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Check out the lyrics (explicit lyrics!) to this song by Prince...it's on the Crystal Ball album. I think there's more than one version of that CD set, because my set has 4 cds in it...Anyhow, check the lyrics-
Ripopgodazippa by Prince
Ripopgodazippa, ripopgodazippa
A few flick of da pink plush and dis brother trippa
Start down at da bass then stop at da treble
Circle da midrange and up go me levels
"Precious" by Chant?is rockin' da box
Dis cannot be 4play cuz dis be 2 hot
Up go da left thigh on me shoulder bare
Up go da right and me blood pressure there
With my tongue in da cheek of your gold underwear
One yank of da teeth and they off on da chair
CHORUS:
Ripopgodazippa, ripopgodazippa
A few flick of da pink plush and dis brother trippa
My girlie, how in da world did U learn dis dat U know?
Ripopgodazippa, etc. etc. so
This bench dat I normally use 4 the weights
My girl, she lay me down and try my soul 2 take
A devil dis night she was before as I'm layin' there
She take it all right down her throat, right down 2 da hair
She wouldn't move a muscle 4 what seemed like days
My heart stop beating and I die dis way
CHORUS
Ripopgodazippa
I lay me girl down on da fake lamb fur
It's fake but it's still soft as what's between her
Lavender oil cum from the bottle like I do
Whenever I think about me zippa rippin' so cool
All down the body and double between da thighs
Ripopgodazippa and U get a big surprise
CHORUS
Ripopgodazippa
Instead of walkin' inside, I just knock on da door
I take a look around until she beggin' me "More, more,
more!"
When I finally cum inside, I stand perfectly still
"I can't take no more!" - Pump U then I will
"I just wanna call your name, but I don't know what 2
say"
Ripopgodazippa
If U're always with me
U'll never have 2 call me
Touche...touche.
Hey
CHORUS
Ripopgodazippa (Ripopgodazippa)
Etc. etc. so
Ripopgodazippa
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Check out this article about Joe Schmo from slate.com
I have pasted the entire article below (read more.)
Life Lessons From Joe Schmo
The reality show that's good for you.
By Meghan O'Rourke
Posted Thursday, September 25, 2003, at 3:57 PM PT
Within minutes of the start of Joe Schmo, Spike TV's new
mock-reality show, Matt, the unsuspecting "schmo," was
parading before the cameras wearing nothing but spandex black
panties, the waistband tightly crimped beneath his pasty rotunda
of a belly. He ran his hand rakishly through his hair and moued
for the camera. Later, after losing that day's immunity challenge
(which was rigged), he said in frustration, "I got to start
getting my head in the game!"—fist pounding his temple,
and all.
Ostensibly, Matt's picaresque humiliations are the reason to watch Joe Schmo, which is actually an elaborate hoax: Everyone involved is an actor, except for Matt. With the show, Spike TV, the first network for men, hopes to capitalize on the addictive, vicarious pleasure of watching others' pain. Joe Schmo is also supposed to be a testament to the spiritual mortification your average human being is willing to go through to make a little money onscreen.
Instead, Matt has turned the tables on the producers.
Matt thinks he's competing for a $100,000 prize on Lap of Luxury, a Survivor-style show with "vote-offs" and the like. At first, Matt seems goofy, unthreatening, of a friendly frat-boy vintage; he calls himself "the Matt-man." Prior to being selected for Joe Schmo, he had dropped out of law school, in Pittsburgh, to become a pizza-delivery boy and was living with his parents. With his not quite unwrinkled clothes, his slight buck teeth, mussed eyebrows, and protruding nose, he lends himself to caricature. His hazel eyes bug out and his eyebrows frequently rise in puzzlement. He is less a modern-day Jay Gatsby or Horatio Alger than that amiable guy you went to high school with and always liked—what was his name again?
But in this particular televised situation, Matt is made extraordinary by his essential goodness. The other "contestants" on the show are radioactive versions of reality-show types: Molly, the busty, virginal Southern blonde; Ashleigh, the dark-haired rich bitch, with pointy elbows and slinty eyes; Earl, a grizzled ex-Marine with ramrod posture; Gena, a no-nonsense strategizer; and horse-faced Ralph, the "Smarmy Host." In contrast to these characters, and to the "real" actors who play them—who at first giggle like seventh-graders about how they've duped Matt—Matt has a distinct social code and a rigorous idea of how people ought to treat each other. He corners Hutch, the crotch-scratching "Asshole," who's been picking his nose at the lunch table, and benignly warns him that he might want to tone down his antics. In the third episode, he draws Molly aside, visibly nervous, to confess that he voted her off during the first eviction ceremony—not, he says, because he didn't like her but because he doubted anyone else would. (He doesn't want her to upset herself wondering who put her name down.) He walks away when other contestants "find" an incriminating notebook under scheming Gena's bed—though, of course, the whole thing was cooked up for his benefit. Yet he's no sap: At one point he bluntly asks Dr. Pat, a marriage counselor, why she's been divorced three times, after she tries to get Oprah-style cozy with him about the woes of his most recent breakup.
Matt's moral backbone might make for disappointing satiric TV—conventional wisdom holds that good people, like happy families, are boring. But Joe Schmo is riveting precisely because Matt talks so honestly to the camera and to his fellow contestants. He tells them everything. In a one-on-one interview after the black panty episode, he confides, "I was worrying about size down there" then blushes and confesses, "I did play with it to get it up." This is more than you want to know—but it's also a kind of novelistic character detail rarely found on reality TV. And he registers everything, zeroing in on each slip in a character's story, deftly nailing Ashleigh's capricious selfishness and distancing himself from it. You begin to root for him to overcome the temptations of everyday compromise; you want him not to take the easy way out, or to connive, or to indulge in histrionics. His openness deflects humiliation. You want it to stay that way.
And so over the last few episodes—the fifth aired on Tuesday—something of a weird conversion narrative has taken place among the actors. Conniving and self-involved at the start (they're not exactly tomorrow's stars), they are growing genuinely attached to—and protective of—Matt. At the end of the third episode, the contestants got in the hot tub, where each had to say something positive about his or her comrades. It was dark, and blue shadowy light from the water flickered over their faces. They found polite enough things to say about one another. But when they got to Matt it was as if they'd come face-to-face with a child messiah—someone unknowing and awesome. One by one, they struggled to tell Matt how good he was. ("I don't think you have any idea of how you present yourself. It's amazing. We're all blown away by who you are.") Ashleigh dropped entirely out of character (so much so that the show's producers later reprimanded her) and, tongue-tied, struggled for words that were nowhere to be found: "I think that you're a very special person. I think that there's … something special. I don't know what. I mean, I think there's something special."
In fact, Matt is so close to perfect—and, with his frank talk about how hot Ashleigh looks in her bikini, so perfect for Spike TV's male audience—that you begin to wonder if the show might be faking us out in another way. Maybe Matt is an actor too, and we're the Joes who "don't know," as the show's motto puts it. (If this is the case, I'd wager that his fellow contestants don't know either.) Whatever the case, without him, the slightness of the show's premise would grow wearying. Plenty of scenes aren't edited crisply enough. And even by parody's terms it indulges in crude stereotypes: The "gay guy" is weepy and histrionic; the women, who are much more attractive than the men, bounce around in bikinis, even when the weather is cloudy (which is more often than not).
If Matt is an everyday guy, Joe Schmo's Truman Show-esque manipulations implicate everyone in a more complicated game. The show's tagline is "The reality show that's not real," but of course, as the show's producers find out, their lab-experiment has unforeseen consequences. There are real feelings, real injuries. When Earl, the ex-Marine (and Matt's roommate), is voted off in the fourth episode, Matt breaks down on the stairs in tears, so overcome that he can't make it up to his bedroom. "No amount of money is worth this," he says. "I should have thought it through before I came here." It's heartbreaking to watch; the actors are visibly shaken. One producer whispers, "We've got to f***ing stop this." Later, in a sumo-wrestling game, Matt rams Dr. Pat with pent-up frustration (she's sleeping with the crass Hutch, he thinks, and the sheer wrongness of it unsettles him) and pile-drives her into the ground. She is sent to the hospital with a real neck injury. Matt looks on, his eyes dulled.
What will happen when Matt learns he's been hoodwinked this whole time? Like Schrödinger's Cat, it turns out there's no observing a human on television without changing him. The Dr. Pat episode reveals just how deeply our understanding of other people's lives affects our sense of ourselves, even (or especially) when we have a strong sense of self. Yet he's acquitted himself well; he needn't fear looking back at his adventures on the Lap of Luxury, despite the show's intention to humiliate him. In this sense, unknowingly, he's outwitted the show and revealed something curious: On another kind of reality show, the distance between him and those around him might not have been so obvious. The show's real sting lies in realizing that it's easier to like someone who needs protection, even as it's easier to laugh at him.
