Mmm...indignant rage
What's my favorite thing about working with the public? Today it's the lady who sent the wrong 35 page print job to the printer and got pissed off at me because I wouldn't refund her money. The best part was when she was adding money to her printing account so she could attempt her printing again and her cell phone started ringing. She looked up from the cash machine for a second and let the phone ring so I could see how angry she was. Good for her.
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
This is a first
I can't recall ever quoting Jay Leno before on this blog: "President Bush demanded that Kerry apologize. Can you imagine that -- Bush demanding an apology for someone stumbling over his words? ... Kerry should have tried the Bush strategy: say so many stupid things, no one cares anymore."
I can't recall ever quoting Jay Leno before on this blog: "President Bush demanded that Kerry apologize. Can you imagine that -- Bush demanding an apology for someone stumbling over his words? ... Kerry should have tried the Bush strategy: say so many stupid things, no one cares anymore."
Monday, November 06, 2006
More politics, yummy.
There is a particular danger with a war that God commands. What if God should lose? That is unthinkable to the evangelicals. They cannot accept the idea of second-guessing God, and he was the one who led them into war. Thus, in 2006, when two thirds of the American people told pollsters that the war in Iraq was a mistake, the third of those still standing behind it were mainly evangelicals (who make up about one third of the population). It was a faith-based certitude.
There is a particular danger with a war that God commands. What if God should lose? That is unthinkable to the evangelicals. They cannot accept the idea of second-guessing God, and he was the one who led them into war. Thus, in 2006, when two thirds of the American people told pollsters that the war in Iraq was a mistake, the third of those still standing behind it were mainly evangelicals (who make up about one third of the population). It was a faith-based certitude.
Sunday, November 05, 2006
I have no headline for this
Remember, if you are tortured by a minion of George Bush it's a state secret. Did people really cast votes for these guys?
Remember, if you are tortured by a minion of George Bush it's a state secret. Did people really cast votes for these guys?
Forward this, please
If anyone has George Bush's and Rumsfeld's emails could you forward the following quote to them. Maybe it'll wake their dumb asses up: "The object in war is to attain a better peace.... If you concentrate exclusively on victory, with no thought for the after-effect..., it is almost certain that the peace will be a bad one, containing the germs of another war." B.H. Liddell Hart
If anyone has George Bush's and Rumsfeld's emails could you forward the following quote to them. Maybe it'll wake their dumb asses up: "The object in war is to attain a better peace.... If you concentrate exclusively on victory, with no thought for the after-effect..., it is almost certain that the peace will be a bad one, containing the germs of another war." B.H. Liddell Hart
Saturday, November 04, 2006
Time Gone By
Last night I poured a few hours of my life down the toilet by enjoying in full Civilization IV, a game for the PC. I hadn't bought a new PC game in a couple of years because I have an Xbox and the computer we had wasn't fast enough to run new games. Last weekend, we were hooked up by Randy, my roommate's old college buddy, with a new computer. I decided that a new PC game was in order. I'm a big fan of simulation games and I spent a week going over reviews and it appeared to me that CIV IV was the cream of the crop. I took a jaunt down to EB Games yesterday and dropped a few bucks and went back home. After I got the game back home I spent the rest of my waking hours hunched over the keyboard.
The game is incredibly deep. In the basic campaign mode you start at 4000 BC and with a small town and a few workers and then try to create the dominate society in the world. Along the way your people discover religion, civics and various technologies and you can even build a few wonders like the pyramids and stonehenge. Stonehenge was the first wonder I built. It's my favorite. I quite in the early 1900's with a city just getting established in the New World. I'll try to be nice to the natives but I can't promise anything. If they get in the way they will just have to go. It's a tough world.
Last night I poured a few hours of my life down the toilet by enjoying in full Civilization IV, a game for the PC. I hadn't bought a new PC game in a couple of years because I have an Xbox and the computer we had wasn't fast enough to run new games. Last weekend, we were hooked up by Randy, my roommate's old college buddy, with a new computer. I decided that a new PC game was in order. I'm a big fan of simulation games and I spent a week going over reviews and it appeared to me that CIV IV was the cream of the crop. I took a jaunt down to EB Games yesterday and dropped a few bucks and went back home. After I got the game back home I spent the rest of my waking hours hunched over the keyboard.
