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A Madonna Screed
When I read on Drudge that Madonna is planning a “shocking” “anti-war, anti-Bush” “commentary” of a video that will accompany the media blitz for her latest toilet paper roll of sonic idiocy to be digitized and sold for $16.99, I think of the most succinct summation of just what Madonna is, brought to us by the lads of South Park:
Madonna is an old anorexic whore who wore out her welcome years ago and should just go fuck herself.
That’s actually much more kind than anything I would typically have to say about her.
Like lots of bloggers, I spend a good amount of my time making fun of the stupid things celebrities say, but compared to Madonna, people like Sheryl Crow, Janeane Garofalo and Martin Scorsese are intellectual powerhouses. Also, at least with the likes of Scorsese you can respect his artistic product even if you have to suffer through his political opinions now and then.
This has always been impossible to do with Madonna, however, because 1) her political/public self is inextricably bound with her “artistic” (not enough scare quotes in the world to do that howler justice) image, and 2) because both of those entities (if they indeed are even separate at all) are so horribly painful to endure.
Now, one can distinctly discern how much of this “American Life” salvo of hers is an urgent cry of relevance to a world in which she finds herself as culturally outmoded as jokes about Viagra.
Ever notice how we didn’t hear much from her since Bush was elected, and even less after 9/11? No? Yeah, me neither. But then, that’s the very nature of a respite from the likes of high-profile stupidity: blissful unawareness amazing dog fucking. When an irritating public persona drops down below the signal noise of celebrity culture, the natural impulse is to simply forget that they ever held a coveted spot of public annoyance in the first place. I mean really, that’s the point isn’t it, to not be bothered by them any more? To forget them as soon as the buzzing from their ego has subsided to acceptably unobtrusive levels? And, one is naturally aided in this by the fact that modern celebrities are usually so completely forgettable. Madonna, with her deliberately frenzied mixture of inadvertantly banal poses struck for the purpose of carefully constructed sexual shock-value, is no exception to this rule.
It seems that she perhaps perceived that the world had slipped into a kind of Material Girl lethe of recent and that she simply couldn’t abide by it, with the result being her inflicting a new album and video (more likely a spate of them eventually) on the world, just to be sure and remind everyone that she’s just as vacuous and reflexively outraged by whatever the squares are doing so she can try to once again shock the parents of the 13-year-olds who buy her crap.
Except this, time, she’s trying to make Important! and Serious!-sounding pronouncements about things other than how monogamy is evil and repressive and that pubescent girls should dress and act like the kind of public slut her money and celebrity allows her to be with so little consequence. You have to sort of instantly feel sorry for any effort of hers trying to branch out into becoming an official Concerned Famous Person, something that is pretty much beyond her capabilities (and considering the woefully low standards required for being a card-carrying CFP, the picture becomes doubly pathetic). Immediately, I can’t help but think of a monkey trying to write a novel. It’s possible that with enough attempts he could approach something that remotely resembles one, but only coincidentally and after literally billions of random attempts.
It’s no surprise that Madonna’s profile became significantly lowered post-election 2000 horse sex drawing. Between then and the September of the following year, she only surfaced rarely to give the odd cheap shot against Bush’s party or the Pope, usually for their perpetual crime of being repressed puritans, or something like that. This reduced public presence after the inauguration of Bush’s America makes perfect sense, for if there was ever a president’s tenure that fit harmoniously with the public phenomenom of Madonna, it was Bill Clinton.
In an era when the president is viewed at large as a sleazy, lacivious scoundrel, and is either hated or loved for it, and when the country is fixated on something as squirm-inducing as the big ugly eel’s sexual organ, how could a figure like Madonna not feel right at home? Clinton was glamorous and photogenic (at least, many maintained as much) and always hungry for the spotlight. He was publicly fixated on all the fashionable things that the Beautiful People professed to care about, and openly enamored of all the more shallow qualities that the hordes of entertainistas really did care about, that is: their own egos, and all the things that could feed them. Despite the fact that Reagan actually worked in Hollywood for years, Clinton was much more in line with the Hollywood persona. If he can be called “our first black president,” then he was also surely our first “celebrity president.”