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I bought new shoes. Thank the lord...the other ones were
starting to squeak they were so old...and that, my friends, is
quite embarassing.
I'm going to try to get someone to buzz my hair tonight as well. I hate hair...hate dealing with it, so I like to just buzz it down short, so I don't have to mess with it, and I can wear a hat or go without one and not look like I just woke up.
I missed the Joe Schmo Show the other night. I'll catch it Sunday night, I guess. I cannot believe that someone doesn't know what aqua teen hungerforce is. That show is the greatest. Frylock is cool.
Backstreet boys! The answer is The Backstreet Boys!!
I got a letter from Senator Lugar today...and he says he will support a bill to protect our religious freedom- which means he won't allow the courts to do what they're doing now and try to totally ban religion in public life. He mentioned that he co-sponsored a bill to protect such liberties in 1993 and it was enacted into law, tho the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional (that it violated sep. of church and state- a clause that doesnt even exist.) Tho the court might lean right in some issues, they screwed up with that decision, because there IS NO SEPARATION CLAUSE!! I'm so tired of having to tell people that. Anyhow, let's hope Congress does something about this issue.
Wesley Clark claimed he would have run as a republican, but he called Karl Rove a number of times, and he never got a call back so he decided to switch to democrat. That's great and all, except The White House started a record of all calls they get years ago, and Clark never called and Rove says that he's never talked to him. Which means what? Wesley Clark is a liar! Shocking! I read some more stuff about Clark in The Weekly Standard, a magazine I need to get a subscription to.
I went to the library and got this Brian Setzer Orchestra DVD...one of their concerts in Tokyo. It's great. Setzer, 16 guys, and 2 chicks rocking the dumbest looking people the world has seen. Someone needs to tell these Japanese kids that they look absurd with their big 50's hair and leather jackets...It's great music tho, and the band is tight. Who can't love the bald fat guy on trumpet?
I'm starving...
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I so know people. I tell ya...I'm the snap judgement king. More than that, I know people for a long time, and I can tell what they're going to do.
I could tell Lisa was a bit nutso, tho I ignored that fact way too long. (inside joke alert) In the end, she took a 2 year relationship and said she changed her mind and just wanted to be my friend and nothing more. This is the same girl that wanted to get married a few months before this big change. :)
I also knew when I started talking to JoRae again that nothing would come of it. This is the girl that changes more than anyone on earth. I know her very well, and I know she's going to get mad at this entry and stop talking to me. I also knew a week ago, when she talked to her ex, and then started crying about it (when she was on cam with me on yahoo!), she would soon tell me that she didn't know what she wanted. That night, she told me just that. She had to think about what she wanted in life in general...
I knew when I first started talking to her again that this would happen. It's happened at least 6 times before (mainly because she spent 4 years obsessed with winterguard, and would allow nothing to get in the way of that), so that's why I didn't take it THAT seriously. I mean, I put my heart in it, I was always honest, but I never let it get too deep for me, because I knew what the eventual (and soon) outcome would be. She said she needed a week to figure things out. I knew what her reply would be- I can't be with you...I wanna be alone.
Now, a week later, she says she has indeed decided that she wants to be alone and that she needs to figure her life out (doesn't she always.) So, once again, I was right. I must say, folks, I am right most of the time...it's hard being so right, but it's a job I'll gladly take.
This is why I didn't stop myself from kissing someone the other night. This girl is about as confusing as the other two I mentioned, and she confused me even more after we talked on Yahoo the other morning...but, I'm going to see her Friday evening, and we're going to talk- maybe I'll get some answers and clarify some things then.
I won't lie...I like this girl...she's got me all excited, and as I told her, I do have feelings for her, and I do care about her. Despite the fact that I haven't known her that long, that's all 100% true.
We kissed and all of that, and I thought we had this huge connection, but then we didn't talk for two days (I tried calling her, but she acted like she didn't wanna talk either time)...I finally talked to her online when she IMed me and I sent her a letter (short as it was) about my feelings that I was going to have her roommate print out and give to her. I told her I liked her and wanted to see if this was going somewhere or if we should just call it a memory and move on...
She said what we did was meaningful and she wouldn't have even kissed me if she didn't like me. So, she likes me, I thought...last night I was at her apartment with my friend (her roommate) and I was going to talk to her then, but she didn't even really say anything to me...came in, and walked right out the door. So, now, I'm even more confused than after our talk online.
Soooo....I guess I can tell all of you more Friday night sometime. I don't have high hopes for the meeting, but who knows. I do like her tho, and my feelings will be a bit hurt if nothing comes of all of this, because I never give a girl a kiss without attaching a little piece of my heart to it...
We'll see...
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First off, Bill O'Reilly's new book came out yesterday, and he will be on The View this morning. I will try to tape it, if anyone cares.
Also-
Funny stuff on Fox and Friends (as usual.) Molly Hennenberg is live in Baghdad...they showed her tape segment and the comments from an Iraqi on the street. Then, they cut to taped footage (I don't think it was live) of some flag, and you could hear Molly ask, 'wrapup?' to someone off camera.
Of course, they feed the tape back to NYC (actually they feed it back in advance of the on air segment), and shes in Baghdad, so the delay makes it difficult to tell when she's back on the air here in the U.S. She realized she was back on, and ended her segment.
Steve Doocy (who is always a jokester) said, 'thanks for that wrapup, Molly.' They hadn't totally cut Molly's audio, and you could hear her laugh at that, and Steve just sat there smiling as they went on to a segment about the California recall election.
This is why Fox and Friends is the number one morning show- they're real. Unlike all the other morning shows that are completely uptight and fake. It's always fun to joke about on air flubs like that if you ask me.
I saw CABIN FEVER yesterday afternoon. I liked it a lot. The funniest line in that movie (it was horror, so there was limited comical moments) was when the old guy at the general store was asked about the gun hanging in the store, and what it was for. His reply was hilarious.
The kids asked what the fox urine was for (there was a bottle of it in the store), he said- that's for the foxes. And, what's the gun for? they ask.
"That's for the nig*ers." he tells them- like it's no big deal. (don't want anyone to search for that word and find my site)
For one, it was shocking...and two, it was part of a larger joke that ended at the close of the movie when the old guy's "niggas" came by to pick up the gun at the store. They all walk up to the store, and you see the old guy go in, thinking he's some idiot racist who is going to shoot them...they show him get the gun, and next thing you know, he's like 'What's up, my niggas?! Here it is...I got it all polished and cleaned up for you!' Then, the dixie sounding music starts up and everyone is drinking lemonade the kids outside are selling. That was just hilarious...very politically incorrect, but screw that.
By the way, if anyone calls me a racist for laughing at that joke, I'm going to hang them from a tree. That joke too, you uptight bastards!
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I went to AMC's site to see if they had any information on the horror movies for Halloween...and I saw this information on this thing called AMC Movie Academy. Check out their one year filmmaking program...it says it's an equivalent to 2 years at a film school and you get over 1, 000 hours of hands on training. Kinda expensive tho- over $22, 000 plus $4, 000 dollars for film processing.
I'm sure that would be a lot of fun tho. Looks pretty cool...
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i wonder where all the ice cream trucks go in the winter.
i wonder if they migrate south.
just a bunch of ice creams trucks and a bunch of fat kids running behind them. and that song playing really fast.
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Okay. I've never been to a strip club or anything, and I've never had a lap dance anywhere. But- can the government lay off? The L.A. city council has banned lapdancing. I'm confused as to how you can shoot a hardcore porno in L.A. yet you can't have some strippers butt rubbing against your pants!
Should the government really have the right to dictate what people do in such a setting? I mean...the laws are stupid anyhow. Some places they can go bottomless, sometimes they can't. Hello! I can type in one web address and see bottomless chicks! So, if you're a grown adult, the government is going to tell you it's okay to see some stripper's tits, but her love canal is out of bounds? That's silly!
Now, the law is- strippers have to be at least 6 feet away from patrons. 6 FEET?! Can you even see much from 6 feet away?!
I'm all for the government regulating some behavior, but this stuff is absurd. This does not hurt ANYONE, and it's not a danger to society, so come on...get off of it.
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Check out the page my friend Adam set up for his new animated
series, What Makes Us Stronger. Be sure to check back as the
progress on the series continues.
He just put the page up, so the links are dead for now...but they should all be up soon.
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It's true what they say. Nice guys do finish last.
Ah. I swear...I cannot get over the cruelty of some people. They treat their personal belongings better than they treat other people.
I guess the lesson is- don't respect a girl...doing just the opposite is how you win in the end (so it seems.) Don't be a nice guy, because bad guys get all the good stuff in life. And, I guess- never make your feelings known, because you just end up feeling like an ass when you've put them out on the table.
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Had a very strange night last night. Went to Kristy's apartment again. I was with her from 4 something in the afternoon till around 4:30 A.M.
Kristy's mad at me. Okay...she was mad, but I don't think she is anymore.