The game is incredibly deep. In the basic campaign mode you start at 4000 BC and with a small town and a few workers and then try to create the dominate society in the world. Along the way your people discover religion, civics and various technologies and you can even build a few wonders like the pyramids and stonehenge. Stonehenge was the first wonder I built. It's my favorite. I quite in the early 1900's with a city just getting established in the New World. I'll try to be nice to the natives but I can't promise anything. If they get in the way they will just have to go. It's a tough world.
Thursday, November 02, 2006
Seymour Hersh blasts Bush
Thank god there are people like Hersh around: “In Washington, you can’t expect any rationality. I don’t know if he’s in Iraq because God told him to, because his father didn’t do it, or because it’s the next step in his 12-step Alcoholics Anonymous program,” he said.
Hersh hinted that the responsibility for the invasion of Iraq lies with eight or nine members of the administration who have a “neo-conservative agenda” and dictate the U.S.’s post-September 11 foreign policy.
“You have a collapsed Congress, you have a collapsed press. The military is going to do what the President wants,” Hersh said. “How fragile is democracy in America, if a president can come in with an agenda controlled by a few cultists?”
Throughout his talk Hersh remained pessimistic, predicting that the U.S. will initiate an attack against Iran, and that the situation in Iraq will deteriorate further.
“There’s no reason to see a change in policy about Iraq. [Bush] thinks that, in twenty years, he’s going to be recognized for the leader he was – the analogy he uses is Churchill,” Hersh said. “If you read the public statements of the leadership, they’re so confident and so calm…. It’s pretty scary.”
Thank god there are people like Hersh around: “In Washington, you can’t expect any rationality. I don’t know if he’s in Iraq because God told him to, because his father didn’t do it, or because it’s the next step in his 12-step Alcoholics Anonymous program,” he said.
Hersh hinted that the responsibility for the invasion of Iraq lies with eight or nine members of the administration who have a “neo-conservative agenda” and dictate the U.S.’s post-September 11 foreign policy.
“You have a collapsed Congress, you have a collapsed press. The military is going to do what the President wants,” Hersh said. “How fragile is democracy in America, if a president can come in with an agenda controlled by a few cultists?”
Throughout his talk Hersh remained pessimistic, predicting that the U.S. will initiate an attack against Iran, and that the situation in Iraq will deteriorate further.
“There’s no reason to see a change in policy about Iraq. [Bush] thinks that, in twenty years, he’s going to be recognized for the leader he was – the analogy he uses is Churchill,” Hersh said. “If you read the public statements of the leadership, they’re so confident and so calm…. It’s pretty scary.”
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
Are the police at my door? No, it's the army!
This is pretty scary. Even scarier since we have an incompetent boob in charge. Of course if the guv'ment can now use the military as cops how is that any different than the paramilitary type of police force we now have that busts through doors to serve warrants? I reckon this is a mere formality since the sanctity of the American home died years ago because of our fake war on drugs.
This is pretty scary. Even scarier since we have an incompetent boob in charge. Of course if the guv'ment can now use the military as cops how is that any different than the paramilitary type of police force we now have that busts through doors to serve warrants? I reckon this is a mere formality since the sanctity of the American home died years ago because of our fake war on drugs.
Are the police at my door? No, it's the army!
This is pretty scary. Even scarier since we have an incompetent boob in charge. Of course if the guv'ment can now use the military as cops how is that any different than the paramilitary type of police force we now have that busts through doors to serve warrants? I reckon this is a mere formality since the sanctity of the American home died years ago because of our fake war on drugs.
This is pretty scary. Even scarier since we have an incompetent boob in charge. Of course if the guv'ment can now use the military as cops how is that any different than the paramilitary type of police force we now have that busts through doors to serve warrants? I reckon this is a mere formality since the sanctity of the American home died years ago because of our fake war on drugs.
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