righting wrongs or peace?

If you're given a choice between establishing peace and between righting an ancient wrong, which would you go for?
It's a tough question. The great philosophers (Yggie et al) have probably written about it and solved this conundrum. Spatchcock claims my "you're talking about the elimination of Israel like it's a bad thing" is counterproductive or just plain wrong.

Let's be clear here, what I said is just hypothetical. I really want to see world peace. The very concept of war is hateful to me, as a progressive. If there's one thing I hate (other than FOX news, people who release co2 gasses into our atmosphere like there's no tomorrow, which there won't be if they go on, fat girls, frat guys, american corporate culture, gosh just don't get me started) it's people who think violence is the answer to anything. And that's why I heartily support the palestinians. It's one of my special pet causes and defining characteristics.

Having said which, there'd be a lot of plusses to israel being wiped of the map by islamic nations. Just saying.
I'm not explicitly saying it's better to right an ancient wrong than to have peace.
I'm peace all the way.
In this case tho', you Can have the cake and eat it. The peace process (on palestinian terms, I know of no others which count) would also lead to israel's being wiped off the map, negotiations (forever and ever amen) with iran will lead to their having the bomb. Promoting peace doesn't mean having to choose between peace and between what is right.

That's for those who prefer righting wrongs over peace.
If you prefer peace, reject the absurd argument that iran will build a bomb or that the palestinians want to demolish israel. You already know that negotiations and capitulations are the only way forward and they actually get results, unlike war, which besides being very wrong, never achieves anything. We know (from movies, mostly) that built into the very fabric of violence is a mysterious, as yet not fully understood process that undermines any possible chance of its achieving anything.
Violence begets violence, whereas negotiations tend to breed further negotiations. Just think of childhood instances of say, bullying you underwent (or handed out). Or of muggings. Was that violence or knife really necessary?

On Arab Land

I wonder what it's like to be on Arab Land. Of course I never could because of how I'm not holy (like Arabs) so it would'nt be right. But hypohetically, I bet it's would be hard for me though (hypothetically) on account, of. You know how like Superman is super strong when he got off Krypton. Well for me that's would be like the opposite.

Arab's are a lot like Superman when you thing about it. I bet for them coming here is a piece of cake too. And like Superman there basicelly the best hope we have. Its curious that we haven't given Arab's as prominent a place as Metropolis give's Superman though however. Probably due to rascism.

I like to imagine Arab Land like from what was in Aladdin only more real. Like ok there's hot desert sands but the cloth's is BEAUTIFUL and flowing. Now there's evel Jaffar but that's was defeated a long time ago I think. Now its basically like sands and spices and tents and giant MC Hammer pants and like that. Howcome everone's so against that. If there was a part of Disneyland about that you KNOW you'd be all into it. Actually why isn't there. Or if there is I don't remember it.

Maybe what the need is just to make a Arabland. Like Disneyland with all Arab theme everwhere you go. DAMN thats such a freaking awesome idea it's almost painful to type because of how it doesn't exist yet. WHY is Amrecia so rascist??

My Nobel Nominee

Someone mentioned the Nobel Prize and, I thoughted of a idea could the Noble Prize be given postumously. Because?

If you think back there was one person who was CONSISTANTLY right on The Iraq War. One person stands out who NEVER WAVERED that The Iraq War would be wrong. And after we did The Iraq War he stuck to his principles and continued to speak out against it. Of course it's clear I'm talking about Saddam Hussein. If we'd of listened to him, there'd be no The Iraq War.

That's a actual tangible accomplishment. If that's not worthy of a Nobel Peace Prize what is?

Jonah And Iraq

I was walking on Madison Avenue and WOA my heart skipped a bout. Why you ask. I thought I saw Jonah Hill. (!)

Than I looked closer and turns out, it was just a guy with curly hair and his head hold kinda of scrunch sideways. But this got me to thinking? Remember those time(s) when I thought I saw Matthew Yglesias? What if it was just a guy with a round face - glasses - brown beard.

You never can know with thing's like that. That's a depressing thought.

This gets back to WMDs. We thoughted we saw some WMDs over there (Iraq). Like east north west south somewhat. But turns out? They weren't WMDs at all they were just like fertilizers.

For me, the effects of my mistake were minimal. Alittle embrassment perhaps from yelling out "JONAH DUDE I LOVE YOU".

But for WMD's the results were cataclysmic. Launched us into the most costly, deadly, horrific, holocaust level disasterous foreign policy disaster in the U.S. history of the United States (ever). Plunging are country into the worst episode of devastation are country has ever seen. Good thing we all could blog about it on are laptop's. Otherwise I shudder to think what would of.

gang banging up on iran?

