So it's good to see more and more people making moves against the Patriot Act. The only disappointing thing is that it's taken nearly two years to build up a head of steam against it, but it's better than nothing. This is yet another thing we need to get more pissed about, so that we can keep it from happening again. Like it or not, large-scale terrorist attacks are a real possibility for the future. If we do have another major attack, and it occurs on Bush's watch, I can only imagine what the Administration's response will be. What we need both before and after attacks like September 11th are effective means of at least attempting to solve the issues at hand, and not legislation that looks like a fascist-style consolidation of power.

Here's an overview of what kind of a mess we currently have in Iraq, and some suggestions on fixing it. A lot of the suggestions are good sense, and ones we've been hearing for awhile. The problem is, a lot of it is easier said than done. That hasn't stopped us from making good on difficult situations in the past, but in the past, we didn't have the administration that we have today.

Also, is the WMD thing pretty much a done deal, and everyone is convinced that the Administration was completely full of shit? I hear next to nothing about WMD anymore, even less than before, and not even many complaints. If people are satisfied that all of the WMD hype was just that, hype, then why the fuck aren't people getting pissed about it? Why aren't we taking to the streets, angry because we've gotten ourselves into a mess that we never should have gotten into, and now can't leave?

I know showing that the justifications for getting involved in "Son of Gulf War" were total bullshit lies won't change the facts of what we have done and that we can't leave until we get things together over there. But I want people to see that the Administration does nothing but lie and bullshit its way into doing whatever it wants, and I want people to rise up next time they try and do something this fucking stupid. We can't change what's already happened, but we can keep it from happening again if we just fucking pay attention and yell at our government like Cartman would. "No Bush administration that's a bad Bush administration!"

Holy hell, and I thought I woke up feeling depressed this morning.

Okay, ADV, I think our relationship has progressed to the point where it's time that we sit down and had a talk.

You have fucked me out of plenty of money buying your DVDs this past year. I'm OK with that; you have me hooked, and I will continue buying your DVDs because the junkie needs his fix. This venture into toys, which we've heard announced at least twice now, threatens to add a wrinkle that could potentially put some strains on our relationship. You sit poised on the brink of being able to do something great - to make cool, high-quality anime-related toys. Please, get good licences. Please, hire some good people who will give us quality sculpts. Please, use quality materials, and show some quality control. And please, let there be lots of accessories and playsets. If you build it, and it is good, I will buy it.

Also, please consider NOT using McFarlane style packaging. You know, that shitty plastic tomb motif they've come up with that requires a chainsaw and the jaws of life to liberate my toys. If you make good shit and use McFuckhead packaging, I'll still buy it, but your not using McFuckhead packaging would be a nice gesture that goes a long way in showing that you take our relationship seriously.

Christ, do I hope this trend continues. As much as I'd love to see Arianna Huffington or Larry Flynt running California, I know Arnold (pronounce it as Ahhhhh-nold if you want; other than this example I fucking refuse to type it that way) is going to win if it goes to a vote.

Okay, I guess I'm kinda like the Californians with regards to Larry Flynt - they want Arnold because he's famous, and I'd love to see Flynt in office mainly because he's a smut peddler. Well, OK, it goes further than that. I wouldn't want Hugh Hefner as Governor, partly because Playboy isn't smut, it's just crap. Plus, Hef would probably fill all governmental positions with unattractive, huge-titted platinum blondes. Fuck, he'd probably just deport any woman who didn't fit that profile from California. Wait, that could be good, because maybe some of those women would move to my state...

Fuck, anyway, I'm getting off track. The last thing I need is more women around, especially attractive ones, because as I was recently reminded that scenario just leaves me depressed. God damn it, I'm getting sidetracked again.

Ok. Larry Flynt. Why he would be cool as governor if Arianna, my first choice, didn't win.

First off, Larry Flynt puts out a quality product. To me, that counts. I've never had a Hustler subscription, but I've made plenty of questionable purchasing decisions that left me muttering "I should've just gotten a subscription to Huster instead." We could use more magazines like Larry's in this day and age of shit like Maxim. Here, however, I'll have to confess that I once had a subscription to Stuff, which was such a piece of shit that I hated it when I even liked those other crummy magazines. I currently have subscriptions to Maxim (which is nearly done, I'm not renewing and have ripped up any re-subscribe mail I've gotten), FHM (ibid), and Playboy (don't know how many issues are left on the current subscription; haven't decided on renewal because I've got nearly every issue since 1999, when the Playmates were what they should be, amazingly hot, and I don't know if I can bring it upon myself to end the streak). Anyway, I'm thinking of taking the money I pull out of Maxim, FHM, and Playboy and re-invest it in Hustler. And I'm going to need it; Hustler subscriptions are fucking expensive. Then, once I do that, I can start complaining that "I should've just gotten a subscription to Perfect 10 instead."

