September 30, 2004
HEH
(Via
Anders) If Saddam is released, he wants to do one of two things, he told a
Swedish newspaper: either to run for president again in January or to move to Sweden, Switzerland, or Austria. Heh.
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Why not France or Germany? They deserve his presidential presence far more than those three countries.
Posted by: Amritas at September 30, 2004 03:58 AM (WKC0L)
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The truth is that he would have a pretty good chance of winning the Presidency in Iraq.
Read this e-mail from a Wall Street Journal reporter. A real eye opener.
thttp://poynter.org/forum/?id=miscruth
Posted by: dc at September 30, 2004 08:20 PM (s6c4t)
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September 28, 2004
LINKS
What an awesome
wish...
Flirting With Disaster
Troops Demoralized?
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All Mrs Heinz-Kerry said was she would not be surprised if Osama turned up in October, and frankly Sarah being a generation older than you it wouldn't surprise me either. You see the world thru a very different prism than I. You have optimism and hope, I have my cynicism. As the great Ambrose Bierce once said :
"A cynic is a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, and not as they ought to be." After you have a couple of children, and have a mortgage, you may become more cynical, or perhaps not. I am hugely in favor of cynical though.
Posted by: Bubba Bo Bob Brain at September 28, 2004 09:36 PM (4pVZJ)
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Regarding optimism & hope vs cynicism, let me quote another writer...Georges Bernanos, writing in 1940 about those who had refused to believe England could hold out against the Nazis:
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No one knows better than I do that, in the course of centuries, all the great stories of the world end by becoming children's tales. But this particular one (the story of England's resistance--ed) has started its life as such, has become a children's tale on the very threshold of its existence. It mean that we can at once recognize in it the threefold visible sign of its nature. it has deceived the anticipations of the wise, it has humiliated the weak-hearted, it has staggered the fools. Last June all these folk from one end of the world to the other, no matter what the color of their skins, were shaking their heads. Never had they been so old, never had they been so proud of being old. All the figures that they had swallowed in the course of their miserable lives as a safeguard against the highly improbable activity of their emotions had choked the channels of circulation..They were ready to prove that with the Armistice of Rethondes the continuance of the war had become a mathematical impossibility...Some chuckled with satisfaction at the thought, but they were not the most dangerous...Others threatened us with the infection of pity..."Alone against the world," they said. "Why, what is that but a tale for children?" And that is precisely what it was--a tale for children. Hurrah for the children of England!
Men of England, at this very moment you are writing what public speakers like to describe in their jargon as one of the "greatest pages of history"....At this moment you English are writing one of the greatest pages of history, but I am quite sure that when you started, you meant it as a fairy tale for children. "Once upon a time there was a little island, and in that island there was a people in arms against the world..." Faced with such an opening as that, what old cunning fox of politics or business would not have shrugged his shoulders and closed the book?
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Posted by: David Foster at September 28, 2004 11:58 PM (XUtCY)
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Nice one David, but since you went English on me allow me to throw back at you the words of another Englishman: George Bernard Shaw (my favorite essayist)
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." A rather nice summation if you ask me.
Posted by: Bubba Bo Bob Brain at September 29, 2004 01:48 AM (4pVZJ)
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I think of realism and cynicism as two entirely different things. Also, I'd like to observe that many of those who are cynical about the motivations of the Bush administration in Iraq are entirely non-cynical (are, indeed, completely naive) about the motivations of the Chirac administration.
Posted by: David Foster at September 29, 2004 01:06 PM (XUtCY)
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woops, sorry I meant to put the link on this thread.
Very good news out of Iraq:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0921/p02s02-usmi.html
Posted by: dc at September 29, 2004 03:57 PM (s6c4t)
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September 17, 2004
ALTERNATE UNIVERSE
What if it
hadn't been John Kerry?
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September 16, 2004
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I can't find a permalink, so you'll have to scroll, but I enjoyed
reading this 17 August post called "America has failed".
And I know that this isn't really fair, because I know you could find some unflattering photos of me, but I loved the photos of the President.
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September 13, 2004
HEH
As John Hawkins said, "Love to see some follow-up on
this." Heh.
And
Frank J can always make me smile.
Folks, it looks like Mom and I are on the mend. Nothing like spending a chunk of change on a plane ticket to Germany and then ending up sick in bed for four days. But now -- several pieces of plain toast and 13 episodes of Smallville later -- we seem to be doing better. We might even leave the house today!
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As noted in the linked post's comments, the entire position is based on a false premise; in opposition, it is beyond dispute that George Bush did not attend a physical which he needed to attend in order to maintain flight status.
Posted by: Sandals at September 13, 2004 07:16 AM (N0YrM)
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Sorry you guys are sick. Immodium and Dramamine works wonders, along with the crackers and gingerale, 7-up and Sprite. Drink Propel when you can,you want to replenish those electrolyte losses. Gatorade has way too much sodium.
Posted by: williams family at September 13, 2004 10:28 AM (fy5Dv)
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Glad you're getting better. Just said a prayer for you. And Frank J's drawing is funny
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Posted by: chris at September 13, 2004 12:00 PM (TJ8HB)
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Mom probably did not spend the time or money just to see Germany. So long as her baby is close by that's what really matters :-)
God bless you both and have a great time with Mom.
Posted by: Pamela at September 13, 2004 11:24 PM (QaW05)
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September 12, 2004
DEFINITIVE?
A
thorough post from a typographer.
Thanks, Hud.
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This is totally bogus. The font has been around since 1931 according to the company that created it. It has been available in proportial spacing on commonly available office IBM typewriters since the 1950's. This is so tiresome. The memos are authentic.
