The bulldozer incident is tragic - no question - but as Mike so
frothingly pointed out there's protesting, and there's protesting with
a little safety sense.
I drive a big gas guzzling Suburban; I need to what with up to 8
people that get shlepped around. Mike mentioned that if I drove my
Burb up to the PC Bay Area the car would probably get egged or
scratched.
But if one person decided to protest my choice of vehicle by zipping
in front of me on the freeway with their Volvo or multi-colored VW
Minivan and slamming on his brakes. Guess what? I'd be plucking PC Car
remains out of my front bumper.
When a person believes in a cause SOOO MUCH that rationality takes a
back seat, that's called Fanaticism. In case you-all haven't noticed
Joy and I have been having a back-and-forth (SHUT UP, you sex-crazed
weasels) about Gulf War 2 and we both hold our opinions strongly.
Am I a FANATIC believer? No, I don't think so. There are plenty of
possibilities that could change my mind about the war in Iraq. Am I
going to start protesting outside of Joy's front door? No, (unless she
invites us all in for dinner) because who knows. Maybe Joy will have
had a bad day and wants to blow off steam by doing some double-odd
target practice. Believe me, folks, I've seen her in survival, she can
occasionally hit the broadside of even a stick like myself.
And now that I got the topic over to Survival (whew) my son Adam
wanted to know why we don't play any more? We told him about the BB
guns (he got very excited) and how it's illegal (he got very
disappointed). He said they play with detachable ribbons. You get a
person's ribbon off them. They're dead for a period of time. Hmmmmmmm.
(But the game would stil require movement - arrghhh).
Ozzy
--- In OliveStarlightOrchestra_at_yahoogroups.com, mayhem <meurtre_at_e...>
wrote:
> Though I'm not sure I'd say "human waffle." I mean, the bulldozer
didn't
> have waffle-shaped treads, right?--I'd say something flatter than
that, like
> a pressed sandwich of the type Martha Stewart places a brick on top
of.
>
> And, Sharose--we are fulfilling our respective responsibilities in
life. We
> get up, we go to work, we make the changes we need to make. We're
all
> growing and doing things, tackling our challenges. And if we want to
unwind
> with a little macabre humor--it's no one's business but our own.
>
> You don't always have to take the bait, you know.
>
> --J
>
>
> > No one and I mean *NO ONE* on Gods Green Earth can rant like our
Mike.
> > Dude, you have made my morning. I can now face the drones at work.
..
> >
> >
> > Ozzy
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --- In OliveStarlightOrchestra_at_yahoogroups.com, "Mikal" <mikalm_at_i.
..>
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Sharose (and everyone else),
> >
> >
> >>
> >
> >
> >> I have zero regard for this waste of space and oxygen, who has
now
> > made
> >
> >
> >> herself the woman to beat in the 2003 Darwin Awards.
> >
> >
> >>
> >
> >
> >> Why?
> >
> >
> >>
> >
> >
> >> * Rachel Corrie was not some Palestinian toddler who wandered
into
> > the path
> >
> >
> >> of an earthmover and got mowed down. She was an allegedly
educated
> > adult
> >
> >
> >> who traveled halfway across the world, into a war zone, with the
> > sole intent
> >
> >
> >> of inflaming an already insane and deadly situation. The group
she
> > worked
> >
> >
> >> there with has a stated goal of "armed liberation" of the
> > Palestinian
> >
> >
> >> region. Maybe I'm a little slow, but "armed liberation" seems to
> > imply
> >
> >
> >> shooting, war, violence, that sort of thing. Is it any wonder
she
> > met a
> >
> >
> >> violent end under their tutelage?
> >
> >
> >>
> >
> >
> >> * She tried to agitate a mob of Palestinians against the U.S. and
> > Israel by
> >
> >
> >> burning an improvised American Flag in their midst. Don't
believe
> > me?
> >
> >
> >> Check out these two pics, and then wonder why you haven't seen
them
> > in the
> >
> >
> >> mainstream media:
> >
> >
> >>
> >
> >
> >> http://homepage.mac.com/cfj/.Pictures/rachel-corrie-flagburner.
jpg
> >
> >
> >>
> >
> >
> >> http://homepage.mac.com/cfj/.Pictures/rachel-corrie-flag-02.jpg
> >
> >
> >>
> >
> >
> >> Does this look like the face of a loving, tolerant, nurturing
> > person? Or
> >
> >
> >> does it look like someone with serious anger problems, who chose
> > political
> >
> >
> >> violence rather than therapy as a way to deal with personal
demons?
> >
> >
> >>
> >
> >
> >> * The bulldozer was a huge, armored ('dozer drivers get sniped at
> > regularly
> >
> >
> >> in these areas) vehicle with virtually zero visibility except at
> >
> >
> >> straight-ahead 12-o'clock. I've know people who've worked on
> > construction
> >
> >
> >> sites and road crews, and they've all said to NEVER get near a
> > mobile
> >
> >
> >> earthmover for this reason...and they were talking about
> > garden-variety ones
> >
> >
> >> half the size of this behemoth.
