US AIRSTRIKE KILLS AT LEAST 18 CHILDREN

[knip]

sound off?


i don't think i've ever sounded off...i've displayed my opinions and why i believe them, but i don't think i've ever called you delusional for not agreeing with my opinions


that's a pretty basic level, by the way

[jimboloco]

That's true, I admit.
I had to say it though.

It was a sounding off, I confess, why I called it all a bittersweet teatime.

I wanna leave off with this now, it seems that we are at an impasse.

Hope you are getting a bit of Indian summer.
Hope the Iraqi's will find a WAY and that we will not have to continue to sacrifice young people for this war.
When I said that I "don't think you feel deeply enough," I am not saying that you are bereft of feelings. I am saying that if you ever get to the point where you become outraged, then you may start to examine your belief structure. And you may see into the need to find alternatives to mass warfare propagated by my country.

yes it is a pretty basic level, indeed. i know.i wanted to touch you in that way. It seems I have done so, an modest infliction of intent.
may i be well and happy
may you be well and happy.
may our studio eight friends be well and happy.
coming up again from the abyss.
i can see the peace of the plateau, the great open spaces.
when the buffalo return to the plains,
we shall share in the great hoop and
light our candles in silent reflection and
dare to hope, dare to have courage,
dare to celebrate in resilience and sincerity.

[mnaz]

Sometimes I think the only way to figure this thing is by how it feels. And to me, it never has felt right. Time will tell, as it does in every bloody war throughout history.

[jimboloco]

Blessed is the man who is wounded and heals.

It is really incredible, what I just went through. I was descending into a dark mood and I caught your wave, wow, I mean I really got to express myself with a liberal range of acceptability, and yet, we knew that we had limits, and so I was inspired, no doubt, and thanks to you all and my own inherent resilience, I am back on the plateau wandering the great plains once again, until the next descent. Reach out and tough someone. I was conscious about sounding off. It was inspired by deeply felt emotions from direct experience, a karmic resonance with the anger and suffering of war as well as my education into the military-populist genre, but alas I rebelled, not without cause. Bows.

[stilltrucking]

Knip I bet a dollar to a donut that your eyes are brown.

[knip]

?

you owe me a dollar

[stilltrucking]

Is that two dollars Canadian?

Any day now our dollars are going to be like pesos compared to yours.

[Zlatko Waterman]

Still:


Good to see your post. Some of the StudioEight regulars were a tad worried about you. But I don't speak for them. They can certainly do that for themselves.

You're a good cyber-friend with powerful ideas , imagination and intellectual curiosity.

I missed you.



--Z

[knip]

thank you very much, zlatko






i, too, enjoy s/t's posts...even when he's wrong


another





forgive me, i quit smoking today...i need to fill the time

[stilltrucking]

Chorus:
G D
Daniel, Daniel and the sacred harp,
C G
Dancing through the clover.
C Bm
Daniel, Daniel would you mind,
D7 G
If I look it over.

Knip
It is not that we disagree, it is that you are a foreigner. Not to sound xenophobic but you just don't feel our pain. Why should you? Not your fault you are a goyim and not one of the chosen few that were born in the USA
Hester made a good point. I am bored, I am nauseated by this intellectual crap about stay or leave. It is irrelevant. What matters is that we have a regime change in the good old USSR. Until then it will be more of the same. Makes you wish you were Iranian, don't it? Everything is coming up Roses for Iran. I expect Bush to recieve that nations highest honor any day now. Clark the guy who blew the whistle on the CIA and 9/11 has a new novel called the Scorpion Gate. He paints a pretty picture of the next few years. After Bin Ladin takes over SA.
USAhttp://gloriousbastard.dailykos.com/story/2005/10/23/17658/355

It's 2010, and the newly established Republic of Islamyah;the former Saudi Arabia;is trying to destabilize Bahrain: the Diplomat Hotel has been bombed, and, as the first chapter of this intense debut thriller closes, the Crowne Plaza is "pancaking." Meanwhile, the deposed House of Saud is holed up in Houston; the Chinese are providing arms and training to Islamyah; the Iranians have the bomb. Secretary of Defense Henry Conrad thinks the time is ripe to invade Islamyah and seize its oil, for which the U.S. is locked in deadly competition with China. Cooler heads in the U.S. (and British) hierarchies are very, very alarmed.

...

The writing's nothing special; what is special is Clarke's passionate and deftly detailed version of the present, albeit one told in terms of its consequences.

Professor Z
I thank you for the flowers. (kind words)

[jimboloco]

Oh what a lovely war. 35 years ago i was flying monsoon and ducking mortars in the Nam. It is refreshing to know we still have leadersd and troops who are bound by duty, God and country.

I give up. You win. BOWS.

I will endeavor to be less emotional inthe future as I know we will win converts by reason and a lack of emotional excess.

[knip]

a foreigner


chuckles...you sound like the bushies




i'm either with you or against you


apparently





but smiles all around...i'm at peace knowing i stayed, or at least, tried to stay on topic

[stilltrucking]

I will endeavor to be less emotional inthe future as I know we will win converts by reason and a lack of emotional excess.

Just so we stay on message. I mean topic.
Pardon me if I sound like a bushie.

i'm either with you or against you


apparently

is that what I said?

[knip]

that's pretty much what i've been feeling, yes

[stilltrucking]

What I am saying is that as an american (small a) I feel responsible for the killings, for the suffering. Canada does not have the blood on her hands. Unless the Bush administration implodes in some scandal it will be business as usual until 2008. It seems pointless to discuss total withdrawal or phased withdrawal. It seems more helpful to discuss what we can do as individuals to end the madness. Boxer had the integrity to vote against the war, which seems like a good sign to me. I heard the phrase suicidal state craft the other day. I think it is from Toynbee. I think it describes the situation in the US pretty well.

We will always need warriors, it is just war that we cannot afford anymore. We as a species have just got too got dam good at it.

peace and friendship
jack