Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right.

[cyrano]

It's this kind of hypocritical bullshit that makes me absolutely livid and vey very glad that I don't own a gun.

Boxed up the departing vinyl (Did not find the Danny Kaye album, mom--looks like I don't have it) and video tapes and cassette tapes. Getting ready to go fetch office chairs. Sort of productive day. But from the amount of work and anxiety and fussing it seems like damn little's actually done.

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[batratblue.livejournal.com]

For the life of me, I can't tell which side you're on by your pointing at this article. Are you one of the people who feels it represents truth and reality, and are posturing that if you had a gun you'd use it in some attempt at 'punishing' the 'system'?

I find this more likely than not, because I think if you had the patience to go through and deconstruct the article's flaws and inaccuracies, you probably wouldn't be the sort who was impatient and anger-driven enough to make such a fist-waving and aggressive pronouncement implying an attack on the article's writer.

Either way, well, I'm glad you don't own a gun. Their possession mandates an element of responsibility that isn't implied by either of the above potential situations.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Hell, I barely manage the responsibility in driving an automobile at 65 mph. I'm sure not ready to manage something more damage oriented.
So did we know, going in, that there was no real worry about biological chemical or nuclear weapons? If so, what was the rush to invade? Did we honestly think that what Iraqi people wanted was to have a democracy installed for them sometime in the next five years and to have their country used as a base of operations for further democratization of the region?
And what I'm posturing is that I'm misanthropic enough that if I had a gun there would be days when I'd be strongly tempted to use it. I don't have any delusions that the system would actually care if I tried to 'punish' it. It would roll over me and keep going, like an Israeli tank.