HULK SMASH!!!
Brand new day
heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Some really pretty pictures from Portland:
http://freewayblogger.blogspot.c...r-
portland.html
Heads up Seattle... you're next.
Fry me some brand cakes
It's FREEWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
better dip below
Their link appears to be /...
We rule the wortld, and there's NOTHING anyone is gonna do about it.
Especailly not the Democrats in Congress.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
yeah,,,I can't get on it either
Link working? Sadly, No!
the link appears to be atriosed.
The link doesn't work for me either.
Nyaa, nyaaa, nyaa, nyaa.
We have all the power and you don't have any.
Morning all.
Anybody else having a nervous breakdown?
sadly,... sadly no's server is still running on hamster power.
Sadly another case of Atrioverload?
Aha! It loads at last....
Oh sure, they call it CRISIS -
but it still smells like Aqua-Velva.
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Steve, which of the three movies wasn't teh suck? I never saw your answer.
I was hopeful that Evan Almighty would be amusing.
I think we've killified S-N.
Anybody else having a nervous breakdown?
"Dick Cheenee and the Chimp" are having one as we type.
....I'm getting strangely sleepy.
Anybody else having a nervous breakdown?
Just the usual depression and lethargy.
FEMA ordered to explain $21.5 million in mysterious payments, apparently to pro-Bush loyalists
"FEMA had been fighting to keep the information secret for almost three years."
http://
www.democraticunderground...mesg_id=1167362
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news...-home-
headlines
The scandal-plagued Republican party.
Link finally settled in on the other line
Anybody else having a nervous breakdown?
Just the usual depression and lethargy.
Toonscribe | 06.23.07 - 10:25 am | #
Yeah, nervous breakdowns are just too much trouble.
You guys can bitch about us all you want. It won't make any difference.
The reason we haven't shut you down yet or thrown your asses in Guantanamo is that YOU DON"T MATTER.
No one (including most of the American people) is listening to you.
Carry on.
Going through the airport today sent a chill down my spine hearing the disembodied authoritarian voice spit out to me that "the Homeland Security Index Is At Orange!"
The next Presnit better change that term.
It's sickening.
....zzzzz......Huh?
You know, for some reason Ronald Reagan doesn't seem so far to the right to me anymore. I think I'll go comment on Powerline now, instead of this evil den of social experimentation.
No wonder Sadly No is slow rising, it has eaten the vortex for breakfast
The scandal-plagued Republican party.
QuentinCompson | Homepage | 06.23.07 - 10:25 am | #
Well, whatchy gonna do about it?
Hold hearings but never impeach or indict us?
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
WE RULE THE WORLD!!!!!
Sounds like the Bene Geserit.
Teh Bene Geserit were hot in a I am sleeping with you as a lab experiment kind of way.
"I Must Boast a Victory
I have not posted today because I have been writing the book for my Rock Opera.
Because I love you all I will describe for you my Rock Opera in general terms.
The setting of my Rock Opera is Teh Future. All is bleak. The landscape is denuded and naked and lacks clothes. It is sunblasted and the sun blasts it. This is all after the deadly war that started the Dystopia. And the Dystopia sucks! All the world is like New Jersey, but now only more so, and it doesn't smell half so good. There are horrible mutants and shit and nobody makes fun of Glenn Reynolds anymore."
http://whiskeyfire.typepad.com/w...t-boast-a-
.html
FEMA ordered to explain $21.5 million in mysterious payments, apparently to pro-Bush loyalists
"FEMA had been fighting to keep the information secret for almost three years."
Look, at this point, wouldn't we do better to pay our protection money directly?
They want to steal some money. They budget a big project so as to hide the amount they plan to steal. They spend all the billions, and steal their millions.
Couldn't we just say "Hey! You are planning to steal, what, $25 million? Ok, here's a check for $30 million. Now, cancel that $11 billion boondoggle, and let us use it for some things of actual American benefit."
they are going to steal anyway. they are crooks to the core. why not pay the racketeers seperately, and let America have a chance?
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Lord Goldsmith dramatically announced his resignation as attorney general last night, days before he was expected to be ousted when Gordon Brown takes over as prime minister. The departure makes it easier for Mr Brown to look afresh at the role of attorney general, a job which many consider to have inbuilt conflicts of interest.
Mr Brown is considering stripping the attorney of his role in superintending prosecutions and making the Crown Prosecution Service independent. Such a change would mean no government minister would play a part in deciding whether to prosecute in the loans-for-honours affair, distancing the new administration from the embarrassing saga.
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/
f...2109662,00.html
Larry Kudlow says the Stock Market sell off yesterday was because the democrats are destroying the economy with their taxes on the rich and their San Francisco values.
I wonder if they are more to blame for Bear Sterns collapse than he is too.
WE RULE THE WORLD!!!!!
Dick Cheney and Chimp
Peabody and Sherman, is that you?
.
Steve, which of the three movies wasn't teh suck? I never saw your answer.
I was hopeful that Evan Almighty would be amusing.
trifecta | Homepage | 06.23.07 - 10:24 am | #
Alas, it sucked, although the animals were great. Made the original, which wasn't so hot, seem like Jacques Tati.
SICKO was brilliant, however. You should see it for the Nixon stuff alone.
MIGHTY HEART I found needlessly arts and strangely uninvolving.
But in the immortal words of Chuck Barris, what do I know -- I like cold toilet seats.
The reason we haven't shut you down yet or thrown your asses in Guantanamo is that YOU DON"T MATTER.
As I mentioned on a prior thread, we have some nice dog kennels at Camp X-Ray for you assholes.
Most voters believe Gordon Brown's government will be neither better nor worse than Tony Blair's, according to a Guardian/ICM poll published today. The vast majority of those surveyed expect to see continuity rather than change when Mr Blair leaves office on the afternoon of June 27. Most - 61% - think that the government's performance under prime minister Brown will be no different.
Only 16% think the government is likely to improve under his leadership. Slightly more, 17%, say it may get worse. Expectations have been limited by the low-key nature of the handover from Mr Blair. Even Labour supporters do not expect to see a difference: only 28% say that they think the government under Mr Brown will be better than before, with a majority thinking that it will stay about the same.
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/
g...2109637,00.html
All the world is like New Jersey, but now only more so, and it doesn't smell half so good. There are horrible mutants and shit and nobody makes fun of Glenn Reynolds anymore.
Hey, now!
(Have you been reading Freaks Amour?)
WE OWN YOU!!!
As I mentioned on a prior thread, we have some nice dog kennels at Camp X-Ray for you assholes.
LangUAGE!
Hey.
New Jersey isn't all chemical plants and oil refineries.
Some of it is lovely.
The British arms firm BAE has been given approval by US regulators to go ahead with a £2bn takeover of an American military company. There had been speculation that the deal could have been held up because of bribery allegations levelled at BAE.