Bush's texas lynch-mob mentality is raging on. A lot of us saw it coming. In alphabetical order. Iraq. Iran. Nothing to do with iran being an arab country, is it now? And nobody asks why Iran shouldn't be entitled to have nuclear weapons same as anyone else can. The psychology behind it is what's interesting. Back in Khomeini's day, we were against them because he looked like the Other (bad teeth, shawl and beard). Mahmoudinajad doesn't sport a beard or a shawl. He has all his teeth. Sort of clean-shaven. A suit with no tie. Very cool and smooth. You can tell he uses some kind of eau de toilette (I wonder if he uses an iranian brand) and he even supports global nuclear disarmament. But hey, he's arab, right? I guess that's all it takes in this day and age.
The mass psychology is interesting. A lynch mob. A gang. Probably too scared to do anything after the infamous fiasco of the iraq war but their threatening (bravado, mainly) stance, the cold, suspicious look in everyone's eyes speak volumes.

How does this mass-psychology actually work (spores?)?
Does the french midget have a napoleon complex?
Is Iran everyone's bitch now???
Besides, sanctions would only harden Iran's proud resolve. In these situations, can't we learn from the past? Has the iraq war taught us nothing?

Update: Ok. Seems there r different types of arabs out there. The ones in iran are called persians, which makes some ppl see them as different from normal arabs. I mean "normal" in the sense of being "typical", not in the sense of being "sane", which of course arabs typically are (sane). Big deal. The arabs in afghanistan are also different sorts of arabs. If anything it looks like Bush idoesn't care what sort you belong to. Afghan, Persian, Iraqi.. they're all the same ARAB thing to him, get it? Nuance was never his 'thing'.

About Oil

Just realized something:

This is about oil isn't it?

That's what this is about. It's about oil. It's all about oil.

OGM I can't believe I didn't see it before. This is just shocking. For it to be about oil. I'm even just thinking about it and shocked as I think about it. Wow I'm getting shocked again.

Basically it's all about oil, is my observation/realization.

Boldly Going

Reported on here that the next Star Trek movie "May Contain Pointed Modern Commentary".

Which I take to mean (correct me if I'm jumping to conclusions) that it will be mostly about how The Iraq War Was Wrong. (And also are civil liberties, plus torture doesn't work in the future, etc).

I for one would applaud this if it happens and maybe even watch the first one.

When Will Iraq Invade Us You Wonder

The scary part now is what if Iraq invades US? After all we lost The Iraq War (Iraq totallally beat us). Which you gotta figure means were right for the plucking now (are guard is down and plus from all the treasure we spended). So they totally could if the wanted. Bet Bush didn't thing about THAT did he you.

And the ironic thing is they'd have EVERY RIGHT to actually. We did a wrong war on them. It's not like we didn't do a wrong war on them. (In 2003). So we would'nt even be able to say anything. We'd just be like all um um um please don't? But they do and we had it coming so actually we'd be like Yeah I guess we had that coming.

So I've thought this every which way through and basically Iraq could definately invade us and we wouldn't even have the right to stop them. You almost wonder why they haven't already. But when they do then what? Will we have to do waht they say or whatever (like wear burq'uas). Which is ok I mean (I'm not being anti culturist here I guess I could wear one out of respect). I'm just trying to mentally prepare here.

The whole thing is so wierd to think about. When I figured this out I almost did'nt believe it actually but I can't find a hole in the logic so there it is.

The Only Reason You Need To The Iraq War Was Wrong

It didn't make me feel safer. That's it right there. I totally feel unsafer since The Iraq War. And there you go. That's all you need.

Thank's Anon for a shorely needed reminder on that.

Thinking Out Loud

Okay hear me out because this just barnstorming here. But that's the way strategy is sometime's, you have to think fast because the action is quick. And the passion is hot.

So here it goes. Right now we've of done a good job of redaploying some of are troops over to Afghanistan (the War On Terror Country). But I think we need to strike while the iron's hot and redaploy ALL are troops to Afghanistan.

Phase 2 is the pullout from Afghanistan b/c Afghanistan is a quagmire. (Thank's Bush- another failure tha'ts on your shoulders Bush). Were basically getting nowhere there and going downhill fast. We RELLY need to start doing a pullout AFAP. Actually we could do the pullout at the same time as the redaploy (multitask).

But that's the grim reality: The road to pullout runs through Afghanistan.

Which is the REAL War On Terror place. That we need to focus on and send all are troops to. (And then pullout). I think that would just about cover it.

Afghanistan Out

Longtime TIWWWB reader's know that one of are favorite BEST arguments has always been that The Iraq War distracted us from the REAL War On Terror. (Which was/is in Afghanistan, the War On Terror country.)

