what are we going to write about after the war is over?

HenryMc · April-5th-2003, 04:33 PM

Uh...um....

here are some suggestions?

funny shapes of jello moulds

boner shaped jello moulds

republican auto-eroticism - that's if you can imagine republican's having sex?

democrat auto-eroticism - the converse of above

worst seventies prog rock

a sit com based on Henry Mars and Monte Smith moving into together called 'the Odd Couple' ....where they have wonderful hi jinx ....no wait that's been done ..we'll have to call it 'Harold and Maude' ....oh damn!

a return to old familiar themes ....like retsin....or pie

10 reasons why all posters on this board are the sexiest people on earth

Is self delusion good or bad?

10 best boners in jazz

Just some suggestions I'm sure I'll be entertained anyway

patricia · April-5th-2003, 07:40 PM

Well, Henry, I hope, for a while, we will write about things other than whether or not we feel that war is the best way to achieve peace. I hope that patriotism will not be measured by how willing we are to bring death and destruction to another country under the guise of liberating them and bringing democracy to them, whether they ask for it or not. I hope that we will see that other cultures will never be like ours, because they ARE other cultures and that change, if and when it comes, must come from within. I hope that we will realize that tyranny is tyranny, whatever it calls itself.

April-5th-2003, 08:04 PM

I'm afraid there will be plenty of disturbing things to write about. This assault/invasion of Iraq is just the beginning, I think. It is already generating veryt angry and determined enemies of the U.S. in other countries, and if Bush and the rest of his un-American regime think that bags of rice and pots of water are going to make the people in this region forget what the U.S. has done to them, he is more naïve than I thought. They are alsready talking about aiming their guns at Jordan. because--get this--they now think that's where Iraq's weapons of mass destruction are. This is like a farce and it would be funny if it wasn't so serious. I can see them attacking Jordan, not finding the WMDs, and then deciding that they have been moved to another country.

It is insanity, and I would not be surprised if Iran gets into this--Jordan will truly be a cakewalk, as these fools like to call it, but Iran is better equipped. Then, of course, there is North Korea.

Is anybody here so out of touch that they think conquering Iraq is going to end Bush the Hun's quest for power? Now they are fighting amongst themselves, trying to determine who will be installed to rule over the spoils in Iraq. Rumsfeld apparently wants a former CIA director there--can you imagine how that will sit with the people in the region? Powell, ir seems, also has his eyes on the job. This is all beyond a summer movie scenario.

Tanager · April-5th-2003, 08:14 PM

Worst 70s prog-rock gets my vote. Very fertile ground for discussion. I'm trying to boycott any more war threads (how many new ones got started today, holy cow).

April-5th-2003, 08:24 PM

If only it was that simple, Tanager.

GoodSpeak · April-5th-2003, 08:42 PM

Death.

We will write about death.

The death of free choice, the death of soverignty, the death of American social superiority world wide, the death of self rule, the death of acceptance of Americans, the death of Democracy...here, and IN the United States.

All Hail the American republican Guard!

All hail The Thousand Year Bush/GOP Reich.

[Zieg!] HIEL!

[Zieg!] HIEL!!

[Zeig!] HIEL!!!

Tanager · April-5th-2003, 09:34 PM

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Originally posted by Chris A
If only it was that simple, Tanager.

And why is it not that simple? Do you mean that I'm morally obligated to participate in war threads?

April-5th-2003, 10:08 PM

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Originally posted by Tanager
And why is it not that simple? Do you mean that I'm morally obligated to participate in war threads?

Of course not--you can write about rock music, toe nails, Yugoslavian beastiality, homemade wine highs, anything you wish. Many of us--and I bet you'll join in--will undoubtedly find ourselves writing about further Bush atrocities, an economy gone down the drain, etc.

GoodSpeak · April-5th-2003, 10:33 PM

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Originally posted by Tanager
And why is it not that simple? Do you mean that I'm morally obligated to participate in war threads?

Nah.

Only if you actually give a damn.

Dr Dave · April-5th-2003, 11:45 PM

Post-war thread subjects:

1. Corruption, Political
2. Corruption, Economic
3. Public Figures, Venality of
4. Debt, National
5. Enemies, National, of U.S.
6. Enemies, Individual, of U.S.
7. Paranoia, National
8. Wealth, increase of among the wealthy
9. Wealth, decrease among the poor
10. Bad Behavior, Individual, remedies for:
a. Republican
b. Democratic
c. Libertarian

Not to mention rodents, pie, '70s music, reading habits, alcoholic beverages, religious beliefs, fetishes, etc.

Tanager · April-6th-2003, 07:47 AM

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Originally posted by GoodSpeak
Nah.

Only if you actually give a damn.

Gimme a break and don't be so superior, Goodie. I can certainly give a damn and not participate in another war thread. As Chris notes, I might be drawn in regardless, but my concern (and that of anyone else) can't be measured by my involvement in JC threads.

Now surely someone wants to dissect the Kansas discography?

Gary Sisco · April-6th-2003, 09:36 AM

what will we talk about?

The next war.

shrugs · April-6th-2003, 10:10 AM

finding a Democrat that actually has a chance(and a sack)?

