So, I’m sure by now all and sundry in the Blogosphere have mercilessly sunk their teeth into this, and rhetorically torn Arianna’s SUV-hating cadre of concerned celebs a gaping new one, but I still feel I’ve got something to add perhaps.
First of all, don’t misunderstand where I’m coming from. I’m a card carrying member of the Stars Should Try to Overcome their Overpowering Propensity for Insipid Didacticism nonprofit organization (join SSTOOPID today!). We’re currently working on a motto. I suggested, “Hey, celebrities, shut the fuck up about who we should vote for and what we should drive and get back to making your dumbass movies and CDs!”
Everyone else thought it was a bit too long, though.
Anyway, given my personal affiliations, I’d be the first to have to control that big vein on my forehead from popping due to the rage that boils up whenever someone like Arianna Huffington decides to try to use her influence (read: money) and that of other cultural “elites” to save the planet from the selfish stupidity and blind ignorance of the American plebes.
MANY of the Hollywood celebrities behind the new campaign against gas-guzzling SUVs are hypocrites who consume huge quantities of fossil fuels in their stretch limos, Gulfstream jets and oversized Beverly Hills mansions.
TV producer Norman (”All in the Family”) Lear, who is spearheading the conservation crusade along with columnist Arianna Huffington, built a garage for 21 cars five years ago which stands 45 feet tall.
[…]
Gwyneth Paltrow is appearing in ads for Lear’s Enviromental Media Association (EMA) accusing SUV owners of supporting terrorism. But some of Paltrow’s neighbors find her to be an odd choice for an anti-SUV poster girl.
“She drives a Mercedes-Benz SUV,” says a tipster who lives down the block from Paltrow’s West Village digs.
Et cetera and so forth…
Other hypocrites involved in the campaign to make SUV stand for “Sinfully Unholy Vehicle” include Chevy Chase and (of course!) Barbra Streisand. But then, being the on-the-ball types that you all are, you already knew all this was coming women dog sex stories.
So yes, there is of course a large amount of justifiable “ah-ha!”-ism that accompanies the inevitable slew of stars revealing themselves to be something less than hard and fast devotees to those very principles and admonitions which they heap upon the public with more enthusiasm than they would show even for one of their atrociously silly pet projects about, say, aliens with unlikely dredlocks that take over Earth, and gosh, isn’t L. Ron Hubbard swell?
This is all well and good. I don’t have a problem with criticising someone for being a hypocrite, especially those with that special mix of sanctimony and vacuousness so rife among the Hollywood ridiculentsia. It’s satisfying to see.
However, the hypocrisy of Huffington’s haranguing horde isn’t the most notable stupidity of this whole episode.
To be sure, people who reveal themselves to be from the “drive what I say, not what I drive” school of public advocacy should certainly cause some raised eyebrows among those being exhorted to do exactly what their apparent moral and cultural betters can’t find it in themselves to, but it is not the conclusive lynchpin that automatically invalidates their proscriptions that people in the Blogosphere and the mainstream media seem to think it is.
I admit, I’ve done no exhaustive survey to find out what the statistical preponderence of opinion on the matter has been, but from the half-dozen or so sources I have read over the last day, every one has focused on the fact that these self-appointed high priests of petroleum policy don’t even follow their own highhanded advice.
Certainly not an invalid point to make, and certainly not an unenjoyable one, either. But what I haven’t yet seen (and I admit, it may be due to the fact that I simply haven’t been looking hard enough) is anyone explain clearly why the idea that driving an SUV makes you responsible for support given to Islamic terrorists is a sack of pure, self-contained idiocy all by itself. When you get down to it, it really doesn’t matter whether Arianna Huffington shuffles herself from pointless meeting to useless publicity stunt in a HumVee XX-Tra Large that gets 17 feet to the gallon or a 70 pound go-cart powered by her own sense of self-satisfaction. What really matters is the fact that her notion of Americans pumping gas into SUVs at the local Chevron being morally complicit for petrodollars flowing into the murderous hands of inhuman Islamist pigs is about as stupid an idea that ever wormed its way out of her chattering yap. And that’s saying a lot.