So now we've pullouted of Iraq and reput are troops into Afghanistan. Which I TOTALLALY support.

But the thing is (this is tricky, so stay with me here) what gives us the right to even be in Afghanistan? Nothing that's what. It's time to pullout there. (Afghanistan: the cenetary of empire's).

See, it's like this. Now that we've stopped being distracted from the War On Terror (Afghanistan), and starting Focusing on the War On Terror (Afghanistan) like we always should of, it's time to pull out of Afghanistan because of what a quagmire it is.

Afghanistan: simultaneously where we should of had are troops all the along, and where we shouldn't of ever putted troops in the first place.

Dhingers probably don't get this with there black and white thinking though.

A National Conversation Who's Time Has Come

Now that we're out of Iraq I wonder could if we could have a National Conversation about how The Iraq War Was wrong. I've been pretty good on the issue these last 5 years but I think but now I think it's time to get it out there more and start to get teh rest of the country talking about it. (About how The Iraq War Was Wrong). You know? Like, The Iraq War Was Wrong is ready to hit the prime time. We've been brewing it for a while (and good job of us I'm must say) but what about everbody else.

Think about all the people who there (rurals/churchgoings/ect) who maybe haven't even HEARD someone say The Iraq War Was Wrong probably. I bet there out there. How can we find them (any ideas?). Like if the have a Amreican flag on there car (That's one way just throwing out there-)

Ok like at work there was this girl called from the London side of the team and wanted me to do all sorts a of stuffs. (Hard to explain- stuffs using Spreads Sheets or whatever there call) Well we got to talking about I said to her (maybe just blurt it out but that'as how I am sometimes) "The Iraq War Was Wrong. Have you considered that"

From the pause in teh conversation (actually she hung up but when I called back she said she thought I hunged up on her which maybe I did accidentally- I hate the phone system here, so confusing) She was enthralled though. Also with the Bretish accent like in those movies. (Austin Power's) WOW

Did you ever were in Hong Kong though and see British's. It's like "HUH?". Like we were at some club and there was finger sandwiches and tea and "biscuits" (which is not like real biscuits from KFC but more likes little cookies) and I was looking around. ALL LIKE BRITISH TYPES no Chinese/Hong Kongs anywhere in sight. You coudln't even guess you were in Hong Kong what's that all the about?

But that's was a long timed ago. Ibet its' changed because, (diversity ect). Also 1997. I want to go there back again. There was this rug shop and the guy would always send out this other guy (little guy) to fetch me a orange juice. In some ways, a fascanating culture. But what about you?

These Are The Few

Some my favorite things:

• Telling someone The Iraq War was wrong when the least expect it (I love that!)
  
• Sphere the movie not the book. Highly underated.
  
• Fried mushrooms
  
• The middle Jonas brother (forget his name) not the other one
  
• Andromeda Klein by Dr. Frank on pre-order (can't wait)!
  
• Rewatching Improtant Things By Demetri Martin on DVR which I DVR like all the time
  
• Roccocco (in general)
  
• Heathcare reform (I'm for Single Payer and also The Public Option, and some other one's which I forget (I had one good sight bookmarked which defined all sort's of awsome terms you could use like this- could look it up on request)
  
• When you order out Indian food but the only thing you order is like ton's of samosa's (yum!) I don't relly like Indian food in general.
  
• Ponyo, little fishy in the sea.
  

Not that it's less important.

It's still important to blog about how wrong the wrong iraq war was wrong. To all those who've been asking.

It's just not as important to blog on it as frequently as before.

Hope that clears things up.

What This Blog

For you youngster's who might not remember. What this blog is about:

In 2003 which was more than six years ago. (Like if your 14 now then this was when you were 8). The U.S. Country did a war on Iraq. That war was wrong.

Taht's what this blog is about. I blog about how that war (that we did in 2003) was wrong. I write blog post's, and say argument strategie's, for proving/arguing discussing that the war that we did (in 2003) on Iraq was wrong.

This is improtant as your teachers hopefully are telling you. More and more in the coming years it's just going to keep getting more and more improtant to talk about how wrong the war that the U.S. did in 2003.

If you have a History text its probably in there. It's probably a Unit. This is if your school district boughted new texts sometime within the past 4-5 years. If not then maybe it's not in there yet. (There might be one on The Gulf War but that was a different war). Anyways so same thing here. This is like a History text but LIVE as it were. Or it's a supplimentary material you could call it.