But the regulator, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, has decided against launching a full-scale investigation into BAE's planned purchase of Armor Holdings, which makes armour for the Humvee military vehicle and bulletproof vests.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
baefil...2109501,00.html
So, has anyone made it to sadly no to find out what Atrios is on about?
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HBK is Christine Todd Whitman's sockpuppet!
LangUAGE!
Bruce?
This is from one of the Amazon reviews:
Freaks Amour is a bizarre, frightening look into the future after a nuclear "accident." You will meet one of the most memorable cast of characters ever dreamed up, all of whom are freaks due to their parents' exposure to radiation from an accidental nuclear blast in (where else?) New Jersey.
So, has anyone made it to sadly no to find out what Atrios is on about?
No, so I suggest another round of meta!
Mitt, is it true that you make your wives dress in police uniforms and handcuff you to the bedposts?
hello
Morning T.
'Sup?
How do you like the fact that we are co-emperors?
(Actually, I'm the REAL emperor. The other guy is more of a front man. But how do you like it anyway?
I mean, we even have our own rubber-stamp legislative body . . . just like the ancient Romans did.)
hello
Tena Hollingsworth | 06.23.07 - 10:37 am | #
Hmmm...somehow I suspect this isn't really Tena.
The British arms firm BAE has been given approval by US regulators to go ahead with a £2bn takeover of an American military company. There had been speculation that the deal could have been held up because of bribery allegations levelled at BAE.
"But, what British businessman saw as a bug was to the Americans a feature. 'So, you're gonna, you know, give us some big ol' Texas-size kickbacks, right? YEE-HAW!' one American investor was reported to have said to the BAE representatives."
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"Minnesota Department of Health Commissioner Dianne Mandernach has apologized, amidst calls for her resignation, for suppressing the release of information, for over one year, on 35 Iron Range miners who died of asbestos-related cancer.
Governor Pawlenty, while acknowledging that what Mandernach did was wrong, stated that her actions did not rise “to the level of termination.”
The actions of Minnesota Pollution Control Authority commissioner, former 3M environmental manager Cheryl Corrigan, didn’t rise to Pawlenty’s standard of termination either, despite the fact that she suppressed research into the 3M chemicals that would, years later, be found in East Metro wells and local lakes. Corrigan was unceremoniously dismissed four months before Pawlenty’s reelection."
http://skybluewaters.org/blog1/
Hmmm...somehow I suspect this isn't really Tena.
Definitely not. It dropped by earlier and threatened to sue us all.
.Why did things spin so close to out-of-control during the 70s? One can try to answer this question at many levels. At one level, the answer seems plainly to lie in excessive social experimentation and engineering.
Maybe somebody needs to take an honest look at what the tax codes were like in ALL of the decades preceding the Reagan Revolution and re-assess what might have been unique about the '70s.
And of course the debt from that disastrous 10-year war and the massive oil shock of the embargo had NOTHING to do with our economic troubles in that decade.
Nonetheless, it's clear that median family income from 1980-1992 and 2000-now, when we had the grownups in charge was, wait.....nevermind. It didn't change. Except for when there were Democrats in power.
As I mentioned on a prior thread, we have some nice dog kennels at Camp X-Ray for you assholes.
NTodd, MetaElitistQuakerAss | Homepage | 06.23.07 - 10:33 am | #
Yeah? Who's gonna put us there? Congress? The Courts? The media? Your pathetic voting booths?
We are untouchable!!!
Oh great.
The namestealers are here.
Later.
some times I ban people because they're boring the shit out of me
Governor Pawlenty, while acknowledging that what Mandernach did was wrong, stated that her actions did not rise “to the level of termination.”
Proles don't count. The "level of termination" is pissing off a Campaign Contributor, the true level of representation in the American system of government.
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Hmmm...somehow I suspect this isn't really Tena.
NTodd, MetaElitistQuakerAss | Homepage | 06.23.07 - 10:38 am | #
You are a man of discernment.
I wonder if they are more to blame for Bear Sterns collapse than he is too.
trifecta
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maybe he wanted to divert from the billions garnered from the Blackstone selling bonanza - such a great company:
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German Communications Workers Begin Nationwide Strike, Really Against Blackstone Hedge Fund
May 11 (EIRNS) - This morning, Telecom workers began strikes involving 10,000 strikers, and protest rallies in five states of Germany: Northrhine Westphalia, Bremen, Lower Saxony, Hesse, and Bavaria. Strike leaders charge the Blackstone locust fund with pulling the strings behind CEO Rene Obermann's drive to brutally cut expenses and increase revenues for shareholders. The Blackstone-Obermann line is suicidal, as the excessive expansion of the mobile phone branch generally has caused the loss of 588,000 Telekom clients during Q1 of this year alone, leading to financial losses which Obermann wants to compensate by the outsourcing of 50,000 jobs to firms of the telecom conglomerate that pay less and force employees to work even longer.
http://www.larouchepac.com/
pages...an_strike.shtml
some times I ban people because they're boring the shit out of me
Atrios
Unpossible.
I'm still here.
Larry Kudlow says the Stock Market sell off yesterday was because the democrats are destroying the economy with their taxes on the rich and their San Francisco values.
I was wondering where this argument was being held in reserve. I guess all the ups the marked has experienced since November are the result of Reagan's policies, and the downturns are late-arriving consequences of . . . well, You Know Who.
Hubby said, during the Clinton boom, "Soon they'll be crediting Herbert Hoover."
some times I ban people because they're boring the shit out of me
Uh-oh.
[does tap dance]
Germany has stepped up security in recent days, officials said yesterday, amid intelligence reports indicating a heightened threat of attacks against German troops in Afghanistan and suicide bombings in Germany itself.
It follows the arrest in Pakistan of three suspected Islamic radicals, believed to be part of a group of 10 people trained to carry out suicide bombings, a top law enforcement official said.
Joerg Ziercke, head of the Federal Crime Office, Germany's equivalent to the FBI, gave few details of the arrests. The suspects were young Germans who had converted to Islam and been radicalized, he said. However, a Pakistani official said one was Kazakh.
http://news.independent.co.uk/
eu...icle2697810.ece
...oops, I killed another hamster.
-Atrios
Bebe, Liddy and Bob are not amused.
Proles don't count. The "level of termination" is pissing off a Campaign Contributor, the true level of representation in the American system of government.
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Cynicus | Homepage | 06.23.07 - 10:41 am | #
That is the sad truth.
Hmmm...somehow I suspect this isn't really Tena.
NTodd
gee, what gives you that idea?
The last name that Tena never posted over?
the lack of the gravatar?
The new Atrios Dictum:
"I Yawn, You Gone."
