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Is this thing on?
by anna at 08:51 AM on October 30, 2004
Y'all know how I feel about Muslim fanatics in general and Al K Duh members in particular. When Osama popped up just days before our election I prayed that a bullet would sear through his skull and lodge in his brain. He's the most depraved, defective person ever to walk the planet. But he's cagy smart, I'll grant him that. And his timing is impeccable.
Scarier still, he's capable of coming across as calm and well-reasoned, like Saddam in that interview where he talked down to Dan Rather. Charles Manson he is not. So let's take a dispassionate look at what he had to say and grudgingly admit that that some of it made good sense.
"Your security is not in the hands of Kerry or Bush or al quaeda. Your security is in your own hands." Damn right it is. In the free-for-all that is modern life, you really are on your own. Protect yourself at all costs.
Of George Bush I: "He passed on tyranny to his son, and they called it the Patriot Act, under the pretext of fighting terror." Now I don't know about the tyranny, that's a pretty strong term. But calling the (necessary?) curtailing of our basic civil rights the "Patriot Act" is downright Orwellian. Just ask your fellow citizen Jose Padilla. Oh wait, you can't.
On why he (supposedly) perpetrated 9/11: "As I watched the destroyed towers in Lebanon, I got the idea of punishing the oppressors in the same way, by destroying towers in America so that it would taste some of what we have tasted..." Although I don't even know if it's true, he thinks US warships assisted Israel in its ill-fated 1982 incursion into Lebanon. If that is true, what was Reagan thinking? What the hell do we care about the wasteland that is Lebanon? At the time it had no government and at no time has it ever had any oil or resources to speak of. And certainly Israel doesn't need any military assistance even if we did care. Why can't we just butt out and worry about own damn selves for a change?
On Bush II: He said W wasted precious seconds "listening to a child discuss her goat" after he learned of the atrocity. If that is true it too makes sense. Though I don't know what else he could have done. It's like locking the door after the horses have bolted.
Oh, and thanks to Ezy and Lockheed and anyone else who's visited my lonesome little website.
comments (7)
"I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority."
- G.W. Bush, 3/13/02
"I am truly not that concerned about him."
- G.W. Bush, repsonding to a question about bin Laden's whereabouts,
3/13/02 (The New American, 4/8/02)
kind of amazing how he's managed to elude capture, eh?
as to the whole "go away, mind your own business" thing, it is pretty damn clever of him -- he really does want to kill us, what better reason could he use than we keep fucking with everything over there? what are the chances we'll stop? please. it's kind of like telling someone not to breathe, or you'll shoot them. or something.
by lizard at October 31, 2004 1:53 AM
Lizard! Cool! While I realize it's unrealistic, I would disengage ourselves from the Mideast altogether. Basically accede to their demands, with one huge caveat: Police your own fanatics. Ensure that no terrorism occurs in the US, UK, Poland, Canada and Australia. If your fail even once, an indiscriminate, Dresden-like firestorm will descend upon you. Dream on.
by anna at October 31, 2004 11:27 AM
yeah, if only they didn't have all that oil. or if we could make interesting, fun cars that didn't need oil. like in back to the future II, when doc brings the delaurean back from the future & pops open his Mr. Fusion & drops in a banana peel & a beer can & presto! one point seven gigawatts!
or something.
by lizard at October 31, 2004 2:14 PM
I don't know why no one is going to your blog anna. Nor mine. I just want posts, about anything, doesn't have to be about the topic. I know, it's all about trading, but occasionally I"m going to change that. It's funny that it's still un-kosher to dress as Osama Bin Laden for Halloween.
by LOCKHEED at November 1, 2004 12:50 AM
Interesting and fun electric cars are being made; they're just not being widely distributed or sold in the U.S. In any case, the Delorean in Back to the Future was very cool.
by jean at November 1, 2004 2:07 AM
The oil is a problem. But each year we fork over $6.5 billion to Egypt and Israel (combined.) Oil's $50 a barrel. How many barrels is that? And Lock, I have had a couple hundred hits, just precious few comments. It'll come, maybe. I tried to go to Drugsandtrading and was told the site didn't exist yeterday.
by anna at November 1, 2004 7:48 AM
Just click on my name, Anna: It's www.tradinganddrugs.blogspot.com
anyways gonna check out your blog again...
by LOCKHEED at November 2, 2004 3:24 AM