You could print it out and Xerox it to bring it in for class descussion. Your teacher would probably be all exited

Ajnyways so there you have it. This blog

P.S. The Iraq War was wrong

Peace, Dog

I'm still been trying to figure out why we don't just try peace. ON Iraq. Instead of war on Iraq why not peace on Iraq. It could be like a commercial (Peace: Try It.) I could totally imagine it. It would have someone who's crying (like a little Afghan girl with those green beautiful eyes - but there crying).

Why we don't we even TRY it?

I think I figured out what it is. You know how you almost never eat corn dogs? Like people are all "eew corn dog". And if there's girls around they'll TOTALLALY freak out if you get one like "I just want something light like a salad. Like somehow there's something shaneful about corn dogs (!). But the thing is. Whenever you every HAVE a corn dog your all like "Dude, this is so good. Why don't I eat this more often"? And you scratch your head b/c you can't ever figure it out.

Consider the corn dog. With the almost sweet corn based covering (almost like fried corn muffin) on the outside. And then the dog on the inside. On a stick. It's possibly nature's perfect food IHMO (for me it's between that and marshmallows). What's not to like? There's nothing not to like. While your crunching into it i'ts just mind boggleable why you're not eating this practically all the time.

But? I think I figured it out the reason is: You always forget how good corn dogs can be because you never TRY them. Only like if your at a carnival or maybe a Six Flags-run amusement park. But the rest of the time? Corn dog availability in communities is rather limited. Government hasn't done nearly enough to help increase access to corn dogs. It's a textbook example of a market failure.

So in result nobody eats corn dogs (much) and thus nobody rememebers how awsome the are. Well that's like peace. Nobody tries peace (much) so nobody remembers how awsome it could be if we did.

If we just did some peace on Iraq for a change it's just incredible hwo the results would be I bet. Like biting into that crunchy sweet umami corn dog for hte first time in years. It would be a breathe of fresh air.

Are you listening Bush?

Stating The Obvious

On Iran, howcome nobody's mentioned the obvious cause of all the problem's there (and anywhere else with Muslim's): The Iraq War.

I mean ok if your going to complain about stuffs happening in Iran then ok, but let's not forget that the United States invaded Iraq in 2003. INVADED IRAQ.

Surely that's hte main blame for whatever bad thing's you think are happening in Iran, and meanwhile therefore nobody in Iran should be blamed themselves (if indeed you think something bad is there, which is a judgmentalist statement but ok, if you think that).

Iran is a Muslim country. We had no right to invade Iraq. NO RIGHT. Think how much you'd be fit to be tied if you were in Iran (on either side) and the United States invaded Iraq. You too would probably be either a protester yelling stuffs, or a militia guy axing protesters, respectively. (depending)

It's call empathy people. Put yourselfs in a another's shoes. The shoes of someone that we did a Iraq War on, or someone nearby (in The Muslim World) that didn't like that we did a Iraq War. Once you do that you'd see you need to shut up about judging people for anything they do and start apologizing for everything other people do. Because you did The Iraq War. In 2003. Never forget that.

Yggie Profile - Disappointing

I read this normblog profile of Yggie and you know what I thought:

BOOOOOoOO-RING.

First of all it doesn't even MENTION that Yggie's dad is the screenwriter of the movie classic Dark Water with Jennifer Connelly. (a excellently screenwritten film) I get SO TIRED of Yggie not mentioning his screenwriting New York family not nearly enough.

Second of all where does it mention that Yggie went to Ivyleague. Ok there is one mention of Harvard at the top but where is the others? Howcome we don't get to hear more about HOW MUCH Yggie went to a Ivyleague, what his experiences there, who he partied with ect. For crying out loud this is what I live for, and yet even on his own blog, Yggie seems to kind of hide his Ivyleague roots (mentioning it only in about 30-40% of his posts by my count).

On a similar note I don't see any mentions of celebrities Yggie might know or have been acquainted with either at Harvard or while growing up in New York environs. Did he grow up & go to school with anybody from N'Sync? Has he met Chelsea Clinton at a hedge fund party? Did he shake hands with Johnny Depp once on the set of From Hell? We don't know. We just don't know.

There is no mention of rap or hip-hop. When you and I both know that Yggie is a HUGE fan of rap and/or hip-hop, a student of the genre, if you will. By the same token, nor does it mention Indie Rock Music. (there is one mention of the Clash but that's not quite Indie). Yggie is right up there in the forefront of these musical styles. I bet he has even gone to clubs to see Indie Rock shows. So why is he hiding that?

He does mention basketball ONCE. Yggie is suddenly a WAshington Wizards fan. One assumes that this is an h'omage to the fact that he lives in Washington DC like a real mover and shaker. Yggie knows ALOT about basketball. Or "hoops" as he probably calls it. I bet he does good trash talk on the basketball court in pickup games. (I bet he does pickup games). He probably calls the ball "the rock" and everything. I love thinking about this stuffs.

