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FurnaceBoy | schestowitz: Globe and Mail also giving voice to Blair | Sep 12 01:13 |
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FurnaceBoy | schestowitz: saw it today | Sep 12 01:13 |
FurnaceBoy | schestowitz: i tweeted the guardian story a couple of days ago | Sep 12 01:13 |
FurnaceBoy | schestowitz: it's hit mainstream media here | Sep 12 01:13 |
FurnaceBoy | schestowitz: "Britain’s former PM is still struggling with his conscience over the invasion of Iraq" | Sep 12 01:19 |
FurnaceBoy | like hell | Sep 12 01:19 |
FurnaceBoy | "Unless, of course, you’re among the legions (more so in Britain than on this side of the pond) who subscribe to the Phony Tony depiction of Blair. If so, the pain you feel reading this book will be entirely your own." | Sep 12 01:21 |
FurnaceBoy | "But you cannot help but commiserate, for this is a man (unlike some other world leaders) who has clearly grappled with his conscience." | Sep 12 01:21 |
FurnaceBoy | no, I wouldn't commiserate even if he were in jail for the rest of his life. | Sep 12 01:22 |
FurnaceBoy | "Blair admits that he would have been “bewildered and horrified” if, in 1997, someone had told him he would lead his country into four wars as prime minister." | Sep 12 01:22 |
FurnaceBoy | 'subscribe to the Phony Tony depiction of Blair.' ??? | Sep 12 01:32 |
FurnaceBoy | it's a *depiction* | Sep 12 01:32 |
FurnaceBoy | ahhhh | Sep 12 01:32 |
FurnaceBoy | just a cruel political cartoon | Sep 12 01:32 |
schestowitz | Dem playa hataz' ☹ | Sep 12 01:41 |
FurnaceBoy | who would be so cruel as to depict the Peace Envoy like this??? | Sep 12 01:43 |
FurnaceBoy | it undermines his mission... | Sep 12 01:43 |
FurnaceBoy | and upsets him... | Sep 12 01:43 |
FurnaceBoy | it's like those people who throw food at him | Sep 12 01:44 |
schestowitz | They do? | Sep 12 01:45 |
schestowitz | Iraq needs the food | Sep 12 01:45 |
FurnaceBoy | yes, eggs and tomatoes and such. | Sep 12 01:45 |
FurnaceBoy | 'protesters' | Sep 12 01:45 |
FurnaceBoy | i.e. crazy people | Sep 12 01:46 |
FurnaceBoy | arrest them | Sep 12 01:46 |
schestowitz | Pelting eggs is not effective | Sep 12 01:46 |
schestowitz | it's what a villager might do | Sep 12 01:46 |
schestowitz | They have cyber means now for protest | Sep 12 01:46 |
FurnaceBoy | waste of good eggs, it's true | Sep 12 01:47 |
FurnaceBoy | better off frying Tony | Sep 12 01:47 |
schestowitz | No | Sep 12 01:48 |
schestowitz | Bring to justice | Sep 12 01:48 |
schestowitz | To redo history records | Sep 12 01:48 |
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FurnaceBoy | a metaphorical frying, then | Sep 12 02:30 |
FurnaceBoy | a grilling | Sep 12 03:30 |
FurnaceBoy | not Chilcott sycophancy... even then he was given the pulpit to put forward his version | Sep 12 03:31 |
FurnaceBoy | ask any criminal whether his motives were pure | Sep 12 03:31 |
FurnaceBoy | schestowitz | Pelting eggs is not effective | Sep 12 03:32 |
FurnaceBoy | ^^ it comes from powerlessness | Sep 12 03:32 |
FurnaceBoy | we can't get the authorities to look properly at iraq and blair | Sep 12 03:32 |
FurnaceBoy | not in uk, not in usa, nowhere | Sep 12 03:32 |
oiaohm | Notice with the Funeral perade no android. schestowitz | Sep 12 03:35 |
FurnaceBoy | schestowitz: http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2010/09/the-neurobiology-of-evil.html | Sep 12 03:39 |
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schestowitz | oiaohm: hi | Sep 12 08:30 |
schestowitz | Yes, I know about the mock funeral | Sep 12 08:30 |