Fuck. Sorry, I didn't expect this to become a diatribe on men's and porno magazines. So, it's been established that I have respect for Larry's business. That brings me to another Flynt selling point, in that he has run a successful business. That know-how may be useful in a state that is facing a budget crunch. Business and otherwise, Larry Flynt doesn't fuck around. Nothing put a smile on my face during the Lewinsky mess quite like when Larry went after all the fucking Republicans leading the impeachment effort, exposing them for the tail-chasing assholes that they were. Of course, let us not forget Flynt's First Amendment credentials. In this day and age of "you'd better watch what you say," it's nice to see someone who still understands one of our most basic and most important rights.

Finally, Larry Flynt wouldn't be a half bad idea as governor because the guy is clearly more open-minded than most politicians. I just don't see him as having a lot of the hangups and issues that every other politician has that keeps him or her from being effective. Flynt would take charge, do what he thought was right, and not give a shit as to what other people thought. Also, the citizens of California might be able to get some sort of government subsidy for buying pornography.

Well, that was a quick trip. Why the fuck did we even bother to send the 41st Token Regiment in the first place?

I want to buy one of these, reverse engineer it, and teach the little brat to say bad words.

So I was trolling around Everything and came across this piece of shit. Even though it's just the ignorant rambling of one dumbass, it's strongly reminiscent of a lot of the pseudo-logic I've heard the religious in general, and the Christians in specific, use to justify their beliefs. You don't really need to click that link; I've repeated all its points in verbatim below. Let's get it on.

1. Are you sure God doesn't exist? You are willing to contend, aren't you, that there is a tiny chance that God does exist? If you don't believe in him, and he DOES exist, you're screwed. You HAVE A CHOICE. When the day comes to choose who enters Heaven, it is highly doubtful you will be chosen, if you don't believe. Isn't it safer just to believe?
   
   This is one of the stupidest arguments for belief that I've ever heard. Mainly, because this isn't belief, it's just playing it safe. Don't you think God is going to see through your bullshit? Isn't he fucking God? If Christian mythology were true, wouldn't you get up to Heaven, and when God asks if you believe in him, and you say "Yes, of course, I professed my belief all the time!" And then God would be like "Lying asshole. That's what you said, but not what you thought. Go to Hell. Go directly to Hell, do not pass go, do not collect 200 pieces of silver."
   
   Also, I think that if a god does exist, he's going to recognize the fact that, yes, I do have a choice. And if I decided not to believe in him, and he really does exist, he'll understand, because I'm a fucking human, and we tend to make mistakes. Furthermore, I'd at least like to think he's not as petty and unforgiving as we are.
   


2. So you have moral dilemmas? They're annoying, aren't they? What is right and what is wrong? Who knows? The law? Crap, you cross the street at a red light. God knows what is right and what is wrong. Believe, and all your moral problems are solved. If you are ever stuck again with a moral dilemma, just ask your local priest, rabbi or equivalent. He'll explain it all to you.
   
   In the words of George Carlin, I have this moron thing I do; it's called "thinking." Among other things, this "thinking" allows me to solve my own moral dilemmas, but thanks anyway. They may be annoying, but I'm not going to cop out and let someone else decide for me. Sure, I don't solve dilemmas with divine efficiency, but if you look at all the wars and other killing in God's name, God isn't all that good at solving moral dilemmas either.
   


3. You have sinned, you know. And you DO know it. Even if you don't call it sin. So you call it "a mistake". But you can't forgive yourself. God knows you've tried. You can't forgive yourself. Well, if God can forgive you, you'll be able to forgive yourself too. All the major religions have methods of forgiveness.
   
   Have you ever noticed that all the things that we consider fun are also the things that get denounced as sin? Gambling, drinking, killing, fucking. You name it; if it's something we can't live without, it's a sin. This just sounds like a bullshit scam to me; a scam by the puritans to keep everyone as miserable and uninteresting as they are.
   
