Care of the Instaman, we’ve got the Beast’s 50 Most Loathesome People in America in 2002. It’s got some o’ the kinds of folks you’d expect, your Brokaws and your Michael Moores and your Pat Robertsons, yet it also seems to have quite a few weird axes to grind, while leaving out some heavy hitters of annoyance and stupidity. I mean, come on, a celebrity hate list without Babs? Isn’t there something in Revelations about that being a sign of the endtimes? I also have to assume that the list isn’t in order of importance because Moore is only at number 42, meaning the poor fat slob was robbed of his rightful place on the rebar-enforced podium of the top three.
Then there’s this:
46. TREY ANASTASIO
Misdeeds: The pied piper of Vermont, Anastasio and his Phish bandmates have brainwashed white kids into believing that not showering, eating mushrooms, and listening to a jam band play cover songs is the path to enlightenment. When he stopped touring with Phish, their fans had no choice but to follow fifth and sixth-rate jam bands, giving rise to the beyond-awful Widespread Panic, String Cheese Incident, or any other whimsically named group of slapdicks that think adding bongo drums and a mandolin makes for good music. Anastasio’s one redeeming factor is that at least one kid has probably died by choking on a glow stick at one of his concerts.
Aggravating Factor: Doesn’t even encourage kids to do drugs. Kept Relics magazine going after Jerry Garcia’s death pig sex xxx fantasy.
Aesthetic: High school A/V club moderator meets art teacher.
Alright, I must concede the aesthetic designation is spot on, and you’re definitely right that the Phish hordes do need to take a bath every now and then when they’re not making pants out of hemp or selling home-made healing crystal necklaces, but come on. If you really want a reason to hate Trey Anastasio, there are much better reasons to do so. For instance, one need go no further than his silly, uninformed political opinions (stuff, that, to his credit, he and his bandmates don’t feel inclined to shove in your face at every show).
And as for SCI and Widespread Panic: Well, I’m sorry if their music has ever rudely interupted your Britney Spears/Christina Aguilera/Backstreet Boys listening marathons. And solid-body electric mandolins ARE cool. End of story.
43. TOM BROKAW
Misdeeds: There’s just something about this guy that makes you want to reach for a sharp object every time you turn on the news Anal barn… Maybe it’s his heavily marketed image of smug self-righteousness, or maybe it’s the fact that The Greatest Generation, his vapid catch-phrase stretched to book length, was a monstrous best-seller. Hunter Thompson once said that Nixon’s idea of a good joke was a paraplegic who couldn’t reach high enough to vote Democratic, but Brokaw is a person that it’s hard to imagine has any idea at all of a good joke.
Aggravating Factor: He commented on NBC Nightly News that while the Office of Homeland Security might have sounded like a name from a “totalitarian regime,” the 9/11 attacks “proved that something in America has to change.”
Aesthetic: The quirky fourth in a golfing party of Dupont executives.
I have to disagree with the aesthetic assessment here.
Aesthetic: Former cow-tipper with speech impediment tries desperately to maintain the semblance of a cultural elite.
17 beastiality perversion. KEN BURNS
Misdeeds: Telling that horrendous misrepresentation of the War Between the States from a dizzying Yankee slant. It has been called a war of attrition, but the Civil War (the actual war, not to be confused with Burn’s more lengthy documentary of the same name) would have been over much sooner had the Yankee and Rebel soldiers faced each other over a grave trench and instead of mailing their letters home?the letters read throughout Burn’s fantas??read them to each other until they all fell victim to apoplectic seizures triggered by vicious infections of excruciating boredom.
Aggravating Factor: He has continued to film his versions of historical drivel in the same torturous style. He made an entire nation of Volvo-driving Ikea addicts?with their disposable income earmarked for donation to a TV network that shows mostly sewing programs and shows trying to teach project kids the al?habet?believe they now know something about baseball and jazz. That’s dangerous shit.
Aesthetic: Mister Rogers’s soothing voice and Dudley Moore’s harmlessness with a haircut and beard taken from Dobie Gillis.
Geez. Methinks the Beast has some repressed rage in weird places. Who can hate Ken Burns? The guy is a pleasant androgynous man-woman with a demeanor that would put a hyperactive chihuahua at blissful ease male gay bestiality true story. Sure, his vaguely Stuart Smalley-esque vibe may creep some people out, but “The Civil War” kicked some major ass. And, as someone who was into jazz before he saw the Burns doc, I think Burns did a pretty damn good job.
