I’ve been told that the titles that I normally give my posts are horribly dull. Well is the above an inflammatory enough lead-in for you?
Good.
Via the Corner, I (as well as thousands of others by now) learned that an organization called MoveOn.org has produced a new version of the famous LBJ/Goldwater television commercial of a cute little kid picking daisies in a field that seemed to suggest either that 1) Libertoid Barry was just the off-kilter type who would send the nukes flying the moment Brezhnev looked at him cock-eyed, or 2) for some reason, the boys at NORAD were taking their Defcon cues from an 8 year old girl.
Now, is it just me, or is there something satisfyingly ironic in the shameless revival of an unfair piece of wild-eyed Cold War-era propaganda by a group that calls itself “MoveOn”?
Anyway, I’m of course too young to have seen the original commercial when it aired that single time, but to have it described to me by folks who were there, it was a TV event nearly akin to watching Oswald get shot. Dennis Leary once said that he and his age cohorts became the first generation of TV junkies because of suprising, singular moments like those.
But I saw a tape of the ad in my 10th grade history class, and remember being somewhat underwhelmed sex with her pet. Admittedly, at that point it had been 7 years or so since David Hasselhof had sung atop the falling Berlin wall and the Soviet Union had agreed to surrender and disband immediately if only he would just stop right NOW, and the American nation had thus safely tucked away the last of its nuclear paranoia into that old steamer chest in the attic full of bell-bottoms and other things apt to cause mild embarrassment and the weak explanation of “Well, it was the style back then.”
Now, it seems though that that the Fear-of-Nuclear-War Action Playset is being dusted off again for an entirely new generation of nuclear emergency drills in highschools and teenage boys convincing their girlfriends to put out because it “could all be over tomorrow” (lucky jerks… I never had that line at my disposal. What was I supposed to say? “Come on, baby, we have to seize the day, because tomorrow they might raise the Capital Gains tax!”)
At least, that’s the impression they seem to be selling in the new daisy girl commercial.
You’ve got a cute-as-a-button little girl oblivious to all the ugly trouble and bad people in the world picking petals off a flower and a grandfatherly voice-over with a vaguely Jimmy Stewart-esque amiable drawl whose voiced concerns amount to, maybe, just maybe, things won’t go exactly as planned animal horse cock fucking… then BOOM: mushroom clouds over New York.
…or so he seems to think private dog sex stories.
War with Iraq. Maybe it’ll end quickly. Maybe it won’t. Maybe it will spread. Maybe extremists will take over countries with nuclear weapons. Maybe. horsecum.. the unthinkable. [Cue up picture of mushroom cloud]
Maybe granpappy hasn’t been taking his meds.
The schizophrenia of such an advertisement really has to make one wonder how successful the folks at MoveOn have been in shutting out the voices. After all, here we have a commercial making dire, apocalyptic warnings about the results of “extremists with nuclear weapons,” in order to stop a war whose entire purpose is keeping an insane extremist from getting nuclear weapons. With a different voice-over (of course, it would have to be Charleton Heston) the exact same images of cute little girl, anti-American violence around the world, and nuclear cloud could be much better employed to make the point that war with Iraq is absolutely necessary.
For months now, the voices from the anti-war camp (at least those who are not so pathologically delusional as to hope that an inspection process continually impeded by Saddam’s best efforts can be effective) have been saying that a nuclear Saddam could be safely deterred, and the risk of attacking him militarily before he gets his membership card to the Nuclear Club is unacceptable hot girl having sex with dog. Well then, I suggest you tell that to the little girl in the daisy field who just got vaporized.
As far as I can tell, the logic (and I use that word loosely) of the ad seems to take as its main point the worry that war with Iraq will cause “extremists [to] take over countries with nuclear weapons.”
So which countries are those? Of course Jimmy Stewart doesn’t say, because he’d be somewhat rhetorically limited by the fact that there currently are no countries that have both credible extremist threats and nuclear weapons, save for perhaps Pakistan (and Musharraf has shown that he is adept at mediating their influence thus far). That’s the whole point, friend. We’d like to keep it that way, if you don’t mind.
Imagine a world where Iraq, Iran, and possibly all of the chummy terrorist organizations they cozy up to on a daily basis with access to nuclear weapons, and suddenly those images of 8 year olds and mushroom clouds start making a lot more sense.