But overall, a disappointment all around. Did Norm edit down Yggie's answers, which were presumably more interesting to start with? Answer in comments,

What Liberals (Like Myself And Yourself) Should Think About Iran

As liberals, we sometimes have a struggle figuring out how to react to the events of the day (Current events). Should be be for something. Should we be against something. What do dhingers think because we want to make sure were the opposite. Which side will make there be higher taxes because that's the liberal side. And so on. It's all very complicated.

So on Iran I thought I'd run down teh basics in a primer for you. So you can know what to think What your suppose to think. As liberals.

1. Iran is a Muslim Country. We like Muslim's. As liberal's, Muslims is pretty much are favorite religion. Because first of all, there a minority. Second of all, it's the largest and fastest-growing religion in the world. Third of all, the don't like dhingers or the U.S., which we respect. As liberals. This feeling Muslims have of disliking America because of how America caused all there problems in particular is something we need to make sure to nurture and coddle and play up. (Because of respect)

2. So we support Iran. That means to say, we support the government of Iran. Which is Ahmadinejad fair and square. We're pretty impressed by how much he represents not only himself but all Iranians everwhere, and indeed, all Muslim's everwhere. We can tell this on account of how much he hates Amreica (and Israel) and America. Anyone who hates America and Israel that much must be a authentic voice of Muslim's. In fact if ther'es a Muslim who doesn't visciously hate Israel/Amreica I get kinda of suspicious. Like, are they CIA tools?

3. Well but now there was a disputed election (recount/protest/ect) wherein, Ahmadinejad (the true ruler of Iran) but there was a another guy (who there was protesting that he really won). Now. As liberals we like democracy and all. But the thing is, this is now become a attack against the GOVERNMENT OF IRAN. Which is Muslim's (Muslim Country). That's not good.

4. Now don't be fooled though . At first I saw only some fires and youths on a TV with the sound down (at my work at the investment bank - I was down on the trading floor and it was tune to CNBC and they were showing it briefly something about Iran, but than it went back to that guy with the blue shirt and sleeves rolled up (Jim Cramar?). And when I saw those fires and youths and rocks, I figured that presumably this was probably something that I, as liberals, ought to be in support of. But that was before I knew all the facts. Fact: this is a protest against the GOVERNMENT OF IRAN. Fact: which is a MUSLIM COUNTRY.

5. And one more final Fact (probably most improtant): dhingers don't like Ahmadinejad. Dhingers are running around saying the election was stolen and I guess the want the other guy in there. So how can we, as liberals, in good consciense, not be on the side of the Iranian people (which is the Iranian government (which is Ahmadinejad) against DHINGERS? I think taht pretty much says it all right there. Once I realized that, it's all I needed to make up my mind who to support in Iran.

As a liberal.

Less Safe

I was eating my Greek strained yogurt (with honey) this a.m. when I got so sad I could barely speaken. Because I realized how doing The Iraq War (2003) made us less safe.

Think about that. Just think about how less safe we are (on account of Bush did The Iraq War on Iraq), in 2003. Before, we were more safe (then we are now). But now, we're less safe. It's so obvious and sad (because of how obvious it is) that it makes me sad.

Since we did that The Iraq War, in 2003, there have been other years happening. One of them was 2004. (We were less safe that year due to The Iraq War). Then there was 2005 (also less safe IRRC). And of course 2006 when we were TOTALLY less safe as you recall. And on and on: 2007 (less safe), 2008 (less safe), and almost halfway through 2009 (less safe this year).

It has been my objective experience that all throughout that time (6+ years) we have been less safe due to the fact that we did The Iraq War (in 2003). I know it and you know it. Please, people in your homes and at work just think about how less safe you are, and have been, continually and continuously, all that time, day in day out, due to The Iraq War.

Reason I think it's improtant to bring it up being, it was one of the better arguments against doing The Iraq War in the first place. Remember? "Doing The Iraq War will make us less safe." I distinctly remember saying exactly that and having other people say exactly that phrase to me, and so on and so on, several hundreds of times when trying to make Bush not do The Iraq War.

Well, we were right. Oh, how right we were. Because just look at how less safe we are.

P.S. Also let's remember that The Iraq War created terrorists. Just look at how many terrorists it created! I can't even talk about it its so depressing. GOD we had such great arguments, they totally should of worked.

Let's Repeal

Hey what if we repealed The Iraq War. Just repealed it. Like the did with Prohibition.

