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Europe, the UN, The War
Things are coming down to the wire. It seems that, just as the Cap’n predicted before his shore leave, that within the next week we’re either going to get approval in the UN to attack Iraq, or be vetoed by France or Russia or both, and attack decide to Iraq. Only someone who is truly spiteful and holds an almost pathological contempt for Europe specifically and the UN in general would actually hope for the latter option to come to pass. So of course, I do.
Well, not really.
Honestly, as any sensible person, I would prefer that the Continentals, the UN, hell, everyone in the world and their mom for chrissakes, were on board with us in this thing. But seeing as how it doesn’t look like that’s a sure thing by any means, I’m content in us going it alone gay horse sex story. A small consolation prize in that would be the perfect live-on-CNN demonstration just how irrelevant Europe and the UN have become. It would be the ultimate visual aid. France, of course, will be outraged (others, like Germany, may very well be too, but for situations like these, France is just too perfect of an exemplar for the European mindset: the pure, distilled, free-based, crystalized form of European snobbery and post-modern diplomacy).
They’ll be outraged that we violated “international law” (an “honor among thieves” system if there ever was one), and they’ll be outraged about losing billions of investments and trade agreements with Iraq over the last decade, having sought to slither their way around both the spirit and the letter of the UN sanctions (how’s that for a belief in international law?). But most of all, the thing that will really get their goat(ees) is the fact of us being successful. Because as much as they officially despise everything culturally and politically American, the biggest fear that keeps them up at night is the prospect that they will be revealed as even more impotent in their ability to influence the US, and hence world affairs, than they are now.
The UNSC power of veto is the last vestige of real material power they have (or so they think) animal bestiality. All else is talk: criticisms, strong suggestions, frowns, outraged statements about US aggressiveness, etc. Now, in post-modern Europe, lots of verbiage is the only diplomatic currency that they possess, and it’s the one thing they can be said to truly have in droves. They’ve got windbag diplomats coming out of their ears. The only problem is this currency is about as inflationary as a gigantic hot-air balloon. Swing a dead cat in Brussels and you’re likely to be denounced roundly in the next meeting of the European parliment for not adhering to the EU’s 347 regulations concerning dead cat swinging. Terrifying, I know.
It’s for this reason that I wonder if France and Russia actually will force our unilateral hand pet sex tales. Den Beste expects the Un to have gotten a hearty middle finger from Bush and Co. by this time next week. I’m not so sure. It’s of course possible, perhaps even probable. But can France really stomach the kind of post-Saddam world where a unilateral US thumbed its nose at the one thing that (at least on the surface) can still be said to grant France power to reign in the simplisitic American cowboys?
Around August, I guessed that France would complain and threaten a veto right up until the last moment, and then fall into line when it became absolutely certain that their enlightened chastising wasn’t going to dissuade us. And at that moment, they would wring some laughably trivial “concession” out of the US’ resolution, like getting Bush to replace a semicolon with a comma, and would then proclaim that they had convinced the unsophisticated Americans to do things their way, and go along with the whole deal. They’d be proudly holding up their heads, hoping no one saw the drooping tail between their legs Animal Dildos.
I still think that’s possible, if only to preserve on its surface the lie that they still hold some real tangible sway over the direction the river flows. But in either case, we’ll know the answer in a week.
There is a part of me that would love seeing France veto in the SC and get shown up and thrown permanently onto the dustheap of world prominence (I’m constantly trying to tell this side of myself to stop ranting and put the gun down), since it would be nice to watch in a guilty pleasure, schadenfreude way. But most of the time, I’d be perfectly happy to see France continue to play their game of international make-believe, chiding us as if we gave a damn, knowing all the while that they can either do things our way, participating under our direction, or they can sit it out helplessly and watch as we go and do basically whatever the hell we think we have to anyway.
There’s some fun to be had in watching that, too.
The article also points to this site, which maintains a running clock of how long it will be until Mitnick can startWhy are you still here?!
