― logged out to avoid cyber-lynching, Wednesday, 27 October 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)
― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)
― Remy (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)
― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)
― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)
now lock the thread
― still bevens (bscrubbins), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)
― Wooden (Wooden), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)
― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)
Not only is this unverifiable but I don't see any proof that we're actually doing a good job at creating democracy in Iraq.
― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)
― Wooden (Wooden), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)
― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)
― Wooden (Wooden), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)
― Colm Meany, Wednesday, 27 October 2004 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)
― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)
Sheesh.
― k3rry (dymaxia), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)
― Colm Meany, Wednesday, 27 October 2004 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)
― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)
― identity theftor (deangulberry), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)
I was under the impression the Bush government just agreed to a slew of concessions themselves.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)
― Colm Meany, Wednesday, 27 October 2004 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)
if only other nations had that amount of money in the first place eh? the world doesn't want a fucking stepdad to kick it's ass one minute and hand out sweets the next. fuck you.
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)
― identity theftor (deangulberry), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)
In absolute terms, yes. By per-capita expenditures, no.
do the most dirty work
While I'm sure you meant 'most of the dirty work', I'll point out that it's not only often 'dirty' but agree with your Freudian slip.
demanding trade concessions
Crybaby. Every government, including our own (Demo. or Repub.) negotiates trade agreements with their own interests at heart and as toughly as they can.
― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)
― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)
― identity theftor (deangulberry), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)
― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)
― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)
― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)
― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)
― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)
Indeed. It's all play money, after all.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)
― Colm Meany, Wednesday, 27 October 2004 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)
vote for bush?
― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)
― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)
― Colm Meany, Wednesday, 27 October 2004 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)
― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)
was it worth 10k civilian deaths?
and 1000+ "allied" deaths?
― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)
― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)
― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)
Isn't this an oxymoron?
― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 29 October 2004 00:36 (twenty-one years ago)
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 29 October 2004 00:45 (twenty-one years ago)
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 29 October 2004 00:54 (twenty-one years ago)
i also don't think the assertion that the major media outlets are controlled by 'big business' is all that absurd, since, uh, they are.
― John (jdahlem), Friday, 29 October 2004 01:10 (twenty-one years ago)
― hampsterfrench (hampsterfrench), Friday, 29 October 2004 01:10 (twenty-one years ago)
― parakeet_esparanto (parakeetesparanto), Friday, 29 October 2004 01:11 (twenty-one years ago)
Are you going for the "Somehow Even Dumber Than Cinniblount" award?
― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Friday, 29 October 2004 01:29 (twenty-one years ago)
Thermo's comments made me think of Fox News' justification for existing, i.e. they believed that the major media outlets all favoured the left, which necessitated the creation of a "balanced" network that would set everything straight. Whereas I (and many others) would have said that the media was already biased toward the right before Fox arrived on the scene.
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 29 October 2004 01:35 (twenty-one years ago)
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 29 October 2004 01:56 (twenty-one years ago)
It was also telling that some of the headlines--HEADLINES--on the Fox site were on the order of "Is this Man (insert picture of Kerry) [Honest/Manly/whatever] Enough to be President?" (I don't remember the exact wording, but it contrasted sharply to the type of "news" you see elsewhere, where you get far more subtle bias in the text rather than leaping out at you in heading-sized text from the main page. Balanced, my ass.)
That's all without mentioning the inconvenience of their instant poll magically disappearing from their website when---horrors--Kerry actually pulled ahead in the "who won the debate?" poll.
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Friday, 29 October 2004 02:01 (twenty-one years ago)
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 29 October 2004 02:06 (twenty-one years ago)
― A Nairn (moretap), Friday, 29 October 2004 02:12 (twenty-one years ago)
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 29 October 2004 02:15 (twenty-one years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 29 October 2004 02:16 (twenty-one years ago)
― A Nairn (moretap), Friday, 29 October 2004 02:17 (twenty-one years ago)
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 29 October 2004 02:19 (twenty-one years ago)
Well, I could go and pee in Bush's face directly and we could draw a comparison.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 October 2004 02:20 (twenty-one years ago)
― John (jdahlem), Friday, 29 October 2004 02:21 (twenty-one years ago)
there's a punk on my block that's got a "bush/cheney 2004" poster in his window. tomorrow night is mischief night.does this guy love the smell of rotten eggs?oh, to be 16 again!
