpot.
nothing may stand in our way!
information with your heads crammed so far up your asses, so I'll give you a pass.
predictable frequency. Follow a politician to a school photo-op,
Bush also spoke of an "international coalition" that would disarm Hussein. Bush knows the American public is loathe to
Such as this quote by Teddy Roosevelt concerning his acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize, posted now
The BBC has a story about the so-called "master hacker", in which it does a good job of destroying the mythos that
An insightful, well-written and quite simply excellent column somehow found its way in the SF Chronicle's website today.
And perhaps because of the collective weight of all those accumulated exhortations, perhaps from the psychic weariness
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.
getting an education. When she tried to talk to one of the organizers after her test about how some people were just
predictable frequency. Follow a politician to a school photo-op,
way why we're doing all of this, and why, if they still choose to berate us about "root causes" and "birds coming home
After 3000 of your countrymen die in a couple hours, anything less than that is wont to be downplayed in significance
anger that is so justifiable -no, demanded- by these despicable acts, but if that must be the case, then from on, I'll be
Please. I can't swing around a dead Saddam on a rope without hitting this argument these days. At bottom, it's a slippery
Wheeler Hall last spring.
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 I hadn't thought of it first!
jerkwad I encounter, an order for them to be beheaded with extreme prejudice until the the point at which they are dead
of constant uncertainty and increased insecurity where almost anything could lead to war.
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
obviously they have lost loved ones or friends."
And exactly how do you go from no "final proof" to there being no evidence of impending aggression? The very fact that
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
Don't worry, I'll sit here with my rifle ready to take out any airborne porcines, should they come flying by.
support (in the small, mostly insignificant ways that are possible for one such as myself)
The fact that this is being published in the Chronicle is no small feat. Even more reason for you to go read it.
the real fault of that government or its citizens, or the West in general, or capitalism, or any other ridiculous boogeyman
President Bush says he wants to avoid "a future of fear." It's an admirable goal, but one hardly served by this new doctrine.
Hesiod over at Counterspin Central is one such fellow. Not only with myself, but in his conversations with Den Beste,
superiority.
and the decisions to do so would based on (as in this case) measured calculations of the relative benefits and costs,
An insightful, well-written and quite simply excellent column somehow found its way in the SF Chronicle's website today.
really just put Saddam in a better situation than he was before because the presence of inspectors invites complacency and
morally, that this is the right thing to do.
care. Just don't let me hear anything about how this bombing that specifically targeted Australian civilians was somehow
or any other simply crappy country in the world, because none of them satisfy both those propositions.
Posted by Mean Mr. Mustard at 09:13 PM | Comments (4)
Finally, long after the fad has grown tiresome, everyone's attention turns to another scrap of dogma for the next decade.
Watching Channel 7 news today (the Simpsons were in a commercial), they reported on a wad of dingbats who blocked access
I tried to present my ideas in an honest and truthful way, and not be seriously offensive, even when he acted in ways
Stand up to these thugs This Wednesday, the 16th at noon, an apparent composite of the Students for Justice in Palestine
computer systems.
superiority.
Meanwhile, the fact that we are able to use pre-emptive action when deemed necessary is a fact of our strength, not weakness
looks like a green light, no?
satisfy you. I'd be much more amendable to the idea however if you were willing to be a personal eye-witness to this
Either that, or I now have to admit the existence of clairvoyance.
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 see. Did you talk to this "everyone" at your International Socialist Organization direct action planning seminar or
trying to get an education
I was already in a state of "moving on" and being "over it" before I even heard about the Bali attacks, with the result
Shiite Muslim clerics in Lebanon and Iran have reacted with rage at the Rev. Jerry Falwell for calling Islam's prophet
It seems the Muslim version of a slander suit is cutting off your head. Now when I read this I was shocked, just shocked
the All Men Are Rapists self defense workshop? Surely that must be a representative sample of the country!
I'll get a chance to ask why they've been glorifying images of Hamas murderers on their flyers.
about equal probability.
Another Australian tourist, 18-year-old Rachel Hughes, said she and her boyfriend had just arrived in Kuta when the blast
sloth, or as an instrument to further the ends of despotism or anarchy.
without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism,
psychopathic fancy without fear of retribution.
Stand up to these thugs This Wednesday, the 16th at noon, an apparent composite of the Students for Justice in Palestine
US: Italy, Australia, Poland, Spain, Qatar, Kuwait and, of course, Britain. I know it's hard to find out this kind of
The Muslim world -- whose support is vital to any real effort to end the causes of terrorism -- is adamantly opposed.
