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lapsedmodernistYou know in those dystopian, post-apocalyptic movies, how credits start while the camera slowly pans over "old" newspaper headlines?
This is that headline/opening it's panning over:
A call by U.S. President George W. Bush for Congress to give him the power to use the military in law enforcement roles in the event of a bird flu pandemic has been criticized as akin to introducing martial law.
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saintpeg saw a different, truncated announcement about this, "Bush plans to use military on bird flu" and, in a moment of ironiagnosia, thought it was from The Onion.
ON EDIT: CNNasty gets a momentary gold star to decorate its piles and piles of dung for running the story with this image, which tells you all you need to know, really.
I swear, this administration will turn me into a physiognomist. And possibly a frenologist, too.
This is that headline/opening it's panning over:
A call by U.S. President George W. Bush for Congress to give him the power to use the military in law enforcement roles in the event of a bird flu pandemic has been criticized as akin to introducing martial law.
saintpeg saw a different, truncated announcement about this, "Bush plans to use military on bird flu" and, in a moment of ironiagnosia, thought it was from The Onion.ON EDIT: CNNasty gets a momentary gold star to decorate its piles and piles of dung for running the story with this image, which tells you all you need to know, really.
I swear, this administration will turn me into a physiognomist. And possibly a frenologist, too.
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Date: 2005-10-05 01:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-05 09:09 pm (UTC)Also more images of "Blindness."
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Date: 2005-10-05 01:57 pm (UTC)Re: Decline & Fall
Date: 2005-10-05 09:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-05 03:34 pm (UTC)btw, we have mutual lj-friends who recommended your politics posts highly. i added you so i can share in your insightful outrage regularly.
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Date: 2005-10-05 04:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-05 05:33 pm (UTC)Yes. The fact that ANY people support this (much less a majority) was the most chilling part of the entire story for me. Even if I don't feel "softened up" re: the role of militaristic domestic policy, it's clear that a substantial number of people do.
And um, yeah. Our military is in great shape to have another massive project added to its task list, too.
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Date: 2005-10-21 06:01 pm (UTC)today (Friday, 21 Oct.) on c-span, a physicist/astronomer appeared at a forum held (surprisingly) at the conservative propoganda house called the American Enterprise Institute. with luck, it will be repeated later today or be put on the c-span web page. he presented/debunked the various arguments that IDiots ("Intelligent Design" propogandists) have been peddling.
c-span links
Date: 2005-10-23 02:01 am (UTC)rtsp://video.c-span.org/15days/e102105_aei1.rm
rtsp://video.c-span.org/15days/e102105_aei2.rm
rtsp://video.c-span.org/15days/e102105_aei3.rm
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Date: 2005-10-05 04:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-05 09:14 pm (UTC)I tried to take a picture but I only had my old polaroid camera with me and the light was bad, and you can barely see the tag, so I will have to photoshop it, but
EMPIRE DEMOLITION.
That pretty much sums it up.
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Date: 2005-10-05 05:33 pm (UTC)so_very_doomed picked up this item, too:
http://www.livejournal.com/community/so_very_doomed/48545.html
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Date: 2005-10-05 09:15 pm (UTC)so_very_doomed bothers me. I am prone to being afraid so fear-mongering bothers me in the sense that it is too familiar, like seeing the traits you hate in yourself in your parents.
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Date: 2005-10-05 10:19 pm (UTC)my hope is that the house of reps. will mysteriously return to the democrats and they will initiate impeachment hearings/procedings in Feb. 2007. it's a mystery how they will do this because elections are so easily stolen by the white guys with PCs.
my guess is that so_very_doomed (like peak_oil) should bother us all. if you want a positive reason for paying attention to it, try this: it puts much of the "news" in (its proper) perspective.
i've given in to the parents' traits phenomenon. it's unavoidable -- our brains are wired (mis-wired?) to work like some weird combination of them. so i try to use it for the small amount of self-understanding i can gleen from it.
p.s., is "serenity" any good? i've been expecting a post from you about how almost all of actors who played buffy/angel characters have returned to t.v.
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Date: 2005-10-05 11:51 pm (UTC)http://www.livejournal.com/users/jezebel873/118255.html
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Date: 2005-10-05 05:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-05 09:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-05 09:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-05 06:10 pm (UTC)Oh, Scarlet!
Date: 2005-10-05 06:53 pm (UTC)May I call you Chillingsworth?
