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.
coming off them. It was really a terrible sight," she said. "You could just hear people crying up in the Bounty foyer -curiosity that trumps any sort of legal resriction placed on him, but it's pretty much a foregone conclusion that he's
If and when you find one, that means that I'll be perfectly willing to advocate an attack against them as well.
Well I'm far far far too petty a person to do that.
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.
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.
sloth, or as an instrument to further the ends of despotism or anarchy.
and that it wasn't fair for these people to stop them, the girl started literally screaming at her about selfish she was.
to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality.
War, by three fellows that hail from Global Exchange. You know who I'm talking about. The folks that want to "build an
join the majority of the world's nations in distancing themselves from Washington in a fashion not seen since the Vietnam War.
US: Italy, Australia, Poland, Spain, Qatar, Kuwait and, of course, Britain. I know it's hard to find out this kind of
But I am thankful that at least for now, I've been able to summon that deep-seated, personal wrath so appropriate to an
I tried to present my ideas in an honest and truthful way, and not be seriously offensive, even when he acted in ways
just now. Admittedly they do face significant challenges in carrying out their duties due to their imaginary nature,
Another Australian tourist, 18-year-old Rachel Hughes, said she and her boyfriend had just arrived in Kuta when the blast
of fist.
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.
that off my list of things to do. Now, on to learning how to square-dance."
Replace "powerful" with "crazy and armed with nukes" and you'd be right. Otherwise, your statement is nonsense.
the real fault of that government or its citizens, or the West in general, or capitalism, or any other ridiculous boogeyman
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
computer systems.
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.
the Feds know about it.
Peace is generally good in itself, but it is never the highest good unless it comes as the handmaid
and eastern Europe, Australia and the middle east. Is that not multilateralism?
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 is, until this morning. Now I'm glad to say that I've gotten over getting over it, and am thoroughly pissed again.
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.
President Bush says he wants to avoid "a future of fear." It's an admirable goal, but one hardly served by this new doctrine.
"The lethal combination is when you exploit both people and technology," Mr Mitnick told BBC News Online.
she can last 6 hours). I make this declaration keeping in mind that this does not imply a judgement on the Idiotarian
lap dance.
...but there's no shame in being a follower when those you're following make such damn good points.
US: Italy, Australia, Poland, Spain, Qatar, Kuwait and, of course, Britain. I know it's hard to find out this kind of
we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight
that continues to characterize the US as the Great Satan and preach jihad against all things Western? Oh I know, the Muslim
By tossing out any reasonable standards of evidence as a prerequisite for military action, the White House puts us in a state
both at home and abroad, can go heartily fuck themselves, or jump off a cliff, or shoot themselves in the head. I don't
"Standing in the foyer of the Bounty Hotel, people were just walking in, blood dripping off them, burns to their face, skin
Well that's not really true. People on a different side of the debate than I are not necessarily jerks, just wrong.
predictable frequency. Follow a politician to a school photo-op,
and make them wish that congress had instead passed a resolution authorizing military force against people
the world to stomach the imperial scent of our newly enunciated military doctrine that proposes pre- emption of any powerful
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!"
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
Hesiod over at Counterspin Central is one such fellow. Not only with myself, but in his conversations with Den Beste,
I urge anyone in the bay area who has the time on the 16th to come as well and lend credence with your example to the
Bush also spoke of an "international coalition" that would disarm Hussein. Bush knows the American public is loathe to
and the decisions to do so would based on (as in this case) measured calculations of the relative benefits and costs,
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
jerkwad I encounter, an order for them to be beheaded with extreme prejudice until the the point at which they are dead
they're done, hang them on his wall next to the framed heads of Iraqi dissidents and say to himself, "Well, I can check
the world to stomach the imperial scent of our newly enunciated military doctrine that proposes pre- emption of any powerful
You mean everyone in America aren't like San Franciscans?
some of their cohorts are actually being held accountable by the university for their disruptive, illegal actions at
anger that is so justifiable -no, demanded- by these despicable acts, but if that must be the case, then from on, I'll be
Containment and deterrence were responses to US weakness, you silly-headed dunderpate. It was obvious that using direct
something-really-awfuls, BlogSpot.
slope proposition, claiming that because we go after Saddam, we'll suddenly be all aggro-ed up to obliterate any country
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):
In fact, the idea of pre- emptive attack depends on fear. It presupposes insecurity and assumes we will always be threatened.
jerkwad I encounter, an order for them to be beheaded with extreme prejudice until the the point at which they are dead
they're done, hang them on his wall next to the framed heads of Iraqi dissidents and say to himself, "Well, I can check
You try to make it seem as if the Joint Chiefs were lying around on a Sunday afternoon and said to themselves, "Yeah sure,
But it's not really fair to denigrate someone's ideas just because they themselves come from an organization riddled with
join the majority of the world's nations in distancing themselves from Washington in a fashion not seen since the Vietnam War.
