Max: Brain Dump 1010
I slept late. I could have gotten up a little before 7:00 as I have been doing. But I told myself that I was going to be up late so I should sleep late. The problem is that it only takes one day to mess up my schedule and it can take several to get back on track. I have Taiko tomorrow. I could get up at the same time tomorrow as today and make my class on time. Or I could get up a bit before 7 and let Taiko be my pseudo-caffiene. I think that is what I will do.
I wonder if I succeeded in giving my last Brain Dump an illusion of coherance. It bounced from subject to subject as all but one of my Brain Dumps have. But I tried to give all the bits and pieces a common theme, a study in my geekness. It was an easy theme as I am an incurable geek. I have the ability to lend even the ungeekest of activites an air of geek, even manual labor. My father-in-law and I tore down the attached garage to make room for the addition we are putting on. Whenever I knocked down something big that made a loud, pretty crashing sound as it hit the ground, I would yell out, "Yeah, bitch! Ph34r //y 1337 skillz!" Okay, I didn't always yell it out. But I thought it.
Writing this is pretty much the first thing I am doing today aside from showering, peeing and taking the various pills that keep me from melting into a pile of goo. The only thing that I have done between the last Brain Dump and this is sleep. I didn't even have any particularly interesting dreams, so this one is slow going. I keep hitting my various news feed in the hope of finding something to rant about.
One item that sticks out is how the Republicans now have Osama bin Laden campaigning for them. The R's have found a new best friend in the enemy of all infidels. The Beeb have coverage and the new ad here. The last time I checked, the basic definition of terrorism is scaring people into giving in to your ideas whether they agree with them or not. The last time I checked the polls, Shrub had an approval rate of about 33% and Congressional Republicans were at an unheard of low of %16. Based on that, I would say most Americans do not agree with current R policy. My sense of this ad, which features well-known terrorists and quotes about how much they want to attack us is that it is intended to indicate that we are in danger, that we should be scared. So, Shrub and the R's are trying to scare voters into voting for the R's despite voters' disagreement with the R's policies. I will leave it to you to notice the obvious.
The R's have gotten us into a needless war. They have shit on the Constitution, burning our freedoms to save them. All they have left is fear. Vote for us or everybody dies. I am sick of all the fear mongering. I am sick of the fucking seige mentallity when there is no one actually outside of the walls. Terrorism will happen. It could be from an Islamist, it could come from an ultra-right freak like Timoty McViegh. I am all for trying to prevent it by all legal and Constitutional means. But it will happen. Our greatest defense is courage. We need to have the courage to not be terrorized by the attacks and we need to courage to retaliate against only those responsible rather than raging and stomping around like a blind, enraged giant. We need to make it clear to every would-be terrorist out there that nothing will make us abandon our Constitution or our freedoms, that no attack will ever bring this nation to its knees. They can't destroy us on their own so it is their hope that they can terrorize us into self-destruction. We must make it clear that there is not enough terror in the world to make us do that. There is no doubt in my mind that the first step in this is to repudiate the R's and their fear-mongering while making it clear to the Dems that if they don't do better they too will be kicked out come 2008.
On to North Korea. I am not a military expert by any means, but I have an idea on how to deal with them. I say we enourage China, with the tacit approval of the UN security council, to annex North Korea. There is no doubt that China is a major military power and that NK is a shambles. China should simply send in a few hundred thousand "peace keepers" with orders to maintain the security of their good friends in NK. The current NK government will stay ostensibly in place but China would run the show and Kim would be left with no doubt that from then on he doesn't take a shit without permission from Bejing. The main problem with this plan is likely to be South Korea. They would still like to make Korea whole again. But I think this might be gotten around by simply opening the borders. Anyone who is Korean will be free to move between the North and South. It may not be exactly what the South wants, but it will be a major improvement over what they have now.
Damn. Now I want Chinese. That General Tso (Cho, Goa, whatever) made some damn fine chicken. It was Jericho who introduced me to the good General. When he first told me about this wonderful dish, and for some time after, he refered to it as "general chicken". We both found this name to be amusing and puzzling. How exactly was it general? Did the recipe call for non-specific chicken parts? "We don't care what you put in as long as it used to be part of a chicken." Eventually I learned the proper name. Or I should say I started learning the many proper names. They really need to settle on one name. The last few times Laura got us Chinese, she ended up calling me.
"They don't have General Cho's chicken," she would say.
"They have it."
"It's not on the menu."
"Look at the menu. Does it have a dish with "General" and "chicken" in the name?"
"Yes, but it isn't General Cho's, it is General [Tso's, Goa's, etc]."
"That's it."