Really, how often is someone able to so perfectly crystallize the dilemmas that will exist a century in the future
information with your heads crammed so far up your asses, so I'll give you a pass.
something-really-awfuls, BlogSpot.
that boiled up to the surface when I read things like this.
Well that's not really true. People on a different side of the debate than I are not necessarily jerks, just wrong.
that blatantly called for some rhetorical bitch-slapping.
"The death of that man is a religious duty, but his case should not be tied to the Christian community," Shabestari,
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superiority.
Watching Channel 7 news today (the Simpsons were in a commercial), they reported on a wad of dingbats who blocked access
A taste, just a taste...
Heaven forfend them not being on board with us!
When I first heard about the bombing in Bali, my initial reaction was, "Another terrorist attack? Well, of course."
side of the political spectrum... what are they called?
that off my list of things to do. Now, on to learning how to square-dance."
Sorry folks, but slippery slope arguments don't hold water by themselves. We're going after Saddam because he 1) has shown
Well that's not really true. People on a different side of the debate than I are not necessarily jerks, just wrong.
Saddam will use these nukes when he gets them, whether that use takes the form of vaporizing a city or merely being hung
agree that [insert additional badly-forced car metaphor here]!
the way. Apparently that wasn't enough for the however, because they then started pulling at her legs to keep her from
serves? As far as I can tell, all they did was take some people who were probably overwhelmingly against the war anyway,
that has the temerity to look at us cock-eyed.
Yes, well I suppose you're suggesting that we would be well-served to wait for this "final proof," then? Very well. I'll
the teacher trying to impress both of them.
Iranian cleric Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari, addressing weekly Friday prayers in the northwestern town of Tabriz, said
I see. Did you talk to this "everyone" at your International Socialist Organization direct action planning seminar or
Do you mean the Muslim world that celebrated 9/11, saying the US deserved it all along? Or perhaps you mean the Muslim world
slope proposition, claiming that because we go after Saddam, we'll suddenly be all aggro-ed up to obliterate any country
But anyway, right there you've got yourself eight nations total in the coalition, hailing from North America, both western
I figured that was the way to go. But then I read this.
the Feds know about it.
without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism,
"The death of that man is a religious duty, but his case should not be tied to the Christian community," Shabestari,
The book details the ways that employees can inadvertently leak information that can be exploited by hackers to compromise
Either that, or I now have to admit the existence of clairvoyance.
I simply love it when my case is made for me.
chanting in his face and moved in front of him every time he tried to get around her.
be replacing the old site that was hosted on that evil of evils, that bane of banes, that something-really-awful of
Meanwhile, the fact that we are able to use pre-emptive action when deemed necessary is a fact of our strength, not weakness
For that reason and others, I didn't actually start reading the news coverage until this morning.
Those people are especially useful when they have access to the core computer systems that hackers would otherwise struggle
Replace "powerful" with "crazy and armed with nukes" and you'd be right. Otherwise, your statement is nonsense.
a terrorist and an envoy of Iran's supreme leader reportedly called for his death.
vulnerability.
Heh. Didn't Nostradamus write something about "a bespeckled plague rising in the West..."?
chanting in his face and moved in front of him every time he tried to get around her.
Many in the global community also distrust the Bush administration's expanding war aims. It is not easy for our friends around
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trying to get an education
over the heads of the world's nations as threat so that he can act willy-nilly in whatever new adventure captures his
I don't know about you people, but I'm already stocking up on extra food, water, and electrons.
rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.
morally, that this is the right thing to do.
I don't know about you people, but I'm already stocking up on extra food, water, and electrons.
trying to get an education
I strongly suspect TR had access to some sort of time machine and traveled into the furture about a hundred years.
Sure, it'd be nice to be a leader...
conflict.
Heaven forfend them not being on board with us!
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Russia and shit. Besides, it's just the Russians. Why don't we just contain them or something? Hey, who's up for some
President Bush says he wants to avoid "a future of fear." It's an admirable goal, but one hardly served by this new doctrine.
nuclear weapons. Containment was born out of a realization that we were effectively restrained by our lack of strategic
Iranian cleric Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari, addressing weekly Friday prayers in the northwestern town of Tabriz, said
getting an education. When she tried to talk to one of the organizers after her test about how some people were just
be replacing the old site that was hosted on that evil of evils, that bane of banes, that something-really-awful of
and the decisions to do so would based on (as in this case) measured calculations of the relative benefits and costs,
The experience made me think of the instructions from all corners of the media after 9/11 that what we, as Americans,
The article also points to this site, which maintains a running clock of how long it will be until Mitnick can start
he is willing to act aggressively and recklessly and cannot be reasonably deterred and 2) is working to get and use nukes
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
one of the most fad-driven enterprises imaginable. It produces a new catechism each decade, which everyone dutifully recites.
