Well, as should be obvious the upload crashed last night… Not because of the satellite, but because there were so many dictionary attacks on the site yesterday (which the bots shut down) that the logs overflowed the drive! Anyway, I've restarted that process; my apologies for not having it online already. For some weird reason I seem to be getting 200+ kbps upstream right now, so maybe it won't take too long. Fingers crossed. This is I think my third attempt.
First I'll mention two links that were posted in the Whatever forum yesterday.
US Congress opts for “freedom fries” It's one thing when a bunch of dumb hicks start doing this, but when it's actually sanctioned by the US government, what message does that send to the rest of the world? That the US is run by five year olds? Are these politicians not even thinking about the reprocussions of their actions? No more French kissing! Here's my advice to congress. Go Taliban and open a can of whoop-ass on the Statue of Liberty!
I should mention that even though the US has been going over the top insulting both the French (“cheese-eating surrender monkeys”) and the Germans (“the pariah state”), there are six thousand French peacekeeping troops in Afghanistan and the Balkans, and Germany has ten thousand troops in place. And them not being warmongers is enough to petition Webster's to remove all French-related words from the dictionary? To petition schools to stop teaching French?
The other story from the forum is PayPal switches off indy news site account. PayPal not only yanked the account of whatreallyhappened.com for no reason at all (ie. they didn't like the content politically), but they also seized their assets and are holding them for half a year. Abuse of power?
Anyway, I was thinking… Let's pretend for a moment that Bush was legally elected; that he's the democratically elected President (that would be trippy, dude, I know!). Now, he's been told by the US people that they won't support this war if it's not UN backed. Since it's pretty obvious that there's going to be no UN backing, and if there is, it's going to cost a fortune in bribes, he's now considering just skipping the UN vote and going straight to war. At what point does it become unequivocally clear that the US is not a democracy?
Here's a story for you:
Russian Expert Predicts 500,000 Iraqi Dead
in War Designed To Test Weapons
The Iraqi army will be subjected to very powerful blows. It will be physically annihilated. In order to impose a new puppet government in the country (and I am sure the Americans have already formed that government) and to give that government the opportunity to get on with its work, the United States will be forced actually to occupy Iraq. The occupation of territory within which seats of organized resistance could persist would lead to large losses among US Army personnel. Guerrillas, and in the context of the Arab world also shahid martyrs wearing explosive belts — naturally the Americans do not need this. Therefore they will totally annihilate the Iraqi army. Practically all Iraq servicemen will die. There will be terrible carnage.
Don't let anyone tell you war is beautiful or noble. This isn't self-defence. This is state-sponsored mass killing, and it's fundamentally wrong. Don't believe me? Look it up in the Bible — And I'm not talking KJV. I'm talking pretty much every holy book, every Book of Wisdom our species has produced. Almost universally they agree: thou shalt not kill.
And here's the punchline: there's no loophole.
It's not hard to understand, is it?
Musha rain dum-a-do-dum-a-da
Whack for my daddy-o
Whack for my daddy-o
There's whiskey in the jar-o
Let's see… what else wonderful is in the news this morning? I see the US has threatened to kill independent reporters in Iraq. The big news broadcasters — CNN, Fox, etc. — operate with Pentagon screening and approval. The smaller and independent news teams do not, and as such, their truths don't get scrubbed by the US government before broadcast. The solution is simple: kill them. Yay for freedom of the press.
This quote from Rick Mercer (This Hour Has 22 Minutes), one of Canada's more “Canadian” comedians, has been doing the email-forwarding rounds lately. I hope people think it's funny, I think this entry needs something funny, right?
On behalf of Canadians everywhere I'd like to offer an apology to the United States of America. We haven't been getting along very well recently and for that, I am truly sorry.I'm sorry we called George Bush a moron. He is a moron but, it wasn't nice of us to point it out. If it's any consolation, the fact that he's a moron shouldn't reflect poorly on the people of America. After all it's not like you actually elected him.
I'm sorry about our softwood lumber. Just because we have more trees than you doesn't give us the right to sell you lumber that's cheaper and better than your own.
I'm sorry we beat you in Olympic hockey. In our defense I guess our excuse would be that our team was much, much, much, much better than yours.
I'm sorry we burnt down your white house during the war of 1812. I notice you've rebuilt it! It's Very Nice.
I'm sorry about your beer. I know we had nothing to do with your beer but, we Feel your Pain.
I'm sorry about our waffling on Iraq. I mean, when you're going up against a crazed dictator, you wanna have your friends by your side. I realize it took more than two years before you guys pitched in against Hitler, but that was different. Everyone knew he had weapons.
And finally on behalf of all Canadians, I'm sorry that we're constantly apologizing for things in a passive-aggressive way which is really a thinly veiled criticism. I sincerely hope that you're not upset over this.
We've seen what you do to countries you get upset with.
Thank you.
The emphasis was added by me, and I think it's important. I realize that people are taught in US schools the highly debatable notion that America won WWI and WWII for Europe, but the fact is that America didn't get pulled in to WWII until very late, and it did so on fraudulent grounds. America's role in that war was self serving, as it has been in all wars, as much as it trumpets its “savior” role (and has rewritten its history books so as to ensure that its young people take it for granted — the easiest way to rewrite history is by government control of schools).
Did you know that Cheney is still receiving a million dollars a year from Halliburton? Yay for war, it makes Cheney richer! It's so good to hear that every Iraqi killed puts a dollar in his pocket. It's not a conflict of interest, because Cheney is trustworthy and honourable, right?
To quote Buchanan from his “not yet published” March 24 column (yay for time travel you reptilian bastards), “a neoconservative clique seeks to ensnare our country in a series of wars that are not in America's interest.” I believe the correct response is “No shit, Sherlock!” Everyone can see that. It's called a coup d'etat. It just happened. Didn't anyone notice (anyone that's not gay that is)?
Let's go fuck with North Korea. At least that war will be “horribly funny”.
Finally, while Mike D and the boys are looking a little haggard, they're still damn cool.
PS.
In a world gone mad it's hard to think right
So much violence hate and spite
Murder going on all day and night
Due time we fight the non-violent fight
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