Some history: First for some reason that hisotirans are still trying to unravel, there was a Prohibition. This was back before the Constitution, back in Elliott Ness times when nobody had rights so everone went around to ``speak-easies`` because you couldn't get a cold one, not even on Sundays to watch the big game. The government put Elliott Ness on the case, and did he ever. He almost didn't even care if a baby stroller was rolling down the stairs like in Battleship Potemkin, that's how focused he was. So you try to go somewhere for a Bud Light when BAM Elliott Ness kick's down the door- your busted fella! Now you're spending hte night in the slammer.

Either that or you stay at home throw some potatoes in your bathtub and try to make gin (or something like that, which I don't even know how it was suppose to work, I think it was a superstition of some sort, like a rain dance). Either way, it's wasn't a pretty sight as you can imagine. (There was also ``flappers`` which I don't even want to know what those were).

Basically you had a society like: the big cities were run by Machines (a Boss man). Then they cut deals with Al Capone. Al Capone gave beer to everone and smashed people with baseball bats. And if you don't watch your back you get mowed down with a machine gun by Machine Gun Kelly. But if you try to hit Albert Finney he'll just roll under the bed and blam you instead. All the gangsters liked to go to opium dens and maybe there dead maybe not (you can't tell). But they would have a fascinating and at times incomprehensible and anachronistic dream about the future.

Well anyway I'm simplifying/getting off track but that's the basics. At night everyone danced to the musical stylings of Scott Joplin. By day, maybe you do tricks/scams on people with your friend (while Scott Joplin plays in the background). Or you wander around the estate felling frustrated because you're part of the Lost Generation and got shot in a bad part during the Great War. Especially when the news comes over the ticker of you're stocks and you have to jump out the window.

Let's see what else. Well there was the Black Sox Scandal when John Cusack couldn't read so he hit .350 even though they gave him money. There was the Monkey Trial which is where the Supreme Court decided once and for all- are humans monkeys (science won over backwardsness religion that day, because the answer came back yes). I think there was barbershop quartets or maybe I'm getting that mix up with some another time. Finally, let's not even get started about if you were black, you could totally be accused of raping someone and even if you had a progressive white lawyer to give a great speech, you could still have a local girl who happened to be his daughter get the bejesus scared out of her by Robert Duvall. Until she realizes Hey, he's ok, I was being prejudgiced, so everthing's ok. (But the black guy still goes to jail).

What's my point oh yes. My point is that one fine day FDR got in there and say "Wait a minute. What the heck are we doing here. With this Prohibition stuff. This is all so stupid. Talk about lame. LEt's Repeal it. (Basically; paraphase)

And you know what? That's exactly what he the did. They Repealed it BAM just like that. Suddenly, no more Prohibition anywhere you looked. In fact not much is even known about the time after Prohibition was Repealed until WW2, that's how peaceful/uneventable it was. Basically I think we know about three things, like that some folks decided to up and go from Oklahoma to California and get dust all over themselves in the process for no apparent reason. We also know about a bunch of colorful people who lived in Monterey and/or Salinas, California in and around the fish packing industry. But after that, I'm at a loss frankly. So you see, the Repeal worked. At least I'm pretty sure the ``flappers`` went away

So isn't that exactly what is needed here? Let's Repeal The Iraq War. If we Repealed it. Then there wouldn't be one. (That's how the Repeal process works, which I find fascinating). Just imagine if Documents Of Repeal (or whatever there call) were put on Bush's desk tomorrow. OH man I'd love to be there to see the look on his face.

Wouldn't we all would?

Web 2.0 And Related

Does anyone know how to make you're websight into Web 2.0 compatible. I was reading a old magazine (Wired) that Phung left in his closet and it was talking about Web 2.0. I think I want to get it. If anyone could do it thank's. I would be converting the whole TWIIIBB into Web 2.0 (not just some page's but not others - the whole thing) so if you got the knowhow for that sort of thing (pro bono) in comment's.

I'm still kind of miffed about the way Phung left BWT. Even his desk he left behind which is big and HEAVY. On the plus side he left his tamarind candy's which I eat sometime's (hurts my teeth). But ther'es also his yucky medicine which I don't even know what is it. Sometimes I think I never really knew Phung.

So what is your guys'ses plans for Mennorahial Day. Me, I'm planning a quiet little day- first a Imax movie in the a.m. and then maybe hit the waters slides. Another plang would be, (like if the weather) I would start my novel. (I'm going to write a novel. It's going to be kind of about me but only secretly). We'll see manana I guess. What is it anwyays. Is it a another one of those Neocon holidays. Noone seems to know (I even asked the girl who sit next to me who looks Neocon (25% sure but maybe it's more that she's lesbian (45%).)