I wish that I could just be told "Hundreds of people died in a terrorist bombing today," and instantly feel the kind of rage
the All Men Are Rapists self defense workshop? Surely that must be a representative sample of the country!
I tried to present my ideas in an honest and truthful way, and not be seriously offensive, even when he acted in ways
Stand up to these thugs This Wednesday, the 16th at noon, an apparent composite of the Students for Justice in Palestine
Well that's not really true. People on a different side of the debate than I are not necessarily jerks, just wrong.
to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality.
But it's not really fair to denigrate someone's ideas just because they themselves come from an organization riddled with
I'm going to be checking the weather channel for reports of snowflakes in Hell, but meanwhile you should go read it now.
he revealed himself to be a seriously dishonest debater (that, or he was so stupid that it wouldn't be safe for him to
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
a representative of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was quoted as saying.
Falwell was a "mercenary and must be killed," the Farsi-language daily Abrar reported Saturday.
chanting in his face and moved in front of him every time he tried to get around her.
the real fault of that government or its citizens, or the West in general, or capitalism, or any other ridiculous boogeyman
And exactly how do you go from no "final proof" to there being no evidence of impending aggression? The very fact that
way why we're doing all of this, and why, if they still choose to berate us about "root causes" and "birds coming home
off a bunch of secretaries and other office workers who probably agree with them on the war anyway will further their
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
both at home and abroad, can go heartily fuck themselves, or jump off a cliff, or shoot themselves in the head. I don't
During the last half of the 20th century, this principle was expanded internationally through the United Nations. The U.N.
slope proposition, claiming that because we go after Saddam, we'll suddenly be all aggro-ed up to obliterate any country
off a bunch of secretaries and other office workers who probably agree with them on the war anyway will further their
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.
Whereas the Cold War doctrine of deterrence and containment rested on strength, the new idea of pre-emption insists on U.S.
nuclear weapons. Containment was born out of a realization that we were effectively restrained by our lack of strategic
he is willing to act aggressively and recklessly and cannot be reasonably deterred and 2) is working to get and use nukes
anger that is so justifiable -no, demanded- by these despicable acts, but if that must be the case, then from on, I'll be
be replacing the old site that was hosted on that evil of evils, that bane of banes, that something-really-awful 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
Mr Mitnick even had to get permission from his probation officer to use a computer to write his book, The Art Of Deception,
Hey, didn't there used to be a city where this smoking crater is?
care. Just don't let me hear anything about how this bombing that specifically targeted Australian civilians was somehow
rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.
of constant uncertainty and increased insecurity where almost anything could lead to war.
According to the president, "we cannot wait for the final proof" that Saddam Hussein's government is planning an imminent
and eastern Europe, Australia and the middle east. Is that not multilateralism?
By tossing out any reasonable standards of evidence as a prerequisite for military action, the White House puts us in a state
not just "fear," as if we're going to indiscriminantly nuke the floor under our beds because monsters might be hiding there.
cause, but I,
I was already in a state of "moving on" and being "over it" before I even heard about the Bali attacks, with the result
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
During the last half of the 20th century, this principle was expanded internationally through the United Nations. The U.N.
The Muslim world -- whose support is vital to any real effort to end the causes of terrorism -- is adamantly opposed.
of constant uncertainty and increased insecurity where almost anything could lead to war.
the Feds know about it.
A taste, just a taste...
without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism,
some of their cohorts are actually being held accountable by the university for their disruptive, illegal actions at
that boiled up to the surface when I read things like this.
Yes, well I suppose you're suggesting that we would be well-served to wait for this "final proof," then? Very well. I'll
over the heads of the world's nations as threat so that he can act willy-nilly in whatever new adventure captures his
According to the president, "we cannot wait for the final proof" that Saddam Hussein's government is planning an imminent
world that even today harbors and offers succor to the same groups that piloted the 9/11 planes, right?
when you apply your own internal calculus of death and suffering and conclude that it isn't something that you need
The Muslim world -- whose support is vital to any real effort to end the causes of terrorism -- is adamantly opposed.
