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2003-02-21 Iraq

Baghdad Draws Peaceniks of All Shapes and Sizes

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Posted by Steve 2003-02-21 09:33 am|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 No, Steve. A typical soccer game is 0-0 after two overtimes.

I am a Reiki master OK, but if you can't levitate, don't bother me.

Posted by Chuck 2003-02-21 09:48:28|| [blog.simmins.org] 2003-02-21 09:48:28|| Front Page Top

#2 Human shield to Iraqi bystander:
"I just came from Great Britain on a hair-raising journey of great peril in this double-decker bus to save your country!"
Iraqi bystander: "You better go back to your driver. He gives out the medals."

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-02-21 10:02:46|| 2003-02-21 10:02:46|| Front Page Top

#3 Helluva lot easier to get in there then it probably will be to get out. I don't think you'll see Marine choppers landing on roofs to whisk them to safety after it starts. Should've thought this through, folks. It's not some 60's ha-ha game.

Posted by tu3031 2003-02-21 10:07:45|| 2003-02-21 10:07:45|| Front Page Top

#4 vanDyke is an idiot.

One of the most important lessons from my Reiki teacher was there is a time for death. The story went like this:
She and several others knew someone who suffered a serious heart-attack. They worked together to keep the person alive. Whether or not it was a result of their efforts, the person did 'live'. Unfortunately, the person had suffered enough brain damage that 'life' was as a vegetable, with no hope of ever regaining consciousness.
The same logic applies to cancerous tissues. If you seek for health of the cancerous tissues, the worst that can happen is that your wishes will be granted.
Death is built into every cell of our body in the form of the p53 enzyme and the process of apoptosis. Cells choose to die rather than destroy the whole body. When they fail to choose death, we call it cancer. The cancerous cells must then have death forced upon them.

This obsession with life at any cost is just as sick, if not more so, than an obsession with death.

Posted by Dishman 2003-02-21 10:12:23|| 2003-02-21 10:12:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Hey Van Dyke - that "reiki master" bullshit may play in Peoria, but the locals over there tend to take a dim view of moronic new-age religions. They call it "blasphemy" and cut your stupid head off for it.

Of course, in most such cases, the head wasn't being used anyway.

Posted by mojo 2003-02-21 11:01:38|| 2003-02-21 11:01:38|| Front Page Top

#6 A Reiki master huh? Where's your light saber then???

Posted by JDR 2003-02-21 12:09:13|| 2003-02-21 12:09:13|| Front Page Top

#7 Going to Baghdad has become the cool thing to do, just so they can say "Dude, I did my part, man". But the part that will show that they really care about the Iraqi people is when they will scatter like roaches when the action begins.

Posted by RW 2003-02-21 12:43:17|| 2003-02-21 12:43:17|| Front Page Top

#8 Actually I kind of like the "shield" idea:
1.) it gets the crazies out of our country;
and
2.) maybe they can be human shields for the
opposition in Iraq.
Either way, it is a little like classic darwinian selection - the elimination of the stupid and incompetant.

Posted by John 2003-02-21 21:30:29|| 2003-02-21 21:30:29|| Front Page Top

#9 What kind of a jerk takes his dog into that sort of thing?

Posted by aa 2003-02-22 00:02:23|| 2003-02-22 00:02:23|| Front Page Top

#10 Metaphysics,way cool dude.

Posted by raptor 2003-02-22 06:54:39|| 2003-02-22 06:54:39|| Front Page Top

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