Thursday, January 01, 2004
Happy 2004, dipshits!
No more champagne
And the fireworks are through
Here we are, me and you
Feeling lost and feeling blue
It's the end of the party
And the morning seems so grey
So unlike yesterday
Now's the time for us to say...
Happy new year...~ "Happy New Year" - ABBA
I hate ABBA. Bunch of Swedish dancing queen faggot fucks. But I'm drunk enough to be lazy enough to not find a better quote for the New Year than this dumbassed song. Either way, Happy New Year, to whomever may be reading my drunken drivel.
There is not much to say, other than that I resolve to be an even bigger asshole this year than I was last year. I want to make an impression on the world, and I feel that my typewritten words may make more waves upon the waters of society than my spoken words may allow. It's a strange phenomenon; as nice of a guy as I might be in person, I tend to be an ass behind a keyboard. This has nothing to do with me not owning up to my own words, since I'll talk all kinds of shit to you in an email, and then meet you for coffee or a beer afterwards in person. I think that it has more to do with the Internet's nasty habit of dehumanizing people when they put their stupid shit online. The fact that I can talk shit about you online, all the while never seeing my smile while I'm doing it, kind of drives that point home.
I had one too many beers, and I have to go to work in fucking four hours. I guess all that I have left to say is to have a Happy Fucking New Year. This is the year 2004. Will I rock the boat this year more than the last? Give me time, my friends and enemies.
As much as you may hate me, my words and opinions are set in stone, as well as my honesty. I will never backstab and/or betray you. Learn that as the Zelmo Constant. My honesty is brutal, yet fair.
Sometimes, beer talk is the straightest talk of all..........
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And the fireworks are through
Here we are, me and you
Feeling lost and feeling blue
It's the end of the party
And the morning seems so grey
So unlike yesterday
Now's the time for us to say...
Happy new year...~ "Happy New Year" - ABBA
I hate ABBA. Bunch of Swedish dancing queen faggot fucks. But I'm drunk enough to be lazy enough to not find a better quote for the New Year than this dumbassed song. Either way, Happy New Year, to whomever may be reading my drunken drivel.
There is not much to say, other than that I resolve to be an even bigger asshole this year than I was last year. I want to make an impression on the world, and I feel that my typewritten words may make more waves upon the waters of society than my spoken words may allow. It's a strange phenomenon; as nice of a guy as I might be in person, I tend to be an ass behind a keyboard. This has nothing to do with me not owning up to my own words, since I'll talk all kinds of shit to you in an email, and then meet you for coffee or a beer afterwards in person. I think that it has more to do with the Internet's nasty habit of dehumanizing people when they put their stupid shit online. The fact that I can talk shit about you online, all the while never seeing my smile while I'm doing it, kind of drives that point home.
I had one too many beers, and I have to go to work in fucking four hours. I guess all that I have left to say is to have a Happy Fucking New Year. This is the year 2004. Will I rock the boat this year more than the last? Give me time, my friends and enemies.
As much as you may hate me, my words and opinions are set in stone, as well as my honesty. I will never backstab and/or betray you. Learn that as the Zelmo Constant. My honesty is brutal, yet fair.
Sometimes, beer talk is the straightest talk of all..........
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Did Clinton Know?
“What is happening in the United States took me by surprise. I anticipated that in the aftermath of Sept. 11, there would be an enormous hue and cry to find out what went wrong. There has been no hue and cry in the United States. No recriminations, nothing even similar to what happened after Pearl Harbor in 1941… The United States has drawn a veil of silence over the issue of intelligence failure.”
Wesley Wark, Canadian Intelligence Expert and Consultant to the Privy Council Office of Canada on Intelligence Policy
(Globe & Mail, 18 December 2001)
“We’ve been focusing on this perpetrator Osama bin Laden for 3 years, and yet we didn’t see this one coming,” said Vincent Cannistraro, former chief of CIA counter-terrorism operations. A U.S. Air Force General described the attack as “something we had never seen before, something we had never even thought of.” FBI Director Robert Mueller further declared that “there were no warning signs that I’m aware of.” Senior FBI officials insisted that in terms of intelligence warnings received prior to 11th September: “The notion of flying a plane into a building or using it as a bomb never came up.”[1] According to this official version of events, no one in the Bush administration had the slightest idea of the identities of those who orchestrated the 11th September attacks, the nature of their plans, or their targets.
Contrary to these prolific claims, there is compelling evidence that the U.S. intelligence community had extensive forewarning of the 11th September attacks on New York and Washington. Further evidence suggests that the attacks may, in fact, have been in the interest of certain elements of the Bush administration..." ~ an edited version of Chapter 4 from the explosive 400-page exposé, "The War on Freedom: How and Why America was Attacked, September 11, 2001",
- by the leading British political scientist and human rights activist Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, Director of the Institute for Policy Research & Development in Brighton, UK.