You are a man of discernment.
rorschach, infogit
That's totally not the real rorschach.
some times I ban people because they're boring the shit out of me
Atrios | Homepage | 06.23.07 - 10:41 am | #
I've been warned.
some times I ban people because they're boring the shit out of me
Atrios | Homepage | 06.23.07 - 10:41 am | #
I've been warned.
steve simels | Homepage | 06.23.07 - 10:44 am | #
He didn't say 'irking'.
"The trouble was that Tony Taguba was honest and thorough and reported in detail, early and often, to his superiors on the evidence he was uncovering - film and photos of abuses far worse than those the public saw. There was sexual abuse of female prisoners by their American military guards and forced sex acts between a father and his young son." http://www.correntewire.com/
believed to be part of a group of 10 people trained to carry out suicide bombings, a top law enforcement official said.
Aw come on, that's not Atrios.
Larry Kudlow says the Stock Market sell off yesterday was because the democrats are destroying the economy with their taxes on the rich and their San Francisco values.
Larry Kudlow is another Republican junkie, like Limbaugh or Eric Breindel.
Fuck him.
Any bobblehead crap yet this morning. I can't make myself watch anymore.
Hells Bells, I hads forgotten that I have an appointment in 25 minutes...
I hate this suckee blog!
"But, what British businessman saw as a bug was to the Americans a feature. 'So, you're gonna, you know, give us some big ol' Texas-size kickbacks, right? YEE-HAW!' one American investor was reported to have said to the BAE representatives."
:twisted:
Funny, how every single frequent poster who read that comment is now taking stock of just how boring they may have been.....
Aw come on, that's not Atrios.
It sure sounds like him.
believed to be part of a group of 10 people trained to carry out suicide bombings, a top law enforcement official said.
Damn.
Ok, asking the stoopid question:
How do you "train" to be a suicide bomber?
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Funny, how every single frequent poster who read that comment is now taking stock of just how boring they may have been.....
blerb, long-winded | 06.23.07 - 10:46 am | #
Yeah, right.
Yeah? Who's gonna put us there? Congress? The Courts? The media? Your pathetic voting booths?
The Camp X-Ray dog kennel post was from me, Pork Chop.
We're going to have a big party before long and tap a few of you criminals on the shoulder.
You'll know it when it happens. Keep looking over your shoulder.
The outrage taht unmanly guerillas didn't stand up and fight cited below is a sign that the US military has perhaps not been studying their own counter-insurgency doctrine at enough. That's the problem with promoting Evangelical morons who think they already know everything God wanted them to know.
Another Yankee, another surprise attack: Cheney makes a secretive visit to Kennesaw Mountain
The radio was on. Vice President Dick Cheney had declared himself part of the legislative branch, and thus immune to some law about the handling of classified info.
Cops lined every overpass on the interstate, which was strange. And all entrances to Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park were blocked. The vice president had made a surprise visit to a reunion of descendants of the 21st Ohio, who fought in the run-up to the Battle of Atlanta. No press, no photos, no word put out to anyone.
“I find it a bit embarrassing that I didn’t know anything about it,” said Scott Johnson, chairman of the Cobb County Republican Party. Then he called Sue Everhart, a Cobb resident and chairman of the state GOP. She didn’t know anything either.
Everhart called about 10 p.m. tonight. She said the lack of a heads up had her ready to make a bit of a fuss to her contact at the White House.
it just so happens I'm having my nineteenth nervous breakdown as we speak
Larry Kudlow says the Stock Market sell off yesterday was because the democrats are destroying the economy with their taxes on the rich and their San Francisco values
see what massive amounts of cocaine does to your brain. he is one of the twitchiest bastards on the tube.
Hmmm...somehow I suspect this isn't really Tena.
NTodd, MetaElitistQuakerAss
Don't worry -- any organism this stupid will forget to breathe any second now.
With a name like Operation Arrowhead Ripper it has to be good.
It sure sounds like him.
Indeed it did.
“Islam vs. Islamists: Voices from the Muslim Center” [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
Frank Gaffney's documentary PBS wouldn't show will be on the Fox News Channel this weekend.
Gaffney is a fucking lunatic and only a fellow lunatic would watch this show.
Yeah, right.
rorschach, infogit
Well, every poster who cares, anyway.
She said the lack of a heads up had her ready to make a bit of a fuss to her contact at the White House.
jac
Wrong fucking number.
Kudlow has descended from often lying to constantly, instinctually lying.
Short him.
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During the first Fallujah campaign, one of my Rethug correspondents wave moved to sigh about how stupid libs are when I suggested that insurgents withdrawing from a city and letting marines kill civilians there and destroy infrastructure was not a sign of defeat for the insurgents. I tried to explain that this stuff is not news, but he explained that NRO war commentators were orgasming over new night vision scopes so I had no idea.
Funny, how every single frequent poster who read that comment is now taking stock of just how boring they may have been.....
My entire self-worth is wrapped up in these here threads, so I have to reassess my position in the cult whenever Dear Leader speaks.
How do you "train" to be a suicide bomber?
Same way you train in the army to kill people. Drills and sims.
My entire self-worth is wrapped up in these here threads, so I have to reassess my position in the cult whenever Dear Leader speaks.
NTodd, MetaElitistQuakerAss | Homepage | 06.23.07 - 10:52 am | #
You've got self-worth?
BP has ceded control of its majority stake in the massive Kovykta gas field in eastern Siberia to Gazprom as the Russian government further tightens its grip on the country's energy sector.
http://news.independent.co.uk/
bu...icle2697959.ece
It's time to head for the great outdoors.
With a name like Operation Arrowhead Ripper it has to be good.
It was originally supposed to be Operation Bodice Ripper, but that didn't sound teh manly enough.
“Islam vs. Islamists: Voices from the Muslim Center”
So, guessing from this title, his overall theme is comparing the religion oif Islam in the Koran to the actions of some of it's practitioners and calling "Hypocracy!"?
Ok.
whjen you doing the sequal, "Christ vs. Christians: Voices from the Jesus Justifiers"?
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Operation Jack the Ripper
Being a suicide bomber isnt as easy as you think. You have to train to not look suspicious or pee your pants.
he explained that NRO war commentators were orgasming over new night vision scopes so I had no idea.
See? THere's a Night Vision Gap!
You've got self-worth?
Pick some up on eBay.
With a name like Operation Arrowhead Ripper it has to be good.
Shoulda been Operation Jack D. Ripper
Larry Kudlow says the Stock Market sell off yesterday was because the democrats are destroying the economy with their taxes on the rich and their San Francisco values.
trifecta | Homepage | 06.23.07 - 10:31 am | #
'Cause anyone who ever visited San Fran knows that it is all about soviet style spartan living in vast concrete apartment blocks where hot water is a luxury and everyone eats the same mush from central supply.
See? THere's a Night Vision Gap!
