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Via Glenn Greenwald (quoting I believe this DoD article): “As difficult as [the Iraq war] was … I think the price has been worth it, to establish a stable government in a very important region of the world” - Leon Panetta With “friends” like these, who needs enemies. Seriously, what a wanker. None of his [...] Tack on: I sincerely feel for the veterans of this war. We tainted them with this immoral slop, chicken-hawks all we let them bear the wounds (physical and emotional), and then lost interest. The war supposedly ended yesterday (a lie I am sure but) and no one cares. All the cheerleaders silent. The great mass of bloodthirsty [...] If you don’t want to be treated like “jack-booted thugs”, don’t be “jack-booted thugs”. Just sayin’. UPDATE: Maybe this guy is a nice guy and this is just a bad shot, from the Wiki-Commons site it says he’s Canadian. All Canadians are nice right (actually I find them to be but…)? The point is, [...] Joseph Stiglitz via Digby: Alexis de Tocqueville once described what he saw as a chief part of the peculiar genius of American society—something he called “self-interest properly understood.” The last two words were the key. Everyone possesses self-interest in a narrow sense: I want what’s good for me right now! Self-interest “properly understood” is different. [...] Another example of where my faith in humanity, or it’s future, is challenged (from NYT): STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — After top Penn State officials announced that they had fired Joe Paterno on Wednesday night, thousands of students stormed the downtown area to display their anger and frustration, chanting the former coach’s name, tearing down light [...] I will note in the post below I used the term “convert”, which is a loaded word especially when talking about Islam. To be clear, while I have no great love of any religion, I steadfastly believe in the right of all to worship any faith or for that matter, not worship at all (ie: [...] Apparently Paul Krugman is taking a lot of heat for words like these on 9/11: The memory of 9/11 has been irrevocably poisoned; it has become an occasion for shame. And in its heart, the nation knows it. I’m not saying that he couldn’t have said it more eloquently, and unfortunately I don’t think that [...] I’m mostly putting this here for a friend of mine who quotes this a lot. Being a geek at heart I tend to be a lot more tolerant of this stuff. From Jurassic Park: “Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could that they didn’t stop to think if they should.” - [...] From my iGoogle RSS feeds: No insult to SwissInfo as this is endemic in the news industry, but why aren’t we as eager to name a Christian Fundamentalist a “terrorist” as a bunch of stupid violent tree-huggers (ones that give the rest of us tree-huggers a bad name frankly)? In a word – “propaganda”. [...] |
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