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I’ve sure posted a lot today, but I wanted to let those readers who are not in the United States of a service that Johnny and I have come up with, so that he can make some extra money to allow him the luxuries of eating and having shelter.
In Japan, I have found it quite difficult to get some products. Particularly computer parts, software, and the like. If you find yourself in the same situation. Johnny will forward your package to you unopened for the cost of shipping plus $10. Here’s how it works:
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I just clicked through a whole bunch of the recently updated blogs, and didn’t find one that mentioned that George Bush just went on national television, and gave Saddam Hussein and his sons 48 hours to leave Iraq, or face war. Was it that everyone already knew what he was going to say, and commented on it before; was it that people have already grown tired of commenting on a hopeless situation; is it that no one cares? I’m more than a little surprised.
Can anyone make heads or tails out of the latest Microsoft Windows 2000 security update?
“An identified security vulnerability in Microsoft® Windows 2000 could allow an attacker to take control of the computer. This issue is most likely to affect computer used as web servers. You can help protect your computer from this and other identified issues by installing this update from Microsoft. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer.”To me this says we want you to install something on your machine that you wouldn’t be willing to install if you knew what it was; alternatively, you are too stupid to understand what it is that we are installing, so we will give you a generic, meaningless message, and you will install this update like all the other sheep.
I’m not doing it, until I find out what this is.
UPDATE: Here is some information about it
Well, the most dangerous terrorist in the world appears to have officially declared jihad. How proud I am to be an American right now.
Then again on the not so happy front:
“Bush to address the nation at 8 pm EST President Bush will address the country at 8 pm EST tonight and call on Saddam to leave the country to avoid war.from Back to Iraq 2.0
Also, French ambassador says a large majority on Security Council would have voted against the resolution, not the close vote that the U.S. and the U.K. maintained would have been the result. It?s like likely the United States never got much more than four votes: U.S., U.K., Spain and Bulgaria.
The U.S. never wanted this resolution anyway.”
I don’t have much knowledge of how things work in England. I’ve never been there, have only briefly studied their government (in a history class), and even then I didn’t pay all that much attention. The people I talk to from the UK, however seem to have a higher faith in their government than most of the people I meet in the United States. Today Robin Cook showed me why, he resigned his position in the House of Commons in protest of Britain’s for war no matter what the majority thinks policies of late. I don’t recall many cases of something like this happening in the United States, although I can remember some resignations in scandal. I am pretty impressed with Cook. I caught the second half of his resignation speech on CNN this morning, and when I can find the text of it I will post it. Until then, I provide you with a link to his resignation letter.
“You and I have both made the case over the years for an international order based on multilateral decisions through the UN and other forums. In principle I believe it is wrong to embark on military action without broad international support. In practice I believe it is against Britain’s interests to create a precedent for unilateral military action. ”I would also like to mention Molly Ivins’ column in the Star-Telegram on Sunday. Thanks to Charles Lipton on the Tokyo PC Newsgroups for pointing it out. Heres a sample of that column.
“OK, sign me up for the Bush program. I’m aboard. Who else can we insult,Next on the list we have a look at what George Bush really meant in his State of the Union address from freedomfiles.org. Credit to Robert B (who actually seems to be for the war) at Tokyo PC Users Group for pointing this video clip out.
offend, bribe, blackmail, threaten, intimidate, wiretap or otherwise
infuriate?Getting the Canadians, who are famous for their phlegm, seriously mad at
us took real work. Our latest ploy in that direction was to
contemptuously reject their compromise that had a few more days’ delay
in it than the British-U.S. version. Then, when our version didn’t fly,
we decided on a few more days’ delay ourselves—without, of course,
the contempt.”
Finally, in my e-mail, I received from Michael Moore’s mailing list, a letter to George Bush. Here is the text:
“Monday, March 17th, 2003George W. Bush
1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Washington, DCDear Governor Bush:
So today is what you call “the moment of truth,” the day that “France and the rest of world have to show their cards on the table.” I’m glad to hear that this day has finally arrived. Because, I gotta tell ya, having survived 440 days of your lying and conniving, I wasn’t sure if I could take much more. So I’m glad to hear that today is Truth Day, ‘cause I got a few truths I would like to share with you:
1. There is virtually NO ONE in America (talk radio nutters and Fox News aside) who is gung-ho to go to war. Trust me on this one. Walk out of the White House and on to any street in America and try to find five people who are PASSIONATE about wanting to kill Iraqis. YOU WON’T FIND THEM! Why? ‘Cause NO Iraqis have ever come here and killed any of us! No Iraqi has even threatened to do that. You see, this is how we average Americans think: If a certain so-and-so is not perceived as a threat to our lives, then, believe it or not, we don’t want to kill him! Funny how that works!
2. The majority of Americans—the ones who never elected you—are not fooled by your weapons of mass distraction. We know what the real issues are that affect our daily lives—and none of them begin with I or end in Q. Here’s what threatens us: two and a half million jobs lost since you took office, the stock market having become a cruel joke, no one knowing if their retirement funds are going to be there, gas now costs two dollars a gallon—the list goes on and on. Bombing Iraq will not make any of this go away. Only you need to go away for things to improve.
3. As Bill Maher said last week, how bad do you have to suck to lose a popularity contest with Saddam Hussein? The whole world is against you, Mr. Bush. Count your fellow Americans among them.
4. The Pope has said this war is wrong, that it is a SIN. The Pope! But even worse, the Dixie Chicks have now come out against you! How bad does it have to get before you realize that you are an army of one on this war? Of course, this is a war you personally won’t have to fight. Just like when you went AWOL while the poor were shipped to Vietnam in your place.
5. Of the 535 members of Congress, only ONE (Sen. Johnson of South Dakota) has an enlisted son or daughter in the armed forces! If you really want to stand up for America, please send your twin daughters over to Kuwait right now and let them don their chemical warfare suits. And let’s see every member of Congress with a child of military age also sacrifice their kids for this war effort. What’s that you say? You don’t THINK so? Well, hey, guess what—we don’t think so either!
6. Finally, we love France. Yes, they have pulled some royal screw-ups. Yes, some of them can be pretty #### annoying. But have you forgotten we wouldn’t even have this country known as America if it weren’t for the French? That it was their help in the Revolutionary War that won it for us? That it was France who gave us our Statue of Liberty, a Frenchman who built the Chevrolet, and a pair of French brothers who invented the movies? And now they are doing what only a good friend can do—tell you the truth about yourself, straight, no b.s. Quit pissing on the French and thank them for getting it right for once. You know, you really should have traveled more (like once) before you took over. Your ignorance of the world has not only made you look stupid, it has painted you into a corner you can’t get out of.
Well, cheer up—there IS good news. If you do go through with this war, more than likely it will be over soon because I’m guessing there aren’t a lot of Iraqis willing to lay down their lives to protect Saddam Hussein. After you “win” the war, you will enjoy a huge bump in the popularity polls as everyone loves a winner—and who doesn’t like to see a good ###-whoopin’ every now and then (especially when it ’s some third world ###!). And just like with Afghanistan, we’ll forget about what happens to a country after we bomb it ‘cause that is just too complex! So try your best to ride this victory all the way to next year’s election. Of course, that’s still a long ways away, so we’ll all get to have a good hardy-har-har while we watch the economy sink even further down the toilet!
But, hey, who knows—maybe you’ll find Osama a few days before the election! See, start thinking like THAT! Keep hope alive! Kill Iraqis—they got our oil!!
Yours,
Michael Moore
http://www.michaelmoore.com”
