Comments on: Destroyer of Worlds http://www.mahablog.com/2008/01/18/destroyer-of-worlds/ Exposing the ugly truths about the Bush Administration. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:54:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1.3 by: joel hanes http://www.mahablog.com/2008/01/18/destroyer-of-worlds/#comment-526453 Sun, 17 Feb 2008 05:34:53 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2008/01/18/destroyer-of-worlds/#comment-526453 Airborn is homeopathy, if I remember correctly. Might as well pray, or eat a sugar cube blessed by whoever's blessing you think works. Or thow the bones. Or kill a tortoise and roast its shell in the embers until the local shaman can read the cracks in the shell. Homeopathy is indistinguishable from superstition. "The bones tell me nothing" The High Aldwin, <em>Willow</em> Airborn is homeopathy, if I remember correctly.
Might as well pray, or eat a sugar cube blessed by whoever’s blessing you think works.
Or thow the bones.
Or kill a tortoise and roast its shell in the embers until the local shaman can read the cracks in the shell.
Homeopathy is indistinguishable from superstition.

“The bones tell me nothing”
The High Aldwin, Willow

]]> by: maha http://www.mahablog.com/2008/01/18/destroyer-of-worlds/#comment-524404 Sun, 20 Jan 2008 22:09:12 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2008/01/18/destroyer-of-worlds/#comment-524404 <i>People who ass-u-me that Hillary’s administration will be just like Bills are mistaken. </i> She's been a senator for seven years, and I'm not seeing a big departure from the past. <i>You and others will be surprised at what happens when Hillary is president.</i> Anything is possible. People who ass-u-me that Hillary’s administration will be just like Bills are mistaken.

She’s been a senator for seven years, and I’m not seeing a big departure from the past.

You and others will be surprised at what happens when Hillary is president.

Anything is possible.

]]> by: hettiemae http://www.mahablog.com/2008/01/18/destroyer-of-worlds/#comment-524390 Sun, 20 Jan 2008 19:23:08 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2008/01/18/destroyer-of-worlds/#comment-524390 People who ass-u-me that Hillary's administration will be just like Bills are mistaken. It is so sexist to make such comments. You write as if she is a clone of Bill. You and others will be surprised at what happens when Hillary is president. People who ass-u-me that Hillary’s administration will be just like Bills are mistaken. It is so sexist to make such comments. You write as if she is a clone of Bill. You and others will be surprised at what happens when Hillary is president.

]]> by: zozie http://www.mahablog.com/2008/01/18/destroyer-of-worlds/#comment-524375 Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:14:35 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2008/01/18/destroyer-of-worlds/#comment-524375 Interesting post. I am going to get me a Harper's. I am depressed by the trajectory of the nomination race into ill-tempered vaudeville while really big issues like this are seen as Yawns. Interesting post. I am going to get me a Harper’s. I am depressed by the trajectory of the nomination race into ill-tempered vaudeville while really big issues like this are seen as Yawns.

]]> by: D.R. Marvel http://www.mahablog.com/2008/01/18/destroyer-of-worlds/#comment-524371 Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:58:25 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2008/01/18/destroyer-of-worlds/#comment-524371 Ditch the drugs, Maha... Have a big bowl of Chicken Soup...With lots of pepper... And a cup of warm lemonaide w/honey for a chaser... Be back on your feet in no time... Ditch the drugs, Maha…

Have a big bowl of Chicken Soup…With lots of pepper…

And a cup of warm lemonaide w/honey for a chaser…

Be back on your feet in no time…

]]> by: c u n d gulag http://www.mahablog.com/2008/01/18/destroyer-of-worlds/#comment-524329 Sun, 20 Jan 2008 03:27:18 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2008/01/18/destroyer-of-worlds/#comment-524329 maha, Feel better :-) Try either Zicam or Airborn. They help. At least for me... maha,
Feel better :-)
Try either Zicam or Airborn. They help.
At least for me…

]]> by: maha http://www.mahablog.com/2008/01/18/destroyer-of-worlds/#comment-524326 Sun, 20 Jan 2008 02:46:46 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2008/01/18/destroyer-of-worlds/#comment-524326 <i>Why no talk of the attempted terrorist attack in Washington yesterday?</i> This is the first I've heard of it. Note that I don't do on-demand blogging. I have a bad cold and a fever and I'll update the blog when I damn well feel like it. Maha, grumpy Why no talk of the attempted terrorist attack in Washington yesterday?

This is the first I’ve heard of it. Note that I don’t do on-demand blogging. I have a bad cold and a fever and I’ll update the blog when I damn well feel like it.

