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Keep It Clean Boyz...
2007-11-16 04:34:00
Ernest Hemingway: We have Pound, the major poet, devoting, say, one fifth of his time to poetry. With the rest of his time he tries to advance the fortunes, both material and artistic, of his friends. He defends them when they are attacked, he gets them into magazines and out of jail. He lends them money. He sells their pictures. He arranges concerts for them. He writes articles about them. He introduces them to wealthy women. He gets publishers to take their books. He sits up all night with them when they claim to be dying and he witnesses their wills. He advances them hospital expenses and dissuades them from suicide. And in the end, a few of them refrain from knifing him at the first opportunity.Hemingway In Paris--Boxing Or a lad who was advised in high school to stop writing because he had no talent, the late Ernest Hemingway managed to get forward pretty well with prose. He wrote limpid English, but this did not prevent him from having the warmest admiration for Pound and Joy...
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On Mukasey and Moral Cowardice of Clinton, Obama and Dodd
2007-11-10 20:29:00
Attorney General Mukasey .W's nominee, Michael Mukasey's defining moments are his refusal to call waterboarding torture, refusal to promise an independent investigation into the commission of war crimes and explicit endorsement of some aspects of the ludicrous interpretations of the unitary executive theory of rule.It is now apparent that Democratic nominees and US Senators Hillary Clinton , Barack Obama and Chris Dodd all got the hell out of dodge when the key vote came. What a critical failure of leadership on one of the defining moments in our history. The fact that they are on record as opposing Mukasey's nomination is not enough. Our country needed more than their votes. We needed their leadership on a matter fundamental to America's moral fiber. Was a filibuster warranted? Maybe. Was lobbying their colleagues and twisting arms warranted? Definitely. Was making themselves available to cast a critical vote expected? Absolutely.The claim that their votes would not hav...
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A Time to Prosecute
2007-11-09 19:46:00
“I am not going to aid and abet the confirmation contortions of this administration,” said Senator Patrick J. Leahy, Democrat of Vermont and chairman of the Judiciary Committee. “I do not vote to allow torture.” But apparently, a united Rebublican Party, six democrats, and, I am sure, Smokin Joe Lieberman, feels equivocation on torture is okay.And so it comes to pass by a vote of 53-40 that the United States Senate confirmed Mukasey's nomination to Attorney General in the waning days of the Torture Administration.
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Editorial in top Pakistani Paper Defends Iran, Criticises US
2007-11-09 18:46:00
Pakistan Editorial : Terrorism in Iraq 'Natural' Reaction to US Troop PresenceEditorial: "Peace is Not Possible Without the Withdrawal of Foreign Forces From Iraq"JangThursday, November 8, 2007 Document Type: OSC Translated TextThe United States seized the opportunity to take unjust action against its rivals, in particular Muslims, following the disruption of the balance of power, the establishment of a uni-polar system, and upon America becoming the sole superpower of the world. The phrase "the beginning of the crusade" was uttered by President Bush on the eve of the invasion of Afghanistan. Although an attempt was later made to explain that it was just a slip of the tongue, the fact is that the United States and its Western allies have made Islam their target. Due to this very reason, they invaded Iraq after Afghanistan, claiming that Baghdad had started production of weapons of mass destruction and long-range weapons. In response, former Iraqi President Saddam Husayn invited IAE...
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Bore Worms Are Not Torture... Bush the Merciless
2007-11-07 05:37:00
Klytus: Who are you? Flash Gordon: Flash Gordon: Quarterback, New York Jets. ----------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------Th e Emperor Ming: Pathetic earthlings. Hurling your bodies out into the void, without the slightest inkling of who or what is out here. If you had known anything about the true nature of the universe, anything at all, you would've hidden from it in terror. ----------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------Kl ytus: Most effective, Your Majesty. Will you destroy this Earth? The Emperor Ming: Later. I like to play with things a while before annihilation. ----------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------Da le Arden: Flash, Flash, I love you, but we only have fourteen hours to save the Earth! ----------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------Kl ytus: Bring me... the bore worms! Princess Aura: No! Not the bore worms! ------------------------------...
