Bwahaha!!!
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dark_christian: Bill Maher on "Persecuted Christians" and "Intelligent Design". Notice the quotes around each of those terms...
Anyway, I've changed my layout and added some links. Pharyngula is a Biologist, who doesn't suffer fools or ID-iots lightly. He's somewhat vicious at times, but since I dislike the targets of his ire anyway, this doesn't bother me. Skeptico is another science blog, though not so prolific. (Incidentally, bird lungs are way cool, when we have the technology, I want a pair)(Of lungs, you jerks!).
Left in the Heartland, Voxpopgirl, No Accuser, and the Deprogramming Starter Kit are all granola-munching lib'ruls who have linked me, so I return the favor. To think, I actually voted for Shrubya in 2000. Won't make _that_ mistake again. :-P
Operation Yellow Elephant is no longer nearly as amusing as it once was, but I still agree with the idea that the whiny b!#&h-boys (and girls) that lurk in Young Republican organizations throughout our fair lands should be encouraged to grow a collective spine and enlist. I look forward to taunting them with my dog-tags when I finally go back to school. Quite possible the only tags in the whole Army with "SubGenius" on the Religious Preference line. :-)
Iraq The Model is about as pro-American as an Iraqi blogger can get, Riverbend hates our guts and would like us all to leave immediately (Personally, I think her family were high-ranking Ba'athists, but that doesn't necessarily invalidate her observations), and the famous Salam Pax is somewhere in the middle.
I remember listening to the news back during the initial invasion, and Salam Pax was the subject of much speculation. Various right-wing twits claimed he couldn't possibly be a real Iraqi, as his English was too good. Boy, I bet they felt embarrassed when he appeared on TV a few months later (Oh, wait, that's assuming they can _be_ embarrassed by mere facts). Now the same twits are making the same accusations about Riverbend. This time they have slightly more justification, as she is extremely careful in guarding her real identity, and her english is almost perfect. Better than most of the whackjobs that post on Free Republic and Little Green Footballs, anyway. Personally, I believe her when she claims to be an Iraqi, and it's perfectly sensible for her to hide her identity, what with the allegations that the current Iraqi government is disappearing critics, to say nothing of all the other thugs running around. First off, her knowledge of Iraqi culture and current events jibes perfectly with both my training and personal experience. Second, on those occasions when she posts something in Arabic, it's also flawless; and finally, because all the OTHER Iraqi bloggers think she's legit, even the ones who disagree with her vehemently.
There's was another blog I really would have liked to link too, before I figured out he was a fraud. A guy who goes by the handle "The Religious Policeman" claims to be a Saudi Arab. His knowledge of Arabic culture and society in general seems pretty good, though I'm not completely familiar with Saudi specifically. His posts are pretty funny too. But on those few occasions when he's said something in Arabic, he's made egregious mistakes. Things like putting extra letters in words, or assuming the name 'Farah' belonged to a man. It soon became obvious that he doesn't speak Arabic, which means he's a damned liar. Of course, the same right-wing bloggers who insist Riverbend is a fake will vigorously defend _his_ claimed identity. To quote Kim Jong Il in Team America: "Why are preople so f*()ing stupid"? Sigh...
Finally, John Scalzi, Charles Stross, and Cory Doctorow are newish science fiction authors of a transhumanistic bent. Both Scalzi and Stross have free books online, and all of Doctorow's works are available under a Creative Commons license. Strangely, this doesn't seem to have hurt their sales any.
dark_christian: Bill Maher on "Persecuted Christians" and "Intelligent Design". Notice the quotes around each of those terms...Anyway, I've changed my layout and added some links. Pharyngula is a Biologist, who doesn't suffer fools or ID-iots lightly. He's somewhat vicious at times, but since I dislike the targets of his ire anyway, this doesn't bother me. Skeptico is another science blog, though not so prolific. (Incidentally, bird lungs are way cool, when we have the technology, I want a pair)(Of lungs, you jerks!).
