timouse

here's the dick cheney thing!

"Amerioca's Biggest Dick!"

doesn't seem to work in netscape, but works in IE.

http://www.sundanceonlinefilmfestival.org/2005/playList.aspx?list=atomfilms&speed=300

indeed, have a big birtday, but be careful, it's a school night

they re-ran tim russert interviewing hst from 2003 last night. hunter seemed even then to be in bad shape...at one point, he seemed to get a bit disjointed and lose his train of thought, his arm shot up and he started wailing before collecting himself and carrying on.

when russert asked him about events in the past he seems to gather himself together, but he seemed to have a real hard time with on the fly open ended questions...

perhaps this was the beginning of his downhill slide...

way to go cassia! that's my god-daughter!

heheheheeee...

bee

outside

the pythons have their finger on the pulse of proper foreign policy. here's terry jones from the Observer...here you go dr evil mouse!

I'm really excited by George Bush's latest reason for bombing Iraq: he's running out of patience. And so am I!

For some time now I've been really pissed off with Mr Johnson, who lives a couple of doors down the street. Well, him and Mr Patel, who runs the health food shop. They both give me queer looks, and I'm sure Mr Johnson is planning something nasty for me, but so far I haven't been able to discover what. I've been round to his place a few times to see what he's up to, but he's got everything well hidden. That's how devious he is.

As for Mr Patel, don't ask me how I know, I just know - from very good sources - that he is, in reality, a Mass Murderer. I have leafleted the street telling them that if we don't act first, he'll pick us off one by one.

Some of my neighbours say, if I've got proof, why don't I go to the police? But that's simply ridiculous. The police will say that they need evidence of a crime with which to charge my neighbours.

They'll come up with endless red tape and quibbling about the rights and wrongs of a pre-emptive strike and all the while Mr Johnson will be finalising his plans to do terrible things to me, while Mr Patel will be secretly murdering people. Since I'm the only one in the street with a decent range of automatic firearms, I reckon it's up to me to keep the

peace. But until recently that's been a little difficult. Now, however, George W. Bush has made it clear that all I need to do is run out of patience, and then I can wade in and do whatever I want!

And let's face it, Mr Bush's carefully thought-out policy towards Iraq is the only way to bring about international peace and security. The one certain way to stop Muslim fundamentalist suicide bombers targeting the US or the UK is to bomb a few Muslim countries that have never threatened us.

That's why I want to blow up Mr Johnson's garage and kill his wife and children. Strike first! That'll teach him a lesson. Then he'll leave us in peace and stop peering at me in that totally unacceptable way.

Mr Bush makes it clear that all he needs to know before bombing Iraq is that Saddam is a really nasty man and that he has weapons of mass destruction - even if no one can find them. I'm certain I've just as much justification for killing Mr Johnson's wife and children as Mr Bush has for bombing Iraq.

Mr Bush's long-term aim is to make the world a safer place by eliminating 'rogue states' and 'terrorism'. It's such a clever long-term aim because how can you ever know when you've achieved it? How will Mr Bush know when he's wiped out all terrorists? When every single terrorist is dead? But then a terrorist is only a terrorist once he's committed an act of terror. What about would-be terrorists? These are the ones you really want to eliminate, since most of the known terrorists, being suicide bombers, have already eliminated themselves.

Perhaps Mr Bush needs to wipe out everyone who could possibly be a future terrorist? Maybe he can't be sure he's achieved his objective until every Muslim fundamentalist is dead? But then some moderate Muslims might convert to fundamentalism. Maybe the only really safe thing to do would be for Mr Bush to eliminate all Muslims?

It's the same in my street. Mr Johnson and Mr Patel are just the tip of the iceberg. There are dozens of other people in the street who I don't like and who - quite frankly - look at me in odd ways. No one will be really safe until I've wiped them all out.

My wife says I might be going too far but I tell her I'm simply using the same logic as the President of the United States. That shuts her up.

Like Mr Bush, I've run out of patience, and if that's a good enough reason for the President, it's good enough for me. I'm going to give the whole street two weeks - no, 10 days - to come out in the open and hand over all aliens and interplanetary hijackers, galactic outlaws and interstellar terrorist masterminds, and if they don't hand them over nicely and say 'Thank you', I'm going to bomb the entire street to kingdom come.