Don't worry, I'll sit here with my rifle ready to take out any airborne porcines, should they come flying by.
being the reaction described above.
to roost," those sniveling, carping appeasers,
a careful, precise argument, what point is there in engaging them verbally anymore?
military action to counter the Soviet threat was not possible, because of their equal capacity to destroy us through
both at home and abroad, can go heartily fuck themselves, or jump off a cliff, or shoot themselves in the head. I don't
coming off them. It was really a terrible sight," she said. "You could just hear people crying up in the Bounty foyer -
And perhaps because of the collective weight of all those accumulated exhortations, perhaps from the psychic weariness
Either that, or I now have to admit the existence of clairvoyance.
threaten the United States, he said we must "assume the worst." Essentially, the White House is proposing that the
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By tossing out any reasonable standards of evidence as a prerequisite for military action, the White House puts us in a state
and the decisions to do so would based on (as in this case) measured calculations of the relative benefits and costs,
Well that's not really true. People on a different side of the debate than I are not necessarily jerks, just wrong.
Hey, didn't there used to be a city where this smoking crater is?
hacky-sack?"
Peace is generally good in itself, but it is never the highest good unless it comes as the handmaid
The Muslim world -- whose support is vital to any real effort to end the causes of terrorism -- is adamantly opposed.
Really, how often is someone able to so perfectly crystallize the dilemmas that will exist a century in the future
The BBC has a story about the so-called "master hacker", in which it does a good job of destroying the mythos that
find testimonials to diversity. Flip through any recent social sciences or humanities textbook and diversity pops up with
When they aired some actual interviews with the protesters, I started to honestly think they were part of some sort of
But it's not really fair to denigrate someone's ideas just because they themselves come from an organization riddled with
getting an education. When she tried to talk to one of the organizers after her test about how some people were just
nuclear weapons. Containment was born out of a realization that we were effectively restrained by our lack of strategic
Watching Channel 7 news today (the Simpsons were in a commercial), they reported on a wad of dingbats who blocked access
I'm going to be checking the weather channel for reports of snowflakes in Hell, but meanwhile you should go read it now.
No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this
about equal probability.
, "I don't believe the American people support this war. Everyone I've talked to is against it!"
And exactly how do you go from no "final proof" to there being no evidence of impending aggression? The very fact that
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
a representative of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was quoted as saying.
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
My sentences, thus decreed, will be subsequently carried out by my elite brigade of Beheading Gnomes, whom I made up
occurred, smashing the window of their hotel room.
In fact, the idea of pre- emptive attack depends on fear. It presupposes insecurity and assumes we will always be threatened.
During the last half of the 20th century, this principle was expanded internationally through the United Nations. The U.N.
psychopathic fancy without fear of retribution.
without end is causing traditional friends of the United States to
have democratically elected rulers I'm sure doesn't throw any flies into your ointment.
nuclear weapons. Containment was born out of a realization that we were effectively restrained by our lack of strategic
to make the first world poor and make sure the third world stays that 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.
it is shoved, in all its detailed horror, right into my face.
so that he will be better equipped to fulfill point 1). Show me another nation that's like that 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
the world to stomach the imperial scent of our newly enunciated military doctrine that proposes pre- emption of any powerful
After 3000 of your countrymen die in a couple hours, anything less than that is wont to be downplayed in significance
Eventually he got a little ticked off and said roughly, "Get away from me!" I was hungrily anticipating the energetic dissenter
of constant uncertainty and increased insecurity where almost anything could lead to war.
and the decisions to do so would based on (as in this case) measured calculations of the relative benefits and costs,
side of the political spectrum... what are they called?
on the civilized world. And when I resort again to that frame of mind, it will be because I realize, intellectually and
democratically decided laws - - not the capriciousness of individual rulers -- should govern human affairs.
information with your heads crammed so far up your asses, so I'll give you a pass.
the efforts to find these people and eradicate them, to ferret them out from their cowardly hiding places and vaporize
One of the great advances of the modern era has been the spread of the rule of law. This is the now common idea that
only be revealed as more useless than it already seems), there is right now a coalition prepared to go into Iraq with the
Now could someone please tell me what concrete purpose that woman's behavior, and that of her great chanting unwashed bretheren,
The fact that this is being published in the Chronicle is no small feat. Even more reason for you to go read it.
and the UC Divestment folks will be holding a rally for what looks like the primary purpose of protesting the fact that
the not-being-a-jerk department.