Maybe she saw something was changing after Bush was elected. I’m sure she, like countless other people for whom evidence is no impediment to their opinions, was certain that he stole the election, but even had he not become presidentr, Al Gore wasn’t exactly Madonna presidential material either. If not a devout Christian like Bush, he was at least eager to pretend to be one for the bible-belt rubes and Moral Majority types woman and dog mating. The fact that the Democratic standard-bearer had gone from being someone who used cigars as dildos on his interns to an almost bible-thumper who was, on top of all that, monstrously boring, couldn’t help but signal a shifting pattern of the cultural wind, one where a Madonna didn’t fit as well as before. One simply didn’t see her as often after that.
And then after 9/11, as far as I can tell, she completely disappeared from the public eye. If the typically-Republican, boring and “repressed” nature of Bush’s presidency, and the things that it said about America’s cultural climate made Madonna uncomfortable with engaging the American zeitgeist, then surely the new atmosphere after 9/11 should have, and perhaps did, terrify her.
She’s certainly not all that bright, but she is, if anything, savvy of what sells. And it would be clear to her that the type of aggressively destructive, anti-social sexuality she came to more and more fixate upon (all comically justified as some kind of self-righteous notion of “freedom” or “anti-repression,” of course) as the 90’s wound down would not be as well received in a country debating the issue of war in Iraq and thinking about the next big terrorist strike that could claim thousands of their countrymen’s lives.
But of course, as she is always willing to latch, vampire-like, onto the next cultural wave and greedily suck (in more ways than one) until all the potential for enriching her pocket and her ego has been bled out of it, Madonna is apparently now seeking to reinvent herself as provocative, outraged anti-war activist instead of provacative, outraged slut.
The Drudge article suggests that this new video of hers will be a hard-hitting, political statement, or at least that’s what she wants her thousand or so publicity peons to feed to the media. One of them describes it as a “sweeping commentary,” which, in such a situation as this, usually means that it’s too incoherent or absurd to be understood intelligibly as being about any specific topic AnalBestiality Gallery. When a commentary sweeps, it doesn’t have to make sense.
Dressed in commando fatigues, Madonna throws grenades as the techno terror beat pounds, claims a source. Limb-less men and women are reportedly shown, with bloody babies.
One disturbing clip features Iraqi children.
“The video escalates into a mad frenzy depicting the catastrophic repercussion and horror of war.”
Something tells me there will also be images of rich white guys in suits and pictures of oil wells. The labored pose shifts from a kinky sexual John Brown to techno Noam Chomsky. But that’s assuming, of course, that she’s ever heard of either of those fellows.
If I were you, I wouldn’t be waiting with bated breath for any deeper thought than what will surely be the implicit, “Look at all this gross, ugly stuff! Isn’t it nasty? I’m pretty sure it’s all connected in some way sex with her pet. Probably to the Catholic Church.”
This kind of clueless hodgepodge of elements is Madonna’s standard operating procedure when she tries to send a message and be weightily artistic, although previously her typical ingredients were race, religion and sex. If I had to come up with the quintessentially Madonnic icon, it would have to be an image of her sexually entwined on a cross with a gay, black man dressed up as a priest.
Many people in the past have breathlessly proclaimed that the very act of her mixing these types of elements is a daring, profound and socially significant statement about our world. If you’re one of those people, I’m sure this new video will be right up your alley.
However, several of the exchanges I have had have definately been with those you might describe as "challeneged" in"A bunch of people died from terrorism over the weekend? Sure, that's awful, but we all knew this was going to happen
In your face, Space Coyote!
Heaven forfend them not being on board with us!
"approach parody" is too mild. They sprinted towards parody, jumped on top of it and proceded to give parody a spirited
Already, even if the UN thumbs its irrelevant nose at the idea of going after Iraq (and if it actually does, then they'll
Eventually he got a little ticked off and said roughly, "Get away from me!" I was hungrily anticipating the energetic dissenter
really just put Saddam in a better situation than he was before because the presence of inspectors invites complacency and
The fact that this is being published in the Chronicle is no small feat. Even more reason for you to go read it.
