Wednesday, February 09, 2005
Question of the day
DeAR gOD Part II
- The last time i was vaugely under the christian label it was under this guy's church. I am afraid some what of a negative bias in that regard
- When i was a smaller shaver, I was good friends with his grandson
- He was always a smug and arrogant jerk... and I am arrogant, can be a jerk and from time to time even smug so i know it when i see it
But, when he spoke... so much fallacious logic, so much circular theology... my worry of any bias was burned away in a almost primal invocation of the animal trapped in a box pondering if i should gnaw away my own limb.... if only i didn't pay attention to the teachings of Dune i'd have done so.
- He said that Muslims at a neuro-psychological level were incapable of American democracy, a foolist quest of George Bush who got much of his Ire alternating with fundementalists
- He said that all religions are emotionally driven, then refused to allow a direct challenge pointing out he was wrong
- He claimed all religions of antiquity, though he also blended in today, speak of a divine individual spark which is pattently false
- He claimed that the doctrine of the Immaculate conception of Mary had a 19th century origin, which is true only in the same sense that saying George Bush lives in texas is true. The doctrine was offical church doctrine as far back as the late 15th century, and was a popular unoffical doctrine going back to the dawn of the church
I can't right now blog about the errors he made, but i have a real problem with just how unkind i will have to be to him
Dear god
I will blog more on this sob as time permits
Tuesday, February 08, 2005
now we know why the guy from the beeb defended Jordan
Without going that far, Richard Sambrook, a BBC star raised the stakes. Another journalist in the room also recalled the Palestine hotel incident which supported the statements made in Davos, and recognizes the scale of the phenomenon, well-known within the journalistic community, but not beyond.
from Easongate
Fisk the street baby
would ask such activists, while they go after the journalists, why they fail to call upon our government to be accountable for the many known lies that they have told us. Freedom to do so is a traditional and important American value. Read a bit of Thomas Jefferson’s writings and you will not be able to disagree.
When I compare:
1. Eason Jordan’s comments that journalists have been targeted by military
that he redacts, and says he doesn't know anything about but HEARD is true when confronted by anyone asking him for facts
from a man who covered up for a brutal thug dictator in the first place, ignored his genocide so he could get access to the evil bastard in the first place
2. Myriad public comments by the Bush administration which caused the military to go to war on the wings of lies in the first place..
so your saying bush KNOWINGLY decived
can you prove he knew that the "Slam dunk" from the CIA was bogus? Can you prove he some how knew something no one but Saddam himself knew?
cause if you do i sure as heck would like to hear it.
and oh yeah the whole WMD dealie... that wasn't the main reason bush wanted to go to war. He did that reason to try to win over folks like you
I’ll bet the egotistical media will spend more time navel-gazing than reporting the truth about matters material to the most meaningful national interests. When you hear people say that the mainstream media seems as if they are in league with the American right-wing on the issues they choose to report, this is how it happens.
because clearly an organization which promotes a massive ratio of negative to positive stories, with a major executive who covered for saddam and has said outright falsehoods about american soldiers.. surely that isn't relevent
I mean, the 4th estate doesn't need the public to have faith in their ability to be honest brokers... no not at all
oh and best of all you quoted Joe Wilson
Based on my experience with the administration in the months leading up to the war, I have little choice but to conclude that some of the intelligence related to Iraq’s nuclear weapons program was twisted to exaggerate the Iraqi threat Joseph C. Wilson IV, Ambassador
New York Times Editorial
7/6/2003
who was found not only to have lied in public, but was honest under oath... he made all these comments while being a PAID advisor of the Kerry campaign
honesty... nawww
Monday, February 07, 2005
More european enlightenment
they are banning a flag that they have used since they fought for their own independence from spain
Muslims executing dutch citzens at a whim... acting violently in classes to force respect
banning the dutch national identity
soon it may be RIP for The Netherlands
credit:David Kopel on The Volokh Conspiracy
oh that explains everything
WASHINGTON - Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid on Monday urged President Bush (news - web sites) to stop the Republican National Committee (news - web sites) from calling him an obstructionist and criticizing his Senate record, a tactic the GOP used to help defeat Reid's predecessor.
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Bush repeatedly has said he wants work with Democrats, most recently during his State of the Union speech last week, Reid noted in a speech on the Senate floor.
