It sounds too obvious, but in keeping with Akhams razor (the simplest explanation being the most likely), they hate because it gives them something to do. They hate US because we are wealthy both monetarily and in bounty, we are powerful both militarily, politically, and culturally, and finally because we don't particularly give a shit for them.
With[out] all due respect to Katz, he fancies himself a journalist. Journalists don't have an original thought in their mind unless the marketing department puts it there first. God forbid someone abandon a topic that's sexy for one that's actually new and thought provoking! How then would you sell advertising time between 6:00 and 7:00?
Now, I don't know if it was serious or AF (did'nt really give a shit), but there was an article here on/. yesterday that ads would be inserted as articles. The reason it would'nt suprise/shock me is because half the newscast is at least in some route corporate sponsored - if not indirectly through commercials, it is directly through on-air endorsements by the cute bobble-headed anchor-babe.
Round here in Arizona, theres some fat chick who does editorials on channel 3. She's not pretty (she's not ugly either, it's just that she's not made of collogen and silicon with a rack three times the size of her waist), but dammit when she speaks it's worth hearing. Consequently, since she doesn't do "product placement/endorsements" during her time, she's only on in the 6-8am time slots.
So, in effect, don't fully trust any information that you get between commercials, or from anyone who would gain from telling you the information.
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The Saudi's are already under a sun-dried heap of rock hard camel doodoo. The current dictator - and lets be honest a "king" is nothing more than a dictator without a snazzy uniform, shiney boots, and a neat salute - of Saudi Arabia is King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud. 'Ibn' is an Arabic word for "son", and indicates that King Abdul is a son in the Al Saud family - a bunch of thugs enthroned by the British as the sun set on their empire in the Persian/Arabian region.
At this point, the rampant corruption, graft, and mishandling of the country has gotten nearly everyone pissed off at them, and it is only through kissing the right asses at the Mosques are they even able to keep a grip on the reigns of power.
Concentration of wealth? It's more about the equality of opportunity (and the lack therof). People (usually lefty commie bitches) like to complain about how the majority of the wealth in this count is in the hands of a few, but they haven't seen anything till they get to countries like Saudi Arabia. There, the rich are rich beyond any conceivable means, while to poor are pathetically poor. There is no middle class. If you are born poor, you will die poor. If you are born into a rich family, chances are you'll die richer.
A guy in my company likes to tell his "war stories" from the gulf war. When our troops were over there to prevent Saddam from rolling on the Al Saud's, the royals there basically hooked soldiers up with their summer mansions for R&R. Try bathrooms with solid gold fixtures and pearl/onyx tiling. Try bathtubs the size of swimming pools. Try "modest" houses having a few dozen bedrooms. That's how the rich live over there. And the poor? If they're lucky they've go enough rags to cover their asses so they don't get sunburn on their buttcheeks. If they're truly lucky, they die from infection caused by a camel spiders bite. They don't even have the opportunity like the poor in this country to get a job that pays modest wages and allows for a decent living. That's why you've got millions of young disgruntled males making love to their AK-74's (yes, 74's, the 47 is an old clunker no self respecting Jihaddi would carry into an airport) on video. What about jobs? Guess what, the Al Saud family - partly to keep the poor poor - hire all their labour from outside of the country. Whereas countries like Egypt actually try to westernize and raise up the poor.
Folks, if there's any hope of peace in the middle east, it is only through democracy and economic reform.
"Globalism" is a beat-to-death horse that's been pounded on from all over the political spectrum.
Some leftists decry globalism because resultant interdependability between sociopolitical structures prevents Marxist-Leninist governments from operating successfully alongside free market democracies (as if socialisms would ever be successful, or pure communism could even exist, without a totalitarian political structure). Some extreme-righties decry it because globalism is reminiscent of biblical prophecies surrounding the "end-times", and God knows none of us sinning mutherphuqers wants Jesus to come back too soon (he'd be pissed to say the least!).