I simply love it when my case is made for me.
only be revealed as more useless than it already seems), there is right now a coalition prepared to go into Iraq with the
Whereas the Cold War doctrine of deterrence and containment rested on strength, the new idea of pre-emption insists on U.S.
to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality.
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
Kevin Mitnick will be able to use a computer again in approximately 3 months.
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
without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism,
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
attack against the United States. Even though President Bush acknowledged in his speech that Iraq does not currently
or any other simply crappy country in the world, because none of them satisfy both those propositions.
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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.
rivals.
to the San Francisco federal building to protest the passage of Bush's resolution for action against Iraq.
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
"The lethal combination is when you exploit both people and technology," Mr Mitnick told BBC News Online.
world that even today harbors and offers succor to the same groups that piloted the 9/11 planes, right?
The fact that this is being published in the Chronicle is no small feat. Even more reason for you to go read it.
Quite the contrary, Bush's aggressive rhetoric, disregard for international law, and his lack of any vision other than war
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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?
she can last 6 hours). I make this declaration keeping in mind that this does not imply a judgement on the Idiotarian
Either that, or I now have to admit the existence of clairvoyance.
Meanwhile, the fact that we are able to use pre-emptive action when deemed necessary is a fact of our strength, not weakness
economic stupidity, especially when their ideas would do such a better job of it by themselves. Case in point:
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
Hey, didn't there used to be a city where this smoking crater is?
The article also points to this site, which maintains a running clock of how long it will be until Mitnick can start
to make the first world poor and make sure the third world stays that way.
nothing may stand in our way!
to really concern yourself with, except in a somewhat general, theoretical way.
Well I'm far far far too petty a person to do that.
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
nuclear weapons. Containment was born out of a realization that we were effectively restrained by our lack of strategic
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
to roost," those sniveling, carping appeasers,
, "I don't believe the American people support this war. Everyone I've talked to is against it!"
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
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
My sentences, thus decreed, will be subsequently carried out by my elite brigade of Beheading Gnomes, whom I made up
Quite the contrary, Bush's aggressive rhetoric, disregard for international law, and his lack of any vision other than war
not just "fear," as if we're going to indiscriminantly nuke the floor under our beds because monsters might be hiding there.
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
and eastern Europe, Australia and the middle east. Is that not multilateralism?
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.
Russia and shit. Besides, it's just the Russians. Why don't we just contain them or something? Hey, who's up for some
agree that [insert additional badly-forced car metaphor here]!
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
they're done, hang them on his wall next to the framed heads of Iraqi dissidents and say to himself, "Well, I can check
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.
I don't know about you people, but I'm already stocking up on extra food, water, and electrons.
only be revealed as more useless than it already seems), there is right now a coalition prepared to go into Iraq with the
Well I'm far far far too petty a person to do that.
really just put Saddam in a better situation than he was before because the presence of inspectors invites complacency and
and make them wish that congress had instead passed a resolution authorizing military force against people
War, by three fellows that hail from Global Exchange. You know who I'm talking about. The folks that want to "build an
be harried by idiots who have full compliments of heads and genitals! With the ranks of my imaginary gnomes rallied,
when you apply your own internal calculus of death and suffering and conclude that it isn't something that you need
a careful, precise argument, what point is there in engaging them verbally anymore?
vaunted proof of yours. Then you could be really sure.
serves? As far as I can tell, all they did was take some people who were probably overwhelmingly against the war anyway,
It may be a sad illustration of my lack to find sympathy within myself without reading descriptions or seeing pictures,
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
care. Just don't let me hear anything about how this bombing that specifically targeted Australian civilians was somehow
some of their cohorts are actually being held accountable by the university for their disruptive, illegal actions at
conflict.
news editors of Cannel 7 to allow, as the segment ended right there.
Many in the global community also distrust the Bush administration's expanding war aims. It is not easy for our friends around
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
both at home and abroad, can go heartily fuck themselves, or jump off a cliff, or shoot themselves in the head. I don't
owned," she pontificated, in that snotty "52% of my clothes are made of hemp which therefore makes me morally superior
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
something-really-awfuls, BlogSpot.
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the Feds know about it.
