About every 100 million years or so, there is a lining up of the planets and stars that is sufficient to cause a rift in the space-irony continuum, releasing the very building blocks of the stuff throughout the cosmos and causing a moment of perfect irony. The last time this happened was about 65 million years ago, when a dinosaur remarked to an associate of his, “You know something, Dennis? I have a feeling us Klebnorbs (cause that’s what they called themselves) are going to be around forever.”
Right then, Dennis looked up into the sky and said, “Hey, what’s that?”
Well, I’m very tempted to say that the next great rift may be upon us. How else can you explain a website that likes to call itself “Tom Paine.common sense” publishing an article that earnestly wonders why Michael Moore hasn’t yet been given a TV show devoted to shoving his fat face, ugly class warrior rhetoric, and typically unappealing, mean-spirited personality into people’s homes every day?
Michael Moore has a problem: Nobody wants to put him on television. “I’ve been on a total of two network shows in nine months,” the lefty filmmaker and author recently told The New York Times. “What’s going on with that?”
I could be simplistic and say it’s because he comes off as a smug jerk to most people, but I’ll try and phrase it a little better than that.
Michael Moore’s media efforts thus far, to the extent that they have been successful, have hinged on him 1) being able to completely control and manipulate the information that gets presented to the audience, and 2) having strategically constrained his personality from showing through too much.
In Bowling For Columbine, he’s in complete directorial control, and is able to present information (and distort it) as much as he wants, as he does when he films himself leaving a bank with a handgun, implying that the bank teller just handed it over to him as part of their oh-so-white-trash promotion deal of a free gun upon opening an account. This is always described to me as one of the funniest scenes in the movie. Far less funny would have been to film how Moore actually got his gun: he had to take a certificate he received from the teller and take it to a gun store after going through all the normal procedures for purchasing a firearm. Sure, it’s a deliberate dishonesty, but otherwise it wouldn’t have been funny or made his point. Moore wouldn’t be able to control reality in this manner were he given the opportunity to plop his ample frame into an extra large chair to the right of Jay Leno.
And as to that, many people, even fans of his movies and books, are starting to realize that pure, unadulterated Moore is not a pleasant thing to encounter fucking female pony. Anyone who saw or heard about his behavior (both onstage and off) at his one-man show in London can vouch for this. Whether he’s going for laughs by suggesting that the 9/11 hijackers were able to kill thousands of people because the honkies on the planes (and all whites in general) were pussies, or setting up silly set pieces with audience members that end up backfiring and making him look not only unfunny and offensive but also stupid, a good rule of thumb to go by is: however much leeway he’s given to let his true, everyday self show through is directly proportional to how much you end up disliking the man at the end of the day.
As the Times reported the same day, “Democrats are scouring the nation for a liberal answer to Rush Limbaugh.” Why isn’t it Michael Moore?
I would have to say that it’s because the Left isn’t completely suicidal. I really can’t understand why Richard Blow doesn’t understand all of the above about Moore, especially when he says the following about Ann Coulter, identifying the aspects that make her a successful media personality:
Ann Coulter gets on TV because she rules the medium; she’s poised, articulate and throws soundbites like spears. She’s also good-looking, which TV viewers (and, consequently, producers) love. And she’s provocative.
Well, yeah.
I’ll return to the “good-looking” issue in a little bit (where can one even begin when comparing Coulter to Moore?). But even putting that aside, I don’t see how he can expect to find a place for Moore with all those criteria.
Brother, he’s a lot of things, but “poised” he ain’t. Rather, he’s awkward and random. And “articulate”? I suppose Blow has a different meaning in mind for that word besides being able to get your point across coherently, because that Moore definitely does not do.
One perhaps might say he “throws soundbites like spears,” but all of those spears he fires off end up flying in every which direction and not hitting any intelligible targets, because those soundbites for which those spears do metaphorical duty amount at most to a series of disjointed, angry ramblings that reveal a measure of contempt for the American people (and anyone who disagrees even slightly with his bizarre grab bag of progressive issues) unequaled by the most liberal of TV personalities Girl having sex with giant horse cock.
Ann Coulter has said some stupid things, as when she (aggressively tongue in cheek) suggested she wouldn’t feel bad if the 9/11 hijackers had crashed into the New York Times building, but those kinds of statements from her are rare, and the joking nature (however insensitive) is also unmistakable. Moore, on the other hand, makes as his rhetorical bread and butter sincerely angry and ugly pronouncements with a regular frequncy, such as lamenting the fact that Al Qeada attacked New York, since most New Yorkers hadn’t even voted for Bush, after all! They didn’t deserve to die a fiery death unlike, say, the majority of Americans in Houston. Why couldn’t the terrorists have attacked there?
