July 28, 2004
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the bell tower
At the end of Vertigo
When Jimmy Stewart is dragging
That sultry temptress up the stairs
I couldn’t help but feel bad for her
Even though he was the one betrayedBy love, I was remarking.
With the movie endingToo abruptly in a reach for irony
The dog was sleeping at my feet
And you were snoring lightly in the nook
Where the whole time I thought
You were humouring my opinions.
It was a perfect empire and IWouldn’t disturb it so I sat there lest
I wake the dog and you in a dark room.Wherein I thought that
This was us in fifty years
But in an old folks’ home
And with another dog if
The staff would allow it.
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post card – circus horse (max pechstein)—
nobody seems to care / what does this mean? readreadread…
Where is the world’s outrage? We need to act now.
go democracy!
Sniff…
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If you watched F9/11, why not watch this too? The editorials in the NYTimes and the WashPost have offered that one quality of yesterday’s convention speech was an unwillingness to actually hold a position - any stand with a risk. I think a good number of Americans will be shocked by what’s presented (released by Ed Gillespie or not) in this in-his-words video. The “nuance argument” suffers some… and even back in the primaries, every moderate Democrat knew Dean was creating a long-term problem for the DNC.
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Nader’s point in running is that while he prefers one lesser evil over the other, both parties are pretty much the same beast. Right now, Kerry’s position pretty much sounds like: I may not do things differently, I’ll just do them better. Given the same information, would he have gone to war? He’s yet to answer that one. And really, watch this video.
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Here’s a question: Given no Pearl Harbor… and no attack against the United States, would it yet have been right for us to get involved militarily in Europe (carpet bombs and all)? Auschwitz and Buchenwald notwithstanding? What about WWI? Or the Korean War?
R. Kagan marks what I’m getting at… click
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Recently, why was Kosovo right and Iraq wrong? Or Milosevic evil and Saddam tolerable? The suffering was far worse under the latter.
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What if McCain and Lieberman ran together in 2008? Two men who aren’t afraid to go against the party line.
Comments (18)
ahh, that poem was so nice.I bought A Ghost is Born finally. Much different from YHF, but still enjoyable I think.
I think life is one big cooincidence. Or maybe it’s the time of year where we are all thinking about ourselves in fifty years. The end of summer, or something.
hehehhehehhe :pv i took a day off today. weeeeeeee
by far, YOUR XANGA is THE BEST!!! I just totally got sucked in. Propz…
just very wonderful
There’s so much stuff. I think I’m constantly shopping for retirement villages, refining my idea of what I want.
Wasabi,
dood long time no….messaging
i check ebags…nada
thanks for the tip, but keep up the good work
scott
thanks for the comment, daniel. i love being inspired by amazing people. any suggestions for good biographical reads?
haha, gotta love strong bad!
informative video there. i’m moving to canada if bush gets re-elected, haha. but then again, kerry seems to not be all that firm on anything either. lesser of two evils eh?sweet poem by the way.
Thanks for sharing the video… what to do, what to do??
:/ thank u
right back at you ma brutha. miss you man.
nice videos =)
W offers more of the same, and we can’t afford it. I’ll roll the dice for anybody on the odds that no matter what, it will be better.
Principles are good, but sometimes you have to get the work out and so you have to put them aside while you do. (Nader)
It would have been right for us to go into WWII, which is why I at least partly subscribe to the conspiracy theory that Pearl was a setup. I suspect that there is at least a small chance that 911 was a setup as well. I wonder how many CEO’s showed up for work that day? Would Trump have shown up if his office had been in Tower II?
WWI is another animal, and I don’t understand why we were involved at all, Korea, Vietnam… Blisters of a cold war.
Milosivic is evil, Saddam is evil but the point is that one man’s preoccupation (W) allowed the real perps to escape (al qaeda). You’re a runner, you know about putting your energy only where it does the most good. Getting Saddam doesn’t satisfy the “greatest good” argument, it was the easiest short term good, the safest bet for looking good. Remember how stupid Carter looked when his risk didn’t pay off? And he was a hellova lot smarter than this guy.
And retirement villages. Mine will need slot machines and pretty girls keeping a close eye on my glass. And they better be runners because I’m escaping once a week just so they can get a good run in.
which to choose.. loser 1, loser 2, loser 3…hope the sunshine is finding you well brother.
Interesting stuff on your page. Major props. I watched the Kerry video and it only reinforced to me that GW Bush has to go. I would love to see Barack Obama run for president someday. I respect McCain’s integrity and defending Kerry against the slimy ads defaming his Vietnam service. It’s a sad day when neither party has anyone that inspire us. I look out into the horizon and see a desert. Maybe a new generation of hopeful and passionate public servants are on their way.
came on the suggestion on kenoak’s entry. nice.
I’m more than convinced to vote bush over kerry now…”they call him flipper, flipper, faster than lightning” hahah. We need aman who can lead despite public pressures, make choices that’s best for our country!