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
At the very least, don't let me hear any of these things when you're standing in my presence, unless you want a faceful
Saddam is so hot to get his grubby hands on nukes is enough evidence of aggression. What's he going to do with them once
being the reaction described above.
coming off them. It was really a terrible sight," she said. "You could just hear people crying up in the Bounty foyer -
Those people are especially useful when they have access to the core computer systems that hackers would otherwise struggle
the real fault of that government or its citizens, or the West in general, or capitalism, or any other ridiculous boogeyman
which is all about the biggest threat to the security of all companies: their own employees.
the efforts to find these people and eradicate them, to ferret them out from their cowardly hiding places and vaporize
agree that [insert additional badly-forced car metaphor here]!
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 teacher trying to impress both of them.
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.
by both Instapundit and Cold Fury (and probably by sundry others by now):
hunting dairy cows with a high-powered rifle and scope."
and make them wish that congress had instead passed a resolution authorizing military force against people
economic stupidity, especially when their ideas would do such a better job of it by themselves. Case in point:
again soon, didn't we?"
the efforts to find these people and eradicate them, to ferret them out from their cowardly hiding places and vaporize
Iranian cleric Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari, addressing weekly Friday prayers in the northwestern town of Tabriz, said
I've been blogging since July 2005, and in that time, I've had a few inter-blog arguments with the folks on the other
to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality.
to make the first world poor and make sure the third world stays that way.
Wheeler Hall last spring.
No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this
War, by three fellows that hail from Global Exchange. You know who I'm talking about. The folks that want to "build an
that I hadn't thought of it first!
Whereas the Cold War doctrine of deterrence and containment rested on strength, the new idea of pre-emption insists on U.S.
one of the most fad-driven enterprises imaginable. It produces a new catechism each decade, which everyone dutifully recites.
not just "fear," as if we're going to indiscriminantly nuke the floor under our beds because monsters might be hiding there.
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chanting in his face and moved in front of him every time he tried to get around her.
I see. Did you talk to this "everyone" at your International Socialist Organization direct action planning seminar or
that off my list of things to do. Now, on to learning how to square-dance."
Sorry folks, but slippery slope arguments don't hold water by themselves. We're going after Saddam because he 1) has shown
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
Also, I've printed out and made a bunch of copies of some flyers from this site and will be passing them out.
"The death of that man is a religious duty, but his case should not be tied to the Christian community," Shabestari,
the way. Apparently that wasn't enough for the however, because they then started pulling at her legs to keep her from
rivals.
, "I don't believe the American people support this war. Everyone I've talked to is against it!"
Hesiod over at Counterspin Central is one such fellow. Not only with myself, but in his conversations with Den Beste,
to roost," those sniveling, carping appeasers,
United States invade a distant country without any evidence of impending aggression.
In your face, Space Coyote!
Heh. Didn't Nostradamus write something about "a bespeckled plague rising in the West..."?
Such as this quote by Teddy Roosevelt concerning his acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize, posted now
So I hereby declare myself Ayatollah Mustardah of Blogistan. From this day forward, I will call down, on any Idiotarian
of a lack of imagination or basic humanity; the fact that it's difficult for me to feel deeply for people suffering unless
a representative of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was quoted as saying.
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Heh. Didn't Nostradamus write something about "a bespeckled plague rising in the West..."?
Kevin Mitnick will be able to use a computer again in approximately 3 months.
The book details the ways that employees can inadvertently leak information that can be exploited by hackers to compromise
You mean everyone in America aren't like San Franciscans?
During the last half of the 20th century, this principle was expanded internationally through the United Nations. The U.N.
Do you mean the Muslim world that celebrated 9/11, saying the US deserved it all along? Or perhaps you mean the Muslim world
Heh. Didn't Nostradamus write something about "a bespeckled plague rising in the West..."?
has been built up around Mitnick, a basically curious guy who just as often used old face-to-face (or voice-to-voice)
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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
not just "fear," as if we're going to indiscriminantly nuke the floor under our beds because monsters might be hiding there.
which is all about the biggest threat to the security of all companies: their own employees.
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
curiosity that trumps any sort of legal resriction placed on him, but it's pretty much a foregone conclusion that he's
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 finally went and did it.
