your pix. You had the tag closed properly so I have no clue what the problem was, but it was centerizing everything below it just like un-closed tags carry over.

Apologies again, I’m sure you had a good reason for wanting it formatted that way and I am just a heathen with no respect for art. But it was makin’ the rest of the page look goofy. Maybe Lambert when he gets time can figure out how this should have been done properly, but I’m one of those cure-hangnails-with-chainsaws kinda people. :)

if you’d like. I centered the photos on purpose because Firefox was showing me blowing out the page in preview mode if I didn’t. It’s not much of a post anyway.

We. Are. Going. To. Die. We must restore hope in the world. We must bring forth a new way of living that can sustain the world. Or else it is not just us who will die but everyone. What have we got to lose? Go forth and Fight!— Xan

It’s a great post! Not to mention you obviously worked hard on it and the song parody is brilliant. I’ll check it out in Firefox but in IE at least it’s fine, albeit flush left.

I run in IE most of the day because I need it for work. This is about the time I switch to Firefox anyway since I now have time to read over at Eschaton and can’t live without killfile any more. :)

checked all the tags and centered each item individually.
Didn’t blow out the margins in Firefox.

What we need now is Internet Karaoke …

We. Are. Going. To. Die. We must restore hope in the world. We must bring forth a new way of living that can sustain the world. Or else it is not just us who will die but everyone. What have we got to lose? Go forth and Fight!— Xan

at selected academic conferences: “(I Do Research In) Low Places.”

A Quick Study, But A Slow Learner

in my life. I sang it for weeks at both of the jobs I had with the State, before finally leaving.

If you’re familiar with the verse that was sung live (and so far as I know never recorded) at the CMAs the year Garth won his first big award, you can guess why.

Let’s just say the rhyme for “glass” is apropos.

So, all you do is look at pictures of the President, and complain?

Clinton could have stopped the Cole bombing, if he took the time to read this report.
http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/downing/in…

Best YouTube I can find (originals removed due to copyright…)

that suggests to you Al Gore should be in jail?

I see a DoD document apprising a President of the results of an investigation into force protection and the likelihood of need to change our approaches on that issue.

Nowhere in the report you linked to do I see any mention of the USS Cole or other naval assets.

Furthermore, while I am quite certain the “Hair on Fire” Clark (CIA) and the chastened (Khobar Towers, US Embassies, USS Cole) Clinton administration not only read but paid attention to and acted on this report — else it’d’ve been, likely, a sunk battleship rather than a damaged tender in the Gulf — it’s also a fact that the current President, the man you idolize — nay, the man you give every appearance of worshipping abjectly — was too lazy to act on a substantially more explicit briefing delivered during the first of his many month-long vacation trips to Crawford, which was entitled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike In US.”

Bush told the briefer he’d covered his ass and he could go.

It is noteworthy that there was NO direct terrorist attack on the Continental United States during the oh-so-horrible Presidential administration of William Jefferson Clinton, nor during the previous tenure of Democratic President James Earl Carter Jr.

A different story with the windshield cowboy:
After January 20, 2001: George Tenet Accompanies Daily Morning CIA Briefer to Oval Office
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After George W. Bush is inaugurated into office, the manner in which the daily intelligence briefings are presented to the president changes. President Bill Clinton read the PDBs, usually about 12 pages in length, himself and often had no need for the follow-up oral briefings. Bush, on the other hand, prefers a shorter seven-to-10-page PDB containing “more targeted hard intelligence” items. The PDB is delivered to him orally, as he reads along. According to the Washington Post, the CIA’s top officials personally review the PDB before it is presented to Bush. “Tenet reviews the PDB with the briefer as they drive from the director’s Maryland home to the White House. On the way, Tenet often makes notes and looks over the backup material the briefer has brought. Tenet and, often, the deputy director for intelligence have already looked it over before going to bed the night before, though it is finished by staffers who go to work at midnight and monitor incoming intelligence throughout the night.” Tenet is present during the actual briefing and “expands where he believes necessary and responds to questions by Bush and others,” the Post reports. [CNN, 1/18/2001; Washington Post, 5/24/2002] According to retired veteran CIA analyst Ray McGovern, the CIA director’s presence during these briefing is highly unusual. The daily briefings began during the Reagan administration at the suggestion of then-Vice President George H. W. Bush. According to McGovern, the briefings were done at that time by a “small team of briefers… comprised of senior analysts who had been around long enough to earn respect and trust.” McGovern, who did such briefings for the vice president, the secretaries of state and defense, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, and the national security assistant from 1981 to 1985, says that briefers “had the full confidence of the CIA director, who… rarely inserted himself into the PDB process.…. The last thing we briefers needed was the director breathing down our necks.” McGovern suggests that Tenet’s presence at the briefings possibly influenced the content of the briefing. [Truthout (.org), 3/5/2005]

