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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Michael Harold
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I also couldn't help but notice that you seem to be really down on vaginas. You seem to equate vaginas with weakness. You seem to think that men who fight in wars who don't agree with the war in Iraq are vaginas.
Don't you know that vaginas are wonderful? And don't you know that many, many people who have vaginas are some of the strongest and most amazing people in the world? And that some of the most valiant, brave and courageous people who have ever lived have been known for their vaginas?
I have to ask. People who talk that bad about vaginas usually have issues. Are you talking this way about people who have fought in war but don't want to be in Iraq, I have to ask, because perhaps you are a father raper?
And I proceeded to tell him the story of the Alice's Restaurant Massacre, with full orchestration and five part harmony and stuff like that and all the phenome... - and he stopped me right there and said, "Kid, did you ever go to court?"
And I proceeded to tell him the story of the twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures with the circles and arrows and the paragraph on the back of each one, and he stopped me right there and said, "Kid, I want you to go and sit down on that bench that says Group W .... NOW kid!!"
And I, I walked over to the, to the bench there, and there is, Group W's where they put you if you may not be moral enough to join the army after committing your special crime, and there was all kinds of mean nasty ugly looking people on the bench there. Mother rapers. Father stabbers. Father rapers! Father rapers sitting right there on the bench next to me! And they was mean and nasty and ugly and horrible crime-type guys sitting on the bench next to me. And the meanest, ugliest, nastiest one, the meanest father raper of them all, was coming over to me and he was mean 'n' ugly 'n' nasty 'n' horrible and all kind of things and he sat down next to me and said, "Kid, whad'ya get?" I said, "I didn't get nothing, I had to pay $50 and pick up the garbage." He said, "What were you arrested for, kid?" And I said, "Littering." And they all moved away from me on the bench there, and the hairy eyeball and all kinds of mean nasty things, till I said, "And creating a nuisance." And they all came back, shook my hand, and we had a great time on the bench, talkin about crime, mother stabbing, father raping, all kinds of groovy things that we was talking about on the bench. And everything was fine, we was smoking cigarettes and all kinds of things, until the Sargeant came over, had some paper in his hand, held it up and said. . .
From Alice's Restaurant.
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A member of group W!
http://www.georgewbushstore.com/200-6000.htm
I try always to remember that the Internet's memory is global and deep. The Internet never forgets.
As over-the-top as I may be at times, I do try to post with the understanding that anyone from anywhere in the world might read what I write.
There is a lot of button-pushing going on regarding the atrocities that some of our soldiers are committing in Iraq. Some people seem to think it's funny. Others seem to think that it's quite OK. That it's normal.
A little reality check for those who think the acts being described are acceptable in war. They are not. They are war crimes. They are pathological and criminal. They are representative of the darkest and most degenerate behavior of which human beings are capable.
We (the US) tried and executed Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg for committing these types of crimes.
The world is indeed watching. People from other nations (including our allies) are asking themselves some difficult questions these days. Has the US become a criminal nation? A rogue nation? Is the US its own axis of evil?
Japan is now rearming. Will Germany follow? Is that the example we have set? Is that where we are "leading" the world?
Are we going to eventually be perceived by the civilized nations of the world as their greatest danger?
I hope not.
Republicans just luuuvv quoting from the Old Testament. They just love it! They wish things were like that now. They would just love to kill their enemies: men, women and children, even their enemies' animals down to the last baby goat. They would just love to take their enemies' women into slavery and into their tents so they could "know" them. They would just love to sow salt every which direction so that nothing would grow ever again on the land of their enemies.
They love fire and brimstone and plagues and death. They just love that stuff!
Why do they even bother with the New Testament? They talk about salvation, but when it comes to the day-to-day stuff, they just give Jesus lip service. They almost never quote Him, not His Sermon on the Mount or His sermon anywhere else. The only thing they ever pay any real attention to in the New Testament is the Book of Revelation because it's got war and famine and pestilence and death out the bazoobi and they think they've got an inside track and are guaranteed a front row seat in heaven so they can watch every teenie tiny drop of grief and end time suffering here on earth in HD.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
