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Tuesday, September 23, 2003
Press Remarks with Foreign Minister of Egypt Amre Moussa:
"We will always try to consult with our friends in the region so that they are not surprised and do everything we can to explain the purpose of our responses. We had a good discussion, the Foreign Minister and I and the President and I, had a good discussion about the nature of the sanctions -- the fact that the sanctions exist -- not for the purpose of hurting the Iraqi people, but for the purpose of keeping in check Saddam Hussein's ambitions toward developing weapons of mass destruction. We should constantly be reviewing our policies, constantly be looking at those sanctions to make sure that they are directed toward that purpose. That purpose is every bit as important now as it was ten years ago when we began it. And frankly they have worked. He has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors. So in effect, our policies have strengthened the security of the neighbors of Iraq, and these are policies that we are going to keep in place, but we are always willing to review them to make sure that they are being carried out in a way that does not affect the Iraqi people but does affect the Iraqi regime's ambitions and the ability to acquire weapons of mass destruction, and we had a good conversation on this issue."
Powell, feb 2001...via atrios...
I really really hope somebody asks some questions about this...
"We will always try to consult with our friends in the region so that they are not surprised and do everything we can to explain the purpose of our responses. We had a good discussion, the Foreign Minister and I and the President and I, had a good discussion about the nature of the sanctions -- the fact that the sanctions exist -- not for the purpose of hurting the Iraqi people, but for the purpose of keeping in check Saddam Hussein's ambitions toward developing weapons of mass destruction. We should constantly be reviewing our policies, constantly be looking at those sanctions to make sure that they are directed toward that purpose. That purpose is every bit as important now as it was ten years ago when we began it. And frankly they have worked. He has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors. So in effect, our policies have strengthened the security of the neighbors of Iraq, and these are policies that we are going to keep in place, but we are always willing to review them to make sure that they are being carried out in a way that does not affect the Iraqi people but does affect the Iraqi regime's ambitions and the ability to acquire weapons of mass destruction, and we had a good conversation on this issue."
Powell, feb 2001...via atrios...
I really really hope somebody asks some questions about this...
Wednesday, September 17, 2003
Nitpicker
via atrios...
Krugman's right...these guys are revolutionaries with no respect for our national history or traditions...
can't we find a way to take our country back before the elections??
via atrios...
Krugman's right...these guys are revolutionaries with no respect for our national history or traditions...
can't we find a way to take our country back before the elections??
Tuesday, September 16, 2003
Monday, September 15, 2003
So, I'm starting to think more and more about theatre...
maybe it's about time since I've been at it for a little over three years now and I'm just noticing things, and thinking about things more...
for instance looking at google news I notice there's nothing about live theatre anywhere...
Why is that? How many plays premiere in the U.S. in any given month?
How many never play beyond their home town? I don't know the answer to either of these questions...and I'm not sure if anyone would, but I might just do some asking around...
maybe it's about time since I've been at it for a little over three years now and I'm just noticing things, and thinking about things more...
for instance looking at google news I notice there's nothing about live theatre anywhere...
Why is that? How many plays premiere in the U.S. in any given month?
How many never play beyond their home town? I don't know the answer to either of these questions...and I'm not sure if anyone would, but I might just do some asking around...
Ain't It Cool News - View Article:
" I’ve always wanted someone to collect music videos by director, not by band, and now, thanks to the work of Spike Jonze, Chris Cunningham, and Michel Gondry, that’s finally happened. The three of them got together to start The Director’s Label, and in the coming months, each of them will issue a DVD of their work."
Finally is right...now if only I could just get a collection of the video work of Zbigniew Rybczynski. There's at least one Frankie Goes to Hollywood video I know he directed that's not on this list...
I just wish I could remember what it was...
" I’ve always wanted someone to collect music videos by director, not by band, and now, thanks to the work of Spike Jonze, Chris Cunningham, and Michel Gondry, that’s finally happened. The three of them got together to start The Director’s Label, and in the coming months, each of them will issue a DVD of their work."