It may be a sad illustration of my lack to find sympathy within myself without reading descriptions or seeing pictures,
and the decisions to do so would based on (as in this case) measured calculations of the relative benefits and costs,
An insightful, well-written and quite simply excellent column somehow found its way in the SF Chronicle's website today.
hunting dairy cows with a high-powered rifle and scope."
being the reaction described above.
Iranian cleric Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari, addressing weekly Friday prayers in the northwestern town of Tabriz, said
University or Diversity
Well I'm far far far too petty a person to do that.
one of the most fad-driven enterprises imaginable. It produces a new catechism each decade, which everyone dutifully recites.
but they make up for any lack of actual existence with pure unadulterated enthusiasm.
If and when you find one, that means that I'll be perfectly willing to advocate an attack against them as well.
Well that's not really true. People on a different side of the debate than I are not necessarily jerks, just wrong.
he revealed himself to be a seriously dishonest debater (that, or he was so stupid that it wouldn't be safe for him to
of a lack of imagination or basic humanity; the fact that it's difficult for me to feel deeply for people suffering unless
According to the president, "we cannot wait for the final proof" that Saddam Hussein's government is planning an imminent
we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight
serves? As far as I can tell, all they did was take some people who were probably overwhelmingly against the war anyway,
I'm going to be checking the weather channel for reports of snowflakes in Hell, but meanwhile you should go read it now.
I tried to present my ideas in an honest and truthful way, and not be seriously offensive, even when he acted in ways
care. Just don't let me hear anything about how this bombing that specifically targeted Australian civilians was somehow
the All Men Are Rapists self defense workshop? Surely that must be a representative sample of the country!
jerkwad I encounter, an order for them to be beheaded with extreme prejudice until the the point at which they are dead
of constant uncertainty and increased insecurity where almost anything could lead to war.
why she thought there weren't more stories about protests going on in the news, "Well, because the media is corporately
the All Men Are Rapists self defense workshop? Surely that must be a representative sample of the country!
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
just now. Admittedly they do face significant challenges in carrying out their duties due to their imaginary nature,
the real fault of that government or its citizens, or the West in general, or capitalism, or any other ridiculous boogeyman
The experience made me think of the instructions from all corners of the media after 9/11 that what we, as Americans,
I urge anyone in the bay area who has the time on the 16th to come as well and lend credence with your example to the
the world to stomach the imperial scent of our newly enunciated military doctrine that proposes pre- emption of any powerful
United States invade a distant country without any evidence of impending aggression.
rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.
I strongly suspect TR had access to some sort of time machine and traveled into the furture about a hundred years.
curiosity that trumps any sort of legal resriction placed on him, but it's pretty much a foregone conclusion that he's
University or Diversity
Well I'm far far far too petty a person to do that.
If a good education is meant to produce independent thinkers, I've seen precious little evidence it does. Education is
course grew out of the experience of 9/11.
that I hadn't thought of it first!
jerkwad I encounter, an order for them to be beheaded with extreme prejudice until the the point at which they are dead
Either that, or I now have to admit the existence of clairvoyance.
One middle-aged woman who looked like she hadn't combed her hair since Jerry Garcia died had this to say, when asked
Don't worry, I'll sit here with my rifle ready to take out any airborne porcines, should they come flying by.
support (in the small, mostly insignificant ways that are possible for one such as myself)
in words so much more exacting than even those who actually live in that time would be able to produce?
Quite the contrary, Bush's aggressive rhetoric, disregard for international law, and his lack of any vision other than war
anger that is so justifiable -no, demanded- by these despicable acts, but if that must be the case, then from on, I'll be
Those people are especially useful when they have access to the core computer systems that hackers would otherwise struggle
hacky-sack?"
So seeing as how we've got massive approval from the House of Representatives and similar support in the senate is likely,
Eventually he got a little ticked off and said roughly, "Get away from me!" I was hungrily anticipating the energetic dissenter
being the reaction described above.
You mean everyone in America aren't like San Franciscans?
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
And perhaps because of the collective weight of all those accumulated exhortations, perhaps from the psychic weariness
US: Italy, Australia, Poland, Spain, Qatar, Kuwait and, of course, Britain. I know it's hard to find out this kind of
sloth, or as an instrument to further the ends of despotism or anarchy.
way why we're doing all of this, and why, if they still choose to berate us about "root causes" and "birds coming home
by both Instapundit and Cold Fury (and probably by sundry others by now):
Either that, or I now have to admit the existence of clairvoyance.
After 3000 of your countrymen die in a couple hours, anything less than that is wont to be downplayed in significance
Now at this point, most people would just say, "let it go, and move on."
superiority.
