Weakness in strength...

My Way News - GIs Eyed in Alleged Rape, Murders in Iraq: "A group of American soldiers in an insurgent-riddled town allegedly noticed a young Iraqi woman when on patrol and later returned to rape her, according to U.S. officials Friday. In an apparent cover-up attempt, she and three members of her family then were killed and her body was set on fire."

This is why our military strength will not matter in the long run - human weakness.

Those crazy Chinese!

A Beijing soccer fan refused to let the small matter of his house burning down disturb him from his enjoyment of Tuesday's World Cup match between France and Spain.

St. Paul once again proved correct....

Defense Tech: Clowns Sabotage Nuke Missile: "Saint Paul said that we are “fools for God's sake,”"

In the news...

Daily Torture: China's Brutal Crackdown on Dissidents - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News: "China's Communist Party officials are employing brutal methods in dealing with difficult citizens. The most recent victim of what appears to be government-sanctioned brutality was a farmer who suffered a broken cervical vertebra when he was attacked by thugs."

In honor of Comfest 2006!

No nation is communist whose people have a choice.

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Angel or Devil?

Alive, just like a little song.
The end. It always comes along sometime.

I can laugh, I can cry, I'm an angel
(or a devil)
I can live, I can die, I'm an angel
(or a devil)
I can't tell.

And Oh! I'd like to understand
But that's just not the way it's planned.
And Oh! I'll never understand
On this side of the promised land.

Breathe and take it all in
The air and the poison. It just depends.

I can lose, I can find, I'm an angel
(or a devil)
I can see, I am blind, I'm an angel
(or a devil)
I can't tell.

And Oh! I'd like to understand
But that's just not the way it's planned.
And Oh! I'll never understand
On this side of the promised land.

And everyday as life goes on
I'm free to choose from what's really right or wrong
But if i'm free I only drag me down.

I am free, I am bound, I'm an angel
(or a devil)
I am lost, I am found, I'm an angel
(or a devil)
I can see, I am blind, I'm an angel
(or a devil)
I can die but I'm alive, I'm an angel

And Oh! I'll never understand
On this side of the promised land.
On this side of the promised land.
On this side of the promised land.

- The Jelly Jam

Kids say the darndest things!

Daddy: "C, can you tell me what time it is?"

C (reading a digital clock): "It's one zero three zero dot com."

- C (age four) 06/24/2006

and she said...

choices.

i keep a bottle underneath my seat
for when i need to feel ok
i don't remember all the choices that i made last night
so it's not my fault.

that shit belongs in hell...
love is from heaven.

we disagreed so many, many years ago
but i remember everything you said
why should i forgive you for the choices that you made
i'll hold this grudge...i like it.

that shit belongs in hell...
love is from heaven.

you want to hurt her - make her feel your majesty
you want to make her what you need
why should you be subject to the choices that she makes?
she likes it.

that shit belongs in hell...
love is from heaven.

that shit belongs in hell...
love is from heaven.

that shit belongs in hell...
love is from heaven.

that shit belongs in hell...
love is from heaven.

that shit belongs in hell...
love is from heaven.

that shit belongs in hell...
love is from heaven.

that shit belongs in hell...
love is from heaven.

love is from heaven.
(we bring it here)
love is from heaven.
(we bring it here)
love is from heaven.
love is from heaven.
love is from heaven.
love is from heaven.
love is from heaven.

- jt.

Kids say the darndest things!

"Tulip isn't a good name for a kid because a kid is not a flower. A kid is a people-kind."

- C (age four) 6/19/2006

This is how conspiracy theories work...

Asia Times - Asia's most trusted news source for the Middle East: "Speaking off the record, intelligence community sources have previously said they believe it 'very likely' that al-Zarqawi is indeed long dead. Such a fact makes al-Zarqawi's alleged killing of Berg difficult to reconcile, and there has been broad speculation that blaming al-Zarqawi is an administration ploy. Further anomalies surrounding Berg's death have fueled added speculation. "

Check this article out. The author, speaking through the voice of "Asia's most trusted news source" no less, asserts the following:

1) al-Zarqawi was dead long before Nick Berg's murder.
Um...I guess you feel like an idiot now, right? Notice the phrase "such a fact makes"...someone anonymously suggests that they "believe" al-Zarqawi is dead and now it's a fact? Mark my words...now that this author has got the picture of al-Zarqawi's bombed corpse from the U.S. military he will not regard his death at the hands of a successful airstrike as "fact". No, really...mark them.

2) The Nick Berg beheading video was staged.
Apparently his (or her - equal rights for stupidity) point is that the terrorists were too humane to behead Nick Berg to death so they killed him some other way and then beheaded the dead body! Uh. Excuse my interrupting the pink elephants, but would someone tell me WHAT THE FUCK DIFFERENCE THAT MAKES?

The experts this author listens to have decided that there wasn't enough blood to suggest that he was beheaded alive. Excuse me, but when is the last time these "experts" beheaded someone alive? Seriously - the only people who are experts at the amount of blood a live beheading causes in this in this day and age are muslim extremists and ruthless dictators!

The final stupidity is the suggestion that it wasn't even terrorists who held him, but the U.S. military. Based apparently on an email by someone and the expectation that the type of chair they used was similar to those used by "the U.S. military", "in Abu Ghraib" no less.

Pure genius (and by genius, of course, I mean a moron of the first order).

- Xan Shui
Philosophic Philanthropist, Honest Man

Those crazy artists!

"One of Britain's most prestigious art galleries put a block of slate on display, topped by a small piece of wood, in the mistaken belief it was a work of art."

- The article

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Those crazy Germans!

PBS Previews | The Blitz: London's Longest Night: "On December 29th, 1940, the German Luftwaffe attacked London with devastating results - tens of thousands of incendiary bombs were dropped on the heart of the city. "

And all I hear is complaining about Dresden...Hitler gets no respect, ya know?

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If

Only if you want to.
Only if you have to.
Only if it's everything.
Only if you don't mind.

If I could move to the middle.
If I could go outside.
If I could give in a little,
And make it work this time.

It's one thing, insistance.
It's one thing, the distance.
I'll take it in prospect.
I'll take it anyway I can.

If I could move to the middle.
If I could go outside.
If I could give in a little,
And make it work this time.

If I could move to the middle.
If I could go outside (yeah).
If I could give in a little,
And make it work this time.

If...
If...
If...
And make it work this time.

- King's X
Ogre Tones

Buy it.

6:6:6 passeth

At 6:66am on 6/6/6, I was lying in bed thinking. My family safe & warm after a good night's sleep. To be fair, I had dreamt that I was on a canoing / camping trip where our guide was cooking bats for us that happened to look exactly like human foetuses...but I don't really think that was related.

At 6:66pm on 6/6/6, I was eating a hotdog with my wife & a friend during the turn at Blacklick Woods Golf Course. Our round was completely inconspicuous except for the fact that they had run out of regular size hotdogs and we had to eat the "large" ones, we drank one less beer than usual, and the group behind us hit into us twice during the round. It was almost as though we were, like, invisible...but I really don't that was related.

Well, 38 minutes to go and I've been waiting patiently. Maybe the armageddonists were wrong or something...

- Xan Shui, Philosophic Philanthropist, Honest Man

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