Wether you agree with one or the other, the fact is that uncontrolled globalism is inherently evil. One could most easily see why in drawing a parallel between a one world government under the ospices of some pan-national body of representatives (elected or otherwise), and The Borg (ST:TNG Fame). Reagan tells us that government is "inherently evil", but inline with Jefferson, it is a "necessary evil". A one world globalist society is the fist step towards a one world government. It is a step that but barely has to be taken before the worlds politicos will begin falling all over themselves, jockeying for position in the new more powerful political entity so that they themselves will be more powerful. Currently there are 189 member nations of the United Nations (those nations which are recognized, but not necessarily all nations of the planet), each of whom to some extent have the ability, regardless of how disproportionate, to check the others either through the UN or in a unilateral fashion, as they see fit. However, there is no organization, save for possibly NATO, that has the power to check the United Nations. Therein lies the rub: If the UN, or any other body holding itself as the worlds top level governing body, decides to do something against a people, they have little or no recourse. The citizens of the world would be left to hope that such a government would always remain fair and impartial, and maintain respect towards the individual.
Nothing could be more naive. How many Adolph Hitlers, Saddam Husseins, or Osama Bin Ladens do we need before we realize that too much power in the hands of the few, and unchecked by other equal powers, leads down primrose path to the gates of hell.
Just when I though Jon Katz was the master of incoherent, non-sequiter, rambling cacophonies, an AC (when will/. turn them the hell off?) comes along. At least these idgits have taken a short break from Bush bashing to concentrate on a man who, for all intents and purposes, has disappeared to an "undisclosed location" for the last 7 months.
The Palestinians are not in Israel, nor are they citizens. They live under the rule of Yasser Arafat's "Interim Government", also known as the "Palestinian Authority". Under this system, the palistians have autonomy, but the truth is Yasser Arafat (or General Arafat as he calls himself) is running Gaza and the West Bank like a tin-pot dictator. Under Arafat, not only do they not have a vote, but they dont' even have the right to political speech unless it's under Yasser's direction.
At this point, there are three kinds of Palestinians (in order of their percent of population)
1) The kind that don't give a shit about any damn cause, and just want to have a life that doesn't include sending their kids to schools in flak jackets 2) Palestinians who think they are fighting some grand cause to reclaim lands they never actually had from a people who doesn't even want it, and think that they are justified in murdering civilians in the name of their cause 3) The Palestinians who go around convincing #2 that they "are fighting some grand cause...", while talking out of the other side of their face to the rest of the world about how much they want peace with Israel.
Okay, so...I submitted this story yesterday with twice the linkage, and got shot down. Does SlashDot actually have a standard they adhere to, or do all new submissions go on a dart board?
By the same token, don't you have anything better to do than bitch and moan and people who demand better quality?
When you consider that they expect that "better quality" to come about by having the government forcefully take it from others and give it them for no better reason than they want it, then I indeed reserve the balance of my time for said purpose of bitching and moaning.
Typical american conservative.... You may now grow up, please
Typical commie euro-trash....you may actually try working for a living now.
Now that Battle Creek has admitted culpability, and confirmed that the cause of their problem is a defective e-mail server, it's time for ORBZ to sue the fuck out of them - for fun and profit.
The Chinese army would'nt make it past Long Beach before a high ranking officer gets whacked by the bloods in a drive by. Shit, we're so hungry to kill we gack each other on a daily basis.
Besides, the PLA is needed to keep their own country under boot heel.
"Bang bang bang...three in the head, you know they're dead"
--Morgan Freeman, Nurse Betty
Personally, I would'nt shoot anyone trying to take my guns - they guns they find they can have. Then, if I can't petition, vote, or sue my way to a remedy, I'll dig up the rest and then it's VIVA LA REVOLUCION! All the Tequila for me and my homies.
If you care to actually look into it, increased funding in alternative power sources is central to the Bush energy plan. Thank your DEMOCRATIC congressman for working to shoot that down. Quit making up stupid lies to bash the g-dub.
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That's absolutely not true...we would'nt destroy the WHOLE planet, just the parts we're not using and anything upwind : P
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What the crap are you talking about?