Please. I can't swing around a dead Saddam on a rope without hitting this argument these days. At bottom, it's a slippery
It seems the Muslim version of a slander suit is cutting off your head. Now when I read this I was shocked, just shocked
sloth, or as an instrument to further the ends of despotism or anarchy.
world that even today harbors and offers succor to the same groups that piloted the 9/11 planes, right?
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."
But it's not really fair to denigrate someone's ideas just because they themselves come from an organization riddled with
Don't worry, I'll sit here with my rifle ready to take out any airborne porcines, should they come flying by.
use grown-up scissors), but nevertheless, even though he really didn't deserve it,
lap dance.
sloth, or as an instrument to further the ends of despotism or anarchy.
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
Please. I can't swing around a dead Saddam on a rope without hitting this argument these days. At bottom, it's a slippery
cause, but I,
I suppose you mean that it's not "multilateralist" unless France says so?
of constant uncertainty and increased insecurity where almost anything could lead to war.
Stand up to these thugs This Wednesday, the 16th at noon, an apparent composite of the Students for Justice in Palestine
Mr Mitnick even had to get permission from his probation officer to use a computer to write his book, The Art Of Deception,
the teacher trying to impress both of them.
Stand up to these thugs This Wednesday, the 16th at noon, an apparent composite of the Students for Justice in Palestine
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
they're done, hang them on his wall next to the framed heads of Iraqi dissidents and say to himself, "Well, I can check
occurred, smashing the window of their hotel room.
trying to get an education
"to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality"?
Replace "powerful" with "crazy and armed with nukes" and you'd be right. Otherwise, your statement is nonsense.
or any other simply crappy country in the world, because none of them satisfy both those propositions.
Well, being the abject conformist that I am, I would like to welcome all new and oldcomers to my new blog, which will
just now. Admittedly they do face significant challenges in carrying out their duties due to their imaginary nature,
Stand up to these thugs This Wednesday, the 16th at noon, an apparent composite of the Students for Justice in Palestine
A taste, just a taste...
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 wish that I could just be told "Hundreds of people died in a terrorist bombing today," and instantly feel the kind of rage
off a bunch of secretaries and other office workers who probably agree with them on the war anyway will further their
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one of the most fad-driven enterprises imaginable. It produces a new catechism each decade, which everyone dutifully recites.
so that he will be better equipped to fulfill point 1). Show me another nation that's like that today.
During that protest, my girlfriend had to take a midterm in Wheeler auditorium and had to step over the bodies lying in
jerkwad I encounter, an order for them to be beheaded with extreme prejudice until the the point at which they are dead
Either that, or I now have to admit the existence of clairvoyance.
and the UC Divestment folks will be holding a rally for what looks like the primary purpose of protesting the fact that
I guess not. The fact that the UN is anything but democratic since the vast majority of countries represented there do not
nuclear weapons. Containment was born out of a realization that we were effectively restrained by our lack of strategic
Replace "powerful" with "crazy and armed with nukes" and you'd be right. Otherwise, your statement is nonsense.
The BBC has a story about the so-called "master hacker", in which it does a good job of destroying the mythos that
of constant uncertainty and increased insecurity where almost anything could lead to war.
them into a thin paste of protein on a cave wall, to wipe out every last vestige of the disgusting stain they have left
to really concern yourself with, except in a somewhat general, theoretical way.
that off my list of things to do. Now, on to learning how to square-dance."
both at home and abroad, can go heartily fuck themselves, or jump off a cliff, or shoot themselves in the head. I don't
Do you mean the Muslim world that celebrated 9/11, saying the US deserved it all along? Or perhaps you mean the Muslim world
agree that [insert additional badly-forced car metaphor here]!
anger that is so justifiable -no, demanded- by these despicable acts, but if that must be the case, then from on, I'll be
the teacher trying to impress both of them.
Falwell was a "mercenary and must be killed," the Farsi-language daily Abrar reported Saturday.
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 efforts to find these people and eradicate them, to ferret them out from their cowardly hiding places and vaporize
be harried by idiots who have full compliments of heads and genitals! With the ranks of my imaginary gnomes rallied,
The experience made me think of the instructions from all corners of the media after 9/11 that what we, as Americans,
By tossing out any reasonable standards of evidence as a prerequisite for military action, the White House puts us in a state
Now of course I'm sure that these open-toed folks have a flurry of perfectly well thought-out reasons as to why pissing
find testimonials to diversity. Flip through any recent social sciences or humanities textbook and diversity pops up with
The article also points to this site, which maintains a running clock of how long it will be until Mitnick can start
of the mass moron movement.