   And you know what? I'm a big enough person that I can forgive myself all on my own. Other people can forgive me, too. What difference does it make if you're fucking doggy style and you "accidentally" land in the wrong hole, and then god forgives you? Try that "Oh, honey, it's all good, God forgave me!" bullshit and watch when that doesn't erase the incident or make the person or their asshole feel any better.
   


4. Can you explain infinity? I can't. I'm talking about two dimensions of infinity. Spacial and temporal. Talk quantum mechanics, and dimension folding all you like, the human mind can never grasp it. I don't think anyone can comprehend infinity. If you believe in God, no problem.
   
   Do you even know what things like "infinity," "spacial" (sic), "temporal," and "dimension folding" mean? And if the human mind can't grasp it, then how does God help you figure it out? Do we just pretend that he knows what it is, and since someone else knows, that's good enough for us? This argument is the biggest load of crap I've ever heard - it doesn't mean a fucking thing.
   


5. You can't possibly believe that evolution theory completely. Oh, I'll agree, natural selection exists. Of course it does. Creation theory does not conflict with the belief in natural selection, don't make any mistakes. Of course, many people believe it does, but that's mostly because they are misinformed. Natural selection hardly explains Man. And where is that missing link? You can't possibly believe that Man (a conscious being) originated from the monkey, which is so far below him?
   
   This is like one of my all-time favorite things to hear religious people babble about. These fuckers are so narrowminded and so limited that they can't understand a concept like "millions and millions of years." They seem to think that one day, all of a sudden, a monkey gave birth to a human baby. They don't fucking understand that it has been millions and millions of fucking years of random genetic mutations and natural selection that got us from monkey to man. Also, don't get so fucking cocky about man being so much more developed than monkeys. Monkeys may fling shit at eachother, but they don't waste their lives watching "Must See TV" or watching animals fling their shit at eachother.
   
   Oh, and where is the missing link? It's missing, you fucking dumbass. It's very nature is defined by what we call it. Christ, a fucking monkey could figure that out.
   


6. What happens when we die? Scary, isn't it? Don't you have a soul? Of course you do. You can't possibly, deep in your heart believe that we just die and disintegrate? There has to be an afterlife.
   
   Actually, it's not that scary. There's a good chance there's no afterlife, and if that's the case, I won't fucking care when I'm dead, because I can't. If there is an afterlife, then I'll fucking deal with it once I'm there and I have some facts to work with. Death is only scary to the living. Do I believe, deep in my heart, that I will just die and disintegrate? No, I don't fucking know what will happen. And you know what? I'm OK with that. Of course I have a soul? What is that based on? There has to be an afterlife? What is that based on? Nothing, and nothing. It's all bullshit made up by living humans just to make themselves feel better.
   
   People think they're so fucking important that there has to be an afterlife so they can continue all the important things they're doing here on earth, like working jobs they hate so they can buy shit they don't need. Bullshit. This world would be a lot better, I think, if more people would realize that when they die, not a fucking thing happens. The world goes on just fine without you, and save a handful of people, no one will give a shit when you're gone. End of story. Get over yourself.
   


7. The bible contains predictions of the future. Many predictions have already happened, so if you are a disbeliever, you can see for yourself. No other book in the world has so many prophetic words and codes interwoven into it as the bible. Many experiments have shown this. Coincidence?
   
   No, taking shit out of context, thinking about it for a real long time, and then twisting it around to make it look prophetic.
   
   While we're on the subject, isn't there some prophecy about a certain you-know-who returning after a couple of millennia? What happened to that prediction?
   


8. The world today is full of pornography and gore and is low on moral fiber. You know it's wrong. And you sure as heck don't want your children to grow up in such a society. The return to morals is the only solution, and the only way to do that is through BELIEF.
   
   Actually, I don't want my children to grow up in a society of such ignorance. God help you if I actually do have children, because they will have a healthy and realistic attitude about things like pornography and gore. Kids whose parents think like this, meanwhile, will be terrified to even masturbate. Also, where exactly did we abandon morals? According to this argument, we must have, otherwise we wouldn't be returning to them. I can think of a good three or four people just off the top of my head who have a good moral center. Counterexample, fuckhead. The point is nil.
   


9. Most of the world does, in fact, believe in God. How could this be, if God didn't exist? If you've strayed off the path, you must return to it. Everyone was born capable of believing in God. Some haven't found Him yet, others have lost Him. He WILL take you back.
   