He identifies small business owners as idiots, rednecks and racists, all. He speaks degradingly of “the masses,” as if there were some single monolithic horde of poor, ignorant and oppressed proles who need the light of his wisdom to guide them out of the forest of blindness and oppression by the Big Business and Republican trolls.
And, perhaps most tellingly, he plays his working-class hero schtick to the hilt at every occasion, yet rants and raves backstage at the janitors, interns and other poor schmos making minimum wage becuase he’s only getting paid $750 a night to shuffle around on the stage aimlessly in front of an audience and insult the people on the 9/11 planes for being white “scaredy-cats,” right before he hops on a plane and returns to his multimillion dollar mansion.
It goes on and on.
And furthermore, Moore deson’t even work as the person that conservatives “love to hate” the way Blow described Coulter was to the Left when she wrote for George magazine. I think if you really examined people’s opinions more closely, you’d find that people don’t hate Moore so much as have contempt at his utter hypocrisy, ugliness and absurdity as a public figure. Coulter at the very least can present a compelling argument, that, if one disagrees with, can exercise and get them interested, even if it means that energy takes the form of anger. Any interest in Moore honestly sounding off on his political beliefs, on the other hand, amounts to a kind of gross fascination with a truly unpleasant scene. To say that watching Moore try to communicate an articulate point (bereft of the fudging and crutches that the celluloid format allows him) is like looking at a car crash is to unfairly gruesome-ize car crashes.
As for the “looks” issue, Blow seems to think that Moore has a “kindly, everyman face,” which he even acknowledges can sometimes hide an ugly character.
Boy howdy.
And even if that were not the case with Moore, there would still be the fact that he seems to have that horribly irritating and off-putting “ain’t-I-a-stinker” grin on his plug-ugly mug throughout most of the day lady fucking dog. It’s a face for radio if there ever was one.
Too bad his personality is the thing keeping him out of radio. And print. And puppet shows. And smoke signaling.
In theory, I was of course angry, but I had a vaguely detatched sense about the whole thing. A large part of that ofSo welcome. If this is the first and/or only post you can see, it means I haven't imported my archives from Blogspot yet,
I wish that I could just be told "Hundreds of people died in a terrorist bombing today," and instantly feel the kind of rage
It seems the Muslim version of a slander suit is cutting off your head. Now when I read this I was shocked, just shocked
In fact, the idea of pre- emptive attack depends on fear. It presupposes insecurity and assumes we will always be threatened.
serves? As far as I can tell, all they did was take some people who were probably overwhelmingly against the war anyway,
Finally, long after the fad has grown tiresome, everyone's attention turns to another scrap of dogma for the next decade.
But it's not really fair to denigrate someone's ideas just because they themselves come from an organization riddled with
Wheeler Hall last spring.
vulnerability.
Hey, didn't there used to be a city where this smoking crater is?
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
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
only be revealed as more useless than it already seems), there is right now a coalition prepared to go into Iraq with the
satisfy you. I'd be much more amendable to the idea however if you were willing to be a personal eye-witness to this
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
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
Stand up to these thugs This Wednesday, the 16th at noon, an apparent composite of the Students for Justice in Palestine
lying in order to gain information that gave him access to restricted systems.
have democratically elected rulers I'm sure doesn't throw any flies into your ointment.
Do you mean the Muslim world that celebrated 9/11, saying the US deserved it all along? Or perhaps you mean the Muslim world
Shiite Muslim clerics in Lebanon and Iran have reacted with rage at the Rev. Jerry Falwell for calling Islam's prophet
Kevin Mitnick will be able to use a computer again in approximately 3 months.
Yes, well I suppose you're suggesting that we would be well-served to wait for this "final proof," then? Very well. I'll
to really concern yourself with, except in a somewhat general, theoretical way.
jerkwad I encounter, an order for them to be beheaded with extreme prejudice until the the point at which they are dead
nuclear weapons. Containment was born out of a realization that we were effectively restrained by our lack of strategic
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,
United States invade a distant country without any evidence of impending aggression.
