Displaying 1,261 To 1,290 Of 3,538 Comments Hooray!!!! » Posted By ADONAI On June 30, 2011 @ 12:12 pm I always knew you city folk were crazy. Now I got scientficized proofication of it. » Posted By ADONAI On June 29, 2011 @ 6:21 pm The Personal Journal of Osama Bin Laden, Vol. 2 Indeed jkk. I think the “hacker” angle is the most plausible one I’ve thought of yet. And I did get all of them! Cost me an arm and a leg! 🙂 » Posted By ADONAI On July 11, 2011 @ 3:20 pm AdLib, If we’re talking degrees that’s fine. I;m just saying it;s never been mellow. Just various stages of unmellowness. » Posted By ADONAI On June 30, 2011 @ 5:53 pm It’s a relative story bito. All ends are not equal. All moral philosophies are imperfect. You have yours, I have mine. » Posted By ADONAI On June 30, 2011 @ 5:35 pm AdLib, First of all, what happened when baseball fans found out about steroids? Nothing. Attendance still went up. Merchandising still went up. TV ratings are the highest they have been in decades. That’s some pretty good evidence that people really don’t care. And I would argue that boxing’s problem isn’t corruption but lack of interesting fighters. Especially int he heavyweight division. The heavyweight title is being contested this weekend. Yo know who is int he match? Yeah, me neither. It’s gotta be interesting. It’s gotta be entertaining. No one cares about cheating til they are caught. And it goes away quick. And I believe terrible things can be accomplished by people whose intentions were the purest. In thought and action. “The road to Hell…” as they say. That’s the thing about moral philosophies. They’re all relative. I believe the ends justify the means. That the needs of the many outweighs the needs of the few. If Rome had out military, they’d still rule the world. Unless, like us, they adopted democracy. Another key component of our “empire”. Women got the right to vote. They’re still underpaid and unappreciated. Vast majority of CEO’s are men. Vast majority or board members are men. Vast majority of upper level management are men. African Americans got their civil rights, but they are still treated differently. The majority in prisons. The majority of dropouts. The majority of poor in many areas. And I refuse to believe this doesn’t have a social mechanism behind it. One of ill intent. “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” “We, the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow men who pervert the Constitution.” This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. “What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them.” “To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms…” A great point of contention with John Adams was the idea of having standing armies inside America. He believed it would weaken the people’s ability to OVERTHROW a corrupt government. Which is our right, given by the Constitution. And it isn’t hard to believe in an America that wasn’t number one. That’s the entire history of our country before WW 2. And how do you want us to dominate? We dominate culturally, economically, and militarily already. Comparisons to ancient Rome may be stretching it, but going back less than 100 years in our country’s history isn’t. I know things aren’t identical. The Depression was far, far worse. Our country was literally split in two 150 years ago. THAT should have been the deathblow. But it wasn’t. ‘Cause we’re better than that. And we’re better than this. We will endure. Because we always have. We are a democracy. We ARE the envy of the world. We still have quite a bit of time up front. But the age of empires is coming to an end. We will no longer be the “leader”. Only a major hub of a global economy. Call me an optimist. » Posted By ADONAI On June 30, 2011 @ 5:28 pm Mellow? When were things mellow? » Posted By ADONAI On June 30, 2011 @ 4:48 pm crap » Posted By ADONAI On June 28, 2011 @ 5:46 pm AdLib, Again, sports have a RICH tradition of cheating. Baseball more than any other. Constant stretching and breaking of rules. Cheating isn’t “natural”, I;ll give you that, but it’s a very much accepted part sports. Still though, that’s besides the point. And I truly do believe the ends justify the means. It’s very hard to stand on pragmatism when millions are dying. Then he said to them all: “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it. What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit his very self? The men who founded the American government also recommended it’s violent overthrow if necessary. That’s all I will say. And this is really where you and I part ways. Americans have never been this smug and distracted? I disagree. The 1920’s were pretty damn bad. And what followed? A Depression. Corporations may control TV news but more people watch the new episode of Real Housewives so how impactful are they really? You think news wasn’t shaded by outside interests before they became profit devices? Tell that to the Native Americans, migrant workers, single parents, Japanese and Chinese Americans, movie producers, the comic book industry, and so on. We are not special. These are not unique times. Every generation feels it is the most important. “We are dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants”. We think we see further than we really do. Know more than we actually do. All we care for is the present. And I hate to break it to future generations but, you got a lot of hurt coming your way anyways. We’ve been passing down ridiculous debt generation after generation. Kinda got tired of waiting for that to “doom us”. Now I’m of a mind that ti doesn’t matter. It’s just the way our system works. But, climate change. I’ve already buried a time capsule apologizing for that shitstorm. We’ll be o.k. though. This terrible economic mess the liberals are so worried about? Well the South has been there for a LOOOOOONG time now. Suck it up. » Posted By ADONAI On June 28, 2011 @ 5:45 pm Good piece AdLib. I THINK I have a pretty good idea where you’re coming from with this. Excuse me if I misinterpret it. And if it seems like I’m just shitting all over everything you said, please understand that is what I was built to do. Blame the programming. I absolutely love the “American people as referees” analogy. It’s almost perfect. I see some similarities to a coach only concerned with winning too. Your “best player” goes against you, breaks the rules, and you not only DON’T dismiss him from the team, you make him a starter again the very next game! Incumbency rates are ridiculous in this democracy. But comparing sports and politics is kinda trivial. Steroids aren’t evil. They help millions of people. If yo aren’t cheating, you aren’t trying hard enough. Baseball is just a game(with a rich history of cheating). Entertainment. I think so many people forget that. Myself included. Sports is just entertainment. We take it far too seriously far too often but it’s just a kid’s game being played by adults. And we pay them well to entertain us. Politics shouldn’t be about that. Like sports, it very much is about winning and losing but not for a meaningless trophy. Democracy is an active thing. Always moving. It’s not the Olympics where we just get geared up every 4 years for an exhibition. I would have no problem with Democrats using the Republican’s tactics. Dropping to their level. Doing what they have to do to win. But I’m a consequentialist. I believe the ends justify the means. You do what you have to do. The only time the mass of people become outraged is when their sports are taken away from them(or their team wins/loses a championship). Maybe we just have to wait til people’s democracy is taken away from them. Also, the first people to support violent overthrow of a corrupt American government were the people who founded this government. If we’ve corrupted the system then any legislation sent through it will not bear any fruit. Of course, I don’t believe it’s fallen that far. Somehow, someway, “Obamacare” got through. It wasn’t perfect but it’s an imperfect system. Point is that it worked. We don’t just need more voters but we need current voters to take their duty a little more seriously. And vigilance. We’re like blind umpires(bringing it back around!). And I think we’ll do o.k. Politics were pretty damn fierce in the 60’s too. But we persevered. » Posted By ADONAI On June 28, 2011 @ 2:53 pm I’m just trying to put myself in an Egyptian’s shoes on this one. An admittedly impossible task but, the Egyptian “congress” basically rubber stamped everything Mubarak proposed. They talked a lot about democracy and reform but never really did anything to promote it. You can’t just fight for democracy when it’s easy. If they wanted to throw out every politician I wouldn’t blame them. A lot of theses politicians seem like douchebags. » Posted By ADONAI On October 2, 2011 @ 1:18 pm 1.)O.K., lay it on me. Why should I care that we killed Anwar Al-`Awlaqi? I’ll spare you the whole “Why is the President a mafia don now?” spiel. 2.)Would it have been difficult for Gaddafi to get out of the country? Is it pretty much a given that he’s still somewhere in Libya? 3.)Why does every other dictator have a creepy porn mustache? 4.)Bahrain jailed two women for “trying to overthrow the government”? Exactly how easy is it to overthrow the government of Bahrain? Say I could get a large group of 4th graders together. What are our chances? Seriously, that video is crazy. 15 years?! I find it hard to believe these women were stockpiling weapons for a revolution. 15 years for being in the right place at the wrong time. That’s pretty heartbreaking. Just trying to help people. 5.)I see many in Egypt are still staying vigilant. Is the military council just stringing them along or are they committed to reform? Or is it still way too early to tell? The move to open those reserved seats for open voting seems like a step in the right direction. » Posted By ADONAI On October 1, 2011 @ 9:50 pm 1.)Never been a fan of Obama’s foreign policy. 2.)France has really been sticking their neck out for people in the Middle East thus far. I hope there’s minimal blow back. But, so far so good I guess. 