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:)

You are an inspiration, & I Luve youu.

Rant on, baby. Rant on. I'm framing this one.

Wow do you have issues boy. And shit taste in movies.

Hmmm. That seemed rather...unnecessary and overly harsh.

I just checked and www.whiny-negro.com is still available. If you hurry, maybe you can move your site there.

wow

ain't you the cool one. nothing useful to say and a whole blog to say it in.

Did somebody run over your puppy? Damn dude, you need new prescriptions for politeness and respect for other's opinions pills.

Why don't you just shut down your website if visitors from other planets bother you that much? Or throw a login up so you can preach to your own little secret society and no one else.

Oh wait, I get it. This is the "Post some crap about a few popular websites and enjoy the ego boost as your traffic numbers and comment counts go up" game. You have to forgive me, I'm a little slow.

On the other hand (a brief and fragmentary image of the heroic helmsman leaping through the deluge to grab the wildly spinning wheel), there's what an old friend likes to say about Sir McKellen and Mr Stewart in X-Men:

"Mommy? Why are Gandalf and Captain Picard fighting?"

Make of it what you will.

Nice rant. Mostly filled with bile and anger, but I suppose that's what I should expect. I think you should be in charge of peaceful operations in Iraq.

I'll send the ticket.

My my my ... can't handle the trackback and whiny to boot. Stop insulting good people and get over yourself. Soon.

God, everybody - lighten up...that was top-drawer invective, a rare thing on the net these days. Try to rise to the occaision, ok?

Oh, Aaron. You are so fucking awesome. I'm sorry. I know I'm supposed to add to the discussion here, but I just am all misty with adoration right now.

Michelle's not going to like you dissing one of her favorites.

Didn't like X-Men in the theatre. Liked it much more each of the 5-10 times I've caught pieces of it on cable.

But I also really like Anna Paquin.

Heh, I de-linked, you want to be de-linked, we're still playing Martin and Malcolm. Two sides of the same negroid coin.

The persistent tug on the line and the feeding of small fry must mean that we have ourselves another successful trollbaiting. I'm glad you all could be here now we're going to seal off this room and wipe everything down with bleach.

Sorry. You're not a winner.

goneaway, I'm resisting the urge to use ammonia mixed with bleach. . .

See, Jason, I still would'a gone with the Xavier-Magneto comparison.

--k, you made me laugh out loud. You are officially my favoritest person in the world right now.

And apropos of nothing, readers may now order a print of that photo I'd posted a few weeks back (and which is included in Heather's guest gallery at JanesGuide), if so desired.

Datarat, I am going to address some comments directly to you, because what you said above proved you a mealymouthed fucker in my book, and I can't stand the idea that you get to spew your bullshit here and no one would address it.

1) Aaron has ALREADY had one ticket to Iraq paid for and punched by right-wing fucknuggets like yourself. As such, I feel he's got more right to comment than most.

2) Why do I get the feeling that YOU feel YOU are not in any danger of receiving such a ticket, hmmmmm? I'm taking a blind guess, I know, but your comment stinks of chickenhawk.

3) It's my students -- people whose well-being I value immensely -- who are receiving such tickets right now. They got on the ticket mailing list in order to go to school, not in order to throw their lives away in a pointless attemptt o impose American culture on others. now they may lose othe opportunity to learn PERMANENTLY. And when they start coming home in bodybags, their families will finally stop sitting mutely in the face of ranting chickenhawlks like you and will speak up about thier unease over this stupid and pointless conflict.

GWB is the Working American's president. He has a strong mind, and a stiff back. Maybe what you all need is a little hard work, maybe learn the value of a dollar.

Awww, the cobwebs weren't out of the head enough for me to continue the x-men related stuff.

Thank you for setting it right.

Now, excuse me while I choose to not click on links.

Gee, and Republicans can teach us the value of a dollar, Rick? Like maybe Enron did? Good thing we have so many people with a good head for money in this administration, boy howdy!! All those corporate bandits who manipulated energy markets are real savvy to the meaning of dollars!

Garrity, you're my hera.

Garrity, what Heather said.

Jason, no worries. But does it keep you awake at night? The feeling that someday the tourists will click your name and come for you... and your blog?

