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Here are yet more insights sent in by Samizdata reader George Guttman , who has not finished with us yet. Taliban leader Mullah Omar is planning to give up? Didn’t he tell his people to fight to the death?…I guess he meant their death, not his… Didn’t Omar want to become a martyr and cavort with 72 virgins in paradise???…Well, maybe he is gay and the virgin stuff is not for him… December 6th, 2001 | Comments are closed
 December 6th, 2001 | Comments are closed
Here are some insights sent in by Samizdata reader George Guttman. Agree or disagree, they are reasonable points to make: So the father of American Taliban member John Walker says “he is just a 20 year old kid”. Well so are the US Marines we have had to send to Afghanistan to protect ourselves from “kids” like that. Come on, take some responsibility. Why is September 11th referred to as a “Tragedy?” Let’s call it what it was…A terroristic act of war…kinda puts an angle of reality on it. Why is a US military tribunal “wrong” for foreign terrorists… when it is also what US military personnel face. December 6th, 2001 | Comments are closed
Over on Mind over what matters, fellow bloggista Jay Zilber makes a remark that caught my eye whilst I was surfing the mimetic waves looking for interesting tubes and eddies in the zeitgeist:
Interesting. So September 10th. Yes, I know exactly what he means. December 5th, 2001 | Comments are closed
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. – Robert A. Heinlein December 5th, 2001 | Comments are closed
It seems that Harry Potter is taking over like cocaine in the 1980’s. The Devil Girl confesses her addiction:
Everyone was so concerned about a few cases of anthrax, they missed something truly virulent spreading across the world. December 4th, 2001 | Comments are closed
Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus – J. K. Rowling (…whom the Samizdata Illuminatus happens to think is rather desirable) December 4th, 2001 | Comments are closed
Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness Positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher. December 4th, 2001 | Comments are closed
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When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle – Edmund Burke December 1st, 2001 | Comments are closed
Yeah, you…Dawson of Dawson.com… Your e-mail address link is phucked. Fix it or we will send Natalie Solent and her well armed husband around to sort you out. November 30th, 2001 | Comments are closed
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