   How could this be? Maybe because people are fucking stupid? The notion that God must exist simply because people believe in him shows that God is just a human creation.
   
   Also, as someone else pointed out in response to this post, a lot of people in the world belive in a god or gods, and not necessarily capital-G Christian God. There's nothing I can say to the "born capable," "still haven't," and "take back" portions of this statement, because they're completely empty and meaningless.
   


10. Look deep inside your heart. God is there.
    
    OUCH, THAT HURT YA BUTTLICKER!!!!! Looking inside my heart, all I can find is a bunch of tissue, vessels, and blood! And great, now I'm about to fucking die, so I can find out the answer to that afterlife bullshit. Thanks.
    

Finally, it looks like we may have an answer.

Fucking yay.

Why is it that any fucking positive sign always comes with about a million caveats and reasons why the "sign of hope" is really meaningless? It's like watching a drug commercial; "these financial results may cause bloating, constipation, headache, nausea, sexual side effects, spontaneous combustion, headache, nosebleed, dry mouth, and continued unemployment."

Good, FUCK 'EM.

I will be perfectly satisfied with the outcome if they punish Moore by shoving that monument up his ass.

So, the "Great Experiment" in advertising has already concluded. Here are the stats.

$10
2500 ad views
28 ad click-throughs (yup, 28)
~24 hours
0 Guestbook & E-Mail comments

So, this is about what I expected. Well, I figured I'd get a few more click-throughs, but oh well.

I'll probably give this a shot again, and have identified some things that might make it more successful next time. Keyword on might; I know that this is just one 'blog amongst millions, my opinions really aren't earth-shattering or unique, and there's no real incentive for the majority of people to drop by.

1. Figure out a better time to run the ad; I didn't think my ad would get approved so quickly and end up starting on Thursday night, when most people care even less about 'blogs since shit like Friends is on.


2. Find some other sites to advertise on.


3. Ad content is pretty short - 35 character limit on the headline, 75 character limit on ad body, at least at WWDN - and I need to come up with better wording in my ads. I think the only reason I got most of my hits today was because the last iteration of my ad mentioned porn. Since I'm not selling anything, I need to come up with some other way to motivate people to actually click on the link.


4. Find a way to make this 'blog less shitty. Probably not going to happen, but it would be nice to find a way to get people fired up about a bunch of crappy links and even crappier opinion blurbs

So I just realized that I probably should have been more careful with the links in the recent post about porn. You know, gotta protect the children. I've souped up my disclaimer and edited a couple of links to go to the "yes I'm an adult, even if I'm really not" page instead of straight to the good stuff. So, sorry, you may have to click through one or two more links now if you bother with any of them. I think you'll survive, and more important, I'm covering my ass. Of course, to have gotten in trouble, people would have to be reading this in the first place.

Battle Royale is this fucked up Japanese movie I saw a couple of weeks ago. It's about a group of high school kids put on an island and forced to kill eachother or be killed, all as part of a program to motivate lazy kids. It probably won't get released here in the States, unless the NRA decides to start a film distribution company. If you haven't seen it, you're missing out on... something. Here's some shit to go along with Battle Royale: The Chopper and Battle Royale: The GPS.

Battle Royale: The Poster
Battle Royale: The T-shirt
Battle Royale: The Sticker Sheet

Hey, from some of those items, it looks like there's a sequel!

Yeah, but just because IBM is investing heavily in Linux and Open Source doesn't mean they have to lie about things. I use OpenOffice occasionally, and it's adequate, but not all that great. The open source community needs an MS Office replacement if it hopes to make any gains. I'm sorry, but that's the reality of things. People are too used to MS if nothing else, and getting them to switch to something that "mostly works" and doesn't have as many Office-type features is going to be difficult.

Look, this isn't to bash OpenOffice developers or open source devlopers in general. They have done some impressive fucking work, and I know it takes time to catch up with big things like Office. The problem is, people get too lost in idealism and ideology. Yes, Linux and open source projects are nice, oftentimes free of monetary cost, and developed by people who really do care about software quality. The average consumer, however, has proven that he gives less than a shit about these things. He wants something simple, easy to use, and preferably something he's already using. Give him a higher version number, whether it means anything or not, and he's probably happy.

Yet another reason why this standardized testing fetish is bullshit. Let's keep it up, America, and future generations will be even more ignorant than current ones.