schestowitz | But... | Sep 12 08:30 |
schestowitz | It would help Microsoft if I just drew attention to it. I wait for good rebuttals first. | Sep 12 08:30 |
oiaohm | Its what they are doing a funeral of. | Sep 12 09:18 |
oiaohm | They are putting closed source to rest. | Sep 12 09:18 |
oiaohm | And they are as closed source attending. | Sep 12 09:19 |
oiaohm | Stunt of a Mock Funeral also could be last waste of funds before they die. schestowitz | Sep 12 09:20 |
oiaohm | Its also Microsoft showing of there means not to spend advertising funding correctly. | Sep 12 09:20 |
schestowitz | They alienate people | Sep 12 09:52 |
schestowitz | hypePhone users won't defect to Vista Phone 7 if Microsoft does this insulting thing | Sep 12 09:52 |
schestowitz | http://www.dailytech.com/Hades+Freezes+Over+Duke+Nukem+Forever+Makes+Comeback/article19544.htm | Sep 12 10:38 |
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schestowitz | http://edition.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/09/05/craigslist.censored/ | Sep 12 10:40 |
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schestowitz | "Online classified service Craigslist's decision to censor its adult services section is a "good step but a continuing battle has to be fought," a leader in the fight against prostitution ads said on Sunday." | Sep 12 10:40 |
schestowitz | CNN plays along with the Feds | Sep 12 10:40 |
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schestowitz | http://openin.org/ | Sep 12 11:32 |
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schestowitz | RMS to someone: " | Sep 12 12:30 |
schestowitz | Arguing with Schlesinger the way you've been doing is at best a waste | Sep 12 12:30 |
schestowitz | of time, and if you aren't careful you can say something that gives | Sep 12 12:30 |
schestowitz | him a lever against you. You really should not do so. | Sep 12 12:30 |
schestowitz | " | Sep 12 12:30 |
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schestowitz | oiaohm: http://www.reelseo.com/vlc-player-ipad/ | Sep 12 14:31 |
TechrightsBot-sc | Title: VideoLAN’s VLC Player App To Show Up On iPad? It Depends On Apple’s Approval .::. Size~: 57.44 KB | Sep 12 14:31 |
schestowitz | Not for sure | Sep 12 14:31 |
schestowitz | GPL IIRC | Sep 12 14:31 |
oiaohm | It would be strange for VideoLAN to use anything bar GPL something. | Sep 12 14:37 |
oiaohm | Every lib/applications they make is either under GPL or LGPL | Sep 12 14:37 |
schestowitz | What licence was VLC? | Sep 12 14:51 |
schestowitz | I could not recall for sure | Sep 12 14:51 |
schestowitz | I once read it | Sep 12 14:51 |
schestowitz | But I could be confused with another player's licence | Sep 12 14:52 |
schestowitz | http://thebeezspeaks.blogspot.com/2010/09/real-life-windows-xp.html | Sep 12 14:55 |
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oiaohm | VLC pure GPL some of the libs under it are LGPL. | Sep 12 14:58 |
oiaohm | Most of the VLC libs are pure GPL as well schestowitz | Sep 12 15:00 |
schestowitz | That's what I remembered from The H | Sep 12 15:02 |
schestowitz | The funny LGPL bit | Sep 12 15:02 |
oiaohm | Also applidium who has done the ipad port is not videolan | Sep 12 15:02 |
oiaohm | So most likely stuck to GPL only. | Sep 12 15:03 |
schestowitz | Ender2070: | Sep 12 15:22 |
schestowitz | Schlesinger and some of the involved | Sep 12 15:22 |
schestowitz | people seem like a dangerous neighbourhood. The best thing to do is | Sep 12 15:22 |
schestowitz | ignore it. | Sep 12 15:22 |
schestowitz | oiaohm: yeah | Sep 12 15:22 |