5. MARY KATE AND ASHLEY OLSEN
Misdeeds: Their entire life up to this point. The Olsen twins starred as the precocious Michelle on the abysmal Full House, a television show so vile that any sensible person would rather watch an abortion gone horribly wrong than sit through five minutes of it. As of this date the twins have sold 29 million books, 1.5 million albums, and 30 million videos. They also have their own line of video games, a magazine, CD-ROMs, and a fashion and lifestlye line available at Walmart which teach young girls that it’s OK to be walking through piles of shit as long as you have a cute skirt and flirty earrings.
Aggravating Factor: Their company expects to rake in roughly 1 billion dollars in sales in the next year, which hopefully a crooked manager will steal from them because these sluts are already worth $38 million each absolute beastiality.
Aesthetic: One half Britney Spears, one half Andres Serrano’s Piss Christ
OK, you’d have to be Mother Teresa to not want to smack these kids a few dozen times each (and the only reason Mother Teresa would be able to restrain herself is because she’s dead), but really now, aren’t these kids a little below the radar to get all hot and bothered about? So their company (they have a company?!) rakes in a cool billion. For all the products you rattled off, their famedom and market presence has been remarkably discreet as far as I can tell. Maybe I’m a little too disconnected from popular culture, or maybe you’re actually unconciously still a little irked that they kept stealing the spotlight from Kimmy Gibbler?
Anyway, Full House was rather awful, but hey, if we can forgive the Germans for WWII, surely you have it your heart to exonerate these two.
2. TOM GRUDNOWSKI
Misdeeds: CEO of Fair Isaac, the nation’s largest credit scoring agency, and the one primarily responsible for the system that allows auto amd health insurance companies to charge vastly higher rates to people who have faulty credit histories. It’s bad enough that you can’t get credit if you have some problems in your past; now your late Visa payments might make it harder for you to drive or see a doctor.
Aggravating Factor: Anonymous nature of credit industry makes it virtually impossible to find any personal information about one of the most powerful people in the country.
Aesthetic: A faceless ghost who hovers like a cloud over most people every day, infecting them with worries.
Who?
Hmmm, been spending a little too much time on eBay and watching QVC, have you? I have a feeling this whole list was a pretense to insert this odd, personal vendetta against the guy who’s responsible for all those stern letters admonishing the author about his late payments and soaring interest rates, and who is seen as the evil incarnate driving his pathological impulse-buying need to purchase every George Foreman grill, Revolutionary War coin collection and novelty singing Bass fish that he comes across.
"I said it's being taken care of, dammit. Mind your own business."The experience made me think of the instructions from all corners of the media after 9/11 that what we, as Americans,
Containment and deterrence were responses to US weakness, you silly-headed dunderpate. It was obvious that using direct
When they aired some actual interviews with the protesters, I started to honestly think they were part of some sort of
agree that [insert additional badly-forced car metaphor here]!
It seems the Muslim version of a slander suit is cutting off your head. Now when I read this I was shocked, just shocked
vulnerability.
they're done, hang them on his wall next to the framed heads of Iraqi dissidents and say to himself, "Well, I can check
slope proposition, claiming that because we go after Saddam, we'll suddenly be all aggro-ed up to obliterate any country
...but there's no shame in being a follower when those you're following make such damn good points.
that I hadn't thought of it first!
needed now was healing, closure; in short, to "get over it" and "move on."
serves? As far as I can tell, all they did was take some people who were probably overwhelmingly against the war anyway,
slope proposition, claiming that because we go after Saddam, we'll suddenly be all aggro-ed up to obliterate any country
...but there's no shame in being a follower when those you're following make such damn good points.
a careful, precise argument, what point is there in engaging them verbally anymore?
I suppose you mean that it's not "multilateralist" unless France says so?
and make them wish that congress had instead passed a resolution authorizing military force against people
both at home and abroad, can go heartily fuck themselves, or jump off a cliff, or shoot themselves in the head. I don't
I don't know about you people, but I'm already stocking up on extra food, water, and electrons.
have democratically elected rulers I'm sure doesn't throw any flies into your ointment.
Well I wouldn't be surprised if this Wednesday at Sproul there will be similar behavior, and I plan to be there. Maybe
Saddam will use these nukes when he gets them, whether that use takes the form of vaporizing a city or merely being hung
rivals.
he is willing to act aggressively and recklessly and cannot be reasonably deterred and 2) is working to get and use nukes
, "I don't believe the American people support this war. Everyone I've talked to is against it!"
vaunted proof of yours. Then you could be really sure.