Posted by: MRE at September 12, 2004 04:40 PM (AaBEz)
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Source? Links? ANYTHING? Oh, right, you attended the Dan Rather Explanation School. Sorry, MRE, clearly you and your unnameable sources know ALL.
Posted by: Oda Mae at September 12, 2004 06:39 PM (nacee)
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Yeah they're authentic... including the pressure from a guy already retired the year before. Gimme a break. And commonly available? Have you got one?
Posted by: chris at September 12, 2004 07:14 PM (VDzYB)
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Available...only to th Times of London, who owned the font. They later licensed it to Microsoft.
Posted by: Mike at September 12, 2004 09:05 PM (+sj2x)
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If it's a computer generated forgery as you freepers claim, they why is it that nobody can come up with an exact replica of the document? The reproduction by LGF is only similar.
Posted by: Robert at September 12, 2004 10:09 PM (msYRN)
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Where are the originals?
Posted by: John at September 12, 2004 10:26 PM (crTpS)
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This is interesting. Bush in a photo with his wife on campaign liturature. In the copy Bush is out and out lying about the extent of his military service claiming to have served in both the US Air Force and the Texas Air National Guard.
Posted by: MRE at September 13, 2004 02:32 AM (s6c4t)
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Sorry, I forgot to add the link. Here it is:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=821450&mesg_id=821450
Posted by: MRE at September 13, 2004 02:33 AM (s6c4t)
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If you understood military training you would know that the year he spent in pilot training was on active duty.
Posted by: Mike at September 13, 2004 03:06 PM (MqNKC)
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Drudge has the PDF showing Bush was on active duty in the Air force.
MRE is probably the same person that Lt Smash is talking about in his post from 9/13. He obviously doesn't have a clue about anything military.
Give it up and talk about something with substance. Vietnam is not relevant to the future of this country.
Posted by: John at September 13, 2004 06:08 PM (+Ysxp)
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September 10, 2004
HEART ATTACK
This latest
Cox & Forkum made me really sad.
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The WTC's dead. Get over it.
Posted by: Dufus Galant at September 13, 2004 04:36 PM (1ygH8)
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America will win. Get over it.
Posted by: Moor at September 14, 2004 11:56 AM (xvwyL)
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My comment was inspired by the "Wellstone's dead, get over it" bumperstickers that are being driven around Minnesota. I guess they're cruel too.
One way to take my original comment is that we cannot keep using violence to justify violence. Yes, it was a sad day, and a pretty building, and lots of good folks were killed, but a rational response to that has yet to be delivered by our leaders.
I'm pretty sure they don't hate us for our freedoms. I'm pretty sure that if we don't try to understand what's really happening - what people on the other side of the line on the map think and feel and how we can all get along on this planet together - that things can only get worse.
Please realize that Iraq is not going well for us, through no fault of the brave people doing their duty over there. They and we both been mislead by the specific folks in power here. Our leader's shown the world that there are limits to our intelligence gathering ability, our diplomatic skills, and, yes, our military power.
I think the 28 characters I typed can't possibly be as cruel as what our power, wrongly applied, is doing and continues to do, while we cheer.
"The blood of one mother is the same as any other"
Moor, we *can* win. This just isn't the way. The way we're on is the way to extinction.
Posted by: Dufus Galant at September 14, 2004 09:56 PM (1ygH8)
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HEROIC
I smile at the fact that English,
in Vietnamese, is the "heroic language"...
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Hebrew is:iếng Do Thái ‘still great language. That was fun.
Posted by: Rachel Ann at September 10, 2004 05:38 AM (S0cFr)
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Before anyone gets the wrong idea, the Vietnamese names for countries are made up of word *pieces* (like Latin and Greek affixes in English) in most cases rather than independent words.
So anh is a word component meaning "heroic" but can't be used by itself to mean "hero(ic)" - "hero" is 英雄 anh hùng, literally "heroic male."
英 originally referred to a flower (the graph contains the "grass" radical 艹 on the top) but then expanded in meaning to mean "excellent" and excellent males were, in turn, heroic.
In the case of 猶太 Do Thái "Jewish," neither 猶 do "still" nor 太 thái "great" are independent words.
Do is out of use in modern Vietnamese - at least according to my dictionary - and so I think most Vietnamese have no idea what the two parts of Do Thái means. It would probably be just syllables to them rather than something obviously meaningful like "Stillgreat."
Some but not all of these terms carry over to other Asian languages as well: e.g., English is also "heroic" in Chinese (英語 Mandarin yingyu), Japanese (英語 eigo), and Korean (英語/영어 yOngO).
Japanese and Korean don't use the "still great" word for Hebrew: in Japanese, Hebrew is ヘブライ語heburaigo (語 go = language) and in Korean it's 히브리어 hibUriO (어 O = language).
I just found Hebrew lessons in Korean, with Hebrew written phonetically in the Korean alphabet:
http://worldnet.kbs.co.kr/israel/learn/learn2/main.htm
Posted by: Amritas at September 10, 2004 07:21 AM (NLPaJ)
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I understood that it didn't
literally mean "heroic", but I smiled anyway...
Posted by: Sarah at September 10, 2004 10:04 AM (pLh/m)
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Sarah,
It gets better. If you spoke to your husband in Vietnamese, you would call him "anh," literally "older brother," a native word homophonous with but unrelated to 英 anh "hero(ic)" which is from Chinese.
I forgot to mention that 英 Anh "hero(ic)" for English is short for 英吉利 Anh Cát Lợi "Heroic Lucky Profit."
There is another French-based word for English, Ăng Lê (from anglais, of course), but that's just a sequence of two meaningless syllables, so it's not as fun.
Posted by: Amritas at September 10, 2004 10:25 AM (NLPaJ)
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