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Date: 2005-10-05 10:15 pm (UTC)There were actually a TON of pics of him making all kinds of ridiculous faces this week on the Wire services. I don't know what they had him hopped up on, but the one you posted above was not the end of it. He was all over the place with the dumb and nasty looks.
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Date: 2005-10-06 03:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-06 11:19 pm (UTC)coincidence or not?
Date: 2005-10-06 11:34 pm (UTC)Re: coincidence or not?
Date: 2005-10-08 04:27 am (UTC)Re: coincidence or not?
Date: 2005-10-12 03:31 am (UTC)Are you ever back in NYC? I'd still love to meet for a drink at some point to discuss the apocalypse, the resistance, and the wisdom of Leonard Cohen.
Re: coincidence or not?
Date: 2005-10-12 02:48 pm (UTC)erm, you missed me in New York. I moved to Boston (well, around Boston) in July. I am in NYC occasially so I am sure at some point our paths will cross.
Re: coincidence or not?
Date: 2005-10-13 05:11 pm (UTC)Some sort of scary bastard hellchild of Flickr and Hot-or-Not, it would seem. The people who started it were giving free credits to members of the Nerve-in-Exile LJ community, so some of us decided to check it out on a lark. It's a great site if you want to connect with that special someone based on a set of tags.
erm, you missed me in New York. I moved to Boston (well, around Boston) in July.
Yeah, so I gather, and I’m kicking myself because of it. When the Indonesian chickens come home to roost, and the neocons declare martial law and establish the Republic of Gilead, I want you in my resistance cell.
So, if you have time, please drop me a line next time you’re going to be in town. You have my e-mail, I believe.
Re: coincidence or not?
Date: 2005-10-13 05:37 pm (UTC)And yes, tags sound like the BEST way to meet that special someone. Ho-hum, boy, if only I didn't have a special someone at the moment.
So, if you have time, please drop me a line next time you’re going to be in town. You have my e-mail, I believe.
I do. I will. I am in New York semi-frequently for, like, a day or two, but those aren't really social visits, mostly it's to take care of school stuff. But next time I am there for a few days and have some time I will definitely let you know!
Re: coincidence or not?
Date: 2005-10-13 06:45 pm (UTC)Nerve Personals was sold a month or two ago to a really cheesy and awful corporation that runs operations like “Adult FriendFinder” and “BigChurch” (or whatever the hell the name for their Christian/patriot/militia singles site is). All of the sudden profiles were censored for obscenity (on Nerve!); the relatively okay questions were replaced by absurdly inane ones; peoples’ previously-private “hotlists” were made visible to others without warning; purchased credits evaporated into thin air; a new feudal membership hierarchy (lord/peasant/loser) was established; members were made to pay for all sorts of features that were previously free—or that they had already essentially purchased; past correspondence got mysteriously deleted; politely-worded complaints on the customer feedback blogs were removed by the hundreds; credit card cancellations didn’t work; etc. The content got dumbed down beyond belief, the interface was a total nightmare, and it was clear that all this new company cared about was extracting the maximum amount of cash from its users at every possible turn. If Nerve’s tagline once upon a time was “literate smut”; this company’s would “illiterate spam.” Indeed, the new company’s CEO was the first person convicted under California’s anti-spam law several years ago, which did little to boost customer confidence.
An LJ community was formed to discuss the changes and, being a natural dissident I decided to join in. Remarkably, the community actually had an effect. A number of Nerve staff members were frequent visitors, and implemented some suggested changes and fixed some of the more egregious problems.
Now the community has evolved—or, perhaps, devolved—in predictable ways. There are a handful of folks there whom I like, but an increasing number of the posts I find boring and/or sad (my own included, to be honest). I think it’s time to move on, although LJ is proving to be a strangely compelling means of procrastination
And yes, tags sound like the BEST way to meet that special someone. Ho-hum, boy, if only I didn't have a special someone at the moment.
Yeah, clearly you are missing out on the fun. I suppose you guys can “tag” each other at home, but that wouldn't be quite as thrilling as labeling some stranger “hot” (you can apply tags not only to yourself, but also to others on the site).
Congratulations, by the way.
I am in New York semi-frequently for, like, a day or two, but those aren't really social visits, mostly it's to take care of school stuff. But next time I am there for a few days and have some time I will definitely let you know!
Totally understood. Please do. The whisky’s on me.