"Standing in the foyer of the Bounty Hotel, people were just walking in, blood dripping off them, burns to their face, skin
We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but
You must be triple jointed to be able to twist words like that.
world that even today harbors and offers succor to the same groups that piloted the 9/11 planes, right?
Finally, long after the fad has grown tiresome, everyone's attention turns to another scrap of dogma for the next decade.
Quite the contrary, Bush's aggressive rhetoric, disregard for international law, and his lack of any vision other than war
Stand up to these thugs This Wednesday, the 16th at noon, an apparent composite of the Students for Justice in Palestine
During the last half of the 20th century, this principle was expanded internationally through the United Nations. The U.N.
which is all about the biggest threat to the security of all companies: their own employees.
Do you mean the Muslim world that celebrated 9/11, saying the US deserved it all along? Or perhaps you mean the Muslim world
one of the most fad-driven enterprises imaginable. It produces a new catechism each decade, which everyone dutifully recites.
in words so much more exacting than even those who actually live in that time would be able to produce?
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
lying in order to gain information that gave him access to restricted systems.
vulnerability.
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
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.
Peace is generally good in itself, but it is never the highest good unless it comes as the handmaid
President Bush says he wants to avoid "a future of fear." It's an admirable goal, but one hardly served by this new doctrine.
In your face, Space Coyote!
the teacher trying to impress both of them.
Really, how often is someone able to so perfectly crystallize the dilemmas that will exist a century in the future
Falwell was a "mercenary and must be killed," the Farsi-language daily Abrar reported Saturday.
I simply love it when my case is made for me.
cause, but I,
Well that's not really true. People on a different side of the debate than I are not necessarily jerks, just wrong.
I'll get a chance to ask why they've been glorifying images of Hamas murderers on their flyers.
If a good education is meant to produce independent thinkers, I've seen precious little evidence it does. Education is
Really, how often is someone able to so perfectly crystallize the dilemmas that will exist a century in the future
"The death of that man is a religious duty, but his case should not be tied to the Christian community," Shabestari,
"Standing in the foyer of the Bounty Hotel, people were just walking in, blood dripping off them, burns to their face, skin
which is all about the biggest threat to the security of all companies: their own employees.
I suppose you mean that it's not "multilateralist" unless France says so?
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
I strongly suspect TR had access to some sort of time machine and traveled into the furture about a hundred years.
hacky-sack?"
...but there's no shame in being a follower when those you're following make such damn good points.
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."
"approach parody" is too mild. They sprinted towards parody, jumped on top of it and proceded to give parody a spirited
I wish that I could just be told "Hundreds of people died in a terrorist bombing today," and instantly feel the kind of rage
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've been blogging since July 2005, and in that time, I've had a few inter-blog arguments with the folks on the other
trying to get an education
assures everyone that "Don't worry, the problem is being taking care of by the inspectors."
destroying the technological infrastructure of Western civilization again. And it's only 3 months away!
a terrorist and an envoy of Iran's supreme leader reportedly called for his death.
Sure, it'd be nice to be a leader...
has been built up around Mitnick, a basically curious guy who just as often used old face-to-face (or voice-to-voice)
But anyway, right there you've got yourself eight nations total in the coalition, hailing from North America, both western
jerkwad I encounter, an order for them to be beheaded with extreme prejudice until the the point at which they are dead
that off my list of things to do. Now, on to learning how to square-dance."
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.
The BBC has a story about the so-called "master hacker", in which it does a good job of destroying the mythos that
only be revealed as more useless than it already seems), there is right now a coalition prepared to go into Iraq with the
Now at this point, most people would just say, "let it go, and move on."
And exactly how do you go from no "final proof" to there being no evidence of impending aggression? The very fact that
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 world to stomach the imperial scent of our newly enunciated military doctrine that proposes pre- emption of any powerful
to the San Francisco federal building to protest the passage of Bush's resolution for action against Iraq.
when you apply your own internal calculus of death and suffering and conclude that it isn't something that you need
the All Men Are Rapists self defense workshop? Surely that must be a representative sample of the country!
But I am thankful that at least for now, I've been able to summon that deep-seated, personal wrath so appropriate to an
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,
to make the first world poor and make sure the third world stays that way.