And fuck that supervisor from Colorado Springs, the fucking whitest most conservative place on the goddamn planet - home of the Focus on the Family Visitors' Center and the Pro-Rodeo Hall of Fame - where people will get down on their knees and suck dick at the altar of Bill Owens' CSAP tests. It has next to nothing to do with teachers being creative if they A) don't have fucking time and B) have conversations that go like this:

Teacher: Hey, everyone, let's talk about the war in Iraq
Student: Is this going to be on the state exam?
Teacher: No.
...

And that's it - end of discussion. Trust me on this one; I know what I'm talking about. That one single question - "Is this going to be on the exam?" defined my entire high school career, and had some ugly side effects that have lasted well beyond HS.

So we're going to continue the pr0n theme today. I'll warn you up front, you probably don't want to be clicking on any links in this post if you're at work, near work, or even thinking about work. You should also be of legal age wherever the hell you are to view adult materials. I will not be responsible for contributing to the delinquincy of a minor, but it's not like I can stop you, either. There's no hardcore shit involved, no, wait, yes there is, and one link doesn't even have any nudity. No matter; I doubt any of it will fall under your company's "acceptable use" policy.

As I suspected, the search for a good pr0n search engine is turning up nothing but shit. Not "shit" in the literal sense; we already know that even with my degenerate mind I shy away from German sites.

Before we go any further, now is as good of a time as any to post the following link that I got from a friend which I keep forgetting about. If you're a fan of fucked up Japanese porn and you like even more fucked up English descriptions of said porn, go here.

I would be happy if I could find more sites like Thumbnail Series. Updated daily with tons of links to quality thumbnail series pics. See, I'm not asking for much, just some hot, naked women, and the occasional facial.

Actually, with this developing sailor schoolgirl fetish, I don't even need nudity. But can I find much decent stuff in this genre? Hell no. Just give me a uniform and some other sexy outfits, and that just might be enough for me. Like this girl, who I am so totally in love with.

So, with my interest in Anime, this Asian thing may seem somewhat contrived and forced. You know, like those guys who run around wearing "Looking for a Japanese Girlfriend" t-shirts and who eat Pocky and shrimp-flavored chips only because they're into Anime. But you know what? When I get interested in something, I don't fuck around. I'm out there finding websites with news and updates, locating shit to buy, studying to get a cultural and historical context, and learning languages if need be. If worse comes to worse, I will go hunting for porn.

Furthermore, this new interest in Asian women may just be flat out confusing to some. Okay, well, one of you. Yes, I know I used to say "If I see one more naked Asian, I'm going to throw up." Well, there were a couple of reasons for this. One, I'm just an ignorant gai-jin, as we all know. Second, I think the Playboy principle was in effect. You see, those fuckers at Playboy can get hot, non-white women. The problem is, they're fucking lazy, and they don't. They're sort of decent with Latinas and some of their Asian girls, but are severely lacking when it comes to black women. They could find, photograph, and publish the attractive ones, but they don't. So what we get is some unattractive girl who's pure quota. Call me racist and cynical if you want, but this is what I see. I don't know why you would call me racist, but it seems like you're setting yourself up to be yelled at anytime race is mentioned, even if you're pointing out unpleasant truths that you want to see fixed. Anyway, I'm pretty sure that a lot of the sites I come across are just pulling a Playboy when it comes to Asian women. They could find lovelies like Mihoko up there, but they don't.

So, despite these two deficiencies, I'm in recovery. I'm even going back to school, and taking some courses offered by the Asianology Department.

Finally, for this post at least, I just came across a banner ad for a product called "Power-Pax Pellet." The tag line? "Masturbate longer - Masturbate stronger!" There's no bullshit about lasting longer to better satisfy your woman, because they know people are on these sites to jerk off, and there's no one else around to satisfy. Why can't we find more honesty in advertising like this?

So I just came across a porn site called "Too Tight to Fuck." Too tight to fuck? What the hell kind of a concept is that? "Dude, you can't fuck her.... She's too tight." Without any fucking, your whole point of existing goes up in flames.

Yeah, there are plenty of things I could think of to make a site worthwhile with no fucking involved, as pointed out by my magazine concept, Chicks Masturbating, but no one ever gets things right like I would.

While we're on this subject, and since I'm sure porno won't be coming up as a topic again anytime soon, I really need to work on two things. One I sort of but not really touched on in my Firebird review was that we need a porn-friendly browser. That's right, an entire browser whose focus is on making porn downloading easier. Actually, I think I would optimize it for porn and shopping. We would make a killing - porn browsing is the #1 online activity for men, shopping the #1 activity for women. I care a great deal for both. So, why don't we just admit that these are the things people do online, and start making our lives easier.

