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Friday, October 22, 2004
Iranian hard-core theocrats endorse Bush for President (AP)
Despite Bush's rhetoric against Iran, they'd rather have him back for more:
Historically, Democrats have harmed Iran more than Republicans, said Hasan Rowhani, head of the Supreme National Security Council, Iran's top security decision-making body.
"We haven't seen anything good from Democrats," Rowhani told state-run television in remarks that, for the first time in decades, saw Iran openly supporting one U.S. presidential candidate over another.
Though Iran generally does not publicly wade into U.S. presidential politics, it has a history of preferring Republicans over Democrats, who tend to press human rights issues.
"We do not desire to see Democrats take over," Rowhani said when asked whether Iran was supporting Democratic Sen. John Kerry against Bush.
Now that's interesting. Most of the truly democratic countries want Kerry, while false-front "democracies" and "republics" led by autocrats, like Iran, support Bush. Democrats do more harm than Republicans to these kinds of rulers, who enjoy cronylike status among the Republicans.
Who do you want for your President? Democracies' preferred candidate, Kerry? Or Iran's choice, Bush?
Thursday, October 21, 2004
Getting in the Halloween mood
Here's some short zombie fiction stories from the Twilight Creations site, makers of the "Zombies!!!" board game.
Eat well.
(added later:)
One more thing to chew on: George Romero is working on a follow-up to his other zombie movies, to come out next year. It's called "Land of the Dead." The plotline: a few years have passed, and the living dead have taken over almost all of the Earth. The surviving humans are in a walled-in city, desperately trying to survive each other as much as the zombies. Meanwhile, the zombie threat, which had started fading as the zombies decomposed, is rising again as the zombies evolve into new threats...
Sounds like it could be good.
Wednesday, October 20, 2004
Pat Robertson: I warned Bush about casualties in Iraq...
...Bush's response? "There aren't going to be any." (CNN)
Wow!
Bush thought there weren't going to be any casualties--as though invading Iraq was going to be like invading Grenada.
This is an amazing article. It's also full of irrationalist gems like this:
Jesus may have told Bush to invade Iraq, but God was giving warnings to Robertson: "I mean, the Lord told me it was going to be A, a disaster, and B, messy."
Robertson also believes Bush is blessed by God:
"Even if he stumbles and messes up -- and he's had his share of stumbles and gaffes -- I just think God's blessing is on him," Robertson said.
Amazing. Bush is a goofball, self-assured for no reason, mistaken oh so many times, and foolish, yet his irrationalist buddies think "God" has blessed him.
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
I can't say it any better... Monday, October 18, 2004
Authoritarian supports Bush
"Democratically elected" leader Putin supports "democratically elected" Bush
Birds of a feather screw over their people together.
Putin, like so many idiots, seem to think the terrorists want Bush to lose. This is, of course, false. Al-Qaeda is already on record as thinking Bush is a fool and that Kerry would be a much more dangerous foe to them. A lot of Bush's supporters choose to ignore this fact, as they ignore so many facts that fly in the face of what they fervently wish were true.
If you believe in fantasy right up until the moment of your death or the death of your first born, vote for Bush. Osama'll thank you.
Sunday, October 17, 2004
Gather together the voter fraud... Bush Administration: torturers in two hemispheres Saturday, October 16, 2004
30 years of Dungeons and Dragons Federal appeals court: fear doesn't trump Constitution Ramadan starts, so does the violence
With beginning of Ramadan comes a dangerous irrational belief: die fighting infidels during Ramadan, go to heaven
Hold on, folks. It's going to be a bumpy month.
Meanwhile, a group of soldiers refused to go on a refuel/resupply mission, saying several of their trucks were too dangerous to drive and that they didn't have proper protection.
I don't know how to feel about that. On one hand, I'm hard-pressed to say I'd be thrilled myself to go on a mission where I felt I was being set up for failure--and failure meaning death. On the other hand, those supplies are needed by other soldiers, some of whom may meet their own brand of trouble without resupply.
What I'd really like to know is, why don't our soldiers have the equipment they need to succeed? Why hasn't the Bush Administration gotten their act together, a year and a half after invading Iraq? It's not like anyone--Congress, the media, anyone--has been stopping them. Is it incompetence, or are they trying to drag out the war for their own purposes?
I remember an old bumper sticker that said, "It'll be a great day when our schools get all the money they need, and the Army has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber." Now that families are putting collections together to buy their soldiers body armor, it's safe to say it's not a great day when either group has to hold a bake sale.
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