But anyway, right there you've got yourself eight nations total in the coalition, hailing from North America, both western
predictable frequency. Follow a politician to a school photo-op,
I strongly suspect TR had access to some sort of time machine and traveled into the furture about a hundred years.
it is shoved, in all its detailed horror, right into my face.
You mean everyone in America aren't like San Franciscans?
, "I don't believe the American people support this war. Everyone I've talked to is against it!"
conflict.
"The lethal combination is when you exploit both people and technology," Mr Mitnick told BBC News Online.
that continues to characterize the US as the Great Satan and preach jihad against all things Western? Oh I know, the Muslim
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.
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.
and that it wasn't fair for these people to stop them, the girl started literally screaming at her about selfish she was.
without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism,
that blatantly called for some rhetorical bitch-slapping.
Watching Channel 7 news today (the Simpsons were in a commercial), they reported on a wad of dingbats who blocked access
Already, even if the UN thumbs its irrelevant nose at the idea of going after Iraq (and if it actually does, then they'll
conflict.
computer systems.
be replacing the old site that was hosted on that evil of evils, that bane of banes, that something-really-awful of
But for now if you all don't mind, I'd just like to stew in my rage for a while, and remind myself in a truly visceral
curiosity that trumps any sort of legal resriction placed on him, but it's pretty much a foregone conclusion that he's
attack against the United States. Even though President Bush acknowledged in his speech that Iraq does not currently
only be revealed as more useless than it already seems), there is right now a coalition prepared to go into Iraq with the
Diversity. More than motherhood, it is the one unassailable concept these days. Open any teaching publication, and you will
they're done, hang them on his wall next to the framed heads of Iraqi dissidents and say to himself, "Well, I can check
That is, until this morning. Now I'm glad to say that I've gotten over getting over it, and am thoroughly pissed again.
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when you apply your own internal calculus of death and suffering and conclude that it isn't something that you need
weapons inspections in Iraq represent a good example of how the rule of law has been used, and can be used again, to avert
which is all about the biggest threat to the security of all companies: their own employees.
I finally went and did it.
"I said it's being taken care of, dammit. Mind your own business."
"approach parody" is too mild. They sprinted towards parody, jumped on top of it and proceded to give parody a spirited
Sure, it'd be nice to be a leader...
or any other simply crappy country in the world, because none of them satisfy both those propositions.
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,
superiority.
Anyway, take the new site for a test drive. Take her easy on the clutch and go steady on the hills, and I think you'll
course grew out of the experience of 9/11.
that I hadn't thought of it first!
satisfy you. I'd be much more amendable to the idea however if you were willing to be a personal eye-witness to this
Hesiod over at Counterspin Central is one such fellow. Not only with myself, but in his conversations with Den Beste,
be replacing the old site that was hosted on that evil of evils, that bane of banes, that something-really-awful of
Really, how often is someone able to so perfectly crystallize the dilemmas that will exist a century in the future
Falwell was a "mercenary and must be killed," the Farsi-language daily Abrar reported Saturday.
Such as this quote by Teddy Roosevelt concerning his acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize, posted now
For that reason and others, I didn't actually start reading the news coverage until this morning.
So I hereby declare myself Ayatollah Mustardah of Blogistan. From this day forward, I will call down, on any Idiotarian
to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality.
I figured that was the way to go. But then I read this.
alternative economy." I suppose that's better PR than saying they want to impose a grab bag full of sociialistic silliness
when you apply your own internal calculus of death and suffering and conclude that it isn't something that you need
I'm going to be checking the weather channel for reports of snowflakes in Hell, but meanwhile you should go read it now.
we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight
Containment and deterrence were responses to US weakness, you silly-headed dunderpate. It was obvious that using direct
one of the most fad-driven enterprises imaginable. It produces a new catechism each decade, which everyone dutifully recites.
Quite the contrary, Bush's aggressive rhetoric, disregard for international law, and his lack of any vision other than war
"The death of that man is a religious duty, but his case should not be tied to the Christian community," Shabestari,
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."
predictable frequency. Follow a politician to a school photo-op,
Saddam will use these nukes when he gets them, whether that use takes the form of vaporizing a city or merely being hung
it is shoved, in all its detailed horror, right into my face.
Watching Channel 7 news today (the Simpsons were in a commercial), they reported on a wad of dingbats who blocked access
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
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
world that even today harbors and offers succor to the same groups that piloted the 9/11 planes, right?