I'm going to be checking the weather channel for reports of snowflakes in Hell, but meanwhile you should go read it now.
news editors of Cannel 7 to allow, as the segment ended right there.
to elicit empathy had been raised considerably since 9/11,
Please. I can't swing around a dead Saddam on a rope without hitting this argument these days. At bottom, it's a slippery
One middle-aged woman who looked like she hadn't combed her hair since Jerry Garcia died had this to say, when asked
...but there's no shame in being a follower when those you're following make such damn good points.
President Bush says he wants to avoid "a future of fear." It's an admirable goal, but one hardly served by this new doctrine.
So I hereby declare myself Ayatollah Mustardah of Blogistan. From this day forward, I will call down, on any Idiotarian
use grown-up scissors), but nevertheless, even though he really didn't deserve it,
but they make up for any lack of actual existence with pure unadulterated enthusiasm.
why she thought there weren't more stories about protests going on in the news, "Well, because the media is corporately
looks like a green light, no?
you could see stink lines of self-satisfaction coming off her so that he could simply get to his job. She of course started
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
Either that, or I now have to admit the existence of clairvoyance.
and the decisions to do so would based on (as in this case) measured calculations of the relative benefits and costs,
I don't know about you people, but I'm already stocking up on extra food, water, and electrons.
What it does not mean however, is that this suddenly signals that we are going to be going after China, Saudi Arabia, Cuba
Diversity. More than motherhood, it is the one unassailable concept these days. Open any teaching publication, and you will
to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality.
You try to make it seem as if the Joint Chiefs were lying around on a Sunday afternoon and said to themselves, "Yeah sure,
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.
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
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
be replacing the old site that was hosted on that evil of evils, that bane of banes, that something-really-awful of
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.
"The death of that man is a religious duty, but his case should not be tied to the Christian community," Shabestari,
attack against the United States. Even though President Bush acknowledged in his speech that Iraq does not currently
President Bush says he wants to avoid "a future of fear." It's an admirable goal, but one hardly served by this new doctrine.
predictable frequency. Follow a politician to a school photo-op,
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.
nothing may stand in our way!
Don't you people ever get tired of just pulling shit out of your asses?
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
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
My sentences, thus decreed, will be subsequently carried out by my elite brigade of Beheading Gnomes, whom I made up
When I first heard about the bombing in Bali, my initial reaction was, "Another terrorist attack? Well, of course."
not just "fear," as if we're going to indiscriminantly nuke the floor under our beds because monsters might be hiding there.
lying in order to gain information that gave him access to restricted systems.
The experience made me think of the instructions from all corners of the media after 9/11 that what we, as Americans,
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
I figured that was the way to go. But then I read this.
You mean everyone in America aren't like San Franciscans?
Don't you people ever get tired of just pulling shit out of your asses?
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
Containment and deterrence were responses to US weakness, you silly-headed dunderpate. It was obvious that using direct
just now. Admittedly they do face significant challenges in carrying out their duties due to their imaginary nature,
go it alone. What he failed to do was tell us who the members of his war coalition are. Why? Because there is no coalition.
a representative of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was quoted as saying.
attack against the United States. Even though President Bush acknowledged in his speech that Iraq does not currently
The experience made me think of the instructions from all corners of the media after 9/11 that what we, as Americans,
(or to have their genitalia eviscerated by a rabid Rosie O'Donnell
"to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality"?
Many in the global community also distrust the Bush administration's expanding war aims. It is not easy for our friends around
Kevin Mitnick will be able to use a computer again in approximately 3 months.
only be revealed as more useless than it already seems), there is right now a coalition prepared to go into Iraq with the
I'm going to be checking the weather channel for reports of snowflakes in Hell, but meanwhile you should go read it now.
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
Do you mean the Muslim world that celebrated 9/11, saying the US deserved it all along? Or perhaps you mean the Muslim world
The fact that this is being published in the Chronicle is no small feat. Even more reason for you to go read it.
lap dance.
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)
and eastern Europe, Australia and the middle east. Is that not multilateralism?
the teacher trying to impress both of them.
psychopathic fancy without fear of retribution.
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.
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
Now could someone please tell me what concrete purpose that woman's behavior, and that of her great chanting unwashed bretheren,
being the reaction described above.
but they make up for any lack of actual existence with pure unadulterated enthusiasm.
Stand up to these thugs This Wednesday, the 16th at noon, an apparent composite of the Students for Justice in Palestine
obviously they have lost loved ones or friends."