Ultimately, to point out Huffington and Co’s admittedly infuriating hypocrisy only serves to discredit them as spokesmen, but not the substance of their argument itself. You may look disdainfully, and even look with suspicious cynicism at a man who is constantly advising people to not drink and drive, yet gets trashed every weekend and comes home with a new section of fence dragging from his bumper, but none of that invalidates the proposition that drinking and driving is something people should not do.
I wish I saw more people in the media and the Blogosphere pointing out that, for instance, it is moral idiocy to imply some sort of causality between Americans buying oil and the evil, corrupt crapocracies in the Middle East showering the most violent and reprehensible people on the face of the Earth with that money.
At bottom, it’s just a variation of the hoary ol’ “root causes” argument, which seeks to shift the impetus for an act so far back along the string of events that assigning responsibility becomes purely absurd, and has been cleansed of any kind of consideration for the primary agency. To say that planes flying into the WTC draws any significant impetus from an American and his X-Terra is to blindly, ridiculously, willfully ignore the fact that numerous evil people all over the world deliberately, out of either adherence to a backward and violent ideology, or fear of its practitioners, funneled that money to profoundly hateful men who then deliberately used it to kill thousands of innocent Americans.
But of course, according to that insane brand of telescopic fantasy vision, those Americans weren’t really innocent, because they helped fund those terrorists with their gas-guzzling cars. Sorta like the way America is at least partially at fault for building the WTC and the Pentagon in the first place barnyard horse sex. After all, if we hadn’t put up those buildings to begin with, Al Qeada wouldn’t have had anything to knock down, right?
Right?
And to this, they might rejoin: “We’re not really accusing Americans of being morally responsible, we’re just saying that’s the way the world is right now, and we had best recognize that and adjust our lives accordingly.”
This assumes that we can’t change the fact that oil money is funneled to terrorists, and that is, in short, the biggest sack of crap this side of Michael Moore’s ass. For doing just that is one of the two main focuses of the war on terror, and there are numerous indications that great progress has and is being made. When Saddam is just an unpleasant memory and the mullahs of Iran have been deposed by their own people, a significant amount of the apparatus for getting money to extremists will immediately be dismantled. This will further isolate Saudi Arabia and many others, making it easier to pressure them into taking real and substantive steps towards cutting off their complicity, especially financially, in the acts of groups like Al Qeada.
Not only is this a possible thing to do, but it is the right thing to do, pragmatically and morally. Morally, because it does not seek to effect an unnecessary de facto retreat in the face of unjustified aggression, and pragmatically, because it addresses the fact usually ignored by Huffington’s ilk: that the extra gas used by SUV’s is not particularly significant when measured against total oil consumption, and that if we wanted to stop money flowing into terrorist hands by altering our lifestyle, then we’d best do a lot more than just stop buying SUVs.
And therein lies the real point about this whole charade of “supporting terrorists.” This is really a crusade against the SUV as a symbol of what they consider brash American consumerism as a whole. The extra oil used is functonally insignificant, while what they percieve the SUV says about some phantom arrogant American character is really what gets their goat and leaves them clucking their tongues at the American public.
It’s a root cause, you see, just as American “cultural imperialism” inflames the Arab street, so does America’s oblivious and uncouth love for big, expensive, gas-guzzling cars turn the noses of the rest of the world in disgust. And, what with folks from Hollywood being the enlightened, globally concious and multilateralist individuals they are, they are of course horrified at this.
They can’t actually say that though. That would be madness. The hot-headed bumpkins in flyover country would get all riled up and maybe stop going to our movies if we let them in on that ugly little secret…
Indeed, I’m not entirely sure the earnest stars are even in on the secret themselves. Maybe they really do believe they’re just helping all the ignorami with their Range Rovers and Suburbans “connect the dots,” so they can see the error of their ways lady wolf bestiality. Maybe they really think that getting a few less miles per gallon is akin to handing Hassam “I want to kill all Americans” Ali a fresh Ben Franklin with which to buy some more plastique to incinerate Americans.
