“Bin Laden has said this is the central battle in the war on terror…”
So Mr. Shootyouintheface is letting our enemy dictate what’s important and where we fight him? Giving up the initiative? letting your opponent decide when, where and how you are gonna fight?
Oh wait, OBL is not important, or is he? Which is it?
I’m confused

Are you sure you’re not getting confused with the episode in which a giant chocolate eclair falls on top of the lads when they’re on University Challenge?

Fixed!

my brain hurts.

the tub is draining slow because of all that detached hair
That’s possibly the new J-Pod bath toy you’re thinking about.

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The Neko Case*

*Double OT here, but was anyone else less than blown away by Fox Confessor Brings the Flood? I wasn’t familiar at all with her solo work, but everything she did on the last New Pornographers was so good that when Fox Confessor got the phenomenal reviews it did I figured I’d have to love it. As it turns out I like it OK, but it’s a little like a k.d. lang record with the indie cred turned up to 8.

I had a whole post complimenting you on the choice of escape vehicles, and slyly noting that you would need a fast internet connection to enjoy some wingnut “whine” with all that cheese. But the damn tagging mechnism here blew it all to smithereens.

So let’s just take that as read, shall we?

The eventual point was that all these posts from the one-handed FIghting 101st boil down to petulant whining of “History will prove us right! You’ll be sorry! You’ll wish you’d been nicer to us, really you will!” (followed by extended foot-stomping and cheeto crushing)

I’m in Moscow now – here for another week, working on a very intense Internet project for the Russians. These people have been through 17 years of ridiculous, relentless stupidity, fuckery and global humiliation … and they have nothing but sympathy for what the U.S. is undergoing … well, once you get past the initial defensiveness and almost obligatory patriotic hostility…

But add: “Missile Shot From Known Source, At Pre-designated Time, On Known Trajectory, Successfully Detected, Tracked, and Destroyed.”

Sub-Hed: “‘Luck Had Nothing To Do With It,’ Comments Government Commenter. “We’re Getting Better At This, And So Is Our Technology.’”

I would just like to say that I am fairly disturbed that this movie has now come up twice — once here, once in actual conversation — within a week.

That’s it. I’ve got the spaceship I built in my basement, I’ve got plenty of cheese, and I’m off. Don’t wait up.

I share his concern that a fundamentalist religious loon — representing a whole stratum of weirdo space-cake people who believe that particular prophecies need to be fulfilled before the Lord will deign to wind up the loose plot-threads and bring about the end of the world — might get into a position of power where he has access to nuclear weapons. We’re lucky it’s only a hypothetical case.

What’s that? Can’t hear you. Mumblers.

Funny you should mention that. From Fred Thompson’s dayboo post at RedState:

“I have no idea if Ahmadinejad and those who put him in power really believe the Shi’a Twelver doctrine that they can spur the messiah to return by triggering Armageddon. You have to admit, though, that the possibility that they look forward to entering paradise as martyrs would make them a whole lot scarier as a nuclear power than the USSR ever was.”

And he might even be president someday! How comforting!

Is it possible that its all some kind of high satire? I mean, when they hit every cliche down the line like that, am I supposed to believe they’re doing it with a straight face?

But then, of course they are. They’re dead serious, and their Clancy/Bruckheimer masturbation fantasies are just as base and obvious as they seem. My subconsious is just looking out for me — trying to convince me it is all a gag.

This is reality; and yet people wonder why I’d rather just watch cartoons.

I love it when I can’t tell if its snark.