schestowitz | oiaohm: VLC was never very Linux-oriented, was it? | Sep 12 15:22 |
oiaohm | VLC always had a Linux version. | Sep 12 15:26 |
oiaohm | But its always been cross platform as well. | Sep 12 15:26 |
schestowitz | Yeah | Sep 12 15:35 |
schestowitz | Was it always FOSS? | Sep 12 15:35 |
schestowitz | What were its roots? | Sep 12 15:36 |
oiaohm | It was always FOSS | Sep 12 15:38 |
oiaohm | Some of its roots is DVD playback on Linux. | Sep 12 15:39 |
oiaohm | Ok other than the 2 years it was a student project. schestowitz | Sep 12 15:40 |
oiaohm | First 2 years of Videolan it was a student project. | Sep 12 15:41 |
oiaohm | 2001 it offically left educiation. 2009 it offically came a stand alone entity. | Sep 12 15:43 |
oiaohm | So its young schestowitz | Sep 12 15:43 |
Ender2070 | I do ignore those people | Sep 12 15:48 |
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schestowitz | [15:40] <oiaohm> Ok other than the 2 years it was a student project. schestowitz | Sep 12 16:07 |
schestowitz | That's what I guessed | Sep 12 16:07 |
schestowitz | Steve Jobs mocked VP8 calling it a student project or something along those lines | Sep 12 16:08 |
schestowitz | http://twitter.com/omgubuntu/statuses/24287504943 "Neat! @conscioususer just mentioned that that @omgubuntu has earned an "alternative name" from Boycott Novell - http://is.gd/f73Tj " | Sep 12 16:17 |
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schestowitz | It's not a name for them | Sep 12 16:17 |
schestowitz | It's an older joke | Sep 12 16:17 |
schestowitz | I'll transcribe what I can from the episode http://mxc.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=632863 | Sep 12 16:30 |
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schestowitz | Smoking guns | Sep 12 16:30 |
schestowitz | I am trying to give Nokia's CEO the benefit of the doubt. He worked for a long time and only 2 years at Microsoft. Ballmer's reaction worried me though. It's more like he was delighted. Nokiasoft... | Sep 12 17:19 |
FurnaceBoy | schestowitz: well, remember Microsoft is a cult | Sep 12 19:04 |
FurnaceBoy | schestowitz: it may well be that there are ties that bind | Sep 12 19:04 |
FurnaceBoy | schestowitz: like i've said before, Microsoft is the bastard child of the Mafia and Amway | Sep 12 19:04 |
FurnaceBoy | schestowitz: I am sure they ensure that there is 'personal' lock-in, especially for those who reach higher levels | Sep 12 19:05 |
FurnaceBoy | schestowitz: they cannot betray the cult. we're talking Skull'n'Bones here , in the tech industry. | Sep 12 19:05 |
FurnaceBoy | schestowitz: it may well be a no-exit scenario | Sep 12 19:05 |
FurnaceBoy | schestowitz: pyramid scheme, too | Sep 12 19:06 |
Ender2070 | 2 years is long enough to have received company orientation | Sep 12 19:10 |
schestowitz | Yes | Sep 12 19:12 |
FurnaceBoy | right | Sep 12 19:14 |
FurnaceBoy | it's the same kind of 'we have you for life' thing they apply to their customers | Sep 12 19:14 |
FurnaceBoy | imaigne how intense it must be applied to VPs | Sep 12 19:14 |
Ender2070 | someone who world work at microsoft is likely to have no issue drinking its koolaid | Sep 12 19:16 |
Ender2070 | would | Sep 12 19:16 |
FurnaceBoy | rite | Sep 12 19:16 |
FurnaceBoy | it's sold as "this is good for YOU .. and US" | Sep 12 19:16 |
FurnaceBoy | like Amway | Sep 12 19:16 |
FurnaceBoy | or Scientology etc | Sep 12 19:16 |
Ender2070 | miguel got an interview, he loved them so much he cloned their technology | Sep 12 19:17 |
FurnaceBoy | more than an interview... | Sep 12 19:17 |
Ender2070 | he wasnt even working there | Sep 12 19:17 |