If they believe that, they’re idiots. If they don’t believe that, they’re idiots and liars.
Yes, and hypocrites.
Iranian cleric Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari, addressing weekly Friday prayers in the northwestern town of Tabriz, saidBut it's not really fair to denigrate someone's ideas just because they themselves come from an organization riddled with
United States invade a distant country without any evidence of impending aggression.
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Those people are especially useful when they have access to the core computer systems that hackers would otherwise struggle
Many in the global community also distrust the Bush administration's expanding war aims. It is not easy for our friends around
that has the temerity to look at us cock-eyed.
It seems the Muslim version of a slander suit is cutting off your head. Now when I read this I was shocked, just shocked
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.
to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality.
of a lack of imagination or basic humanity; the fact that it's difficult for me to feel deeply for people suffering unless
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
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 perhaps because of the collective weight of all those accumulated exhortations, perhaps from the psychic weariness
she can last 6 hours). I make this declaration keeping in mind that this does not imply a judgement on the Idiotarian
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
only be revealed as more useless than it already seems), there is right now a coalition prepared to go into Iraq with the
weapons inspections in Iraq represent a good example of how the rule of law has been used, and can be used again, to avert
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
Bush also spoke of an "international coalition" that would disarm Hussein. Bush knows the American public is loathe to
Another Australian tourist, 18-year-old Rachel Hughes, said she and her boyfriend had just arrived in Kuta when the blast
If and when you find one, that means that I'll be perfectly willing to advocate an attack against them as well.
the All Men Are Rapists self defense workshop? Surely that must be a representative sample of the country!
"What I found personally to be true was that it's easier to manipulate people rather than technology," he said.
My sentences, thus decreed, will be subsequently carried out by my elite brigade of Beheading Gnomes, whom I made up
cutting-edge performance art group impersonating real anti-war folks, as the whole ordeal seemed to approach parody. No,
One of the great advances of the modern era has been the spread of the rule of law. This is the now common idea that
lying in order to gain information that gave him access to restricted systems.
To quote a boozed up, cynical and misanthropic individual whom I greatly admire: "Making fun of these people is like
support (in the small, mostly insignificant ways that are possible for one such as myself)
that blatantly called for some rhetorical bitch-slapping.
alternative economy." I suppose that's better PR than saying they want to impose a grab bag full of sociialistic silliness
care. Just don't let me hear anything about how this bombing that specifically targeted Australian civilians was somehow
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
Containment and deterrence were responses to US weakness, you silly-headed dunderpate. It was obvious that using direct
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
Falwell was a "mercenary and must be killed," the Farsi-language daily Abrar reported Saturday.
attack against the United States. Even though President Bush acknowledged in his speech that Iraq does not currently
For that reason and others, I didn't actually start reading the news coverage until this morning.
predictable frequency. Follow a politician to a school photo-op,
"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,
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
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 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
he revealed himself to be a seriously dishonest debater (that, or he was so stupid that it wouldn't be safe for him to
just now. Admittedly they do face significant challenges in carrying out their duties due to their imaginary nature,
without end is causing traditional friends of the United States to
a representative of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was quoted as saying.
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.
(or to have their genitalia eviscerated by a rabid Rosie O'Donnell
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...
What it does not mean however, is that this suddenly signals that we are going to be going after China, Saudi Arabia, Cuba
the All Men Are Rapists self defense workshop? Surely that must be a representative sample of the country!
No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this
world that even today harbors and offers succor to the same groups that piloted the 9/11 planes, right?
way why we're doing all of this, and why, if they still choose to berate us about "root causes" and "birds coming home
a representative of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was quoted as saying.
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.
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.
Shiite Muslim clerics in Lebanon and Iran have reacted with rage at the Rev. Jerry Falwell for calling Islam's prophet
agree that [insert additional badly-forced car metaphor here]!
so that he will be better equipped to fulfill point 1). Show me another nation that's like that today.
A taste, just a taste...
rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.
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,
that has the temerity to look at us cock-eyed.
