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taratemimaThink Dennis Miller only vague but using references you know and screamingly mushy liberal.
Every choice concerning a certain war that is not war seems to lead to disaster. Makes me almost wish for the cleaniless of a CIA coup. Wait. No it doesn't.
People are afraid to admit they're wrong, and their level of denial frightens me.
The Mighty Wurtlizer plays on. Except it's some Junior Camber of Commerce members and pleasant but scary ex-socialists playing it.
Yeah, rich liberals seem weird, if you think all self-made fortunes are made by a combination of miserliness and sharp-dealing. However, some of them are made by glad-handling and willingness to try weird ideas.
I think George Orwell would be less proud of people using his last name as a cliche than he would be of a parody of "Joe Hill" titled "I Dreamed I Saw Snowball Last Night"
'Bad people' is not a discrete set. Everyone can do good and bad stuff in their life. Evil is when you do bad stuff, don't care, and don't want to admit you're doing bad stuff.
Leo Strauss sucks.
Wasn't really a big fan of Clinton (it will take too long to say why, but blowjobs have nothing to do with it), but maybe waffling wasn't a bad idea. Frankly, this administration reminds me of someone burying bodies underneath their house, and their neighbors insisting it's just the horses.
If conservatives are so sure about free market in schools, they should put their ideas to work in a place where the war that is not a war is happening. Just think, a thousand madarasas will bloom.
Neo-cons can make such an obvious comparsion between Hamas and like groups and neo-Confederates, but something tells me they don't want to offend those nice people (the Neo-Confederates, not Hamas). Perhaps the KKK is closer, and I am surprised David Horowitz hasn't. Then again, his new friends might not like it.
I can pick up mistakes on a couple of essays on xenu dot net,
particularly on the bit contrasting a certain sue-happy celebrity cult and Judaism. I am not sure if I have time to write something. I also had to adjust my piss-off threshold for one essay because she made some high-handed remarks about 2000 election. Ma'am, your side was quite prepared to go to court if the roles was reversed, and they were willing to make a partisan decision in the Supreme Court. Then she made public education an example of why utopias are a bad idea. Yeah, I am not looking for utopia, I am looking for ways to make things better. People forget that inequities in funding and quality of education were why public education was suggested in the first place. Can it be improved? Sure. I am not sure how much current legislation will do that. Refer again to that link in Pandagon for my fears.
Both atheists and literalists assume that what is written in holy books is always to be followed without question or context.
Speaking of context, yeah, Victoria Woodhull was against abortion. She was also an advocate of free love. I suspect she rather that children out of wedlock lived rather than died. You think most modern 'pro-lifers' would go that far?
Pointing out that abolitionists could be considered 'religious right' ignores that those who wished to preserve slavery also used a literalist vision of the Bible, not to mention bad science and anything they could throw. Considering the effort they made to push Dred Scott, anti-fugitive laws and basically negating the laws of the free states, they remind me of the selective use of the Tenth Amendment by modern-day religious right (ie gay marriage vs hate crime laws).
John Brown, now he was a special case. Radicals tend to bend that left-right line.
You can hold contradictory thoughts in your head. Like the heads of Middle Eastern nations could use a good dose of self-examination and reform, and so can the current administration.
Please, Minister Blair, don't take him to a pub. He's either going to tell the drunks that Jesus will help them stop drinking or strip after a pint of porter.
France is sucking again. I figured that their opposition to the war was based on both self-interest and wariness (hell, they've gotten in their share of stoopid wars), and I was really annoyed at the knee-jerk francophobia. That lead me to do research about the Occupation, which lead me to the idea for the cracked out slash epic. Still am. Still makes me pissed at recent synagogue attacks. Oh, and Turkey, what the hey? A friend's post about traveling Turkey. Then there is learning about Operation Musketeer.
Just because I do not feel the need to think we are always the good guys doesn't mean I don't love my country. One of the reasons I care is that I can think we can change for the better. Same go for the state of Israel. On the subject, I am so surprised he said something that I almost forget that I don't trust his word. I am not happy with this.
Strangely enough, when I detect crappy behavior in my circle of friends and acquaintances, I want to withdraw. Why is it I can forgive countries but not people?
That woman raising money to be human shield in Iraq? I am not sure if I regret buying an graphology analysis from her. I hope she is safe in Santa Barbara, and wonder if she was disillusioned. I remember being ambivalent. Which is what happens when you think someone running is an asshole, but not
sure if I want poor planning, ethnic strife and death tangled in my campaign. Which is how I feel about China.
The Boston Horrid sometimes reports boondoggles surrounding the Democratic Convention. As bad as it is, it sounds like New Yorkers have it worst. Hell, we might have price gouging and worries about tunnels closing, but at least the candidates will be on land.
I hate doing one task over five hours. I just want to drop and turn off my brain, but I got so much to do. Plus, the conspiracy theorist in me wonders if that's what 'they' want.
Radicals of any sort that espouse making things suck so that people will be so angry they will overthrow the system have it wrong. Making things suck will also crush any fight in a person.
Why do I have to apologize for every stupid behavior by my groups (left-leaning, childfree, those come up) but they ignore their stupid behavior? I want to improve behavior, but I just wonder if it will help at all or just play into the 'opposite's' hands.
Why do I have the feeling that Turkistan will be the next Iraq, you know, a despot we liked and then he did something really bad and we stop liking him?
I feel trapped and want out. Now. Out of my state, my country, my planet, my reality.
Bush. He's like Draco Malfoy in a way.
