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| 7/4/08
5:37 AM |
Told
ya |
Barack Obama brought his traditional values tour to North
Dakota on Thursday, but ended up struggling to explain how his
upcoming trip to Iraq might refine, but not basically alter, his
promise to quickly remove U.S. troops from the war.
snip
He left the impression that his talks with military commanders
could refine
his promise to remove U.S. combat troops within 16 months
of taking office.
It'll go like this:
Barack Obama: This war is stupid, I'm going to bring all of you
and your men home.
Military Commanders: Cool but if we leave odds are this place
is going to explode and CNN will show mass slaughter every night
for like a month.
BO: Ah, let me refine my original statement, this war is stupid
and I'm going to leave you and your men here to keep killing and
dying until it gets smart.
Sure it was Bush that dropped America into but that won't change
the reality that it's all now Obama's responsibility and who would
want to be responsible for a massacre that would end with a new
Saddam or Ayatollah running the dump from atop of a pile of bodies?
And when McCain wins it'll be four more years of things getting
worse then better and that better being declared "progress!"
and ignored when it goes back to worse, it'll be like Bush never
left!
America will be in Iraq until a genuinely friendly government with
complete control over a stable nation is formed or something so
horrible happens that it'll be impossible for them to stay.
Given the history of the region, the players and the situation
which scenario is most likely?
Happy July 4th!
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| 7/3/08
8:33 AM |
FREEEEEDOOOM! |
The
Iraqi government has banned candidates in upcoming provincial
elections from using pictures in their campaign materials of people
not running for office, the government's spokesman said Thursday.
The ban primarily affects Shiite religious parties such as
the movement of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr that use
images of clerics in campaign posters. The government also banned
candidates from campaigning in mosques or other places of worship.
snip
For months, the Sadrists have been complaining that their
Shiite political rivals in the government have been targeting
their movement ahead of upcoming elections, arresting many of
their followers under the pretext of security crackdowns.
Hey, remember how America started mucking around with Iran? How
they supported the pro-Western candidate and all his dirty tricks
and oppressive tactics back in the 70s? This is totally not the
same thing at all and even if it was it's so going to work this
time.
Iraq's foreign minister said Wednesday that concessions by
both sides had advanced the prospects for a new security agreement
needed for U.S. forces to remain in the country beyond the end
of the year.
Seeking to dispel criticism that the agreement would infringe
on Iraqi sovereignty, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said the
opposition was based on "misrepresentations, confusion and
politicizing."
The agreement being negotiated would be in effect only one
or two years and it would
not sanction any permanent U.S. bases, Zebari said at a news
conference.
Sanction? Why would America need sanction to do stuff that they're
already doing in the country they've invaded, occupied and run?
Does anyone seriously think that the US has sunk millions into the
Biggest
Base in Iraq just to leave? That they turned an Iraqi air
base into Smalltown
USA just for laughs? The embassy
/ palace, that's just for show? The only way the Americans will
ever leave is if there isn't any profit in staying and considering
how much oil is worth? Well two dead soldiers and $255 million a
day certainly isn't enough in the loss column to change any minds
anytime soon.
UPDATE:
Remember how cell
phones and satellite dishes were signs that Baghdad was a darn
good successful mission accomplished? The bar has been lowered even
further:
There is an unexpected air of normalcy prevailing in Baghdad
these days, with consumption flourishing and confidence in the
government growing. The progress is astonishing, but can it last?
Pork is available in Baghdad once again.
snip
For four years, selling
pork or alcohol in Baghdad was a security risk. But the acts
of terror committed by Islamist fundamentalists, who once punished
such violations of their interpretation of the Koran with attacks
on businesses and their owners, have gradually subsided.
Wow.
Hundreds of thousands dead, millions displaced, the region and
world further destabilized so Iraqis can enjoy Homer Simpson's favorite
meal and drink.