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
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
of constant uncertainty and increased insecurity where almost anything could lead to war.
"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.
cause, but I,
For that reason and others, I didn't actually start reading the news coverage until this morning.
(or to have their genitalia eviscerated by a rabid Rosie O'Donnell
that off my list of things to do. Now, on to learning how to square-dance."
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
nothing may stand in our way!
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.
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
War, by three fellows that hail from Global Exchange. You know who I'm talking about. The folks that want to "build an
that has the temerity to look at us cock-eyed.
why she thought there weren't more stories about protests going on in the news, "Well, because the media is corporately
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
Do you mean the Muslim world that celebrated 9/11, saying the US deserved it all along? Or perhaps you mean the Muslim world
on the civilized world. And when I resort again to that frame of mind, it will be because I realize, intellectually and
a terrorist and an envoy of Iran's supreme leader reportedly called for his death.
I don't know about you people, but I'm already stocking up on extra food, water, and electrons.
of fist.
To quote a boozed up, cynical and misanthropic individual whom I greatly admire: "Making fun of these people is like
really just put Saddam in a better situation than he was before because the presence of inspectors invites complacency and
superiority.
alternative economy." I suppose that's better PR than saying they want to impose a grab bag full of sociialistic silliness
both at home and abroad, can go heartily fuck themselves, or jump off a cliff, or shoot themselves in the head. I don't
some of their cohorts are actually being held accountable by the university for their disruptive, illegal actions at
Maybe I can't change the fact that I have to be intimately confronted with the death and pain in order to really feel the
news editors of Cannel 7 to allow, as the segment ended right there.
being the reaction described above.
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.
Yes, well I suppose you're suggesting that we would be well-served to wait for this "final proof," then? Very well. I'll
However, several of the exchanges I have had have definately been with those you might describe as "challeneged" in
Well I wouldn't be surprised if this Wednesday at Sproul there will be similar behavior, and I plan to be there. Maybe
By tossing out any reasonable standards of evidence as a prerequisite for military action, the White House puts us in a state
"approach parody" is too mild. They sprinted towards parody, jumped on top of it and proceded to give parody a spirited
I simply love it when my case is made for me.
The BBC has a story about the so-called "master hacker", in which it does a good job of destroying the mythos that
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)
who like to chant slogans and can't come up with any better rhyme than something that has to do with the number "four" and "war."
It may be a sad illustration of my lack to find sympathy within myself without reading descriptions or seeing pictures,
care. Just don't let me hear anything about how this bombing that specifically targeted Australian civilians was somehow
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.
rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.
military action to counter the Soviet threat was not possible, because of their equal capacity to destroy us through
50 Ways to Leave Your Folly Common Dreams, that goldmine of general silliness, showcases this piece, The Folly of Pre-emptive
In theory, I was of course angry, but I had a vaguely detatched sense about the whole thing. A large part of that of
It seems the Muslim version of a slander suit is cutting off your head. Now when I read this I was shocked, just shocked
Yes, well I suppose you're suggesting that we would be well-served to wait for this "final proof," then? Very well. I'll
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
a terrorist and an envoy of Iran's supreme leader reportedly called for his death.
occurred, smashing the window of their hotel room.
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
(or to have their genitalia eviscerated by a rabid Rosie O'Donnell
over the heads of the world's nations as threat so that he can act willy-nilly in whatever new adventure captures his
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
care. Just don't let me hear anything about how this bombing that specifically targeted Australian civilians was somehow
the All Men Are Rapists self defense workshop? Surely that must be a representative sample of the country!
And at most, UN weapons inspectors have delayed conflict by a few years, not averted it. In actualyity, I think they have
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!
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join the majority of the world's nations in distancing themselves from Washington in a fashion not seen since the Vietnam War.
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
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.
curiosity that trumps any sort of legal resriction placed on him, but it's pretty much a foregone conclusion that he's
Meanwhile, the fact that we are able to use pre-emptive action when deemed necessary is a fact of our strength, not weakness
cause, but I,
information with your heads crammed so far up your asses, so I'll give you a pass.
jerkwad I encounter, an order for them to be beheaded with extreme prejudice until the the point at which they are dead
that off my list of things to do. Now, on to learning how to square-dance."
