So apparently, it’s all about oil.

Now, I know what you’re going to say. You’re going to trot out a bunch of exhaustive arguments about national security, nuclear weapons, a murderous dictator who’s repeatedly shown himself to be aggressive… blah, blah, blah.

Yeah, but see, I was in San Francisco to see the rally today, and they all just seemed so damn sure that the gooey gold of Iraq was the real thing on Bush’s mind. Well, most of them did, anyway. The relatively small assortment of others not holding to the oil-line couldn’t quite reach such a cohesive consensus. A sizable portion of the remainders singled out the Global Zionist Conspiracy as the war-mongering culprits. From this, I think one can reasonably deduce that those dirty Jews are just licking their baby-eating lips thinking about kicking all the Palestinians out of their ancient ancestral homelands in… Iraq? I don’t pretend to understand the rationale behind this argument, but then, I’m not that bright. I’ll leave it in your much more intellectually capable hands to sort out the rhyme and reason.

Have you done that? Good. So now maybe you can figure this one out:

 

 

No, no, don’t adjust your monitor. Yes, that is a banner calling for the release of Mumia Abu-Jamal, the convicted cop-killer on death row and the darling of the academic elite, whose name or picture is as valid a secret handshake among the counter-cultural leftwing as anything written by Noam Chomsky. Anyone who can figure out what his misguided fanbase is doing pimping for his release at an anti-war rally is anyone’s guess. Perhaps part of “ending racism” (being one of the core missions of A.N.S.W.E.R free dog fuck story.) happens to include releasing people who shoot cops and happen to be black, have killer dredlocks, and are able to spout all kinds of pseudo-intellectual Marxist buzzwords.

The rally was advertised to begin at about 11 am at Embarcadero, where it would then proceed a brisk 2 miles down Market Street and culminate at the Civic Center in front of City Hall, apparently where the main event was to take place. I was holding out the ambitious hope that the rally organizers would break with protest tradition and have the march end with a no-holds-barred cage match between a mountain gorilla and a grizzly bear. That was a tad overly ambitious, it turns out. I mean, I’m not completely inflexible. I would have settled even for some sort of monkey knife fight.

Really though, at its most basic, I was really just crossing my fingers praying that Saturday’s ordeal would end in some other way than the standard immobile horde of marchers gathered around a stage from which poured bad rhetoric and worse poetry.

I didn’t even leave for the BART station until after 11. I figured that, since anti-war demonstrators being the fashionable people they are, most of them would be fashionably late. And after all, there’s nothing more embarrassing than showing up to the protest early, unless you come to the thing dressed in the same prom dress as your best friend (we had coordinated beforehand though, so no worries on that front).

And by all indications, I had chosen aright, since it seemed I was being pressed into the subway car with just about every other person going to San Francisco that day [insert sardine reference here], which allowed me the opportunity to discretely listen in on several conversations by earnest young people who were at an acute loss as to why everyone else in the country wouldn’t listen to them and thus solve all the world’s problems lickety-split.

The member of one such trio of eager marchers, in an apparent effort to acknowledge that just perhaps there was another side to the debate, mentioned quietly that, even though this whole, like… war thing, is of course all about oil ‘n stuff, Saddam is still sorta, you know… pretty evil, or something.

It didn’t seem to go over as the paltry statement of even-handedness he had hoped for, as one of his friends, her strong disapproval showing through her voice, demurred.

“Ok, like Saddam isn’t evil. Darth Vader is evil, ok? Like, Sauron is evil. Saddam isn’t evil, dude. That isn’t a term you can even apply to like, real people, ok? It’s like completely beyond any concept of reality.”

I didn’t take the time to check, but I am nevertheless certain she indignantly upbraided the carrier of the large placard at the rally reading, “Bush is Sauron” later that day with the same stern admonitions against dehumanization of one’s enemy.

Still in the subway car, however, she continued male sucking horse.

“And like, calling Saddam evil just so perfectly illustrates that Bush is like, so incapable of any kind of logical thought, you know? It’s also uh… totally racist, too.”

“Yeah,” her scolded companion agreed, his head lowered. “Yeah, you’re right.”

