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Time Shows Their Colors
Sweet Jeebus, I guess Paul Krugman was right.
At least, that’s the impression you’d get from the Time “Persons of the Year”. Krugman had said that the corporate scandals of 2001 and 2002 were bigger deals than 9/11. Everyone discreetly pointed and twittered under their breath the way you used to do in grade school when that quiet kid in the corner who could only use safety scissors would start eating paste again.
Of course, maybe that’s a little unfair. After all, they did include someone involved in revealing some of the worse PC excesses of the FBI, and that’s all well and good. And sure, I know that the Time editors would sooner put Lucifer H. Satan on the cover than the person who has been the most dynamic force for change in the world thus far such as oh. first time sex with a horse… Bush, for instance, but couldn’t they at least put the veneer of actually choosing someone truly influential rather than just blatantly going after their ideological agenda?
This is not to downplay the importance of what those three women had to do with Enron, WOrldCom and the FBI, but only to put it in its proper place in context of what else has been going on, and why Time chose them.
Firstly, I think it’s pretty clear the fact that there were three women available heavily influenced the selection process. The story would have been less likely to catch Time’s top spot if it had been all men, or even a combination of men and women. I don’t think they necessarily set out determined to find only women to make people of the year, but that these three names were on the table for some kind of consideration, and they saw an opportunity to put some females in an honored position that has been almost exclusively the place of men.
Second, it again ignores the pivotal role Bush has played in the world over the last year. He (basically singlehandedly) provided the impetus to resume weapons inspections in Iraq. He went to the UN and, with much goading, eloquent words and a healthy dose of the carrot and stick, somehow managed to uphold their blessed multilateralism and actually get the approval of everyone from France to Syria and jumpstart the inert beheamoth that is the UN into some action that might actually lead to fruitful results, be it the disarming of Saddam (which would cause him to be overthrown) or serious efforts to disarm him provoking a war and his subsequent personal ouster care of the US marines Sex With Pigs.
Through his willingness to speak plainly and honestly about the sheer uselessness and villiany of Arafat and the PA, he helped move the Palestinian people towards actually accepting that they will only continue to stagnate, rot and die as long as they embrace their idiot fanaticism.
He led his party to an almost unprecedented midterm election victory, making everyone from the New York Times to Michael Moore sit up and go “Huh?” And time after time, whether it be in regards to Saddam Hussein or Trent Lott, he has repeatedly demonstrated clear, unambiguous, forceful leadership.
And everyone knows it. As of 8:43 am PST, a Time poll of their readers asking, “Do you agree with TIME’s choice for Persons of the Year?” has yielded the following results:
YES - 8.1%
NO - 89.3%
Also, Laurence Simon does a good job putting these women’s achievements in perspective.
I suppose after Saddam has gone the way of the dodo next year, Bush still won’t be the Man of the Year in 2003, even though he will have provided more of the fuel and drive to send Saddam to his eternal resting place than anyone else. That’s just the way things go. I’d imagine the most generous selection they could make would be to give it to Tommy Franks after a blindingly successful Iraq campaign and about 9 months at least of turning the country around makes everyone on the NYT editorial board try to cover their asses and explain just why they are so repeatedly wrong lesbians horse fucked.
After Saddam is just a sickening memory, and after Baghdad is taken with small civilian casualties and smaller US military casualties, and after half of the Iraqi military has surrended to Geraldo and Tom Brokaw, and all the reports of Saddam’s atrocities flow unbidden from the lips of millions of jubilant Iraqis, suddenly everyone who tried to suggest before that the “Bushies” and their “oilmen cronies” were joyfully trading hundreds of thousands of people’s lives so they could make a few more bucks will once again try to change history and claim that they were in favor of the whole thing all along. Remember Afghanistan? Remember how just uttering the word “quagmire” was enough to conclusively respond to any argument about why we should be taking the fght to the Taliban and to instantly qualify you as a serious-minded expert on global affairs? Remember the deafening silence after the fall of Kabul? Remember the urge to make it look like they had actually been for it, and not only that, but with their hawkishness they would have done a better job of it, too?