And of course you could get bacon
and booze when Saddam was running the joint
Soon the wingnuts and warfloggers will be trumpeting Baghdad's
gravity.
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|
| 7/2/08
2:44 PM |
Well
I may have just done |
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the coolest
or stupidest thing I've ever done in my life.
In a nutshell I just sent my CV off and if I get the job I may
end up in Kandahar giving the finger to the Taliban by teaching
chicks how to desktop publish / graphic design and play Guitar Hero.
I'm doing the Guitar Hero thing as a side project, I shan't mention
it at the interview.
To be be fair I thought the guy said "Candyland" and
from what I understand there may be a difference between the two.
In the unlikely event I get the job / don't chicken out there will
be a conversation with mom that will start awkward and possible
end with my kneecaps busted.
Anything to avoid another fucking winter... Afghanistan is one
of the warm places right?
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| 7/2/08
11:40 AM |
Finally! |
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He admits it:
I’m
ashamed of Canada and Canadians
The reason is that Dr. Morgentaler got the Order of Canada for
all his baby killing or at least that's how Wingcanucks like Joel
see it. It's driven him quite batty, here's some choice specks of
rabid foam:
Pro-abortion
monster, avowed socialist, and state-run media anchor all now
in Order of Canada
Huh, are there pro-life monsters?
Governor-General
should be fired; and the position aborted
This is actually something I agree with, I know it's all symbolic
but if I had my way we'd shred every and anything to do with the
monarchy even when they GG is a babe.
Here’s some advise for Canadians: The governor-general,
the former state-owned, state-run CBC reporter Michaelle Jean,
who was appointed by the failed Liberal Prime Minister Paul Martin,
should be fired and her position aborted. She approved nationally
awarding a despicable man —an abortion mill operator. With
our nation’s highest honor. On Canada Day. In a special
Canada Day ceremony.
I can’t even imagine worse judgment than that.
That's because he's not very smart.
Morgentaler is an extremist monster. At the minimum, he’s
a controversial figure in the most extreme way imaginable.
I know, don't even try, it's just causes ice-cream headaches.
At worst, he makes Canadians vomit with moral, physical,
and emotional grief and outrage and shame.
No, that's just the Canada Day aftermath. Fun fact, they have to
hose down some of the streets in my neighborhood, they woke me up
doing it this morning.
So approving Canada’s highest honor for him on Canada
Day is exactly the worst possible thing the governor general,
who should be the very epitome of a moderate, stabilizing, uniting
figure, could possibly do.
Except most Canadians appreciate Morgentaler and his work so, no,
not really.
A traditionalist conservative-thinking Canadian person with
a generation or two of deep traditional Canadian heritage —and
a stable mind— should be hired as a temp for the job, while
the government works on aborting the now fully tainted, and in
any case ridiculous position, altogether. Change the constitution.
It needs a lot of work in any case.
Stable mind? Well that leaves Joel out.
Naturally the Order of Canada honor should now be aborted.
It is now not necessarily wanted or needed or loved.
Ho!Ho! You see what he did there?
But I'm glad that he now understands that he's not "Proud
to be Canadian" and never has been. He's one of those wee brained
fools that confuse what he thinks to be with what is and the dichotomy
confuses and angers him to no end.
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| 7/2/08
11:36 AM |
Well
they are good at it |
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Learn from the
best has always been my motto:
A training course at Gitmo was modeled
on tactics that Chinese forces used to interrogate American prisoners
during the Korean War, according to The New York Times.
The paper reports that interrogation trainers used a chart
with "coercive management techniques" that were "copied
verbatim from a 1957 Air Force study of Chinese Communist techniques
used during the Korean War to obtain confessions, many of them
false, from American prisoners."
Yeah but when America tortures they do it for good so how can it
be bad? Anyway when you've invaded and occupied a country in a blatantly
illegal way torture is just a drop of blood in an ocean of the stuff.
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| 7/2/08
8:18 AM |
Jesus
in yet another tree |

A family in Margate said they saw the image of Jesus
on a palm tree outside their home.