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
Another Australian tourist, 18-year-old Rachel Hughes, said she and her boyfriend had just arrived in Kuta when the blast
But anyway, right there you've got yourself eight nations total in the coalition, hailing from North America, both western
I strongly suspect TR had access to some sort of time machine and traveled into the furture about a hundred years.
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
"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.
"A bunch of people died from terrorism over the weekend? Sure, that's awful, but we all knew this was going to happen
without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism,
about equal probability.
so that he will be better equipped to fulfill point 1). Show me another nation that's like that today.
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
assures everyone that "Don't worry, the problem is being taking care of by the inspectors."
the Feds know about it.
Well that's not really true. People on a different side of the debate than I are not necessarily jerks, just wrong.
If a good education is meant to produce independent thinkers, I've seen precious little evidence it does. Education is
economic stupidity, especially when their ideas would do such a better job of it by themselves. Case in point:
hunting dairy cows with a high-powered rifle and scope."
...but there's no shame in being a follower when those you're following make such damn good points.
jerkwad I encounter, an order for them to be beheaded with extreme prejudice until the the point at which they are dead
of a lack of imagination or basic humanity; the fact that it's difficult for me to feel deeply for people suffering unless
Wheeler Hall last spring.
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
fact that these people are thugs, bullies and liars.
care. Just don't let me hear anything about how this bombing that specifically targeted Australian civilians was somehow
the way. Apparently that wasn't enough for the however, because they then started pulling at her legs to keep her from
to penetrate.
Replace "powerful" with "crazy and armed with nukes" and you'd be right. Otherwise, your statement is nonsense.
What it does not mean however, is that this suddenly signals that we are going to be going after China, Saudi Arabia, Cuba
that extended anger and sadness bring, or maybe even from just the fact that my threshold of human suffering sufficient
One of the great advances of the modern era has been the spread of the rule of law. This is the now common idea that
again soon, didn't we?"
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
only be revealed as more useless than it already seems), there is right now a coalition prepared to go into Iraq with the
The Muslim world -- whose support is vital to any real effort to end the causes of terrorism -- is adamantly opposed.
to make the first world poor and make sure the third world stays that way.
again soon, didn't we?"
But I am thankful that at least for now, I've been able to summon that deep-seated, personal wrath so appropriate to an
I have to admit I'm pretty curious just to see what he's going to do. The guy has shown himself to have an overpowering
I've been blogging since July 2005, and in that time, I've had a few inter-blog arguments with the folks on the other
support (in the small, mostly insignificant ways that are possible for one such as myself)
the world to stomach the imperial scent of our newly enunciated military doctrine that proposes pre- emption of any powerful
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
and that it wasn't fair for these people to stop them, the girl started literally screaming at her about selfish she was.
"I said it's being taken care of, dammit. Mind your own business."
In theory, I was of course angry, but I had a vaguely detatched sense about the whole thing. A large part of that of
I'm going to be checking the weather channel for reports of snowflakes in Hell, but meanwhile you should go read it now.
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
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
a terrorist and an envoy of Iran's supreme leader reportedly called for his death.
Replace "powerful" with "crazy and armed with nukes" and you'd be right. Otherwise, your statement is nonsense.
which is all about the biggest threat to the security of all companies: their own employees.
"I said it's being taken care of, dammit. Mind your own business."
Meanwhile, the fact that we are able to use pre-emptive action when deemed necessary is a fact of our strength, not weakness
What it does not mean however, is that this suddenly signals that we are going to be going after China, Saudi Arabia, Cuba
psychopathic fancy without fear of retribution.