Maha, grumpy

]]> by: uncledad http://www.mahablog.com/2008/01/18/destroyer-of-worlds/#comment-524321 Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:07:08 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2008/01/18/destroyer-of-worlds/#comment-524321 Lucy, Think of Hillary as the middle aged with a degree in early childhood development (with a history of abuse), I'd take my chances with the teenage nephew! Maha, Why no talk of the attempted terrorist attack in Washington yesterday? Let me get this straight: a middle aged man is arrested in Washington carrying a shotgun and a samurai sword, his truck is later found containing propane tanks with wires protruding from the glove box? Turns out this kook was some crazy white guy from Utah, could you imagine had this guy been of Arab decent? I would venture it would be the only thing the press would be discussing today "putting terrorism front and center in the election". But since it was a white dude? Lucy,

Think of Hillary as the middle aged with a degree in early childhood development (with a history of abuse), I’d take my chances with the teenage nephew!

Maha,

Why no talk of the attempted terrorist attack in Washington yesterday? Let me get this straight: a middle aged man is arrested in Washington carrying a shotgun and a samurai sword, his truck is later found containing propane tanks with wires protruding from the glove box? Turns out this kook was some crazy white guy from Utah, could you imagine had this guy been of Arab decent? I would venture it would be the only thing the press would be discussing today “putting terrorism front and center in the election”. But since it was a white dude?

]]> by: Mike Havenar http://www.mahablog.com/2008/01/18/destroyer-of-worlds/#comment-524315 Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:56:28 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2008/01/18/destroyer-of-worlds/#comment-524315 Wars will not cease and peace will not come until arms production is stopped and stockpiles of all weapons nuclear and conventional have been destroyed. No peace will arrrive unaccompanied by justice, nor last. The US, being the strongest, must start the process of disarmament by laying down first (more of) its arms, beginning with the nukes. Serious reductions to demonstrate sincerity. Then a world disarmament conference excluding no one should be called. Solutions and methods must be hashed out and agreed by consensus. Treaties designed with no "wiggle room," such as six-month withdrawal notices, must be codified into international law. We must have a strategy of "total world disarmament and permanent peace." This is not impossible. But it is impossible for as long as the production of deadly arms continues. We must stop it and re-direct and re-train the energies and talents of millions who work in the arms production process. They must set their considerable talents to the task of national re-building and providing the basic needs for the growing population of the planet. Our strategy must be larger than ending any one war or preventing the next; it must contain all tactics and plans and never deviate from it's overall goal of a permanent peace that will assure the progress of humanity and not its demise. Thanks, Mike Havenar Wars will not cease and peace will not come until arms production is stopped and stockpiles of all weapons nuclear and conventional have been destroyed. No peace will arrrive unaccompanied by justice, nor last. The US, being the strongest, must start the process of disarmament by laying down first (more of) its arms, beginning with the nukes. Serious reductions to demonstrate sincerity. Then a world disarmament conference excluding no one should be called. Solutions and methods must be hashed out and agreed by consensus. Treaties designed with no “wiggle room,” such as six-month withdrawal notices, must be codified into international law. We must have a strategy of “total world disarmament and permanent peace.” This is not impossible. But it is impossible for as long as the production of deadly arms continues. We must stop it and re-direct and re-train the energies and talents of millions who work in the arms production process. They must set their considerable talents to the task of national re-building and providing the basic needs for the growing population of the planet. Our strategy must be larger than ending any one war or preventing the next; it must contain all tactics and plans and never deviate from it’s overall goal of a permanent peace that will assure the progress of humanity and not its demise. Thanks, Mike Havenar

]]> by: Frank Wilhoit http://www.mahablog.com/2008/01/18/destroyer-of-worlds/#comment-524308 Sat, 19 Jan 2008 20:01:15 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2008/01/18/destroyer-of-worlds/#comment-524308 Containing the proliferation of nuclear weapons and restricting the membership of the nuclear "club" is all about taking the nuclear option off the table. The bar to first use is MUCH lower if rogue states such as North Korea have weapons; lower still if non-state actors can be plausibly alleged to possess them. Insofar as there is any element of genuine strategy (as opposed to pure posturing) in the neocon approach, it depends upon reducing the predictablility of any U. S. response to any situation. The Cold-War style of proliferation governance does not fit with that. Containing the proliferation of nuclear weapons and restricting the membership of the nuclear “club” is all about taking the nuclear option off the table. The bar to first use is MUCH lower if rogue states such as North Korea have weapons; lower still if non-state actors can be plausibly alleged to possess them. Insofar as there is any element of genuine strategy (as opposed to pure posturing) in the neocon approach, it depends upon reducing the predictablility of any U. S. response to any situation. The Cold-War style of proliferation governance does not fit with that.

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