I was thinking maybe it was that the new goggles could see through clothes or something.
"some times I ban people because they're boring the shit out of me
Atrios "
Oh hell
Operation Bodice Ripper would be a goof Harlequin Title
I had a gerbil I named PETA because it wanted to enjoy my free range rectum.
-Liddy Dole
How do you "train" to be a suicide bomber?
Same way you train in the army to kill people. Drills and sims.
imagines the Ripper at home doing the tucked weiner dance in front of the mirror made popular by the maniac in Silence of The Lambs
in a ripped teddy no less
(oh just poke out my mind dammit!)
hey it was a figure of speech
now put the crochet needle down and step away
Gee, in my downscale post-06-Earthquake SF digs I had clear-heart redwood lath beneath the plaster, and good food was abundant!
Godamn my slanties.
How do you "train" to be a suicide bomber?
Same way you train in the army to kill people. Drills and sims.
Yeah, i know, but it sounded funny. What do they really have to train in except "Pull this cord" and "Think of Paradise"?
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Think I'll take a break, it being a lovely day here in the Paris of the Tri-State Metropolitan Area.
Have fun!!!!
I reserve the remainder of my right to be boring and cede time.
Operation Stripper?
Imagine hundreds of ball-bearings ripping through the remains of your body!
Gee, in my downscale post-06-Earthquake SF digs I had clear-heart redwood lath beneath the plaster, and good food was abundant!
You have been designated an Enemy of the People, comrade.
Yeah, i know, but it sounded funny. What do they really have to train in except "Pull this cord" and "Think of Paradise"?
Perhaps indoctrination is a better word. I though that whole plot thread in Syriana rang kind of true, although of course I would have no idea what the reality is.
Sure beats putting any effort into it
"US soldiers and airmen fighting in Iraq are to receive a new weapon in their arsenal: a pack of playing cards to help them identify ancient ruins before creating new ones.
The Pentagon's move, echoing its post-invasion production of a deck of cards depicting "Iraq's most wanted", is part of a belated Pentagon scheme to prevent further war damage to the country's 11,000 archaeological sites.
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The cards are illustrated with pictures of rare artefacts or sites of special interest, in the hope that soldiers will avoid turning them into battlefields.
...air force pilots are urged to bomb sensitively."
What do they really have to train in except "Pull this cord" and "Think of Paradise"?
Cynicus
I suspect there must be some serious "brainwashing" to overcome the survival instinct.
The Pentagon's move, echoing its post-invasion production of a deck of cards depicting "Iraq's most wanted", is part of a belated Pentagon scheme to prevent further war damage to the country's 11,000 archaeological sites.
Talk about too little, too late.
air force pilots are urged to bomb sensitively
My brain just went 'splodey.
The cards are illustrated with pictures of rare artefacts or sites of special interest, in the hope that soldiers will avoid turning them into battlefields.
The fact that these are also, de facto, guides to good looting, has probably not occurred to the bright boys.
go read your Kipling - "Loot"
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Gordon Brown dramatically intervened in a crucial European summit yesterday to overrule the prime minister in his last week in office and demand that Britain challenge a French move to dilute Europe's commitment to a free market.
Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, triggered a row at the Brussels meeting by watering down a pledge to maintain "free and undistorted competition" in the operation of the single European market.
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/
e...2109523,00.html
air force pilots are urged to bomb sensitively
aren't sensitivity and bombing the opposite of each other?
what do they have 'sorry' written on the bomb or something?
Brainwashing is part of any "military" training.
This just in:
"Alien Apocalypse" starring Bruce Campbell on Sci-Fi.
Paging flg!
It's completely in character for them to start worrying with this 4 years in. Bush wasn't satisfied with just completely fucking up the modern world; he wanted to further fuck up what was left of the ancient one.
The fact that these are also, de facto, guides to good looting, has probably not occurred to the bright boys.
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Cynicus
Probably not, but there isn't a single site that is unlooted to some degree or anoher already.
The fact that these are also, de facto, guides to good looting, has probably not occurred to the bright boys.
go read your Kipling - "Loot"
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Cynicus
Condoleeza made a statement that "No one could have forseen this happening".
air force pilots are urged to bomb sensitively
My brain just went 'splodey.
Nothing that comes from these idiots should be surprising.
Of course, it appears to be getting more bizarre with each passing day.
Kudlow is another media shill. He censors real news like every other 'anchor'. After all, censorship is becoming America's favorite past-time. The US gov't (and their corporate friends), already detain protesters, ban books like "America Deceived" from Amazon and Wikipedia, shut down Imus and fire 21-year tenured, BYU physics professor Steven Jones because he proved explosives, thermite in particular, took down the WTC buildings.
Last link (before Stark County District Library caves to pressure and drops the title):
America Deceived (book)
Bush wasn't satisfied with just completely fucking up the modern world; he wanted to further fuck up what was left of the ancient one.
Jennifer
His fuckeppery transcends the barriers of time and space.
"Teh Bene Geserit were hot in a I am sleeping with you as a lab experiment kind of way.
trifecta | Homepage | 06.23.07 - 10:29 am | # "
Where do I sign up?
--- "So, you're gonna, you know, give us some big ol' Texas-size kickbacks, right? YEE-HAW!' one American investor was reported to have said to the BAE representatives."
After which he started dancing around shooting his six-guns in the air.
I can't imagine BYU is a hotbed of science, Harold, but I could be wrong.
air force pilots are urged to bomb sensitively
Do they also care about Iraqi orgasms?
CNN now: Karzi no likee NATO.
"Alien Apocalypse" starring Bruce Campbell on Sci-Fi.
And on the West Coast, CBS is running one of the toons I wrote for the series Trollz.
'Sensitive Bombing'
blow a place to thy kingdom come and then hand out candy bars and flowers
Bush wasn't satisfied with just completely fucking up the modern world; he wanted to further fuck up what was left of the ancient one.
Jennifer
I really beleive that for these people, and for a large number of the populace, history doesn't exist.
CNN now: Karzi no likee NATO.
Flint,Wossamata U. Alum
Meaning he wants us out now?
"Teh Bene Geserit were hot in a I am sleeping with you as a lab experiment kind of way.
trifecta | Homepage | 06.23.07 - 10:29 am |
gotta watch for the gom jabbar, though.
and i don't mean the manual one. that's nothing.
I really beleive that for these people, and for a large number of the populace, history doesn't exist.
JR, kerosene and a match
And prehistory absolutely never happened.
gotta watch for the gom jabbar, though.
We're about due for the final installment of the Great Frank Herbert Corpse Picking, aren't we?
I will try hard to resist buying it.
I really beleive that for these people, and for a large number of the populace, history doesn't exist.
JR, kerosene and a match
sure it does. as a mtter of fact, it's all written down in one book.
blow a place to thy kingdom come and then hand out candy bars and flowers
But they were supposed to give US candy and flowers!
