Post #182,537
11/3/04 2:10:32 PM
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"Shine, Perishing Republic"
While this America settles in the mould of its vulgarity, heavily thickening \n to empire \nAnd protest, only a bubble in the molten mass, pops and sighs out, and the \n mass hardens, \nI sadly smiling remember that the flower fades to make fruit, the fruit rots \n to make earth. \nOut of the mother; and through the spring exultances, ripeness and decadence; \n and home to the mother. \n\nYou making haste haste on decay: not blameworthy; life is good, be it stubbornly \n long or suddenly \nA mortal splendor: meteors are not needed less than mountains: \n shine, perishing republic. \nBut for my children, I would have them keep their distance from the\n thickening center; corruption \nNever has been compulsory, when the cities lie at the monster's feet there \n are left the mountains. \n\nAnd boys, be in nothing so moderate as in love of man, a clever servant, \n insufferable master. \nThere is the trap that catches noblest spirits, that caught—they say—\n God, when he walked on earth —Robinson Jeffers, 1926
Cthulhu for President. Why vote for a lesser evil?
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Post #182,540
11/3/04 2:15:57 PM
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1926
Yes, it got quite bad for a while. The Republic went on to another cycle of exultances, ripeness and decadence. Which is now comes to an end.
I suspect it will get worse here, soon.
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This guy's ahead of his time! He's using quantum programming methods: in universes where invalid data is passed to this function, it does not return. Thus you are ensured that you will only have valid data after calling it. Optimally you'd destroy the universe on failure, but computers haven't quite advanced to that level yet.
-- [link|http://thedailywtf.com/archive/2004/10/26/2920.aspx|The] Daily WTF
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Post #182,548
11/3/04 3:05:08 PM
11/3/04 3:07:16 PM
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Worse there soon
The US dollar took another tumble of about a half a cent when Kerry conceded.
I'm going to have to watch this very closely; another few cents and my business will have to close.
Edit: misread the chart, and have corrected the value to half a cent above.
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Edited by jake123
Nov. 3, 2004, 03:07:16 PM EST
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Post #182,579
11/3/04 7:14:39 PM
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You're half a phase out of sync
The vulgarity left office in early 2000. And the monster was deposed in 2003. They found him hiding in a hole some months later.
Must not be a lot of fun these days seeing the world through your eyes. How's the song go? Ah, yes...
You've seen life through distorted eyes You know you had to learn The execution of your mind You really had to turn The race is run the book is read The end begins to show The truth is out, the lies are old But you don't want to know
(The people who have crippled you are... yourselves. So take up your crying towel and walk.)
Maybe you could commiserate with Zuniga's gang of delusional paranoids over on [link|http://www.dailykos.com/|Planet Bizarro]. True believers groping for false comfort after their rapture failed to occur on schedule. Their only connection with factual reality is they seem to grasp that Bush won the election. Now if only they could grasp just *why*, there might be hope for them. They've got a bit of blind spot there.
---------------------------------------------------------------- I will not rate. Lucy Ramirez please pick up the white courtesy phone. Kerry is a liar and he doesn't tolerate fights from others. "All the news you wish would go away" [link|http://www.angelfire.com/ca3/marlowe/index.html|http://www.angelfire...arlowe/index.html]
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Post #182,585
11/3/04 7:23:59 PM
11/3/04 7:24:44 PM
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c*nt
-drl
Edited by deSitter
Nov. 3, 2004, 07:24:44 PM EST
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Post #182,593
11/3/04 7:44:55 PM
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Quagmire much lately, Phil?
Alex
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet (1772-1834)
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Post #182,609
11/3/04 8:16:09 PM
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No, not lately.
You?
Elections in Iraq on track for January. But if not then, they'll come later. Not much you can do about it now.
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Post #182,620
11/3/04 8:45:35 PM
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So where to next Phil? let me guess
here is what I think you will be up to next. The Bush re-election was directly generated by the war in Iraq. After the Iraqi people, principally the non Baathists, had achieved the greatest greatest freedom, the stress of feudal Iraq Society and Saddamists forced them to defend these conquests by force of arms against the insurgents and foreign enemy. The enthusiasm of the liberation passed immediately into the zeal of war, which only meant the conveyance of the liberation across its national borders and hopefully spilling into neghboring countries.
The American people bled in the course of the last three years in the anti-terrorism campaign, and the ongoing democratisation became first of all a means of freeing them from the horrors and sufferings of Saddam. The liberation of Iraq has a feudal Islam against it. The liberation and democracization of Iraq faces an old guard Europe, divided into two hostile camps. Islamasists and their allies. If to the proud men and women of our armed forces the war was the direct continuation of the liberating democrasization, then to the Iranian Student who has not yet left the trenches of opposition occupied by him for three years, the war of liberation on an extensive scale would seem nothing else but a continuation of the preceding war against terror.