FurnaceBoy | right. he's an agent | Sep 12 19:17 |
Ender2070 | a few interviews | Sep 12 19:17 |
FurnaceBoy | ppl with appearances of independence are even more valuable... | Sep 12 19:17 |
FurnaceBoy | Asay | Sep 12 19:17 |
Ender2070 | he even got a FSF award | Sep 12 19:18 |
Ender2070 | now he got a microsoft award | Sep 12 19:18 |
Ender2070 | MVP | Sep 12 19:18 |
schestowitz | Heh | Sep 12 19:32 |
schestowitz | Asay almost worked for Microsoft | Sep 12 19:32 |
schestowitz | But anyway, FurnaceBoy, I did write about how it's a cult | Sep 12 19:32 |
schestowitz | A European govt. delegate said so | Sep 12 19:32 |
schestowitz | http://techrights.org/2008/04/20/scientology-microsoft/ | Sep 12 19:33 |
TechrightsBot-sc | Title: Government Delegate Compares Microsoft Methods to “Scientology Cult” | Techrights .::. Size~: 138.32 KB | Sep 12 19:33 |
schestowitz | Secondary: http://techrights.org/2010/05/07/slamming-apple-over-gizmodo/ http://techrights.org/2009/12/23/microsoft-religion-apple-cult/ | Sep 12 19:33 |
TechrightsBot-sc | Title: When Brands Become Cults | Techrights .::. Size~: 118.2 KB | Sep 12 19:33 |
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FurnaceBoy | certainly it's a cult. one day we'll find out how they bind ex-execs to it | Sep 12 19:35 |
FurnaceBoy | we can look at how other organizations do it. | Sep 12 19:35 |
schestowitz | HP.. | Sep 12 19:39 |
schestowitz | Wait and see | Sep 12 19:39 |
schestowitz | Maybe HP too will announce this week a new CEO from Microoft | Sep 12 19:39 |
schestowitz | Nokia's was suspected to be a candidate | Sep 12 19:39 |
schestowitz | For HP | Sep 12 19:39 |
schestowitz | And Bach could move to HP | Sep 12 19:39 |
schestowitz | He's another escaping Microsoft resident | Sep 12 19:39 |
schestowitz | He's another escaping Microsoft President | Sep 12 19:39 |
schestowitz | http://www.cringely.com/2010/09/wheres-the-beef/ | Sep 12 19:47 |
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FurnaceBoy | hah, nice slip. resident | Sep 12 19:48 |
schestowitz | Resident Evil | Sep 12 19:48 |
schestowitz | Resident Toll(R) | Sep 12 19:48 |
schestowitz | Resident Troll(R) | Sep 12 19:48 |
schestowitz | This guy used to hang out in our channels... http://kecskebak.blogspot.com/2010/09/showing-off.html | Sep 12 19:51 |
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schestowitz | I hate the word "SEO"... http://www.webpronews.com/expertarticles/2010/09/10/13-ways-to-sabotage-your-seo-opportunities | Sep 12 20:03 |
TechrightsBot-sc | Title: 13 Ways to Sabotage Your SEO Opportunities | WebProNews .::. Size~: 34.91 KB | Sep 12 20:03 |
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FurnaceBoy | schestowitz: it's the new alternative to having Content! | Sep 12 20:32 |
schestowitz | content is another bad word | Sep 12 20:34 |
schestowitz | Art takes passion and work | Sep 12 20:35 |
schestowitz | Content is gunk, too | Sep 12 20:35 |
FurnaceBoy | true. + innovation | Sep 12 21:01 |
FurnaceBoy | do you have a list of these words? | Sep 12 21:01 |
schestowitz | In a mental list | Sep 12 21:20 |
schestowitz | http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/07/physics-lecturer-dem.html | Sep 12 21:20 |
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schestowitz | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuhhpBJtMTw&NR=1 | Sep 12 21:21 |
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schestowitz | http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/09/barbour-tries-write-racism-history/ | Sep 12 21:26 |
