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sisyphusshruggedfor tomorrow will worry about its own things
Slacktivist pretty much wraps up the question of gay marriage, at least as far as I'm concerned (and a lovely job it is, too)
I submit that the real killer was . . . Willem Dafoe! He seemed to have nothing to do with this crime. Nobody suspected him. Therefore, he’s clearly guilty! If the police had conducted even a rudimentary record check they would have found that Dafoe was the nefarious boat-crashing Giger in Speed 2, the depraved scientist/nutjob Green Goblin in Spiderman, and the English supervillain T.S. Eliot in Tom & Viv.
Washington Post to Democrats: Give up the south. We'll be sure to pass it on for you.
Sen. Rockefeller, the senior Democrat on the intelligence committee, is not confident that the chairman is interested in finding out if the White House did bad stuff
Calvin Trillin on the controversial Lord Black in the New Yorker
Portrait of a successful third-party candidate for local office
Democratic challenger beats incumbent for NJ State Senate seat by 63 votes
Yes, the Klamath River salmon debacle was Karl Rove's fault
70,000 australian sheep will not be going to the middle east after animal rights activists sprinkled ham in their feed
Japanese scientists have discovered a new species of whale
Slacktivist pretty much wraps up the question of gay marriage, at least as far as I'm concerned (and a lovely job it is, too)
I submit that the real killer was . . . Willem Dafoe! He seemed to have nothing to do with this crime. Nobody suspected him. Therefore, he’s clearly guilty! If the police had conducted even a rudimentary record check they would have found that Dafoe was the nefarious boat-crashing Giger in Speed 2, the depraved scientist/nutjob Green Goblin in Spiderman, and the English supervillain T.S. Eliot in Tom & Viv.
Washington Post to Democrats: Give up the south. We'll be sure to pass it on for you.
Sen. Rockefeller, the senior Democrat on the intelligence committee, is not confident that the chairman is interested in finding out if the White House did bad stuff
Calvin Trillin on the controversial Lord Black in the New Yorker
Portrait of a successful third-party candidate for local office
Democratic challenger beats incumbent for NJ State Senate seat by 63 votes
Yes, the Klamath River salmon debacle was Karl Rove's fault
70,000 australian sheep will not be going to the middle east after animal rights activists sprinkled ham in their feed
Japanese scientists have discovered a new species of whale
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Pork...the other deterrent
Date: 2003-11-20 12:46 pm (UTC)Here's a thought, instead of giving pilots guns, why not some sort of aerosol/pepper-spray/water-pistol type delivery method for hosing down would-be martyrs with bacon grease? Threat-specific, non-lethal, and it recycles!
Re: Pork...the other deterrent
Date: 2003-11-20 05:20 pm (UTC)Re: Pork...the other deterrent
Date: 2003-11-24 02:56 pm (UTC)In the case of the Sepoy rebellion, the troops conscripted by the British were made to bite off cartridges greased with beef/pork tallow. The beef pissed off the Hindu Sepoys, and the pork pissed off the Muslim Sepoys. The revolt was joined by native Indians who had been dispossessed or dislocated by the empire-building.
After the revolt was put down by a large infusion of white soldiers not so discriminating about their bullets, the British gave back land to some of the Indian rulers and showed greater sensitivity to Hindu & Muslim sensitivities.