And I forgot to mention that Scarlet Letters now offers mini-ads. Site favorite Chris Bridges has one, as does VASpider.

Who will no doubt be along shortly to ask if anyone knows what happens to a datarat when it's struck by lightning.

oh come on I have to say it "the same thing that happens to everything else." Image me with an overly self-important voice and a long flowing white wig while saying it.

I ♥ Aaron no matter what, blonde wig and Visa®-label dresses and all.

Yeah, I know. “Shut the fuck up.”

Hey, there, Aaron. Nice blog. I read it all the time. Keeps me in touch with the other side of things. Tells me what I need to know about silly movies I don't bother to see. Great public service by a great American.

I'll make sure you get an extra-big tax cut, just to show no hard fellings, okay?

A shrubbery!

Sorry, couldn't resist.

I heart Aaron too. And other such sentiments which are a little less flowery. Which is why I'm taking him away from all this very shortly.

I'm afraid he'll be much too busy to entertain the masses for a while. So sad, that.

One of those days, eh?

*fumbles for my old therapist's card*
She'll help you work out your issues with white women, Aaron. (This is like the third incident, now?) She's great!

Oh wait. My therapist is a white woman.
Never mind.

Oh Aaron you must hate me too since I'm a white woman right? You've just been pretending all this time.

Fucking A.

What problem do you have with pro-Saddam activists? I thought you were a lefty? Oh...its the term "pro-Saddam activists" that you don't like. Funny, I never took you for the kind of guy that has trouble calling a spade a spade...

Interesting.

Let's look at the logic of this, shall we, sweet Rosemary?

I am a pacifist. I abhor violence in all forms.

Saddam Hussein is violent. I am aware of this.

When the US makes war, this is also violent.

Why is it so hard for you to see that I can abhor making war NO MATTER WHO IS MAKING IT -- my own government or someone else's?

You may not agree with me, but I think throwing gasoline on this fire will cause more violence than it solves. This does not make me 'pro-Saddam.' Simplistic dualism of this sort curtails intelligent political discussion, and simultaneously makes you look like a complete blithering idiot.

Now THAT is calling a spade a spade.

a spade a spade...

no, forget about it.

There are an amazing number of people who should be informed that Aaron has a problem with white women.

How are we defining white today?

And, you know, who made this about race?

and, you know, is this really about anything...

Michelle, do you have X-Men 1.5?

Gah. Aaron, damn you, why, why, why did you invoke that line? Now I have to sit here and twitch for a little while. Worst. Movie Line. Ever.

Is it okay if I just don't even acknowledge any of the rest of the comments that just don't bear response? I'm thinking that's probably what I'm going to do.

VASpider, I'm thinking that not acknowledge thing is the best solution.

That, or mucking with the .htaccess to block referrers from certain sites, but anyone with half a brain could easily get around that.

Hang on, forgot who I was trying to block. It would probably work fine.

Well, garrity, yeah, it DOES make you pro-Saddam. Cut and dried. End of conversation. Doesnt matter how you dice it, slice it, justify it, or just plain attempt to rationalize it. SOMETIMES MAINTAINING PEACE REQUIRES FORCE. THIS AINT A FUCKING UTOPIA, you PACIFISTS LIVE IN A FUCKING FAIRY WORLD, IT AINT REALITY, and UNDERSTAND ONCE AND FOR FUCKING ALL that the PRICE OF PEACE IS NOT A FREE LUNCH. WHAT in the name of all that is good can you or do you not understand here? Mankind is not inherently good and peaceful. How many thousands of years of battle does it take before you understand that? Do you want to live by Saddam's and Bin Laden's rules? Is THAT what you consider living? Then you belong living with THEM. Your overblown and ignorant repetitive rant regarding "body bags" ad nauseum only reflects your cowardice and your inability to comprehend a much greater truth: that a freedom-loving country has no use for scum that cannot and/or will not understand one simple rule: Sometimes maintaining peace requires force. Simply put by GWB last night, and that, you ignoramus, is simplistic truth that you will probably never comprehend. And before you comment back with some useless liberal trash, I have an 18-year old son and I would be proud to know that he would defend the freedoms of his country, unlike leeching cowards like yourself.

