Just a word on the "brave" issue.

Suicide -- no matter its purpose -- is cowardly. These hijackers took their own lives and therefore did not have to face the consequences of their heinous deeds.

That is not brave.

What they believe is their reward (or non-reward, or whatever) is quite frankly irrelevant. To know that your actions will have consequences, and choose not to be around to face them, is pure and utter cowardice.

(And PC be damned!)

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This is not my empire.

I maintain my idea of pouring liquid pig fat on the afghanis.

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Do you want ants? Because that's how you get ants.

[quote]Just a word on the "brave" issue.

That is not brave.

What they believe is their reward (or non-reward, or whatever) is quite frankly irrelevant. To know that your actions will have consequences, and choose not to be around to face them, is pure and utter cowardice.

(And PC be damned!)[/quote]

Amen.

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I wanted my half in the middle and I wound up on the edge.

[quote][quote]Just a word on the "brave" issue.

That is not brave.

What they believe is their reward (or non-reward, or whatever) is quite frankly irrelevant. To know that your actions will have consequences, and choose not to be around to face them, is pure and utter cowardice.

(And PC be damned!)[/quote]

Amen.[/quote]

Woo!! Computer bashing!

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Do you want ants? Because that's how you get ants.

This Modern World

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"Jelly-belly gigglin, dancin and a-wigglin, honey that's the way I am!" Janice the Muppet

Ted Rall says so many things so well.

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"Jelly-belly gigglin, dancin and a-wigglin, honey that's the way I am!" Janice the Muppet

Noted.

That quote is from P.J. O'Rourke's "Give War A Chance"

Recommended reading.

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I wanted my half in the middle and I wound up on the edge.

This one's quite interesting.

It certainly is.

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I wanted my half in the middle and I wound up on the edge.

When even the Mirror is turning against the bombing, they know they've got problems.

....unless you discount for the fact that the Mirror is utter arse.

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I wanted my half in the middle and I wound up on the edge.

I mean, it's National Enquirer without class.

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I wanted my half in the middle and I wound up on the edge.

Yeah, but normally rightist, jingoistic, establishment arse, which is why it's so strange that it's condemning the bombing.

The National Enq. kept getting the scoop on OJ - maybe crap-mags are becoming the last bastion of free press.

;-)

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"Jelly-belly gigglin, dancin and a-wigglin, honey that's the way I am!" Janice the Muppet

This war might just need the people of the Western world to draw lines elsewhere. Maybe between two things that aren't piss-beaten Hollywood cliche`s. Frankly,I'm pretty stunned, too.

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I wanted my half in the middle and I wound up on the edge.