Her vegetarian art friend has pointy boobies...I nearly told her that at the grocery store, but I decided against it. Joe and his buddy seemed to find it funny that I said her boobs were pointy. I told that girl that I was vegetarian myself. I eat me too...but I'm a vegatarian.
I drank 2 liters of Tropical Sprite in the period of just a couple hours. That stuff is good. I was drinking it in the store, and pointy boob wanted to smell it. She did. I guess it smells fruity...I didn't smell it myself.
I'd tell you more about the night, but then I'd have to kill you.
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I just watched a very interesting documentary on healthcare and its cost in the United States called Your Money, Your Life: Healthcare Now. Very nice inside look as to why various items (meds, equipment, O.R. rooms, etc) in healthcare cost what they do. It was also odd to see that hospitals rarely get the full price for their services. They showed a woman who had a heart transplant...the total costs to the hospital were around $170, 000- they charged over $300, 000 (to make a profit to help defray costs associated with other patients who cannot pay and do not have insurance, and the other costs associated with new equipment, the management of that equipment, etc), but what they do is make deals with insurance companies to get the highest price they can. They almost always come out on top, or they wouldn't stay in business long...but, they only got around $172, 000 for the entire bill from insurance, giving them about two grand in profit. I was always under the impression that healthcare costs a certained amount, and insurance paid that amount. As you can see, that's hardly ever the case.
They discussed the uninsured and if medical treatment is a right or not. I personally believe that healthcare and overall treatment is a fundamental right. It's a right to that extent that your life is saved. I'm not sure that all healthcare is a right. I don't advocate for TOTAL universal healthcare, in that not every single person should have every single treatment they need done. Save people's lives- yes...but we can't do everything.
There are amazing costs in running a hospital, and they brought up a graphic of a printout, scrolling down to certain costs and highlighting them every now and then. From the electric bills that can run anywhere from $20, 000 to over $100, 000 a month, meal costs that can be $2.5 million a year, to the aquisition of donor hearts which can be $50, 000, the costs are staggering, and it's interesting to see how these costs are paid by the hospital. The people who have the ability to cover the cost of their treatment pay more so that those who can't cover their costs get the same treatment, more or less. Then, sometimes the hospital has to take somewhat heavy losses- that could be unused operating rooms with lots of supplies that have to be trashed, or the costs incurred when new technology comes about and it's still in its infancy, so it's not a quick moneymaker.
Very nice job on the doco, and they talked to a lot of very knowledgeable people. Lots of insight on how these operations are run and how they can compete in the open market.
On another subject...tell me Jen (Sarah Lind from Edgemont) isn't the cutest. This show aired on Fox Family Channel during the first season, but it changed to ABC Family and they stopped airing it. Sad, because it was a good show. They also stopped airing Big Wolf on Campus, another Canadian show, and the Zak (or Zac, or Zack- I forget) Files- yet another Canadian show actually.
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I noticed this question on billoreilly.com- Should Clinton and Davis have given a political speech at a church?
I was thinking the same exact thing when I first saw the video of these two idiots at that church. Churches should stay away from this sort of thing. Scary thing is- you think a christian church wouldn't be praising democrats and especially former President Clinton. Think about it. I don't think churches should be holding rallies like that. I got an e mail from the GOP regarding starting voting registration drives at churches, which I think is fine. But- there's a difference between getting people to vote and having rallies with idiots who are busy talking about how the recall is evil. It's inappropriate to me.
Hans Blix now has totally changed his mind (this guy is clueless), and he says that he believes Hussein has no weapons of mass destruction. He basically said they had them months ago, but now he says he thinks they don't. He says that Hussein tricked the U.S. into thinking he had weapons so the U.S. would not attack him- an idea that makes no sense at all. Who knows. Contrary to what many would have you believe, no one said WMD was the entire reason for invading Iraq and taking out Hussein.
I was listening to Bob and Tom this morning (radio show), and they were reading a news story about some art gallery that bought a piece of art that is a picture of a man's head, but made entirely of drawings of penises. The piece is called dickhead. Interesting. Remind me to skip that museum.
During Fox and Friends this morning, one of their reporters in Virgina (I think that's where he was)...was showing the sound man's goggles...then, he took the camera and turned it on the cameraman himself, who was also wearing scuba googles. I wonder if that's normal?
I love that Verizon commercial about their new push to talk feature on their phones...the one with the realtor lady who is walking in the front yard, wondering where the key is...she walks over and steps on a rake and it flies up and smacks her in the face, knocking her down. Funny stuff. Still nowhere near as funny as the furniture commercial from months ago where the couple are in bed and the furniture guy who is voicing the commercial is sneaking in their bedroom, talking about how old their furniture is. They wake up when he makes a sound, and he makes a cat sound- the lady is like, 'we don't have a cat!' So, the guy then makes a dog sound. You'd have to see it. It's hilarious.
I have a meeting at 9 AM. Funness.
Random thought here: Why does ANYONE with any brain cells support Hillary 'corrupt' Clinton? Read any of the books about her. She's a liar, a crook...name a negative adjective and it fits her.
Finally, James Rosen of Fox News, on the White House lawn...when the hurricane hits, he says he will be sent to a bunker 6 miles under the earth's crust, where he will be given one copy of the U.S. Constitution. So, if all else fails in D.C., he's our only hope. He'll be there wearing the "daddy pants." A thought that is frightening, yet oddly calming at the same time.
Here is Jacoby's newest article. I never knew this, but it's a sad situation to see that China (communist China that gives its people NO rights) has any say with this. I mentioned years ago here (when it was The Blue Page) that we should take a tough stance with China. We need to let China stop bullying other nations. That includes the U.S. and it includes Taiwan (clearly.) Why we didn't include China as part of the axis of evil, I have no idea. They HAVE said that they will attack the United States, and it's a question of WHEN not IF. Some of the top guys in the Chinese government said that, but we do nothing...we give them most favored nation status, and here- we let them bully smaller countries of the world. Sad...
TAIWAN DESERVES A UN SEAT
By Jeff Jacoby
The Boston Globe
September 18, 2003
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2003/09/18/taiwan_deserves_a_un_seat/
As the 58th session of the United Nations General Assembly opened
this week, the gavel was wielded by its new president, Julian
Hunte of Saint Lucia. When Hunte was elected to the post in June,
the UN issued a statement hailing the fact that the presidency
was being assumed "by a representative of the smallest
country ever to hold that office." This, it commented, was
proof of the UN's "faith in the equal right of nations large
and small, as enunciated in the [UN] Charter."
Nations don't come much smaller or less influential than Saint
Lucia. It is a minor Caribbean island known primarily for bananas
and tourism. With a population of 158,000, it is less than half
the size of Cincinnati. Its $700 million economy ranks in the
lowest quintile of GDPs -- No. 193 on one standard list of
countries around the world. (Haiiti's, by way of comparison, is
$12 billion -- No. 123 on the same list.)
But however insignificant Saint Lucia might be on the world
stage, in the General Assembly it is the equal of every other
country. Universality is one of the UN's core principles; the
Charter makes membership available to "all . . .
peace-loving states." Within the General Assembly, all
states -- continental superpower and Caribbean flyspeck alike --
have an equal vote.
To be sure, that principle has some severe drawbacks. The worst
is that it makes no distinction between tyrannies and democracies
-- a repressive dictatorship like Burma is as much a member in
good standing as democratic Belgium or Brazil. On the other hand,
it reflects the universality of many of the world's scourges.
Terrorism, SARS, and drug abuse cross borders and ignore
boundaries. As Hunte put it upon being elected, the UN system
recognizes that no nation is an island unto itself.
Except one.
Of all the nations in the world, only one -- Taiwan -- is
excluded from the United Nations. It has not even been allowed to
participate in General Assembly sessions as a non-voting
observer, a courtesy extended to entities ranging from the Holy
See to the Order of Malta to the International Committee of the
Red Cross. This week, for the 11th year in a row, Taiwan is
asking to be admitted to the UN. This week, for the 11th year in
a row, it will be turned down.
And why? Is Taiwan guilty of some odious international crime? Is
it a dictatorship? Does it make war on its neighbors, or practice
apartheid, or harbor terrorists?
No: Taiwan is blackballed from the UN because its neighbor is a
bully. The Communist government in Beijing insists that Taiwan is
merely a renegade Chinese province, not a country in its own
right and therefore not entitled to a seat in the UN. That is a
ludicrous stance to take in 2003, after more than half a century
of Taiwanese self-rule. It is akin to maintaining that North
Korea is merely a rebellious region of the Republic of Korea, or
that Slovenia is nothing but a refractory district of Yugoslavia.
However reasonable such arguments might once have been, today
they would be specious.
But China devotes considerable economic and diplomatic muscle to
enforcing its specious position. It throws tantrums and threatens
reprisals whenever Taiwan is treated with the respect due an
independent nation. Sadly, most of the world's governments find
it easier to go along with Beijing's blackball than to defend
Taiwan's right to a UN seat of its own.