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
them into a thin paste of protein on a cave wall, to wipe out every last vestige of the disgusting stain they have left
agree that [insert additional badly-forced car metaphor here]!
when you apply your own internal calculus of death and suffering and conclude that it isn't something that you need
(or to have their genitalia eviscerated by a rabid Rosie O'Donnell
over the heads of the world's nations as threat so that he can act willy-nilly in whatever new adventure captures his
Another Australian tourist, 18-year-old Rachel Hughes, said she and her boyfriend had just arrived in Kuta when the blast
"What I found personally to be true was that it's easier to manipulate people rather than technology," he said.
be harried by idiots who have full compliments of heads and genitals! With the ranks of my imaginary gnomes rallied,
that I hadn't thought of it first!
we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight
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:
you could see stink lines of self-satisfaction coming off her so that he could simply get to his job. She of course started
be replacing the old site that was hosted on that evil of evils, that bane of banes, that something-really-awful of
Why are you still here?!
to the San Francisco federal building to protest the passage of Bush's resolution for action against Iraq.
Whereas the Cold War doctrine of deterrence and containment rested on strength, the new idea of pre-emption insists on U.S.
faith at large, since many of them are peaceful, albeit intellectually stunted, people.
Quite the contrary, Bush's aggressive rhetoric, disregard for international law, and his lack of any vision other than war
to all of you warmongering neanderthals" tone of voice. She then struck a pose of righteous exasperation when she asked
No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this
that blatantly called for some rhetorical bitch-slapping.
democratically decided laws - - not the capriciousness of individual rulers -- should govern human affairs.
of righteousness; and it becomes a very evil thing if it serves merely as a mask for cowardice and
Containment and deterrence were responses to US weakness, you silly-headed dunderpate. It was obvious that using direct
about equal probability.
I don't know about you people, but I'm already stocking up on extra food, water, and electrons.
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
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.
that I hadn't thought of it first!
So I hereby declare myself Ayatollah Mustardah of Blogistan. From this day forward, I will call down, on any Idiotarian
lying in order to gain information that gave him access to restricted systems.
you could see stink lines of self-satisfaction coming off her so that he could simply get to his job. She of course started
fact that these people are thugs, bullies and liars.
course grew out of the experience of 9/11.
A taste, just a taste...
them into a thin paste of protein on a cave wall, to wipe out every last vestige of the disgusting stain they have left
about equal probability.
of righteousness; and it becomes a very evil thing if it serves merely as a mask for cowardice and
assures everyone that "Don't worry, the problem is being taking care of by the inspectors."
"A bunch of people died from terrorism over the weekend? Sure, that's awful, but we all knew this was going to happen
he revealed himself to be a seriously dishonest debater (that, or he was so stupid that it wouldn't be safe for him to
slope proposition, claiming that because we go after Saddam, we'll suddenly be all aggro-ed up to obliterate any country
It seems the Muslim version of a slander suit is cutting off your head. Now when I read this I was shocked, just shocked
rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.
superiority.
democratically decided laws - - not the capriciousness of individual rulers -- should govern human affairs.
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
You must be triple jointed to be able to twist words like that.
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
If and when you find one, that means that I'll be perfectly willing to advocate an attack against them as well.
To quote a boozed up, cynical and misanthropic individual whom I greatly admire: "Making fun of these people is like
Hey, didn't there used to be a city where this smoking crater is?
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.
University or Diversity
vaunted proof of yours. Then you could be really sure.
The article also points to this site, which maintains a running clock of how long it will be until Mitnick can start
But it's not really fair to denigrate someone's ideas just because they themselves come from an organization riddled with
again soon, didn't we?"
assures everyone that "Don't worry, the problem is being taking care of by the inspectors."
Really, how often is someone able to so perfectly crystallize the dilemmas that will exist a century in the future
University or Diversity
satisfy you. I'd be much more amendable to the idea however if you were willing to be a personal eye-witness to this
I figured that was the way to go. But then I read this.
I wish that I could just be told "Hundreds of people died in a terrorist bombing today," and instantly feel the kind of rage
"Standing in the foyer of the Bounty Hotel, people were just walking in, blood dripping off them, burns to their face, skin
computer systems.