You try to make it seem as if the Joint Chiefs were lying around on a Sunday afternoon and said to themselves, "Yeah sure,
nothing may stand in our way!
to really concern yourself with, except in a somewhat general, theoretical way.
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
rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.
to elicit empathy had been raised considerably since 9/11,
My sentences, thus decreed, will be subsequently carried out by my elite brigade of Beheading Gnomes, whom I made up
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.
for the life of me, cannot see it. The news showed a clip of a guy trying politely to walk around a woman so self-righteous
trying to get an education
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
Saddam will use these nukes when he gets them, whether that use takes the form of vaporizing a city or merely being hung
I wish that I could just be told "Hundreds of people died in a terrorist bombing today," and instantly feel the kind of rage
so that he will be better equipped to fulfill point 1). Show me another nation that's like that today.
Wheeler Hall last spring.
I guess not. The fact that the UN is anything but democratic since the vast majority of countries represented there do not
Hesiod over at Counterspin Central is one such fellow. Not only with myself, but in his conversations with Den Beste,
fact that these people are thugs, bullies and liars.
way why we're doing all of this, and why, if they still choose to berate us about "root causes" and "birds coming home
Meanwhile, the fact that we are able to use pre-emptive action when deemed necessary is a fact of our strength, not weakness
threaten the United States, he said we must "assume the worst." Essentially, the White House is proposing that the
side of the political spectrum... what are they called?
In your face, Space Coyote!
on the civilized world. And when I resort again to that frame of mind, it will be because I realize, intellectually and
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
economic stupidity, especially when their ideas would do such a better job of it by themselves. Case in point:
of fist.
I see. Did you talk to this "everyone" at your International Socialist Organization direct action planning seminar or
And exactly how do you go from no "final proof" to there being no evidence of impending aggression? The very fact that
he revealed himself to be a seriously dishonest debater (that, or he was so stupid that it wouldn't be safe for him to
about equal probability.
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
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
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
something-really-awfuls, BlogSpot.
to roost," those sniveling, carping appeasers,
One middle-aged woman who looked like she hadn't combed her hair since Jerry Garcia died had this to say, when asked
"Standing in the foyer of the Bounty Hotel, people were just walking in, blood dripping off them, burns to their face, skin
chanting in his face and moved in front of him every time he tried to get around her.
The Muslim world -- whose support is vital to any real effort to end the causes of terrorism -- is adamantly opposed.
faith at large, since many of them are peaceful, albeit intellectually stunted, people.
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.
Now of course I'm sure that these open-toed folks have a flurry of perfectly well thought-out reasons as to why pissing
information with your heads crammed so far up your asses, so I'll give you a pass.
predictable frequency. Follow a politician to a school photo-op,
to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality.
that blatantly called for some rhetorical bitch-slapping.
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"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,
to make the first world poor and make sure the third world stays that way.
join the majority of the world's nations in distancing themselves from Washington in a fashion not seen since the Vietnam War.
conflict.
Eventually he got a little ticked off and said roughly, "Get away from me!" I was hungrily anticipating the energetic dissenter
that continues to characterize the US as the Great Satan and preach jihad against all things Western? Oh I know, the Muslim
morally, that this is the right thing to do.
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.
Peace is generally good in itself, but it is never the highest good unless it comes as the handmaid
Well that's not really true. People on a different side of the debate than I are not necessarily jerks, just wrong.
I finally went and did it.
them into a thin paste of protein on a cave wall, to wipe out every last vestige of the disgusting stain they have left
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
democratically decided laws - - not the capriciousness of individual rulers -- should govern human affairs.
off a bunch of secretaries and other office workers who probably agree with them on the war anyway will further their
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 prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality"?
we could go and stop the Soviets and all their expansionist hijinks, but then we'd like, have to go all the way over to
But it's not really fair to denigrate someone's ideas just because they themselves come from an organization riddled with
If and when you find one, that means that I'll be perfectly willing to advocate an attack against them as well.