Hesiod over at Counterspin Central is one such fellow. Not only with myself, but in his conversations with Den Beste,
If a good education is meant to produce independent thinkers, I've seen precious little evidence it does. Education is
go it alone. What he failed to do was tell us who the members of his war coalition are. Why? Because there is no coalition.
that boiled up to the surface when I read things like this.
The BBC has a story about the so-called "master hacker", in which it does a good job of destroying the mythos that
To quote a boozed up, cynical and misanthropic individual whom I greatly admire: "Making fun of these people is like
the efforts to find these people and eradicate them, to ferret them out from their cowardly hiding places and vaporize
nuclear weapons. Containment was born out of a realization that we were effectively restrained by our lack of strategic
alternative economy." I suppose that's better PR than saying they want to impose a grab bag full of sociialistic silliness
When I first heard about the bombing in Bali, my initial reaction was, "Another terrorist attack? Well, of course."
that I hadn't thought of it first!
The book details the ways that employees can inadvertently leak information that can be exploited by hackers to compromise
that extended anger and sadness bring, or maybe even from just the fact that my threshold of human suffering sufficient
them into a thin paste of protein on a cave wall, to wipe out every last vestige of the disgusting stain they have left
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.
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
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
being the reaction described above.
Why are you still here?!
One middle-aged woman who looked like she hadn't combed her hair since Jerry Garcia died had this to say, when asked
So seeing as how we've got massive approval from the House of Representatives and similar support in the senate is likely,
you could see stink lines of self-satisfaction coming off her so that he could simply get to his job. She of course started
I finally went and did it.
the efforts to find these people and eradicate them, to ferret them out from their cowardly hiding places and vaporize
Shiite Muslim clerics in Lebanon and Iran have reacted with rage at the Rev. Jerry Falwell for calling Islam's prophet
But it's not really fair to denigrate someone's ideas just because they themselves come from an organization riddled with
when you apply your own internal calculus of death and suffering and conclude that it isn't something that you need
Don't worry, I'll sit here with my rifle ready to take out any airborne porcines, should they come flying by.
"The lethal combination is when you exploit both people and technology," Mr Mitnick told BBC News Online.
to elicit empathy had been raised considerably since 9/11,
morally, that this is the right thing to do.
lap dance.
Such as this quote by Teddy Roosevelt concerning his acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize, posted now
The book details the ways that employees can inadvertently leak information that can be exploited by hackers to compromise
Well I wouldn't be surprised if this Wednesday at Sproul there will be similar behavior, and I plan to be there. Maybe
them into a thin paste of protein on a cave wall, to wipe out every last vestige of the disgusting stain they have left
a terrorist and an envoy of Iran's supreme leader reportedly called for his death.
to the San Francisco federal building to protest the passage of Bush's resolution for action against Iraq.
to really concern yourself with, except in a somewhat general, theoretical way.
making a point of reading in depth about any such future atrocity to ensure that I don't allow myself to be instantly "over it."
Containment and deterrence were responses to US weakness, you silly-headed dunderpate. It was obvious that using direct
50 Ways to Leave Your Folly Common Dreams, that goldmine of general silliness, showcases this piece, The Folly of Pre-emptive
in words so much more exacting than even those who actually live in that time would be able to produce?
I simply love it when my case is made for me.
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."
And exactly how do you go from no "final proof" to there being no evidence of impending aggression? The very fact that
that blatantly called for some rhetorical bitch-slapping.
Why are you still here?!
course grew out of the experience of 9/11.
obviously they have lost loved ones or friends."
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
Kevin Mitnick will be able to use a computer again in approximately 3 months.
, "I don't believe the American people support this war. Everyone I've talked to is against it!"
I guess not. The fact that the UN is anything but democratic since the vast majority of countries represented there do not
Containment and deterrence were responses to US weakness, you silly-headed dunderpate. It was obvious that using direct
something-really-awfuls, BlogSpot.
When I first heard about the bombing in Bali, my initial reaction was, "Another terrorist attack? Well, of course."
"The death of that man is a religious duty, but his case should not be tied to the Christian community," Shabestari,
cause, but I,
information with your heads crammed so far up your asses, so I'll give you a pass.
support (in the small, mostly insignificant ways that are possible for one such as myself)
to penetrate.
to make the first world poor and make sure the third world stays that way.
