THAT'LL BE THEN, THIS IS NOW:
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14th JANUARY 2006 |
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TRUISM 2006 UPGRADE: The unexamined life is not worth forcing upon others.
As a child, I thought "everyone" [except my family, teachers, and fellow students] had The Voice in their heads. If I said, "I can't do that," The Voice would inevitably say, "you can. You just don't want to." If I said, "I hate him!" The Voice would quietly assure me, "no. You hate yourself for the way you reacted to him." And if I said, "my life sucks because of them!" The Voice was quick to correct me. "Who're you kidding. You think your life sucks because you're forgetting just how sucky life can be [now thank your lucky stars this isn't Genital Mutilation Day]. And focusing upon 'them' is a lot easier than looking at yourself, isn't it. Mm-hmm. We thought so..."
I believed with all my heart that one day I'd be "a grown-up" with "a normal life"
in which "everyone" would be conversant with The Voice in their heads. And we didn't even have crack in the late '50s/early '60s!
Once on my own, and with the passage of time, hope faded as it became clear most of us listen to The Wounded Boar in our heads. Thus, I became "a realist" with "a hermit's life." The Voice is much better company than crashing boars -- unless speaking to the collective. At which point I'll feign an indignant "why do I...of all people...have to take this crap from you...of all Voices!"
Americans often accuse me of "picking on Americans." Because Americans tend to believe that to hear anything but kudos and/or compliments, regarding our selves or the country, is to be "picked on." If an American complains that the cost of gas is depriving him or her of necessities, to suggest that s/he might trade the SUV for a more fuel-efficient vehicle is to "pick on" him or her. If an American insists that this nation was founded upon "Christian principles," to direct them to the Constitution and the writings of "the founding fathers" is to "pick on" them. If an American is convinced that only the evil and/or insane could find fault with us, to remind [or inform] them of our behavior, in general, and introduce them to the concept of "blowback" is to "pick on" them. If Americans proclaim we are "entitled to" Iraq's and Iran's [and everyone else's] oil "because we need it," to promptly relieve us of our wallets and purses [at gunpoint, if necessary] "because you need it" would surely be considered "to pick on" us...
I "pick on" Americans because, much as it galls me to admit [considering the implications, these days], I am an American. Su mote es mi mote, compadres. And I ain't gonna listen to The Voice all by myself, any more, so get the potatoes outta your ears...er...eyes. |
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IRAN DEFIANTLY RESUMES NUCLEAR RESEARCH
by Ali Akbar Dareini
Forbes
January 10, 2006
Iran removed U.N. seals on uranium enrichment equipment and resumed nuclear research, defying demands it maintain a freeze on its nuclear program and sparking an outcry from the U.S. and Europe. "The regime continues to choose confrontation over cooperation, a choice that deepens the isolation of Iran and harms the interests of the Iranian people."
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Iran "defiantly" resumes nuclear research? Iran is "defying demands" of the U.S. and Europe? The Iranian "regime" continues "to choose confrontation over cooperation?" Oh, and the Iranian "regime" is deepening the isolation of Iran. An Iranian "regime" is harming the interests of the Iranian people. That's just the first paragraph, and I'm already so embarrassed for us [Forbes, and Ali Akbar] my flesh has crawled off my body and into the next county...
Had I ignored The Voice for as long as We, The People have avoided The Voice, when it finally managed to grab my attention, it wouldn't be even remotely concerned about my feelings [nor my self-esteem].
"Somebody's being 'defiant?'
Who made you the fucking Jello Sheriff of the house?! And, oh, I know you didn't just say 'regime.' Because even you wouldn't have the cojones to cast aspersions on another country's elections and/or leaders before cleaning your own toxically poxed house. Now! I'm going to ask you a couple of questions, and I want you to think long and hard before giving me your answers. Is an 'Iranian regime' deepening the isolation of Iran, or is your 'do as I say, not as I do [or my friends and I will kill you]' deepening the isolation of Iran? And...honestly...do you really expect me to believe you give a flying fuck about 'the interests of the Iranian people?' ah.ah.ah -- THINK [about both the questions and the following], before you speak..." |
"DIVINE MISSION" DRIVING IRAN'S NEW LEADER
by Anton La Guardia
Telegraph UK
January 14, 2006
Listen carefully to the utterances of Mr. Ahmadinejad -- recently described by George Bush as an "odd man" -- and there is a religious messianism that some suspect is giving the Iranian leader a dangerous sense of divine mission.
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Read carefully the utterances of Resident Bush -- an "odd duck" who once pronounced Ariel Sharon "a man of peace" -- and there is a religious messianism that some suspect is giving the spoiled, clueless, arrogant, drunken, coke-addled, silver-spooned, coat-tailing little "born on third base thinks he hit a triple" awolling, chickenhawking, bible-thumping, fake cowboy of an immature, election-stealing nutjob a dangerous sense of divine mission.
The country was startled by a video showing Mr. Ahmadinejad telling a cleric that he had felt the hand of God entrancing world leaders as he delivered a speech to the UN General Assembly last September.
[*gasp*] How dare he [when it's as clear as the figurative rag on his head and literal evil in his axis that God's hands work only (and tirelessly) for and through George W. Bush]!
Bush said to James Robinson: "I feel like God wants me to run for President. I can't explain it, but I sense my country is going to need me. Something is going to happen. I know it won't be easy on me or my family, but God wants me to do it."
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It was an odd location for Bush to make his big announcement. No television cameras were present. Yet, as he walked into the Lapp Electric Service plant in Smoketown, Pennsylvania, he must have known that his words would be reported around the world. "God speaks through me," he said.
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Bush told Palestinian ministers that God told him to invade Afghanistan and Iraq and create a Palestinian State, a BBC series reveals. "Bush said: 'I'm driven with a mission from God. God would tell me, "George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan." And I did, and then God would tell me, "George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq." And I did. And now, again, I feel God's words coming to me, "Go get the Palestinians their state and get the Israelis their security, and get peace in the Middle East." And by God I'm gonna do it.'"
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"I believe God wants me to be president." After Sept. 11, the president spoke of "being chosen by the grace of God to lead at that moment." Bush has made numerous references to his belief that he could not be president if he did not believe in a "divine plan that supersedes all human plans." Bush has increasingly seen his presidency as part of that divine plan. |
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"You [who live in (and seek to impose upon others) a diebold-enhanced, paper-trail-free, supreme-court-installed, bushrovian 'democracy']...you, who spend more on your military and have a far greater number of nuclear weapons than all other countries combined; you, who are even now developing more nuclear weapons, and slowly covering the planet with depleted uranium...you, who continue to 'choose confrontation over cooperation;' you...the only one to have ever used nuclear weapons against both military and civilian populations [including your own]...there's something you wanted to say about 'an Iranian regime' and the 'Messianic complex' of an Iranian president? If so, we can go through these articles, paragraph by paragraph," offers The Voice. "Don't make me rake you over my archives." Rb [whose biological clock never made half the racket...]
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