…and so forth. I’ve come to the conclusion that at one point we became stuck in some sort of space-time rift. It’s the only explanation I’ve come up with so far to account for the seeming excruciatingly slow passage of time.

Anyway, eventually we did get to San Francisco, and the bright-eyed members of Young People For Saddam quickly filed out and jostled up the stairs and escalators to get at the real action. Walking up from the subterranean levels of the BART station into the light of day, slowly hearing the roar get louder and louder, I felt vaguely like I was about to emerge out from the tunnel into the bustling stands of Yankee Stadium.

Only instead of baseball players, screaming fans and hot dog vendors, you get commies, anarchists and hippies galore.

Of course, it’s unfair to lump all the attendees in with those labels, but even those that didn’t fall into the tie-dyed, open-toed extremist camp weren’t exactly selling a mainstream message, either. From what I could tell, as the throng plodded down Market Street to the ever-present thud of bongo drums and chroused renditions of “Give Peace a Chance,” there were all types of people who probably had never used the word “Amerikkka” in in their whole life. But it didn’t take long to realize that even they weren’t marching with any kind of communicable message to send to the millions of people in the swayable political center of America whose opinions are actually important enough to divert the government from a plan of war.

In fact, looking for any kind of coherent anti-war stance, save for the never tiresome claims about oily causality would most likely lead a person truly undecided on the matter of Iraq to turn away in disgust when they are confronted with the ugly and baseless accusation that the senior elected officials in our government are willing to risk the lives of thousands of Americans and many more thousands of Iraqis solely in order to line their pockets with a few more million bucks of dirty oil money.

 

If you really want to sway opinion against the war, you have to be Walter Cronkite, not Abbie Hoffman. You have to make the case that the risks outweigh the benefits, both pragmatically and morally. You have to not accuse those in favor of war of being genocidal fascist pigs bent on killing millions of brown people because… well because they’re there, dammit! You don’t let an antiwar rally devolve into a carnival for any and every extreme leftwing cause out there my wife fucking dog. You have to admit that, for all the flaws that you see in the leaders with which you disagree, they are in no way comparable to Saddam Hussein or Osama Bin Laden.

 

 

And above all else, you don’t allow your message to be hijacked and funneled through a group that is a front for the Workers World Party, because how many Americans are going to be enthusiastic about supporting an organization that wants to abolish the United States of America in favor of a global communist state?

But then, all of this is assuming that they actually do want to convince a section of America broader than their own ideologically narrow ranks, and I don’t think this is the case. Essentially, this was a day for all the folks who find meaning in their lives by being self-righteously opposed to the majority to show just how self-righteous they are to each other, and who can make the most clever Bush/Hitler reference.

When I got to the civic center, there was some woman who at least styled herself a poet at the loudspeaker, reading some freestyle poetry that would make Amiri Baraka jealous. She claimed the war in Iraq was a Zionist conspiracy to expand Israel until the Jews took over the entire region. She said that the US government wanted to install a new Saddam Hussein of their own choosing and that they were going to gobble up every country in the Middle East until it was one big American colony. She ranted about “indigenous peoples” rising up and expelling the illegal immigrant white-eyes. She proclaimed that they would take back “Palestine” (all of it) and that “the Intifada will continue!”

If I’m making it sound as if she was raving like a friggin’ lunatic, that’s because, well, she was raving like a friggin’ lunatic.

All to the delirious applause of the audience, of course. It was at that point that I decided, “Yup, that’s about it,” and started to make my way back up Market to the BART station. It didn’t mean that they were finished. Hoo-boy, not by a long shot. That woman at the podium seemingly jockeying for the position of New Jersey poet laureate alone seemed to have the lung capacity and fury to go one for hours. What I meant was that there wasn’t going to be anything new. Nothing I hadn’t heard before; but more importantly, nothing that was worth hearing.

Nothing that would resonate outside of the sheltered enclaves of the leftcoast leftwing. Nothing that put forth any message besides the strange logic of, “Bush worked for an oil company. Now he wants to invade a country that has oil. It’s just that simple! Can’t you see the connection?”

As I boarded the BART train for the ride home, I couldn’t help but feel just a little sorry for them. In six weeks, when the war has already come and gone and the Iraqis have barely finished dancing in the streets and news about just how awful Saddam really was floods the world, how are they going to be able to console themselves?