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Out, out, damn Bush...
2007-11-07 02:21:00
General Jack D. Ripper: Mandrake, do you recall what Clemenceau once said about war? Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: No, I don't think I do, sir, no. General Jack D. Ripper: He said war was too important to be left to the generals. When he said that, 50 years ago, he might have been right. But today, war is too important to be left to politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought. I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.-General "Buck" Turgidson: Mr. President, about, uh, 35 minutes ago, General Jack Ripper, the commanding general of, uh, Burpelson Air Force Base, issued an order to the 34 B-52's of his Wing, which were airborne at the time as part of a special exercise we were holding called Operation Drop-Kick. Now, it appears that the order called for the planes to, uh, ...
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Oedipus Bushberry Rex O' Wer Krimes
2007-11-02 01:51:00
Guilty of Were Crimes... Welcome to the 21st Century.Muh name iz George W Bush and I wuz guilty of were crimes.B4 a spineless democrat congress authorized ma crimnal aktivity, I wuz worried ah may never be able ta travel da globe... kissinger put me wize... ah ken stay in da us, if a rebublican be lected. Mah good frends at DIEBold say it will happen.Ah sure hopz da history books treat me rite... karl sayz ahm more like linkin than loser... mah pappy wuz a lozer...Life sure wuz simpler when mah daddy wuz prezident of the cia... booze, coke and hookerz... ah wuz untouchable.... even flew a plane when misss prisssy pants wouldn't blow...Ah sure do miss blow...wonder who cheney wantz to blow up next???????for an old fart, he sure be hornery....bet it's been a long time since that ole catcher's mask caught sum ballz...

Rudy Giuliani... UR MAH PAYZAHNEE BAHYBEEEE... no neck kerik
2007-10-31 02:54:00
It says herethat the unions will never learnIt says here that the economyis on the upturnAnd it says herewe should be proudThat we are freeAnd our freepress reflects our democracyThose braying voices on the right of the houseAre echoed down the street of shameWhere politics mix with bingo and titsIn a strictly money and numbers gameWhere they offer you a featureOn stockings and suspendersNext to a call for stiffer penalties for sex offendersIt says here that this years prince is bornIt says here do you ever wishThat you were better informedAnd it says here that we can only stop the rotWith a large dose of law and orderAnd a touch of the short sharp shockIf this does not reflect you view you should understandThat those who own the papers also own this landAnd theyd rather you believeIn coronation street capersIn the war of circulation, it sells newspapersCould it be an infringementOf the freedom of the pressTo print pictures of women in states of undressWhen you wake up to the factTh...
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Juan Cole Translates Bush/Aznar Meeting... Bush is a Punk
2007-10-27 01:13:00
Transcript of Bush -Aznar Consultation in Crawford, February 22, 2003President Bush. We are in favor of getting a second resolution in the Security Council and would want to do it quickly. We would want to announce it Monday or Tuesday [24 or 25 of February of 2003].President Aznar: Better Tuesday, after the meeting of the Council of General Affairs of the European Union. It is important to maintain the momentum gained by the resolution at the summit of the European Union [in Brussels, Monday 17 of February]. We would prefer to wait until Tuesday.Bush. It could be in the evening Monday, considering the time difference. In any case, the next week. We will see that the resolution is written so that it does not contain obligatory steps [for Iraq], that it does not mention the use of force, and that it states that Saddam Hussein has been unable to fulfill his obligations. That type of resolution can be voted for by many people. It would be something similar to the one passed regarding Ko...
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Arthur... Rich Drunks Rule
2007-10-26 23:24:00
Arthur: Have you ever been on a yacht? Linda: No, is it wonderful? Arthur: It doesn't suck.