Reports from Iraq indicate that Iraqis
are irritated and frustrated by the U.S. militarys' failure to pull out in a timely manner.
Plus, the Iraqis complain, they are always forced to sleep on the wet spot.
sure it does. as a mtter of fact, it's all written down in one book.
dirk gently, sociopathetic
Well, 2 books, and maybe a 3rd will be added if Mitt is selected.
We're about due for the final installment of the Great Frank Herbert Corpse Picking, aren't we?
The last few I've just let NTodd's Pa buy and then I steal them. I'm tired of giving Brian money for his subpar theft of Frank's universe. But I can't not read them.
Bush wasn't satisfied with just completely fucking up the modern world; he wanted to further fuck up what was left of the ancient one.
Jennifer
I really beleive that for these people, and for a large number of the populace, history doesn't exist.
Au contraire. Their history is important.
Because, you see, Iraq is Babylon. And God no likee Babylon cause they were mean to his Chosen People. So Iraq deserves any abuse it gets.
that's the fundy story, and they are stuck to it.
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sure it does. as a mtter of fact, it's all written down in one book.
dirk gently
I don't think that they think that's history, either. I just don't think that they can grasp the concept of "the past" as something that is real.
Although I'm not sure if Biblical literalism is a cause or a symptom.
Well, 2 books, and maybe a 3rd will be added if Mitt is selected.
lipreader, who ♥ Al Gore | 06.23.07 - 11:17 am | #
"aerodynamics and the pig"
I really beleive that for these people, and for a large number of the populace, history doesn't exist.
JR, kerosene and a match
That's always been true, though. Looting and destruction of ancient ruins has been going on for millenia all over the world. Basically, the mass of humanity is comprised of people for whom if there's a buck to be made off of it, the fact that no one else in the history of the world will ever be able to enjoy it again means nothing. Bush has simply corporatized and super-sized the concept, in that the destruction is simply a by-product in the chase for bucks. He's brought corporate rapaciousness and the concomitant inefficiency into the equation.
Well, 2 books, and maybe a 3rd will be added if Mitt is selected.
lipreader, who ♥ Al Gore | 06.23.07 - 11:17 am | #
"aerodynamics and the pig"
dirk gently, sociopathetic
HAH!
Because, you see, Iraq is Babylon. And God no likee Babylon cause they were mean to his Chosen People. So Iraq deserves any abuse it gets.
that's the fundy story, and they are stuck to it.
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Cynicus
That had occured to me as well.
bye for now
Speaking of Karzai:
Karzai blasts NATO over deaths
"The disproportionate use of force to a situation and the lack of coordination with the Afghan government is causing these casualties," Karzai said.
"You don't fight a terrorist by firing a field gun 30 some kilometers away into a target. That is definitely surely bound to cause civilian casualties."
And the military responds:
"These individuals clearly had weapons and used them against our aircraft as well as shooting rockets against our positions ... This required their removal from the battle-space," Col. Martin P. Schweitzer, a U.S. commander, said in a statement, according to AP.
That will surely win hearts and minds.
But I can't not read them.
That is the problem, isn't it?
Although I'm not sure if Biblical literalism is a cause or a symptom.
JR, kerosene and a match
it is a symptom of having no imagination.
That will surely win hearts and minds.
Oh, is THAT what we're trying to do?
Harold, Steven Jones is a whackjob.
I once asked my father, who installed telephone systems and pulled cable in the World Trade Center if it was possible to run explosives and wiring in the WTC. I explained that there were people out on the intertubes who were saying this was how the WTC was brought down.
He was pretty annoyed with this. He said there was no room in the wiring conduits. He also mentioned that as the buildings aged, more wiring was added as network wiring and additional power was required for computers.
He also pointed out that these conspiracy theorists never considered that when you destabilize a building's structure halfway up, there is a whole top half of the building that has to go somewhere...down. It doesn't require bombs. An airliner loaded with fuel will do just fine.
The people who make these statements about the WTC obviously never pulled cable there. If they had, they'd know how fucking stupid their theories are.
Because, you see, Iraq is Babylon. And God no likee Babylon cause they were mean to his Chosen People. So Iraq deserves any abuse it gets.
that's the fundy story, and they are stuck to it.
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Cynicus
Actually, fundies know a lot less about biblical history than you think. Cause if they really knew what Babylon did, some of them would probably say, "well Nebuchadnezzar had a few good ideas"...
Oh, is THAT what we're trying to do?
One of the many.
I just thought I'd bring out that old talking point and dust it off just for the sake of nostalia.
That will surely win hearts and minds.
Oh, is THAT what we're trying to do?
NTodd, Boring MEQUA
No, we are trying to destabilize the oil market so American profiteers can get rich.
No more, no less.
That will surely win hearts and minds.
Oh, is THAT what we're trying to do?
NTodd, Boring MEQUA | Homepage | 06.23.07 - 11:24 am | #
I think we should try winning spleens and kidneys.
I think we should try winning spleens and kidneys.
rorschach, infogit
Gizzards and gullets!
Hearts, minds, spleens, kidneys...they're all just there for the taking, lying on the ground in Bhagdad just about every day. It's a bonanza, I tell you.
The Yakuza only go after finger joints.
Hmmm...it's not just in the blogs:
As the U.S. offensive, code-named Phantom Thunder, has been greeted with a week of intensified fighting in areas outside the capital -- areas that the U.S. military has largely left untouched for as long as three years -- the push raised fears from security experts and officers in the field that the new attacks might simply propel the enemy from one area to another where there are not as many U.S. troops.
Of course, the real risk is that these terrists will break the American will. 'Cause it's not about bodies and death, it's about politics!
I think we should try winning spleens and kidneys.
rorschach, infogit
Gizzards and gullets!
I've always preferred to win over secondary sexual characteristics...
I think we should try winning spleens and kidneys.
rorschach, infogit
Gizzards and gullets!
lipreader, who ♥ Al Gore |
ok, people. that's lunch.
"The people who make these statements about the WTC obviously never pulled cable there. If they had, they'd know how fucking stupid their theories are."
Not only that - why would you run an airplane into the towers, then wait before setting off these alleged charges? I'd think setting them off righ away would make sense if you wanted to cause the most damage - or hell, why not take out one corner, making the tower fall onto other buildings?
I think we should try winning spleens and kidneys.
If you grab 'em by the kidneys, their hearts will follow.
I've always preferred to win over secondary sexual characteristics...
atablarasa
Beards and male pattern baldness?
"The people who make these statements about the WTC obviously never pulled cable there. If they had, they'd know how fucking stupid their theories are.
Mirele"
Or they know just enough math to pass 7th grade algebra and they apply that font of knowledge to architecture and then come up with a 'theory.'