"Why didn't he stand and tell the American people last Wednesday that one of the first items of business we were going to do in Washington is send out a hit piece on the Democratic leader?" Reid said.
hmmmmmm
so your saying Bush's agenda won't go through ( a obstructionist agenda, especially without a set of real alternatives) is ok but their pointing out that you are an obstructionist isn't
ok glad to clear that up
Meet the new General Secretary of the Party
well lets see he'd get your grassroots energized and........... oh wait that didn't work for him
way to think their dnc
MSM coverage of Eason's fables
Easongate: My take
We have some one from The Beeb defending Jordan
Update III: More from panelist and BBC director Richard Sambrook. I asked him via e-mail if he had any response to this comment from Jim Geraghty:
[BBC director Richard] Sambrook states, "[Jordan] clarified his comment a number of times to ensure people did not misunderstand him."
But then why would Arab members of the audience come up and congratulate him for having the courage to speak the truth? Why were, according to these accounts, Franks, Dodd and Gergen so disturbed? Or are these details from other accounts inaccurate? Are Abovitz, MacKinnon, and Frank remembering things that didn't happen? How about the secondhand sources of Jay Nordlinger?
Sambrook responded:
I can't answer for how other people took his comments. His initial comment may have been ambiguous (although even then I didn't think he meant that US troops had intended to kill journalists) but his clarifications as the session progressed should have left no-one in doubt about his meaning. Could it be that some people would prefer to think ill of him?
There are people in the media community who would criticise the US military on this issue. I'm not one of them and to my knowledge Eason has in the past dismissed suggestions of ill-intent on the part of the US military.
when we look at David Gergan, Chris Dodd, and Barney Frank all verifying the Eason Jordan was a grade A moonbat
now this isn't just a matter that we bloggers are taking out of context
from Captain's Quarters we have this nugget ( also from the very yummy Michelle Malkin)
But the blockbuster news from David Gergen isn't so much the corroboration he gave Michelle about Jordan's remarks. He told Michelle that he had been interviewed by the Washington Post about Jordan's comments last week, who then apparently spiked the story.
Now it isn't even like this is the first time Jordan has bashed our government or helped out the forces of evil.....
the Media is as some might say a fraternity and they are circling the wagons around one of their own
when are they going to learn?
That's cute.... but it's wrong
Conservative thought has long rated the notion of "root causes" — explaining antisocial behavior as a consequence of social conditions — as a major heresy. Neoconservatives have especially enjoyed burning witches over this doctrinal deviation. This makes it especially remarkable that a president thought to be in the thrall of neocons should sink so eloquently into doctrinal error.
maybe the President was trying to point out that only in tyranny do people view terrorism as acceptable... that is a much different statement then terror is caused by tyranny
Sunday, February 06, 2005
Un... Swift action....hehe
Annan vows action
By Betsy Pisik
NEW YORK -- In a bid to regain public confidence, officials of
the United Nations promised swift action after the release
Thursday of a highly critical evaluation of the U.N. oil-for-food
program.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan yesterday pledged to take
unspecified disciplinary action against two senior U.N. officials,
with his aides adding that he would strip away diplomatic
immunity of the pair, if necessary.
Swift, but unspecified
Ahhh the UN
I second these thoughts
People my age are as likely to believe in Social Security as they are in Santa Claus. And, if you ask me, it would be equally naive for a twenty-something to believe in either one.
Her views are consistent with comments that I hear from my own students, most of whom are in their mid-twenties, and none of whom are counting on a dime from Social Security when they retire.
i agree with it 100%
(Haptanghaiti: Song 5.2 = Yasna 39.2)
the helpful law-abiding.
And we venerate the souls of the righteous,
born in whatever land,
both men and women,
whose good consciences
are growing, have grown or shall grow.
(Haptanghaiti: Song 5.2 = Yasna 39.2)
Andrew Sullivan is the GhEy
negative connotation of "Gay" as used in south park can be applied to
Andrew. Lets forget Andrew using his fundraising drives to help fund his jet
setting to Europe and elsewhere (or prostitutes or whatever) that has under
the old negative connotation of "Gay" is already transcendental in its
nature. But I am going to take a larger stroke of the "queer" behavior in
how Andrew has conducted himself as a new media personality.
It is not just his whorishness about his fundraising that makes him exceed the old negative nomenclature of gay he has become almost motorcycles.. A strange alien and meaningless word.
What makes Andrew so sad now is his Happy Wand.
Note the following will probably offend gay people, religious conservatives, and god knows who else.
Ok here is the deal, Andrew is all happy and having his own sexuality and social mores but if we look at his blogging and his issue advocacy its the same way. He, like the canidate he supported, voted for the war before he voted against it.
