At 6:29 PM +1300 11/3/04, Peter Gutmann wrote:
Do you seriously think the war on bogey^H^H^Hterrorism can ever be won?
You're gonna love this one: You can't have terrorism without state sponsors.
We take out (by whatever means at hand...) state sponsors of terrorism,
and, hey, presto, no
R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Germany 1944 does not equal USA 2004, no matter how hard you twist the
kaleidoscope.
Fighting an unwinnable war always seems to produce the same type of rhetoric,
whether it's the war on some drugs, the war on anyone Bush doesn't like, or
the war on
The US has not won since WW2. Rebellions, now called
terrorist wars, have been far more successful. If you want
to be a winner do not enlist in military forces of states, rather
get a spin contract far from danger, arguing the virtues of
mightily fearsome hardware and sacrificial patriotism.
The
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At 7:33 AM -0800 11/3/04, John Young wrote:
The US has not won since WW2.
Nope. Not at all.
1. Korea we lost by shoving the commies all the way up to the Yalu
river. And then leaving them to fester behind a still-extant DMZ
until they're almost
At 5:21 PM +1300 11/3/04, Peter Gutmann wrote:
another super-power in the
mid 1940s about winning an unwinnable war because God/righteousness/whatever
was on their side
Relativism does not a fact make, Peter.
Germany 1944 does not equal USA 2004, no matter how hard you twist the
kaleidoscope.
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R.A. Hettinga:
You're gonna love this one: You can't have terrorism without
state sponsors.
Nonsense! Are you in junior high?
We take out (by whatever means at hand...) state sponsors of
terrorism, and, hey, presto, no terrorism. Iraq.
At 12:11 PM 11/2/04 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote:
And they seem to believe there's going to be a huge difference between
Kang
and Kodos.
If you vote for Kang, the terrorists have won!
Besides, without paper (ie physical) evidence, how're you gonna prove
that Kang won?
At least I live in a blue
So who won the US election? The turd sandwich, or the giant douche?
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At 10:54 PM -0800 11/2/04, Eric Cordian wrote:
So who won the US election? The turd sandwich, or the giant douche?
The Turd Sandwich, of course...
Vote Turd Sandwich!!!
Advancing the cause of jingoism and darkness,
RAH
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The
At 10:54 PM 11/2/2004, Eric Cordian wrote:
So who won the US election? The turd sandwich, or the giant douche?
Cthulhu appears to be way ahead.
On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Eric Cordian wrote:
So who won the US election? The turd sandwich, or the giant douche?
Which witch is which... Ohio is still in play, all the rest are pretty
much decided. Ohio has 120,000-ish provisional ballots and about 300,000
regular votes yet to be counted. The
From: R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Nov 2, 2004 10:55 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: This Memorable Day
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Expect more carnage than culture when Bush is elected.
I gather we waited to start the offensive in Fallujah(sp?) until the polls were all
closed. I'm not sure how much of
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At 12:50 PM +0100 11/3/04, Nomen Nescio wrote:
Nonsense! Are you in junior high?
Are you high, junior? Or is it just your politics that sound so...
sophomoric?
:-)
This post gave me a big laugh. So naive. There are a few basic
forces feeding
ObPedantry:
At 9:49 AM -0500 11/3/04, R.A. Hettinga wrote:
If you'd learned any history, you'd know that the first argument is
x second
the result of the complete failure of the *premises* of the first to
happen at all
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Peter Gutmann wrote:
Well it wasn't the point I was trying to make, which was comparing
it to predictions made by (the propaganda division of) another
super-power in the mid 1940s about winning an unwinnable war because
God/righteousness/whatever was on their side, and all they had to do
2. Vietnam we lost by kicking their asses so badly that our campuses
revolted, at the behest of a bunch of marxists. Whereupon we packed
up, partied for about 15 years, and killed their communist sugar
daddies in Moscow with just the *possibility* we could invent
something strategic missile
On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 22:04:24 -0800, Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At least I live in a blue state. The reds, you've earned what you've
earned.
So ... don't blame you, you voted for Kodos?
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Peter Gutmann wrote:
Fighting an unwinnable war always seems to produce the same type of
rhetoric,
It is a little premature to call this war unwinnable. The kill ratio
so far is comparable with Britain's zulu war.
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James A. Donald
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This post gave me a big laugh. So naive. There are a few basic
forces feeding extremism and terrorism around the world and those
are inequalities and injustice anywhere.
You are quite right, it is unjust that people like Bin Laden are so
immensely rich with oil wealth. To remedy this
Bob,
But your defenses of the fatherland are hollow formulas.
There has been no war to win, a war the US is forever
stealing from the citizenry to prepare for, and then fucking
up with the minor skirmishes by having no doctrine or
training to apply its mythical might, except, as always,
to
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R.A. Hettinga wrote:
Seriously, any future crypto-anarchy / anarcho-capitalist society is
probably not going to succeed unless it can project *more* force
than we can project currently with force monopoly -- not less. That
*doesn't* mean centralized, but it certainly means *more*.
It is
At 11:11 AM -0800 11/3/04, James A. Donald wrote:
Dhimmitude being
a dangerously inferior status where one's property is insecure, and
women are apt to be raped.
ObSmartAssComment: That's why they call it Dhimmicracy, much less the
Dhimmicratic Party...
:-).
Cheers,
RAH
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At 11:11 AM -0800 11/3/04, James A. Donald wrote:
It is often argued that since war, violence, etc, are public goods
This is my favorite retort to that:
Externalities are the last refuge of the derigistes. -- Friedrich Hayek
An otherwise excellent rant elided...
Cheers,
RAH
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This comes from an old joke. A grand master, in the middle of a chess
match, jumps up onto the table, kicks off all the pieces, and screams,
almost unintelligibly, Why must I *lose*, to such *idiots*!!!.
:-).
Cheers,
RAH
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So, we know Diebold commited vote fraud. Irregularities, my ass.
Why did Kerry just roll over? The second time, after Gore?
This just doesn't make sense.
There's been over a year to prepare. Or is the entire process just a charade?
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From: Nomen Nescio [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Nov 3, 2004 6:50 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: This Memorable Day
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The only way to move towards a more friendly world is to make
people feel they are able to share the wealth and prosperity of the
world. As long as there is one single
Well, this may actually be less hard than we thought. Indeed, it's the one
vaguely silver lining in this toxic cloud. Outsourcing to India will
actually add a lot to world stability. Of course, we'll loose a lot of jobs
in the process, but in the long run we'll eventually have another strong
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