nixon

Is that a bad thing?

I keep forgetting that this is Prom weekend, then some random tweet pops up. I'm probably not going to make it out this year though. Oh well, maybe I'll bump into elsewhere.

Cheers,
dXm

You guys are my heroes. Seriously, nothing deserves more respect than people saving animals (by sticking them down your shirt ;-) ). Awesome-sauce.

Re: the torture photos, I'm with you on this one. I can understand why politically this is a can of worms that Obama doesn't want opened, but I'm of the opinion that (as an American) evil was done in my name and by god I want answers. The worst part is the increasing amount of evidence that Cheney & co. tortured not out of fear of a ticking bomb scenario, but to elicit confirmation of ties between Iraq and Al Qaeda which--surprise, surprise--tortured prisoners made up to satisfy their torturers. To quote Jesse Ventura (who on this matter is on the side of the angels): "You give me a waterboard, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I'll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders."

Ugh. Enough of that. Thought I'd let you know that I'm coming to SF next weekend to Prom. I hope I get to see your smiling face once or twice.

This is on the long list of shit Obama has to deal with that Bush gave him. I made a comment on an Internet forum I frequent about how I thought this was pretty weak, and the general consensus I received was that Obama is not trying to deny that abuses took place. He just thinks that these photos are not going to help him pursue his agenda, which is essentially the mandate he was elected for. Obama is a political creature. He understands that time is a political asset, and if he spends it, he won't get it back. The more time he is forced to spend on witch hunts in the CIA/military bureaucracy, the less time he gets to spend on universal health care, economic reform and recovery, etc. He's a Democrat; he's a butter-before-guns sorta dude. If he makes punishing people a focus of his Presidency, he's going to lose the support of a lot of moderate Democrats which is going to make stuff like getting his plans through Congress more difficult. And unlike His Excellency Dubya, Obama believes in the legislative process.

It's a tough situation to be in.

Indeed.

Full agreement with d23's observation...
*Those who perpetrated have already been jailed. Those who give the orders will be. Publicizing the images is just plain disrespectful to the victims and will undermine the massive efforts he's making to not make us look like assholes for a while.*
and Volkov's comment...
*much rather his administration make a sincere effort to prosecute offenders than release the photos to feed our need for spectacle and the hatred for us overseas. Those photos should be used as prosecutory evidence, not some sort of misplaced mea culpa.*

734): I Once took so much Ecstacy that I tried to hug a fire.

hahahahah

(925): i think i just met the girl of my dreams. someone made a serious statement about rape and she said "pish posh, i love surprise sex"

No but the black on my Blackberry has done the exact same thing! It's gone a browny orange colour which looks shit considering the rest of the phone is pink

I've always had the aluminum cases.

As to the oakland moments, I'm wishing you'd taken pictures. They do say that music is good for brain development.

Masks are great. Now, all I need is a "real" reason to wear one besides paranoia.

Eventually there is bound to be a virus that creates a zombie like state, statistically it's bound to happen sooner rather than later. Vampirism is also a possibility with the inevitable tweaking of dna sequences. masks are cool fashion accessories though As a military member I have one permanently issued to me.

sound like just the same old politics. Or maybe it's because i've just been reading a lot of Hunter S Tompson letters recently heh

wow. Those are fantastic.

so deliciously hateful...

So I was reading Uncle John's Unsinkable bathroom reader and there was a page on Nixon, so I thought I'd share some of the interesting ones:

-He is the only person in american history to be elected for 2 terms as vicepresident and 2 as president
-In the 1960 campain Kennedy (age 43) got a lot of attention because he was so young, Nixon was 47
-His secret service code name was searchlight
-He was elected vice president only 6 years after leaving the navy
-He was named after the english king Richard the Lionheart
-When he went for his annual presidental physical he would wear his hospital gown backwards then walk the hallways to startle the nurses.
-He appeared on the cover of time magazine a record 56 times.

Congrats on the new job.

I wonder if Mythbusters will take advantage of your tiny dog grooming skills.