The US Senate has just passed H.R. 3162, the anti-terrorism bill with only one ‘no’ vote.
That low rumble you heard this morning is the sound of terrorist everywhere declaring, “We would never do aaaaanything without the aprooooval of the Seeeeeenate.”
Dear Editor– I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Great Cthulhu. Papa says, “If you see it on Alt.Horror.Cthulhu, it’s so,” Please tell me the truth, is there a Great Cthulhu who will rise from the watery depth of the Pacific to clear the Earth of all living things? ——Virgina Marsh
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Because some of us need some specail help.
learning research done by apple. Fascinating. Make sure to check out the “Elephant’s Memory” section. It is an attempt at a language entirely made up of “logical” or “natural” symbols that represent actions. This reminds me of the pictoral language mentioned in the first 100 pages of “the diamond age” that I read (never finished the book….).
It is just this kind of shit that makes me hate the Fundamentalists just as much as I hate the terrorists who destroyed the WTC. Both are evil, both are compassionateless, both thrive on fear not love. If anything brought about the attack, it was not the liberal media or the lack of spirituality in our society and government, it was the bigotry, racism, and intolerance of people like Pat Robertson.
“For it isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.”
“When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? ”
—Submitted by Iambe via engel
What a real president would have said. Delivered by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, on January 6, 1941
“The first is freedom of speech and expression –everywhere in the world.
The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way– everywhere in the world.
The third is freedom from want, which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants –everywhere in the world.
The fourth is freedom from fear, which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor –anywhere in the wold.
That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation. That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called “new order” of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb.
To that new order we oppose the greater conception –the moral order. A good society is able to face schemes of world domination and foreign revolutions alike without fear. Since the beginning of our American history we have been engaged in change, in a perpetual, peaceful revolution, a revolution which goes on steadily, quietly, adjusting itself to changing conditions without the concentration camp or the quicklime in the ditch. The world order which we seek is the cooperation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society.”
commentary I like
“America, to put it bluntly, is a basically a collective badass. The kind of country that, even when some ass-weasel sneaks up and clobbers her from behind with a lead pipe, stands back up. Spits out a bloody tooth. Rolls up her sleeves and shows everybody what she’s made of.”
I occasionally get a kick out of strange and funny photos. You know, like the street signs that are misspelled or placed in really funny positions. So the other day, when I found a link from Zgeek to a site full of funny pics, I started to peruse them. First I found this picture from a Lexington high school. I remember seeing this sign when it was up back when I was living in Lexington. Glad somebody caught that on film. When I stumbled across this pic of a young man expressing his displeasure with Microsoft, I thought…”Hey, that looks like Alan.”
Small world.
If you’re a Christian, or if you�ve tailgated one recently, you understand that when faced with a moral challenge, you need only ask yourself, “What Would Jesus Do?”
Funny…too funny. Slumites, a new topic for discussion….”What would Bob do?”
[via Zgeek]