Left in the Heartland, Voxpopgirl, No Accuser, and the Deprogramming Starter Kit are all granola-munching lib'ruls who have linked me, so I return the favor. To think, I actually voted for Shrubya in 2000. Won't make _that_ mistake again. :-P
Operation Yellow Elephant is no longer nearly as amusing as it once was, but I still agree with the idea that the whiny b!#&h-boys (and girls) that lurk in Young Republican organizations throughout our fair lands should be encouraged to grow a collective spine and enlist. I look forward to taunting them with my dog-tags when I finally go back to school. Quite possible the only tags in the whole Army with "SubGenius" on the Religious Preference line. :-)
Iraq The Model is about as pro-American as an Iraqi blogger can get, Riverbend hates our guts and would like us all to leave immediately (Personally, I think her family were high-ranking Ba'athists, but that doesn't necessarily invalidate her observations), and the famous Salam Pax is somewhere in the middle.
I remember listening to the news back during the initial invasion, and Salam Pax was the subject of much speculation. Various right-wing twits claimed he couldn't possibly be a real Iraqi, as his English was too good. Boy, I bet they felt embarrassed when he appeared on TV a few months later (Oh, wait, that's assuming they can _be_ embarrassed by mere facts). Now the same twits are making the same accusations about Riverbend. This time they have slightly more justification, as she is extremely careful in guarding her real identity, and her english is almost perfect. Better than most of the whackjobs that post on Free Republic and Little Green Footballs, anyway. Personally, I believe her when she claims to be an Iraqi, and it's perfectly sensible for her to hide her identity, what with the allegations that the current Iraqi government is disappearing critics, to say nothing of all the other thugs running around. First off, her knowledge of Iraqi culture and current events jibes perfectly with both my training and personal experience. Second, on those occasions when she posts something in Arabic, it's also flawless; and finally, because all the OTHER Iraqi bloggers think she's legit, even the ones who disagree with her vehemently.
There's was another blog I really would have liked to link too, before I figured out he was a fraud. A guy who goes by the handle "The Religious Policeman" claims to be a Saudi Arab. His knowledge of Arabic culture and society in general seems pretty good, though I'm not completely familiar with Saudi specifically. His posts are pretty funny too. But on those few occasions when he's said something in Arabic, he's made egregious mistakes. Things like putting extra letters in words, or assuming the name 'Farah' belonged to a man. It soon became obvious that he doesn't speak Arabic, which means he's a damned liar. Of course, the same right-wing bloggers who insist Riverbend is a fake will vigorously defend _his_ claimed identity. To quote Kim Jong Il in Team America: "Why are preople so f*()ing stupid"? Sigh...
Finally, John Scalzi, Charles Stross, and Cory Doctorow are newish science fiction authors of a transhumanistic bent. Both Scalzi and Stross have free books online, and all of Doctorow's works are available under a Creative Commons license. Strangely, this doesn't seem to have hurt their sales any.
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Rather off-topic...
Date: 2006-04-10 10:29 pm (UTC)Re: Rather off-topic...
Date: 2006-04-10 11:49 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-04-11 09:35 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-04-11 12:29 pm (UTC)SubG tags
Date: 2006-04-11 11:31 am (UTC)"Yeah, I'll explain it later."
He was an easy going Co XO.
My buddy Anderson, who was next to see him for tags, tells me later that LT asked him if SubG was really a religion. Anderson's like "Yep."
"So what's your religion, Anderson?"
"Druid!"
-Snag
Re: SubG tags
Date: 2006-04-11 12:27 pm (UTC)mmm, granola!
Date: 2006-04-11 11:39 pm (UTC)Have fun outprocessing, buddy. :-D
Sara, (noaccuser)
i hate granola :-)
Date: 2006-05-14 02:49 pm (UTC)yep, i'm a proud lib'rul... a Canadian Liberal chick up here in the cool city of Toronto.
i support the troops and i'm all for democracy.
just not at the expense of subverting America's democracy and spilling American blood on behalf of chasing down some fucker who never attacked America on 9/11.
oh and, forget about granola, i don't eat cereal, period. :-)
btw, hoping all is well with you. sorry to hear about your car troubles.
kick ass, don't kiss it,
lisa
re: i hate granola
Date: 2006-05-14 03:15 pm (UTC)forgot to mention in my previous comment, that i'm voxpopgirl.
http://voxpopgirl.blogspot.com
http://myspace.com/voxpopgirl