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
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
use grown-up scissors), but nevertheless, even though he really didn't deserve it,
but I hope to do that soon. I also hope to win the Nobel Prize in Kickboxing, and judge each of those things to be of
care. Just don't let me hear anything about how this bombing that specifically targeted Australian civilians was somehow
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
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
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,
course grew out of the experience of 9/11.
An insightful, well-written and quite simply excellent column somehow found its way in the SF Chronicle's website today.
anger that is so justifiable -no, demanded- by these despicable acts, but if that must be the case, then from on, I'll be
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
that continues to characterize the US as the Great Satan and preach jihad against all things Western? Oh I know, the Muslim
just now. Admittedly they do face significant challenges in carrying out their duties due to their imaginary nature,
that has the temerity to look at us cock-eyed.
some of their cohorts are actually being held accountable by the university for their disruptive, illegal actions at
weapons inspections in Iraq represent a good example of how the rule of law has been used, and can be used again, to avert
satisfy you. I'd be much more amendable to the idea however if you were willing to be a personal eye-witness to this
he revealed himself to be a seriously dishonest debater (that, or he was so stupid that it wouldn't be safe for him to
being the reaction described above.
Why are you still here?!
Quite the contrary, Bush's aggressive rhetoric, disregard for international law, and his lack of any vision other than war
University or Diversity
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.
that continues to characterize the US as the Great Satan and preach jihad against all things Western? Oh I know, the Muslim
fact that these people are thugs, bullies and liars.
that has the temerity to look at us cock-eyed.
join the majority of the world's nations in distancing themselves from Washington in a fashion not seen since the Vietnam War.
It seems the Muslim version of a slander suit is cutting off your head. Now when I read this I was shocked, just shocked
let you know when there's a mushroom cloud over New York, because that's the only "final proof" that seems to be able to
the not-being-a-jerk department.
being the reaction described above.
but they make up for any lack of actual existence with pure unadulterated enthusiasm.
Quite the contrary, Bush's aggressive rhetoric, disregard for international law, and his lack of any vision other than war
owned," she pontificated, in that snotty "52% of my clothes are made of hemp which therefore makes me morally superior
coming off them. It was really a terrible sight," she said. "You could just hear people crying up in the Bounty foyer -
The book details the ways that employees can inadvertently leak information that can be exploited by hackers to compromise
You must be triple jointed to be able to twist words like that.
Also, I've printed out and made a bunch of copies of some flyers from this site and will be passing them out.
of constant uncertainty and increased insecurity where almost anything could lead to war.
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
So seeing as how we've got massive approval from the House of Representatives and similar support in the senate is likely,
of righteousness; and it becomes a very evil thing if it serves merely as a mask for cowardice and
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.
one of the most fad-driven enterprises imaginable. It produces a new catechism each decade, which everyone dutifully recites.
In theory, I was of course angry, but I had a vaguely detatched sense about the whole thing. A large part of that of
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obviously they have lost loved ones or friends."
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?
she can last 6 hours). I make this declaration keeping in mind that this does not imply a judgement on the Idiotarian
of constant uncertainty and increased insecurity where almost anything could lead to war.
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
So seeing as how we've got massive approval from the House of Representatives and similar support in the senate is likely,
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
By tossing out any reasonable standards of evidence as a prerequisite for military action, the White House puts us in a state
Heh. Didn't Nostradamus write something about "a bespeckled plague rising in the West..."?
occurred, smashing the window of their hotel room.
threaten the United States, he said we must "assume the worst." Essentially, the White House is proposing that the
President Bush says he wants to avoid "a future of fear." It's an admirable goal, but one hardly served by this new doctrine.
and that it wasn't fair for these people to stop them, the girl started literally screaming at her about selfish she was.
who has been deprived of food for at least 6 hours - sounds like an unusually cruel thing to do, I know, but I'm sure
Either that, or I now have to admit the existence of clairvoyance.
hacky-sack?"
occurred, smashing the window of their hotel room.
lying in order to gain information that gave him access to restricted systems.
The experience made me think of the instructions from all corners of the media after 9/11 that what we, as Americans,
Well I wouldn't be surprised if this Wednesday at Sproul there will be similar behavior, and I plan to be there. Maybe
"I said it's being taken care of, dammit. Mind your own business."
psychopathic fancy without fear of retribution.