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No Sympathy from Dean Kamen
2007-10-26 23:00:00
Dean Kamen is probably best known as the inventor of the Segway, the demise of which is continually predicted, but never realized. Yet, Dean Kamen was an inventor of some renown prior to the Segway media blitz that made him a household name, however briefly. Making his fortune with medical devices used to treat diabetes and a novel wheelchair device that could climb stairs, Kamen lives the life of an eccentric inventor in a mad-scientist's fantasy house in rural Massachussetts.With his latest venture, he has come to resemble Allie Fox, the eccentric inventor in Paul Theroux's Mosquito Coast, who brought his family to ruin with an ill-conceived venture to solve the problems of third world with cheap ice and technology. However, unlike the fictional Fox, Kamen has the resources and experience to create safe, innovative technology.Since 2006, Kamen has been working on two projects. One that would effectively provide clean water to large populations, immediately improving health and l...
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John Walker Lindh - Political Prisoner?
2007-10-24 04:28:00
Defense attorneys for John Walker Lindh filed documents describing how, after barely surviving atrocities that claimed the lives of hundreds of his companions, the so-called “American Taliban” was tortured while the FBI wrangled statements out of him in violation of his Fifth Amendment right not to be a witness against himself. The new filings are for a crucial hearing on July 15 to determine whether statements made by Lindh after his capture with an Afghan Army unit will be suppressed or allowed into evidence at trial.Lindh, who turned 21 three months ago, was found barely alive among the handful of Taliban prisoners who survived the US-backed massacre at Qala-i-Jangi fortress near Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan late last November. The upcoming suppression hearing is widely viewed as pivotal in the case. Prosecutors acknowledge that they have little evidence outside of Lindh’s own statements to support their charges that he conspired to murder US citizens and illegally supported...
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Alan Dershowitz on O.J. Simpson
2007-10-24 03:55:00
Total_Package27 asks: What is it like to defend someone who, in the eyes of the public, is guilty?Alan Dershowitz: That's my job. If the public ever believed somebody to be innocent, I probably wouldn't take the case. A good lawyer should want to take the hardest cases, the most unpopular defendants, and the least likely to succeed. Just as a good surgeon would more likely take a difficult operation, rather than a nose job. Statistically, most of my clients are guilty. Statistically, most people charged with crimes in America, are guilty. And thank God for that. Would we want to live in a country where most people charged are innocent? That might be true in Libya, or China, but not here.Total_Package27 asks: Do you think OJ was guilty?Alan Dershowitz: The code of Professional Responsibility precludes a lawyer from stating his opinions about the guilt or innocence of a client. I probably know no more about the facts of the case than most observers. I can say this: had I been on the...
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Dreams of Money...
2007-10-24 03:46:00
Howard: Say, answer me this one, will you? Why is gold worth some twenty bucks an ounce? Flophouse Bum: I don't know. Because it's scarce. Howard: A thousand men, say, go searchin' for gold. After six months, one of them's lucky: one out of a thousand. His find represents not only his own labor, but that of nine hundred and ninety-nine others to boot. That's six thousand months, five hundred years, scramblin' over a mountain, goin' hungry and thirsty. An ounce of gold, mister, is worth what it is because of the human labor that went into the findin' and the gettin' of it. Flophouse Bum: I never thought of it just like that. Howard: Well, there's no other explanation, mister. Gold itself ain't good for nothing except making jewelry with and gold teeth. ----------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------Ho ward: Aah, gold's a devilish sort of thing, anyway. You start out, you tell yourself you'll be satisfied with 25,000 handsome smackers worth...
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Marching Orders... We don't need no stinking marching orders
2007-10-24 03:03:00
President Bush gave "marching orders" to Gen. Michael Dunlavey, who asked the Pentagon to approve harsher interrogation methods at Guantanamo, the general claims in documents reported in the book.The ACLU also found that an Army investigator reported Rumsfeld was "personally involved" in overseeing the interrogation of a Guantanamo prisoner Mohammed al Qahtani. The prisoner was forced to parade naked in front of female interrogators wearing women's underwear on his head and was led around on a leash while being forced to perform dog tricks.
