Started this at work..
Front page of yesterday's Wall Street Journal featured a touchy-feely story of GIs running a US miltary-civil information center in Baghdad where Iraqis bring their occupation problems. On Fox Network, Ollie North pronounces that Iraqis don't like the US because Iran makes them so. Few days ago, President Bush says that Afghanistan is now America's "friend" in the Middle East... I'll be the first to confess I have a fair deal of trouble making friends, because I'm quite lost in the intrinstic social conventions. Now, the Bush Administration has solved all that with the simplest of solutions: Social saturation bombing. All I need to do is blow up the home of a potential friend, then (somewhat) selectively neutralize their better friends, family, and possibly religious figures. And here I thought it was all about then respecting social boundaries and sharing knowledge, when it's all about selling off prospective buddy's possessions (the ones left, that is) like you own them, and then they are your best chums. See the wonders you can learn for your real life from US foreign policy?
I've been learning all sorts of amazing things from the cornucopia of media. I caught a bit of that American television institution, The 700 Club the day before last. Even the right and righteous Pat Robertson thinks the Patriot Act is a bad thing, a blatant invasion of the constitutional rights of American citizens. Okay sure, he thinks this because bible prophecy saw the Patriot Act coming, and it's all part of the rising of the Beast and the second coming of Christ, but apocalypse shmocalypse. Long as he, and his evangelical power base, believe that we should fight the Patriot Act. Hey, if the American Zionist Jews and the Fundamentalist Zionist Christians can get ubti bed with each other, so can I. Right after, I join the Log Cabin Republicans.
Front page of yesterday's Wall Street Journal featured a touchy-feely story of GIs running a US miltary-civil information center in Baghdad where Iraqis bring their occupation problems. On Fox Network, Ollie North pronounces that Iraqis don't like the US because Iran makes them so. Few days ago, President Bush says that Afghanistan is now America's "friend" in the Middle East... I'll be the first to confess I have a fair deal of trouble making friends, because I'm quite lost in the intrinstic social conventions. Now, the Bush Administration has solved all that with the simplest of solutions: Social saturation bombing. All I need to do is blow up the home of a potential friend, then (somewhat) selectively neutralize their better friends, family, and possibly religious figures. And here I thought it was all about then respecting social boundaries and sharing knowledge, when it's all about selling off prospective buddy's possessions (the ones left, that is) like you own them, and then they are your best chums. See the wonders you can learn for your real life from US foreign policy?
I've been learning all sorts of amazing things from the cornucopia of media. I caught a bit of that American television institution, The 700 Club the day before last. Even the right and righteous Pat Robertson thinks the Patriot Act is a bad thing, a blatant invasion of the constitutional rights of American citizens. Okay sure, he thinks this because bible prophecy saw the Patriot Act coming, and it's all part of the rising of the Beast and the second coming of Christ, but apocalypse shmocalypse. Long as he, and his evangelical power base, believe that we should fight the Patriot Act. Hey, if the American Zionist Jews and the Fundamentalist Zionist Christians can get ubti bed with each other, so can I. Right after, I join the Log Cabin Republicans.
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