rant: February 2002 Archives

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You've got to hand it to the Shrub. He must have balls the size of watermelons. It would take at least that much to make thse demands.

First he officially withdraws the United States from the Kyoto Protocals; the first major environmental treaty agreed upon by every major industrial nation in the world.

Then he goes back to Japan with his own idea of what should be used as environmental policy.

And this policy doesn't even fix a damn thing. It only seeks to curb growth of toxic emissions.

Would this Kyoto Protocals have put a great deal of pressure specifically on the U.S.? Yes. Have we earned it through wholesale environmental massacre? Yes. Even if we hadn't earned it, shouldn't we try to be the bigger man, and set the standard for others to follow? Yes.

We're not talking about smog here. We're talking about the eventual death of the human race, and potentially all life on this planet. And we're not talking about "if", but "when".

We know the causes. (We were the causes). It takes a real jackass to sell out the planet's future because he wants to get re-elected.

Schools Shy Away From Washington Field Trips

Boneheads. Fuckin' Boneheads.

I am so utterly and inccredibly sick of the ignorant speech and actions of people in relation to Washington DC.

I'd be surprised to hear anyone anymore mention the Pentagon when discussing the September 11 th attacks. I can only imagine how the people in Pennsylvania feel. In all likelyhood, that plane crash there saved my very life.

But when people do discuss Washington, it is mainly to say they don't feel safe about coming here. They no longer seem concerned to fly, which is where the only danger to most civilians was on September 11th in Washington. And the anthrax infections never managed to spread from the buildings they originated in.

So what the hell are you scared about?

Those hundred or so nuclear ICBMs pointed at our heads for the last 50 years don't seem to matter much to you. Fifty missing back-pack sized nuclear bombs, which disappeared after the overthrow of the Soviet Union, don't seem to be making anyone nervous. A murder rate higher than anywhere else in the country never affected tourism.

Kneejerk, ignorant, selfish reactions.

You need to fold up your american flags, put them back in their plastic bags, and return them to the stores. You have already lost. Consider yourself a prisoner of war. When you started reacting based on fear insteaad of logic; when you started allowing the assaults to change the way you lived your life, then you let the enemy beat you.

I live in this city. I have been here four years already, and not a day goes by that I am not in awe of some aspect of this city or the people in it. To teach your kids that dispite common sense and factual evidence, you won't take them to a place such as this where every building and tree is a piece of history. You're pitaful.

On a side note, this author needs to be bitch-slapped.

Students who visit today find a city visibly changed; police are stationed at nearly every corner, and concrete barricades encircle the monuments like scattered dominoes. Chaperons enforce an unpopular 6 p.m. hotel curfew.

Bullshit. The concrete barriccades were there before September 11. And the city has actually been replaccing many of those gaudy conrete slabs which have been around for years with more suitable and attractive fences and posts. And maybe once a week do I see a cop or military officer I didn't see before. This is Washington Fuckin DC. Do you think we don't have security here? And what the hell does a high school student's curfew have to do with this city?

I can just see tommorrow's headline:

"Scriptkiddie found with computer parts sticking out of every body orafice."

No, this isn't the hacker I'm upset with.

Just another wannabe. I miss the days when I woulda shitcanned him. But strangely enough, I got a little taste of reality, and I liked it. I'm done bitching.

The de-Christianization of America is different from mass immigration. They’re coming into a country whose institutions no longer enforce a certain morality. They’re coming into a country, half of which is deeply secularized and says keep your language and your separate institutions and your ethnic entitlements. And the other half is deeply traditional. It’s not just that they’re coming into a country that’s bifurcated. They’re bringing beliefs and ideas and languages in such enormous numbers that that alone would make it far more difficult to assimilate.

-- Patrick Buchanan

Why is Pat Buchanan still around? What religion does this man represent? What church does he preach at? Who ordained him?

This man will use any ploy, misrepresent any fact, spin any tale, simply to ...

to ...

I don't know. What's his point? What is he working towards?

He espouses a desire for a more Christian world. And he has all the trappings of a patriotic American. But his narrow, ill-conceieved view of these environments makes me think he is simply in love with his own voice.

I believe he is a very learned man, (though i wouldn't go so far as to say intelligent). He speaks well, and knows how to spin almost any point to his advantage.

He could be a great leader if he wanted; I'm sure. It's too bad for him that his head never stays out of his ass long enough to gain much of a following.

This entire interview of hsi is baased upon two flawed facts.

The first one is easy: English. It is not the national language of the United States. It just so happens it is the most commonly used language. Whatever language(s) are in widespread use in this country should be recognized, and not suppressed. By virtue of it's own momentum, English is the language of business and international power and trade. Any group of people so dedicated to their own cultural sovereignty that they refused to add English as even a secondary language -- they will be left behind. This is a very reasonable argument. Unfortunatly, it isn't the one Robertson chose to make.

Secondly, Pat Robertson seems to have trouble with the word "assimilation". I believe he has confused it with 'obliteration'.

This land, from it's very founding as colonial properties, has been a haven for any person to come and be themself, when they most often cannot be in their original homes. Pilgrims come here to practice their own religion. Haitains come here to live freely without an opressive govermment. A collection of farmers fought here to be able to have control over their own lives and commerce.

We have accepted refugees from every country on earth. We have reached out and help countries being overrun by madmen with ideas of superior races in their minds.

But Pat Buchanan seems to believe that this country cannot survive unless each persons cultural heritage and person beliefs are surrendered to the good of the state. That diversity is the biggest threat to America.

Assimilation, Mr. Buchanan, is not the process of taking something in and utterly subornitaing it to the current standard. That is obliteration. Assimmilation is taking in the new, and adding it to yourself, so that you are something more than you were before.

So we have room for all new ideas, Pat. But your ideas aren't new. Ignorance and bigotry are very old, and very tired.

And if you're the little pigfucker who hacked my account, among others, today...