Like reading Glenn Greenwald's blog for years and then claiming that "solutions" consist of compromising your principles and embracing realpolitik. You know, all those "real world political solutions" that Mr. "doing something is getting an undergraduate degree" so proudly boasts of.

Compromising your principles for the sake of real world political solutions. That is a real solution according to someone interested in truth and solutions, and not someone who is willing to constantly contradict himself because he can't resist bickering and confrontation. Such a fresh and new solution as well, and something that has surely never been tried before.

Do you recall the scene in How to Get Ahead in Advertising where Richard E Grant is on a train, overhearing some old Churchillian fart reading a story from the newspaper about a police raid.

The guy reads the line "Police seized a bag which they believe could contain drugs." And Grant looks up and says, "it could also have contained a ham sandwich."

"It says drugs!" the man sputters.

So I'd just rewrite your sentence like this:

"After police arrived to clear the road, militants apparently believe the ham sandwich was mingled with timber..."

Here it is...the person who created this was recently nominated for a Nobel in Sanity Studies.

http://language-grammar.blogspot.com/2009/04/salon-letter-filters-script.html

Last year, Congress directed intelligence agency Inspectors General to prepare an unclassified report on the Bush Administration’s warrantless surveillance program. That report has just been released. It traces the origins, implementation, and utilization of the Program, and discusses the legal questions surrounding its development. See Unclassified Report on the President’s Surveillance Program (pdf), Joint Inspector General Report, 10 July 2009.

http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2009/07/ig_surveillance_report.html

http://www.fas.org/irp/eprint/psp.pdf

...how terrible they (those reporting from Afghanistan and Pakistan) felt when September 11th happened, and they'd known about the training camps all along and felt like they never told the American public sufficiently about them.

I thought that the legions of intelligence agents were supposed to tell our shadowy masters about threats to America; and that they are then supposed to tell us so that we can formulate an appropriate response in a democratic manner. I had no idea that it was the presses job.

Where else in the world are there terrorist training camps, and why aren't we bombing now?

Bomb Canada. Bomb now.

http://www.rightsidenews.com/200809161960/global-terrorism/terror-training-camp-in-canada-video-footage.html

Don't worry about teh civilians, their children, the ones that live, will thank you.

@heru-ur

When and if you ever get enough facts together to be capable of being wrong the way bernbart can be wrong, let us know. Until then, you can't be criticized as she is, because you simply don't have enough facts in your posts to be worth taking you to task on.

What "facts" perrrfessssor?

All I see in the above paragraph is whinning and calling me an idiot. Do you have hard facts that are objective in which you care to demonstrate your alleged expertise?

Remember, we are not discussing the minutia of the invasion and brutal occupation of a foreign land; but rather the actuality of invasion and occupation of that other country. Please try to keep that in mind, my friend.

I put up a precise, carefully worked translation of the 8th chapter of Lao Tzu as an invitation to you for an OT discussion once. You responded by lecturing me on Lao Tzu and on Alan Watts. Do you remember? Would it surprise you to know that I don't own an English copy of Lao Tzu? That's why I never worry about what Alan Watts was talking about. It doesn't apply to me.

Take it up with Glenn. He deleted every post I made to you about Taoism until I stopped trying. Any post to you was deleted after that no matter the topic for some time.

His email explanation was terse. If you need to know more, ask him.

However, it is my recollection of that abbreviated exchange that you were the one to do the "lecturing"; trying to state that there is no difference in the various translations. What a crock that is --- and Glenn deleted the post I made about that issue.

But what in the world does translating the Tao Te Ching have to do with today's conversation other than a diversion by you to keep us off the topic of the brutal occupation by your president and your military of a foreign land that has done no harm to us? And now an escalation.

Dao ke dao fei chang dao, buddy. Call me all the epithets you can think of, you and Sinnard, while LondonLad goes way OT to describe the manner and form of his fantasies about my ejaculations. Don't you think that it damages your cause at all to go so low? Don't you ever think how it reflects on your libertarian gods?

-- ondelette

Killer is as killer does, my friend.(no matter what name we give him) But, just so you know, I am not responsible for what Chris writes or what Lad writes. You do understand that, correct?

As to you, it does not matter what intentions a man has; if he supports the brutal occupation and enslavement of a foreign people then he is guilty of that occupation and all unintended consequences.

There is no "moral high ground" in killing innocent foreign people just because you want the military to "make it all better".

By the way, not killing innocent people is not a "libertarian thing"; rather it is the essence of morality. Can you see that? And the most harm one can do is to stand by and be silent when blood is being shed by innocents to satisfy the lusts of the empire.

http://language-grammar.blogspot.com/2009/04/salon-letter-filters-script.html

I just use the scroll button myself.

That kind of talk will get you the dreaded racist label around these parts.

Okay, the image of Michael Jackson leading the Taliban in a Youtube remake of the "Beat It" video has me awed beyond the capacity for rational expression.

It would look something like the link at sig.

But with beards and black turbans.