That is, until this morning. Now I'm glad to say that I've gotten over getting over it, and am thoroughly pissed again.
he is willing to act aggressively and recklessly and cannot be reasonably deterred and 2) is working to get and use nukes
Don't worry, I'll sit here with my rifle ready to take out any airborne porcines, should they come flying by.
to penetrate.
it is shoved, in all its detailed horror, right into my face.
threaten the United States, he said we must "assume the worst." Essentially, the White House is proposing that the
However, several of the exchanges I have had have definately been with those you might describe as "challeneged" in
one of the most fad-driven enterprises imaginable. It produces a new catechism each decade, which everyone dutifully recites.
Diversity. More than motherhood, it is the one unassailable concept these days. Open any teaching publication, and you will
alternative economy." I suppose that's better PR than saying they want to impose a grab bag full of sociialistic silliness
coming off them. It was really a terrible sight," she said. "You could just hear people crying up in the Bounty foyer -
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
that has the temerity to look at us cock-eyed.
obviously they have lost loved ones or friends."
And exactly how do you go from no "final proof" to there being no evidence of impending aggression? The very fact that
When they aired some actual interviews with the protesters, I started to honestly think they were part of some sort of
But it's not really fair to denigrate someone's ideas just because they themselves come from an organization riddled with
Well that's not really true. People on a different side of the debate than I are not necessarily jerks, just wrong.
the teacher trying to impress both of them.
that has the temerity to look at us cock-eyed.
Wheeler Hall last spring.
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faith at large, since many of them are peaceful, albeit intellectually stunted, people.
that has the temerity to look at us cock-eyed.
"A bunch of people died from terrorism over the weekend? Sure, that's awful, but we all knew this was going to happen
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
a terrorist and an envoy of Iran's supreme leader reportedly called for his death.
only be revealed as more useless than it already seems), there is right now a coalition prepared to go into Iraq with the
without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism,
about equal probability.
off a bunch of secretaries and other office workers who probably agree with them on the war anyway will further their
Whereas the Cold War doctrine of deterrence and containment rested on strength, the new idea of pre-emption insists on U.S.
I was already in a state of "moving on" and being "over it" before I even heard about the Bali attacks, with the result
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
only be revealed as more useless than it already seems), there is right now a coalition prepared to go into Iraq with the
predictable frequency. Follow a politician to a school photo-op,
psychopathic fancy without fear of retribution.
why she thought there weren't more stories about protests going on in the news, "Well, because the media is corporately
Don't worry, I'll sit here with my rifle ready to take out any airborne porcines, should they come flying by.
without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism,
the world to stomach the imperial scent of our newly enunciated military doctrine that proposes pre- emption of any powerful
According to the president, "we cannot wait for the final proof" that Saddam Hussein's government is planning an imminent
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
and the decisions to do so would based on (as in this case) measured calculations of the relative benefits and costs,
United States invade a distant country without any evidence of impending aggression.
Hesiod over at Counterspin Central is one such fellow. Not only with myself, but in his conversations with Den Beste,
War, by three fellows that hail from Global Exchange. You know who I'm talking about. The folks that want to "build an
And at most, UN weapons inspectors have delayed conflict by a few years, not averted it. In actualyity, I think they have
For that reason and others, I didn't actually start reading the news coverage until this morning.
Saddam will use these nukes when he gets them, whether that use takes the form of vaporizing a city or merely being hung
Stand up to these thugs This Wednesday, the 16th at noon, an apparent composite of the Students for Justice in Palestine
But I am thankful that at least for now, I've been able to summon that deep-seated, personal wrath so appropriate to an
Bush also spoke of an "international coalition" that would disarm Hussein. Bush knows the American public is loathe to
In your face, Space Coyote!
Bush also spoke of an "international coalition" that would disarm Hussein. Bush knows the American public is loathe to
US: Italy, Australia, Poland, Spain, Qatar, Kuwait and, of course, Britain. I know it's hard to find out this kind of
Now could someone please tell me what concrete purpose that woman's behavior, and that of her great chanting unwashed bretheren,
to roost," those sniveling, carping appeasers,
weapons inspections in Iraq represent a good example of how the rule of law has been used, and can be used again, to avert
And perhaps because of the collective weight of all those accumulated exhortations, perhaps from the psychic weariness
in words so much more exacting than even those who actually live in that time would be able to produce?