TechrightsBot-sc | Title: Mississippi governor tries to write Southern racism out of modern history | Raw Story .::. Size~: 101.61 KB | Sep 12 21:26 |
schestowitz | http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/09/blair-cheney-vision-possible-over-time/ | Sep 12 21:29 |
TechrightsBot-sc | Title: Tony Blair: Cheneys vision not stupid, possible over time | Raw Story .::. Size~: 72.56 KB | Sep 12 21:29 |
schestowitz | FurnaceBoy: 66 | Sep 12 21:29 |
FurnaceBoy | wth | Sep 12 21:30 |
FurnaceBoy | blair marks himself as an utter, dangerous, criminal extremist if he subscribes to this | Sep 12 21:31 |
schestowitz | "Since he began his trek to the presidency, Barack Obama and his staff have steadfastly knocked down allegations that he's secretly a terrorist-loving, Christian-hating, capitalism-destroying, secret Kenyan-Muslim agent here to take Americans' guns. (Or, something along those lines.)" | Sep 12 21:32 |
schestowitz | http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/09/appearing-fox-panel-news-corp-employees-blames-obama-muslim-rumors/ | Sep 12 21:32 |
TechrightsBot-sc | Title: Fox News panelists try to blame Obama for Muslim rumors | Raw Story .::. Size~: 50.23 KB | Sep 12 21:32 |
schestowitz | Murdoch scum | Sep 12 21:32 |
FurnaceBoy | wth | Sep 12 21:34 |
schestowitz | http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/09/israeli-fm-pushes-settlement-construction/ | Sep 12 21:34 |
TechrightsBot-sc | Title: Israeli FM pushes for new settlement construction | Raw Story .::. Size~: 31.58 KB | Sep 12 21:34 |
schestowitz | v | Sep 12 21:36 |
schestowitz | v | Sep 12 21:36 |
schestowitz | http://helenair.com/news/article_e0299ac8-ba42-11df-a560-001cc4c03286.html | Sep 12 21:37 |
TechrightsBot-sc | Title: Big Sky Tea Party cans chief .::. Size~: 43.86 KB | Sep 12 21:37 |
schestowitz | Jeffrey Goldberg did some classic US propaganda: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/09/castro-capitalist-system-no-longer-works/ | Sep 12 21:46 |
TechrightsBot-sc | Title: Misinterpreted Castro: Capitalist system no longer works | Raw Story .::. Size~: 48.57 KB | Sep 12 21:46 |
schestowitz | Castro defended his model | Sep 12 21:47 |
schestowitz | US journalist said the opposite | Sep 12 21:47 |
schestowitz | Which got widely reported | Sep 12 21:47 |
MinceR | afaik the cuban economy isn't doing too well | Sep 12 21:48 |
schestowitz | true | Sep 12 21:49 |
schestowitz | But AFAIK US sanctions don't help | Sep 12 21:49 |
MinceR | planned economy doesn't help either | Sep 12 21:49 |
schestowitz | I'm just going though this site now... http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/09/priest-sex-abuse-linked-13-suicides-belgium/ | Sep 12 21:49 |
TechrightsBot-sc | Title: Priest sex abuse linked to 13 suicides in Belgium | Raw Story .::. Size~: 31.17 KB | Sep 12 21:49 |
MinceR | in fact, it has already wrecked the economy of the russian empire (USSR+subjugated states) so hard the empire fell apart | Sep 12 21:50 |
MinceR | the PRC only prospers because they realized socialism doesn't work and ditched it | Sep 12 21:50 |
schestowitz | 'Adam Price, a former Plaid Cymru MP, told Channel 4 News that a group of committee members shied away from the "nuclear option" of issuing a warrant for Brooks to attend after a senior Tory warned that News International would "go for us"." | Sep 12 21:51 |
schestowitz | MPs backed down from calling Rebekah Brooks to Commons - http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/sep/10/mps-backed-down-rebekah-brooks | Sep 12 21:51 |