“I mean, man, the war actually seemed to help those Iraqi people. They sorta even look happy, dude. And man, that Saddam was one badass mutha. The people are like, more healthy and safe and stuff. What’s up with that? And millions of civilians didn’t die. Dude, what happened?”

“I know man, I know beastiality story index. It’s a sad day. Truly, a tragedy for the entire world. Come on, we’ve got that Mumia rally later today. Gotta finish those protest signs.”

Russia and shit. Besides, it's just the Russians. Why don't we just contain them or something? Hey, who's up for some
really just put Saddam in a better situation than he was before because the presence of inspectors invites complacency and
50 Ways to Leave Your Folly Common Dreams, that goldmine of general silliness, showcases this piece, The Folly of Pre-emptive
in words so much more exacting than even those who actually live in that time would be able to produce?
occurred, smashing the window of their hotel room.
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
Diversity. More than motherhood, it is the one unassailable concept these days. Open any teaching publication, and you will
Those people are especially useful when they have access to the core computer systems that hackers would otherwise struggle
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
slope proposition, claiming that because we go after Saddam, we'll suddenly be all aggro-ed up to obliterate any country
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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,
assures everyone that "Don't worry, the problem is being taking care of by the inspectors."
I figured that was the way to go. But then I read this.
agree that [insert additional badly-forced car metaphor here]!
Don't you people ever get tired of just pulling shit out of your asses?
An insightful, well-written and quite simply excellent column somehow found its way in the SF Chronicle's website today.
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
on the civilized world. And when I resort again to that frame of mind, it will be because I realize, intellectually and
Meanwhile, the fact that we are able to use pre-emptive action when deemed necessary is a fact of our strength, not weakness
I don't know about you people, but I'm already stocking up on extra food, water, and electrons.
But anyway, right there you've got yourself eight nations total in the coalition, hailing from North America, both western
have democratically elected rulers I'm sure doesn't throw any flies into your ointment.
use grown-up scissors), but nevertheless, even though he really didn't deserve it,
My sentences, thus decreed, will be subsequently carried out by my elite brigade of Beheading Gnomes, whom I made up
In theory, I was of course angry, but I had a vaguely detatched sense about the whole thing. A large part of that of
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.
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,
It may be a sad illustration of my lack to find sympathy within myself without reading descriptions or seeing pictures,
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owned," she pontificated, in that snotty "52% of my clothes are made of hemp which therefore makes me morally superior
Yes, well I suppose you're suggesting that we would be well-served to wait for this "final proof," then? Very well. I'll
I suppose you mean that it's not "multilateralist" unless France says so?
Hey, didn't there used to be a city where this smoking crater is?
When they aired some actual interviews with the protesters, I started to honestly think they were part of some sort of
Sorry folks, but slippery slope arguments don't hold water by themselves. We're going after Saddam because he 1) has shown
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?
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
rivals.
Sorry folks, but slippery slope arguments don't hold water by themselves. We're going after Saddam because he 1) has shown
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
which is all about the biggest threat to the security of all companies: their own employees.
Well I wouldn't be surprised if this Wednesday at Sproul there will be similar behavior, and I plan to be there. Maybe
on the civilized world. And when I resort again to that frame of mind, it will be because I realize, intellectually and
Russia and shit. Besides, it's just the Russians. Why don't we just contain them or something? Hey, who's up for some
...but there's no shame in being a follower when those you're following make such damn good points.
only be revealed as more useless than it already seems), there is right now a coalition prepared to go into Iraq with the
Diversity. More than motherhood, it is the one unassailable concept these days. Open any teaching publication, and you will
"The lethal combination is when you exploit both people and technology," Mr Mitnick told BBC News Online.
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.
going to be monitored so closely that I'd be surprised if he were able to put in a phony name at a porn site and not have
coming off them. It was really a terrible sight," she said. "You could just hear people crying up in the Bounty foyer -
you could see stink lines of self-satisfaction coming off her so that he could simply get to his job. She of course started
I'll get a chance to ask why they've been glorifying images of Hamas murderers on their flyers.
psychopathic fancy without fear of retribution.
I wish that I could just be told "Hundreds of people died in a terrorist bombing today," and instantly feel the kind of rage
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
During that protest, my girlfriend had to take a midterm in Wheeler auditorium and had to step over the bodies lying in
rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.
that blatantly called for some rhetorical bitch-slapping.