It's just as sane as what George W. Bush is proposing - and, in contrast to what he's intending, my policy will destroy only one street.

okay, now That reads like a story from the onion.

lmao!

bedtime

indeed. they kept saying that they would explode harmlessly "in space" Over canada.

the good news, or at least less worse news is that they have only a few percent chance of hitting an incoming missle.

three cheers for the guys in charge!

(did i actually just say that?)

i saw a deal on cpac with mel hurtig, a physicist from Quebec who's name escapes me, and a guy named Ted Postiol from the US. Postol worked on the early Patriot alti-missle missles and went public with their terrible track record. there's an interview with him at http://www.radio4all.net - search for postol.

from what postol & hurtig had to say, the US missle defense program essentially amounts to more state subsidy of private profit, only it's getting more overt and rather like the elephant in the middle of the room that everyone's trying to ignore. Missle defense is the angry elephant fart which we have no choice but to take notice (thanks bouche!)

good on the canadian government. but does this mean that the US will still be trying to blow missiles up over canada? presuming they can hit them, that is?

ok, time for futurama. too much serious thought.need brain candy.

we'll see what we can put together. we may have to come in shifts, i don't think that they would let that many ontario folk into BC at once, we'd never leave

all right arkmouse! deb was right, this is addictive. highly entertaining time waster, glad to get a chance to interact with cool folks in any space. i do prefer meatspace over cyberspace (or veggiespace for the non carnivores)

apples

not at all. had you said "small independent record store" instead it would have been fine. isn't there an edit funtion for posts here?

Bob Dewar...not very flashy, but it gets funnier the more you ponder it. and yes i had a pet named bob. bob was a very cool and reasonably long lived rat.

well, if one more person gets jerry on accounta the live realeases, it can't be all that bad...but didja hafta use wal mart? i don't think i can defend "The Estate" and wal mart at the same time without blowing some key logic circuits...

tell me about it. that was the saddest thing about bc generally...the weird moire pattern of the replantings was only marginally less depressing. and we were only in Tofino for half a day, we fled down the road to the beach and then to Uclulet which was way cooler and less trendoided.

i think bokonon is going to dig the island, and we can all go visit!

(~)

i dunno, i think i have to side with bouche. there was a bbc documentary done about the garcia estate battle and deborah koons. it was very eery (eerie?) ok creepy the way she kept referring to "the Estate." as in "the estate made several million last year" or "we have to think about the long term viability of the Estate."

freakin' depressing i tell ya...it was like watching the CEO of a corporation go on and on about how successful they are and how important it is to keep the brand message unified...i'm sure jer is getting a giggle out of it...

timouse

super freak, i had so many friends who raved about tofino, its so cool, full of kind folks, i was sooo let down when i finally got to see it. sorry for "meh" ing at you...we were also there for the first nice weekend of the summer, i think i was put off by all the tredoids and SUV's...

timouse

meh. tofino is waaaay over-rated. full of rich tourists and $200 a night hotels with hot tubs and long ocean views. uclulet is much more real. and victoria is lovely...

ok, i admit it's juvenile to laugh, but the head of the Anglican Church in Canada is referred to as the Primate?

Those Anglicans come right to the point...

if HST had done a third of the deviant activities he claimed, then i'm sure he wore out all his parts, and maybe faced with the slow downhill slide of things failing him, elected to make a quick end of things by gunshot.

and what better way to finish it all then to have his earthly remains scattered all over owl farm by cannon?

i don't think he thought of the other people in his life though...i'm not sure i would have wanted to be the one to discover the body. as someone else on a HST thread opined, gunshots are a messy way to go. there's a lot of blood and sh!t. you'd think that someone who has done every pharmaceutical known to science would have sussed out the right combination to take him out quietly, but i suppose that was his whole point.

and as has been pointed out endlessly, if you want his books get them now before the commemmorative double price editions come out.

rant>

timouse

apple pie

okay, i did NOT need to read that. i have jokingly been telling friends that indeed the evangelicals were on to something, that god wanted dumbya in power in order to hasten the End Of Days.

but i never expected that this was a serious point of view within shrub's Base of Power.

Arrrrgh!

i'm going over to ebay to bid on a sub-etha thumb....

a somewhat slightly more distrught than before timouse

the godly must be crazy