Wheeler Hall last spring.
Well I'm far far far too petty a person to do that.
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.
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
without end is causing traditional friends of the United States to
I'm going to be checking the weather channel for reports of snowflakes in Hell, but meanwhile you should go read it now.
satisfy you. I'd be much more amendable to the idea however if you were willing to be a personal eye-witness to this
You must be triple jointed to be able to twist words like that.
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
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.
for the life of me, cannot see it. The news showed a clip of a guy trying politely to walk around a woman so self-righteous
I suppose you mean that it's not "multilateralist" unless France says so?
predictable frequency. Follow a politician to a school photo-op,
over the heads of the world's nations as threat so that he can act willy-nilly in whatever new adventure captures his
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.
of fist.
information with your heads crammed so far up your asses, so I'll give you a pass.
act such as this. In a few days or weeks, I'm sure it will subside to a colder, more focused resolution to continue to
to penetrate.
it is shoved, in all its detailed horror, right into my face.
nothing may stand in our way!
Already, even if the UN thumbs its irrelevant nose at the idea of going after Iraq (and if it actually does, then they'll
Don't worry, I'll sit here with my rifle ready to take out any airborne porcines, should they come flying by.
vaunted proof of yours. Then you could be really sure.
military action to counter the Soviet threat was not possible, because of their equal capacity to destroy us through
50 Ways to Leave Your Folly Common Dreams, that goldmine of general silliness, showcases this piece, The Folly of Pre-emptive
that has the temerity to look at us cock-eyed.
why she thought there weren't more stories about protests going on in the news, "Well, because the media is corporately
During the last half of the 20th century, this principle was expanded internationally through the United Nations. The U.N.
chanting in his face and moved in front of him every time he tried to get around her.
Hesiod over at Counterspin Central is one such fellow. Not only with myself, but in his conversations with Den Beste,
fact that these people are thugs, bullies and liars.
way why we're doing all of this, and why, if they still choose to berate us about "root causes" and "birds coming home
Stand up to these thugs This Wednesday, the 16th at noon, an apparent composite of the Students for Justice in Palestine
So seeing as how we've got massive approval from the House of Representatives and similar support in the senate is likely,
Mr Mitnick even had to get permission from his probation officer to use a computer to write his book, The Art Of Deception,
needed now was healing, closure; in short, to "get over it" and "move on."
she can last 6 hours). I make this declaration keeping in mind that this does not imply a judgement on the Idiotarian
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
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)
The experience made me think of the instructions from all corners of the media after 9/11 that what we, as Americans,
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
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
One of the great advances of the modern era has been the spread of the rule of law. This is the now common idea that
Now of course I'm sure that these open-toed folks have a flurry of perfectly well thought-out reasons as to why pissing
But anyway, right there you've got yourself eight nations total in the coalition, hailing from North America, both western
But I am thankful that at least for now, I've been able to summon that deep-seated, personal wrath so appropriate to an
and make them wish that congress had instead passed a resolution authorizing military force against people
Many in the global community also distrust the Bush administration's expanding war aims. It is not easy for our friends around
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
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
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.
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.
not just "fear," as if we're going to indiscriminantly nuke the floor under our beds because monsters might be hiding there.
United States invade a distant country without any evidence of impending aggression.
In fact, the idea of pre- emptive attack depends on fear. It presupposes insecurity and assumes we will always be threatened.
I'll get a chance to ask why they've been glorifying images of Hamas murderers on their flyers.
Hey, didn't there used to be a city where this smoking crater is?
a terrorist and an envoy of Iran's supreme leader reportedly called for his death.
One of the great advances of the modern era has been the spread of the rule of law. This is the now common idea that
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
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.
to penetrate.
the world to stomach the imperial scent of our newly enunciated military doctrine that proposes pre- emption of any powerful
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
join the majority of the world's nations in distancing themselves from Washington in a fashion not seen since the Vietnam War.
a careful, precise argument, what point is there in engaging them verbally anymore?
last update : 10-9-2010