Do you even realize that when you regurgitate these tired aphorisms, that you sound like a mind numbed robot? At least regurgitate them at a time when it would appear relevant...
Well, shit for brains, those of us who have worked in a scientific field as a researcher can use "anecdotage". It's called practical first hand experience. Otoh, how is this in anyway related to your off topic shrill rantings?
Peer reviewed science IS politically motivated polemics! Scientists, in fact, are secondly only to active politicians in terms of theivery, lying, back stabbing, and chicanery. I have had several friends get their scientific aspirations crushed by their academic peers and those who should otherwise be guiding them into their prospective fields. You have to remember, very few scientists do NOT have an ulterior motive - to support the company they work for, or to make a big stink to secure funding for their pet projects. Hell, there are many scientists whose whole career revolves around holding large corporations hostage (ala Greenpeace).
...is not flooding. Think about this folks, the ice shelfs are in the range of millions of billions of tons. How does that affect our rotation? If those ice caps melt, and the waters relocate along with their weight to the equator, don't we slow down? Is there even a chance the earths tilt may change?
Ouch...perhaps you meant to say "millions of fundamentalist-extremist muslims", in which case I'll see your "millions of fundamentalist-extremist muslims" and raise you 500,000 conservative southern baptist clansman, and 125,000 child raping catholic priests.
It was before he used chemical weapons. Further, he actively pandered to us for support, and at the time he displayed great promise with his secular government and democratic reforms. You act like you never made a mistake before.
Apparently I must be blind, because I don't see anything in that article which says we shared anthrax with Iraq.
Give it up, the ill informed conspiratorial rantings of madmen like yourself. The fact of the matter is any schmuck can create anthrax, and it only takes a slighly more educated schmuck to create a weaponized grade of anthrax.
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It sounds too obvious, but in keeping with Akhams razor (the simplest explanation being the most likely), they hate because it gives them something to do. They hate US because we are wealthy both monetarily and in bounty, we are powerful both militarily, politically, and culturally, and finally because we don't particularly give a shit for them.
With[out] all due respect to Katz, he fancies himself a journalist. Journalists don't have an original thought in their mind unless the marketing department puts it there first. God forbid someone abandon a topic that's sexy for one that's actually new and thought provoking! How then would you sell advertising time between 6:00 and 7:00?
/. yesterday that ads would be inserted as articles. The reason it would'nt suprise/shock me is because half the newscast is at least in some route corporate sponsored - if not indirectly through commercials, it is directly through on-air endorsements by the cute bobble-headed anchor-babe.
Now, I don't know if it was serious or AF (did'nt really give a shit), but there was an article here on
Round here in Arizona, theres some fat chick who does editorials on channel 3. She's not pretty (she's not ugly either, it's just that she's not made of collogen and silicon with a rack three times the size of her waist), but dammit when she speaks it's worth hearing. Consequently, since she doesn't do "product placement/endorsements" during her time, she's only on in the 6-8am time slots.
So, in effect, don't fully trust any information that you get between commercials, or from anyone who would gain from telling you the information.
The Saudi's are already under a sun-dried heap of rock hard camel doodoo. The current dictator - and lets be honest a "king" is nothing more than a dictator without a snazzy uniform, shiney boots, and a neat salute - of Saudi Arabia is King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud. 'Ibn' is an Arabic word for "son", and indicates that King Abdul is a son in the Al Saud family - a bunch of thugs enthroned by the British as the sun set on their empire in the Persian/Arabian region.
At this point, the rampant corruption, graft, and mishandling of the country has gotten nearly everyone pissed off at them, and it is only through kissing the right asses at the Mosques are they even able to keep a grip on the reigns of power.
Concentration of wealth? It's more about the equality of opportunity (and the lack therof). People (usually lefty commie bitches) like to complain about how the majority of the wealth in this count is in the hands of a few, but they haven't seen anything till they get to countries like Saudi Arabia. There, the rich are rich beyond any conceivable means, while to poor are pathetically poor. There is no middle class. If you are born poor, you will die poor. If you are born into a rich family, chances are you'll die richer.