Gary Sisco · April-6th-2003, 11:01 AM

I don't care next time out if they put up a chimp. I'm voting for it.

patricia · April-6th-2003, 11:43 AM

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Originally posted by Gary Sisco
I don't care next time out if they put up a chimp. I'm voting for it.

Isn't that what the Republicans did in 2000??

Dr Dave · April-6th-2003, 11:55 AM

I am reminded of an old Harvard Lampoon (I believe this was pre-National Lampoon) comedy record in which a Pontiac Grand Prix beats Richard Nixon.

patricia · April-6th-2003, 12:08 PM

Dr Dave,
I thought I'd seen the most ridiculous win when John Ashcroft was defeated by a dead guy, but............ maybe not.

HenryMc · February-28th-2007, 07:44 PM

I guess we havent had to bother ........the war in iraq is like Johnnie Walker .....born 2002 ...still going strong

Gentle Giant · February-28th-2007, 10:19 PM

Not only that, but Al-Qaeda just targeted Cheney, so we have to invade Iraq all over again.

Gulf War III couldn't be worse than Godfather III, could it?

Could it?

patricia · February-28th-2007, 10:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Gentle Giant

Not only that, but Al-Qaeda just targeted Cheney, so we have to invade Iraq all over again.

Gulf War III couldn't be worse than Godfather III, could it?

Could it?

I thought, up until now, that nothing could be worse than Godfather III. I was wrong.

kenny weir · February-28th-2007, 10:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Gentle Giant

Not only that, but Al-Qaeda just targeted Cheney, so we have to invade Iraq all over again.

Gulf War III couldn't be worse than Godfather III, could it?

Could it?

According to Seymour Hersch, Cheney and Co are back in bed with al-Qaeda's Sunni/Saudi sponsored fellow travellers as a bulwork against the Iran genie they've let out of the bottle. More than ever al-Qaeda seems like an all-purpose bogey man phrase that can mean anything, everything and nothing at all, depending on who's using it. Hard to know through all that BS just what substance the term actually has.

HenryMc · February-28th-2007, 11:34 PM

Come on down to Al Qaeda's house of missiles. Ex GI armaments at affordable prices for the discerning 'terrist' (sic). The first 10 customers to mention Ossy Binladen get 10% discount!

Scott Dolan · February-28th-2007, 11:43 PM

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Originally Posted by kenny weir

According to Seymour Hersch, Cheney and Co are back in bed with al-Qaeda's Sunni/Saudi sponsored fellow travellers as a bulwork against the Iran genie they've let out of the bottle.

Of course they are.

But in a strange twist, they have to "surge" against the Iranian influence that they also helped strengthened.

Try to do the math on THAT one.

kenny weir · February-28th-2007, 11:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Scott Dolan

Try to do the math on THAT one.

It's fucking crazy. My brain hurts. And as I've said elsewhere, it's so preposterous and simply unbelievable that the media has run with "plans to bomb Iran within 24 hours" angle, missing the more interesting and bigger aspects of Hersch's report. Sheeit. If any leftie - or rightie for that matter - came up with the contents of Hersch's NYorker report, they'd be roundly lampooned as a nutjob.

Scott Dolan · March-1st-2007, 12:08 AM

So the media has dropped the ball?

In what way?

Earlier tonight I was listening to On Point, from WBUR out of Boston (the coolest city in the U.S.!!) where Michael Gordon was being taken to task for being a conduit for the government and not being skeptical enough in his reporting for the NYT.

So what are you seeing over there, Kenny?

kenny weir · March-1st-2007, 12:17 AM

Scott, I read every word of the Hersch piece earlier in the week. My impression is that more of the substance of his earlier bombshells have been picked up by the mainstream media, here and elsewhere. Here, my usual sources for analysis and news, Melbourne's The Age and the national The Australian, have - AFAIK - not mentioned the Saudi/Sunni/Lebanon/fundamentalist funding aspects at all.

I'm such a disgusted cynic that I do believe, yes, the media has dropped the ball and that it may be because these aspects of story are simply too breathtakingly outrageous to cover.

Even if, as you say, there is a kind of warped logic there.

The Saudis and Prince Bandar are up to their necks in it, which for the Amnerican people in general might justifably smack of loony left scaremongering. I mean, it just couldn't be, could it?

(Apologies for the hijack, Henry!)

Dr Dave · March-1st-2007, 08:47 AM

In your incredulity over developments in Iraq and Iran, it helps to remember that the true hallmark of the Bush Administration isn't wishful thinking, or secrecy, or expediency. It is sheer, unadulaterated, mind-bending incompetence.

Gary Sisco · March-1st-2007, 10:05 AM

and stupidity.

When is the war going to be over? They've been getting some killing done somewhere for every minute of my 53 years.

I can't for the life of me understand how Americans have come to view themselves as an unwarlike people.

Weizen · March-1st-2007, 10:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Gary Sisco

I can't for the life of me understand how Americans have come to view themselves as an unwarlike people.

A pox on all those people!!

.....they'll never get near my War-Is-The-Father-Of-All Things Fan Clubhouse here in Nietzscheville, VA.

Scott Dolan · March-1st-2007, 10:23 AM

I've never heard an American call themself "unwarlike". And aside from Gary's general disdain for human beings, I'm not really sure what he's talking about.