TechrightsBot-sc | Title: MPs backed down from calling Rebekah Brooks to Commons | Media | The Guardian .::. Size~: 75.58 KB | Sep 12 21:51 |
schestowitz | " | Sep 12 21:51 |
schestowitz | Brooks was summoned to give evidence for the committee's report, Press Standards, Privacy and Libel. Most of the hearings were held in early 2009. But a second round of hearings were held in the summer after fresh allegations about phone hacking were published by the Guardian in July 2009. | Sep 12 21:51 |
schestowitz | The committee was highly critical of News International, which said that the News of the World's former royal editor Clive Goodman, jailed for his role in phone hacking, was a rogue reporter. The committee accused Rupert Murdoch's company of "collective amnesia". | Sep 12 21:51 |
schestowitz | " | Sep 12 21:51 |
schestowitz | http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/09/record-increase-americans-poverty/ | Sep 12 21:52 |
TechrightsBot-sc | Title: Record increase in number of Americans in poverty | Raw Story .::. Size~: 52.56 KB | Sep 12 21:52 |
schestowitz | Murdoch doesn't seem to cover much of that | Sep 12 21:52 |
schestowitz | WEstern poverty | Sep 12 21:52 |
schestowitz | Arianna does the sentimental blackmail separately, to sell books | Sep 12 21:53 |
schestowitz | Poor her... | Sep 12 21:53 |
schestowitz | http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-the-truth-about-honour-killings-2075317.html | Sep 12 21:54 |
TechrightsBot-sc | Title: Robert Fisk: The truth about 'honour' killings -Robert Fisk, Commentators - The Independent .::. Size~: 121.8 KB | Sep 12 21:54 |
schestowitz | http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/09/gingrich-obama-kenyan-fantasy-land/ | Sep 12 21:57 |
TechrightsBot-sc | Title: Gingrich: Obama lives in Kenyan, anti-colonial fantasy land | Raw Story .::. Size~: 50.78 KB | Sep 12 21:57 |
FurnaceBoy | schestowitz: correct, Western poverty is under-reported. it's not a useful narrative. | Sep 12 21:57 |
FurnaceBoy | schestowitz: to uncover the causes for that would be to undermine Murdoch's clients | Sep 12 21:58 |
FurnaceBoy | *directly* | Sep 12 21:58 |
FurnaceBoy | Arianna isn't interested in real poverty. | Sep 12 21:58 |
FurnaceBoy | she wants the attention of the 'vanishing middle class' | Sep 12 21:58 |
FurnaceBoy | real poverty isn't her bag | Sep 12 21:59 |
FurnaceBoy | then it gets dangerous | Sep 12 21:59 |
FurnaceBoy | people start talking guillotines | Sep 12 21:59 |
FurnaceBoy | and her neck looks pretty schweet | Sep 12 21:59 |
FurnaceBoy | http://twitter.com/Blackdogworld/status/24313668589 | Sep 12 21:59 |
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MinceR | http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/dctpi/george_w_bush_claimed_invading_iraq_was_gods/ | Sep 12 23:53 |
TechrightsBot-sc | Title: George W. Bush claimed invading Iraq was God's choosing. Why isn't he being called a radical Christian extremist like the Muslims who are branded as extremists that kill in the name of Allah? : politics .::. Size~: 483.23 KB | Sep 12 23:53 |
schestowitz | Old news, no? | Sep 12 23:53 |
schestowitz | The French president was told this like ages ago and it made the news ~2 years ago | Sep 12 23:54 |
schestowitz | No WOMD | Sep 12 23:54 |
schestowitz | But in the US you have to believe without evidence to get elected | Sep 12 23:54 |
schestowitz | You need to have faith in invisible man/men | Sep 12 23:54 |
schestowitz | Or invisible weapons | Sep 12 23:55 |
schestowitz | Maybe the WMOD are in the 'soul' of missiles they found | Sep 12 23:55 |
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