No Jason I do not have X-Men 1.5. Is it worth the money?

And yes perhaps we should define white. Or not. How about we just define mutant and non-mutant. No?

more entertaining than watching that unelected blithering idiot giving the State of the Union.

here's the 30 second summary

Good, good. That's my plan.

So, are you going to be in Minneapolis the last week in May, you think, or am I going to have to trek out to Illinois to track you down when I'm out Midwest-way?

Nice job on the cut-and-paste-over, Drape..."A message to the people of Iraq..We can't help you..go home and die".

What's the matter, hurt to much to hear a speech where the REAL content is completely truthful that a cut and pasteover is needed for comic effect?

Vickie -

Before your beady little head explodes from the pressure caused by all that stick up your ass it would behoove you to note that your distinguished host actually went to war once. I'm guessing that the Gulf War didn't increase freedom or peace for either Aaron, Iraq, or either of the Shrubs. Do you wanna ask him about that or just fuck off quickly and quietly?

ps. I know others have mentioned this already but you can't expect the link sheep to read back over comments older than ten seconds.

Wow.

A speech not only from a politician that was nothing but the honest truth AND from Dubya no less. My stars!

I take it the tooth fairy is still visiting you as well? Going to give those shiny quarters to the piggy bank Shrub'll be giving to the HIV-infected in Africa or those of us low-income poor folks who'll soon find ourselves with healthcare coming out of our ears too, no doubt.

i STILL say, if we REALLY care about liberating our friends abroad from liberty-hating extremists, i vote we lock and load our AR-15s, strap on the night vision goggles, and paraglide into f'ing australia. there are some f'd up m'f'rs down there--particularly those "men's rights" loons running around demonstrating against women.

and while we're at it--won't somebody please strap on their AR-15s and liberate us from the seattle f'in police department? they've practically got a higher civilian body count than saddam "gasface" hussein himself.

let's get our facts straight, my darling war-trolls. people who are against the war are americans, they love liberty, and they hate tyrants. we would gladly fucking strap on machine guns and go fight the enemies of freedom, except for the fact that some of them seem to have taken over our own government while we were busy microwaving some popcorn. and there are good friends of yours way over on your side of the political fence who are in complete agreement with me. mark my words, sooner rather than later, you will too.

i know you would all love to have been characters in "band of brothers" but A, it's a little too late for that, and B, it was just a fucking television show, assholes. in reality, war--ALL wars--serve one purpose: to line the pockets of war profiteers. there's one easy way to starve a pinheaded, psycho bastard like saddam, and it is to DRY UP THE WEAPONS SUPPLY. but it's our No. 1 export, so that's unlikely to happen any time soon.

enjoy bukkake in your goddamned american flag diapers you motherless freaks--and don't get into a battle of insults with me because i am insane and feel absolutely no pain. so you're just going to have to shoot me.

hi aaron! hope you wore your wellies and brought your golf umbrella today...looks like we're up to our knees in it.

peace out...

According to the courts, Mutants are no longer considered human...at least in the toy world. Human characters are taxed at a different level than non-human characters when imported or exported. So being considered non-human gets mutants around the world cheaper.

Not sure how I feel about that in an abstract sense.

Or maybe we could consider Xander's speech to Dawn on the latest new episode of Buffy in which he explains that Dawn is amazing because she lacks powers and has to watch all her other friends be cool because they do.

Sounds kind of defeatist to me. Especially considering she's probably the most mutant of them all being a giant ball of energy wrapped in humanity.

But she sure doesn't act like no mutie. Not that I have anything against muties.

So long as they don't act so mutie around me, I'm fine.

Speaking of which, what's Senator Kelly's number? I want to support him. And do you know where I can buy one of those handy dandy personal sentinel robots that are all the rage these days?

To clarify: I didn't mean to make it sound like I made the mp3 myself.

The excellent job with the decoupage was done by Jay Smooth, a noted NY hiphop radio personality.

I did not find the effect comical, I found it chilling. Chilling particularly because it said something truthful about what a war would mean.