Well tune in next time. Same Bullshit time, same Bullshit station.
and make them wish that congress had instead passed a resolution authorizing military force against peopleSure, it'd be nice to be a leader...
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just now. Admittedly they do face significant challenges in carrying out their duties due to their imaginary nature,
What it does not mean however, is that this suddenly signals that we are going to be going after China, Saudi Arabia, Cuba
Containment and deterrence were responses to US weakness, you silly-headed dunderpate. It was obvious that using direct
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
when you apply your own internal calculus of death and suffering and conclude that it isn't something that you need
anger that is so justifiable -no, demanded- by these despicable acts, but if that must be the case, then from on, I'll be
that blatantly called for some rhetorical bitch-slapping.
You mean everyone in America aren't like San Franciscans?
side of the political spectrum... what are they called?
You must be triple jointed to be able to twist words like that.
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
Iranian cleric Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari, addressing weekly Friday prayers in the northwestern town of Tabriz, said
of righteousness; and it becomes a very evil thing if it serves merely as a mask for cowardice and
that extended anger and sadness bring, or maybe even from just the fact that my threshold of human suffering sufficient
but they make up for any lack of actual existence with pure unadulterated enthusiasm.
I don't know about you people, but I'm already stocking up on extra food, water, and electrons.
For that reason and others, I didn't actually start reading the news coverage until this morning.
Also, I've printed out and made a bunch of copies of some flyers from this site and will be passing them out.
When I first heard about the bombing in Bali, my initial reaction was, "Another terrorist attack? Well, of course."
University or Diversity
computer systems.
50 Ways to Leave Your Folly Common Dreams, that goldmine of general silliness, showcases this piece, The Folly of Pre-emptive
the real fault of that government or its citizens, or the West in general, or capitalism, or any other ridiculous boogeyman
Well I'm far far far too petty a person to do that.
"to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality"?
Iranian cleric Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari, addressing weekly Friday prayers in the northwestern town of Tabriz, said
attack against the United States. Even though President Bush acknowledged in his speech that Iraq does not currently
vulnerability.
Many in the global community also distrust the Bush administration's expanding war aims. It is not easy for our friends around
be harried by idiots who have full compliments of heads and genitals! With the ranks of my imaginary gnomes rallied,
again soon, didn't we?"
I finally went and did it.
just now. Admittedly they do face significant challenges in carrying out their duties due to their imaginary nature,
when you apply your own internal calculus of death and suffering and conclude that it isn't something that you need
Diversity. More than motherhood, it is the one unassailable concept these days. Open any teaching publication, and you will
nuclear weapons. Containment was born out of a realization that we were effectively restrained by our lack of strategic
democratically decided laws - - not the capriciousness of individual rulers -- should govern human affairs.
lying in order to gain information that gave him access to restricted systems.
not just "fear," as if we're going to indiscriminantly nuke the floor under our beds because monsters might be hiding there.
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
to make the first world poor and make sure the third world stays that way.
, "I don't believe the American people support this war. Everyone I've talked to is against it!"
he revealed himself to be a seriously dishonest debater (that, or he was so stupid that it wouldn't be safe for him to
Iranian cleric Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari, addressing weekly Friday prayers in the northwestern town of Tabriz, said
or any other simply crappy country in the world, because none of them satisfy both those propositions.
predictable frequency. Follow a politician to a school photo-op,
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
A taste, just a taste...
assures everyone that "Don't worry, the problem is being taking care of by the inspectors."
Really, how often is someone able to so perfectly crystallize the dilemmas that will exist a century in the future
So seeing as how we've got massive approval from the House of Representatives and similar support in the senate is likely,
Whereas the Cold War doctrine of deterrence and containment rested on strength, the new idea of pre-emption insists on U.S.
be replacing the old site that was hosted on that evil of evils, that bane of banes, that something-really-awful of
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What it does not mean however, is that this suddenly signals that we are going to be going after China, Saudi Arabia, Cuba
needed now was healing, closure; in short, to "get over it" and "move on."
