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Fascist Iraq

Peter Galbraith served on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during the Iraq-Iran conflict and the US war with Iraq in the early 1990s. During this time he smuggled out of Iraq 14 tons of documents detailing, among other things, the Iraqi regime’s attempted genocide of the Kurds within Iraq via the use of chemical weapons.  These documents were created by Saddam’s government, but were stolen by the Kurds during a revolt, and one of the 2 Kurdish leaders handed them over to Galbraith to be taken to the US for study.

NPR’s Terry Gross interviewed Galbraith recently.  You should listen to it.  It’s 32 minutes long.  Here are some quotes from the interview:

"There’s no question but that in Bosnia the United States intervention, the NATO bombing saved many many more lives than were cost by that action.  It helped bring the war to an end.  It was a war in which 200,000 people had been killed, and it enabled Bosnia to get on with the process of reconstruction.  And it is, admittedly slowly, becoming a more normal part of Europe."

"Iraq, in the 30 years that Saddam Hussein has been in power, at least a half a million Iraqis have died as a result of actions taken by Saddam Hussein... it’s likely to come to some kind of military action, and if it’s sooner, we’re simply going to save the lives of Iraqis."

"You have a situation in Iraq in which 80% of the population are Kurds, Shiites, or Christians... groups that have been brutally repressed by Saddam Hussein."

"Iraq is today very much a third-world country as a result of what Saddam Hussein has done to the country, but it wasn’t, it was a country making great progress back in the late 1970s... in which a lot of people had gotten educated, a lot of professional people..."

"We’re not going to find anybody inside Iraq who can be part of the government, except from the Kurdish area which has been free from Saddam’s control for 11 years, because anybody inside the country who might have opposition tendencies either has kept them very secret and is not known, or if it is known, he’s in prison or dead."

"Iraq is going to need to have a period of de-Nazification.... It’s inconceivable to me that any person who has served as a judge in Saddam’s Iraq could possibly continue to be a judge in post-Saddam Iraq, because inevitably, this person has been involved in the enforcement of tainted law, of law that grossly violates human rights."

Posted by Anthony on 3 replies

Validity

Yo, my stuff is valid HTML 4.01 and valid CSS! Ok, so it’s only valid 4.01 as transitional HTML, which is lame, but it’s better than nothing.

Posted by Anthony on reply

I am *so* pleased!

In my parents’ basement I found something very wonderful. It used to belong to me a long time ago, but I didn’t appreciate its true value.  I found a little portable AM radio with headphones.  Now this may not sound like much, but it was made in 1983 by Radio Shack, and distributed by Burger King!  It says "Are you hungry?  Burger King" on the front.  The crowning glory is the earpieces on the headphones:  they look like Whoppers and have the Burger King logo!

Isn’t this the most excellent thing to find?  I am very happy.

Posted by *Amanda* on 3 replies

something cool I found on a friend's t-shirt

God is dead.
-Nietzsche
Nietzsche is dead.
          -God

Posted by Joseph on 2 replies

Segway!

It’s finally here! This thing has been "coming soon" for a couple years now, and it’s now available for order, with the first shipments in March.  You have to go to the site and watch the videos.  I’m so excited -- not that I’ll be able to afford one anytime soon since they’re $5000 -- but this thing is so cool.  I can’t wait till the first time I see someone riding one, I’m going to die of laughter for sure.

Posted by Anthony on reply

Huh?

Okay, I might just be re-enforcing the fact that I am an idiot for not noticing this before, but why is my font green?