And if you must bifurcate the handle, it would be "drapeto", not drape.

i heard someone say sen. kelly was a mutie. but then, they've said the same thing about me. which is why i am logging this from an i-cafe. or a library. or something. wouldn't do too good to make it THAT easy for Them to find me...

drapeto, do you pronounce that like "torpedo"?

Wow It's a good thing that blacks are only 8% of the actual fighting forces of the US of A.

Ooh Ooh I should mind my tongue, hate and all..yadda yadda..you'll probably expect reprashuns and all.

BTW Michelle asked me to say hi numbnuts.

Shrubbery. Yeah, that was funny, once upon a time. Back in '94 when I whupped Ma Richards' patoot to become gubnor of Texas, she went around callin' me a shrub.

After all the votes were counted, I called her up and said, "That's Gubnor Shrub to you."

Suddenly she didn't think it was funny.

Michelle, you need better friends.

What do you mean he was referring to the other Michele?

Why is numbnuts an insult? if you literally had "numb nuts" wouldn't a possible cause of that be from heavy usage?

Don't see anything wrong with that.

Mr. Bush, please hit your buzzer before you shout out an answer. We're going to have to disqualify you and give your Rice-a-Roni to someone else.

Why is it that the cretinous inability to avoid pointless dualist oversimplification is ALWAYS coupled with the compulsive urge, once a cretinous dualist assumption has been pointed out, to simply pile on schoolyard taunts?

Aaron, these ones bore me. Have new ones showered and brought to my tent, won't you?

You're ever so kind. *dimples*

A couple of questions. If you are indeed a pacifist how do you justify wanting the death of someone you disagree with? Did Amish Tech Support piss in your Mountain Dew or something? If you are a pacifist, you aren't a very consistent one. Preaching hate would seem to be outside the realm of peace and brotherly affection.

I don't get it.

It's not like there aren't, you know.

Pictures.

And plenty of them.

Hell, we all know what color your ass is, let alone your hair.

I don't g...

*bzzt*

Brain broken.

Jason I'm thinking he's referring to the other Michele. And he somehow missed the memo where she said she fucking hated people who spelled her name with two ls. I'm thinking he's just a hanger-on because if he were a real friend who she asked to stop by I think for fuck's sake he'd at least be able to spell her name properly.

When is the premier date for X2 by the way?

Michelle, 05.02.03.

Oh thanks dear. I see on the X2 website they have a countdown app you can download. I know you want it don't you?

Oh -- before I forget.

On your way up, Aaron, could you grab some more shoe polish?

You used all of mine up last time we took photographs.

Thanks, babe.

God Damn Son! You've sure become popular. Do you want a cracker to go stir shit? I've been bored lately.

Did you catch Dennis Miller last night? I almost peed myself when he said we should bomb Iraq until all the sand heats up and forms a glass structure like Superman's Kryptonian Apartment. Then look at North Korea and say "You want some of this?"

I'm with VASpider: my brain's broken.

I confess to liking X-Men, but I'm hopelessly geeky and unhip and like it that way. There's a gag in all this about Magneto's effect on mundanes, and another one inherent in the comments section that starts with "everything I need to know about blogging, I learned in kindegarten", but I think I'll leave them as exercises for the audience. Like I said, my brain's broken.

Ginger, you and VASpider are letting the facts get in the way.

The tourists don't have this problem.

Lord Shagariffic, think I was on the phone with Heather when Miller was on last night. Figure it was a better way to spend the time, too. And although I'd never encourage spending time with the idjits linking here lately, I'm hardly going to stand in your way. . .

Heather, don't be silly. Shoe polish and liquid latex would never have worked. Though it might have made it easier to remove the stuff after the shoot, come to think of it.

Michelle, the X2 site apparently discriminates against Linux/Mozila users, even the ones using Flash 6. Typical.

Michelle, the X2 site apparently discriminates against Linux/Mozila users, even the ones using Flash 6. Typical.

Nuh Uh. I just looked at it and other than the parts of the site that just plain don't work (some of the Cere* control center stuff has empty menus) everything else works fine. There's a shot of Nightcrawler that is so cheesy it's painful.

Hanne:

Did you know 98 % of all rice-a-roni eaters won it on gameshows?

It's the other 2% that worry me.

