Month: May 2006

To con money out of someone, lie or be otherwise dishonest, only to face ritual humiliation on a worldwide scale.

http://amirtofangsazan.blogspot.com/2006/05/hello.html

Drugs usually enhance or strengthen my perceptions and reactions, for good or ill. They’ve given me the resilience to withstand repeated shocks to my innocence gland. The brutal reality of politics alone would probably be intolerable without drugs. They’ve given me the strength to deal with those shocking realities guaranteed to shatter anyone’s beliefs in the higher idealistic shibboleth’s of our time and the “American Century.” Anyone who covers his beat for twenty years—and my beat is “The Death of the American Dream”—needs every goddamned crutch he can find.
~ Hunter S. Thompson

The bus was delayed coming home this afternoon. I awoke from my usual drive-time nap at about the time we would normally be exiting the interstate to find that we had come to a stand still in the right lane about half a mile from the exit ramp.

It took some time, but I eventually saw a considerable amount of police and fire truck activity further down 104th Avenue at Grant. Police were diverting east-bound traffic on 104th south on Grant. When we made the right turn, I saw the reason for all the activity.

The severely mangled remains of a passenger car were in the road with what appeared to be the driver’s door cut off and laying on the street. The car had been hit on the driver’s side and hit hard. I’d be surprised if the driver was alive when rescue services arrived, even with the close proximity of police and ambulance companies. The impact alone probably broke their neck, which would be merciful because they would have most certainly died from massive internal injuries in short order.

I recount this horrific sight to remind myself that it could all be over in the blink of an eye. It’s just sobering to see it in such harsh relief.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – With no clear sign the United States can win U.N. support for sanctions against Iran, the Bush administration said on Tuesday it could work instead with like-minded nations to punish Tehran for its nuclear programs.
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So I read an article that really opened my eyes earlier today. It said that Iran was working to get uranium enriched no more than 5%, apparently a level more than adequate for nuclear power generation, but that it was no where near the 80% level required for nuclear weapons.

Who the fuck are we to say to another sovereign nation that they can’t develop alternative energy sources when it would be so easy to tell if they were going beyond the low-grade enrichment and working toward weapons-grade uranium.

I’m not for the war that’s coming, but I can see it on the horizon. Fuckers.

“Enrichment above 5 percent is not on Iran’s agenda,” Aghazadeh told the students’ ISNA news agency.