Posted by Joseph on 5 replies

I didn't write this

In light of the many perversions and jokes we send to one another for a  laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended to be a joke, it’s  not funny, it’s intended to get you thinking.  Billy Graham’s daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane  Clayson asked her "How could God let something like this happen?" (regarding the attacks on Sept. 11).  Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response. She said  "I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years  we’ve been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives.  And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How  can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?"  In light of recent events...terrorists attack, school shootings, etc. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O’Hare (she was murdered, her body found recently) complained she didn’t want prayer in our schools, and we said OK.  Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school ... the Bible says thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said OK.  Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn’t spank our children when they misbehave because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock’s son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he’s talking about. And we said OK.  Then someone said teachers and principals better not discipline our children when they misbehave. The school administrators said no faculty member in this school better touch a student when they misbehave because  we don’t want any bad publicity, and we surely don’t want to be sued  (there’s a big difference between disciplining, touching, beating, smacking, humiliating, kicking, etc.). And we said OK.  Then someone said, let’s let our daughters have abortions if they want,  and they won’t even have to tell their parents. And we said OK.  Then some wise school board member said, since boys will be boys and they’re going to do it anyway, let’s give our sons all the condoms they want so they can have all the fun they desire, and we won’t have to tell their parents they got them at school. And we said OK.  Then some of our top elected officials said it doesn’t matter what we do  in private as long as we do our jobs. Agreeing with them, we said it doesn’t matter to me what anyone, including the President, does in private as  long as I have a job and the economy is good.  Then someone said let’s print magazines with pictures of nude women and call it wholesome, down-to-earth appreciation for the beauty of the  female body. And we said OK.  And then someone else took that appreciation a step further and published pictures of nude children and then further again by making them available on the Internet. And we said OK, they’re entitled to free speech.  Then the entertainment industry said, let’s make TV shows and movies that promote profanity, violence, and illicit sex. Let’s record music that encourages rape, drugs, murder, suicide, and satanic themes. And we said it’s just entertainment, it has no adverse effect, nobody takes it seriously anyway, so go right ahead.  Now we’re asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don’t know right from wrong, and why it doesn’t bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.  Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it  out. I think it has a great deal to do with "WE REAP WHAT WE SOW."  Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world’s going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says.  Funny how you can send ’jokes’ through e-mail and they spread like  wildfire but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think  twice about sharing.  Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace.  Are you laughing?  Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you’re not sure what they believe, or what they WILL think of you for sending it. Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us.  Pass it on if you think it has merit. If not then just discard it... no  one will know you did. But, if you discard this thought process, don’t sit  back and complain about what bad shape the world iS IN!

Posted by Joseph on 2 replies

Get out of our country

I have had it with whiny "Americans" who are anti-war and anti-government and anti-everything. War is a necessary part of human history and the human present.  You can be an idealist all you want and say "war is bad" but in the real world, we have problems to solve, and if someone threatens us we need to protect our people.

These are the same people who, after September 11th, were saying "why didn’t the government protect us?"  Now, when there is a clear threat that we have the ability to fight against and prevent attacks from, people are against it?

As April put it: "I support a war with Iraq.  If we don’t go to war and Saddam drops a nuke on the US, then I have only one prayer...it is the families of the people who opposed the war that suffer the greatest."  A-freaking-men is what I say to that.

The fact is that freedom and safety are not free.  They never have been free.  Just because YOU take them for granted, that doesn’t mean they can’t be taken away.  The fact is that people fought and died to allow you those freedoms, and freedom has NEVER come without war.  One thing that has consistently defined America is its willingness to fight to protect its people, its freedom, and when necessary, that of other peoples.

If you’re not willing to fight for America, or to support those who will fight, then get the heck out -- we don’t need you here and we don’t want you here.

Posted by Anthony on 13 replies

Columbia

The US space shuttle Columbia broke apart and was destroyed this morning before it was able to land. The exact cause is yet unknown.  The lives of its seven crewmembers were lost.  The word from a heartless Iraqi government employee is  "We are happy that it broke up."

That’s great, Abdul Jabbar al-Quraishi.  Freaking great.  And I hope you’re just as freaking happy when your little piece-of-crap country is destroyed by the US because your narcissistic murder-dictator refuses to disarm.

Posted by Anthony on 8 replies

New server of power

I just moved my photos and my personal recordings to a new server -- one that’s hosted instead of running on my own computer. So they should be a bunch faster now, and anyone who had trouble connecting to them before should have no more trouble.

So go and check out my songs already!  No, seriously, check them out.  Pretty Melody, Neat, and Incorruptible are the best, and you can stream them!  No waiting!  Give them a few listens and they will become your friends for sure.

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Mormons

Grrr. Getting accosted by Mormons while trying to run... that doesn’t get it.

I didn’t know a lot about Mormons before last night, but they handed me a copy of their "Articles of Faith" so now I do.  They’re basically another Catholic church... they made up their own book of faith, but still claim to believe in the Bible... they believe that you need to do good works to be saved and that you need to be baptized to be saved... they even have some interesting random crazy beliefs like that the new Jerusalem will be built on the American continent.

Anyway, this just reaffirms my stance that I’ll never be a door-to-door salesman for Christianity.  It’s so intrusive and unwelcome and it immediately puts the vast majority of people on the defensive -- hardly an effective way to share your faith with them.  They kept asking me for my phone number and address so they could "get together with me and talk to me"... the first time I kinda went "hm" and changed the subject, the second time I gave an obviously-no "maybe" and the third time I said "no, I think I’d rather research this on my own, if you guys don’t mind."

Posted by Anthony on 16 replies

colors

I would agree, not that it’s hard to read, it’s just that the entire website starts looking a little dull with this light gray color. Blue is OK, though.  You might need some other additional color to make the page stand out.