Finally is right...now if only I could just get a collection of the video work of Zbigniew Rybczynski. There's at least one Frankie Goes to Hollywood video I know he directed that's not on this list...
I just wish I could remember what it was...
Wednesday, September 10, 2003
Graphitti Designs Presents... NEWSARAMA - Stuart Moore's A Thousand Flowers: Flagg, United Fruit, History, and Deja Vu
I was a huge fan of American Flagg back in the day...
this article has comics, American history, and paragraphs like this one:
"Make no mistake: this is big corporations using the government to fight their wars. It's an administration filling its friends' pockets and strutting arrogantly around the globe, while ruining our nation's economy. It's legalized graft; it’s blood spilled to make the richest few even richer. It's war profiteering."
Dick Cheney: War Profiteer
I've been saying it for a long time now...
I was a huge fan of American Flagg back in the day...
this article has comics, American history, and paragraphs like this one:
"Make no mistake: this is big corporations using the government to fight their wars. It's an administration filling its friends' pockets and strutting arrogantly around the globe, while ruining our nation's economy. It's legalized graft; it’s blood spilled to make the richest few even richer. It's war profiteering."
Dick Cheney: War Profiteer
I've been saying it for a long time now...
Tuesday, September 09, 2003
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Richard Parker does a little math and concludes that, yes, for what we spend on the war in Iraq we could pave the American highways with gold...
Richard Parker does a little math and concludes that, yes, for what we spend on the war in Iraq we could pave the American highways with gold...
Sunday, September 07, 2003
The Daily Dystopian:
"1984: Prominent Texas minister WA Criswell opined that separation of church and state was 'a figment of some infidel's imagination.'"
sometimes you read something that just really sets you off...
the link for Criswell above is one of those things...
I just don't understand, well, any of this...it's absolutely maddening.
How did our country end up in the hands of these people?
here's the link...
and one of my favorite bits from it...
In 1996, Second Baptist Church of Lake Jackson, Texas, stunned the state by sending out letters to Texas churches saying a person who voted for the Democratic Presidential candidate committed a sin before God.
reading that sentence just fills me with righteous anger.
every time.
M
"1984: Prominent Texas minister WA Criswell opined that separation of church and state was 'a figment of some infidel's imagination.'"
sometimes you read something that just really sets you off...
the link for Criswell above is one of those things...
I just don't understand, well, any of this...it's absolutely maddening.
How did our country end up in the hands of these people?
here's the link...
and one of my favorite bits from it...
In 1996, Second Baptist Church of Lake Jackson, Texas, stunned the state by sending out letters to Texas churches saying a person who voted for the Democratic Presidential candidate committed a sin before God.
reading that sentence just fills me with righteous anger.
every time.
M
Thursday, September 04, 2003
This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow: August 31, 2003 - September 06, 2003 Archives
wherein Michael Moore is maybe not so crazy...
Snopes.com revisionist history
Bin Laden family Spirited Away
hmmm...
wherein Michael Moore is maybe not so crazy...
Snopes.com revisionist history
Bin Laden family Spirited Away
hmmm...
hey! if you want to read some of my poetry go
here.
I hope to have the interview with myself finished this weekend.
If you've read the work, or even if you haven't and have any questions
you think I should ask myself just pass them along to me at thelonenut@hotmail.com.
just make sure you put something in the title that will make me read it...
you know like "How to make your penis bigger" or something like that...
(anything that doesn't make me think it's spam will be fine actually,
maybe the book title, or questions to ask yourself about your poetry,
or something)
M
here.
I hope to have the interview with myself finished this weekend.
If you've read the work, or even if you haven't and have any questions
you think I should ask myself just pass them along to me at thelonenut@hotmail.com.
just make sure you put something in the title that will make me read it...
you know like "How to make your penis bigger" or something like that...
(anything that doesn't make me think it's spam will be fine actually,
maybe the book title, or questions to ask yourself about your poetry,
or something)
M
Something I wrote on the way home from work...
don't think it's finished yet...
but here it is anyway...
it is gray as I walk to my car
preparing to face another night of practice,
another practice, another part, another performance.
but when I close my eyes I see
(for an instant)
a smile
and
I think,
(for an instant)
"change is coming."