> >
> >
> >>
> >
> >
> >> * As I said earlier, she was in a war zone -- the bulldozing was
an
> > IDF
> >
> >
> >> operation, and was accompanied by a troop detail. Anyone not a
> > trained,
> >
> >
> >> armed combatant who enters such an area is taking an unimaginably
> > stupid
> >
> >
> >> risk with their life, and should be prepared to die in an ugly
> > manner.
> >
> >
> >>
> >
> >
> >> * According to more than one eyewitness, she wasn't even standing
in
> > front
> >
> >
> >> of the 'dozer. Those pics of her standing were taken earlier in
the
> > day, at
> >
> >
> >> different sites (note that the shadows, light, and even the
machine
> > seem to
> >
> >
> >> be different). The witnesses said that in but sitting on a mound
of
> > earth
> >
> >
> >> well out of the sight range of the driver. It is quite possible
> > that she
> >
> >
> >> was killed not by being run over, but by the collapse of the
earth
> > mound as
> >
> >
> >> the 'dozer caved it in from the side.
> >
> >
> >>
> >
> >
> >> * Whatever the scenario or exact cause of death, did she really
> > think she
> >
> >
> >> could get away with playing chicken with a moving 40-ton vehicle
> > whose
> >
> >
> >> driver couldn't see her clearly? Maybe my folks were a bit
strict,
> > but from
> >
> >
> >> an early age I was taught not to run in front of cars for this
> > reason. I
> >
> >
> >> guess all that edumacation at Evergreen State University, and all
> > those
> >
> >
> >> activist circle-jerks, convinced her that the laws of physics and
> > common
> >
> >
> >> sense didn't apply to such an enlightened and progressive womyn
as
> > herself.
> >
> >
> >>
> >
> >
> >> * If she was so much against war and killing, then why did she
waste
> > her
> >
> >
> >> time protecting ABANDONED BUILDINGS? Why didn't she, say, try to
> > stop one
> >
> >
> >> of the suicide bombings that claims Israeli lives on a weekly
basis?
> > The
> >
> >
> >> answer: she was a moral coward who went up against Israel and
> > America
> >
> >
> >> because they were CIVILIZED DEMOCRACIES UNDER THE RULE OF LAW,
who
> > allow
> >
> >
> >> idiots like this huge amounts of latitude to interfere with
> > government and
> >
> >
> >> private activities in the name of free speech. The very reason
this
> > case is
> >
> >
> >> so publicized -- unlike, say, the ones about slave-freeing
> > missionaries
> >
> >
> >> being murdered in the Sudan -- is that it's an ANOMALY in Israel.
> > Losers
> >
> >
> >> like Corrie are looking for cheap and painless ways of making
> > themselves
> >
> >
> >> moral authorities and martyrs, since they can't advance
themselves
> > through
> >
> >
> >> careers, relationships or other productive means of finding one's
> > identity.
> >
> >
> >> A REAL radical humanitarian -- one who was GENUINELY concerned
about
> > REAL
> >
> >
> >> oppression and murder -- would have gone to Iraq, North Korea,
the
> > PA, or
> >
> >
> >> any kleptocratic Third World toilet, and fought the epic
brutality
> > and
> >
> >
> >> bloodlettings in such places. And of course, would have been
> > whacked the
> >
> >
> >> second they opened their mouth.
> >
> >
> >>
> >
> >
> >> Rachel Corrie has now joined the Idealistic Idiot Sisterhood,
> > alongside Amy
> >
> >
> >> Biehl, Lori Berenson, and Rosebud DeNovo -- disturbed, deluded
women
> > who
> >
> >
> >> thought that their personal convictions justified their stupid
> > politics, and
> >
> >
> >> would protect them from the consequences of their suicidal
antics.
> > I know,
> >
> >
> >> I know...it's their FEEEEEELINGS that are important. Well, I'm
sure
> > that
> >
> >
> >> Road-Pizza Rachel had strong FEEEEELINGS. But because those
strong
> >
> >
> >> FEEELINGS weren't balanced by personal responsibility or common
> > sense, she's
> >
> >
> >> now not FEEEELING anything at all.
> >
> >
> >>
> >
> >
> >> In closing, I would say that my sympathy for some poor Iraqi
draftee
> > eating
> >
> >
> >> sand and dodging bullets on behalf of a monster like Saddam, is
> > about
> >
> >
> >> 100,000 times that of mine for a deranged, self-hating terrorist
> > enabler
> >
> >
> >> like Rachel Corrie. The political culture and gene pool is
> > healthier in her
> >
> >
> >> absence.
> >
> >
> >>
> >
> >
> >> Mikal, the Heartless Reactionary Warmonger Zionist
> >
>
>
>
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