fact that these people are thugs, bullies and liars.
without end is causing traditional friends of the United States to
University or Diversity
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."
(or to have their genitalia eviscerated by a rabid Rosie O'Donnell
destroying the technological infrastructure of Western civilization again. And it's only 3 months away!
it is shoved, in all its detailed horror, right into my face.
What it does not mean however, is that this suddenly signals that we are going to be going after China, Saudi Arabia, Cuba
During that protest, my girlfriend had to take a midterm in Wheeler auditorium and had to step over the bodies lying in
satisfy you. I'd be much more amendable to the idea however if you were willing to be a personal eye-witness to this
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
Meanwhile, the fact that we are able to use pre-emptive action when deemed necessary is a fact of our strength, not weakness
Such as this quote by Teddy Roosevelt concerning his acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize, posted now
side of the political spectrum... what are they called?
Diversity. More than motherhood, it is the one unassailable concept these days. Open any teaching publication, and you will
that off my list of things to do. Now, on to learning how to square-dance."
It may be a sad illustration of my lack to find sympathy within myself without reading descriptions or seeing pictures,
be harried by idiots who have full compliments of heads and genitals! With the ranks of my imaginary gnomes rallied,
After 3000 of your countrymen die in a couple hours, anything less than that is wont to be downplayed in significance
that I hadn't thought of it first!
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.
on the civilized world. And when I resort again to that frame of mind, it will be because I realize, intellectually and
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
...but there's no shame in being a follower when those you're following make such damn good points.
What it does not mean however, is that this suddenly signals that we are going to be going after China, Saudi Arabia, Cuba
hunting dairy cows with a high-powered rifle and scope."
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
I figured that was the way to go. But then I read this.
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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
chanting in his face and moved in front of him every time he tried to get around her.
to elicit empathy had been raised considerably since 9/11,
"I said it's being taken care of, dammit. Mind your own business."
I have to admit I'm pretty curious just to see what he's going to do. The guy has shown himself to have an overpowering
democratically decided laws - - not the capriciousness of individual rulers -- should govern human affairs.
What it does not mean however, is that this suddenly signals that we are going to be going after China, Saudi Arabia, Cuba
Now at this point, most people would just say, "let it go, and move on."
No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this
nuclear weapons. Containment was born out of a realization that we were effectively restrained by our lack of strategic
but they make up for any lack of actual existence with pure unadulterated enthusiasm.
course grew out of the experience of 9/11.
University or Diversity
lying in order to gain information that gave him access to restricted systems.
Well I wouldn't be surprised if this Wednesday at Sproul there will be similar behavior, and I plan to be there. Maybe
support (in the small, mostly insignificant ways that are possible for one such as myself)
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
agree that [insert additional badly-forced car metaphor here]!
If and when you find one, that means that I'll be perfectly willing to advocate an attack against them as well.
anger that is so justifiable -no, demanded- by these despicable acts, but if that must be the case, then from on, I'll be
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
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.
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
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
That is, until this morning. Now I'm glad to say that I've gotten over getting over it, and am thoroughly pissed again.
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?
weapons inspections in Iraq represent a good example of how the rule of law has been used, and can be used again, to avert
computer systems.
I was already in a state of "moving on" and being "over it" before I even heard about the Bali attacks, with the result
of constant uncertainty and increased insecurity where almost anything could lead to war.
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
"Standing in the foyer of the Bounty Hotel, people were just walking in, blood dripping off them, burns to their face, skin
or any other simply crappy country in the world, because none of them satisfy both those propositions.
Diversity. More than motherhood, it is the one unassailable concept these days. Open any teaching publication, and you will
Saddam is so hot to get his grubby hands on nukes is enough evidence of aggression. What's he going to do with them once
You try to make it seem as if the Joint Chiefs were lying around on a Sunday afternoon and said to themselves, "Yeah sure,
The fact that this is being published in the Chronicle is no small feat. Even more reason for you to go read it.
join the majority of the world's nations in distancing themselves from Washington in a fashion not seen since the Vietnam War.
looks like a green light, no?
The book details the ways that employees can inadvertently leak information that can be exploited by hackers to compromise
I finally went and did it.
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.