This by no means implies that America declares the war on terror over. On the contrary, we consider it the duty of the American people to defend the cause of Democracy against the inner as well as the foreign born-enemies. Doubtless our democratic war can become popular provided there is an open will to liberation of the regular people at last in one of the European countries. The powerful impulse which Europe has received from the Iraq war must now come back from Europe, thus materializing the thought of an international outcry for democracy in the consciousness of the working people of the middle east, and supplying the stimulus to rouse them for an entrance of European troops in the war. We do not doubt for a moment that in a consequence of the present war, the peoples of Europe will assist the fight of the Americans in Iraq, a month sooner or later, on more powerful, economic foundations and in a more perfect political form. If, in awaiting the imminent flood of democracy fever in Europe, Russia should be forced to conclude peace with the present-day governments of the Central Causcus, it would be a provisional, temporary, transitory peace with the revision which the European Powers will have to concern itself in the first place.
Our whole policy is built on the calculation upon this war on terror. The peace-programme, as submitted by us, can be fully accomplished only by overthrowing the decadent corrupt despotic governments. By realization of the democratic peace-programme, the present-day governments are all the more surely preparing their catastrophic collapse. Through our peace-negotiations we are trying to give them every possible support in this respect.
that about right Phil? regards, daemon
that way too many Iraqis conceived of free society as little more than a mosh pit with grenades. ANDISHEH NOURAEE
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Post #182,666
11/3/04 10:32:32 PM
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Perhaps you can run for bishop of Fallujah.
Alex
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet (1772-1834)
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Post #182,627
11/3/04 9:00:02 PM
11/3/04 11:17:24 PM
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Re: out of sync
Could be. Could be. Clearly I'm out of synch with 50+% of voters who showed up yesterday, but I have 48% behind me, and probably fewer of these believe in the Kozmik Tooth Fairy than do your co-religionists.
As to the "delusional paranoids" at [link|http://www.dailykos.com/|DailyKos], I'll tell you what: you present fifty consecutive comments from the thread of your choice thereabouts and measure these against fifty consecutive comments, again of your choice, from [link|http://www.freerepublic.com|Free Republic], and let's talk then about delusion and paranoia.
smoochies,
[edit: consonant]
Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.
Edited by rcareaga
Nov. 3, 2004, 11:17:24 PM EST
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Post #182,638
11/3/04 9:42:45 PM
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Get back under your bridge, you.
And the rest of you:
YHBT. YHL.
Again.
Peter [link|http://www.debian.org|Shill For Hire] [link|http://www.kuro5hin.org|There is no K5 Cabal] [link|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org|Home]
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Post #182,643
11/3/04 9:52:55 PM
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Evil is as evil does.
How many have died for this dream you believe in?
----------------------------------------- How do you convince a Washington Journalist that you're not slapping him in the face?
Tell him you're not.
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Post #182,673
11/3/04 10:40:14 PM
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Hah. Didn't you listen to War Pigs?
That's you, that is.
Peter [link|http://www.debian.org|Shill For Hire] [link|http://www.kuro5hin.org|There is no K5 Cabal] [link|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org|Home]
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Post #182,816
11/4/04 1:40:57 PM
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As usual, you got your premise wrong
The vulgarity left office in early 2000. The vulgarity assumed office in early 2000. You know, a typing class or two might just fix that problem....
jb4 shrub\ufffdbish (Am., from shrub + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating the facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf. BULLSHIT
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Post #182,581
11/3/04 7:20:41 PM
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Larger type, please
I'm trying to delay the requirement of getting glasses as long as I can
lincoln "Windows XP has so many holes in its security that any reasonable user will conclude it was designed by the same German officer who created the prison compound in "Hogan's Heroes." - Andy Ihnatko, Chicago Sun-Times [link|mailto:bconnors@ev1.net|contact me]
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Post #182,584
11/3/04 7:23:54 PM
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If you are using IE...
just increase the display size for fonts.
-- [link|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net|greg], [link|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ iwetheyNo matter how much Microsoft supporters whine about how Linux and other operating systems have just as many bugs as their operating systems do, the bottom line is that the serious, gut-wrenching problems happen on Windows, not on Linux, not on Mac OS. -- [link|http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1622086,00.asp|source]Here is an example: [link|http://www.greymagic.com/security/advisories/gm001-ie/|Executing arbitrary commands without Active Scripting or ActiveX when using Windows]
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Post #182,586
11/3/04 7:25:08 PM
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Mozilla 1.7.3
lincoln "Windows XP has so many holes in its security that any reasonable user will conclude it was designed by the same German officer who created the prison compound in "Hogan's Heroes." - Andy Ihnatko, Chicago Sun-Times [link|mailto:bconnors@ev1.net|contact me]
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Post #182,590
11/3/04 7:32:43 PM
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Ctrl + "PlusKeyOnNumberPad" usually works.
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Post #182,621
11/3/04 8:46:50 PM
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click view on tool bar then larger text
that way too many Iraqis conceived of free society as little more than a mosh pit with grenades. ANDISHEH NOURAEE
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