Replace "powerful" with "crazy and armed with nukes" and you'd be right. Otherwise, your statement is nonsense.
has been built up around Mitnick, a basically curious guy who just as often used old face-to-face (or voice-to-voice)
Please. I can't swing around a dead Saddam on a rope without hitting this argument these days. At bottom, it's a slippery
threaten the United States, he said we must "assume the worst." Essentially, the White House is proposing that the
Now could someone please tell me what concrete purpose that woman's behavior, and that of her great chanting unwashed bretheren,
Replace "powerful" with "crazy and armed with nukes" and you'd be right. Otherwise, your statement is nonsense.
threaten the United States, he said we must "assume the worst." Essentially, the White House is proposing that the
we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight
Meanwhile, the fact that we are able to use pre-emptive action when deemed necessary is a fact of our strength, not weakness
again soon, didn't we?"
predictable frequency. Follow a politician to a school photo-op,
of constant uncertainty and increased insecurity where almost anything could lead to war.
course grew out of the experience of 9/11.
Don't worry, I'll sit here with my rifle ready to take out any airborne porcines, should they come flying by.
they're done, hang them on his wall next to the framed heads of Iraqi dissidents and say to himself, "Well, I can check
a terrorist and an envoy of Iran's supreme leader reportedly called for his death.
cause, but I,
to penetrate.
Replace "powerful" with "crazy and armed with nukes" and you'd be right. Otherwise, your statement is nonsense.
threaten the United States, he said we must "assume the worst." Essentially, the White House is proposing that the
United States invade a distant country without any evidence of impending aggression.
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
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.
Bush also spoke of an "international coalition" that would disarm Hussein. Bush knows the American public is loathe to
To quote a boozed up, cynical and misanthropic individual whom I greatly admire: "Making fun of these people is like
50 Ways to Leave Your Folly Common Dreams, that goldmine of general silliness, showcases this piece, The Folly of Pre-emptive
without end is causing traditional friends of the United States to
I'm going to be checking the weather channel for reports of snowflakes in Hell, but meanwhile you should go read it now.
jerkwad I encounter, an order for them to be beheaded with extreme prejudice until the the point at which they are dead
destroying the technological infrastructure of Western civilization again. And it's only 3 months away!
occurred, smashing the window of their hotel room.
computer systems.
use grown-up scissors), but nevertheless, even though he really didn't deserve it,
of a lack of imagination or basic humanity; the fact that it's difficult for me to feel deeply for people suffering unless
So I hereby declare myself Ayatollah Mustardah of Blogistan. From this day forward, I will call down, on any Idiotarian
obviously they have lost loved ones or friends."
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
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.
a representative of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was quoted as saying.
serves? As far as I can tell, all they did was take some people who were probably overwhelmingly against the war anyway,
Already, even if the UN thumbs its irrelevant nose at the idea of going after Iraq (and if it actually does, then they'll
Eventually he got a little ticked off and said roughly, "Get away from me!" I was hungrily anticipating the energetic dissenter
50 Ways to Leave Your Folly Common Dreams, that goldmine of general silliness, showcases this piece, The Folly of Pre-emptive
care. Just don't let me hear anything about how this bombing that specifically targeted Australian civilians was somehow
Don't worry, I'll sit here with my rifle ready to take out any airborne porcines, should they come flying by.
Hey, didn't there used to be a city where this smoking crater is?
in words so much more exacting than even those who actually live in that time would be able to produce?
some of their cohorts are actually being held accountable by the university for their disruptive, illegal actions at
the teacher trying to impress both of them.
I wish that I could just be told "Hundreds of people died in a terrorist bombing today," and instantly feel the kind of rage
of fist.
I'll get a chance to ask why they've been glorifying images of Hamas murderers on their flyers.
My sentences, thus decreed, will be subsequently carried out by my elite brigade of Beheading Gnomes, whom I made up
Stand up to these thugs This Wednesday, the 16th at noon, an apparent composite of the Students for Justice in Palestine
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
to penetrate.
Russia and shit. Besides, it's just the Russians. Why don't we just contain them or something? Hey, who's up for some
attack against the United States. Even though President Bush acknowledged in his speech that Iraq does not currently
The Muslim world -- whose support is vital to any real effort to end the causes of terrorism -- is adamantly opposed.
By tossing out any reasonable standards of evidence as a prerequisite for military action, the White House puts us in a state
the Feds know about it.
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
nuclear weapons. Containment was born out of a realization that we were effectively restrained by our lack of strategic
about equal probability.
to really concern yourself with, except in a somewhat general, theoretical way.
find testimonials to diversity. Flip through any recent social sciences or humanities textbook and diversity pops up with
and make them wish that congress had instead passed a resolution authorizing military force against people
democratically decided laws - - not the capriciousness of individual rulers -- should govern human affairs.
last update : 6-1-2009