Family members said they can see the image when they are
standing at least 2 feet away from the tree. As they get closer,
they said, the image disappears.
Huh... you get close and the image vanishes... that's sounds
familiar.
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| 7/1/08
1:24 PM |
Canada
Day Gabby! |
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Via Sadly,
No! we have a Gabby Johnston award (given to a person or collective
that presents an example of authentic frontier gibberish expressing
a courage that is little seen in this day and age) winner who is
a little more correct in the grammar department than most “winners”
but makes up for it by being the sort of bat-shit insane theist
that makes atheism easier than Guitar Hero III: Aerosmith (seriously,
I blazed through “medium”, getting mostly five stars,
wasn’t booed off once). Meet Tom
Kovach outspoken Christian and raving loony. (crazy
long ass post here).
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| 6/30/08
5:47 AM |
Oh
those terrorists |
|
They're just
so... oh what's the word?
''While they still can conduct the occasional bombing, and
they desperately
seek a high value media event, they essentially now pray (sic)
on the helpless and engage in futile attacks against the Iraqi
Security Forces,'' said Maj. Gen. John Kelly, the top Marine in
Iraq.
And by "occasional" he means "daily" and by
desperately hell, I have no idea
why they keep on blathering so.
There's been so much progress that:
The
Pentagon is preparing to order roughly 30,000 troops to Iraq early
next year, The Associated Press has learned.
The move would allow the U.S. to maintain 15 combat brigades
in Iraq through 2009.
The deployments would replace troops currently there.
snip
Overall, there are about 146,000 troops in Iraq, and that
number is expected to dip to about 142,000 by mid-July when that
last unit is all out. That total is at least 7,000 more than the
number of troops in Iraq before the buildup began early last year.
Huh, now that's weird because we were told last year that:
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Friday he hoped
troop levels in Iraq could
be reduced from the current 169,000 to about 100,000 by January
2009, when the next U.S. president will take office.
I guess they want all of the American soldiers to enjoy the parades
and candy throwing.
Or maybe they want to make sure that nothing goes wrong here:
The
Iraqi government is to award a series of key oil contracts
to British and US companies later today, fuelling criticism that
the Iraq war was largely about oil.
Well it better be now, have you seen how expensive that shit is?
Hopefully President McCain will be better at stealing than Bush
was. I'd feel weird about sending soldiers to risk their life and
limb so I can pay a bit less at the pumps but I'm not American,
that may have something to do with it.
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| 6/28/08
9:03 AM |
I
give you perfect irony |
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Seriously, right down to the name they gave the .jpg, I'm going
to pop that into the Wikipedia entry.
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| 6/28/08
8:22 AM |
I'll
take a slab of Jesus |
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Is there a heavenly vision in Dallas? You decide.
A slab of marble is getting a lot of attention.
A customer says there is a picture of Jesus that's naturally
appeared on the rock. The owner of the marble company says the
slab came from Brazil, already cut from igneous rock...rock that's
older than Jesus.
Customer: "I
think it's interesting to see an image of what we know as our
Redeemer, millions of years ago, before he ever came to earth
to save the people."
So.
God made the cosmos about 6,000 to 10,000 years ago but made it
look billions of years older and just for strange and mysterious
shits'n'giggles, in prehistoric rock he carved a snap-shot of his
offspring that he was going to nail-up so he wouldn't be so pissed-off
at his creation for behaving exactly how he created them in the
first place?
And this carving wouldn't be found until someone decided they needed
a new coutner-top?
There's a book called Letting
go of God about a woman's struggle towards atheism I've got
that I haven't read yet but I'm curious about it, can't begin to
imagine why it would be hard not to believe in god stuff.
It never, ever, ever makes any sense, what more do you need?
Marvel Comics had a better sense of continuity and logic in the
1970s, perhaps theism needs some sort of "no-prize"
system.
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