Posted by Konstantin on 1 reply

New theme!

New theme of lightness!

steev brought up a good point -- the blue is very light. So is the gray for that matter.  I’d like to know if anyone here finds it so light that it’s hard to read.

Also, did anyone notice the little bar of links at the top of the page, above the photos, where you can set the theme, and also see links to some of my friends’ webpages?  It’s pretty small (intentionally) so you might have missed it.

OK, now reply!

Posted by Anthony on 1 reply

nice

wow, i love the new layout, it looks really good. the blue is a little light, but it still looks good - i want my site to look like this

Posted by steev on 1 reply

Burn Hollywood Burn

Mel Gibson is making a movie that depicts the last twelve hours of the life of Jesus Christ. The purpose of the film is to be as accurate as possible. The film will be spoken in the languages of the time, Aramaic and Latin, without any subtitles. It is entitled "The Passion."

If this were a film about any other subject, Gibson would be the recipient of endless accolades, hailed as everything from innovative to revolutionary to genius.  But this film is about Jesus, so Hollywood and the liberal media are attacking Gibson’s character instead.  They’re prying into his personal and financial life and harassing his father.

It’s not surprising in any way -- Jesus himself told us we would be persecuted on his account -- but it’s just so... discouraging . At least Gibson is choosing to make the movie now, in the first deca of 2000. Fifty or one hundred years from now, it will probably be literally impossible to make such a film, because the government (US, or World) would have Gibson incarcerated or assassinated. Difficult as it will be, that is the future Christians face.

Posted by Anthony on 2 replies

On the JIC tip

Spelunking with Nate, Trev, and the gang in Fieldtrip cave. If I don’t reply to this within a day, please send help.

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Being here

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Sally Anthony Rocks!

Hey, if you guys like new music check out Sally Anthony at http://www.sallyanthony.com. I saw her open for the Barenaked Ladies and she ROCKED.

She is giving away FREE STUFF (Cds, DVDs, Cash, etc...) all month so check her out!

Her new CD COME CLEAN is the BOMB!

Posted by Kelly Springer on 2 replies

KRS!

KRS-ONE is born again! Praise the Lord.  It’s not very surprising to me, having been a huge fan of Kris for 10 or so years now... you could always hear him struggling for and against Christ in his rhymes.  It’s so awesome and encouraging to hear that one of the 2 greatest MCs ever (the other being, of course, Rakim) has come to Christ!  Here’s a quick lyric or two from his latest album:

I know what y’all thinkin, KRS-One doing gospel rap??
Say word son!  Word sonny,
we don’t spit verbs for money
Some of these churchs be absurd and funny.
Everything I said in the past, I still spit that.
Songs like ’The Truth’, ’Higher Level’ and ’Why is That?’
I give back quick facts,
but when I say God created hip-hop
many churches won’t admit that...

To be a conscious rapper ain’t a mystery.
You gotta laugh when they call you contradictory.
The whole industry, you gotta push and pull it.
To really get with me, you gotta dodge they bullets -
BLAOW, BLAOW, BLAOW - every day and every way.
You critics got somethin to say?
At the same time, you’ve got to uphold Christ.
Uphold life, while others flash cars and ice.

Expect some tracks in the music section soon.

Posted by Anthony on 1 reply

Strangeness of sleep

While I slept last night, I managed to flip my blanket completely over, so that the side that normally faces the mattress was facing up. That’s pretty amazing considering how little I move during sleep.  I sleep with my Bible and my cell phone on one side of my pillow, and a book and a pair of shorts on the other side of it, and they’re never disturbed, including last night.

Posted by Anthony on 2 replies

anime

I’m just curious. Is anyone here an anime fan?  Does anyone here even know what anime is?  I always seem to be the only one no matter what group I’m in.  Than again I am one of the biggest cartoon freaks I know, too.  (also one of the biggest dorks :) )  It’s not a bad thing.  In fact, it’s fun to impress (annoy, actually) people on a subject they don’t care about.

Posted by Joseph on 7 replies

A+ Photography

Hey Anthony, Your images look great! I like to come back and look through them once and a while and I can deffinately see how your improving.  You’re doing a great job.  I was looking through the most recent ones of whe snow, and I picked the ’Lamppost with Sparkles’ as my favorite, before even noticing that is was one of your favorites...  Good eye.  Don’t let that Iris flare turn you off, It looks great there and it’s great how some of it falls out of focus.  Were taught that people that care about their photos, arent afraid to take risks, and let things out of focus.  Keep up the good work, and keep the images coming.  Happy New Year to all!!

Steve Kancianic
Photography Student
Antonelli Institute

Posted by Steve Kancianic on 1 reply

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