I've seen studies that indicate that intense bombing campaigns pretty much solidify a nation's people against the aggressor.
Gee, ya think? What the fuck else do they think it's going to do? Cow people into submission, I'm guessing, huh?
River: You're not right, Early. You're not righteous. You've got issues. Early: No. Oh, yes, I could have that. You might have me figured out, then. Good job. I'm not 100%.
'Objects In Space'
Natter 43: I Love My Dead Gay Whale Crosspost.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Apr 09, 2006 5:14:03 am PDT #9678 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Nora Deirdre - Apr 09, 2006 5:18:10 am PDT #9679 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Sigh, I've caught up on my threads. Time to finish my paper. I feel urggy and sore throat-y, and not very motivated.
Theodosia - Apr 09, 2006 5:20:30 am PDT #9680 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Well, one idea with some selective bombing strategies is to cripple the infrastructure, and destroy factories and such. This has limited usefulness in a place where most of those things are already destroyed. (I seem to remember than one of the problems in reprisal-bombing Afghanistan for 9/11 woudl be that they didn't have much in the way of 3+ story buildings standing.)
Theodosia - Apr 09, 2006 5:21:22 am PDT #9681 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Nora, you can use some of the motivation I would have used for yoga, if I'd gone....
Jesse - Apr 09, 2006 5:22:20 am PDT #9682 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Well, one idea with some selective bombing strategies is to cripple the infrastructure, and destroy factories and such.
Oh yeah, right.
Go Nora, go! You can do it!
Sheryl - Apr 09, 2006 5:38:53 am PDT #9683 of 10001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
The comforter meowed at G...
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 09, 2006 6:59:02 am PDT #9684 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Gee, ya think? What the fuck else do they think it's going to do? Cow people into submission, I'm guessing, huh?
Because that worked so well in cowing us back in 2001. I think America's "blow up anyone that vaguely resembles whoever did this to us!" reaction isn't that far from typical upon being bombed, actually.
Lee - Apr 09, 2006 7:32:28 am PDT #9685 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Last night I felt very organized about today. I had a to do list, and menus and a grocery list all planned out, and all sorts of good stuff.
Unfortunately I forgot about that motivation/needing to leave the house stuff.
Oh well.
Allyson - Apr 09, 2006 8:27:06 am PDT #9686 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Because that worked so well in cowing us back in 2001.
Well...
Illegal wiretapping, including the thing about AT&T now, just listening to well, everyone, free speech zones, NYT not running the mohammed cartoons out of fear, the new theocracy governing by some twisted form of WWJD?, a president who says he was chosen by god to lead America...I mean, I think we got cowed.
Or maybe punk'd.
Consuela - Apr 09, 2006 9:05:45 am PDT #9687 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Okay, anyone got any theories about why my very nice but completely unintelligible Chinese next-door neighbor just tried to give me a box of instant oatmeal?
I'm vastly amused by the way she speaks to me so earnestly, and yet clearly has to know that I don't get a word she's saying. This must be what it is like to have American tourists in a non-English-speaking nation.