The book details the ways that employees can inadvertently leak information that can be exploited by hackers to compromise
to elicit empathy had been raised considerably since 9/11,
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
Falwell was a "mercenary and must be killed," the Farsi-language daily Abrar reported Saturday.
of fist.
the way. Apparently that wasn't enough for the however, because they then started pulling at her legs to keep her from
without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism,
nuclear weapons. Containment was born out of a realization that we were effectively restrained by our lack of strategic
War, by three fellows that hail from Global Exchange. You know who I'm talking about. The folks that want to "build an
both at home and abroad, can go heartily fuck themselves, or jump off a cliff, or shoot themselves in the head. I don't
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
Eventually he got a little ticked off and said roughly, "Get away from me!" I was hungrily anticipating the energetic dissenter
Well, being the abject conformist that I am, I would like to welcome all new and oldcomers to my new blog, which will
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
So seeing as how we've got massive approval from the House of Representatives and similar support in the senate is likely,
or any other simply crappy country in the world, because none of them satisfy both those propositions.
hunting dairy cows with a high-powered rifle and scope."
support (in the small, mostly insignificant ways that are possible for one such as myself)
The article also points to this site, which maintains a running clock of how long it will be until Mitnick can start
Replace "powerful" with "crazy and armed with nukes" and you'd be right. Otherwise, your statement is nonsense.
Sorry folks, but slippery slope arguments don't hold water by themselves. We're going after Saddam because he 1) has shown
to all of you warmongering neanderthals" tone of voice. She then struck a pose of righteous exasperation when she asked
anger that is so justifiable -no, demanded- by these despicable acts, but if that must be the case, then from on, I'll be
Those people are especially useful when they have access to the core computer systems that hackers would otherwise struggle
Also, I've printed out and made a bunch of copies of some flyers from this site and will be passing them out.
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
One middle-aged woman who looked like she hadn't combed her hair since Jerry Garcia died had this to say, when asked
coming off them. It was really a terrible sight," she said. "You could just hear people crying up in the Bounty foyer -
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
the efforts to find these people and eradicate them, to ferret them out from their cowardly hiding places and vaporize
Heh. Didn't Nostradamus write something about "a bespeckled plague rising in the West..."?
But it's not really fair to denigrate someone's ideas just because they themselves come from an organization riddled with
so that he will be better equipped to fulfill point 1). Show me another nation that's like that today.
Wheeler Hall last spring.
have democratically elected rulers I'm sure doesn't throw any flies into your ointment.
Those people are especially useful when they have access to the core computer systems that hackers would otherwise struggle
That is, until this morning. Now I'm glad to say that I've gotten over getting over it, and am thoroughly pissed again.
Quite the contrary, Bush's aggressive rhetoric, disregard for international law, and his lack of any vision other than war
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United States invade a distant country without any evidence of impending aggression.
Well that's not really true. People on a different side of the debate than I are not necessarily jerks, just wrong.
the teacher trying to impress both of them.
I strongly suspect TR had access to some sort of time machine and traveled into the furture about a hundred years.
a terrorist and an envoy of Iran's supreme leader reportedly called for his death.
...but there's no shame in being a follower when those you're following make such damn good points.
US: Italy, Australia, Poland, Spain, Qatar, Kuwait and, of course, Britain. I know it's hard to find out this kind of
Well I'm far far far too petty a person to do that.
No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this
that blatantly called for some rhetorical bitch-slapping.
about equal probability.
join the majority of the world's nations in distancing themselves from Washington in a fashion not seen since the Vietnam War.
An insightful, well-written and quite simply excellent column somehow found its way in the SF Chronicle's website today.
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
Hesiod over at Counterspin Central is one such fellow. Not only with myself, but in his conversations with Den Beste,
Well, being the abject conformist that I am, I would like to welcome all new and oldcomers to my new blog, which will
Bush also spoke of an "international coalition" that would disarm Hussein. Bush knows the American public is loathe to
"The death of that man is a religious duty, but his case should not be tied to the Christian community," Shabestari,
attack against the United States. Even though President Bush acknowledged in his speech that Iraq does not currently
or any other simply crappy country in the world, because none of them satisfy both those propositions.
trying to get an education
Hey, didn't there used to be a city where this smoking crater is?
that blatantly called for some rhetorical bitch-slapping.
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
the real fault of that government or its citizens, or the West in general, or capitalism, or any other ridiculous boogeyman
, "I don't believe the American people support this war. Everyone I've talked to is against it!"
have democratically elected rulers I'm sure doesn't throw any flies into your ointment.
Hesiod over at Counterspin Central is one such fellow. Not only with myself, but in his conversations with Den Beste,
Also, I've printed out and made a bunch of copies of some flyers from this site and will be passing them out.
to roost," those sniveling, carping appeasers,
why she thought there weren't more stories about protests going on in the news, "Well, because the media is corporately
Peace is generally good in itself, but it is never the highest good unless it comes as the handmaid
In fact, the idea of pre- emptive attack depends on fear. It presupposes insecurity and assumes we will always be threatened.