So you're like, hey, you're a computer nerd, and you're into open source. Why don't you snag Mozilla's source code and write your own browser. Are you nuts? Do you know how fucking complicated Mozilla is? Ever tried to compile it on your own? I'd be fucking dead before I found out that my first build didn't work.

Well, there is the concept of 'extensions' for both Mozilla and Firebird, but that just doesn't seem good enough.

The other thing we need is a decent search engine that filters out all the bullshit and crummy pay sites and can locate all the good free thumbnail series sites. This probably isn't feasible wihout some sort of human intervention (like tagging paysites somehow, and I doubt online pornographers are going to put a "no real free shit here" tag on their site) or some sort of decent AI that can try and determine if a site is worthwhile or not. What would we call such a search engine? How about 'Coogle'? Sorry, that's the best I can come up with, a shitty play on 'cooter'. Maybe there's already something decent like this out there that I just need to go find, and I'm just behind the times like with the GBA frontlight.

I can't believe that at this rate, Arnold Schwarzenegger is going to be fucking governor of California. Wait, yes I can.

He's right about one thing, the public doesn't care about figures. Or facts. Or substance. Or pretty much anything of relevance. California just wants to live in the fantasy land where someone famous is running the show. Well, if Schwarzenegger wins and drives California deeper into the toliet, then they fucking deserve it.

No, there is no way Iraqis would have assisted in the bombing of the U.N. building this week, because they love us. Oh, wait, those guards were more of those kooky "loyalists." What the fuck are men with such close ties to Saddam doing working as guards at the U.N. building? We're as concerned about security in Iraq as we are about effective homeland security. Why doesn't Tom Ridge just step in and give these two guys jobs as airport screeners?

Yeah, maybe because it's NOT A FUCKING KIDS' SHOW! It's set in Las Vegas, for chrissakes! What do you want, shows about the ice cream man? CSI has probably done a show about the ice cream man, except their ice cream man rapes and murders people.

CSI is a shitty show, but if you're going to be a bitch about it, at least go after it for what it is, and not what it isn't.

There are few people I hate as much as these TV watchdog groups. These uptight religious fuckers who want nothing more than to control what people watch and how they think. I would love to fucking take them out for a night of porn downloading and IRC time. Of course, when someone rates shit like Touched by an Angel the best show on TV, you can pretty much write them off as being a fucking moron.

So for the hell of it, I decided to try taking out text ads on one of my favorite 'blogs, WIL WHEATON DOT NET. I figured if people were coming across this rubbish of mine out of chance, then maybe it wouldn't hurt to actually put some effort into promotion. Not sure why, since I'm not selling anything, but it'd be nice to get some more traffic. I'm not sure how effective this will be, since I've already gone through over 2% of my adviews in just a couple of hours, but maybe if I do it again I'll be smart about it and try and time things better, and maybe front a little more cash to get more ad views.

The Onion has a nice horoscope for you Scorpios this week:

"You will magically transform yourself from the nice lady in human resources to the bad girl of goat porn."

Hey, no shit?

Yeah, of course all these people running around killing and blowing stuff up are security threats. Although I do object to the liberal use of the term "terrorist." Sure, these guys are using terrorist tactics against us. But you and I both know the word "terrorist" is being invoked just to push the nasty connotation that word has for us Americans. It's just subtle manipulation to make it look like we're the only victims here.

Actually, lots of the victims are people working for the U.N. - you know, the body that didn't want us there in the first place. Or, at least we wouldn't be there had we abided by U.N. rules which we've agreed to uphold, in essence. I would more accurately describe these people as victims of guerilla warfare, and not terrorism. I think I'm safe in this terminology, because our own military commanders have used it. And they would know.

Some Rumsfeld quotes to hammer on:

"While this was an attack on a U.N. building, headquarters as such, it really was an attack on the Iraqi people"

No, Donny, this was an attack on us, the American people, however direct or indirect. An attack either by people who don't want us in Iraq, or people who hate us no matter where we are. Or both.

"This much is certain: their cause is lost. That regime will not be coming back."

Kinda like the Taliban in Afghanistan? They're not back in power like they used to be, but from what I understand, they're making impressive inroads in the new Afghanistan.