"Are you sure? You asked for General Cho's. I don't want you to be mad at me if it is the wrong thing."
"Trust me."
Etc.
Maybe Jericho had it right. Just call it "General Chicken".
I wonder if I succeeded in giving my last Brain Dump an illusion of coherance. It bounced from subject to subject as all but one of my Brain Dumps have. But I tried to give all the bits and pieces a common theme, a study in my geekness. It was an easy theme as I am an incurable geek. I have the ability to lend even the ungeekest of activites an air of geek, even manual labor. My father-in-law and I tore down the attached garage to make room for the addition we are putting on. Whenever I knocked down something big that made a loud, pretty crashing sound as it hit the ground, I would yell out, "Yeah, bitch! Ph34r //y 1337 skillz!" Okay, I didn't always yell it out. But I thought it.
Writing this is pretty much the first thing I am doing today aside from showering, peeing and taking the various pills that keep me from melting into a pile of goo. The only thing that I have done between the last Brain Dump and this is sleep. I didn't even have any particularly interesting dreams, so this one is slow going. I keep hitting my various news feed in the hope of finding something to rant about.
One item that sticks out is how the Republicans now have Osama bin Laden campaigning for them. The R's have found a new best friend in the enemy of all infidels. The Beeb have coverage and the new ad here. The last time I checked, the basic definition of terrorism is scaring people into giving in to your ideas whether they agree with them or not. The last time I checked the polls, Shrub had an approval rate of about 33% and Congressional Republicans were at an unheard of low of %16. Based on that, I would say most Americans do not agree with current R policy. My sense of this ad, which features well-known terrorists and quotes about how much they want to attack us is that it is intended to indicate that we are in danger, that we should be scared. So, Shrub and the R's are trying to scare voters into voting for the R's despite voters' disagreement with the R's policies. I will leave it to you to notice the obvious.
The R's have gotten us into a needless war. They have shit on the Constitution, burning our freedoms to save them. All they have left is fear. Vote for us or everybody dies. I am sick of all the fear mongering. I am sick of the fucking seige mentallity when there is no one actually outside of the walls. Terrorism will happen. It could be from an Islamist, it could come from an ultra-right freak like Timoty McViegh. I am all for trying to prevent it by all legal and Constitutional means. But it will happen. Our greatest defense is courage. We need to have the courage to not be terrorized by the attacks and we need to courage to retaliate against only those responsible rather than raging and stomping around like a blind, enraged giant. We need to make it clear to every would-be terrorist out there that nothing will make us abandon our Constitution or our freedoms, that no attack will ever bring this nation to its knees. They can't destroy us on their own so it is their hope that they can terrorize us into self-destruction. We must make it clear that there is not enough terror in the world to make us do that. There is no doubt in my mind that the first step in this is to repudiate the R's and their fear-mongering while making it clear to the Dems that if they don't do better they too will be kicked out come 2008.
On to North Korea. I am not a military expert by any means, but I have an idea on how to deal with them. I say we enourage China, with the tacit approval of the UN security council, to annex North Korea. There is no doubt that China is a major military power and that NK is a shambles. China should simply send in a few hundred thousand "peace keepers" with orders to maintain the security of their good friends in NK. The current NK government will stay ostensibly in place but China would run the show and Kim would be left with no doubt that from then on he doesn't take a shit without permission from Bejing. The main problem with this plan is likely to be South Korea. They would still like to make Korea whole again. But I think this might be gotten around by simply opening the borders. Anyone who is Korean will be free to move between the North and South. It may not be exactly what the South wants, but it will be a major improvement over what they have now.
Damn. Now I want Chinese. That General Tso (Cho, Goa, whatever) made some damn fine chicken. It was Jericho who introduced me to the good General. When he first told me about this wonderful dish, and for some time after, he refered to it as "general chicken". We both found this name to be amusing and puzzling. How exactly was it general? Did the recipe call for non-specific chicken parts? "We don't care what you put in as long as it used to be part of a chicken." Eventually I learned the proper name. Or I should say I started learning the many proper names. They really need to settle on one name. The last few times Laura got us Chinese, she ended up calling me.
"They don't have General Cho's chicken," she would say.
"They have it."
"It's not on the menu."
"Look at the menu. Does it have a dish with "General" and "chicken" in the name?"
"Yes, but it isn't General Cho's, it is General [Tso's, Goa's, etc]."
"That's it."
"Are you sure? You asked for General Cho's. I don't want you to be mad at me if it is the wrong thing."
"Trust me."
Etc.
Maybe Jericho had it right. Just call it "General Chicken".
posted by Max Dobberstein at 10/21/2006 10:04:00 AM
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