My latest thing is kombucha tea. Have you guy's tried this? I'm drinking kombucha like all day long nowadays. Tastes YUCK but suppose to be good for you. They never know whats good for you though. Like it use to be that meat was bad for you, but than later it turns out your suppose to just eat only meat all day long (Adkins). Then fat was bad for you but now all I want is fat (fried califower- YUM). If its fried and you get your vegtables at the same time well what could be better is what I say. This is why the Japaneses were RELLY onto something.

The economy WOW. Anyone have any thought's on the economy? I mean it seems RELLY bad. Like I'm seeing approx 50% less iPhone's than I use to. (Of course maybe I just notice it less cuz its no longer new).

Howcome were not out of Iraq yet? Every notice that? We lost that war like 3 years ago I thought. Even Harry Reid (a Senator) said so. But were still there? Nice going Bush LOL talk about stupid. How could you still be in a place occupying a country whose war you lost against. This is just backwards make no sense. Classic Bush RFFLOL what next, seeing Spy Kids 3 before 1 and 2?

Sequel

What are the chances of the iraq war (iw1) having a sequel? . I'm thinking how WW1 was a bad idea and a bad war. Everyone agreed it should never have been made to begin with but after some years passed they made a sequel anyway, starring Churchil and Hitler and some others (Lenin?). Even if now when we're in the thick of the wrong war on iraq we are painfully aware of how wrong and bad it is, we mustn't let them make a sequel. We mustn't let them forget. And I guess that's part of why this blog exists...

As Of This Moment, I Am Officially Declining To Participate Any Further In The Iraq War, Mr. President

Well thats the last straw. I heard on the radio that the President was going to stop the release of detainey (sp?) photos. I had to pull over my car as waves of tears rushed over me. It's been hard for all of us.

No photos. We're not going to get to see those photos. Photos of detaineys being torchured and harrassed and placed into pyramids (that sorta of thing). The photos will just be gone lost down the memory hole. Like tears in rain. (BOY was I looking forward to persuing those photos too).

I bet this is all just a ploy to win the election I bet. With the photos safely under wraps. Bush can just cruise control home to victory now. This just shows the need for more reform of are system.

What I realized is that this is the last straw for me. No I mean it. That's all. I can't take it anymore. I'm out.

I know I've talked and threatened about this before. There has been times I've hemmed and hawwed about it back and forther. I say I'm out. But than I'm not somehow. And we still keep doing The Iraq War. And I do nothing about it. I get complacant. With are hectic day in day out lifes, with iPhone's to play with and comic book movies to see, its easy to lose sight of the big picture.

The big picture, Mr. Bush (yes that's right you can soncider this a open letter to you President Bush), is that I am as of this moment no longer participating in your The Iraq War. Not in any way shape or form. You are going to have to carry on this war without my help from this day forward. I am withdrawing utterly and completely 100% of my support from this war.

Phiw. That fells better.

Yggie, not going "poof"

What is yggie up to these days? I've been wondering about that for a while, wishing somebody would check and write it down here, as a 'yggie in brief'. Finally, I decided to do it myself. Wow, did I get burned!! Almost every blog entry is way over my head.
Is there anyone who can dumb down yggie's arguments for the masses?
Anyway, for those of us who have too little time in our day to day lives to keep up with Yggie, here's a yggie in brief for may 11:

The Pointless DC Voucher Debate

There's apparently a pointless and riveting debate going on. It's impossible to really understand but this sentence encapsulates the gist of it: "I would also note that during the voucher era, the number of private schools serving low-income children has actually declined as some private schools have converted themselves into charter schools. The other thing happening in DC, of course, is Mayor Fenty and Schools Chancellor Rhee’s continuing efforts to get the Washington Teacher’s Union to agree to a new collective..." (read the whole thing).

Free Market Health Care

Yggie brilliantly points out that "If you think about free markets’ ability to, say, deliver falling prices for high-definition televisions I think you’ll quickly see that one key element of the process is that our society is very sincerely prepared to say that if you can’t afford an HDTV, you’re going to have to do without one"

And that's a crying shame right there.
Yggie then adds: "This process works really well. But when you replace “has to watch the game at a friend’s house if he wants to see it in HD” with “gets sick and dies” then suddenly the process looks not-so-good.".

It's obvious when you think about it.

Complementary Policies Do Much of the Heavy Lifting in Waxman-Markey

This is much too difficult for me to explain. It appears there's a system by which starting from 2011 or so, emissions would suddenly lurch downwards and would continue dropping until they possibly intersect the x-axis with zero emissions around the year 2065.

Stanley McChrystal to Replace David McKiernan as Top Commander in Afghanistan

Yggie explains he's for it since we want a change. That sums up his blog entry and it's the only entry I can honestly say I really understood.

