~ we’ve made mention of this in various places such as craigslist and dailykos and comic book resources [w], but to make it official, we’ll put it in our own name:
iraq was better off with saddam in charge.

A triple car bombing struck a food market in a predominantly Shiite area in central Baghdad on Saturday, killing at least 51 people a day after a U.S.-Iraqi raid against Sunni insurgents in a nearby neighborhood.

It is now 1,356 days since the US-led invasion on March 20, 2003. So far 3,138 coalition troops and 6,375 Iraqi military have died.

Estimates of the number of civilians killed varies from 125,000 to more than 650,000.

maybe things will improve after we turn iraq over to iran.

~ this shit is over with:

~ wait for it….

“i don”t celebrate bullshit thanksgiving”

-ice motherfucking t

~ after the first ten (10) times we watched michael richards shouting racist epithets, we wondered how his episode would compare to mel gibson’s. we were curious about how differently the anti-defamation league responded to gibson and whoever would respond to richards; also, depending on the public response, we should see which is more accetable – condemnatoin of jews or that of blacks.

of course, they can’t be compared. michael richards is a former actor who few people can distinguish from one of his roles (‘kramer’); one could say that his career was already ruined, not for calling people at the laugh factory ‘nigger’, but by being so successful at being kramer that he could never work as anything else. mel gibson, on the other hand is not only still rich and powerful, but he actually goes out of his way to make blockbuster films out of his anti-semitic beliefs (‘the passion..’). one is a previously innocuous, potential ‘has-been’; the other is an actively working bigot, working on bigotry.

both made public apologies, or at least videotaped an ‘apology’, and claimed that they had fixed things behind the scenes. although, why does michael richards have to apologize for being a racist in a comedy club, but a passenger on a plane in minneapolis does not have to apologize to the six people whose days and travels were ruined becuase he/she does not want to fly on a plane with muslims? a passenger sees muslims on a plane, then slips a note to the stewardess for them to be removed and questioned by police. is the adl or is kramer going to speak about that?

does a jackass like that talk about it when he sees his friends? ‘guess what doods, there were some islamo-passengers on my plane. they scare me, so i had them removed.‘

he probably does, proudly.

~ in honor of jt, who complains as much that we don’t update this site as he carries on about npelosi, green line cafe quote:

“nancy pelosi is kind of cute”
“who?”

our june 2006 post [+] suggesting that we had achieved our ‘final’ long distance record has been proven false; we have busted through that mark by a great percentage. whereas the previously mentioned ‘final’ long distance record was measured in kilometers, a fact conveniently absent from the earlier post, our last ride was documented in miles – 107 of them at 6h58m.

~ it annoys us that image searches for ‘world trade center’ result in pictures of nicolas cage and tearful eagles sharpening their talons. so we’ll put the following images out there, hopefully to infiltrate the top results with something celebratory of the buildings’ magnificence:

world trade center
world trade center
world trade center
world trade center
world trade center
world trade center
world trade center
world trade center
world trade center
world trade center
world trade center
world trade center
world trade center
world trade center
world trade center
world trade center

~ next, we can googlebomb connecticut for lieberman

~ after keeping al-zarqawi in the headlines for a second day by telling us that he was still alive when iraqi, then american, forces arrived at the bombing site, on the third day the prurient interests do not let up, with the msnbc headline:

Skimpy women”s clothing found at al-Zarqawi site

as this is sure to get a rise out of any hot-blooded fan of the latest trophy killing, calling to mind how the details of the lives of uday and qusay hussein so titillated an american public, we fear that they are set up for disappointment when they skim the article for the sordid details and find only an unsexy description of a single “leopard-print nightgown”.

~ it is ‘news’ that al-zarqawi is dead now. why do cnn, msnbc, abc, and others also consider watching a video of a bombing to be following ‘news’? it is newsworthy that some thing has taken place; does touting the act as a spectacle truly make the event more important? ‘see! al-zarqawi’s corpse! see! his house getting blowed up!’

cnn showing off the video of al-zarqawi’s safe house getting bombed is the moral equivalent of al-zarqawi releasing a video of nick berg’s beheading on his website.

‘rip: 12.2000-6.2006’
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