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Comments by: YACCS |
 Friday, October 25, 2002
TO READ: * Michael Moore, You Are Such An Idiot * U.S. Unprepared For Another Attack * And, as usual, Victor Davis Hanson hits it out of the ballpark. "North Korea as metaphor of the times" A few excerpts: (but go read the whole thing) Apparently a privileged class of men and women in the West, the beneficiaries of higher education and of ample means, share a tendency to believe that the world works according to their own Enlightenment logic — or at least that its reasoned judgment can appeal even to the uninitiated like Kim Il-Sung. And the ego of these new missionaries of wisdom is mighty. Thus Mr. Carter once gushed that the Korean dictators, who had executed thousands of their own citizens, had suddenly on his arrival been transmogrified into "intelligent and well informed" statesmen and thus worthy partners in his own Cartesian dialectics. Since his 1994 visit, he has boasted that he never ordered a single military attack during his term, that he was the first American to go to Pyongyang in 43 years, that he wished to begin his Habitat for Humanity project in the North, and that the United States had no business building a missile-defense system since North Korea had no nuclear capability. So let us beware of personable but smug men like Mr. Carter and Mr. Clinton, the prizewinners who assure us that either their ostentatious morality or their self-righteous glibness is equivalent to wisdom. It is not. I'd prefer a less nuanced and less conceited Truman or Reagan, who sensed something evil about the Sung dynasty that our present generation in its missionary pride has forgotten.
MALVO: They keep talking about the "undetermined relationship" between the two sniper suspects. Couldn't they have a sexual one? Some of the stuff I've read, if Malvo had been female, would lead me to believe that there was a sexual relationship between the two. Thoughts? Just throwing it out there becuase it lets me sleep at night. As I mentioned in my blog earlier today,(since blogger was down this morning) it was nice being ahead of the curve not once, but twice! I was doing my usual morning news reading after I posted this, and found out I wasn't the only one who'd wondered Thursday, October 24, 2002
CAN WE SAY, "RACIAL PROFILING"? From MSNBC: Authorities appear to have missed a chance to apprehend Muhammad six days after the shooting spree began. In the predawn hours of Oct. 8, the day after a 13-year-old boy was wounded in Bowie, Md., Baltimore police approached the Chevrolet Caprice that was seized early Thursday and found Muhammad sleeping, according to Regina Alvarado, a spokeswoman for the Baltimore police. The car was parked in a lot near an on-ramp to Interstate 83. Muhammad was not held, but his name and the vehicle were put into a police database, sources told the Washington Post. “Everyone was looking for a white car with white people,” said a police source, according to the Post. Can you imagine if the authorities had let a white guy go and had said they were looking for black people and the perp turned out to be white?? Jesse Jackson would be leading a protest march right now! I just love double standards... Update: What Happened to The Angry White Male? (nice to be a ahead of the curve for once!)
TAKE THAT, NASTY OLD TERRY! Take a look at this for a laugh.
IT KEEPS HAPPENING: North Korea has nukes, terrorists are holding nearly a thousand people (including four Americans) hostage in Moscow, the guy they arrested today, who may be the sniper, is Muslim. It goes on and on. I think we've been very lucky the last few decades, but I think it was a fluke. I think that the normal way of the world is for it to be a generally bad place with small interludes of relative peace and stability. I can't say that what's happening in the world, in our country, is really all that surprising; you only have to look at history to realize that this is the way it usually is. It just takes some adjusting. I will, we will, and we'll do what we have to to protect ourselves and our families. But right now, I feel sad.
NOTES: Many thanks to Rachel for helping me get my personal blog up and running on Moveable Type. I'm going to try and switch this one over myself at some point. (stop snickering!) Amusing on the radio as I'm typing: Rush's latest parody song is Babs and AlGore singing, "You Don't Read My Faxes Anymore".
Okay, I'm sure we've had this discussion before. Keep your fucking religion to yourselves, assholes. Yes, that is aimed at MUSLIMS over here. I don't give a shit if you were bred, born and raised here. You have no right to shove your religious hokey down someone else's throat be it with a bullet or whatever. I hope those two bastards fry. Kel, intolerant bitch
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