Once upon a time, Beijing and Taipei each claimed to be the
legitimate government of both mainland China and Taiwan, and each
claimed it was entitled to the UN's China seat. That dispute was
settled in 1971, when the General Assembly voted to recognize the
Beijing as "the sole legitimate government representing
China in the United Nations." That closed the question of
who should represent China. But it left open a different
question: Who represents the people of Taiwan? For 32 years, the
answer has been: nobody.
Beijing's energetic spin to the contrary notwithstanding, Taiwan
has never been ruled by the People's Republic of China. From the
founding of the PRC to the present, Taiwan has had its own
government, maintained its own diplomatic profile in the world,
and seen to its own defense. There is no justification for
treating it as anything less than what it is -- a nation unto
itself.
In recent decades, Taiwan has transformed itself from an
authoritarian one-party state into a vibrant parliamentary
democracy. Unlike its thuggish neighbor across the Taiwan Strait,
Taiwan has become a land of liberty and human rights, a
trustworthy US ally, and a responsible member of the community of
nations. Its $400 billion economy is one of the world's most
dynamic -- No. 23 on the same list that ranks Saint Lucia 193rd.
Its population of 22.6 million is larger than three-fourths of
the UN membership. If minuscule Saint Lucia is entitled to a
voice in the General Assembly, surely Taiwan is too.
Fifteen nations signed the petition seeking Taiwan's admission to
the UN, but the United States was not among them. This reluctance
to stand up for a beleaguered democratic friend does us no honor.
The barring of Taiwan is a clear wrong. Americans should be the
first to say so.
(Jeff Jacoby is a columnist for The Boston Globe.)
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Howard Dean is lying again.
Dean makes an appearance in the new HBO FICTIONAL series K Street. In his scene, he gets debating tips from CNN host Paul Begala and Clinton lover James Carville. Carville makes up a line in which he tells Dean to use if he's asked about minority votes. He tells him to say that if you're closeness to the african american community was determined by the number of them in your state, Trent Lott would be Martin Luther King. I can't find the actual quote itself anywhere online. I'll keep looking.
Anyhow, the problem is- in the last democratic debate that aired on Fox News, Dean used the same line from the HBO series...word for word. He taped the scene in question on Monday and the debate was on Tuesday. His aides claimed he came up with it, but HBO said that it's clear that Carville came up with it. Dean also uses another line from the same series at the debate. Dean, who tries to bill himself as a straight talker is clearly anything but. This is great for Bush, hoping Dean will stay the front runner, because if this happens there is absolutely no way that Bush will be defeated. The American people will in no way embrace Dean...especially in the midwest where a large chunk of the electoral vote lies.
I just wanted to post this to make sure no one takes Howard Dean seriously. Anyone who steals lines from an HBO series he appears in is not worth anyone's vote. Dean claims that the only reason people are making a big deal out of this (along with his idiotic comments on Israel and his backtracking on various issues) is because they're upset that he seems to be leading the democrats in most polls, and they're trying to stop his momentum. Funny stuff from a ridiculous man.
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Clinton went out to California over the weekend to support fellow corrupt politican, Gray Davis. The president who wouldn't know the truth if he found it under the oval office desk (where much of his time was surely spent), echoed Davis in saying that the recall was a right wing power grab. Funny. The impeachment of Clinton...the recall of Davis. I guess Clinton's definition of a power grab is when politicians are corrupt and refuse to do their jobs correctly and people want them out. Where's Hillary with her imaginary right wing conspiracy nonsense?
Here's a quote from the master of lies himself:
"Gray Davis and I have been friends for a long time, and I don't want this happening to him," Clinton said. "This is way bigger than him. It's you I'm worried about. It's California I worry about. I don't want you to become a laughingstock or the beginning of a circus in America where we throw people out for making tough decisions."
Funny, huh? Remember when around the globe, people were laughing at the U.S. because of Lewinsky? Remember seeing the various items with Lewinsky and Clinton on them? T shirts, dolls, coffee mugs, etcetera? The entire nation was a laughing stock, because our president lied under oath, he couldn't understand the meaning of the word "is," he was busy getting busy with an intern instead of doing his job, and he lied to the American public on national television! Good of Clinton to worry about California becoming a "laughingstock!" Where would be without his insight and wisdom?
Also...kicking people out of office "for making tough decisions?!?!" Pardon me? What tough decisions got Davis in this mess? Was it when he bought votes or was it when he increased spending and caused the deficit, which is a big no-no in the California Constitution? Was it when he was busy lying? Clinton comes up with more nonsense...how shocking.
Davis actually went further and made the recall out to be a racial issue. Oh wow, democrats playing the race card as usual. I'll need to find the quote later, but Davis said that those in support of the recall were trying to divide the state down racial and ethnic lines. That's total insanity, as the state's budget problems have ABSOLUTLEY NOTHING to do with race! But, like Jesse Jackson (king of all racists), who will come to the state to support Davis this week, it's the race card tactic again. When will the dems ever learn?
In the end...we know Davis is the antichrist when he says this: "Some days, I wake up and wish he were still president," Davis said to loud applause. "He will always be the president for us."
That, my friends, is one of the scariest thoughts any of us could ever possibly imagine.
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That song by City High (awful music) called What Would You do...the lyrics to that song are just absurd. I have pasted the entire song below (read more), but want to take a few parts out here and discuss the insanity of them.
The first verse. Who is talking here? How the hell is he going to sing about this supposedly sad situation if HE'S at some wild party with tons of liquor and strippers? Who the hell is this douche bag to be giving advice to anyone?
Now, the chorus, this is some funny stuff.
"What would you do?, if your son was at home
crying all alone on the bedroom floor, cuz he's hungry
and thee only way to feed him is ta sleep wit a man"
If my son was at home? Since you're too fucking poor to feed him, there's no way in hell you have the cash for a babysitter...so, who is the kid with at home in the first place? Knowing your dirty stripper ass, he's probably home alone playing with your crack pipe.
If he's hungry...here's an idea. BUY SOME FOOD! Groceries don't cost THAT much. I guess it does eat into the weed money you keep back each week tho, huh?
The only way to feed him is to sleep with a man for a little money? How do you figure? FIND A JOB! Ya know...McDonalds is ALWAYS hiring, and you work full time there, you can pay for the food for the both of you, a cheap apartment, and you can even pay for a babysitter. Trust me.
If McDonalds didn't exist, and you found no job on earth (nearly impossible), you could apply for government aid, ya know. Crazy how that works, huh?
"for a little bit of money, and his daddy's gone
somewhere smokin' rock now, in and out of lock down,"
What does the dad have to do with this? If he's selling crack, then he shouldn't be anywhere near the kid...but, again, knowing you- I'm sure he's watching the kid himself, high and getting laid by the young girl next door.
"I aint gotta job now, so for you this is just a
good time
but for me this is what I call life"
ANYONE, and I mean ANYONE (who is mentally and physically able)
can get a job SOMEWHERE. So, that no job excuse is just
ridicukous. Again, if by some magical stroke of satan, you
couldn't find a job- you can get help from the government...or
charities...or churches...etc. Your excuses are nonsense.
The speaker (whoever the hell he is) comes back saying she can do it, but again, he's the one at the wild boozed up party with strippers, so how in the hell is he going to make a moral judgement or give reasonable advice?
Okay...maybe I'm taking it too seriously, it's just a song. Yeah, yeah...great. Still- it's absurd, and I wonder what geniuses wrote this crap.
[1st verse:]
Boys and girls wanna hear a true story?
Saturday night was at this real wild party
They had the liquor overflowin' the cup, about
5 or 6 strippers tryin to work for a buck
and I-took one girl outside wit me, her name
was Loni, she went to Junior High wit me,
I said, Why you up in there dancin for cash?,
I guess a whole lots changed since I seen you last
She said..
[Chorus:]
What would you do?, if your son was at home
crying all alone on the bedroom floor, cuz he's hungry
and thee only way to feed him is ta sleep wit a man
for a little bit of money, and his daddy's gone
somewhere smokin' rock now, in and out of lock down,
I aint gotta job now, so for you this is just a good time
but for me this is what I call life
[2nd verse:]
Girl you aint the only one wit a baby,
that's no excuse to be livin all crazy
then she looked me right square in the eye
and said everyday I wake up hopin' to die,
she said- nigga I know about pain cuz,
me and my What Would You Do ran away, so my daddy
couldn't rape us, before I was a teenager
I done been through more shit, you can't even
relate ta!
[Chorus]
Ooooo
Then she said, What would you do? if....
Get up on my feet and let go of every excuse
What would you do? if....
Cuz I wouldn't want my baby, to go through what
I went through
What would you do? if....
Get up on my feet, stop makin tired excuses
What would you do? if...