...but there's no shame in being a follower when those you're following make such damn good points.
or any other simply crappy country in the world, because none of them satisfy both those propositions.
getting an education. When she tried to talk to one of the organizers after her test about how some people were just
And exactly how do you go from no "final proof" to there being no evidence of impending aggression? The very fact that
superiority.
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.
During the last half of the 20th century, this principle was expanded internationally through the United Nations. The U.N.
you could see stink lines of self-satisfaction coming off her so that he could simply get to his job. She of course started
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"?
of a lack of imagination or basic humanity; the fact that it's difficult for me to feel deeply for people suffering unless
Kevin Mitnick will be able to use a computer again in approximately 3 months.
to really concern yourself with, except in a somewhat general, theoretical way.
conflict.
"The lethal combination is when you exploit both people and technology," Mr Mitnick told BBC News Online.
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
way why we're doing all of this, and why, if they still choose to berate us about "root causes" and "birds coming home
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
information with your heads crammed so far up your asses, so I'll give you a pass.
(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.
rivals.
be harried by idiots who have full compliments of heads and genitals! With the ranks of my imaginary gnomes rallied,
owned," she pontificated, in that snotty "52% of my clothes are made of hemp which therefore makes me morally superior
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
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
Really, how often is someone able to so perfectly crystallize the dilemmas that will exist a century in the future
not just "fear," as if we're going to indiscriminantly nuke the floor under our beds because monsters might be hiding there.
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.
find testimonials to diversity. Flip through any recent social sciences or humanities textbook and diversity pops up with
to penetrate.
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.
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.
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
According to the president, "we cannot wait for the final proof" that Saddam Hussein's government is planning an imminent
President Bush says he wants to avoid "a future of fear." It's an admirable goal, but one hardly served by this new doctrine.
A taste, just a taste...
that off my list of things to do. Now, on to learning how to square-dance."
Many in the global community also distrust the Bush administration's expanding war aims. It is not easy for our friends around
You mean everyone in America aren't like San Franciscans?
Stand up to these thugs This Wednesday, the 16th at noon, an apparent composite of the Students for Justice in Palestine
Yes, well I suppose you're suggesting that we would be well-served to wait for this "final proof," then? Very well. I'll
Well that's not really true. People on a different side of the debate than I are not necessarily jerks, just wrong.
and you'll get diversity in the speech by the politician, in the one by the principal who welcomes him and in the one by
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.
Kevin Mitnick will be able to use a computer again in approximately 3 months.
to really concern yourself with, except in a somewhat general, theoretical way.
A taste, just a taste...
"What I found personally to be true was that it's easier to manipulate people rather than technology," he said.
That is, until this morning. Now I'm glad to say that I've gotten over getting over it, and am thoroughly pissed again.
way why we're doing all of this, and why, if they still choose to berate us about "root causes" and "birds coming home
One middle-aged woman who looked like she hadn't combed her hair since Jerry Garcia died had this to say, when asked
During the last half of the 20th century, this principle was expanded internationally through the United Nations. The U.N.
side of the political spectrum... what are they called?
In your face, Space Coyote!
"I said it's being taken care of, dammit. Mind your own business."
Shiite Muslim clerics in Lebanon and Iran have reacted with rage at the Rev. Jerry Falwell for calling Islam's prophet
...but there's no shame in being a follower when those you're following make such damn good points.
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?
computer systems.
that continues to characterize the US as the Great Satan and preach jihad against all things Western? Oh I know, the Muslim
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
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
"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.
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Hey, didn't there used to be a city where this smoking crater is?
When they aired some actual interviews with the protesters, I started to honestly think they were part of some sort of
agree that [insert additional badly-forced car metaphor here]!
of the mass moron movement.
the way. Apparently that wasn't enough for the however, because they then started pulling at her legs to keep her from
vaunted proof of yours. Then you could be really sure.
he revealed himself to be a seriously dishonest debater (that, or he was so stupid that it wouldn't be safe for him to
50 Ways to Leave Your Folly Common Dreams, that goldmine of general silliness, showcases this piece, The Folly of Pre-emptive
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.