Good Grief. Isn't the jets and jet fuel, flown by wacko religious extremists enough?
Beards and male pattern baldness?
Whatever chokes your chicken!
Actually, fundies know a lot less about biblical history than you think.
Unlikely. i come from a fundy background (Suthrun Babtist) and i know that their knowledge of Biblical history is what they think said history ought to have been, or what they have a feel that it was.
Rather like thinking the Disney ride "Pirates of the Carribean" is the history of 17th & 18th century buccaneering.....
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No doubt the terrorists would have collapsed the WTC with everyone in it if they could have. And lived to tell about it themselves.
KISS...
why not take out one corner, making the tower fall onto other buildings?
Uncle Blodge
I'd suspect that would be very, very hard to do, because to the core construction.
"fundies know a lot less about biblical history than you think."
they don't know anything really. They just BELIEVE in jeebus and their place in heben - along with all the other fundies that will get sucked up there during the rapture.
the rest of us will be left here with the antichrist, by the way.
Of course, the real risk is that these terrists will break the American will. 'Cause it's not about bodies and death, it's about politics!
OBL will go down in history as having staged the world's biggest Rope-a-Dope ever. That's what happens when you elect a dope to lead the most powerful nation in the world.
You can tell its early by the horrible grammar in my first comment of the day. I'll try to do better.
Wow. Just: wow.
One of Petraeus's nerviest gambles is that enemy fighters will not be able to move and disrupt other areas.
Let's see: Hope is not a plan. Wish in one hand, piss in the other, see which fills up faster. Gotta be another cliche applicable to this.
How about: if the insurgents would just cooperate, this would be a lot easier!
So much for the "genius" of our military leadership....
Between The Krazy Ornj Satan and the Baby Blue End of Everything, we can bring the intertubes to its kneez!!1!
Blogos Fear!!
the rest of us will be left here with the antichrist, by the way.
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher
Frankly, I wish all the nuts WOULD get raptured.
Leave the rest of us sane, rational folks here to try to clean up the mess that the fundies and wingnuts made.
The Bible is difficult to read, even for intelligent people. Fundies "know" what they are taught by charlatans who are using them for other purposes. They are not Biblical scholars.
why not take out one corner, making the tower fall onto other buildings?
Uncle Blodge
Just take a chain saw, notch one side and cut a straight cut opposite the notch.
Drop it where ever you want it to fall.
"I'd suspect that would be very, very hard to do, because to the core construction."
Yeah, but since the strength of the building came from the connections between the outer wall and the core it might work. Dunno.
Besides, I was more trying to point out if you give someone explosives and set them on the WTC there are better options than waiting till after the planes hit.
I'd suspect that would be very, very hard to do, because to the core construction.
JR, kerosene and a match
With any construction, I'm not sure if a structure that tall could ever acquire enough sideways momentum at the top to just tip over and land on its side. Nothing that big is that rigid.
they don't know anything really. They just BELIEVE in jeebus and their place in heben [...]
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher | 06.23.07 - 11:31 am | #
"Purpose Driven" Rick Warren mused recently that it was weird that he'd spent so much time teaching bible and not previously noticed the emphasis on helping the poor.
Rmj, that's a frightening insight into Gen. Betrayus' mind. And this is the genius who's supposed to produce something akin to victory in the next friedman unit? Crap......we're really screwed aren't we?
The Bible is difficult to read, even for intelligent people.
i've read it.
i prefer the silmarillion. it's mythology is more consistent.
air force pilots are urged to bomb sensitively
Air Force to bombers: "Be more sensitive;
Consideration to Iraqis give;
Don't blow them up like Patton or LeMay,
But in a more Phil Donahue-like way.
Actually, fundies know a lot less about biblical history than you think. Cause if they really knew what Babylon did, some of them would probably say, "well Nebuchadnezzar had a few good ideas"...
sunday school dropout
And Jezabel got a bum rap.
Nothing that big is that rigid.
blerb | 06.23.07 - 11:34 am | #
Ahem, well.
"The people who make these statements about the WTC obviously never pulled cable there. If they had, they'd know how fucking stupid their theories are.
Mirele"
However this is what it has been like in America under the Bush Administration every single day since.
http://bp1.blogger.com/_0wRJjXvy...1600-h/
pic2.jpg
Nothing that big is that rigid.
blerb | 06.23.07 - 11:34 am | #
[must resist obvious self-reference...]
One of Petraeus's nerviest gambles is that enemy fighters will not be able to move and disrupt other areas.
Let's see: Hope is not a plan. Wish in one hand, piss in the other, see which fills up faster. Gotta be another cliche applicable to this.
How about: if the insurgents would just cooperate, this would be a lot easier!
So much for the "genius" of our military leadership....
As i said earlier, every Army base in the world has posters of Murphy's Laws of Combat
and prominently near the top is the Law : "The enemy never does what you want. That's why he's called the enemy."
Of course, such posters proliferate among the enlited. Officer's country it's more affirmations, like "Leadership" and "Can do!".......
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Just take a chain saw, notch one side and cut a straight cut opposite the notch.
Drop it where ever you want it to fall.
billy b | 06.23.07 - 11:34 am | #
Seems easy, but try it when Mossad squirrels are dropping acorns on the chainsaw.
"Purpose Driven" Rick Warren mused recently that it was weird that he'd spent so much time teaching bible and not previously noticed the emphasis on helping the poor.
rootless2, exile on side st
You can only teach what you've already been taught.
Unless your Socrates, and want to unteach everything.
Or, as Paul Simon so memorably put it: "A man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest." Much easier to read the Bible as being all about YOU!, and not about other people. Especially poor people.
Every good American knows poor people are icky.
The Bible is difficult to read, even for intelligent people.
You know what's even worse?
The Book of Mormon.
Whoever wrote that must have been doing some dandy drugs.
What's amazing is "Bible Study" - once caused a crisis of faith in a poor woman because I actually did, ya know, study it. Studied its history, its own creation, the context of the stories, and then asked her about them most politely. At the time, I was trying to understand why it was believed by so many people....
Felt bad about undermining her beliefs that way.
How about: if the insurgents would just cooperate, this would be a lot easier!
Crap, every day NPR has a hopeful report from someone saying there are "potential signs that might indicate the insurgents are considering cooperating"...
Then Ted Koppel explains why it's OK if we kill innocents because they do it, too.
The Book of Mormon.
Whoever wrote that must have been doing some dandy drugs.
Terry C, End Bush's War Now!
as i said yesterday, he had a wicked sense of humor and hated the marks.
ror, have a big rigid coke
"With any construction, I'm not sure if a structure that tall could ever acquire enough sideways momentum at the top to just tip over and land on its side. Nothing that big is that rigid."
Wasn't talking about dropping it like a tree.