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 29 October 2004 02:23 (twenty-one years ago)
― John (jdahlem), Friday, 29 October 2004 02:24 (twenty-one years ago)
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 29 October 2004 02:26 (twenty-one years ago)
― A Nairn (moretap), Friday, 29 October 2004 02:28 (twenty-one years ago)
― John (jdahlem), Friday, 29 October 2004 02:33 (twenty-one years ago)
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 29 October 2004 02:39 (twenty-one years ago)
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 29 October 2004 02:40 (twenty-one years ago)
Draft dodging + flight suit bullshit + stealing election + lying about why we invaded Iraq + environmental protection degradation + $11 billion budget turnaround + no post-combat Iraq strategy + pissing off world + letting Osama go + disenfranchising black voters then and now + Bush family ties to the Bin Ladens + general stupidity and embarrassing inarticulateness in the debates=too much to take! Conservative brains have shorted out! It's like your football team's gone 0-16 and you're numb and punchdrunk and all the more supportive for their astounding failure. I mean, what else could it possibly be?
― al gore, Friday, 29 October 2004 03:53 (twenty-one years ago)
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 29 October 2004 05:05 (twenty-one years ago)
In more specific terms, they are asking why the President never planted banned weapons in Iraq.
"Can someone tell me what is going on in the White House?" asked Senator Lindsey Graham (R. South Carolina). "Karl Rove promised us fake nukes by September, and where are they? Now it looks like we could actually lose this thing. I want my coat-tails. Where the hell are my coat-tails, Mr. President?"
According to anonymous sources inside the White House, Rove has spent the past week apologizing to GOP donors and supporters, explaining that Operation Southern Sheriff turned out to be far more complex than originally estimated. Not only was an elite squad needed for insertion of the fabricated evidence, producing untraceable nuclear material required a team of hundreds of notoriously independent-minded scientists, any one of whom could ruin the whole thing.
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 29 October 2004 05:20 (twenty-one years ago)
― g--ff (gcannon), Friday, 29 October 2004 05:35 (twenty-one years ago)
― g--ff (gcannon), Friday, 29 October 2004 05:38 (twenty-one years ago)
http://www.guerrillanews.com/articles/article.php?id=761
― JZ, Friday, 29 October 2004 12:11 (twenty-one years ago)
And now that Sharon has agreed to pull out of Gaza, they might just get that state. But I have to admit I'm pessimistic. Every indication is that Hamas doesn't WANT a separate Palestinian state. They want all the Jews dead, and they are fairly upfront about admitting it. Kerry definitely doesn't get that - how much can negotiation help in such a situation? - and I'm not sure that Bush does.
― mike a, Friday, 29 October 2004 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)
― m. (mitchlnw), Friday, 29 October 2004 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)
― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 29 October 2004 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Friday, 29 October 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 29 October 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)
― m. (mitchlnw), Saturday, 30 October 2004 11:45 (twenty-one years ago)
― m. (mitchlnw), Saturday, 30 October 2004 21:15 (twenty-one years ago)
― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Sunday, 31 October 2004 01:10 (twenty-one years ago)
― Core of Sphagnum (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 31 October 2004 05:16 (twenty-one years ago)
― Core of Sphagnum (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 31 October 2004 05:19 (twenty-one years ago)
― d.arraghmac, Sunday, 31 October 2004 05:24 (twenty-one years ago)
― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Sunday, 31 October 2004 07:40 (twenty-one years ago)
― Core of Sphagnum (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 31 October 2004 07:41 (twenty-one years ago)
― d.arraghmac, Sunday, 31 October 2004 08:16 (twenty-one years ago)
― Sir Kingfish Beavis D'Azzmonch (Kingfish), Sunday, 31 October 2004 08:26 (twenty-one years ago)
― Darra.ghmac, Sunday, 31 October 2004 08:28 (twenty-one years ago)
― Sir Kingfish Beavis D'Azzmonch (Kingfish), Sunday, 31 October 2004 11:08 (twenty-one years ago)
― ilxor and proud republican... yes, we do exist!, Wednesday, 3 November 2004 09:56 (twenty-one years ago)