Against Check the Box

Did you know that a firm can open up subsidiaries a and b in 2 countries and generate profits through subsidiary a but pay back high interest loans to subsidiary b, so that it looks like sub. a didn't generate the profit it did whereas sub. b (which has very low taxes or maybe none?) did? As yggie eloquently explains: "...These are the kind of issues where, if it’s hashed out behind closed doors, the bad guys are destined to win. But if the fight turns public, the good guys will win".

Our Moment of Socialism

We are now enjoying our moment of socialism and "we’re talking about enough “big government” to put us in the middle of the European pack.". Most of it will vanish soon enough but hopefully not all of it will "go “poof.”".

That was a good blog entry.

Lots of excellent blog entries follow but I'm running out of time here, so skipping ahead: How Much Space Do You Need to Plot?

Yggie realizes that we don't need to worry about having islamists control large territories or countries. As he points out, "You need a lot of territory to raise cattle or build a parking lot. But plotting doesn’t strike me as a particularly space-intensive activity." and "When the ThinkProgress team gets together to plot, we usually do it in a small confined space".

In fact, when you think about it this way, having a big territory under your control is actually a problem. How would the ThinkProgress team plot if they were scattered over a large territory? It's probably better to have groups like the taliban control large areas so that, being scattered, they'll find it hard to get together and plot and train terrorists. It's as if people got confused between "a plot" as in "a plot of land" and "a plot" as in "plotting a terrorist attack".
In any case, as Yggie notices: "A terrorist in the Swat Valley is, by definition, not in a position to blow something up in a western city."

This is so blindingly obvious that I'm surprised nobody ever pointed it out before!! It's something we should mention again and again, crediting Yggie for the insight.

How You Know How Sincere We Are

You know howcome you can tell we're so sincere in are antiwar views. Is because we're so consistent about how fervant they are over time. Like in 2005 and 2009 equally we're protesting the The Iraq War. We're out there protesting having troops in Iraq (=The Iraq War) right now every bit as much as we did in some certain other years like 2004 and 2006 and 2008.

Some people would probably not be like that, if they weren't as sincere as we are. Like let's say there were people whose entire stance on The Iraq War traced solely to political opportunism (which ours doesn't) - like that all they cared about was winning a election and using antiwar agitation to stir up resentment against the incumbent party unless/until they could win that election (which is not a description that we merit). Then they'd probably be like whining about the war only when the President was a Reputzi but, once the President switched they'd suddenly become miraculously silent as if their supposed angst about the war is suddenly sated and nothing is really wrong anymore.

But not us. Aren't you glad we're not like that? Like, if Obama get's in there I'm TOTALLY going to protest The IRaq War the exact same amount I do now. I'll still blog about how the war (The Iraq War) was wrong and everything. That's a dramatic demonstration right there of how sincere and non-phony I am.

And the same will be true of all the other antiwar people - if Obama gets in there and they complain about The Iraq War every bit as much as they were with Bush that's how you'll KNOW how sincere they are and how little their anti Iraq War stance was based solely on crass political opportunism. So, you'll see.

Stimulus Never Forget

You guys just remember, every month the don't pass a Stimulus package 500,000 Amreicans lose there jobs.

Take The Time To Listen

I've hadden this song in my head all day (two days in a row). Thats how catchy it is. It's from a DVD I have.

This is the kinda of song we could of listened more to of the past 8 years of Bush unilatelism (if you ask me).

Is turning off the lights for an hour once a year really enough to combat global warming?

I'm not encouraging anyone to do the following but if some readers of this blog (like jason, aunti-dhinger etc.) would decide (of their own free will) to sabotage/bomb power plants then I wouldn't actually shed any tears. You can find out how to build bombs on any number of internet sites. If you wish to take active action to safeguard our environment and stop the exponential increase in global temperatures but you - for various reasons - balk at actually bombing electricity grids and power plants, try pouring some sugar into the gas tank of your neighbor's car. If everyone who reads this blog will try doing that (against my wishes) then maybe we can make some real headway and not have to look down at our smoldering shoes when one day our sweaty great grandchildren ask us what we did back in 2009 to hold back global warming.

Let's face it. Turning off the lights for an hour once a year just isn't going to make global warming go away. Get real = get radical.

Stay Tune

I'm working on a blockbuster post coming up. It's about how The Iraq War was wrong. My findings. That it was wrong. I'm going to type it up soon and its going to say all sort's of facts (links, like to Yggie) showing it. (That The Iraq War was wrong).

It's gonna be a good post.

Piracey Revisited

On "so" called "pirates". Haven't followed it big time but seems to me before the Necons shout there mouths off they should doublecheck were did are ships even get the right to be in Arab Water in the frist place.

But I've brungen up this point before so, I guess just ahead of the curb.