Finally, long after the fad has grown tiresome, everyone's attention turns to another scrap of dogma for the next decade.
care. Just don't let me hear anything about how this bombing that specifically targeted Australian civilians was somehow
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)
Really, how often is someone able to so perfectly crystallize the dilemmas that will exist a century in the future
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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 penetrate.
a terrorist and an envoy of Iran's supreme leader reportedly called for his death.
threaten the United States, he said we must "assume the worst." Essentially, the White House is proposing that the
However, several of the exchanges I have had have definately been with those you might describe as "challeneged" in
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
nothing may stand in our way!
or any other simply crappy country in the world, because none of them satisfy both those propositions.
needed now was healing, closure; in short, to "get over it" and "move on."
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
After 3000 of your countrymen die in a couple hours, anything less than that is wont to be downplayed in significance
A taste, just a taste...
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
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.
occurred, smashing the window of their hotel room.
we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight
that boiled up to the surface when I read things like this.
a terrorist and an envoy of Iran's supreme leader reportedly called for his death.
cause, but I,
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
If and when you find one, that means that I'll be perfectly willing to advocate an attack against them as well.
rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.
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
, "I don't believe the American people support this war. Everyone I've talked to is against it!"
But I am thankful that at least for now, I've been able to summon that deep-seated, personal wrath so appropriate to an
that blatantly called for some rhetorical bitch-slapping.
I see. Did you talk to this "everyone" at your International Socialist Organization direct action planning seminar or
to penetrate.
rivals.
threaten the United States, he said we must "assume the worst." Essentially, the White House is proposing that the
I suppose you mean that it's not "multilateralist" unless France says so?
morally, that this is the right thing to do.
sloth, or as an instrument to further the ends of despotism or anarchy.
I'll get a chance to ask why they've been glorifying images of Hamas murderers on their flyers.
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.
of righteousness; and it becomes a very evil thing if it serves merely as a mask for cowardice and
(or to have their genitalia eviscerated by a rabid Rosie O'Donnell
psychopathic fancy without fear of retribution.
Don't worry, I'll sit here with my rifle ready to take out any airborne porcines, should they come flying by.
I was already in a state of "moving on" and being "over it" before I even heard about the Bali attacks, with the result
Sorry folks, but slippery slope arguments don't hold water by themselves. We're going after Saddam because he 1) has shown
During that protest, my girlfriend had to take a midterm in Wheeler auditorium and had to step over the bodies lying in
No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this
I figured that was the way to go. But then I read this.
We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but
"I said it's being taken care of, dammit. Mind your own business."
Falwell was a "mercenary and must be killed," the Farsi-language daily Abrar reported Saturday.
Mr Mitnick even had to get permission from his probation officer to use a computer to write his book, The Art Of Deception,
be replacing the old site that was hosted on that evil of evils, that bane of banes, that something-really-awful of
way why we're doing all of this, and why, if they still choose to berate us about "root causes" and "birds coming home
It seems the Muslim version of a slander suit is cutting off your head. Now when I read this I was shocked, just shocked
that blatantly called for some rhetorical bitch-slapping.
course grew out of the experience of 9/11.
Now at this point, most people would just say, "let it go, and move on."
without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism,
alternative economy." I suppose that's better PR than saying they want to impose a grab bag full of sociialistic silliness
only be revealed as more useless than it already seems), there is right now a coalition prepared to go into Iraq with the
psychopathic fancy without fear of retribution.
But it's not really fair to denigrate someone's ideas just because they themselves come from an organization riddled with
In fact, the idea of pre- emptive attack depends on fear. It presupposes insecurity and assumes we will always be threatened.
faith at large, since many of them are peaceful, albeit intellectually stunted, people.
weapons inspections in Iraq represent a good example of how the rule of law has been used, and can be used again, to avert
Do you mean the Muslim world that celebrated 9/11, saying the US deserved it all along? Or perhaps you mean the Muslim world
Really, how often is someone able to so perfectly crystallize the dilemmas that will exist a century in the future
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computer systems.