I should just let this go, but here's what's curious to me about all this...

Aaron gets all super-villiany regarding two specific sites asking to be de-linked, so they, in turn, link more and call Aaron a troll, despite the fact that he didn't appear in the comments of their sites to run them down.

So, from those new links on other sites, more people link and visit her to bad-mouth Aaron, essentially trolling this site, while at the same time claiming that they dislike such behavior.

Couldn't really find any of the regular readers here in the comments on any of those other sites so I'm confused.

Who's trolling who?

I still think Spidercicle is a good super-villain name.

Also?

I like pie.

That is all.

"Their side." Oooh.

Well, yes.

Not just wrong about the facts, but extraordinarily smug and self-righteous about conclusions drawn from those erroneous beliefs.

It's the Warblogger Way™.

Jason, why do you ask questions you already know the answers to?

And Martin, where did you hear that?

The answer to that question is quite simple, Jason. See...we're actually all IRAQI SPIES! Yeah, that's it. We're IRAQI SPIES who are being duped by communists.

And Aaron is our leader. He just hasn't given us the order to attack yet. THAT'S why we haven't commented on those "other blogs"

Do they have pie? I'm not attacking if there's not any pie.

I'm with Hanne. No pie, no attack. And it better be good pie too.

Pecan pie?

OH, shit. I got it wrong again. It's Iraqi's PIES.

Whoops!

Mmmm, pie.

One of the things going on here is that for many bloggers, the highest goal in the universe is getting read and (perhaps even more importantly) getting linked. It's difficult for a person in that mindset to interpret a desire to be delinked, no matter how expressed, as sincere.

I don't think this is an issue restricted to the warblogging set, either. I've been watching the Bloggies controversy from a distance--I'm a friend of a friend of one of the disputed nominees--and I see a lot of the same kind of callouts, trolling, and posse/pack behavior from people who have nothing to do with warblogging and would consider blogging politics about as interesting and fun as a case of leprosy.

Or maybe it's sunspots making people crazy.

But that's all meaningless when we could be talking about pie. Pecan pie is More For You; me, I want a nice apple pie. It is French apple pie that comes with the crust of brown sugar on top, right? And the real important questions: Heated or not? And: A la mode?

'Scuse me for barging in, I just want to say hello to Hanne. It's funny where people we know pop up!

Hello Etoile! Would you like some pie?

Ginger: There are a couple of different names for the type of apple pie with the streusel top crust. Dutch Apple Pie, French Apple Pie, and Streusel Apple Pie are the ones I've come across.

And yes, warm, with a scoop of homemade vanilla ice cream, please.

Aaron apparently doesn't like pie, by the way.

So he tells me.

I think he's nuts.

But then he also tells me he's visiting then tells everyone else he's going to California instead. So.

(Lookie, it's Etoile!)

Hmm....someone apparently hasn't quite grasped the whole "blogging" concept...

Maybe Diaryland would be more up your alley? No pesky trackbacks, lots and lots of puerile whining...

I think you've misspoken, Ryan love. Aaron hasn't signed on for the "Warblogger Way." Not all of us have that special combination of traits required to sustain that level of constant negativity, and prefer to ahave it only in short controled bursts when sorely provoked.

I'm actually bored with feeling provoked now, so don't bother to yah-yah at me, ok? Waste of your breath. Besides, I too am going to Pismo Beach. For pie.

Heather, that's a lie.

You have pictures that prove otherwise.

A. Hem.

I didn't see no streusel topping on that deep-dish pie, sister.

Then again, maybe it was 'cause Aaron licked it all off?

Damn, looks like I missed quite a party.

Too many frickin' crashers, rhully, but that just goes to show how popular the host is, eh?

Exactly so, Hanne, exactly so.

Jessica, fret not! There's still pie for you. Join us. The tourists are amusing, the weather's great, and there's pie. Life is good.

Personally, I found great pleasure in being called insane because I found the spectre of the Government recreating totalitarian instruments of rule in my nation frightening. Just like I find it quite amusing to hear people talking about how we're gonna go in to Iraq and free the people from the man we sold arms to quite amusing. Kind of like Bill Hicks used to say...we're like Jack Palance in Shane throwing the guns at the feet of the people we want to shoot.