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Heinz 57 - Varieties of Human Religious Experience
2007-10-22 02:49:00
Lately it seems as if I am seeing eerie synchronicities everywhere in the persistent re-introduction of past intellectual ramblings in updated form. I've long been a fan of William James, brother to Henry James and Alice James, and my absolute favorite work of his is his 1902 summary of lectures delivered to the University of Edinbugh, the first American to ever be invited to lecture at the storied institution, The Varieties of Human Religious experience.Religion, therefore, as I now ask you arbitrarily to take it, shall mean for us the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine. Since the relation may be either moral, physical, or ritual, it is evident that out of religion in the sense in which we take it, theologies, philosophies, and ecclesiastical organizations may secondarily grow. In these lectures, however, as I have already said, the immediate personal...
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I'm Rich Bitch... And a Super Hero
2007-10-22 02:39:00
And it occurred to him that that a really good science fiction book had never been written about money. "Just think of the wild ways money is passed around on Earth! You don't have to go to the planet Tralfamadore in Anti-Matter Galaxy 508 G to find weird creatures with unbelievable powers. Look at the powers of an Earthling millionaire! Look at me! I was born naked, just like you, but my God , friends and neighbors, I have thousands of dollars a day to spend!" He paused to make a very impressive demonstration of his magical powers, writing a smeary check for two hundred dollars for every person there. - Elliot Rosewater in Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You Mr. Rosewater
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Heh, heh... He Said Pacifists, Fists, Jerry...
2007-10-22 02:29:00
First, we might ask ourselves in what sense the problems of international affairs require today an approach quite different from that of the past - not just the recent past, but the past half-century. To me, the answer is quite simple: due to technological developments, the distances throughout the world have shrunk to one tenth of their former size. The production of commodities in the world has become a mosaic composed of pieces from all over the globe. It is essential and altogether natural that the increased economic interdependence of the world's territories, which participate in mankind's production, be complemented by an appropriate political organization. I believe the condition in which the world finds itself today makes it not only a matter of idealism but one of dire necessity to create unity and intellectual co-operation among nations. Those of us who are alive to these needs must stop thinking in terms of 'What should be done for our country?' Rather, we should ask:...
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Well, it all depends on your definition of torture
2007-10-19 18:41:00
JUSTICE -- MUKASEY REFUSES TO CALL WATERBOARDING 'TORTURE': Throughout his confirmation hearings, Attorney General nominee Mike Mukasey has consistently denounced the use of torture. Torture is "antithetical to what this country stands for," he said yesterday. But under questioning from Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Mukasey refused to classify the practice of waterboarding -- in which a suspect has water poured over his face to simulate drowning -- as unconstitutional, repeatedly claiming it depends on how one defines "torture." "If it amounts to torture, it is not constitutional," he claimed. As Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has pointed out, there's no question that waterboarding is torture: "[T]o make someone believe that you are killing him by drowning is no different than holding a pistol to his head and firing a blank. I believe that it is torture." Mukasey's position also puts him at odds with CIA director Michael Hayden, who has reportedly banned waterboarding from CIA terro...
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Medical Grade Booze
2007-10-17 06:23:00
Step right up, the Hospital bar is now open.I live in San Francisco and if the homeless population here ever learned that by drinking a little anti-freeze they could partake of a medically administered three day vodka bender, with no hangover! Well, stop the presses, we'd have a full scale medical emergency with bums keeling over left and right.Enough daydreaming, check this out;Australian doctors revealed Wednesday that they drip-fed an Italian tourist a steady dose of vodka over three days to save his life after he poisoned himself.The 24-year-old man was taken to a north Queensland hospital two months ago after he swallowed a large amount of a potentially-fatal substance found in antifreeze in an apparent suicide attempt.Doctors at Mackay Base Hospital decided the best method of saving the unconscious man's life was to reverse the effect of the poison, ethylene glycol, by giving him pharmaceutical-grade alcohol.Dr Pascal Gelperowicz said that once the hospital's alcohol suppli...
