|wmd| - 17:59 6.10.2004	wyrd -
One more, just to kiss the memories goodbye: Ooops.

|more gibberish| - 18:03 16.9.2004	wyrd -
Uh oh, the UN is getting all uppity. Someone please give me some proper global government already. But I tell you not to resist an evil person. But whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also.

|No Child Left Behind| - 14:08 17.8.2004	wyrd -
Here's an article about a Texas woman who abandoned her seven adopted children in Nigeria so she could go work as a private contractor in Iraq. Is it just me or is Texas the new epicenter of The Fear?

|Err| - 16:22 11.8.2004

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And as a follow up: Matthew 6:1-6 Giving to the Needy: 1"Be careful not to do your 'acts of righteousness' before men, to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven. 2"So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. 3But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. Prayer: 5"And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. 6But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

|Quotation Of The Day| - 16:10 11.8.2004	wyrd -
2 King 2:23-24 [NIV] From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some youths came out of the town and jeered at him. "Go on up, you baldhead!" they said. "Go on up, you baldhead!" He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the Lord. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths.

|Ronald Raygun| - 21:48 7.6.2004

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Well, Reagan is dead. The American news is filled with his image usually accompanied by the words 'great leader'. I'm doing my best to keep calm in the face of all this bullshit being flung left, right and center. Mostly right. I've decided to simply quote and shut up, the first from the gipper himself: "The American Petroleum Institute filed suit against the EPA charged that the agency was suppressing a scientific study for fear it might be misinterpreted...The study reveals that 80% of air pollution comes not from chimneys & auto exhaust pipes, but from plants & trees." -Ronald Reagan The second is one of my favourites parts of Neal Stephenson's [fictional] cryptonomicon: "Ronald Reagan has a stack of three-by-five cards in his lap. He skids up a new one: "What advice do you, as the youngest American fighting man ever to win both the Navy Cross and the Silver Star, have for any young marines on their way to Guadalcanal?" Shaftoe doesn't have to think very long. The memories are still as fresh as last night's evelth nighmare: ten plucky Nips in Suicide Charge! "Just kill the one with the sword first." "Ah," Reagan says, raising his waxed and penciled eye-brows, and cocking his pompadour in Shaftoe's direction. "Smarrrt-- You target them because they're the officers, right?" "No, fuckhead!" Shaftoe yells. "You kill 'em because they've got fucking swords! You ever had anyone running at you waving a fucking sword?""

|talk| - 19:26 14.3.2004

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If you boil it down, a soldier's job is simply to move or to not move. A bit general, but let me play. At the most basic level a soldier on offense is simply going somewhere. Of course they don't show up like tourists with spurting flashes and muttering clicks, soldiers are more an extension of the territory they are fighting for: a rolling border. The anti-tourist. Once they arrive they stay, or they move. Of course this is a little silly, you can't consider an army without combat, but at its most conceptual level the combat is sort of secondary. Imagine if you will a person moving through a well trafficed mall, browsing the stores but with thin lips and furrowed brow. On the person's back is an angry gnome, riding them like a pony. For every person they pass that doesn't smile at the sight the gnome hurls a "bitch", "faggot", "raghead". The thing is, the gnome is very loyal to the ridden, their family, friends and neighbours. This is sort of the situation an armed force in a foreign nation encounters. The mantle of soldier is a 'shoot me' sign no matter what the position of the person inside the helmet. I'm sure if you asked any reasonable soldier if they'd rather move and stop, or fight, they'd pick the former. Combat is a forced necessity when your marching about stretching broader the blanket of whatever doctrine your carrying. Uhh. The End.

|Guest Submission| - 14:20 14.1.2004

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Receieved this from Phramed so I figured I'd throw it up. militant vegans Circle I Limbo fake goths Circle II Whirling in a Dark & Stormy Wind highschool goers Circle III Mud, Rain, Cold, Hail & Snow skinny girls Circle IV Rolling Weights republicans Circle V Stuck in Mud, Mangled River Styx carolyn Circle VI Buried for Eternity River Phlegyas idol Circle VII Burning Sands george W Circle IIX Immersed in Excrement dan Circle IX Frozen in Ice Design your own hell

|beep| - 0:08 9.12.2003	wyrd -
Stand by for transmission.

|allo?| - 13:08 18.11.2003	wolfe -
Beep... beep... beep... beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee... "Clear!" Bzzzt. "Clear!" Bzzzt. "Will he make it doctor?" "I... don't know.. I just don't, know."