I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
erp
sew?
heh
thanks echidne!
bless you, Echidne.
You are welcome, dirk gently.
Keys found, or hot wired?
ina
And thank you, baba durag. All blessings carefully hoarded by me.
Hitchens on Newsnight (BBC America) talking about waterboarding.
I would trade my neighbor for Echidne being my neighbor in a nanosecond.
Sanctions Plan on Zimbabwe Vetoed in U.N.
An American-led effort to impose sanctions against Zimbabwe failed in the Security Council on Friday, with Russia and China exercising a rare double veto to quash a resolution that they said represented excessive interference in the country’s domestic matters.
The United States, having earlier in the week mustered the nine votes needed to pass the sanctions, stalled on bringing the resolution to a vote until it became absolutely clear that Russia was determined to stop it. Once the Russians made it clear that they would exercise their veto, the Chinese, often leery of taking a lone stand on delicate human rights issues, followed suit.
Among other issues, China’s reluctance to criticize the human rights records of African governments it trades with has come under international criticism as the Olympics in Beijing draw near. Russia and China do not often exercise their veto together, the last time being in January 2007 when they blocked a Council effort to criticize human rights violations in Myanmar.
China and Russia have a history of being at odds with the other permanent members of the Security Council — the United States, Britain and France — over the Council’s role. The split over the interpretation of what constitutes a threat to international peace and security has been particularly resurgent in recent years and Friday’s vote was seen as a prime example.
I've been reading George Orwell's essays and realized that Christopher Hitchens thinks he is the Orwell of our age. But copying some guy who wrote fifty years ago is not exactly being the Orwell of our age.
Workin on the night threads,
tryin' to lose those awkward teenage dreads....
Aye.
evenin' dirk.
lovely to see you.
Talk is cheap, Hitch.
I would trade my neighbor for Echidne being my neighbor in a nanosecond.
Either you really, really like me or your neighbor is a monster. I bet on the latter.
Christopher Hitchens thinks he is the Orwell of our age.
If Hitchens had joined the Abraham Lincoln Brigade somewhere he'd have a stronger argument.
D.T.
No such thing as "clean" coal."
"clean" will never trump "cheap".
gary in fl | 07.11.08 - 10:06 pm | #
There is enough low sulfer coal in Montana and British Columbia to satisfy U.S. energy needs for 300 years. When we are done we will have a hole that would rival the Great Lakes. No such thing as cheap coal.
Hitchens is an Orwellian enabler of our age. That's as close as he gets.
Either you really, really like me or your neighbor is a monster. I bet on the latter.
Echidne
Put yer dough on the former.
They wingnuts all fetishize Churchill and Orwell.
They're stupid, and they're racists. The wingnuts, that is.
I actually am a very good neighbor. My mother's fault, that. She is such a moral person.
pimentos have established a camp at hecate's place
I've been reading George Orwell's essays and realized that Christopher Hitchens thinks he is the Orwell of our age.
Interesting thought. I'm going to have to read some Orwell next week and see.
Au contraire - he believes Orwell was the Hitchens of his age.
There is enough low sulfer coal in Montana and British Columbia to satisfy U.S. energy needs for 300 years. When we are done we will have a hole that would rival the Great Lakes. No such thing as cheap coal.
Precisely. Only cheap today because they can externalize the true costs.
pimentos have established a camp at hecate's place
Are you going to eat those?
Interesting thought. I'm going to have to read some Orwell next week and see.
Let me know what you think about my theory (and it is mine).
I can't decide if I trust this T. Boone Pickens thing or not. I feel like there has to be nuclear or "clean" coal hidden behind all of those pretty windmills somewhere.
My guess is, TBP being a longtime Texas oil man, he's got capped, previously unprofitable natural gas wells out the ass he's aching to make millions from.
Are you going to eat those?
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator
i declared war on pimentos several days ago. i hate to tell you how many martinis have been killed since then.
you can have 'clean' energy, or you can have 'affordable' energy, but not both.
MAKING FRIENDS ALL OVER
US Killed 47 Afghan Civilians
A US air strike in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday killed
47 civilians, 39 of them women and children, an Afghan
government investigating team says.
Reports at the time said that 20 people were killed
in the airstrike in Nangarhar province. The US military
said they were militants. But local people said the dead
were wedding party guests.
Correspondents say the issue of civilian casualties
is hugely sensitive in Afghanistan.
President Hamid Karzai has said that no civilian casualty
is acceptable. Karzai set up a nine-man commission to
look into Sunday's incident.
you can have 'clean' energy, or you can have 'affordable' energy, but not both.
gary in fl |
quitter
a friend and i took the girls to the first play of the summer series at a local theatre today.
they do great productions. today was a rewrite of the princess and the pea, with a subplot featuring Democracy! the princess runs for president. but, as she says, "it was a close race, and i lost."
on the walk home, we stopped at the library and chose a few books to get the 7yo reading & the 5yo drawing (a large board book from the movie 'Spirit,' with excellent horses to trace). i also tried to get the 7yo interested some graphic novels, but couldn't. i checked out a 'Calvin & Hobbes' collection anyway. Guess which book she curled up with and started reading to the 5yo all afternoon?
Correspondents say the issue of civilian casualties
is hugely sensitive in Afghanistan.
I'm fucking shocked, I tell you, who could have imagined seeing innocent people killed would spark such an outrage?
Thers put up more sheets
Woe is me!
iTunes wont let me upgrade to "iPod Touch 2.0". Grrrr.
Guess which book she curled up with and started reading to the 5yo all afternoon?
Burmese Days?
Thers put up more sheets
Echidne
upstager!
you can have 'clean' energy, or you can have 'affordable' energy, but not both.
gary in fl
You're saying that the United States has neither the means nor the resources to develop an affordable, clean alternative to fossil fuel based energy, at a profit.
Well, then we're truly fucked.
What's okd is new. What's new is old.
Bib and Ray
http://youtube.com/watch?
v=6u6yr...feature=related
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