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You Are No Longer Necessary
2007-10-17 05:53:00
When machines run the world, what will people do?Kurt Vonnegut's under-rated masterpiece and his very first novel, Player Piano, is proving to be eerily prescient about the rise of a manager class with the ability to perform all jobs, thus, marginalizing large swathes of human beings from gainful employment.Exhibit AThe wealthiest 1% of Americans earned 21.2% of all income in 2005, according to new data from the Internal Revenue Service. That is up sharply from 19% in 2004, and surpasses the previous high of 20.8% set in 2000, at the peak of the previous bull market in stocks.The bottom 50% earned 12.8% of all income, down from 13.4% in 2004 and a bit less than their 13% share in 2000.The IRS data go back only to 1986, but academic research suggests the rich last had this high a share of total income in the 1920s.As disturbing as this exhibit is, what's more disturbing is the underlying cause of this massive allocation of wealth to an entrenched upper class.Namely,Scholars attribu...

Meet the Meat
2007-10-17 05:03:00
He sat down.The waiter approached.'Would you like to see the menu?' he said, 'or would you like meet the Dish of the Day?''Huh?' said Ford.'Huh?' said Arthur. 'Huh?' said Trillian.'That's cool,' said Zaphod, 'we'll meet the meat.' A large dairy animal approached Zaphod Beeblebrox's table, a large fat meaty quadruped of the bovine type withlarge watery eyes, small horns and what might almost havebeen an ingratiating smile on its lips. 'Good evening', it lowed and sat back heavily on its haunches, 'I am the main Dish of the Day. May I interest you in the parts of my body?' - Restaurant at the end of the Universe. Fellow Daily Galaxy columnist, Rebecca Sato, posted a piece last week called, Enhancing Evolution: Do Humans have a Moral and Ethical Duty to Improve the Human Race? And it got me thinking again about a discussion I had been having some weeks ago on another moral and ethical duty; the moral imperative in veganism and whether or not animals have rights. ...
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Vote Like Your Children's Lives Depended On It...
2007-10-16 07:06:00
They do.
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Nightmare with no end in sight...
2007-10-15 18:05:00
This is why IMPEACHMENT is on the table. I don't care how many days the man has left. I don't care if it's a bad idea. I don't care if it's "counter-productive" to the DNC. If there was ever a President in need of impeachment, it is President Bush/Cheney.The Worstest President Ever!'Nightmare With No End In Sight 'Last Friday, retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez blasted the Bush administration's handling of the Iraq war, calling it a "nightmare with no end in sight." Sanchez, who has received praise from President Bush for his "strong leadership" and for doing "a fabulous job," joins a growing list of military officials who have attacked the Iraq war. His critique is notable not only because he is the most senior military officer to speak out against the war so far but also because he served as the top American commander in Iraq from 2003-2004. "From a catastrophically flawed, unrealistically optimistic war plan to the administration's latest surge strategy, this administra...

Investors Love Dead Artists... So Die & Get Rich
2007-10-15 08:11:00
It's Called Supply and Demand...A painting originally handed over by Francis Bacon to cover the rent on his west London studio was the highlight of a record-breaking Christie's auction of post-war and contemporary art on Sunday."Study from the Human Body, Man Turning on the Light" -- which Bacon originally gave to the Royal College of Art in 1969 as rent for a Cromwell Road studio -- fetched 8,084,500 pounds (11,528,497 euros, 16,371,113 dollars), as the Christie's auction totalled 39.8 million pounds.That total was double the previous high for an October Christie's post-war and contemporary art sale, and comes amid a bumper week of such auctions from Christie's and its competitor Sotheby's."The increasing interest in collecting art has been fuelled by an unprecedented breadth and depth of the international collecting community," said Pilar Ordovas, head of post-war and contemporary art at Christie's.China now has 106 billionaires, seven times as many as last year, according ...