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
In theory, I was of course angry, but I had a vaguely detatched sense about the whole thing. A large part of that of
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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 that it wasn't fair for these people to stop them, the girl started literally screaming at her about selfish she was.
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
agree that [insert additional badly-forced car metaphor here]!
of the mass moron movement.
I see. Did you talk to this "everyone" at your International Socialist Organization direct action planning seminar or
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."
serves? As far as I can tell, all they did was take some people who were probably overwhelmingly against the war anyway,
It may be a sad illustration of my lack to find sympathy within myself without reading descriptions or seeing pictures,
that has the temerity to look at us cock-eyed.
Stand up to these thugs This Wednesday, the 16th at noon, an apparent composite of the Students for Justice in Palestine
During the last half of the 20th century, this principle was expanded internationally through the United Nations. The U.N.
Eventually he got a little ticked off and said roughly, "Get away from me!" I was hungrily anticipating the energetic dissenter
that extended anger and sadness bring, or maybe even from just the fact that my threshold of human suffering sufficient
on the civilized world. And when I resort again to that frame of mind, it will be because I realize, intellectually and
"approach parody" is too mild. They sprinted towards parody, jumped on top of it and proceded to give parody a spirited
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
the All Men Are Rapists self defense workshop? Surely that must be a representative sample of the country!
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
serves? As far as I can tell, all they did was take some people who were probably overwhelmingly against the war anyway,
It may be a sad illustration of my lack to find sympathy within myself without reading descriptions or seeing pictures,
Watching Channel 7 news today (the Simpsons were in a commercial), they reported on a wad of dingbats who blocked access
Already, even if the UN thumbs its irrelevant nose at the idea of going after Iraq (and if it actually does, then they'll
weapons inspections in Iraq represent a good example of how the rule of law has been used, and can be used again, to avert
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
Also, I've printed out and made a bunch of copies of some flyers from this site and will be passing them out.
Please. I can't swing around a dead Saddam on a rope without hitting this argument these days. At bottom, it's a slippery
curiosity that trumps any sort of legal resriction placed on him, but it's pretty much a foregone conclusion that he's
Such as this quote by Teddy Roosevelt concerning his acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize, posted now
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
Sure, it'd be nice to be a leader...
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
Now at this point, most people would just say, "let it go, and move on."
news editors of Cannel 7 to allow, as the segment ended right there.
Many in the global community also distrust the Bush administration's expanding war aims. It is not easy for our friends around
way why we're doing all of this, and why, if they still choose to berate us about "root causes" and "birds coming home
the Feds know about it.
looks like a green light, no?
chanting in his face and moved in front of him every time he tried to get around her.
I suppose you mean that it's not "multilateralist" unless France says so?
faith at large, since many of them are peaceful, albeit intellectually stunted, people.
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.
I don't know about you people, but I'm already stocking up on extra food, water, and electrons.
information with your heads crammed so far up your asses, so I'll give you a pass.
find testimonials to diversity. Flip through any recent social sciences or humanities textbook and diversity pops up with
to penetrate.
It may be a sad illustration of my lack to find sympathy within myself without reading descriptions or seeing pictures,
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
After 3000 of your countrymen die in a couple hours, anything less than that is wont to be downplayed in significance
a careful, precise argument, what point is there in engaging them verbally anymore?
we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight
to elicit empathy had been raised considerably since 9/11,
faith at large, since many of them are peaceful, albeit intellectually stunted, people.
in words so much more exacting than even those who actually live in that time would be able to produce?
and the decisions to do so would based on (as in this case) measured calculations of the relative benefits and costs,
cause, but I,
But anyway, right there you've got yourself eight nations total in the coalition, hailing from North America, both western
predictable frequency. Follow a politician to a school photo-op,
that off my list of things to do. Now, on to learning how to square-dance."
Russia and shit. Besides, it's just the Russians. Why don't we just contain them or something? Hey, who's up for some
You mean everyone in America aren't like San Franciscans?
only be revealed as more useless than it already seems), there is right now a coalition prepared to go into Iraq with the
Don't worry, I'll sit here with my rifle ready to take out any airborne porcines, should they come flying by.
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
Finally, long after the fad has grown tiresome, everyone's attention turns to another scrap of dogma for the next decade.
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.
It seems the Muslim version of a slander suit is cutting off your head. Now when I read this I was shocked, just shocked
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
vulnerability.
Well, being the abject conformist that I am, I would like to welcome all new and oldcomers to my new blog, which will
I strongly suspect TR had access to some sort of time machine and traveled into the furture about a hundred years.
hacky-sack?"
