Tag: politics
member name: Ibble B.
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July 15, 2007 02:38 PM EDT --
Saddam was a very bad man. He was responsible for the deaths of a hell of a lot of his own folks. How many? Lots. Seriously, it’s hard to say. Nobody really knows. . . .
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October 08, 2007 02:59 PM EDT --
Although we remember Rome more as an empire, for almost half her history she was in fact a republic, and like us, an altogether imperfect, yet earnest, democracy. This now rather obscure fact was . . .
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April 30, 2007 07:49 PM EDT --
I had the pleasure to read some Stanislaw Lem this Summer, The Cyberiad, about a couple of brilliantly insane robots building sometimes not quite perfect robots. Like the big stupid one that tried . . .
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May 02, 2007 10:20 AM EDT --
A few years ago the late Emmett Rufus Eddy, aka “Reverend E.X. Slave”, a colorful (no pun intended) local activist, decided one hot summer day, to take matters into his own hands... He had . . .
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October 12, 2007 09:36 PM EDT --
Well, while stupid spoiled Americans wonder what Britney is up to or pay $3000 so their daughters can see "Hannah Montana", millions of little girls around the world are married off to grown . . .
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April 20, 2007 12:22 AM EDT --
I hope I'm not breaking any rules, but I just discovered a rare gem of a show on CBS...Jericho. I had kinda sorta seen some episodes some months back, but I have a rough time commiting myself . . .
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July 16, 2007 07:55 PM EDT --
In 1989 a black man killed a white police officer in Savannah Georgia. Tomorrow a black man dies by lethal injection convicted of this crime. Is it the one who killed the officer? You . . .
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September 22, 2007 11:47 PM EDT --
And then did Ibblethustra, who understood in reality the meaninglessness of both yesterday and tomorrow, wax musingly on the history and nature of his beloved homeland in these glorious degenerate days. . . .
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July 17, 2007 03:03 PM EDT --
I have an irritating habit of creating definitions and imputing my own meaning into words. Its better than regurgitating talking points, like Rash Lungblow listening juju zombies, but nonetheless . . .
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July 06, 2007 05:53 PM EDT --
In the dawning years of a new millennium, as counted by some, we find ourselves living in interesting times. Barbarian nations seethe in anger while civilized people struggle to respond appropriately and . . .
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October 11, 2008 12:24 PM EDT --
People who live in glass houses...seem bound and determined to throw stones at the windows of those who don't, especially Grampa and Mrs. Mooseburger...
As our economic house collapses . . .
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October 28, 2007 12:28 PM EDT --
So...when Islamic fundamentalist Al Qaeda attacked us we did the obvious thing...and attacked secular Arab nationalist Iraq (deadly enemy of those who attacked us).
Brilliant!
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September 22, 2007 09:52 PM EDT --
When Ibblethustra got bored and busy he took a little vacation, as he was like to do, for too long spent in one rut inevitably delays the gouging of a new one. Then near the end of a long dark teatime . . .
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July 06, 2007 02:52 PM EDT --
Isn’t there something bone chillingly terrifying about those claxon sirens? You know, the long, slowly ascending, mournfully frenetic, slowly descending ones you see on disaster movies or war . . .
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July 01, 2008 04:52 PM EDT --
Ever will polite society need hard men (and women, of course) willing to break heads, and ever will the righteous and decent need oppositionally defiant, moral sociopaths willing to plunge the dagger . . .
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September 22, 2007 10:45 PM EDT --
After a short pause in which he did something entirely forgettable, Ibblethustra decided it was time to rant mutely at a deaf universe some more, and so gathered his disciples and sort of continued his . . .
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July 15, 2007 03:50 PM EDT --
You know, George W. Bush never seemed like a genius. He’s kind of mushmouthed, clumsy, and just never said anything on his own that I’ve heard or read that Homer J Simpson couldn’t . . .
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