Did Bush Know?
...unfortunately, in all of Mr. Ahmed's article's questions, provides no answers. Nor does it provide insurmountable proof that Bush knew about 9/11 prior to its happening. Unfortunately, the failure by the U.S. Intelligence community as a whole amounts to nothing more than a whole bunch of finger-pointing as to who's fault that 9/11 really lied with. Aside from the whole ECHELON network, our intelligence communities were notorious for not sharing information with the other intelligence children prior to the enactment of the Patriot Act. Remember how the FBI botched the whole Richard Jewell incident? And what of the Oklahoma City Bombing? Who was really responsible for that? We'll never know for sure, thanks to the FBI's piss-poor investigation tactics.
But the ultimate irony in Ahmed's article is in the repeated mention of the U.S. Intelligence community's seemingly constant knowledge of Al Qaeda's activities all throughout the 1990s, and yet nothing was apparently ever done about it during all of that time.
So perhaps the real question that Ahmed should be asking in his article is: Did Clinton Know?
Of course, we won't hear that question by the anti-Patriot Act hordes, since it wasn't the Clinton Administration that put the Patriot Act into effect. Which in itself proves to be an equally ironic twist in Ahmed's argument: The Patriot Act works against the very thing that he seems to be so appalled by. That the U.S. Intelligence community did nothing in the face of all of this information leading up to 9/11.
Well, congratulations, Mr. Ahmed. The Bush Administration finally gave you what you wanted. The U.S. has finally taken action against the terrorist threats to this country. Give yourself a bow.
"...where truth prevails" indeed. *sarcasm*
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Wesley Wark, Canadian Intelligence Expert and Consultant to the Privy Council Office of Canada on Intelligence Policy
(Globe & Mail, 18 December 2001)
“We’ve been focusing on this perpetrator Osama bin Laden for 3 years, and yet we didn’t see this one coming,” said Vincent Cannistraro, former chief of CIA counter-terrorism operations. A U.S. Air Force General described the attack as “something we had never seen before, something we had never even thought of.” FBI Director Robert Mueller further declared that “there were no warning signs that I’m aware of.” Senior FBI officials insisted that in terms of intelligence warnings received prior to 11th September: “The notion of flying a plane into a building or using it as a bomb never came up.”[1] According to this official version of events, no one in the Bush administration had the slightest idea of the identities of those who orchestrated the 11th September attacks, the nature of their plans, or their targets.
Contrary to these prolific claims, there is compelling evidence that the U.S. intelligence community had extensive forewarning of the 11th September attacks on New York and Washington. Further evidence suggests that the attacks may, in fact, have been in the interest of certain elements of the Bush administration..." ~ an edited version of Chapter 4 from the explosive 400-page exposé, "The War on Freedom: How and Why America was Attacked, September 11, 2001",
- by the leading British political scientist and human rights activist Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, Director of the Institute for Policy Research & Development in Brighton, UK.
Did Bush Know?
...unfortunately, in all of Mr. Ahmed's article's questions, provides no answers. Nor does it provide insurmountable proof that Bush knew about 9/11 prior to its happening. Unfortunately, the failure by the U.S. Intelligence community as a whole amounts to nothing more than a whole bunch of finger-pointing as to who's fault that 9/11 really lied with. Aside from the whole ECHELON network, our intelligence communities were notorious for not sharing information with the other intelligence children prior to the enactment of the Patriot Act. Remember how the FBI botched the whole Richard Jewell incident? And what of the Oklahoma City Bombing? Who was really responsible for that? We'll never know for sure, thanks to the FBI's piss-poor investigation tactics.
But the ultimate irony in Ahmed's article is in the repeated mention of the U.S. Intelligence community's seemingly constant knowledge of Al Qaeda's activities all throughout the 1990s, and yet nothing was apparently ever done about it during all of that time.
So perhaps the real question that Ahmed should be asking in his article is: Did Clinton Know?
Of course, we won't hear that question by the anti-Patriot Act hordes, since it wasn't the Clinton Administration that put the Patriot Act into effect. Which in itself proves to be an equally ironic twist in Ahmed's argument: The Patriot Act works against the very thing that he seems to be so appalled by. That the U.S. Intelligence community did nothing in the face of all of this information leading up to 9/11.
Well, congratulations, Mr. Ahmed. The Bush Administration finally gave you what you wanted. The U.S. has finally taken action against the terrorist threats to this country. Give yourself a bow.
"...where truth prevails" indeed. *sarcasm*
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