This article helped me to realize that many millions of people in my country are getting nationalism and patriotism confused. It's easy to do, especially if you're stupid and trust me, if you've been into Wal-Mart lately you know there are millions of stupid people hiding out in the USA.
I thought to myself, "before I post about this observation in my blog I should check out the definitions and see if people get them confused because their definitions are similar."
1. patriotism, nationalism -- (love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it)
Very funny. It's things like this that cause everyone to put US flags on their SUV and not complain when the US breaks international law to invade another country without compelling evidence that we are threatened. Because we're 'special'.
I could go off into the vortex of the history of nationalism, but instead I'll just say it with links.
In the words of my colleague RK1:It goes down.
I must remember to read this one more timebefore I agree to get married.
Kurt Wenner makes some pretty sick 3D sidewalk art.
I'm going to buy several fish tanks soon. I will then light my house by fishlight.
Mohammad Ali Abtahi - Weblog
Check it out. Iran's VP blogs, and includes secret photos with meetings with Eduard Shevardnadze. Note to self: learn Arabic.
This is compelling evidence that some Germans are very, very weird.
Mr Meiwes, a computer expert, met 43-year-old Bernd-Jurgen Brandes in early 2001, after Mr Meiwes advertised on websites for "young, well-built men aged 18 to 30 to slaughter", the German daily newspaper Bild reported at the time of his arrest.Mr Meiwes told investigators he took Mr Brandes back to his home, where Mr Brandes agreed to have his penis cut off, which Mr Meiwes then flambeed and served up to eat together.
ThemeXP pretty much rocks. It's got a huge free collection of desktops wallpaper, Visual Styles, Logins, and Boot Screens for souping up your Windows XP.
Let me explain this in simple terms, habibi. You would have spent the rest of your life under Ba?athist rule. You might have gotten some nice architectural commissions to do a house for someone whose aroma was temporarily acceptable to the Tikriti mob.
Yeah, he would have...thanks to the help our country gave the 'butcher of Baghdad' in the eighties. Remember this?
He even admits
I understand; I would have done the same. I?m not brave enough to start a revolution. I wouldn?t have grabbed a gun and charged a palace. I would lived like you. Head down, eyes wary. When the man?s too strong, the man?s too strong.
Another self-righteous blogger. Overall, about as rational a post as any from Yahweh or Allah.
During the last ice age, a giant lake formed in Montana which was created by a natural glacial dam. When the glaciers retreated, the lake swelled and broke the dam. In the Willamette valley it left fertile topsoil at depths of up to 100 feet! The Missoula floods were out of control. I say floods because this amazing event happened more than once. They were even more amazing than the biblical flood, because they actually happened.
I found this to be very interesting, and was under the impression that this was what had caused the Willamette river to run south to north. I was also under the impression that north-running rivers were rare, until I saw this page. Apparently they are not. However the Willamette is special, because it is one of our country's most polluted places. I think of this every time I see someone waterski or swim in it.
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This is why I'm not in a hurry to be a web designer.
Jones Soda is introducing Turkey and Gravy flavored soda just in time for thanksgiving!
BLOGGER - Knowledge Base - How Not to Get Fired Because of Your Blog
After reading this, I'm going to make it a point not to be an unemployed blogger.
...unless it keeps snowing and I can roll on unemployment all season. Mmmmmpowder.
President Defends Sanctity of Marriage
Marriage is a sacred institution between a man and a woman. Today's decision of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court violates this important principle. I will work with congressional leaders and others to do what is legally necessary to defend the sanctity of marriage.
If I stay in PDX on turkey day, I'm checking out this page when I get hungry.
If you're feeling guilty about your ill-gotten MP3s, send them back!
I've been AWOL from my blog for a bit, but I'm back now with 106 cures for the hiccups. Here are a few:
With your fingers, apply mild but firm pressure to the phrenic nerves at the position where they cross each side of the collarbone.
Take as slow and as deep a breath as you can tolerate (it should take at least 10 seconds to inhale; longer is better); near the end of this breath, you will feel a kind of shudder in your diaghram; affter the shudder, go back to breathing normally (if you do not feel the shudder, repeat the process until you do).
Carefully inhale; pause briefly; carefully exhale; pause briefly; repeat this several times.
Lie down; stretch out as far as you can (fingers toward the wall above your head, toes pointed toward the wall below your feet); hold your breath as long as possible then breathe once quickly for a quick half of a second then hold your breath again.
Talk non-stop for ten seconds.
(Women:) Stimulate your clitoris.
I opted to purchase a Canon A70 after I did some shopping around. I had looked at Pentax Optio S because it was tiny (fits into an Altoids tin!) but in the end I rolled with the Canon because it had a modest amount of manual control and an extra 1.2 million megapixels, too. The other bonus to rolling with the Canon was the fact that it uses compactflash memory cards, which are the cheapest ones available.
My only regret was losing the receipt, since after a month of use the camera's mode switch (which controls whether the camera is in picture-shooting or playback mode) decided to fail. I need to exploit the 1-year warranty now. I still don't regret purchasing the camera, except when I look at the Canon EOS 300D. Then I cry.
Viva la Celebracion! I fixed the bug in my site which was preventing me from posting! For the last few days I've been getting this error every time I tried to post:
An error occurred:
mkdir /home/.abiotic/bmulling: Permission denied at lib/MT/FileMgr/Local.pm line 104
I was despondant, and completely insecure in my programming skillz. Not that I was trying to fix it or anything...So tonight I got home and did about 10 minutes worth of research and voila! I learned through the power of 'pwd' that my home directory had been moved. I updated my MovableType settings and now all is well.
In case you're wondering why my blog isn't being updated, here's the deal: it's broken.
My website was broken or something. I couldn't post to it. Sorry.
Allah is in the House has finally arrived, with his own imitator: Yaweh (who else?)
Allah is in the House has finally arrived, with his own imitator: Yaweh (who else?)
This really works. I used it last night to clean up some of my digital photos from the Halloween party and was very impressed with the results.