Stand up to these thugs This Wednesday, the 16th at noon, an apparent composite of the Students for Justice in Palestine
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
military action to counter the Soviet threat was not possible, because of their equal capacity to destroy us through
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
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
of a lack of imagination or basic humanity; the fact that it's difficult for me to feel deeply for people suffering unless
Kevin Mitnick will be able to use a computer again in approximately 3 months.
For that reason and others, I didn't actually start reading the news coverage until this morning.
them into a thin paste of protein on a cave wall, to wipe out every last vestige of the disgusting stain they have left
so that he will be better equipped to fulfill point 1). Show me another nation that's like that today.
In your face, Space Coyote!
Really, how often is someone able to so perfectly crystallize the dilemmas that will exist a century in the future
"Standing in the foyer of the Bounty Hotel, people were just walking in, blood dripping off them, burns to their face, skin
computer systems.
world that even today harbors and offers succor to the same groups that piloted the 9/11 planes, right?
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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
The Muslim world -- whose support is vital to any real effort to end the causes of terrorism -- is adamantly opposed.
curiosity that trumps any sort of legal resriction placed on him, but it's pretty much a foregone conclusion that he's
US: Italy, Australia, Poland, Spain, Qatar, Kuwait and, of course, Britain. I know it's hard to find out this kind of
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
Heh. Didn't Nostradamus write something about "a bespeckled plague rising in the West..."?
"Standing in the foyer of the Bounty Hotel, people were just walking in, blood dripping off them, burns to their face, skin
computer systems.
superiority.
it is shoved, in all its detailed horror, right into my face.
"Standing in the foyer of the Bounty Hotel, people were just walking in, blood dripping off them, burns to their face, skin
Diversity. More than motherhood, it is the one unassailable concept these days. Open any teaching publication, and you will
that off my list of things to do. Now, on to learning how to square-dance."
Falwell was a "mercenary and must be killed," the Farsi-language daily Abrar reported Saturday.
threaten the United States, he said we must "assume the worst." Essentially, the White House is proposing that the
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
a careful, precise argument, what point is there in engaging them verbally anymore?
of the mass moron movement.
It may be a sad illustration of my lack to find sympathy within myself without reading descriptions or seeing pictures,
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.
nuclear weapons. Containment was born out of a realization that we were effectively restrained by our lack of strategic
agree that [insert additional badly-forced car metaphor here]!
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
to elicit empathy had been raised considerably since 9/11,
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
"The lethal combination is when you exploit both people and technology," Mr Mitnick told BBC News Online.
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
If and when you find one, that means that I'll be perfectly willing to advocate an attack against them as well.
hunting dairy cows with a high-powered rifle and scope."
Hey, didn't there used to be a city where this smoking crater is?
"approach parody" is too mild. They sprinted towards parody, jumped on top of it and proceded to give parody a spirited
obviously they have lost loved ones or friends."
rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.
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."
and the decisions to do so would based on (as in this case) measured calculations of the relative benefits and costs,
lying in order to gain information that gave him access to restricted systems.
You must be triple jointed to be able to twist words like that.
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
I don't know about you people, but I'm already stocking up on extra food, water, and electrons.
and eastern Europe, Australia and the middle east. Is that not multilateralism?
be replacing the old site that was hosted on that evil of evils, that bane of banes, that something-really-awful of
The fact that this is being published in the Chronicle is no small feat. Even more reason for you to go read it.
Already, even if the UN thumbs its irrelevant nose at the idea of going after Iraq (and if it actually does, then they'll
In your face, Space Coyote!
If a good education is meant to produce independent thinkers, I've seen precious little evidence it does. Education is
You mean everyone in America aren't like San Franciscans?
What it does not mean however, is that this suddenly signals that we are going to be going after China, Saudi Arabia, Cuba
and eastern Europe, Australia and the middle east. Is that not multilateralism?
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
care. Just don't let me hear anything about how this bombing that specifically targeted Australian civilians was somehow
a careful, precise argument, what point is there in engaging them verbally anymore?
really just put Saddam in a better situation than he was before because the presence of inspectors invites complacency and
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.