of righteousness; and it becomes a very evil thing if it serves merely as a mask for cowardice and
The experience made me think of the instructions from all corners of the media after 9/11 that what we, as Americans,
assures everyone that "Don't worry, the problem is being taking care of by the inspectors."
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
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
he is willing to act aggressively and recklessly and cannot be reasonably deterred and 2) is working to get and use nukes
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.
Hesiod over at Counterspin Central is one such fellow. Not only with myself, but in his conversations with Den Beste,
My sentences, thus decreed, will be subsequently carried out by my elite brigade of Beheading Gnomes, whom I made up
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,
threaten the United States, he said we must "assume the worst." Essentially, the White House is proposing that the
For that reason and others, I didn't actually start reading the news coverage until this morning.
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
You mean everyone in America aren't like San Franciscans?
Already, even if the UN thumbs its irrelevant nose at the idea of going after Iraq (and if it actually does, then they'll
A taste, just a taste...
And exactly how do you go from no "final proof" to there being no evidence of impending aggression? The very fact that
world that even today harbors and offers succor to the same groups that piloted the 9/11 planes, right?
but they make up for any lack of actual existence with pure unadulterated enthusiasm.
without end is causing traditional friends of the United States to
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lying in order to gain information that gave him access to restricted systems.
needed now was healing, closure; in short, to "get over it" and "move on."
(or to have their genitalia eviscerated by a rabid Rosie O'Donnell
Heh. Didn't Nostradamus write something about "a bespeckled plague rising in the West..."?
it is shoved, in all its detailed horror, right into my face.
Now of course I'm sure that these open-toed folks have a flurry of perfectly well thought-out reasons as to why pissing
, "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.
Now could someone please tell me what concrete purpose that woman's behavior, and that of her great chanting unwashed bretheren,
So welcome. If this is the first and/or only post you can see, it means I haven't imported my archives from Blogspot yet,
to roost," those sniveling, carping appeasers,
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of righteousness; and it becomes a very evil thing if it serves merely as a mask for cowardice and
However, several of the exchanges I have had have definately been with those you might describe as "challeneged" in
predictable frequency. Follow a politician to a school photo-op,
I strongly suspect TR had access to some sort of time machine and traveled into the furture about a hundred years.
rivals.
so that he will be better equipped to fulfill point 1). Show me another nation that's like that today.
I see. Did you talk to this "everyone" at your International Socialist Organization direct action planning seminar or
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.
fact that these people are thugs, bullies and liars.
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
Falwell was a "mercenary and must be killed," the Farsi-language daily Abrar reported Saturday.
Such as this quote by Teddy Roosevelt concerning his acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize, posted now
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
"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
Kevin Mitnick will be able to use a computer again in approximately 3 months.
Already, even if the UN thumbs its irrelevant nose at the idea of going after Iraq (and if it actually does, then they'll
conflict.
news editors of Cannel 7 to allow, as the segment ended right there.
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
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.
you could see stink lines of self-satisfaction coming off her so that he could simply get to his job. She of course started
I suppose you mean that it's not "multilateralist" unless France says so?
them into a thin paste of protein on a cave wall, to wipe out every last vestige of the disgusting stain they have left
destroying the technological infrastructure of Western civilization again. And it's only 3 months away!
Replace "powerful" with "crazy and armed with nukes" and you'd be right. Otherwise, your statement is nonsense.
Kevin Mitnick will be able to use a computer again in approximately 3 months.
the All Men Are Rapists self defense workshop? Surely that must be a representative sample of the country!
making a point of reading in depth about any such future atrocity to ensure that I don't allow myself to be instantly "over it."
Now could someone please tell me what concrete purpose that woman's behavior, and that of her great chanting unwashed bretheren,
fact that these people are thugs, bullies and liars.
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
threaten the United States, he said we must "assume the worst." Essentially, the White House is proposing that the
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.
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.
Watching Channel 7 news today (the Simpsons were in a commercial), they reported on a wad of dingbats who blocked access
, "I don't believe the American people support this war. Everyone I've talked to is against it!"
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.
My sentences, thus decreed, will be subsequently carried out by my elite brigade of Beheading Gnomes, whom I made up
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.
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