Who likes long paragraphs?!
This one person who thought they were more academic or something. Sure, if I had actually been putting together more complex arguments or whatever. But no.
Off to add more dots to a thing I'm working on.
Angel: He is dead. Technically, he's undead. It's a zombie. Connor: What's a zombie? Angel: It's an undead thing. Connor: Like you? Angel: No, zombies are slow-moving, dimwitted things that crave human flesh. Connor: Like you. Angel: No! It's different. Trust me.
'Destiny'
Natter 47: My Brilliance Is Wasted On You People
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 - Sep 27, 2006 5:33:28 am PDT #518 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
tommyrot - Sep 27, 2006 5:35:28 am PDT #519 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Birthday Happies for Nicole!!
Gudanov - Sep 27, 2006 5:35:55 am PDT #520 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
Wow, what a depressing report about Iraq....
In a bleak National Intelligence Estimate, the government's top analysts concluded Iraq has become a "cause celebre" for jihadists, who are growing in number and geographic reach. If the trend continues, the analysts found, the risks to the U.S. interests at home and abroad will grow. (Read the NIE's key judgments -- PDF)"We also assess that the global jihadist movement -- which includes al-Qaeda, affiliated and independent terrorist groups, and emerging networks and cells -- is spreading and adapting to counterterrorism efforts," concluded the estimate, compiled by leading analysts across 16 U.S. spy agencies.
It seems to conclude that the Democrats are right in that the war in Iraq has fueled jihadist and that the Republicans are right that we shouldn't withdraw from Iraq. So basically we screwed up big time in invading Iraq, but now we're stuck there.
brenda m - Sep 27, 2006 5:38:16 am PDT #521 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Ah, but see Gud, President Bush doesn't believe the report, so there's really nothing to worry about.
Theodosia - Sep 27, 2006 5:43:08 am PDT #522 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"
I feel I should note once again that what Bin Laden et al wanted to accomplish with 9/11 was to provoke an armed response from the West, so as to fuel the rise of jihadism. Seriously, it was like he was waving a big red flag and the Bush Administration was a particularly stupid bull.
tommyrot - Sep 27, 2006 5:44:26 am PDT #523 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Yeah. Apparantly he knows something that every single US intelligence agency does not.
Frankenbuddha - Sep 27, 2006 5:44:35 am PDT #524 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Ah, but see Gud, President Bush doesn't believe the report, so there's really nothing to worry about.
Or, worse, he believes half of it - the part that means we're stuck there.
Gudanov - Sep 27, 2006 5:47:24 am PDT #525 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
Ah, but see Gud, President Bush doesn't believe the report, so there's really nothing to worry about.
I have to admit to a certain lack of confidence in the President's opinion on foreign policy. Now if we were talking about how to clear brush, well, that would be different.
Frankenbuddha - Sep 27, 2006 5:56:46 am PDT #526 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I have to admit to a certain lack of confidence in the President's opinion on foreign policy. Now if we were talking about how to clear brush, well, that would be different.
I never wanted to be President; I wanted to be...a lumberjack!
If only it were true. *sigh*
brenda m - Sep 27, 2006 6:01:12 am PDT #527 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Driven by an impluse I really can't explain, I just started reading Robert Bork's Slouching Toward Gomorrah. It's oddly soothing, to read the batshit crazy and think back to a time when living in your own wholly-constructed nonsense world actually constituted a liability on the national political scene.