“Why do you ask me these questions at five o’clock"?
You know, some guy always comes up to my window to renew his driver's license at 5:02. Of course, he swears that by his watch, it is only 4:55. Every friggin' day.
Followed quickly by:
"Can I answer in Spanish? Do you speak Spanish?"
No. Disculpe, pero no entiendo castellano.
It is going to be a very long century.
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LOL--are their watches ever "fast"?
Now now, just because they'v e gort a little lisp.
Members of the Intelligence Committee, mind you, are paid $165,200 a year to know more than basic facts about our foes in the Middle East.
No, they're not. They're paid that because they won election to the United States House of Representatives in 2004 or later. Knowing anything—anything at all—has never been a requirement for taking a seat in the House chamber.
Well, the top-down fix is always soviet. The bottom-up fix needed to have started many years ago in the nursury. So, where does *that* leave us?
(hint: "ska-rood")
The best and the worst of us, right there in DC. Lately, more of the latter, it shore does seem.
David:
I have heard Bush say that we are at war with Islamic fascists and whenever he does say that, someone gives him hell. If he does not say that someone gives him hell.
How about the American people, both in office and out of it making a half ass attempt to figure out who it is that wants us dead?
Did anyone expect FDR to explain to the American people who the Nazis or the Japanes Empire were?
People have gotten so damn lazy.
David, the reason he doesn't name "islamic nihilism" is because nobody but you uses that term, and you're using it wrong.
He has said "islamic fascism", which has the advantage of being connected with the way the words are used in the rest of the English-speaking world.
No SyT, I slightly disagree. Most folks do not know the meaning of "nihilism." From Webster's "
2 a : a doctrine or belief that conditions in the social organization are so bad as to make destruction desirable for its own sake independent of any constructive program or possibility"
I happen to think that fits.
Luther, only if you think that they think the imposition of Islamic ruole is not a positive program etc. Much less the more formal philosophical position of nihilism: "[T]he belief that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated. It is often associated with extreme pessimism and a radical skepticism that condemns existence. A true nihilist would believe in nothing, have no loyalties, and no purpose other than, perhaps, an impulse to destroy."
My grandfather used to tell a story about the city guy who came to the San Luis Valley to hunt elk, and ended up shooting one of Granddad's bulls, because the only description the city guy had of an elk was that it was really big and had horns.
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