Perhaps I should take cartooning/other languages/A+ certification classes.
Every choice concerning a certain war that is not war seems to lead to disaster. Makes me almost wish for the cleaniless of a CIA coup. Wait. No it doesn't.
People are afraid to admit they're wrong, and their level of denial frightens me.
The Mighty Wurtlizer plays on. Except it's some Junior Camber of Commerce members and pleasant but scary ex-socialists playing it.
Yeah, rich liberals seem weird, if you think all self-made fortunes are made by a combination of miserliness and sharp-dealing. However, some of them are made by glad-handling and willingness to try weird ideas.
I think George Orwell would be less proud of people using his last name as a cliche than he would be of a parody of "Joe Hill" titled "I Dreamed I Saw Snowball Last Night"
'Bad people' is not a discrete set. Everyone can do good and bad stuff in their life. Evil is when you do bad stuff, don't care, and don't want to admit you're doing bad stuff.
Leo Strauss sucks.
Wasn't really a big fan of Clinton (it will take too long to say why, but blowjobs have nothing to do with it), but maybe waffling wasn't a bad idea. Frankly, this administration reminds me of someone burying bodies underneath their house, and their neighbors insisting it's just the horses.
If conservatives are so sure about free market in schools, they should put their ideas to work in a place where the war that is not a war is happening. Just think, a thousand madarasas will bloom.
Neo-cons can make such an obvious comparsion between Hamas and like groups and neo-Confederates, but something tells me they don't want to offend those nice people (the Neo-Confederates, not Hamas). Perhaps the KKK is closer, and I am surprised David Horowitz hasn't. Then again, his new friends might not like it.
I can pick up mistakes on a couple of essays on xenu dot net,
particularly on the bit contrasting a certain sue-happy celebrity cult and Judaism. I am not sure if I have time to write something. I also had to adjust my piss-off threshold for one essay because she made some high-handed remarks about 2000 election. Ma'am, your side was quite prepared to go to court if the roles was reversed, and they were willing to make a partisan decision in the Supreme Court. Then she made public education an example of why utopias are a bad idea. Yeah, I am not looking for utopia, I am looking for ways to make things better. People forget that inequities in funding and quality of education were why public education was suggested in the first place. Can it be improved? Sure. I am not sure how much current legislation will do that. Refer again to that link in Pandagon for my fears.
Both atheists and literalists assume that what is written in holy books is always to be followed without question or context.
Speaking of context, yeah, Victoria Woodhull was against abortion. She was also an advocate of free love. I suspect she rather that children out of wedlock lived rather than died. You think most modern 'pro-lifers' would go that far?
Pointing out that abolitionists could be considered 'religious right' ignores that those who wished to preserve slavery also used a literalist vision of the Bible, not to mention bad science and anything they could throw. Considering the effort they made to push Dred Scott, anti-fugitive laws and basically negating the laws of the free states, they remind me of the selective use of the Tenth Amendment by modern-day religious right (ie gay marriage vs hate crime laws).
John Brown, now he was a special case. Radicals tend to bend that left-right line.
You can hold contradictory thoughts in your head. Like the heads of Middle Eastern nations could use a good dose of self-examination and reform, and so can the current administration.
Please, Minister Blair, don't take him to a pub. He's either going to tell the drunks that Jesus will help them stop drinking or strip after a pint of porter.
France is sucking again. I figured that their opposition to the war was based on both self-interest and wariness (hell, they've gotten in their share of stoopid wars), and I was really annoyed at the knee-jerk francophobia. That lead me to do research about the Occupation, which lead me to the idea for the cracked out slash epic. Still am. Still makes me pissed at recent synagogue attacks. Oh, and Turkey, what the hey? A friend's post about traveling Turkey. Then there is learning about Operation Musketeer.
Just because I do not feel the need to think we are always the good guys doesn't mean I don't love my country. One of the reasons I care is that I can think we can change for the better. Same go for the state of Israel. On the subject, I am so surprised he said something that I almost forget that I don't trust his word. I am not happy with this.
Strangely enough, when I detect crappy behavior in my circle of friends and acquaintances, I want to withdraw. Why is it I can forgive countries but not people?
That woman raising money to be human shield in Iraq? I am not sure if I regret buying an graphology analysis from her. I hope she is safe in Santa Barbara, and wonder if she was disillusioned. I remember being ambivalent. Which is what happens when you think someone running is an asshole, but not
sure if I want poor planning, ethnic strife and death tangled in my campaign. Which is how I feel about China.
The Boston Horrid sometimes reports boondoggles surrounding the Democratic Convention. As bad as it is, it sounds like New Yorkers have it worst. Hell, we might have price gouging and worries about tunnels closing, but at least the candidates will be on land.
I hate doing one task over five hours. I just want to drop and turn off my brain, but I got so much to do. Plus, the conspiracy theorist in me wonders if that's what 'they' want.
Radicals of any sort that espouse making things suck so that people will be so angry they will overthrow the system have it wrong. Making things suck will also crush any fight in a person.
Why do I have to apologize for every stupid behavior by my groups (left-leaning, childfree, those come up) but they ignore their stupid behavior? I want to improve behavior, but I just wonder if it will help at all or just play into the 'opposite's' hands.
Why do I have the feeling that Turkistan will be the next Iraq, you know, a despot we liked and then he did something really bad and we stop liking him?
I feel trapped and want out. Now. Out of my state, my country, my planet, my reality.
Bush. He's like Draco Malfoy in a way.
Perhaps I should take cartooning/other languages/A+ certification classes.