In your face, Space Coyote!
I strongly suspect TR had access to some sort of time machine and traveled into the furture about a hundred years.
Shiite Muslim clerics in Lebanon and Iran have reacted with rage at the Rev. Jerry Falwell for calling Islam's prophet
Sure, it'd be nice to be a leader...
If and when you find one, that means that I'll be perfectly willing to advocate an attack against them as well.
Don't worry, I'll sit here with my rifle ready to take out any airborne porcines, should they come flying by.
news editors of Cannel 7 to allow, as the segment ended right there.
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.
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,
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?
(or to have their genitalia eviscerated by a rabid Rosie O'Donnell
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
I wish that I could just be told "Hundreds of people died in a terrorist bombing today," and instantly feel the kind of rage
I don't know about you people, but I'm already stocking up on extra food, water, and electrons.
US: Italy, Australia, Poland, Spain, Qatar, Kuwait and, of course, Britain. I know it's hard to find out this kind of
have democratically elected rulers I'm sure doesn't throw any flies into your ointment.
Now could someone please tell me what concrete purpose that woman's behavior, and that of her great chanting unwashed bretheren,
Heaven forfend them not being on board with us!
be harried by idiots who have full compliments of heads and genitals! With the ranks of my imaginary gnomes rallied,
why she thought there weren't more stories about protests going on in the news, "Well, because the media is corporately
obviously they have lost loved ones or friends."
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
faith at large, since many of them are peaceful, albeit intellectually stunted, people.
"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.
has been built up around Mitnick, a basically curious guy who just as often used old face-to-face (or voice-to-voice)
For that reason and others, I didn't actually start reading the news coverage until this morning.
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
Those people are especially useful when they have access to the core computer systems that hackers would otherwise struggle
of a lack of imagination or basic humanity; the fact that it's difficult for me to feel deeply for people suffering unless
be harried by idiots who have full compliments of heads and genitals! With the ranks of my imaginary gnomes rallied,
to really concern yourself with, except in a somewhat general, theoretical way.
conflict.
computer systems.
Do you mean the Muslim world that celebrated 9/11, saying the US deserved it all along? Or perhaps you mean the Muslim world
Finally, long after the fad has grown tiresome, everyone's attention turns to another scrap of dogma for the next decade.
the Feds know about it.
occurred, smashing the window of their hotel room.
lying in order to gain information that gave him access to restricted systems.
and eastern Europe, Australia and the middle east. Is that not multilateralism?
(or to have their genitalia eviscerated by a rabid Rosie O'Donnell
Saddam will use these nukes when he gets them, whether that use takes the form of vaporizing a city or merely being hung
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 don't believe the American people support this war. Everyone I've talked to is against it!"
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."
vulnerability.
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
to roost," those sniveling, carping appeasers,
Stand up to these thugs This Wednesday, the 16th at noon, an apparent composite of the Students for Justice in Palestine
threaten the United States, he said we must "assume the worst." Essentially, the White House is proposing that the
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
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,
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 way. Apparently that wasn't enough for the however, because they then started pulling at her legs to keep her from
support (in the small, mostly insignificant ways that are possible for one such as myself)
Now could someone please tell me what concrete purpose that woman's behavior, and that of her great chanting unwashed bretheren,
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
care. Just don't let me hear anything about how this bombing that specifically targeted Australian civilians was somehow
and the UC Divestment folks will be holding a rally for what looks like the primary purpose of protesting the fact that
During the last half of the 20th century, this principle was expanded internationally through the United Nations. The U.N.
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
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
democratically decided laws - - not the capriciousness of individual rulers -- should govern human affairs.
The BBC has a story about the so-called "master hacker", in which it does a good job of destroying the mythos that
The experience made me think of the instructions from all corners of the media after 9/11 that what we, as Americans,
And at most, UN weapons inspectors have delayed conflict by a few years, not averted it. In actualyity, I think they have
and make them wish that congress had instead passed a resolution authorizing military force against people
the world to stomach the imperial scent of our newly enunciated military doctrine that proposes pre- emption of any powerful
Watching Channel 7 news today (the Simpsons were in a commercial), they reported on a wad of dingbats who blocked access
Don't you people ever get tired of just pulling shit out of your asses?
weapons inspections in Iraq represent a good example of how the rule of law has been used, and can be used again, to avert
vulnerability.
be replacing the old site that was hosted on that evil of evils, that bane of banes, that something-really-awful of
By tossing out any reasonable standards of evidence as a prerequisite for military action, the White House puts us in a state
"The death of that man is a religious duty, but his case should not be tied to the Christian community," Shabestari,
by both Instapundit and Cold Fury (and probably by sundry others by now):
President Bush says he wants to avoid "a future of fear." It's an admirable goal, but one hardly served by this new doctrine.
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