Falwell was a "mercenary and must be killed," the Farsi-language daily Abrar reported Saturday.
threaten the United States, he said we must "assume the worst." Essentially, the White House is proposing that the
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?
Well I wouldn't be surprised if this Wednesday at Sproul there will be similar behavior, and I plan to be there. Maybe
Either that, or I now have to admit the existence of clairvoyance.
hacky-sack?"
Another Australian tourist, 18-year-old Rachel Hughes, said she and her boyfriend had just arrived in Kuta when the blast
off a bunch of secretaries and other office workers who probably agree with them on the war anyway will further their
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
trying to get an education
them into a thin paste of protein on a cave wall, to wipe out every last vestige of the disgusting stain they have left
psychopathic fancy without fear of retribution.
Falwell was a "mercenary and must be killed," the Farsi-language daily Abrar reported Saturday.
...but there's no shame in being a follower when those you're following make such damn good points.
cause, but I,
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
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
Falwell was a "mercenary and must be killed," the Farsi-language daily Abrar reported Saturday.
According to the president, "we cannot wait for the final proof" that Saddam Hussein's government is planning an imminent
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
and eastern Europe, Australia and the middle east. Is that not multilateralism?
If a good education is meant to produce independent thinkers, I've seen precious little evidence it does. Education is
"to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality"?
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
that boiled up to the surface when I read things like this.
by both Instapundit and Cold Fury (and probably by sundry others by now):
President Bush says he wants to avoid "a future of fear." It's an admirable goal, but one hardly served by this new doctrine.
In your face, Space Coyote!
she can last 6 hours). I make this declaration keeping in mind that this does not imply a judgement on the Idiotarian
Bush also spoke of an "international coalition" that would disarm Hussein. Bush knows the American public is loathe to
Meanwhile, the fact that we are able to use pre-emptive action when deemed necessary is a fact of our strength, not weakness
I simply love it when my case is made for me.
off a bunch of secretaries and other office workers who probably agree with them on the war anyway will further their
President Bush says he wants to avoid "a future of fear." It's an admirable goal, but one hardly served by this new doctrine.
Well I wouldn't be surprised if this Wednesday at Sproul there will be similar behavior, and I plan to be there. Maybe
them into a thin paste of protein on a cave wall, to wipe out every last vestige of the disgusting stain they have left
psychopathic fancy without fear of retribution.
Falwell was a "mercenary and must be killed," the Farsi-language daily Abrar reported Saturday.
So seeing as how we've got massive approval from the House of Representatives and similar support in the senate is likely,
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
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
on the civilized world. And when I resort again to that frame of mind, it will be because I realize, intellectually and
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.
by both Instapundit and Cold Fury (and probably by sundry others by now):
President Bush says he wants to avoid "a future of fear." It's an admirable goal, but one hardly served by this new doctrine.
I suppose you mean that it's not "multilateralist" unless France says so?
the teacher trying to impress both of them.
psychopathic fancy without fear of retribution.
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.
off a bunch of secretaries and other office workers who probably agree with them on the war anyway will further their
In fact, the idea of pre- emptive attack depends on fear. It presupposes insecurity and assumes we will always be threatened.
In your face, Space Coyote!
them into a thin paste of protein on a cave wall, to wipe out every last vestige of the disgusting stain they have left
psychopathic fancy without fear of retribution.
Falwell was a "mercenary and must be killed," the Farsi-language daily Abrar reported Saturday.
According to the president, "we cannot wait for the final proof" that Saddam Hussein's government is planning an imminent
lying in order to gain information that gave him access to restricted systems.
The experience made me think of the instructions from all corners of the media after 9/11 that what we, as Americans,
(or to have their genitalia eviscerated by a rabid Rosie O'Donnell
on the civilized world. And when I resort again to that frame of mind, it will be because I realize, intellectually and
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
Another Australian tourist, 18-year-old Rachel Hughes, said she and her boyfriend had just arrived in Kuta when the blast
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.
Posted by Mean Mr. Mustard at 09:13 PM | Comments (4)
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
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