Sorry folks, but slippery slope arguments don't hold water by themselves. We're going after Saddam because he 1) has shown
I see. Did you talk to this "everyone" at your International Socialist Organization direct action planning seminar or
We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but
I suppose you mean that it's not "multilateralist" unless France says so?
one of the most fad-driven enterprises imaginable. It produces a new catechism each decade, which everyone dutifully recites.
I have to admit I'm pretty curious just to see what he's going to do. The guy has shown himself to have an overpowering
...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
making a point of reading in depth about any such future atrocity to ensure that I don't allow myself to be instantly "over it."
military action to counter the Soviet threat was not possible, because of their equal capacity to destroy us through
something-really-awfuls, BlogSpot.
Really, how often is someone able to so perfectly crystallize the dilemmas that will exist a century in the future
"The death of that man is a religious duty, but his case should not be tied to the Christian community," Shabestari,
has been built up around Mitnick, a basically curious guy who just as often used old face-to-face (or voice-to-voice)
But anyway, right there you've got yourself eight nations total in the coalition, hailing from North America, both western
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
War, by three fellows that hail from Global Exchange. You know who I'm talking about. The folks that want to "build an
Sorry folks, but slippery slope arguments don't hold water by themselves. We're going after Saddam because he 1) has shown
It seems the Muslim version of a slander suit is cutting off your head. Now when I read this I was shocked, just shocked
We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but
that extended anger and sadness bring, or maybe even from just the fact that my threshold of human suffering sufficient
If a good education is meant to produce independent thinkers, I've seen precious little evidence it does. Education is
cutting-edge performance art group impersonating real anti-war folks, as the whole ordeal seemed to approach parody. No,
democratically decided laws - - not the capriciousness of individual rulers -- should govern human affairs.
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 quote a boozed up, cynical and misanthropic individual whom I greatly admire: "Making fun of these people is like
Saddam is so hot to get his grubby hands on nukes is enough evidence of aggression. What's he going to do with them once
that blatantly called for some rhetorical bitch-slapping.
but they make up for any lack of actual existence with pure unadulterated enthusiasm.
In theory, I was of course angry, but I had a vaguely detatched sense about the whole thing. A large part of that of
So seeing as how we've got massive approval from the House of Representatives and similar support in the senate is likely,
which is all about the biggest threat to the security of all companies: their own employees.
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"I said it's being taken care of, dammit. Mind your own business."
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
But it's not really fair to denigrate someone's ideas just because they themselves come from an organization riddled with
"A bunch of people died from terrorism over the weekend? Sure, that's awful, but we all knew this was going to happen
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
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
fact that these people are thugs, bullies and liars.
Please. I can't swing around a dead Saddam on a rope without hitting this argument these days. At bottom, it's a slippery
"The death of that man is a religious duty, but his case should not be tied to the Christian community," Shabestari,
Now of course I'm sure that these open-toed folks have a flurry of perfectly well thought-out reasons as to why pissing
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
the real fault of that government or its citizens, or the West in general, or capitalism, or any other ridiculous boogeyman
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United States invade a distant country without any evidence of impending aggression.
And perhaps because of the collective weight of all those accumulated exhortations, perhaps from the psychic weariness
"I said it's being taken care of, dammit. Mind your own business."
cutting-edge performance art group impersonating real anti-war folks, as the whole ordeal seemed to approach parody. No,
Sure, it'd be nice to be a leader...
What it does not mean however, is that this suddenly signals that we are going to be going after China, Saudi Arabia, Cuba
Now at this point, most people would just say, "let it go, and move on."
rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.
Heaven forfend them not being on board with us!
just now. Admittedly they do face significant challenges in carrying out their duties due to their imaginary nature,
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
coming off them. It was really a terrible sight," she said. "You could just hear people crying up in the Bounty foyer -
I've been blogging since July 2005, and in that time, I've had a few inter-blog arguments with the folks on the other
jerkwad I encounter, an order for them to be beheaded with extreme prejudice until the the point at which they are dead
to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality.
It may be a sad illustration of my lack to find sympathy within myself without reading descriptions or seeing pictures,
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to all of you warmongering neanderthals" tone of voice. She then struck a pose of righteous exasperation when she asked
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
The Muslim world -- whose support is vital to any real effort to end the causes of terrorism -- is adamantly opposed.