A guy in my company likes to tell his "war stories" from the gulf war. When our troops were over there to prevent Saddam from rolling on the Al Saud's, the royals there basically hooked soldiers up with their summer mansions for R&R. Try bathrooms with solid gold fixtures and pearl/onyx tiling. Try bathtubs the size of swimming pools. Try "modest" houses having a few dozen bedrooms. That's how the rich live over there. And the poor? If they're lucky they've go enough rags to cover their asses so they don't get sunburn on their buttcheeks. If they're truly lucky, they die from infection caused by a camel spiders bite. They don't even have the opportunity like the poor in this country to get a job that pays modest wages and allows for a decent living. That's why you've got millions of young disgruntled males making love to their AK-74's (yes, 74's, the 47 is an old clunker no self respecting Jihaddi would carry into an airport) on video. What about jobs? Guess what, the Al Saud family - partly to keep the poor poor - hire all their labour from outside of the country. Whereas countries like Egypt actually try to westernize and raise up the poor.
Folks, if there's any hope of peace in the middle east, it is only through democracy and economic reform.
"Globalism" is a beat-to-death horse that's been pounded on from all over the political spectrum.
Some leftists decry globalism because resultant interdependability between sociopolitical structures prevents Marxist-Leninist governments from operating successfully alongside free market democracies (as if socialisms would ever be successful, or pure communism could even exist, without a totalitarian political structure). Some extreme-righties decry it because globalism is reminiscent of biblical prophecies surrounding the "end-times", and God knows none of us sinning mutherphuqers wants Jesus to come back too soon (he'd be pissed to say the least!).
Wether you agree with one or the other, the fact is that uncontrolled globalism is inherently evil. One could most easily see why in drawing a parallel between a one world government under the ospices of some pan-national body of representatives (elected or otherwise), and The Borg (ST:TNG Fame). Reagan tells us that government is "inherently evil", but inline with Jefferson, it is a "necessary evil". A one world globalist society is the fist step towards a one world government. It is a step that but barely has to be taken before the worlds politicos will begin falling all over themselves, jockeying for position in the new more powerful political entity so that they themselves will be more powerful. Currently there are 189 member nations of the United Nations (those nations which are recognized, but not necessarily all nations of the planet), each of whom to some extent have the ability, regardless of how disproportionate, to check the others either through the UN or in a unilateral fashion, as they see fit. However, there is no organization, save for possibly NATO, that has the power to check the United Nations. Therein lies the rub: If the UN, or any other body holding itself as the worlds top level governing body, decides to do something against a people, they have little or no recourse. The citizens of the world would be left to hope that such a government would always remain fair and impartial, and maintain respect towards the individual.
Nothing could be more naive. How many Adolph Hitlers, Saddam Husseins, or Osama Bin Ladens do we need before we realize that too much power in the hands of the few, and unchecked by other equal powers, leads down primrose path to the gates of hell.
Just when I though Jon Katz was the master of incoherent, non-sequiter, rambling cacophonies, an AC (when will /. turn them the hell off?) comes along. At least these idgits have taken a short break from Bush bashing to concentrate on a man who, for all intents and purposes, has disappeared to an "undisclosed location" for the last 7 months.
You bitch, I was going to say that!
So much for being the first to paraphrase Churchill....
The Palestinians are not in Israel, nor are they citizens. They live under the rule of Yasser Arafat's "Interim Government", also known as the "Palestinian Authority". Under this system, the palistians have autonomy, but the truth is Yasser Arafat (or General Arafat as he calls himself) is running Gaza and the West Bank like a tin-pot dictator. Under Arafat, not only do they not have a vote, but they dont' even have the right to political speech unless it's under Yasser's direction.
At this point, there are three kinds of Palestinians (in order of their percent of population)
1) The kind that don't give a shit about any damn cause, and just want to have a life that doesn't include sending their kids to schools in flak jackets
2) Palestinians who think they are fighting some grand cause to reclaim lands they never actually had from a people who doesn't even want it, and think that they are justified in murdering civilians in the name of their cause
3) The Palestinians who go around convincing #2 that they "are fighting some grand cause...", while talking out of the other side of their face to the rest of the world about how much they want peace with Israel.