If you took away one corner it will fall sideways to some degree, I think.
Again, my point was more that terrorists with explosives who are trying to raise some shit would not bring the thing down well after the planes hit. Makes no sense.
It's occurred to me that, in fact, we have made a little progress since the days of WWII. Back then, leveling entire cities was just part of the war plan. Today, at least, the world would be up in arms if the U.S. decided to simply level Baghdad. It would probably end the war — at least in Iraq — but the world would go apeshit crazy-mad at the U.S., as well it should.
I guess that's progress of a sort. We're not leveling cities anymore. Yet.
"Unless your...?"
Time to brew the coffee.....
One of Petraeus's nerviest gambles is that enemy fighters will not be able to move and disrupt other areas.
Let's see: Hope is not a plan. Wish in one hand, piss in the other, see which fills up faster. Gotta be another cliche applicable to this.
How about: if the insurgents would just cooperate, this would be a lot easier!
This also presumes that there are a finite number of "enemy fighters." If we can just get them all rounded up in one place, and they won't run away like girly men but stay and fight us, we'll be VICTORIOUS! With winningness and triumphant success!
You know what's even worse?
The Book of Mormon.
Whoever wrote that must have been doing some dandy drugs.
Terry C, End Bush's War Now! | Homepage | 06.23.07 - 11:36 am | #
Yeah.
Nothing can hold a candle to the Urantia Book.
I think JM is correct. Suddenly CNN has switched its rhetoric in some Iraq stories -
Insurgents are now labled"al Qaeda gunmen" and "al Qaeda militants".
CNN claims they are just repeating what the military tells them. The local news office claims they just use the terms the news feeds use. The result is that even at the local level, it sounds as if "al Qaeda militants" are causing the violence in Iraq ignoring the sectarian violence.
Ahem, well.
rorschach, infogit
Shoulda seen that one, er, coming, I guess.
"Of course, the real risk is that these terrists will break the American will. 'Cause it's not about bodies and death, it's about politics!"
Bush and Company have done more harm to this country and to the world than OBL, Al Qaeda or anyone else could ever hope to.
" That's what happens when you elect a dope to lead the most powerful nation in the world.
blerb"
A dope who surrounds himself with flaming assholes.
Glenn, Petrayus was just the next in line.
The military's gone thru so many of these people that the caliber of what's left has to be diminishing.
Hell, anyone that would take on such an assignment and think that there's a possibility for success is not a person I'd describe as a genius...
little note on Bablon or Banlon or whatever
the sumerian people lived there and got along quite nicely for a while
then the elamites and alot of other "neighbors" moved in next door and they were sure the sumerians were up to something that they were unwilling to share with thems (the aforementioned "chosen people", so they actually just took over the place. That tower and all that shit were the "chosen's" works ... and they were never really so much as "resisted" while they took everything the sumerians had and abused it. they (the self proclaimed chosen people) have themselves to thank for the fucked up mess they left Summer in.
Chuck Colson has an op-ed in the WaPo today saying that to leave Iraq now would be unjust.
The commenters tend to disagree.
Then Ted Koppel explains why it's OK if we kill innocents because they do it, too.
lipreader, who ♥ Al Gore
When I finally stop listening to NPR altogether, it will be because I've smashed every radio I own when I heard Ted Koppel come on.
No wonder he idolizes Kissinger. They are birds of a feather.
It's occurred to me that, in fact, we have made a little progress since the days of WWII. Back then, leveling entire cities was just part of the war plan. Today, at least, the world would be up in arms if the U.S. decided to simply level Baghdad. It would probably end the war — at least in Iraq — but the world would go apeshit crazy-mad at the U.S., as well it should.
I guess that's progress of a sort. We're not leveling cities anymore. Yet.
Glenn | 06.23.07 - 11:38 am | #
What? That's just insane.
why not take out one corner, making the tower fall onto other buildings?
Uncle Blodge
I'd suspect that would be very, very hard to do, because to the core construction.
JR, kerosene and a match
It would be virtually impossible to do, but not because of the core construction, but because the only things that fall in one piece are monoliths - that is, they are organically of a piece, like a tree, or a large slab of stone. Things like buildings that are component parts held together by connections cannot fall in this way, because those connections are engineered to hold the components together when they are positioned in a discrete geometrical relationship to one another. If one of the members at a connection gets too far out of whack from this alignment, the connection fails, and one or more of the connected members falls straight to the ground from the position it was in when the failure occured. Knocking out a building corner might allow a tall building to "list" significantly to one side before disentegrating...maybe as much as 20 degrees from vertical...but at that point the stresses on the connections would be too great to hold the structure together.
"CNN claims they are just repeating what the military tells them"
Actually they repeat whatever Karl Rove tells them.
CNN claims they are just repeating what the military tells them.
That is, after all, what journalism is all about.
Operation Jack the Ripper
Moonbootica, Ninjabi | Homepage | 06.23.07 - 10:55 am |
That's the operation my cat Spike just carried out upon my ankles.
With any construction, I'm not sure if a structure that tall could ever acquire enough sideways momentum at the top to just tip over and land on its side. Nothing that big is that rigid.
blerb
Where do you get enough force to knock a half million tons off its centre of gravity? "Not from an airplane" is pretty obvious. I'm with you, I doubt that you could make the WTC fall any appreciable distance to the side.
This also presumes that there are a finite number of "enemy fighters." If we can just get them all rounded up in one place, and they won't run away like girly men but stay and fight us, we'll be VICTORIOUS! With winningness and triumphant success!
See Concord, Bridge, British....
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but I think Cheney may be legally safe from oversight on his handling of classified materials according to EXECUTIVE ORDER 13292.
Early sections in the EO explicitly call out the President, the VPp, in performance of his executive duties, and agencies.
Section 5.2 is about the Oversight office and it only mentions agencies.
Felt bad about undermining her beliefs that way.
and that's why i was asked to depart the Suthrun Babtist church at age 15 - "Yew been askin' too many kweschuns, boah."
Asking questions raises doubts, and doubts send you to Hell, therefore, any who ask questions are the Devil's agents.
never forget, the sin in Eden was acquiring knowledge, the knowledge of good and evil. Stay stupid, stay right with God.
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Nothing can hold a candle to the Urantia Book.
I prefer my Lensman straight-up.
3,555, a rise of 8 from this morning.
attributing the foundations of justice to Hammerabi
is like saying Bremmer established law and order in Iraq
"never forget, the sin in Eden was acquiring knowledge, the knowledge of good and evil. Stay stupid, stay right with God."
Very much my experience growing up baptist.
Convicted felon and delusional religious zealot Charles Colson gets Op-Ed space in the Saturday Washington Post... why?
I wouldn't begrudge him the space if they'd let Greenwald or emptywheel or digby have the column opposite.