If a good education is meant to produce independent thinkers, I've seen precious little evidence it does. Education is
Heh. Didn't Nostradamus write something about "a bespeckled plague rising in the West..."?
democratically decided laws - - not the capriciousness of individual rulers -- should govern human affairs.
Now of course I'm sure that these open-toed folks have a flurry of perfectly well thought-out reasons as to why pissing
To quote a boozed up, cynical and misanthropic individual whom I greatly admire: "Making fun of these people is like
satisfy you. I'd be much more amendable to the idea however if you were willing to be a personal eye-witness to this
use grown-up scissors), but nevertheless, even though he really didn't deserve it,
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,
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.
So seeing as how we've got massive approval from the House of Representatives and similar support in the senate is likely,
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 wouldn't be surprised if this Wednesday at Sproul there will be similar behavior, and I plan to be there. Maybe
that off my list of things to do. Now, on to learning how to square-dance."
I figured that was the way to go. But then I read this.
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
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 finally went and did it.
By tossing out any reasonable standards of evidence as a prerequisite for military action, the White House puts us in a state
Falwell was a "mercenary and must be killed," the Farsi-language daily Abrar reported Saturday.
by both Instapundit and Cold Fury (and probably by sundry others by now):
US: Italy, Australia, Poland, Spain, Qatar, Kuwait and, of course, Britain. I know it's hard to find out this kind of
Diversity. More than motherhood, it is the one unassailable concept these days. Open any teaching publication, and you will
"What I found personally to be true was that it's easier to manipulate people rather than technology," he said.
Many in the global community also distrust the Bush administration's expanding war aims. It is not easy for our friends around
Why are you still here?!
owned," she pontificated, in that snotty "52% of my clothes are made of hemp which therefore makes me morally superior
During the last half of the 20th century, this principle was expanded internationally through the United Nations. The U.N.
However, several of the exchanges I have had have definately been with those you might describe as "challeneged" in
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
Iranian cleric Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari, addressing weekly Friday prayers in the northwestern town of Tabriz, said
Watching Channel 7 news today (the Simpsons were in a commercial), they reported on a wad of dingbats who blocked access
to really concern yourself with, except in a somewhat general, theoretical way.
A taste, just a taste...
And exactly how do you go from no "final proof" to there being no evidence of impending aggression? The very fact that
Many in the global community also distrust the Bush administration's expanding war aims. It is not easy for our friends around
Why are you still here?!
Stand up to these thugs This Wednesday, the 16th at noon, an apparent composite of the Students for Justice in Palestine
looks like a green light, no?
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.
on the civilized world. And when I resort again to that frame of mind, it will be because I realize, intellectually and
Russia and shit. Besides, it's just the Russians. Why don't we just contain them or something? Hey, who's up for some
Sure, it'd be nice to be a leader...
to really concern yourself with, except in a somewhat general, theoretical way.
Diversity. More than motherhood, it is the one unassailable concept these days. Open any teaching publication, and you will
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
being the reaction described above.
Please. I can't swing around a dead Saddam on a rope without hitting this argument these days. At bottom, it's a slippery
"The death of that man is a religious duty, but his case should not be tied to the Christian community," Shabestari,
threaten the United States, he said we must "assume the worst." Essentially, the White House is proposing that the
For that reason and others, I didn't actually start reading the news coverage until this morning.
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
he is willing to act aggressively and recklessly and cannot be reasonably deterred and 2) is working to get and use nukes
to all of you warmongering neanderthals" tone of voice. She then struck a pose of righteous exasperation when she asked
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
Whereas the Cold War doctrine of deterrence and containment rested on strength, the new idea of pre-emption insists on U.S.
she can last 6 hours). I make this declaration keeping in mind that this does not imply a judgement on the Idiotarian
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
that boiled up to the surface when I read things like this.
of the mass moron movement.
To quote a boozed up, cynical and misanthropic individual whom I greatly admire: "Making fun of these people is like
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
Why are you still here?!
without end is causing traditional friends of the United States to
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you could see stink lines of self-satisfaction coming off her so that he could simply get to his job. She of course started
And perhaps because of the collective weight of all those accumulated exhortations, perhaps from the psychic weariness
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
to make the first world poor and make sure the third world stays that way.
of the mass moron movement.
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
military action to counter the Soviet threat was not possible, because of their equal capacity to destroy us through
fact that these people are thugs, bullies and liars.
that has the temerity to look at us cock-eyed.
