Links to keep you awake. Well, not really you. Me, specifically. Otherwise I'm just going to collapse right here at work.
With that said, get the truck, we're going to the dump.
Ernie the Attorney reports on a good idea in the Louisiana Legislature (as opposed to the now-DOA ban on low-riding pants for women). Then again, I think direct democracy is a very Good Thing.
We need congressional hearings and testimonies given by young Iranians describing the hopelessness of existence under theocracy; the complete lack of normalcy and dignity; the day-by-day attrition of life. We need a tiny fraction of the West's financial support channeled to the families of Iranian political prisoners and jailed journalists with international monitoring. We need your soft power, and all of it. We need it in a barrage of heavy-media artillery, think-tank platforms, and the solidarity of Western NGOs. We need U.S. and EU campus events with young Iranians "yearning for freedom" standing hand in hand with Western students. We need Western artists lending their music and their voices to the Joyless Generation."
Guys, I hate to break it to you, but all of these people seem more intent on getting Bush out of office because a couple of Iraqis had to wear women's underwear on their head, and apparently this now counts as "torture." I truly wish I were kidding.
Meanwhile, back at the UN (y'know, that organization who devotes itself to the peace of all humankind, unlike us greedy little imperialist bastards), Blue-Helmet peacekeepers make Congolese refugees perform sex acts for food. Charming.
Transterrestrial Musings gives me one piece of good news, and his commenters pile on with more. Hell, us conservatives can dream...
Mr. TM also gets one on the rebound, for something that should go down in the dictionary as an example of "irony."
Finally, my answers to Kim Du Toit's Blogger's Quiz.
Do you have the guts to take the honest bloggers-only quiz? Meh. Beats working.
1. which political party do you typically agree with? Republican
2. which political party do you typically vote for? Republican
3. list the last five presidents that you voted for? Bush in 2000. (I'm not old enough to have voted for any others).
4. which party do you think is smarter about the economy? Tie: Republican/Libertarian
5. which party do you think is smarter about domestic affairs? Republican
6. do you think we should keep our troops in Iraq or pull them out? Keep 'em in until the Iraqis can handle security and/or they ask us to stay.
7. who, or what country, do you think is most responsible for 9/11? Most Responsible: Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda. Accessories: Wahhabism, the Taliban.
8. do you think we will find weapons of mass destruction in iraq? For the 1,000th freakin' time, WE JUST DID.
9. yes or no, should the u.s. legalize marijuana? No. (However, I would not say no to making posession/cultivation a misdemeanor punishable by fines and/or community service instead of jail)
10. do you think the republicans stole the last presidental election? Hell no. According to the rules of the game, Bush won fair and square in 2000.
11. do you think bill clinton should have been impeached because of what he did with monica lewinski? He wasn't. He was impeached for perjury, obstruction of justice, and abuse of power.
12. do you think Hillary Clinton would make a good president? Nope. She's too extremist on too many issues. Odds are she couldn't get elected in the first place.
13. name a current democrat who would make a great president: Great president? The last great Dem presidents were FDR and Truman, and the post-Vietnam Democratic party couldn't muster anyone who comes even close to "great". (In fairness, I think Joe Lieberman, Evan Bayh, or Sam Nunn could do passably well and not completely screw things up, but nowhere near "great.")
14. name a current republican who would make a great president: Bush II could be great IF HE'D JUST GROW A SPINE AND TAKE ON THE PEOPLE WHO DON'T LIKE HIM.
15. do you think that women should have the right to have an abortion? No, and I think that even talking about it as a "right" is silly. (But I'm also definitely sure banning abortion outright won't do any good either.)
16. what religion are you? Christian. (Won't say what denomination for reasons of anonymity.)
17. have you read the Bible all the way through? Yep.
18. what's your favorite book? That's like asking a father to pick his favorite kid. I like a lot of books...they're all just different.
19. who is your favorite band? See #18.
20. who do you think you'll vote for president in the next election? Bush
21. what website did you see this on first? Kim Du Toit
Posted by Thief at June 16, 2004 05:24 PM