Andrew was harsh on the president's spending but big deal... even rush ( a man who is probably the biggest GWB shill on the planet)
and Andrew seemed to flip when The President went more into the religious conservative camp ( to see to it those folks all showed up to vote for him.)
and then all of a sudden Andrew flip-flopped
thus it comes down to Little Andrew, not about some great moral viewpoint. Andrew Sullivan a man who is ultimately brilliant has had his politics be defined by his penis
nothing could be more clear then this little gem from Andrew's page
WHY NOT AN ANTI-ABORTION AMENDMENT? Here's an interesting question, posed by my friend Jon Rauch. The Senate Republicans have vowed to push their anti-gay marriage amendment, even though it won't stand a chance of getting the necessary 67 votes. The point is political and rhetorical. They are trying to build momentum, raise money, and keep the cause of banning same-sex unions alive. So why not push an anti-abortion amendment instead? They have one such amendment on hand. Both proposed amendments are allegedly against judicial meddling. Both will fail. But one deals with a much graver issue, by the religious right's reckoning - an immense loss of human life, rather than the grave evil of two human beings committing to one another for life. So why this priority? Surely, abortion is a more important matter than same-sex marriage - even for the religious right. Or is it?
The reason is money, but you knew that Andrew. The last time Anti-Abortion Amendment calls made the political machine that supports the GOP any money was when everyone got offended by the Partial Birth Abortion procedure, and President Clinton didn't let the republicans ban it.
Gay marriage is now a hot topic, its a way for the political parties ( left and right) to sheer people like Andrew Sullivan to put out their hard earned money into supporting them.
to quote Chris Rock "The Money is in the medicine."
and lets not get into a natural rights argument about gay marriage as the concept of homosexuality is.... Drum roll please..... A Modern concept
sorry to burst your bubble Andrew but there haven't always been gay people. When Marriage +Sex+ love= family in the modern world's lexicon then and only then did homosexuality come into being.
Now we've had men having sex with women for ages, but those men understood that sexual pleasure was one thing, social compacts ( such as marriage) were another.
just as your shilling for a book written by an author who committed an abortion on the ethical standards of history, so he could some how make himself feel better about being gay "If Abraham Lincoln is gay they have to accept me."
putting your sexuality as the defining concept of your life is a weak and mentally flacid position. You like to have sex with men, other then you who really gives a rats ass?
other then men you will want to ( or who will want to have sex with you) who cares?
you turned on your political beliefs based on your happy little friend Andrew, you retire as a lure to get people to fund your little spats of blogging
go sell out Andrew, become a pundit on MSNBC ( they need the help) and become one of them, because you a long time ago stopped being one of us.
this is kind of humerous
you can educate a prisoner till he is smart enough to kill
so we'll have to find out a way to know some one's IQ at the time they committed the crime
ROXXORS
WOOT
i get to now inflict my television habits on the rest of you all now bwahaha
Wednesday, February 02, 2005
Wow........
on the way to school i was listening to a guy on the Michael Medved show talking about his book to explain pot to kids ( yes parents having to explain their illegal activity to their child)
That was almost as amusing as the whole saga of Brave soldier John "Cody" Adams and watching on CNN with my work breakfast that it "appears" to be a toy and not a real hostage
yes because clearly
- Having the same Gear as Cody, Gear that is not US Military issue
- Having the same head shape, facial features and head proportions
- and the general action figury apperance wasn't enough
It is moments like this that remind me there is a god, and he has a really twisted sense of humor.
I am due to my math class going to miss out on the president's state of the union speech ( i'll actually do better decoding the transcript myself afterwards anyway) and the ludicrous democratic rebutal
as it says on my G-mail signature "Truth is stranger then fiction, because fiction has to make sense"
Oh No, I't's to much for elmo
In addition to these brutal act of terrorism, there is something else about the cody picture which kinda troubles me
if you look at the bottom there.. it looks almost like that is a concrete cinderblock on top of a piece of concrete
(praised be to the drudge and powerline )
Sunday, January 30, 2005
RTP: Fun Web based Presidential Election Sim.
The Republicans have pushed the Issue of Social Security in the last three RTP presidential election cycles ( we are braver then IRL).
The religious Conservatives have never in the past had a strong canidate, but we've had more of a libertarianish fusion with them.
In the Previous election cycle the Democrat suggested many of the same "laying of hands" that John Edwards credited to John Kerry
Ken Kerns has spent a lot of time honing and revising the game.. Its good fun.
Wow i got blog rolled
The Artists Formerly known as Crushkerry.com have taken a liking to me
so... since i got blog rolled, i should probably get back into the swing of blogging.
thankfully the Drudge Report tells those 60 million + of us why we made the right call here and here
Me, I think the fact Iraqi people were willing to risk death to vote for their freedom is a big sign that humanity is ok
also anyone from ABP land who comes over here please check out this game here but we are all full up on canidates