Girl I know if my mother can do it, baby you can do it
Oooo, oooo, oooo-(yea, yea, yea, yea)
[Chorus]
What would you do? if yo son was at home,
crying all alone on the bedroom floor, cuz he's hungry
and the only way to feed him is to sleep wit a man
for a little bit of money, and his daddy's gone
somewhere smokin rock now, in and out of lock down,
I aint gotta job now, so for you this is just a good time
but for me this is what I call life (Come on)
[Chorus]
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Fine article (as always) from Jeff Jacoby from The Boston Globe. You have to ask yourself, WHEN are people going to realize the truth? The truth about the palestinians...the truth about their leader...the fact that we cannot urge Israel into submitting to these people?
OSLO'S TERRIBLE TOLL
By Jeff Jacoby
The Boston Globe
14 September 2003
boston globe
On Sept. 13, 1993, Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin publicly
shook hands on the White House lawn. That gesture ushered in the
Oslo "peace process," so called after the Norwegian
capital where its groundwork had been laid.
The deal that led to the White House handshake had been sealed
with an exchange of correspondence four days earlier. On Sept. 9,
Arafat had signed a letter declaring that the PLO
"recognizes the right of the State of Israel to exist in
peace and security" and "renounces the use of terrorism
and acts of violence." He promised to "assume
responsibility over all PLO elements and personnel in order to
assure their compliance, prevent violations, and discipline
violators." Rabin replied that Israel would recognize the
PLO as the Palestinians' representative and accept it as a
negotiating partner for peace.
But the White House ceremony did not inaugurate an era of peace.
It inaugurated instead the worst decade of terrorism in Israel's
history.
Just 11 days after the handshake, 22-year-old Yigal Vaknin was
stabbed to death in a citrus grove by a Hamas death squad, which
left a note boasting of the murder. Vaknin was the first of 1,126
men, women, children, and babies who would lose their lives to
Palestinian terror in the 10 years following Arafat's
renunciation of violence. Some, like Vaknin, were knifed to
death. Others were shot or stoned or bombed. The terrorists have
killed their victims at a discotheque and a bat mitzvah party, at
a Passover seder and in a pizzeria, on rural roads and in private
homes, on a university campus and in a farmer's market, and in
dozens of buses and bus stops.
And for every terror victim who has died, six or seven others
have been wounded -- often maimed or traumatized for life.
The Palestinians, too, have suffered thousands of casualties.
Many have died while planning or carrying out violent attacks;
others, smeared as "collaborators," have been lynched
by Arafat's cutthroats. Innocent bystanders have lost their
lives, tragically killed when Israel has fought in self-defense.
They, too, are part of Oslo's terrible toll.
I was on the White House lawn on Sept. 13, 1993, and saw the
handshake in person. It was, for me, a surreal and disquieting
moment: I had never expected to see the world's most notorious
terrorist, the foremost killer of Jews since the death of Stalin,
hailed as a peacemaker.
Yet even more surreal and disquieting was the rapture of the
audience. People were giddy with happiness, elated that the
impossible dream of Arab-Israeli peace was coming true before
their eyes. In a commentary that morning I had written: "A
reality check is in order. . . One letter from Arafat does not a
Palestinian peace with Israel make. . . The millennium has not
arrived, and there is no cause for euphoria." But that was
clearly a minority view, both on the White House lawn and in the
media at large.
At the Israeli embassy a few hours later I saw Shimon Peres --
then Israel's foreign minister and a key Oslo architect -- mobbed
by a deliriously joyful crowd. Even more than the Washington
dignitaries and media talking heads, Israelis and American Jews
embraced the new "peace process." Oslo was extolled as
the start of a "New Middle East," in which Israel would
be smiled on by its neighbors and the Arabs' enmity would give
way to tourism and joint ventures.
Oslo quickly became a cult, worshipped with a fervor that brooked
no doubts and disdained all skeptics. There was never peace but
there was a "peace process," and the more the evidence
of its failure mounted, the more fervently it was venerated.
Within a few months it should have been clear to all that Arafat
and the PLO leadership had not abandoned terrorism. Empowering
them with land and money and authority had inflamed, not
quenched, their thirst to "liberate" Israel from the
Jews. Buses exploded and funerals proliferated, but Israelis told
themselves that they were fashioning a "peace of the
brave" and that there was no alternative but to return to
the negotiating table and offer new concessions.
Yet each concession only further convinced the Palestinians that
the Jews were weakening, and that upping the violence would make
them even more desperate for peace. Not until September 2000 did
Israel begin to wake from its stupor. That was when Prime
Minister Ehud Barak made his unprecedented offer -- a sovereign
Palestinian state with shared control of Jerusalem -- and Arafat
replied by unleashing the deadliest terror campaign Israelis have
ever known.
Oslo was not a good idea that went sour. It was fatally flawed
from the start. The fundamental premise of Oslo -- that the
Palestinians were ready to live in peace with Israel -- was
always a lie. To Arafat and the PLO, peace was merely a tactic,
one step forward in the "liberation" of Palestine. On
the very day he shook Rabin's hand, Arafat assured a Jordanian TV
audience that the liquidation of Israel was still his goal. It
was a message that he and his lieutenants would repeat time and
time again.
Israelis crave peace, and they thought they craved it at any
price. But peace at any price leads to war. Ten years after the
handshake at the White House, let that be Oslo's epitaph.
(Jeff Jacoby is a columnist for The Boston Globe.)
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Wow. I was shocked to hear that John Ritter died last night (Sept 11). He had some problem with his aorta that no one ever knew about, got sick on the set of 8 Simple Rules (ABC), and was taken to the hospital where he died.
Johnny Cash died, but that wasn't too much of a shock, I guess. I couldn't believe my ears when I heard the news about John Ritter tho.
In other news, Israel, as mentioned before, has agreed (in principle) to expel Arafat. They have not said when they will do this or how they will do it...but throngs of Palestinians came out to support their terrorist leader (complete with their automatic weapons!) I will probably be posting some Arafat quotes later so you can see what a monster this guy is.
Again, (read) I love how we (the US) have said we oppose the expelling of Arafat. We acknowledge the man a terrorist, we confirmed the fact that a peace plan cannot be made with him involved-yet we claim that Abbas- who we know was a puppet for Arafat, would be a good partner in peace with Israel. I am so sick of the Bush admin's policy and stance on Israel. They're pushing way too hard for a Palestinian state that the people of the Palestinian areas don't deserve. Why do we push for a state for people that overwhelmingly hate us? Bush and company also take too tough a stance in telling Israel what to do and what not to do. We won't allow other nations to dictate or policy, so why do we keep trying to act like strict parents with Israel? It's absurd. Israel should do what's good for Israel. They SHOULD keep building the fence to protect their people, they should expel Arafat the terrorist, and they shouldn't give in to pressure for the US or any other nation.
Check out the schedule for AMC TV from October 27-31. Lots of horror movies. Good to see they're playing the movies from the Halloween series again. I will try to check Turner Classic Movies, FXM-Fox Movie Channel, and others for halloween-related stuff.
