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11/19/08
The show starts at 10 (Eastern), and the post should be up here on Gawker in around 45 minutes.
I'm just hanging out waiting until then. Because ... um ... I have no life.
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Also, the guest judge will tell them their knife skills need work, and their fish looks like cat food.
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But tonight's quickfire will actually involve hot dogs. i saw it on the preview.
But it could still be the same effect ... a hot dog is probably just as likely to kill you as Fugu is.
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What if there was a warcam and we actually saw the one day in the life of a soldier in Kabul, unedited?
11/20/08
And it just makes me sad for those troops. Facing so much danger, with so little reward in prospect. Their courage is of course admirable, but I defy you to come away from one of those documentaries without feeling like someone, somewhere in the chain of command is letting them down.
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/Jim Cramer'd
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(He's also really good in the documentary about Toots Shor.)
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(Maybe Handsome Dick down at Manitoba's on Avenue B.)
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If you have the courage to deal with that, you can enlist!
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So any Afghani who shoots an American soldier occupying Afghanistan, under any circumstance, is a terrorist, yes? Okay. Why not?
And what would we call, then, American soldiers who blow up a wedding party in Afghanistan, killing numerous innocent civilians and children, maiming and traumatizing even more for life? (This has happened more than once, by the way.)
What's the term there, according to the rules?
We still don't know definitively who planned and carried out 9/11, but the going theory is the so-called hijackers went out there and made it happen. Well, none of the so-called hijackers came from Afghanistan.
They were, we're told, mostly Saudis.
But forget that, facts confuse the rules--let's say there were 25 hijackers from Afghanistan. So the rules are, we can go into that country, kick ass like crazy, and anyone who resists is a terrorist? And any innocents we kill, they're just what... poor bastards? Statistics? Road kill? Regrettable accidents?
I'd like to know the rules.
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Every time a soldier dies, we show his mutulated corpse on the nightly news. Every time there's an abortion, we show the aborted fetus on the nightly news. That's what you want, right? Keepin' shit real?
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It's refreshing, though, that you admit straight out that all you're interested in is propaganda, rather than simple truth. We won't allow the media to cover military funerals, no matter how much we claim to revere our service people and their families, because it's bad propaganda. We can't show unedited footage of what our service people are doing, because it's bad propaganda. Good to hear you say so.
11/20/08
I have good idea of what goes on in war, slaughterhouses, and abortion clinics. So does most of the country. The fact is, mothers have a hard time watching their sons varsity football game, let alone the play-by-play and unedited results of war. If you had a son serving in the military (you might, I don't know), would you want to be barraged by constant images of death? Brains on the road, like this guy wants?
11/20/08
Yes, yes, it shows.
I do always wonder what's going on, though, when people repeatedly feel compelled to use words that they don't know how to spell.
Kind of suggests they don't know what the words mean, either.
Could it be that what you call "propoganda" is instead, to many people, information relevant to making an educated judgment on something?
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But it's okay; I can picture it vividly. In my mind.
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Just like we have to picture, in our minds, coverage of dead soldiers, and dead Iraqis.
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A five year-old has enough wit to call his opponent "poopypants".
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I'm misreading everything!
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Actually, there were those photos of the charred corpses of the contractors who were ambushed in Falluja and hung from a bridge.
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I'm convinced that if he'd just come out of the closet he would immediately regain huge portions of his brain that have been suppressed and then suddenly start to make sense and be sane.
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Puppycam update: the puppies were just nursing and jumping up to kiss Mummy!!
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