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The Sodium Boat
Mar. 24th, 2006 03:08 amIt would seem that the majority of Americans do in fact approve of torturing terrorists if it might yield useful information.
15% Often
31% Sometimes
17% Rarely
32% Never
5% Don’t know/refused
It would be interesting to see the numbers from Europe. I suspect they're slightly lower, but not by much.
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Swastikaphobia reaches new heights of retardation. This is an excellent page of early WWII aircraft markings, including a ton of cool German, Italian and Hungarian squadron insignia. Some fellow has compiled these into photoshop files, and made them available at no charge for model builders to print decals from. It's obviously a labour of love. All of the swastikas are blurred out in the preview mode, though, to "comply with the laws of some countries". It's frankly Orwellian when you can't even have a swastika on a model of a WWII airplane.
One's tempted to speculate whether certain parties still believe in the occult power of Nazi insignia and regalia. That's certainly how the swastika is being treated, as an item that has power in and of itself.
Bizarrely enough, the actual Fasces seems to be unobjectionable - there're several examples of those. The animus is directed at the swastika in particular, rather than fascist or Nazi symbols in general.
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Little Ponies each have a symbol on their butt that matches their personality. I've wondered before whether the Pony's personality drives the symbol, or if the symbol drives the personality. If it were the latter, one could conceivably go around Ponyland plastering swastika decals on their heinies, and create an instant army of Nazi Ponies.
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Another Australian flying car sighting. When you look carefully at the outline and shadow, it looks narrower than the other cars, and seems to have a sort of hump in the middle. Something's going on here.
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Attack of the Mutant Foxes!
15% Often
31% Sometimes
17% Rarely
32% Never
5% Don’t know/refused
It would be interesting to see the numbers from Europe. I suspect they're slightly lower, but not by much.
*****
Swastikaphobia reaches new heights of retardation. This is an excellent page of early WWII aircraft markings, including a ton of cool German, Italian and Hungarian squadron insignia. Some fellow has compiled these into photoshop files, and made them available at no charge for model builders to print decals from. It's obviously a labour of love. All of the swastikas are blurred out in the preview mode, though, to "comply with the laws of some countries". It's frankly Orwellian when you can't even have a swastika on a model of a WWII airplane.
One's tempted to speculate whether certain parties still believe in the occult power of Nazi insignia and regalia. That's certainly how the swastika is being treated, as an item that has power in and of itself.
Bizarrely enough, the actual Fasces seems to be unobjectionable - there're several examples of those. The animus is directed at the swastika in particular, rather than fascist or Nazi symbols in general.
*****
Little Ponies each have a symbol on their butt that matches their personality. I've wondered before whether the Pony's personality drives the symbol, or if the symbol drives the personality. If it were the latter, one could conceivably go around Ponyland plastering swastika decals on their heinies, and create an instant army of Nazi Ponies.
*****
Another Australian flying car sighting. When you look carefully at the outline and shadow, it looks narrower than the other cars, and seems to have a sort of hump in the middle. Something's going on here.
*****
Attack of the Mutant Foxes!