...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
A taste, just a taste...
Those people are especially useful when they have access to the core computer systems that hackers would otherwise struggle
being the reaction described above.
The fact that this is being published in the Chronicle is no small feat. Even more reason for you to go read it.
without end is causing traditional friends of the United States to
University or Diversity
sloth, or as an instrument to further the ends of despotism or anarchy.
Do you mean the Muslim world that celebrated 9/11, saying the US deserved it all along? Or perhaps you mean the Muslim world
If a good education is meant to produce independent thinkers, I've seen precious little evidence it does. Education is
Bush also spoke of an "international coalition" that would disarm Hussein. Bush knows the American public is loathe to
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
But anyway, right there you've got yourself eight nations total in the coalition, hailing from North America, both western
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"?
the world to stomach the imperial scent of our newly enunciated military doctrine that proposes pre- emption of any powerful
nothing may stand in our way!
Don't you people ever get tired of just pulling shit out of your asses?
obviously they have lost loved ones or friends."
Eventually he got a little ticked off and said roughly, "Get away from me!" I was hungrily anticipating the energetic dissenter
to elicit empathy had been raised considerably since 9/11,
just now. Admittedly they do face significant challenges in carrying out their duties due to their imaginary nature,
curiosity that trumps any sort of legal resriction placed on him, but it's pretty much a foregone conclusion that he's
occurred, smashing the window of their hotel room.
has been built up around Mitnick, a basically curious guy who just as often used old face-to-face (or voice-to-voice)
needed now was healing, closure; in short, to "get over it" and "move on."
predictable frequency. Follow a politician to a school photo-op,
I strongly suspect TR had access to some sort of time machine and traveled into the furture about a hundred years.
Russia and shit. Besides, it's just the Russians. Why don't we just contain them or something? Hey, who's up for some
Watching Channel 7 news today (the Simpsons were in a commercial), they reported on a wad of dingbats who blocked access
Already, even if the UN thumbs its irrelevant nose at the idea of going after Iraq (and if it actually does, then they'll
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.
The fact that this is being published in the Chronicle is no small feat. Even more reason for you to go read it.
course grew out of the experience of 9/11.
University or Diversity
Yes, well I suppose you're suggesting that we would be well-served to wait for this "final proof," then? Very well. I'll
and eastern Europe, Australia and the middle east. Is that not multilateralism?
faith at large, since many of them are peaceful, albeit intellectually stunted, people.
Really, how often is someone able to so perfectly crystallize the dilemmas that will exist a century in the future
that boiled up to the surface when I read things like this.
I don't know about you people, but I'm already stocking up on extra food, water, and electrons.
I see. Did you talk to this "everyone" at your International Socialist Organization direct action planning seminar or
And at most, UN weapons inspectors have delayed conflict by a few years, not averted it. In actualyity, I think they have
nuclear weapons. Containment was born out of a realization that we were effectively restrained by our lack of strategic
Finally, long after the fad has grown tiresome, everyone's attention turns to another scrap of dogma for the next decade.
One middle-aged woman who looked like she hadn't combed her hair since Jerry Garcia died had this to say, when asked
occurred, smashing the window of their hotel room.
Mr Mitnick even had to get permission from his probation officer to use a computer to write his book, The Art Of Deception,
hunting dairy cows with a high-powered rifle and scope."
to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality.
Shiite Muslim clerics in Lebanon and Iran have reacted with rage at the Rev. Jerry Falwell for calling Islam's prophet
to make the first world poor and make sure the third world stays that way.
so that he will be better equipped to fulfill point 1). Show me another nation that's like that today.
I see. Did you talk to this "everyone" at your International Socialist Organization direct action planning seminar or
have democratically elected rulers I'm sure doesn't throw any flies into your ointment.
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.
slope proposition, claiming that because we go after Saddam, we'll suddenly be all aggro-ed up to obliterate any country
Stand up to these thugs This Wednesday, the 16th at noon, an apparent composite of the Students for Justice in Palestine
by both Instapundit and Cold Fury (and probably by sundry others by now):
Well that's not really true. People on a different side of the debate than I are not necessarily jerks, just wrong.
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
"to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality"?
Russia and shit. Besides, it's just the Russians. Why don't we just contain them or something? Hey, who's up for some
...but there's no shame in being a follower when those you're following make such damn good points.