Yes, well I suppose you're suggesting that we would be well-served to wait for this "final proof," then? Very well. I'll
serves? As far as I can tell, all they did was take some people who were probably overwhelmingly against the war anyway,
information with your heads crammed so far up your asses, so I'll give you a pass.
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."
According to the president, "we cannot wait for the final proof" that Saddam Hussein's government is planning an imminent
President Bush says he wants to avoid "a future of fear." It's an admirable goal, but one hardly served by this new doctrine.
Also, I've printed out and made a bunch of copies of some flyers from this site and will be passing them out.
way why we're doing all of this, and why, if they still choose to berate us about "root causes" and "birds coming home
, "I don't believe the American people support this war. Everyone I've talked to is against it!"
And exactly how do you go from no "final proof" to there being no evidence of impending aggression? The very fact that
You try to make it seem as if the Joint Chiefs were lying around on a Sunday afternoon and said to themselves, "Yeah sure,
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
Mr Mitnick even had to get permission from his probation officer to use a computer to write his book, The Art Of Deception,
to elicit empathy had been raised considerably since 9/11,
about equal probability.
According to the president, "we cannot wait for the final proof" that Saddam Hussein's government is planning an imminent
Mr Mitnick even had to get permission from his probation officer to use a computer to write his book, The Art Of Deception,
that continues to characterize the US as the Great Satan and preach jihad against all things Western? Oh I know, the Muslim
War, by three fellows that hail from Global Exchange. You know who I'm talking about. The folks that want to "build an
of the mass moron movement.
In fact, the idea of pre- emptive attack depends on fear. It presupposes insecurity and assumes we will always be threatened.
find testimonials to diversity. Flip through any recent social sciences or humanities textbook and diversity pops up with
psychopathic fancy without fear of retribution.
"Standing in the foyer of the Bounty Hotel, people were just walking in, blood dripping off them, burns to their face, skin
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 prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality"?
hacky-sack?"
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
Saddam will use these nukes when he gets them, whether that use takes the form of vaporizing a city or merely being hung
Falwell was a "mercenary and must be killed," the Farsi-language daily Abrar reported Saturday.
During the last half of the 20th century, this principle was expanded internationally through the United Nations. The U.N.
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
that blatantly called for some rhetorical bitch-slapping.
"The death of that man is a religious duty, but his case should not be tied to the Christian community," Shabestari,
Don't worry, I'll sit here with my rifle ready to take out any airborne porcines, should they come flying by.
the efforts to find these people and eradicate them, to ferret them out from their cowardly hiding places and vaporize
When they aired some actual interviews with the protesters, I started to honestly think they were part of some sort of
owned," she pontificated, in that snotty "52% of my clothes are made of hemp which therefore makes me morally superior
Now at this point, most people would just say, "let it go, and move on."
coming off them. It was really a terrible sight," she said. "You could just hear people crying up in the Bounty foyer -
of the mass moron movement.
vaunted proof of yours. Then you could be really sure.
nuclear weapons. Containment was born out of a realization that we were effectively restrained by our lack of strategic
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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
it is shoved, in all its detailed horror, right into my face.
An insightful, well-written and quite simply excellent column somehow found its way in the SF Chronicle's website today.
vaunted proof of yours. Then you could be really sure.
The article also points to this site, which maintains a running clock of how long it will be until Mitnick can start
Falwell was a "mercenary and must be killed," the Farsi-language daily Abrar reported Saturday.
threaten the United States, he said we must "assume the worst." Essentially, the White House is proposing that the
Do you mean the Muslim world that celebrated 9/11, saying the US deserved it all along? Or perhaps you mean the Muslim world
about equal probability.
I simply love it when my case is made for me.
Don't worry, I'll sit here with my rifle ready to take out any airborne porcines, should they come flying by.
jerkwad I encounter, an order for them to be beheaded with extreme prejudice until the the point at which they are dead
My sentences, thus decreed, will be subsequently carried out by my elite brigade of Beheading Gnomes, whom I made up
You mean everyone in America aren't like San Franciscans?
lying in order to gain information that gave him access to restricted systems.
the not-being-a-jerk department.
superiority.