Fuck, does anybody like Saddam Hussein? Anyone at all? I'd love it if someone would take him out. When's it end? We're already at war in Afghanistan (still, by the way...we're going to be there for a long, long time, too, just ask the Russians) and we're making noises at North Korea and we've got soliders in Columbia prosecuting that war on drugs that really worked out for us...when are we going to stop? Are we going to just travel the world entire bombing anyone who looks funny at us? I mean, seriously, does this 'force' that you so dearly love (and which so terrified George Washington, that fucking scum, that he actually warned against allowing it in our lives at all...direct quote: Government is not reason and it is not eloquence. It is force! Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. That right, George Washington feared the government's power and he feared rash use of that power...like, say, getting involved in wars all over the globe) justify anything? Is it right and meet that a nation conceived, if not always realizing, such goals as this one should become the thug of the world?

If we have evidence that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, we should share that evidence with the UN and the arms inspectors, at least Hans Blix. I assume that Iraq knows what Iraq is doing, so it's not like they'll be surprised. Is it so horrible to want to know why we're expected to bomb yet another nation? I am under no delusions as to the nature of life. I know it is dangerous. I also know that I am expected to bear that danger, to accept risk, and to know that I cannot ever truly be safe outside of death. Those who would give up Essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.Benjamin Franklin said it in 1755, and it's still true, and one of those essential liberties is the right to disagree. It didn't make him crazy or a scumbag, and it doesn't make us such either. One must wonder about people who would rather call out epithets than discuss an issue...it seems that their opinion is so tenuous in their own minds that all they can do is clap their hands over their ears and shout.

Again, quoting another dangerous pinko scumbag, Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace. - That scumbag was Dwight D. Eisenhower.

"Besides, I too am going to Pismo Beach. For pie."

...yeah, just don't get in the water. You'd never get any waves.

*picking up dropped jaw*

Ryan, the multiple waves from sorry little horny straight boys on the shoreline were more than enough to get me where I needed to go. But thanks for your concern.

Ask Neo about how I look in a bikini, if you've any doubts.

And then stop wasting your breath.

Yeesh, you pick on a couple of unknown sites of little consequence and the little beasts swarm out like cockroaches in pursuit of a 30 year old Twinkie crumb. I mean, what's the deal? If any old wargasmic yayhoo site decides to expose their hateful racial agendas, do you plan to grant them cred by using reason?

I mean, I can grasp the wonderment that such critters have mastered the alphabet, but if you're 'spectin' them to grasp the concepts of humanity or pragmatism within the same lifetime, you just may be putting too much faith in the speed of evolution.

Give them a coupla centuries and they may hit the Renaissance, but fer now, pardner, I'd reckon that it's more practical an' all just dosin' yerself with a bit of Qwell and hope the infestation moves back to some rotted corpse where the necrophiliacs are more acclimated to the environment.

Just remember, if there's something warm, living and vital, they're gonna be after it, sucking the juice outa it till they get to the gangrenous offal that gets their tastebuds excited.

They're species is already doomed to getting by on the regurgitated war whoops of Attila the Hun, played to the tune of "Achy Breaky Sphincters" on a continuous loop midi.

Save yer juices fer the Intergalactic LoveShack of Funkadelic Reach instead of making pearl necklaces for swine whose values run more to spraypainted sequins.

Sure, they're such easy targets that I understand the temptation, but ya don't hafta invite David Duke to the Apollo to make yer point.

Just my one-anna-half cents on the topic. You've just got too much good shit goin' on to grant them the value of your time, imo.

That's fine -- stick with the sandcastles, and as long as the takeoff spot doesn't get too crowded then we're alright.

Oh, will you look at that? Someone kicked sand into the pie.

I'll just have to nip off and bake another one.

Those who know the address are welcome to drop by for a slice.

Don't mind if I do...

Will you still be in the bikini?

Yes.

And an apron.

I did eventually finish the movie, by the way.

And saw a huge friggin' display for the sequel when Heather, Noel and I went to see Chicago last weekend.

Insert tirade about how ain't no way Queen Latifah is getting that supporting actress Oscar™. . . here.