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
Well I'm far far far too petty a person to do that.
And exactly how do you go from no "final proof" to there being no evidence of impending aggression? The very fact that
I tried to present my ideas in an honest and truthful way, and not be seriously offensive, even when he acted in ways
about equal probability.
both at home and abroad, can go heartily fuck themselves, or jump off a cliff, or shoot themselves in the head. I don't
It seems the Muslim version of a slander suit is cutting off your head. Now when I read this I was shocked, just shocked
of righteousness; and it becomes a very evil thing if it serves merely as a mask for cowardice and
the not-being-a-jerk department.
I urge anyone in the bay area who has the time on the 16th to come as well and lend credence with your example to the
over the heads of the world's nations as threat so that he can act willy-nilly in whatever new adventure captures his
hacky-sack?"
The BBC has a story about the so-called "master hacker", in which it does a good job of destroying the mythos that
"A bunch of people died from terrorism over the weekend? Sure, that's awful, but we all knew this was going to happen
So I hereby declare myself Ayatollah Mustardah of Blogistan. From this day forward, I will call down, on any Idiotarian
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 figured that was the way to go. But then I read this.
Anyway, take the new site for a test drive. Take her easy on the clutch and go steady on the hills, and I think you'll
course grew out of the experience of 9/11.
that I hadn't thought of it first!
vaunted proof of yours. Then you could be really sure.
Containment and deterrence were responses to US weakness, you silly-headed dunderpate. It was obvious that using direct
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
slope proposition, claiming that because we go after Saddam, we'll suddenly be all aggro-ed up to obliterate any country
and the decisions to do so would based on (as in this case) measured calculations of the relative benefits and costs,
threaten the United States, he said we must "assume the worst." Essentially, the White House is proposing that the
Well that's not really true. People on a different side of the debate than I are not necessarily jerks, just wrong.
In your face, Space Coyote!
them into a thin paste of protein on a cave wall, to wipe out every last vestige of the disgusting stain they have left
destroying the technological infrastructure of Western civilization again. And it's only 3 months away!
agree that [insert additional badly-forced car metaphor here]!
of the mass moron movement.
the All Men Are Rapists self defense workshop? Surely that must be a representative sample of the country!
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."
Those people are especially useful when they have access to the core computer systems that hackers would otherwise struggle
So welcome. If this is the first and/or only post you can see, it means I haven't imported my archives from Blogspot yet,
to all of you warmongering neanderthals" tone of voice. She then struck a pose of righteous exasperation when she asked
We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but
the not-being-a-jerk department.
fact that these people are thugs, bullies and liars.
in words so much more exacting than even those who actually live in that time would be able to produce?
a representative of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was quoted as saying.
Such as this quote by Teddy Roosevelt concerning his acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize, posted now
side of the political spectrum... what are they called?
Well I wouldn't be surprised if this Wednesday at Sproul there will be similar behavior, and I plan to be there. Maybe
they're done, hang them on his wall next to the framed heads of Iraqi dissidents and say to himself, "Well, I can check
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
to make the first world poor and make sure the third world stays that way.
of the mass moron movement.
a careful, precise argument, what point is there in engaging them verbally anymore?
satisfy you. I'd be much more amendable to the idea however if you were willing to be a personal eye-witness to this
military action to counter the Soviet threat was not possible, because of their equal capacity to destroy us through
something-really-awfuls, BlogSpot.
that has the temerity to look at us cock-eyed.
"The death of that man is a religious duty, but his case should not be tied to the Christian community," Shabestari,
cause, but I,
But anyway, right there you've got yourself eight nations total in the coalition, hailing from North America, both western
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
I strongly suspect TR had access to some sort of time machine and traveled into the furture about a hundred years.
rivals.
The BBC has a story about the so-called "master hacker", in which it does a good job of destroying the mythos that
"A bunch of people died from terrorism over the weekend? Sure, that's awful, but we all knew this was going to happen
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."
"What I found personally to be true was that it's easier to manipulate people rather than technology," he said.
That is, until this morning. Now I'm glad to say that I've gotten over getting over it, and am thoroughly pissed again.
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
weapons inspections in Iraq represent a good example of how the rule of law has been used, and can be used again, to avert
you could see stink lines of self-satisfaction coming off her so that he could simply get to his job. She of course started
The Muslim world -- whose support is vital to any real effort to end the causes of terrorism -- is adamantly opposed.
last update : 11-3-2010
