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2003-07-18 Africa: West

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Posted by Steve White 2003-07-18 1:48:40 AM|| || Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I thought Moms Mabley was dead?

Posted by tu3031 2003-7-18 8:31:26 AM|| 2003-7-18 8:31:26 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Whoopi Goldberg shows off the outfit she will wear to next years Oscar telecast. "This year, no more long, rambling speeches!"

Posted by Steve 2003-7-18 9:31:28 AM|| 2003-7-18 9:31:28 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I just knew that Gary Coleman was was a bad muthaf---shutyomouth.This shit keeps getting funnier.

Posted by wills 2003-7-18 10:28:11 AM|| 2003-7-18 10:28:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Many government soldiers wear wigs and female clothes believing it will protect them in battle.

Is this a talismanic, good luck charm sort of protect, or a "they won't shoot the women" sort of protect? Because if it's the latter, it won't last once the Bad Guys figure it out, and neither will many genuine, un-armed women.

I saw that shirt at a science fiction convention in the seventies, dude. Shoulda bought it then. Dece.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2003-7-18 10:41:27 AM|| [http://darkblogules.blogspot.com] 2003-7-18 10:41:27 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Wills,

It's not funny to consider that he's playing for -real-, i.e. threatening U.S. troops with a gun.

This is why the Eurofascists want us to "get involved" in Liberia, so that they can portray us as killers of "innocent babies" like this lad when the inevitable firefights erupt. Of course, if he were Kurdish or Jewish, it would be a different story. Shooting children for the arch-crime of being in bed listening to their mother telling stories is the acme of morality for those degraded punks.

Posted by Ernest Brown 2003-7-18 11:24:34 AM|| [saturninretrograde.blogspot.com] 2003-7-18 11:24:34 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 The banana clip on the AK nicely rounds out the outfit. Liberia is indeed a "quagmire." At least Iraq has an easy resource to sustain the country. I may be mistaken, but Liberia has natural resources but now has only ship's "flags of convenience" fees and timber for its economic base. Most foreign capital has flown the country.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-7-18 11:42:11 AM|| 2003-7-18 11:42:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 ...and you thought Michael Jackson had issues.

Posted by Paul 2003-7-18 11:55:24 AM|| 2003-7-18 11:55:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Alaska Paul,

What we're seeing is intramural infighting in -West Africa- which doesn't respect the phoney "national borders" that are mere artifacts of the Western Colonial legacy. Unless we go into -the whole area- with a level of committment equal or greater than that of Iraq or Afganistan, the effort would simply kill people to no good end.

Posted by Ernest Brown 2003-7-18 11:58:13 AM|| [saturninretrograde.blogspot.com] 2003-7-18 11:58:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 "Of course, if he were Kurdish or Jewish, it would be a different story."

...or a West African in the French sphere of influence, should the French send in the FFL to do the dirty work of upholding their neo-colonial legacy. Cf. the works of Ousmane Sembene.

Posted by Ernest Brown 2003-7-18 12:03:17 PM|| [saturninretrograde.blogspot.com] 2003-7-18 12:03:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 "Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if ye gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
- F.W. Nietzsche

Man, I do NOT want our troops fighting a bunch of homicidal transvestite children.... over nothing!

Posted by Secret Master 2003-7-18 12:22:12 PM|| [www.budgetwarrior.com] 2003-7-18 12:22:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 DAMMIT!!!!!!

Next time, how about putting "FOOD/DRINK ALERT" at the top of posts like this, eh? Have a little consideration, whydon'tcha...

Posted by Dave D. 2003-7-18 12:33:06 PM|| 2003-7-18 12:33:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 He looks like a young Rick James. Superfreaky!

Posted by Yank 2003-7-18 1:43:53 PM|| 2003-7-18 1:43:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Dame Edna meets the Ghost Dancers.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2003-7-18 2:23:18 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/] 2003-7-18 2:23:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 The kids are fighting on all the sides. All of the militia leaders have'em. They all think that these get-ups will protect them from real live bullets. It's rather bizarre that MSNBC, which ran a story on the whole crossdressing militia kiddies in Liberia thing analogized cross dressing to the various types of camoflage that are worn by US forces.

Last time I checked, high heels and bustiers didn't make it more difficult to see. Camoflage has the opposite effect.

Posted by lawhawk 2003-8-6 8:26:26 PM|| 2003-8-6 8:26:26 PM|| Front Page Top

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