This is enough to turn one off to human beings entirely - both male and female.
Maybe it's time to build an ark, just in case the screed referenced above is The Last Straw.
Or maybe instead, build a starship, and seek out new life and new civilizations.
Boldly going, or perhaps more likely, sneaking quietly away from such angst...leaving no forwarding address.
Apparently, a memo went out to CNN's anchors, directing them to be kind to the former dictator.
"While despised by some, he is seen as a revolutionary hero, especially with leftist in Latin America, for standing up to the United States."
Let's make sure to let everyone know that there is nothing more heroic than standing up to the US.
Every few hours, night and day, no rhyme or reason - random posts. Daily, since at least 1/25.
Cah-reepy.
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The bottom of the internet
The eastern most tip of the internet
The far west appears to be unexplored territory.
Jews To Celebrate Rosh Hashasha Or Something
The Onion, 11 September 1996
JERUSALEM—Jews the world over are preparing to celebrate Rosh Hashanukah or something this weekend, the traditional Jewish holiday marking some sort of rebirth and new beginning, or maybe the Jews' liberation from some foreign ruler 55,000 years ago. "Rash Kishansha is a very holy time for the Jewish people," said Paul Castellano, a guy from Houston whose gastroenterologist is Jewish. "I think Dr. Futterman said it's the holiday where they light that chandelier and blow that horn." Lasting 12 days, Ran Hosea is followed by Yor Kiplach, the Festival of Sand, during which no buttered bread may be eaten in remembrance of the flooding of the ancient Temple of Hosea.
I was able to get the answer to the second problem within 2-3 seconds. Studies say that people with brain damage do better on the second puzzle than the normal population.
Update:
Interestingly, I see many individuals showing up here and clicking on this link, yet they do not report back as to their results. 3 potential interpretations of this (there may be others, but this is all my damaged brain could come up with):
1. They are as brain damaged as I am, but are too embarassed to say.
2. They are not as brain damaged as I, but don't wish to brag about it.
3. They could solve neither puzzle, are at a loss as to what that means, and prefer to keep it to themselves.
The universe is so vast and we are so small.
And one day, it all just suddenly burst into existence? No Creator of this miracle?
I just don't believe it.
But then again, Who/What created The Creator?
Iran called on Iraq on Tuesday to carry out its death sentence on Saddam Hussein, saying the former dictator who waged an eight-year war against Iran in the 1980s was a criminal who deserved to die.
"We hope the fair, correct and legal verdict against this criminal ... is enforced," government spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham told a news conference.
The fact that they want him to be hung is not a surprise. The fact that they'd say it publicly and in so doing, albeit in an oblique way, confer praise on those responsible for his ousting and capture, is...strange. We know they want sharia in Iraq, which means that the US/coalition forces have to be beaten. Yet they support the hanging of Saddam, who himself has been supported by the insurgents who are fighting the westerners who do not want to see sharia rule in Iraq.
An Iraqi appeal court is expected to rule on the guilty verdict and death sentence by the middle of January.
"He is a criminal dictator. No doubt about it," Elham said of Saddam. "We hope no pressure will be applied not to carry out this verdict."
In Vienna on Tuesday, the United Nations' special investigator on torture, Manfred Nowak, said he disagreed with the death sentence and that Saddam's trial had not been well conducted.
"Even a person like Saddam Hussein should not be sentenced to death," said Nowak, who acknowledged that Saddam's regime had killed and tortured many political opponents and members of minorities.
The EU has welcomed the verdict but also said Saddam should not be put to death.
The Iranian spokesman said his government hoped Saddam would continue to be tried for other alleged crimes against humanity, including his invading Iran in 1980, starting a war that killed more than a million Iranians and Iraqis.
The suffering and losses in the war, which ended in 1988, are well remembered in Iran.
Elham rejected the suggestion that the execution of Saddam, a Sunni Muslim, would escalate the violence between Iraq's Shiite and Sunni communities.
"It is very clear that such a suggestion is mischief-making. Saddam has both Shiite and Sunni blood on his hands. His very existence is anti-human," he said.
His existence is anti-human?
Oh, would we not like to be able to interview Gholam Elham!
Gholam, can we tawk?
What does it mean to be human?
Also, pls discuss the following:
Mercy, justice, do not do unto others as you would not have them do unto you, love thy neighbor, logic, internal consistency, goodness, evil, faith, love, hope, charity, and your favorite books of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Addendum:
Palestinians Protest Saddam Death Sentence, Threaten Reprisals Against Foreigners
Carrying pictures of Saddam Hussein, about 250 schoolgirls in the West Bank town of Jenin paraded Monday in protest at the death sentence handed down by a Baghdad court which found him guilty of crimes against humanity. The children chanted, "Beloved Saddam, strike Tel Aviv," the same slogan shouted by jubilant Palestinians when Iraqi rockets slammed into Israel during the 1991 Gulf War.
In the Gaza Strip city of Khan Yunis, masked gunmen from a group calling itself Arafat's Army threatened reprisals against foreign citizens in the Palestinian territories if the sentence against Saddam is carried out: "We warn all foreigners in the Gaza Strip, especially the Americans, that they will be kidnapped and killed in front of witnesses." (AP/International Herald Tribune)
I'm a O80-C52-E15-A87-N37 Big Five!!
What are you?
Interestingly, I did not place the exclamation points at the end of the link above - they were placed there by the source. Strange, that I thought it necessary to inform you of this. Also strange, that I thought it necessary to tell you that I found it interesting.
And I am still thinking and writing about it, minutes later.
Am I thinking too deeply? Or just trying to amuse? Will readers think it's amusing or tedious? Should I care? What am I doing this for? Why am I here? What is the meaning of existence? Does it matter? Doesn't everything matter? If everything doesn't matter, than why should anything? What is the smallest piece of information you can think of? What's smaller than that? Where did it come from? Are matter and energy one and the same? Can we create matter? Can we create energy? If we can't, who can? Who did?
Not sure if the test covered this aspect of.
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