Friday, March 28, 2003
Thursday, March 27, 2003
For all you Fox News fans:
http://www.fair.org/extra/0108/fox-main.html
"I think what's going on is the Democratic lawyers have flooded Florida. They are afraid of George W. Bush becoming president and instituting tort reform and their gravy train will be over. This is the trial association's full court press to make sure Bush does not win."
--Fox News Channel anchor John Gibson (12/9/00)
'Fair and Balanced' news my ass.
http://www.fair.org/extra/0108/fox-main.html
"I think what's going on is the Democratic lawyers have flooded Florida. They are afraid of George W. Bush becoming president and instituting tort reform and their gravy train will be over. This is the trial association's full court press to make sure Bush does not win."
--Fox News Channel anchor John Gibson (12/9/00)
'Fair and Balanced' news my ass.
Wednesday, March 26, 2003
Tuesday, March 25, 2003
HEY! ASSHOLE!
I am getting annoyed at all the anti-French sentiment that has errupted around me. I hear stupid things like, "We saved their asses in WWII, so they owe us!"
Hey! Asshole! Without the French we might not be the nation we are today! Remember the Revolutionary war? Whaaaaaaat? Yeah! They helped us! Also, if you try really hard to remember your high school history, we didn't save the French when they were invaded, we just killed or drove out all the Germans later, when we attacked (AFTER we were forced to war by Pearl Harbor). We're not supreme liberators of France, and they don't owe us anything.
I got a "Boycott France" paper put underneath my door today, with a list of all the French products (a great deal of them Vivendi related) that we should not buy....wel..
Hey! Asshole! If we didn't buy any of those products, we'd all be facing a great deal of higher relative prices. That would totally fuck up the economy and stuff dude. Whoa!
This HEY! ASSHOLE! was brought you by Archer Daniels Midland Company. ADM: Supermarket to the World.
I am getting annoyed at all the anti-French sentiment that has errupted around me. I hear stupid things like, "We saved their asses in WWII, so they owe us!"
Hey! Asshole! Without the French we might not be the nation we are today! Remember the Revolutionary war? Whaaaaaaat? Yeah! They helped us! Also, if you try really hard to remember your high school history, we didn't save the French when they were invaded, we just killed or drove out all the Germans later, when we attacked (AFTER we were forced to war by Pearl Harbor). We're not supreme liberators of France, and they don't owe us anything.
I got a "Boycott France" paper put underneath my door today, with a list of all the French products (a great deal of them Vivendi related) that we should not buy....wel..
Hey! Asshole! If we didn't buy any of those products, we'd all be facing a great deal of higher relative prices. That would totally fuck up the economy and stuff dude. Whoa!
This HEY! ASSHOLE! was brought you by Archer Daniels Midland Company. ADM: Supermarket to the World.
My mother's response to the same e-mail:
I am ashamed of being an American right now.
I am disgusted at the arrogant, ethnocentric, inhumane, immoral,
illegal, and violent stance of the US administration and all its supporters who
attempt to camouflage their own greed for supremacy, money, and oil, by
blaming others for their own mistaken decisions and fabricating
situations in order to kill human beings.
I am sickened by those who accuse the advocates of legal and
non-violent ways of resolving conflicts as being non-patriotic and unsupportive of
the poor troops who have been sent to the slaughter by an ignorant and evil
administration that just happens to be smarter than the Iraqis at
disguising its true motives, i.e. in the guise of being a liberating, religious
crusader.
Like the president of Iraq, we also allow our weakest and poorest
citizens to suffer and die by imposing limitations on health care, housing,
birth control, healthy school lunches, jobs, and other resources. We too are
ignoring the Geneva Convention by our treatment of prisoners in Cuba.
And America shares the guilt of erecting elaborate, expensive, buildings in
the midst of shacks in our towns and cities.
This scathing and ignorant criticism of other countries serves no
purpose and has to stop. We are ALL human beings no matter what our
nationality, race, gender or beliefs. Let us start by building on this basic
premise.
Did I mention my mom kicks ass too?
I am ashamed of being an American right now.
I am disgusted at the arrogant, ethnocentric, inhumane, immoral,
illegal, and violent stance of the US administration and all its supporters who
attempt to camouflage their own greed for supremacy, money, and oil, by
blaming others for their own mistaken decisions and fabricating
situations in order to kill human beings.
I am sickened by those who accuse the advocates of legal and
non-violent ways of resolving conflicts as being non-patriotic and unsupportive of
the poor troops who have been sent to the slaughter by an ignorant and evil
administration that just happens to be smarter than the Iraqis at
disguising its true motives, i.e. in the guise of being a liberating, religious
crusader.
Like the president of Iraq, we also allow our weakest and poorest
citizens to suffer and die by imposing limitations on health care, housing,
birth control, healthy school lunches, jobs, and other resources. We too are
ignoring the Geneva Convention by our treatment of prisoners in Cuba.
And America shares the guilt of erecting elaborate, expensive, buildings in
the midst of shacks in our towns and cities.
This scathing and ignorant criticism of other countries serves no
purpose and has to stop. We are ALL human beings no matter what our
nationality, race, gender or beliefs. Let us start by building on this basic
premise.
Did I mention my mom kicks ass too?
My father wrote this in response to an anti-French e-mail he received:
To all the hyper-nationalists on this list,
France is a country I know well and love, whose beautiful language I read, and whose political system I admire. While I would have preferred his opponent (Lionel Jospin) in the 2002 election, President Jacques Chirac was - unlike the incoherent moron in the White House - actually elected by the people he represents. While the United States has used its veto in the Security Council dozens of times in the past fifty years, normally to support the outrageous behavior of the Israeli Government, France has seldom opposed its western allies until this year. President Chirac's threatened use of the veto against an American war against Iraq reflects the near-unanimity of his people, a concept that is called democracy on the increasingly rare occasions when it happens in this country.
You are, of course, welcome to your vulgar prejudices. Should any of you possess bottles of hated French wine, you are welcome to send them to me, where - after la belle France is toasted - they will be consumed with reverence. If not, may you choke on your freedom fries.
Richard Oliver Collin
Palmetto Professor of Politics
Coastal Carolina University
Did I mention my dad kicks ass?
To all the hyper-nationalists on this list,
France is a country I know well and love, whose beautiful language I read, and whose political system I admire. While I would have preferred his opponent (Lionel Jospin) in the 2002 election, President Jacques Chirac was - unlike the incoherent moron in the White House - actually elected by the people he represents. While the United States has used its veto in the Security Council dozens of times in the past fifty years, normally to support the outrageous behavior of the Israeli Government, France has seldom opposed its western allies until this year. President Chirac's threatened use of the veto against an American war against Iraq reflects the near-unanimity of his people, a concept that is called democracy on the increasingly rare occasions when it happens in this country.
You are, of course, welcome to your vulgar prejudices. Should any of you possess bottles of hated French wine, you are welcome to send them to me, where - after la belle France is toasted - they will be consumed with reverence. If not, may you choke on your freedom fries.
Richard Oliver Collin
Palmetto Professor of Politics
Coastal Carolina University
Did I mention my dad kicks ass?