Monday, October 27, 2003
12:00 AM/EST An American Werewolf in London Color 97 min
3:45 AM/EST Monster from the Surf Color 70 min
5:15 AM/EST The Brain that Wouldn't Die B&W 82 min
6:45 AM/EST Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte B&W 133 min
9:10 AM/EST Invasion of the Body Snatchers B&W 80 min
10:55 AM/EST Kiss of the Vampire Color 88 min
12:45 PM/EST Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter Color 91 min
2:45 PM/EST Fang vs. Fiction: The Real Underworld of Vampires and
Werewolves Color 60 min
3:45 PM/EST An American Werewolf in London Color 97 min
5:45 PM/EST Alien Resurrection Color 109 min
8:00 PM/EST Halloween II Color 0 min
10:00 PM/EST Army of Darkness Color 81 min
Tuesday, October 28, 2003
12:00 AM/EST An American Werewolf in Paris Color 105 min
2:00 AM/EST Dr. Terror's House of Horrors Color 98 min
4:00 AM/EST Invasion of the Body Snatchers B&W 80 min
5:15 AM/EST The Giant Gila Monster B&W 74 min
7:45 AM/EST Godzilla B&W 80 min
9:15 AM/EST Godzilla Vs. Monster Zero Color 94 min
11:15 AM/EST King Kong 105 min
4:00 PM/EST King Kong Color 135 min
4:00 PM/EST An American Werewolf in Paris Color 105 min
6:00 PM/EST Halloween II Color 0 min
8:00 PM/EST Halloween III: Season of the Witch Color 96 min
Wednesday, October 29, 2003
12:00 AM/EST Rosemary's Baby Color 136 min
2:45 AM/EST The Dunwich Horror Color 90 min
4:45 AM/EST The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas B&W 85
min
6:30 AM/EST Blood from the Mummy's Tomb Color 94 min
8:30 AM/EST Tales from the Crypt: Well Cooked Hams Color 30 min
9:00 AM/EST Tales from the Crypt: King of the Road Color 30 min
9:30 AM/EST The Other Color 108 min
11:30 AM/EST The Fly Color 94 min
1:30 PM/EST The Return of the Fly B&W 80 min
3:15 PM/EST Rosemary's Baby Color 136 min
6:00 PM/EST Halloween III: Season of the Witch Color 96 min
8:00 PM/EST Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers Color 88 min
9:55 PM/EST They Live Color 97 min
11:55 PM/EST Motel Hell Color 102 min
Thursday, October 30, 2003
1:55 AM/EST Scars of Dracula Color 96 min
3:55 AM/EST Billy the Kid Vs. Dracula Color 90 min
5:25 AM/EST Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter Color 88
min
7:10 AM/EST Fang vs. Fiction: The Real Underworld of Vampires and
Werewolves Color 60 min
10:10 AM/EST Frankenstein's Daughter B&W 85 min
12:05 PM/EST Scars of Dracula Color 96 min
2:05 PM/EST Ghost Story Color 110 min
4:05 PM/EST They Live Color 97 min
6:05 PM/EST Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers Color 88 min
8:00 PM/EST Halloween 5 Color 96 min
10:00 PM/EST Alien Resurrection Color 109 min
Friday, October 31, 2003
2:15 AM/EST Alien Resurrection Color 109 min
4:30 AM/EST It Came from Beneath the Sea B&W 80 min
6:15 AM/EST Tales from the Crypt: Dead Right Color 30 min
6:45 AM/EST Tales from the Crypt: Split Personality Color 30 min
7:15 AM/EST Backstory: Halloween Color 60 min
8:15 AM/EST Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers Color 88 min
10:05 AM/EST Halloween 5 Color 96 min
12:05 PM/EST Halloween II Color 92 min
2:05 PM/EST Halloween III: Season of the Witch Color 96 min
4:05 PM/EST Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers Color 88 min
6:00 PM/EST Halloween 5 Color 96 min
8:00 PM/EST Halloween II Color 0 min
10:00 PM/EST Short Screamers Color 30 min
10:30 PM/EST Fang vs. Fiction: The Real Underworld of Vampires
and Werewolves Color 60 min
11:30 PM/EST Halloween III: Season of the Witch Color 96 min
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Someone. Take me to Applebees. Please. Rib tipppssss. Riiibb tippppssss.
It's nearly October (aka my favorite month!) Woohoo.
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This is a day to remember those who lost their lives to the
warped view of maniacs who are hell bent on destroying all peace
in this world. It is also a day to fight back against all
terrorist groups.
You might think I'm changing subjects here, but when you think about it, I'm really not. The plight of Israel is one of my favorite causes, and I happened upon this link will reading some stuff earlier, so I want to speak about terrorism in the middle east. This might not affect Americans directly today (at least not most of us), but it's this terrorism...this mindset in these killers that is what caused 9/11. It is what has caused most international terrorism from the past 30 years. This is a cause for all people, not just the people of Israel.
I bring your attention to this short article from Jewish World Review. There are some graphic pictures of the May 18 suicide bombing in Israel (by, you guessed it, Palestinians!), so if you've got a weak stomach. Don't click the link.
I ask myself...WHY DON'T newspapers show this stuff? We can no longer let terrorist groups win. I mean, we have a president who is committed to helping these murderers (the Palestinians) get their own state! The White House actually took the road map serious. The road map to peace...the Palestinian side represented by a puppet (Abbas) who in the end answered straight to Arafat (a terrorist!!!) It's not only a joke that anyone took this serious, it's also a big fat knife in the back to my Jewish brothers and sisters who can't even ride a bus home without being murdered by some of the world's biggest cowards.
You can claim that the Palestinians are not all bad all you want, but from my research on the subject, it is clear that there is a pattern in the entire society in that region. There's a mentality of terrorism, of evil that is as big a part of that antire group of people as baseball and apple pie is a part of America.
I just have to wonder...how much longer will our government allow these terrorists to control Israel? How long until we help our Israeli partners in peace fight terrorism? When will we stop demanding that Israel do what we would never dare ask of any other nation on earth?
The Palestinians do not deserve a nation of their own. They have proven themselves terrorists, unwilling to embrace peace, time and time again. Their homicidal mindset it obvious to anyone with half a brain, and I am tired of seeing our government push the idea that these people deserve land that was never rightfully theirs to begin with. Israel exists, it will continue to exist...and one day, when we get our priorities straight, those people will be able to live in peace.
Like the article says...if such bombings can take place in Israel...they can take place in the U.S. Then, they can spread around the globe. I'd like to see how much you support these terrorists then.
Remember, the Palestinians cheered in the streets when they found out the news about September 11. They also (from numerous reports) threatened the lives of reporters who shot footage of the celebrations. I have read polls that say 70% of Palestinians support suicide bombings. Anyone want to defend these people?
You can check out the truth about the Palestinan people here. It has a number of various articles on the subject. Very insightful reading thus far (I have only read a couple of things on the site so far.)
Here is a Fox News article on the possibility of Israel expelling Arafat, an idea I wholly support, and reoccupying the west bank, another plan that I fully support.
More on the Palestinian hatred of Israel AND the U.S.
More on the celebrations in the middle east after attacks.
A list of the victims of Palestinian terror.
Victims of terrorism. People...just like you. Someone's mother, brother, sister, father, cousin, uncle, etc.
The Israeli Government official website. You'll notice that there is a banner at top about Israel remembering the Sept. 11 attacks.
Here is Jeff Jacoby's latest article, discussing terrorism and 9/11.
THE WAR DIDN'T BEGIN ON 9/11
By Jeff Jacoby
The Boston Globe
September 11, 2003
LINK TO ARTICLE HERE
The war we are in didn't begin on Sept. 11, 2001. It began 22
years earlier.
On Nov. 4, 1979, Islamist radicals stormed the US embassy in
Tehran and, with the support of the Ayatollah Khomeini, proceeded
to hold 52 Americans hostage for the next 15 months. The Carter
administration's response -- an embargo on Iranian oil, a break
in diplomatic relations, and a botched rescue attempt the
following April -- was feeble and inept. It was also the start of
a pattern that would be repeated time and again in the years and
administrations that followed.
When a string of American citizens living in Lebanon were
abducted -- and some of them tortured and killed -- by Iranian-
and Syrian-backed terrorists between 1982 and 1991, the United
States reacted not with a terrible swift sword, but with a
pathetic arms-for-hostages ransom scheme. When a massive car bomb
at the US embassy in Beirut murdered 63 people in April 1983, and
another attack in October killed 241 Marines in their barracks,
the Reagan administration promised vengeance, but in the end
merely withdrew US troops from Lebanon.
And so it went when TWA Flight 847 was hijacked and Navy diver
Robert Stethem murdered in 1985. When the cruise liner Achille
Lauro was seized and Leon Klinghoffer shot dead in his
wheelchair. When Pan Am Flight 103 was blown up over Scotland,
killing all 259 people on board. When the World Trade Center was
bombed in 1993. When dozens of Americans were murdered by Arab
terrorists in Israel. When two US military compounds in Saudi
Arabia were destroyed in 1996, leaving 26 dead and more than 500
wounded. When Al Qaeda blew up the American embassies in Kenya
and Tanzania. When the USS Cole was attacked, and 17 sailors
killed, in 2000.
Atrocity followed atrocity, but the fury of the United States was
never aroused. The terrorists and the Middle East dictatorships
that sponsor them attacked us again and again, but Washington
retaliated -- when it bothered to retaliate -- with only
half-hearted gestures and empty rhetoric.
No, the terror war didn't start on the 11th of September. What
happened on 9/11 is that America began fighting back. And the
counterattack was launched not from Washington but from the skies
over southeastern Pennsylvania, when the heroic passengers of
United Flight 93 rose against the terrorists, and aborted the
fourth attack.
In the two years since they went down fighting, much has changed
in the terror war. The Taliban regime that harbored Al Qaeda in
Afghanistan is no more, and thousands of terrorists have been
captured or killed. Osama bin Laden is on the run, his ability to
wreak terror crippled. Saddam Hussein, one of the world's most
dangerous tyrants and a key terrorist ally, has been brought
down, and the United States is rebuilding Iraq into a stable
democracy.
Most important of all, American eyes have opened to the threat
from Islamofascism, the totalitarian ideology that has succeeded
Nazism and Communism as the foremost menace to the norms of
civilization and the liberty of the West. President Bush
understands, as he put it earlier this week, "that terrorist
attacks are not caused by the use of strength; they are invited
by the perception of weakness." And that "the surest
way to avoid attacks on our own people is to engage the enemy
where he lives and plans."
