Weasel Brix
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rain_gryphonSo, I've been gloating all day over Zarqawi stopping a pair of 500 pound bombs. They reported on Fox that Bush laughed out loud when he heard :) From the picture they showed at the press conference, which was cropped in way tight on his face and cut off at the chin, I figured his head must have come off. I was somewhat disappointed that it didn't. It's always best when the enemy dies a slapstick and ignominious death.
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The Israelis seems to have dealt with one of their villains as well. I'm getting the feeling of late that actual progress is being made there. Abbas is apparently committed to calling his referendum as well.
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The Marshall County (MN) Museum:
County history, farm machinery, and street of yesteryear. Has the only 'cook car' or portable farmer's kitchen in a museum in Minnesota. Sheriff's patrol car hit by a UFO in 1979. Cat tail fluff or typha was harvested during WWII for use in floation devises and we have the only cattail baler known.
Small museums are really one's best entertainment value.
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Gatorade strikes again!
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The Reinhard Heydrich action figure. Because GI Joe needs a serious villain to fight, instead of those bumblers from Cobra.
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The World Cup begins today. I can't help but wonder if it'll be attacked by terrorists. They do seem to be ramping up for something, judging by the folx caught in Toronto, and the strange episode of the poison gas vest from London. I'm mindful as well that the Munich stadium is the same one where the Palestinians attacked the Olympics back in '72.
I do hope we win. That way, if I'm chatting online with Europeans, I can be all like, "World Cup? Oh, that's that soccer game, isn't it? We're gonna be in that this year! Isn't Germany the other team?" and thereby be the cause of much facepalming, and fretting over ignorant and insular Americans.
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Kitteny goodness from Gizmodo. I feel kind of sorry for him watching this. He's obviously frustrated.
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As I had occasion to note elsewhere recently, Voltaire's actual views on war and authoritarian government (and, I suspect, tolerance) were apparently a bit different from what he published for public consumption. I'm not especially surprised. Like most of the liberal philosophers (like modern philosophers in general, actually), he strikes me as a bit of a stage act, carefully crafting a set of views that he thinks people would like to see themselves as adherents of. It's a bit like a psychic doing 'cold readings'.
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The Israelis seems to have dealt with one of their villains as well. I'm getting the feeling of late that actual progress is being made there. Abbas is apparently committed to calling his referendum as well.
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The Marshall County (MN) Museum:
County history, farm machinery, and street of yesteryear. Has the only 'cook car' or portable farmer's kitchen in a museum in Minnesota. Sheriff's patrol car hit by a UFO in 1979. Cat tail fluff or typha was harvested during WWII for use in floation devises and we have the only cattail baler known.
Small museums are really one's best entertainment value.
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Gatorade strikes again!
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The Reinhard Heydrich action figure. Because GI Joe needs a serious villain to fight, instead of those bumblers from Cobra.
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The World Cup begins today. I can't help but wonder if it'll be attacked by terrorists. They do seem to be ramping up for something, judging by the folx caught in Toronto, and the strange episode of the poison gas vest from London. I'm mindful as well that the Munich stadium is the same one where the Palestinians attacked the Olympics back in '72.
I do hope we win. That way, if I'm chatting online with Europeans, I can be all like, "World Cup? Oh, that's that soccer game, isn't it? We're gonna be in that this year! Isn't Germany the other team?" and thereby be the cause of much facepalming, and fretting over ignorant and insular Americans.
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Kitteny goodness from Gizmodo. I feel kind of sorry for him watching this. He's obviously frustrated.
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As I had occasion to note elsewhere recently, Voltaire's actual views on war and authoritarian government (and, I suspect, tolerance) were apparently a bit different from what he published for public consumption. I'm not especially surprised. Like most of the liberal philosophers (like modern philosophers in general, actually), he strikes me as a bit of a stage act, carefully crafting a set of views that he thinks people would like to see themselves as adherents of. It's a bit like a psychic doing 'cold readings'.
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Date: 2006-06-09 09:54 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-06-09 03:37 pm (UTC)Good lucks to the States too
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Date: 2006-06-09 07:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-09 01:29 pm (UTC)The USA are ranked fourth in the world at the moment, which I have to admit surprised me. I do think that's a little bit of a false position, and you've got a very tough collection of group opponents (Italy, Czech Republic and Ghana)... but if I were a betting fur, putting a real outside bet on, I'd say your 80/1 odds were much too long.
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Date: 2006-06-09 01:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-09 05:26 pm (UTC)And actually, he survived for a while after the attack, long enough to be put on a stretcher but not much longer.
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Date: 2006-06-09 06:08 pm (UTC)And actually, he survived for a while after the attack, long enough to be put on a stretcher but not much longer.
I heard that, yeah. I'm sure his family and friends can take comfort that he was in the gentle hands of our military during his last moments. :)