When the White House press secretary makes on the record statements encouraging people to attempt assasinations, the ebay kitsch doesn't even register with me.
Riley: No pulse. Anya: Yup. The space lamb got 'im.
'Never Leave Me'
All Ogle, No Cash -- It's Not Just Annoying, It's Un-American
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brenda m - Mar 28, 2003 4:07:06 pm PST #2542 of 9843
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
Penny B. - Mar 28, 2003 4:17:16 pm PST #2543 of 9843
Nobody
True, and when the U.S. ambassador to Canada makes vague threats, I guess I should be surprised when some random jerk takes the same tone.
Sigh.
So, Buffy is a pretty cool show, eh?
erikaj - Mar 28, 2003 4:37:23 pm PST #2544 of 9843
Always Anti-fascist!
He DID?! OMG. (Of course, I can only handle war news for about an hour at a time,but...I didn't know that. Doesn't seem very responsible, to say the least.
brenda m - Mar 28, 2003 4:38:44 pm PST #2545 of 9843
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
Yeah, it was a few months back. His comments included something about the price of a one-way ticket and a bullet.
(He's "clarified" by saying he was only making a rhetorical point - that a bullet doesn't cost near as much as a "one-way ticket", i.e., exile.
Ari Fleischer told CNN he was making a "rhetorical point" on the cost of a possible war and his comments were not meant to send signals to the Iraqi people.
However, Fleischer said, "no one would shed a tear" if the Iraqi people took the matter of Saddam into their own hands.
erikaj - Mar 28, 2003 4:40:21 pm PST #2546 of 9843
Always Anti-fascist!
ugh. More reason than ever to hate him.
Daisy Jane - Mar 28, 2003 4:59:33 pm PST #2547 of 9843
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Fliecher's comments don't bother me nearly as much as someone selling "terrorist hunting licences" over the internet. I can only speak for the area I live in now, but people are wound up. Some of them are directing their anger at anyone. I wish whoever it was wouldn't encourage them.
brenda m - Mar 28, 2003 5:14:50 pm PST #2548 of 9843
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
Good point, Heather. Ari Fleischer is scary, but not in the same kind of immediate way.
evil jimi - Mar 28, 2003 5:38:29 pm PST #2549 of 9843
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
Can you imagine the hissy fit if someone turned around and said they wouldn't sell to Americans?
Caroma - Mar 28, 2003 6:42:07 pm PST #2550 of 9843
Hello! I must be going.
Huh? People are smashing McDonald's up, pouring Coke down drains, withdrawing American brands from Parisian restuarants--and it's as common, and noticeable, as burning our flag. It's soooo adolescent--"Look! We're burning your flag in our demo! The symbol of your contry! Aren't we outrageous?! Aren't you upset?!!"
Yawn. Yes, dudes, outraged. Yay you. See you at the movies.
scrappy - Mar 28, 2003 6:49:46 pm PST #2551 of 9843
Nobody
I think you can credit the demonstrators with motives stronger than adolescent angst. Sure, there are going to be the usual fluffbrain show-offs and blowhards who show up at these things no matter where in the world they occur or what political stand they take, but there are many people all over the world who are genuinely disturbed about this war and more importantly about the way we got into it. My brother lives in the Netherlans and has a lot of Dutch friends and he tells me the antiwar (and anti-American) sentiment comes from people whose integrity and intelligence he respects, whether he agrees with all their points or not.