But if much has been accomplished in the war on terrorism, the
worst sponsors of terror nonetheless remain untouched. We have
taken the fight to the terrorists, but we have not yet taken on
the terror-states that are their mainstay and refuge: Iran,
Syria, and Saudi Arabia. The governments of those three
countries, more than any other, were responsible for Sept. 11 and
the 22 years of terrorism that preceded it. Until they are
toppled or transformed, the war against us will go on.
Bush grasps a critical point: The root of international terrorism
is the lack of freedom in the Muslim Middle East. Iraq is the
central theater in the war against terrorism because the terror
mafia is determined to prevent the emergence of a stable and
democratic Arab country. The president rightly said in his speech
on Sunday that as liberty puts down Iraqi roots, the terrorists
will retreat. But retreat to where? To oblivion? No -- back
across the border to the terror strongholds they are coming from:
Iran, Syria, and Saudi Arabia.
For years, the State Department has identified the theocratic
dictatorship in Iran as the world's foremost sponsor of
terrorism. For almost as long, it has charged the Ba'athist
regime in Syria with providing safe haven to notorious terror
groups like Hamas and Hezbollah. Saudi Arabia spawned not only
Osama bin Laden and 15 of the 9/11 hijackers, but the
petrodollars and Wahhabi fanaticism that have long sustained the
terror mills. Regime change in Tehran, Damascus, and Riyadh is
essential to the eradication of Middle East terrorism. It is time
the administration began saying so explicitly.
How best to effect that change is a question for the experts. It
need not necessarily involve military force. Diplomatic and
financial support for Iran's pro-American democratic resistance,
for example, might well be enough to topple the hated mullahs who
rule the country.
What is critical is to recognize that we are in a fight to the
death. Either America will destroy the terror masters or the
terror masters will keep destroying Americans. Two years after
9/11, let us strive to be like the heroes of Flight 93 -- to have
the moral clarity to see what must be done, and the strength of
will to do it.
(Jeff Jacoby is a columnist for The Boston Globe.)
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Well...the second democratic debate was last night on Fox
News, moderated by the always wonderful, Brit Hume. More nonsense
from all parties involved. Still, none of them have any ideas of
their own...they spent most of their time (at least most of what
I could stomach of the debate) attacking President Bush. They're
idea of how to get elected:
"The president sucks, elect me."
Great idea, guys..nice to have no solutions of your own! Braun was asked a question about terrorism and Saudi Arabia, and spent her entire allowed time stealing a question about strength that was asked of someone else...taking her time to talk about the president hasn't shown strength, but she will. Too bad she didn't even have time to say a word about Saudi Arabia or terrorism!
A very creepy thing- Al Sharpton must have seen the debate he missed, and stole Gephardt's "miserable failure" line and started using it himself. He has such original ideas, he can't even make up his own phrases to describe the current admin. Nice one, Albert! Remember, Sharpton is a race baiter, a crook, and a swindler. So, why even worry about what this idiot says in the end?
Okay, I lied...I'll worry about one more thing Sharpton said. He said President Bush is like a "gang leader."
See? The democrats have NO ideas. They spend their entire time attacking Bush and saying he's awful.
There was a ridiculous moment when they were all going down the line telling their favorite songs...and most of them used the opportunity to name a song and use it in a phrase about how they should get elected. Imagine, by John Lennon...as in imagine what we could do if I were president. Something to that effect. It was laughable.
Finally...all of them were asked if they would support the president's request for money in the rebuilding of Iraq. They all HAD to remember to throw in the fact that they supported the troops! Oh, golly, the president sucks, and he should outline every single detail before I vote yes for the money to build Iraq, but let me make myself clear- I love all the soldiers...each and every one of them, and I will surely vote yes to what THEY need, but maybe no to the president. Yeah, idiots...dems never get the military vote, you're not going to get it now, just by playing to that particular group of people with your nonsense about how you'll vote yes for the troops, but refuse to write a blank check to the president. I just loved how they ALL, every one of them, had to mention how they supported the troops.
Forget what the polls say. The polls out now have the president staying in office for the most part...but remember, the numbers will rise when they dems choose their man and people realize he still has no ideas of his own.
By the way, is Kucinich insane? Well, I think there are others that want universal health care too. He wants the government to run every aspect of health care. That's great. Let me tell you now...it would never in a million years work. Look at Canada...they're system is bankrupting the government! Not to mention, medical advances would go down the drain...breakthroughs happen, because the market dictates that better services have to be available as time goes by. A socialized healthcare system would totally screw that balance up, and you would see innovation take a nosedive in a second.
What is with Davis? He said once again that the recall is nothing but a way for the Republicans to steal an election. He always mentions Florida and Bill Clinton and impeachment. Funny. Again- for those with memory loss, Clinton lied to all of us. He lied to a grand jury. The man was disbarred! He was, by far, one of the most corrupt men to ever live at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. And, Florida? Gray Davis now thinks that the republicans stole an election, because of Gore's highly illegal recounts and the fact that according to the Constitution, we pick our president according to the electoral college. Poor guy will never again have a career in politics as long as he lives.
Last thing- Hi "babe."
Thank God Israel struck back. Until every member and supporter of Hamas and every other terrorist group is dead...the fight will not be over. I commend Israel for not giving into the nonsense from other countries. The Palestinian Authority said that Israel's strike is a criminal act. Golly guys...what about the two suicide bombers that killed Israelis yesterday? What about the constant murders of innocent CHILDREN by YOUR people? What, can I ask, do you geniuses expect Israel to do? You've made your bed. Now...lie in it.
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The RIAA sued a 12 year old girl. Just one child they have sued
so far. Good going guys. Just wait till Congress puts an end to
your lunacy. Shouldn't be too long.
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To all of you slow Howard Dean supporters (yes, if you support Dean, you're SLOW)...if you weren't aware- he basically said that we shouldn't take Israel's side...but instead but totally even-handed with (the democratic nation of) Israel and the Palestinians (led by a known terrorist.) Lieberman, who did little but attack Bush as well, did call Dean out on his contradictions. Lieberman tho, DID, claim that Bush has broke alliances with all our allies. Too bad that's a lie. Clearly our supposed allies betrayed US.
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I'm very happy right now. Well, not this very second in particular, but lately in general. Very very happy. All because of a girl. How sweet, huh? Awww. Yeah, yeah, shut up. I mean, it's nice being in love and having that emotional bond with someone. Something that only you and that person have with each other. At least, I hope that's the case. Maybe I'm speaking too soon on the subject, but I wanted to share my happiness with everyone else, so I really can't help but mention it. I guess when you feel like this, you want as many people to know as possible, and this seems to be a decent enough forum for making that happen.
So...that's that...and that's that.
5:31 AM: Just wanted to mention that I added another movie review- for the movie Freddy vs Jason.
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How precious. Depp claims they misquoted him. Why do I not believe him? Sorry Depp ol' buddy...I'm quite convinced that you're full of crap.
Also...yet another hot woman. Justina Machado who I have seen a number of times as Rico's wife on Six Feet Under. She's on some new Lifetime series called 1 800 Missing.
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Wow. TV execs. are desparate. Not only are people in television so unoriginal that they stole Coupling from Britain, but you'll notice that at least part of the series premiere is an exact clone of the script from the british series of the same name. Here's an idea guys- at least change the name if you're going to rip a show off. Or maybe, don't do it at all. Why? Most of us have cable, and we can see the SAME EXACT SHOW on BBC America...same scripts, same storylines, same characters, etc. What's next? The brand new hit comedy Monty Python? Or maybe Father Ted USA?
That stuf just bugs me. They already have enough garbage on TV, why clone already existing shows that are probably better than the U.S. version?
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First off, everyone see that Abbas, the worthless puppet of Arafat, resigned today? Good. That guy refused to control the terrorist groups. He said he couldn't do it, then he said he wouldn't, then he said he would. The man of the ever changing story, he didn't. Anyhow, he's out and Arafat is left in control, tho he never really lost control. No peace will come anytime since, considering Arafat is, himself, a terrorist. Too bad for the Palestinians, in time, ultimately a good thing for Israel, because the public is going to tire of the continuous attacks by Palestinian terrorists, and Sharon will grow the balls he needs to fight international pressure and protect his country like he should. He was voted in because he's a hawk, and that's what Israelis want. I'd get tired of getting my country blown up everyday too. Hopefully, with the support of the U.S., the Palestinians can be contained and Israel can flourish like it should. Don't get me wrong, I feel bad for the many peaceful Palestinians, but the bad among them have dug a hole that they can't get out of...and Arafat and his ilk were handed everything they wanted on a platter with Clinton in the 90's, and they still refused, so- in the end, to hell with them. Until they can get rid of Arafat for good, and not install another puppet leader like Abbas, those people have no chance.
On another subject. Tell me Lumidee isn't hot. Too bad her
music is downright terrible and she's never gonna be famous, most
likely always stuck at "almost famous."