3.)I always figured you were right on Yemen. News there just kept getting more and more fucked up as time went by. 4.)We have a so so relationship with Turkey don’t we? They do seem to help us out a lot but I know they were super pissed when we invaded Iraq. I think every country with a Kurdish population was. 5.)I can’t seem to get enough Ahmadinejad. I know he’s a pretty pathetic person and that he probably would destroy Israel if he could but, with Gaddafi gone and Bin Laden dead, you can only get that kind of crazy in so many places. I mean, he was basically going through his greatest hit albums bu the still killed. And by killed I mean cleared 90% of the room. 6.)You know, for a country that kidnaps people and holds them with no trial, we get pretty uppity about other countries putting our citizens in jail. » Posted By ADONAI On September 24, 2011 @ 4:37 pm I’m gonna guess the Odyssey too. Iraqi city?……. Is it cheating if I look at a map? Cause I’m gonna. And I’m gonna follow KQ and say Basrah. That sounds familiar. The story was narrated by Queen Scherzade or something like that. She narrates all the stories in the book I believe. Been awhile since freshman Literature. And they’re all Persian. Or is that a nation? Uh….. Iraq? I dunno. **EDIT** Iran? » Posted By ADONAI On September 21, 2011 @ 1:43 pm 1.)If you haven’t seen this, you must: https://www.buytinytyrant.com/?tag=im|sm|go|tm&a_aid=011&a_bid=6da1a99e 2.)I’m getting a sinking feeling about Syria. Does the resistance have the resources and the people to sustain this? They’re killing their leaders, kidnapping their children, raiding homes. I know there are Arab leaders in the area very upset for whatever reason about what is happening in Syria but do they really care how it ends? Don’t they just want it to end? 3.)Seeing all those people chanting “Death to the Islamic Republic” makes me think Ahmadinejad’s casual suit look isn’t endearing him to the youth anymore. It reminds me of this scene I saw, and I can’t remember if ti was a news piece or a documentary, but they were in Tehran I think, and everyday the loud speakers gave a quick speech and everyone stops and says “Death to America” or something like that. People didn’t look excited. Like they were pissed they had to stop in the middle of their busy day to comply with something they don’t really believe in. 4.) That Salman Al Auda guy sounds like a fascinating person. He was really against our troops coming to Saudi Arabia. Maybe he would have wound up with Bin Laden or someone similar? Instead he goes to jail and comes out with a whole new perspective on his country. And good luck to them. I think if they could get some influential partners they may be able to push the royal family on a few things. Definitely gonna read the whole series too. Loved this story. 5.)What should I read to get the best idea of what is currently going on in Yemen? » Posted By ADONAI On September 12, 2011 @ 2:52 pm 1.)Can we stop calling them “defiant messages” from Gaddafi? It’s the insane ramblings of a coward whose time may be up. 2.)From the “Secret Collaborators in Tripoli” story: He canvassed the hospitals in Tripoli, stealthily gathering all the provisions he could without arousing too much suspicion. He filled up his Mercedes with the contraband….. I love that. Stay low profile. Bring the Mercedes around. 3.)I hope Mr. Farhadi’s movie makes it stateside. It sounds very good. 4.)So, right now, what’s your opinion on Syria? It seems that every positive story is flanked by stories about mass killings. Will the U.N. go in? And if they do how long til there are “peacekeepers”? » Posted By ADONAI On September 2, 2011 @ 5:19 pm All this stuff going on and I’m most interested in Gaddafi’s scrapbook of Condoleeza Rice. Is that weird? A lot of crazy shit is gonna go down in the next few weeks and I’m stuck on this one seemingly minor WTF moment. Anyways, I keep thinking Assad is gonna “win” this. And if he does, what does the White House do? Just move on like nothing happened? “Sorry that had to happen. Can you torture this Canadian?” And I keep thinking about Iran. Back early last decade when revolutionary elements were supposedly sending messages to the White House about possibly backing revolution in Iran, and Cheney just turned them down flat. What if they had said yes? How would that have went? Like Libya? Or Afghanistan? What if a nation as a whole really, truly wants change? Wants it so bad they’d die for it? But they can’t fight the regime. They don’t have an army. What does the rest of the world do? I understand not wanting to interfere and rights of sovereignty and all that shit, but what if a regime has basically hijacked a country? Why stop at Libya or Egypt? North Africa is full of tyrants and warlords. And people who can barely mount a resistance. Why do we always pick and choose who we’re gonna help and how much we actually get involved? Who cares how involved America was in Libya? Gaddafi was killing people left and right. People use the Pandora’s Box metaphor all the time and they don’t understand it. You open the Pandora’s Box and all the evil and hate gets unleashed. Which is true but something else came out with it. Hope. A single ray of hope. It HAD to be opened. I’m not saying unleash the Western world on the Middle East and Africa. I don’t think Russia and China would be pleased