Now at this point, most people would just say, "let it go, and move on."
use grown-up scissors), but nevertheless, even though he really didn't deserve it,
Sorry folks, but slippery slope arguments don't hold water by themselves. We're going after Saddam because he 1) has shown
chanting in his face and moved in front of him every time he tried to get around her.
the efforts to find these people and eradicate them, to ferret them out from their cowardly hiding places and vaporize
Meanwhile, the fact that we are able to use pre-emptive action when deemed necessary is a fact of our strength, not weakness
of fist.
I finally went and did it.
psychopathic fancy without fear of retribution.
owned," she pontificated, in that snotty "52% of my clothes are made of hemp which therefore makes me morally superior
and eastern Europe, Australia and the middle east. Is that not multilateralism?
Bush also spoke of an "international coalition" that would disarm Hussein. Bush knows the American public is loathe to
has been built up around Mitnick, a basically curious guy who just as often used old face-to-face (or voice-to-voice)
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
the world to stomach the imperial scent of our newly enunciated military doctrine that proposes pre- emption of any powerful
cause, but I,
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
to roost," those sniveling, carping appeasers,
obviously they have lost loved ones or friends."
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,
that I hadn't thought of it first!
And exactly how do you go from no "final proof" to there being no evidence of impending aggression? The very fact that
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.
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."
owned," she pontificated, in that snotty "52% of my clothes are made of hemp which therefore makes me morally superior
However, several of the exchanges I have had have definately been with those you might describe as "challeneged" in
faith at large, since many of them are peaceful, albeit intellectually stunted, people.
trying to get an education
of constant uncertainty and increased insecurity where almost anything could lead to war.
Such as this quote by Teddy Roosevelt concerning his acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize, posted now
jerkwad I encounter, an order for them to be beheaded with extreme prejudice until the the point at which they are dead
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
"Standing in the foyer of the Bounty Hotel, people were just walking in, blood dripping off them, burns to their face, skin
I suppose you mean that it's not "multilateralist" unless France says so?
You mean everyone in America aren't like San Franciscans?
you could see stink lines of self-satisfaction coming off her so that he could simply get to his job. She of course started
Saddam will use these nukes when he gets them, whether that use takes the form of vaporizing a city or merely being hung
According to the president, "we cannot wait for the final proof" that Saddam Hussein's government is planning an imminent
conflict.
psychopathic fancy without fear of retribution.
But it's not really fair to denigrate someone's ideas just because they themselves come from an organization riddled with
anger that is so justifiable -no, demanded- by these despicable acts, but if that must be the case, then from on, I'll be
My sentences, thus decreed, will be subsequently carried out by my elite brigade of Beheading Gnomes, whom I made up
Meanwhile, the fact that we are able to use pre-emptive action when deemed necessary is a fact of our strength, not weakness
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
If a good education is meant to produce independent thinkers, I've seen precious little evidence it does. Education is
Iranian cleric Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari, addressing weekly Friday prayers in the northwestern town of Tabriz, said
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, being the abject conformist that I am, I would like to welcome all new and oldcomers to my new blog, which will
Finally, long after the fad has grown tiresome, everyone's attention turns to another scrap of dogma for the next decade.
and the UC Divestment folks will be holding a rally for what looks like the primary purpose of protesting the fact that
satisfy you. I'd be much more amendable to the idea however if you were willing to be a personal eye-witness to this
Heaven forfend them not being on board with us!
You mean everyone in America aren't like San Franciscans?
US: Italy, Australia, Poland, Spain, Qatar, Kuwait and, of course, Britain. I know it's hard to find out this kind of
support (in the small, mostly insignificant ways that are possible for one such as myself)
it is shoved, in all its detailed horror, right into my face.
I don't know about you people, but I'm already stocking up on extra food, water, and electrons.
So I hereby declare myself Ayatollah Mustardah of Blogistan. From this day forward, I will call down, on any Idiotarian
I figured that was the way to go. But then I read this.
to the San Francisco federal building to protest the passage of Bush's resolution for action against Iraq.
last update : 6-1-2009