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Okay. I have pics of Blu Cantrell in Beautiful Women (I think), and I posted about her before in the main page...tho, I need to readd those entries still. But- this chick got way ugly way fast if you ask me. Tell me she didn't look hot in her video for Hit Em Up Style, or whatever the song is called. Now, look at this pic from her newest video. She's hideous. Look at the second pic, it worries me more, because that cannot be her. That is clearly a man with a small mustache driving that car. I enlarged it a bit so you could see it better. Tell me that's not a guy!
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I tried to IM someone a minute ago, and they logged off in a panic. It's sad...since all I said was hi, trying to be a nice guy. It's sort of nice tho, because it lets me know that I'm a mature sensible person...and, well- some people are just bitter, twisted freaks. :)
I'm just thinking...Hey, freaks- pick one way to be! Don't be one way one day, then be totally different the next...it makes people worry about your mental status. Then again, we all know about your mental status already. I think I might go out now. Out of the house, by myself, in a car (since, like an adult, I can drive myself around!). And, I won't throw up out of fear. Woohoo.
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Okay. Weird? I clicked on the little winamp logo on the right bottom side of the window, and it brings up a menu that has internet radio and internet tv. I've been watching some of the video feeds- mainly music videos, but also anime (which I couldn't get to connect to), Family Guy, and old cartoons. This one channel has The Office (which airs on BBC America in the U.S.)...pretty cool. How I never noticed this before, I've no idea.
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John Kerry, who voted for the use of force in Iraq, is now trying to change his story. He says that the President mislead him and the American people by invading Iraq. This is what Kerry had to say yesterday.
“I voted to threaten the use of force to make Saddam Hussein comply with the resolutions of the United Nations. I believe that was right. But it was wrong to rush to war without building a true international coalition, and with no plan to win the peace.”
Kerry claims he only voted to "THREATEN the use of force," which is just silly. If you look at the text of the house joint resolution, you will see that the document says the use of force...nowhere does it mention any threat of force.
So...what do we know about John Kerry? The man is a liar. He is now attacking the President of the US for going thru with the resolution that Kerry himself signed off on! Again, more attacks that make absolutely no sense from the dems. I wonder how on earth we're supposed to expect a Congress to work when many of them spend most of their time bashing the White House? If you ask me, they can't get anything done.
I also heard that some lady is going to be on O'Reilly Factor tonight who was a teacher AND a hooker...and, now she's suing, because she has the right to sell sex. Funny. She's a teacher, and look at the example she's setting (scumbag!!)...not to mention, unless you're in Nevada, no one has the right to sell sex in the United States! Selling sex and breaking the law...then suing BECAUSE you're breaking the law- great lesson for your students, you moron. What do you call 10, 000 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean? Exactly...
There will be a protest at the site of the WTC in NYC today. Let me say one thing to a lot of these people- why on earth do some of you want what is basically a grave yard? Rebuild the damned building...and let the past be the past. Make a memorial or whatever...but, don't let it become a huge graveyard that can never be built on, like many of the families want. That's just silly.
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Check out this great free file that was mentioned on Tech TV. It's called World TV...and it lets you connect to hundreds of live TV streams from around the globe (most of which are non-english, so I've no idea what they're saying), and it plays the streams thru windows media player.
I'm watching a channel from Australia called The Basement...I guess it's a music video channel. I was watching Japanese Television a second ago. I think this sort of thing is amazing. To be able to get streams from all over the world...just to see how TV is different in other parts of the globe. I've never heard any of these bands on this music channel I've got on now. Now, all this needs is a built in English translator for all the channels...
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Anyone see Spike TV's reality series spoof, Joe Schmo? Or The Joe Schmo Show, I guess they call it? Not sure.
I watched the last half hour of that show, and it's pretty funny. Nice to see someone making fun of these ridiculous shows...They have all these actors playing contestants on this fake game show called Lap of Luxury, and they have this pizza deliver guy who thinks it's all real. So, they're busy spending their time doing ridiculous games, tho no more ridiculous than REAL "reality shows," like who can keep their hands on the high priced hooker the longest. The characters are all stereotypes of the different people you'd see on a reality show. Check the Spike site for the character info. here. I think the premeire was 2 hours long, so I need to catch the reairing of it on Sunday night- 8 and 11 PM CT on Spike TV.
Here's an article from cnn.com about the show as well.
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Maybe if I search my mind a little,
I'd come across the reason why you're gone.
Maybe if I searched a little while.
And if I try to reconcile a little,
Then maybe I will know for how long.
This time...
Well here we are,
...ohh.......ohh..
in separate rooms.
..ohh....ohh......
I can hear you sighing.
..ohh......ohh.....ohh..
Saying "No way out" or so it seems.
.......ohh.......ohh....ohh.....
Dry our tears, we're flying straight on through that
window-oh.
..ohh......................ohh........ohh.........
Fast changes arriving.
Slow changes moving out.
Here we are.
Now maybe if I took the time a little,
Then maybe I would know for how long.
This time.
Well here we are,
ohh........ohh..
In separate rooms.
..ohh....ohh......
I can hear you sighing.
.ohh......ohh.....ohh..
Saying "No way out" or so it seems.
......ohh.......ohh....ohh.....
Dry our tears, we're flying straight on through that
window-oh.
..ohh......................ohh........ohh.....................fast
changes...
Fast changes arriving.
they come around... ...slow changes...
Slow changes moving out
...are moving out...
Here we are...
Fast changes they come around slow changes...
...Fast changes arriving.
Are moving out...
And slow changes are moving out
Here we are.
Here we are.
A Change.......
Ohh
Here we are in separate rooms
ohh........ohh...ohh....ohh......
I can hear you crying. Saying "No way out" or so it
seems
..ohh......ohh.....ohh........ohh.......ohh....ohh.....
Dry our tears, we're flying straight on through that
window-oh.
..ohh......................ohh........ohh.....................fast
changes...
They come around... ...slow changes...are moving out...
Fast changes arriving and slow changes are moving out
Fast changes arriving.
They come around... ...slow changes...
And slow changes are moving out
...are moving out.
Here we are.
...fast changes arriving.
fast changes they come around, slow changes...
Are moving out...
Slow changes are moving out.
Here we are.
Fast changes. They come around slow changes.... ...are moving
out...
Fast changes Fast changes.................have come around
Here we are
..........Fast changes...
Here we are.
Here we are.
Here we are.
Here we are.
Ohh.....
(seal)
(Seal) 1994
I wash my faith in dirty water,
'Cause it gives my mind a little order.
And I play that game, just like I should do.
But my whole world, slips away.
I live my life, I live it slowly.
And I take my time, I'm in no hurry, yea... I'm livin'...
And when I go then I would surely.
I would dance with a total stranger
And hold them in my arms.
Hell, there could be no danger if I open up up,
'Cause when the cryin' starts so,
If I chant for happiness,
Maybe that will make me feel better?
I can't change my ideals, I can't lose my desire
Ohh, if I chant for happiness maybe that will make me feel
better?
I'd be your newborn friend for the world.
Well I wash my face in dirty water.
For life I have no order.
'Cause I,
Know that feeling when you've tried so hard to make your way out,
Nothing mends.
So you search for the breed of the problems there lying,
Deep down in your soul.
And if, they never end,
There's a whole bunch of reasons, tryin' to get out
But they can't make it out of the door.
Ohh, I know the reason,
I'm not enough.
There's nothing more... But,
If I chant for happiness, maybe that will make me feel better.
I can't changes my ideals, I can't put out the fire.
Ohh, if I chant for happiness, maybe that will bring us together,
For the better...
I can't changes my ideals, I can't lose my desire.
I'm just a newborn friend for the world...
Just a newborn friend for the world...
I'll be your newborn friend and I'll...
Sing loud... Sing loud... Sing loud... my friend
sing loud......sing loud......sing loud.
Gonna sing louder sing loud sing loud my friend
...sing louder... ...sing loud... ...sing loud...
To my friend my friend and I...
I'll sing love, sing loud, sing a little louder of my friend.
Ohh.. my friend
Ohh, my darlin friend my friend my friend
Ah, na-da da, da...
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Speaking of 24...Penny Johnson, who plays the president's wife, is fine. Very very fine.
To anyone who watches 24...I can understand why so many fans of the show hate Jack's daughter. What a pointless, stupid subplot with her and the little girl. And, who is this stupid? Instead of going to the police right away, she takes off with the little girl, beats the dad (because she's not smart enough to find, oh I dunno, a populated area maybe!!?) Now, the cop pulls her and her little boyfriend over, after they KIDNAPPED the girl from the hospitak (a nuke will go off, but her concern is over the little girl...why?!) Now, we see the mother is dead in the trunk. This subplot is getting on my nerves, and it surely doesn't fit with the rest of the show...and Elisha Cuthbert- she might be the cutest ever, but man her character is dumb as hell...
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The entire second season of Fox's hit series, 24, is on FX right now. It started at 11 PM CT. and runs thru tomorrow night at 11. I'm watching it...
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