.Again, my point was more that terrorists with explosives who are trying to raise some shit would not bring the thing down well after the planes hit. Makes no sense.
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher
No disagreement there. I just wanted to point out that its not so easy to make a really tall building fall sideways under any circumstances.
3,555, a rise of 8 from this morning.
Time to buy more stock in mortuary companies!
Asking questions raises doubts, and doubts send you to Hell, therefore, any who ask questions are the Devil's agents.
never forget, the sin in Eden was acquiring knowledge, the knowledge of good and evil. Stay stupid, stay right with God.
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Cynicus
Why. didn't. god. just. make. us. stupid.
What? That's just insane.
rorschach,
why? Why is that insane? Remember the fire bombings of Japan? People won't tolerate that kind of mass killing anymore. All I'm saying is that's progress of a sort.
Chuck Colson has an op-ed in the WaPo today saying that to leave Iraq now would be unjust.
The commenters tend to disagree.
Karatist Preache
Colson ...? is that the watergate felon Colson ...? figures ... he really is the one to turn to for advice on justice
"I just wanted to point out that its not so easy to make a really tall building fall sideways under any circumstances."
Agreed.
Asking questions raises doubts, and doubts send you to Hell, therefore, any who ask questions are the Devil's agents.
never forget, the sin in Eden was acquiring knowledge, the knowledge of good and evil. Stay stupid, stay right with God.
Always a puzzlement to me how Yahweh could have punished Mom and Dad for doing wrong, when -- being they had no knowledge of Good and Evil -- they could not possibly have known what they were doing was wrong until after they did it.
That's usually when I get asked to leave.
Southern Baptists and other fundies have an attraction to repentant sinners that is very odd. I don't believe I ever saw a fundie preacher who lived a good, clean life.
In fact, they seem to be in competition to compare their debaucheries. Especially the younger ones, who all seemed to have been lead singer for Black Sabbath at one time.
Why. didn't. god. just. make. us. stupid.
V for Virginia | 06.23.07 - 11:45 am | #
evidence to the contrary?
If you took away one corner it will fall sideways to some degree, I think.
Again, my point was more that terrorists with explosives who are trying to raise some shit would not bring the thing down well after the planes hit. Makes no sense.
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher | 06.23.07 - 11:38 am | #
IIRC, the first batch of WTC terrorist thought that's what would happen, they take out the lower core, then the building topples on to another building.
depressing sheets
the sin in Eden was acquiring knowledge, the knowledge of good and evil.
There was a preemptive element to the exile from Eden. Having acquired the knowledge of good and evil, Adam and Eve were exiled specifically so they could not eat from the Tree of Life, gaining immortality, and becoming gods themselves.
"Why. didn't. god. just. make. us. stupid."
it's no fun if he makes us that way - we have to choose to 1. love him 2. be stupid.
it's a set.
Besides - how can we keep the undesirables out of heaven if everyone's stupid?
why? Why is that insane? Remember the fire bombings of Japan? People won't tolerate that kind of mass killing anymore. All I'm saying is that's progress of a sort.
Glenn | 06.23.07 - 11:45 am | #
We napalmed the fuck out of Vietnam, in case you forgot.
And as far as any analogy with Iraq: We aren't at war with any nation-state right now. Also, we have a lot of people in Baghdad, in case you hadn't noticed, so "levelling" the city would be rather counterproductive.
And we've been laying waste to the nation with DU arms for years now, and have displaced 4 million people from their homes while destroying their ability to access water, food, and electricity.
This is progress?
CNN claims they are just repeating what the military tells them.
That is, after all, what journalism is all about.
V for Virginia
Schools of Journalism are renaming themselves as Schools of Stenography.
'What the hell, do you what us to do - think?'
.
Why. didn't. god. just. make. us. stupid.
He did so bless some of us. the clever ones just gotta learn to shut up.
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Why. didn't. god. just. make. us. stupid.
V for Virginia | 06.23.07 - 11:45 am | #
evidence to the contrary?
dirk gently, sociopathetic
Heh heh -- me and thee, and I'm not so sure about thee.
"never forget, the sin in Eden was acquiring knowledge, the knowledge of good and evil. Stay stupid, stay right with God."
Very much my experience growing up baptist.
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher
Raised Catholic.
Everytime you raised a question about the STUPID shit you were being told, the answer was ALWAYS "It's a mystery."
In other words, "Pray, Pay, Obey and Keep Your Mouth Shut!"
Adam and Eve were exiled specifically so they could not eat from the Tree of Life, gaining immortality, and becoming gods themselves.
Toonscribe | 06.23.07 - 11:48 am | #
except that death was one of the punishments meted out.
"IIRC, the first batch of WTC terrorist thought that's what would happen, they take out the lower core, then the building topples on to another building."
I remember that as well. I also remember hearing it'd take such a large ammount of explosives as to make it next to impossible to actually happen
Ted Koppel wears womens underwaer and fantasizes sex with under-aged males
I know sounds bizarre ... such is a day in the News
doug adams says even if adam and eve hadn't eaten the apple, god would have got them somehow.
when you are dealing with the kind of mentality that leaves childish traps around, eventually you'll get an exploding cigar.
being they had no knowledge of Good and Evil -- they could not possibly have known what they were doing was wrong until after they did it.
Douglas Adams wrote that if the deity is that kind of being there would be no way to outwit him/her/it. (Although he made is funny and clever, so don't blame him for my ham-fisted rendering.)
Ted Koppel's head may be bigger than Newt's. It's a toss-up.
two sheets up
doug adams says even if adam and eve hadn't eaten the apple, god would have got them somehow.
when you are dealing with the kind of mentality that leaves childish traps around, eventually you'll get an exploding cigar.
dirk gently, sociopathetic
Crap. What're ya drinkin'?
"when you are dealing with the kind of mentality that leaves childish traps around, eventually you'll get an exploding cigar."
we were taught to be thankful for the break we got as bog should have zapped the whole human race in his riteous pissed offedness.
that fact that he didn't is proff he loves us, you know.
Adam and Eve were exiled specifically so they could not eat from the Tree of Life, gaining immortality, and becoming gods themselves.
Toonscribe | 06.23.07 - 11:48 am | #
except that death was one of the punishments meted out.
dirk gently, sociopathetic
all that crap was written by people as symbolic and with an agenda
the resistence and outright confrontation with science by "fundamentalist" is that we not be able to show plainly they are full of shit and that there's acutually a backstory of consistent ceremonial murder involved in organized religion
Koppel's head is large but not as big as pumpkinhead who takes a size nine in hats.
"And we've been laying waste to the nation with DU arms for years now, and have displaced 4 million people from their homes while destroying their ability to access water, food, and electricity.
This is progress?
rorschach, infogi"
Okay, rorschach, you win. It's a point well-made and a position well-taken.
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