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 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
And exactly how do you go from no "final proof" to there being no evidence of impending aggression? The very fact that
When they aired some actual interviews with the protesters, I started to honestly think they were part of some sort of
not just "fear," as if we're going to indiscriminantly nuke the floor under our beds because monsters might be hiding there.
weapons inspections in Iraq represent a good example of how the rule of law has been used, and can be used again, to avert
they're done, hang them on his wall next to the framed heads of Iraqi dissidents and say to himself, "Well, I can check
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
occurred, smashing the window of their hotel room.
Don't worry, I'll sit here with my rifle ready to take out any airborne porcines, should they come flying by.
predictable frequency. Follow a politician to a school photo-op,
The fact that this is being published in the Chronicle is no small feat. Even more reason for you to go read it.
nothing may stand in our way!
Well that's not really true. People on a different side of the debate than I are not necessarily jerks, just wrong.
that continues to characterize the US as the Great Satan and preach jihad against all things Western? Oh I know, the Muslim
50 Ways to Leave Your Folly Common Dreams, that goldmine of general silliness, showcases this piece, The Folly of Pre-emptive
Kevin Mitnick will be able to use a computer again in approximately 3 months.
side of the political spectrum... what are they called?
he revealed himself to be a seriously dishonest debater (that, or he was so stupid that it wouldn't be safe for him to
Shiite Muslim clerics in Lebanon and Iran have reacted with rage at the Rev. Jerry Falwell for calling Islam's prophet
be harried by idiots who have full compliments of heads and genitals! With the ranks of my imaginary gnomes rallied,
alternative economy." I suppose that's better PR than saying they want to impose a grab bag full of sociialistic silliness
Now at this point, most people would just say, "let it go, and move on."
"The lethal combination is when you exploit both people and technology," Mr Mitnick told BBC News Online.
Shiite Muslim clerics in Lebanon and Iran have reacted with rage at the Rev. Jerry Falwell for calling Islam's prophet
Such as this quote by Teddy Roosevelt concerning his acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize, posted now
Those people are especially useful when they have access to the core computer systems that hackers would otherwise struggle
When I first heard about the bombing in Bali, my initial reaction was, "Another terrorist attack? Well, of course."
weapons inspections in Iraq represent a good example of how the rule of law has been used, and can be used again, to avert
that extended anger and sadness bring, or maybe even from just the fact that my threshold of human suffering sufficient
a terrorist and an envoy of Iran's supreme leader reportedly called for his death.
has been built up around Mitnick, a basically curious guy who just as often used old face-to-face (or voice-to-voice)
hunting dairy cows with a high-powered rifle and scope."
one of the most fad-driven enterprises imaginable. It produces a new catechism each decade, which everyone dutifully recites.
course grew out of the experience of 9/11.
the not-being-a-jerk department.
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be harried by idiots who have full compliments of heads and genitals! With the ranks of my imaginary gnomes rallied,
US: Italy, Australia, Poland, Spain, Qatar, Kuwait and, of course, Britain. I know it's hard to find out this kind of
the teacher trying to impress both of them.
Really, how often is someone able to so perfectly crystallize the dilemmas that will exist a century in the future
Stand up to these thugs This Wednesday, the 16th at noon, an apparent composite of the Students for Justice in Palestine
conflict.
they're done, hang them on his wall next to the framed heads of Iraqi dissidents and say to himself, "Well, I can check
Iranian cleric Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari, addressing weekly Friday prayers in the northwestern town of Tabriz, said
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
That is, until this morning. Now I'm glad to say that I've gotten over getting over it, and am thoroughly pissed again.
nothing may stand in our way!
or any other simply crappy country in the world, because none of them satisfy both those propositions.
The Muslim world -- whose support is vital to any real effort to end the causes of terrorism -- is adamantly opposed.
about equal probability.
last update : 28-8-2008
