tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2431498412944656953.post7952050171395329395..comments2023-09-18T07:43:38.313-04:00Comments on OD Refugee: Ahhh, May...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2431498412944656953.post-86366244294875636202011-06-01T03:18:33.019-04:002011-06-01T03:18:33.019-04:00Thanks, Minette! I *knew* I'd messed up, somew...Thanks, Minette! I *knew* I'd messed up, somewhere. I just had this word pattern in my brain that wouldn't shut up. That wasn't the only mistake, either, but I was running on fumes at that hour...ChrisClickshttp://chrisclicks.net/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2431498412944656953.post-70016337904785752742011-05-31T09:22:55.470-04:002011-05-31T09:22:55.470-04:00I would just like to mention that if you cut off t...I would just like to mention that if you cut off the head of a hydra, two grow back.<br /><br />I thought he was probably dead already. It's a big event for people big on symbology, because it didn't really do squat. People are still oppressed, poor, mad, psychopathic and are willing to use violence to express their views. What I found to be a much bigger event is the wave of (mostly) peaceful protests that went through and are still going through the middle east. There's progress!Minettenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2431498412944656953.post-46329609803542678542011-05-31T04:10:15.250-04:002011-05-31T04:10:15.250-04:00I just wrote the biggest note ever, and this *@#$!...I just wrote the biggest note ever, and this *@#$!%!! ate it.<br /><br />Suffice to say... I'm GLAD Osama is gone. Al Qaeda was his devil baby. (I can remember when no one (beyond your standard hick xenophobe) was afraid of Muslims. Like you, I agree that punishment as pure deterrent has been proven vain, but I don't think this was only or even mainly about that. Granted, his death won't automatically deprogram his followers, unlike the suddenly friendly soldiers in the castle after Dorothy melted the Wicked Witch of the West. Still, he was like Al Qaeda's Uncle Sam - a pure recruitment tool and primo motivator of budding terrorists. And sadly, I think that human beings are far too easily manipulated. Yes, the terrorists and genocidists who actually end up alive after committing dreadful acts should be accountable for atrocities, but cutting off the head of the hydra is a smart thing to do, prevention-wise. It's not that threats deter them, natch, quite the opposite, in fact, vengeance-minded as they are, but they need to be motivated by master manipulators in order to commit to blow themselves up in the process of getting us, too, ya know?<br /><br />As to Paul Ryan... and Scott Walker, all the other Repressican Goobernators, plus Rush, Glenn, Newt, Grover, and who knows who else? Eventually, they'll be toast, not toasted, if the mood across the land continues. Time, for all it's wounding, is swinging its pendulum, and that this Privatize Medicare mania will likely be halted in its tracks. The thing is, am I wrong, or aren't you sort of implying that Paul Ryan is "evil" by singling him out, here? (Maybe I'm not reading this right, sorry if so.) Really, though, if we don't "defeat" him (NOT kill him, natch) and his Repressican cohorts by offering much saner and sounder ideas, how else can we stop his inhumane legislative proposals?<br /><br />Anyway, my apologies if this is poorly worded. The original note was FAR better.ChrisClickshttp://chrisclicks.net/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2431498412944656953.post-39822622763066307122011-05-29T19:40:11.025-04:002011-05-29T19:40:11.025-04:00"It's as if the 9/11 attacks just happene..."It's as if the 9/11 attacks just happened and the response from Washington is to give every American a voucher that partially covers the cost of a handgun."<br /><br />As I recall, we were told to buy duct tape and plastic wrap and no subsidy was offered at all.<br /><br />The world IS evil and the best way to deal with that is to announce that God has told you how to end that evil and that oh by the way God wants everybody to send you all their money to help you accomplish that. It worked for Oral Robert. It worked for W Bush. "No no no, I meant no nude Texans."Deve of the Junglehttp://www.freerangehumans.net/blog/cia/231noreply@blogger.com