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shit. just noticed this longshot candidate for dodds senate seat was a friend of mine for a couple of years at college.
Pain Beam being developed by US military-industrial complex. Much consternation ensues. Imagine the following in the Comic Book Guy's voice:
@nikola: First off, it's not our government, but our private sector. This comes from Raytheon, and despite that they're heavily intertwined with our military, they are not (YET) our military.A machine capable of torturing on a massive scale? Somewhere Dick Cheney is smiling.
Second, I would prefer the perception of being set on fire to ACTUALLY being set on fire.
Alex, I'll take unprecedented administrative incompetence or orchestrated mendacity for a thousand.
It would be an insult to two year olds to compare them with House Republicans.
National Fucktards On-line (no linky)
Re: Fort Hood Shooting [Andy McCarthy]
Jonah's right, we don't want to get ahead of the facts. There's the Fort Dix Six precedent, but there's also Oklahoma City, where people guessed reasonably but guessed wrong.
It may get boring, but I’m determined to memorialize the era in the most unproduced and unfiltered means possible. When the history of our time is written, I don’t want to allow future revisionists room for varnish or apologies. The plain fact is that – at the very highest levels of American government – elected Republicans are irresponsible, loony, and dangerous.
Our kids are going to want to know why we couldn’t address global warming, chronic disease, environmental catastrophe and gross inequality. Hopefully this blog will be useful to those looking for explanations.