During the last half of the 20th century, this principle was expanded internationally through the United Nations. The U.N.
During the last half of the 20th century, this principle was expanded internationally through the United Nations. The U.N.
I was already in a state of "moving on" and being "over it" before I even heard about the Bali attacks, with the result
Quite the contrary, Bush's aggressive rhetoric, disregard for international law, and his lack of any vision other than war
threaten the United States, he said we must "assume the worst." Essentially, the White House is proposing that the
Well, being the abject conformist that I am, I would like to welcome all new and oldcomers to my new blog, which will
Quite the contrary, Bush's aggressive rhetoric, disregard for international law, and his lack of any vision other than war
looks like a green light, no?
be harried by idiots who have full compliments of heads and genitals! With the ranks of my imaginary gnomes rallied,
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.
when you apply your own internal calculus of death and suffering and conclude that it isn't something that you need
A taste, just a taste...
Those people are especially useful when they have access to the core computer systems that hackers would otherwise struggle
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
trying to get an education
of constant uncertainty and increased insecurity where almost anything could lead to war.
why she thought there weren't more stories about protests going on in the news, "Well, because the media is corporately
I guess not. The fact that the UN is anything but democratic since the vast majority of countries represented there do not
serves? As far as I can tell, all they did was take some people who were probably overwhelmingly against the war anyway,
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
only be revealed as more useless than it already seems), there is right now a coalition prepared to go into Iraq with the
predictable frequency. Follow a politician to a school photo-op,
really just put Saddam in a better situation than he was before because the presence of inspectors invites complacency and
I tried to present my ideas in an honest and truthful way, and not be seriously offensive, even when he acted in ways
democratically decided laws - - not the capriciousness of individual rulers -- should govern human affairs.
vaunted proof of yours. Then you could be really sure.
You try to make it seem as if the Joint Chiefs were lying around on a Sunday afternoon and said to themselves, "Yeah sure,
getting an education. When she tried to talk to one of the organizers after her test about how some people were just
of constant uncertainty and increased insecurity where almost anything could lead to war.
I simply love it when my case is made for me.
Yes, well I suppose you're suggesting that we would be well-served to wait for this "final proof," then? Very well. I'll
that continues to characterize the US as the Great Satan and preach jihad against all things Western? Oh I know, the Muslim
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to really concern yourself with, except in a somewhat general, theoretical way.
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"to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality"?
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
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 make the first world poor and make sure the third world stays that way.
During that protest, my girlfriend had to take a midterm in Wheeler auditorium and had to step over the bodies lying in
news editors of Cannel 7 to allow, as the segment ended right there.
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
to really concern yourself with, except in a somewhat general, theoretical way.
And exactly how do you go from no "final proof" to there being no evidence of impending aggression? The very fact that
the world to stomach the imperial scent of our newly enunciated military doctrine that proposes pre- emption of any powerful
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
to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality.
agree that [insert additional badly-forced car metaphor here]!
to really concern yourself with, except in a somewhat general, theoretical way.
find testimonials to diversity. Flip through any recent social sciences or humanities textbook and diversity pops up with
cutting-edge performance art group impersonating real anti-war folks, as the whole ordeal seemed to approach parody. No,
by both Instapundit and Cold Fury (and probably by sundry others by now):
needed now was healing, closure; in short, to "get over it" and "move on."
If a good education is meant to produce independent thinkers, I've seen precious little evidence it does. Education is
One middle-aged woman who looked like she hadn't combed her hair since Jerry Garcia died had this to say, when asked
Yes, well I suppose you're suggesting that we would be well-served to wait for this "final proof," then? Very well. I'll
to elicit empathy had been raised considerably since 9/11,
alternative economy." I suppose that's better PR than saying they want to impose a grab bag full of sociialistic silliness
the real fault of that government or its citizens, or the West in general, or capitalism, or any other ridiculous boogeyman
A taste, just a taste...
The article also points to this site, which maintains a running clock of how long it will be until Mitnick can start
that off my list of things to do. Now, on to learning how to square-dance."
last update : 28-8-2008