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Asshole...
2007-10-15 03:00:00
Your brains went black when she took back her loveAnd put it out into the sunThe birds did fly when the heavens all went dryAnd the cigarettes were smoking by themselvesShe'll do anythingShe'll do anythingShe'll do anything to make you feel like an assholeCall her name, she looks the same as youQuestion marks stretched across her skinShe dangles carrots, makes you feel embarrassedTo be the fool you know you areShe'll do anythingShe'll do anythingShe'll do anything to make you feel like an asshole
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Tipper is hipper, but she is so much younger than that now..
2007-10-15 02:53:00
I knew a girl named nikkiI guess u could say she was a sex fiendI met her in a hotel lobbyMasturbating with a magazineShe said howd u like 2 waste some timeAnd I could not resist when I saw little nikki grindShe took me 2 her castleAnd I just couldnt believe my eyesShe had so many devicesEverything that money could buyShe said sign your name on the dotted lineThe lights went outAnd nikki started 2 grindNikkiThe castle started spinningOr maybe it was my brainI cant tell u what she did 2 meBut my body will never be the sameHer lovin will kick your behindOh, shell show u no mercyBut shell shonuff shonuff show u how 2 grindDarlin nikkiWoke up the next morningNikki wasnt thereI looked all over and all I foundWas a phone unmber on the stairsIt said thank u 4 a funky timeCall me up whenever u want 2 grindOh, nikki, ohhhhCome back nikki, come backYour dirty little princeWanna grind grind grind grind grind grind grind grind grind{backwards at the end...}Hello, how r u? Im fine. cause I knowT...
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Going to the dogs back in 2005 - WaPo Time Capsule
2007-10-14 01:47:00
Military interrogators at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq learned about the use of military working dogs to intimidate detainees from a team of interrogators dispatched from the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to court testimony yesterday.One interrogation analyst also testified that sleep deprivation and forced nudity -- which were used in Cuba on high-value detainees -- later were approved tactics at Abu Ghraib. Another soldier said that interrogators would regularly pass instructions to have dog handlers and military police "scare up" detainees as part of interrogation plans, part of an approved approach that relied on exploiting the fear of dogs.The preliminary hearing at Fort Meade, Md., for two Army dog handlers accused of mistreating detainees provided more evidence that severe tactics approved for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo migrated to Iraq and spiraled into the notorious abuse at Abu Ghraib in the late summer and early fall of 2003. The test...
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Winning the Hearts and Minds of Parents Who Don't Want Their Kids to Die in
2007-10-13 21:50:00
Ah, the military has fallen on poor times. No one wants to die despite enlistment bonuses, college loans or the much hyped promise of learning "valuable" skills. Good. America doesn't need a military. Who are we afraid of ? Canada? Mexico?One of the biggest concerns of our founding fathers was that America NOT have a standing army. As they predicted, it proves too great a temptation for the President to misuse it. And misuse it he has. Not just our current President, but just about all of 'em. America's wanton and indiscriminate use of it's military is precisely why the world hate's us. No one hates Switzerland. I mean America is rich. Why can't we use our big bucks, big heart and big brains to solve problems? Why can't we stop arming the world and rein in our arms dealers?But aside from my philosophical problems with a standing military, I confess to revelling in a most delicious schadenfreud at the current predicament of the military. This is a gift that will keep on giving...
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A dollar a day's worth?
2007-10-12 22:48:00
Somali government soldiers have staged protests in two towns to demand payment after going seven months without any wages.Tell me again who armed these guys?Here’s the ethos of Somalia, as a former Mogadishu resident explained it to me: “If I use a dollar to buy food, then tomorrow I have nothing. If I use a dollar to buy a bullet, then I can eat every day.” He's got a point.Teach a man to fish and pretty soon he's going to want a boat and property rights and a voice in the way things are run, but, if you train him as a counter-insurgency group trained to use terrorism to destabilize a government not as friendly to corporate interests, now we are talking about serious profit maximization.
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