They say you can't
step in the same river once.
I say, "constants are constant,
and they constantly thwart us"
no.
not all of us.
some of us are allowed to grow
to change
to feel the power in our hands,
in our words,
but most of us,
no, most of us
are in our paths
our ruts
that get deeper
as we repeat
and repeat
and repeat
don't think it's finished yet...
but here it is anyway...
it is gray as I walk to my car
preparing to face another night of practice,
another practice, another part, another performance.
but when I close my eyes I see
(for an instant)
a smile
and
I think,
(for an instant)
"change is coming."
They say you can't
step in the same river once.
I say, "constants are constant,
and they constantly thwart us"
no.
not all of us.
some of us are allowed to grow
to change
to feel the power in our hands,
in our words,
but most of us,
no, most of us
are in our paths
our ruts
that get deeper
as we repeat
and repeat
and repeat
Tuesday, September 02, 2003
Democratic Underground Forums - Viewing topic #263949 - Wow--a Brand New Poster Just Said a Mouthful--a lot of truth:
"With the election looming, I think it is more important than ever to stare some cold, hard truths in the face. There is a darkness, a certain cruelness out there in this country. I want to believe that the American people are just being fooled by Bush, but more and more it seems that they know exactly what he is and are making their choice for him and his brand of politics with their eyes wide open."
via The Daily Dystopian
Sometimes I feel this way...and it is feeling this way that keeps my mouth shut at work, and convinced that these people that surround me do not only not have my best interests at heart, but that they do not even understand what my, or their own best interests are...The time is coming to leave Texas...
and maybe the U.S.
"With the election looming, I think it is more important than ever to stare some cold, hard truths in the face. There is a darkness, a certain cruelness out there in this country. I want to believe that the American people are just being fooled by Bush, but more and more it seems that they know exactly what he is and are making their choice for him and his brand of politics with their eyes wide open."
via The Daily Dystopian
Sometimes I feel this way...and it is feeling this way that keeps my mouth shut at work, and convinced that these people that surround me do not only not have my best interests at heart, but that they do not even understand what my, or their own best interests are...The time is coming to leave Texas...
and maybe the U.S.
Democratic Underground Forums - Viewing topic #263949 - Wow--a Brand New Poster Just Said a Mouthful--a lot of truth:
"With the election looming, I think it is more important than ever to stare some cold, hard truths in the face. There is a darkness, a certain cruelness out there in this country. I want to believe that the American people are just being fooled by Bush, but more and more it seems that they know exactly what he is and are making their choice for him and his brand of politics with their eyes wide open."
via The Daily Dystopian
Sometimes I feel this way...and it is feeling this way that keeps my mouth shut at work, and convinced that these people that surround me do not only not have my best interests at heart, but that they do not even understand what my, or their own best interests are...The time is coming to leave Texas...
and maybe the U.S.
"With the election looming, I think it is more important than ever to stare some cold, hard truths in the face. There is a darkness, a certain cruelness out there in this country. I want to believe that the American people are just being fooled by Bush, but more and more it seems that they know exactly what he is and are making their choice for him and his brand of politics with their eyes wide open."
via The Daily Dystopian
Sometimes I feel this way...and it is feeling this way that keeps my mouth shut at work, and convinced that these people that surround me do not only not have my best interests at heart, but that they do not even understand what my, or their own best interests are...The time is coming to leave Texas...
and maybe the U.S.
NathanNewman.org - News and Views: Why Unions? Human Dignity:
"Why Unions? Human Dignity "
this series should be good reading all week...
I always argue for unions on principle.
I know a lot about the problems of corruption, unresponsive leadership, etc...
but the fact is they work better than nothing,
which is what the bosses would like to give us.
M
"Why Unions? Human Dignity "
this series should be good reading all week...
I always argue for unions on principle.
I know a lot about the problems of corruption, unresponsive leadership, etc...
but the fact is they work better than nothing,
which is what the bosses would like to give us.
M