about that. But when it’s so fucking obvious. Suffering and people literally dying to have something better for their family and friends, you have to do something don’t you? And it may not pan out. They may not get exactly what they wanted when the dust settles. But there is hope that they will. I refuse to believe people in any other country are any different from me. They care about their family. They want to work and live a decent life. They try their best to obey the powers that be, even if they disagree. Maybe we stop dealing with shitty regimes. Stop sending billions of dollars to them. We could avoid a lot of military conflict if we just quit paying their armies for them. “Well what if ti becomes a theocracy?” I put a lot of thought into that question. And I don’t think I care. I think if we quit supporting dictators, quit allowing them to buy an army’s loyalty, moderate parties will have a chance. And that’s all anyone deserves. A chance. How the Hell did I get from Condoleeza Rice to this? I blacked out for a few paragraphs. I apologize for going all John Lennon on you. I just want the dying to stop. it’s getting ridiculous. Too many good people have to die for change to come. » Posted By ADONAI On August 26, 2011 @ 4:11 pm Mystical poetry? You don’t have any of this mystical poetry that I can openly mock do you? ‘Cause that’s what I do to nerds. Is it possible to be Supreme Leader of a sovereign nation and still be a nerd? Wait, never mind. I just remembered that picture of the leader of China. » Posted By ADONAI On August 21, 2011 @ 8:16 pm Waffle House? » Posted By ADONAI On August 21, 2011 @ 7:32 pm Indeed. » Posted By ADONAI On August 21, 2011 @ 7:32 pm It seems like the West was in a support role period. It seems like NATO just tried to keep the heavy shit off of them until they could do their thing. » Posted By ADONAI On August 21, 2011 @ 7:13 pm Looking forward to it . » Posted By ADONAI On August 21, 2011 @ 5:05 pm Rebels are saying they control most of Tripoli and are inching closer to Gaddafi. » Posted By ADONAI On August 21, 2011 @ 4:29 pm CNN is reporting that it may be two of his sons. » Posted By ADONAI On August 21, 2011 @ 4:18 pm I just heard that there are reports of protestor’s children being kidnapped as leverage against them and that there are people openly calling for Assad’s death. Has this reached a point where there is no going back? Either they get Assad out or he kills enough people to pacify them? » Posted By ADONAI On August 12, 2011 @ 5:51 pm I think if more people seriously discussed what was happening in Syria it would have a far more profound effect than anything KSA does. Good talk though. You have given me much to think on. » Posted By ADONAI On August 7, 2011 @ 6:50 pm Well, if it doesn’t matter what we think I don’t know why we even discuss what goes on over there at all. It may not be my country, or my government, but they are my brothers. I am concerned. And Saudi Arabia snooping around makes me even more concerned. We don’t have to fly the same flag for me to care what happens to you. » Posted By ADONAI On August 7, 2011 @ 6:36 pm Alright, I’ll be serious. I’m sure Saudi Arabia has reasons for doing what they did. And I would bet that not a damn one of them are altruistic. I’m not gonna applaud a group of thugs trying to take advantage of a situation. » Posted By ADONAI On August 7, 2011 @ 6:00 pm When Saudi Arabia chastises another government for “going too far” How can you not just laugh? This is like Wesley Snipes calling the kettle black. I’m surprised they found the free time to do this between beheading dissidents and beating and killing women for shits and giggles. » Posted By ADONAI On August 7, 2011 @ 4:54 pm 1.)I hope Syria can still find time to torture our prisoners. Seriously though, recommending your son didn’t seem to work in Egypt, how could Assad think it would fly here? 2.)The rebels may not be as bad as Gadaffi but this bullshit isn’t helping their cause. I understand that they can’t control everyone who takes up arms but I don’t think the people are looking to trade one brute squad for another. And Gadaffi is staying alright. Like we need to tell him he can. 3.)What’s up with that bombing in Norway? I;m getting conflicting reports. Some say the suspect is a white male but now I read that an Arab extremist group in the area is claiming responsibility. They could be connected I guess. Didn’t a “radicalized” white European set some bombs around there not too long back? I just hope there’s no overreaction. I know it’s far easier to say but an open society cannot be scared into giving up what makes it great. 4.)I see Palestine is still crazy as ever. 5.)Iran’s leadership is so fickle. “lets’ talk, let’s not talk. Hey, look at this picture of my kids.” They’re just fucking with us ain’t they? And good lord, remove the MEK from the watch list? I’ve always had a theory that the U.S. government actively works to ensure unrest in the Middle East. The evidence is mostly circumstantial but there is a shitload of it. » Posted By ADONAI On July 22, 2011 @ 2:41 pmComments Posted By ADONAI
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