University or Diversity
Peace is generally good in itself, but it is never the highest good unless it comes as the handmaid
needed now was healing, closure; in short, to "get over it" and "move on."
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
I strongly suspect TR had access to some sort of time machine and traveled into the furture about a hundred years.
I wish that I could just be told "Hundreds of people died in a terrorist bombing today," and instantly feel the kind of rage
Kevin Mitnick will be able to use a computer again in approximately 3 months.
to all of you warmongering neanderthals" tone of voice. She then struck a pose of righteous exasperation when she asked
satisfy you. I'd be much more amendable to the idea however if you were willing to be a personal eye-witness to this
to elicit empathy had been raised considerably since 9/11,
faith at large, since many of them are peaceful, albeit intellectually stunted, people.
When I first heard about the bombing in Bali, my initial reaction was, "Another terrorist attack? Well, of course."
I simply love it when my case is made for me.
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."
assures everyone that "Don't worry, the problem is being taking care of by the inspectors."
The article also points to this site, which maintains a running clock of how long it will be until Mitnick can start
about equal probability.
care. Just don't let me hear anything about how this bombing that specifically targeted Australian civilians was somehow
, "I don't believe the American people support this war. Everyone I've talked to is against it!"
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.
one of the most fad-driven enterprises imaginable. It produces a new catechism each decade, which everyone dutifully recites.
I have to admit I'm pretty curious just to see what he's going to do. The guy has shown himself to have an overpowering
Another Australian tourist, 18-year-old Rachel Hughes, said she and her boyfriend had just arrived in Kuta when the blast
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
getting an education. When she tried to talk to one of the organizers after her test about how some people were just
And exactly how do you go from no "final proof" to there being no evidence of impending aggression? The very fact that
that blatantly called for some rhetorical bitch-slapping.
The fact that this is being published in the Chronicle is no small feat. Even more reason for you to go read it.
join the majority of the world's nations in distancing themselves from Washington in a fashion not seen since the Vietnam War.
looks like a green light, no?
Mr Mitnick even had to get permission from his probation officer to use a computer to write his book, The Art Of Deception,
and that it wasn't fair for these people to stop them, the girl started literally screaming at her about selfish she was.
"I said it's being taken care of, dammit. Mind your own business."
I figured that was the way to go. But then I read this.
But it's not really fair to denigrate someone's ideas just because they themselves come from an organization riddled with
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
Don't worry, I'll sit here with my rifle ready to take out any airborne porcines, should they come flying by.
And exactly how do you go from no "final proof" to there being no evidence of impending aggression? The very fact that
world that even today harbors and offers succor to the same groups that piloted the 9/11 planes, right?
but they make up for any lack of actual existence with pure unadulterated enthusiasm.
course grew out of the experience of 9/11.
occurred, smashing the window of their hotel room.
which is all about the biggest threat to the security of all companies: their own employees.
trying to get an education
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.
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
Eventually he got a little ticked off and said roughly, "Get away from me!" I was hungrily anticipating the energetic dissenter
fact that these people are thugs, bullies and liars.
Please. I can't swing around a dead Saddam on a rope without hitting this argument these days. At bottom, it's a slippery
lap dance.
Such as this quote by Teddy Roosevelt concerning his acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize, posted now
or any other simply crappy country in the world, because none of them satisfy both those propositions.
In your face, Space Coyote!
without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism,
You try to make it seem as if the Joint Chiefs were lying around on a Sunday afternoon and said to themselves, "Yeah sure,
be harried by idiots who have full compliments of heads and genitals! With the ranks of my imaginary gnomes rallied,
course grew out of the experience of 9/11.
coming off them. It was really a terrible sight," she said. "You could just hear people crying up in the Bounty foyer -
the not-being-a-jerk department.
I'll get a chance to ask why they've been glorifying images of Hamas murderers on their flyers.
By tossing out any reasonable standards of evidence as a prerequisite for military action, the White House puts us in a state
Iranian cleric Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari, addressing weekly Friday prayers in the northwestern town of Tabriz, said
to the San Francisco federal building to protest the passage of Bush's resolution for action against Iraq.
US: Italy, Australia, Poland, Spain, Qatar, Kuwait and, of course, Britain. I know it's hard to find out this kind of
A taste, just a taste...
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
being the reaction described above.
last update : 7-2-2012