Okay, so...I submitted this story yesterday with twice the linkage, and got shot down. Does SlashDot actually have a standard they adhere to, or do all new submissions go on a dart board?
By the same token, don't you have anything better to do than bitch and moan and people who demand better quality?
When you consider that they expect that "better quality" to come about by having the government forcefully take it from others and give it them for no better reason than they want it, then I indeed reserve the balance of my time for said purpose of bitching and moaning.
Typical american conservative.... You may now grow up, please
Typical commie euro-trash....you may actually try working for a living now.
Why in the hell did this guy get a -1? The moderators are sucking today.
(I've still got enough karma to bitch)
I submitted this a good hour ago, and now it pops up under someone else who wrote it the same way. WHERE IS THY JUSTICE!
And yes, I know "grousing" is offtopic, but I'm apt to do it anyway. I've got enough karma to bitch a little.
Now that Battle Creek has admitted culpability, and confirmed that the cause of their problem is a defective e-mail server, it's time for ORBZ to sue the fuck out of them - for fun and profit.
The Chinese army would'nt make it past Long Beach before a high ranking officer gets whacked by the bloods in a drive by. Shit, we're so hungry to kill we gack each other on a daily basis.
Besides, the PLA is needed to keep their own country under boot heel.
"Bang bang bang...three in the head, you know they're dead"
--Morgan Freeman, Nurse Betty
Personally, I would'nt shoot anyone trying to take my guns - they guns they find they can have. Then, if I can't petition, vote, or sue my way to a remedy, I'll dig up the rest and then it's VIVA LA REVOLUCION! All the Tequila for me and my homies.
And precisely how are they going to get their 1 billion invaders over here, dub-mass?
Do you not have anything better to do with your time than bitch and moan about an informative article because it doesn't use your lexis?
Kindly grab both of your ears tightly, one in each hand, and pull firmly until your head is extricated from your ass.
If you care to actually look into it, increased funding in alternative power sources is central to the Bush energy plan. Thank your DEMOCRATIC congressman for working to shoot that down. Quit making up stupid lies to bash the g-dub.
That's absolutely not true...we would'nt destroy the WHOLE planet, just the parts we're not using and anything upwind : P
What the crap are you talking about?
Do you even realize that when you regurgitate these tired aphorisms, that you sound like a mind numbed robot? At least regurgitate them at a time when it would appear relevant...
Well, shit for brains, those of us who have worked in a scientific field as a researcher can use "anecdotage". It's called practical first hand experience. Otoh, how is this in anyway related to your off topic shrill rantings?
Peer reviewed science IS politically motivated polemics! Scientists, in fact, are secondly only to active politicians in terms of theivery, lying, back stabbing, and chicanery. I have had several friends get their scientific aspirations crushed by their academic peers and those who should otherwise be guiding them into their prospective fields. You have to remember, very few scientists do NOT have an ulterior motive - to support the company they work for, or to make a big stink to secure funding for their pet projects. Hell, there are many scientists whose whole career revolves around holding large corporations hostage (ala Greenpeace).
...is not flooding. Think about this folks, the ice shelfs are in the range of millions of billions of tons. How does that affect our rotation? If those ice caps melt, and the waters relocate along with their weight to the equator, don't we slow down? Is there even a chance the earths tilt may change?
Ouch...perhaps you meant to say "millions of fundamentalist-extremist muslims", in which case I'll see your "millions of fundamentalist-extremist muslims" and raise you 500,000 conservative southern baptist clansman, and 125,000 child raping catholic priests.
It was before he used chemical weapons. Further, he actively pandered to us for support, and at the time he displayed great promise with his secular government and democratic reforms. You act like you never made a mistake before.
Apparently I must be blind, because I don't see anything in that article which says we shared anthrax with Iraq.
Give it up, the ill informed conspiratorial rantings of madmen like yourself. The fact of the matter is any schmuck can create anthrax, and it only takes a slighly more educated schmuck to create a weaponized grade of anthrax.