And of course just 33 days later it was a different story for the nation, wasn’t it, Plumber?

We. Are. Going. To. Die. We must restore hope in the world. We must bring forth a new way of living that can sustain the world. Or else it is not just us who will die but everyone. What have we got to lose? Go forth and Fight!— Xan

***crickets***

Guess not.

Must suck to be that mad and that scared all the time, and not be able to think your way out of the situation.

We. Are. Going. To. Die. We must restore hope in the world. We must bring forth a new way of living that can sustain the world. Or else it is not just us who will die but everyone. What have we got to lose? Go forth and Fight!— Xan

Sarah:

I am back, please read the report and get back to me. Look at Chapter 3.

http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/212fin~1.h…

Al Gore should be in jail. Bastard. If he did his job the people would not have had to die.

…and I don’t see where it gives you anything to stand on…it just doesn’t work for me, Plumber.

But then again, 11SEP01 was NINE MONTHS into President Bush’s term. So anything you’d charge Al Gore with not doing, if it wasn’t done under Bush, still wasn’t done, right?

’Cause Atta & Co. still got on those airplanes.

So what’s your solution?
Ban flying while brown?
Ban flying while appearing Arab?
Ban flying?

Banning flying might be a good idea. It would cut way down on pollution.
It would cut way back on business travel, so that would save businesses money.
I don’t see them using that savings to bring jobs back to the US or to give raises to their employees, though.
But I guess you can’t have everything, eh?

We. Are. Going. To. Die. We must restore hope in the world. We must bring forth a new way of living that can sustain the world. Or else it is not just us who will die but everyone. What have we got to lose? Go forth and Fight!— Xan

Nothing worse than an angry troll with an axe to grind and a whole nation turning against him.

It’s like fighting with a drunk at closing hour: you can use reason, you can quote facts, but there is absolutely nothing you can do to change a troll’s mind.

Our latest outbreak of trolls is intended only to disrupt, maybe cause a little chaos, maybe even be destructive enough to discourse that the community suffers.

None of the trolls came here saying, “I’m trying to understand your opinion on this,” or “Let me tell you why I disagree.” They started with personal attacks, called us faggots, questioned our manhood (that means YOU CD! Where are your fucking balls?) and were rude and dismissive assholes.

If we had walked into their house and started disrespecting like that, we would have been tased before we knew it. But we just keep engaging. You give them a seat at the table, they eat all the food!

I have to ignore them - they are fundamentally dishonest, blinded by some hatred I just don’t get; they do not deserve our time or our effort, and they certainly don’t deserve our responses.

“A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” - Margaret Mead

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(Maybe I could take a stab at automating this.)

We. Are. Going. To. Die. We must restore hope in the world. We must bring forth a new way of living that can sustain the world. Or else it is not just us who will die but everyone. What have we got to lose? Go forth and Fight!—Xan

lambert:

You are gay.

I don’t want to blow up the bridge to get rid of the trolls.
I’m willing to invest in some industrial pesticide, though.

We. Are. Going. To. Die. We must restore hope in the world. We must bring forth a new way of living that can sustain the world. Or else it is not just us who will die but everyone. What have we got to lose? Go forth and Fight!— Xan

Please check it. Thanks.

THB: It was my error to engage — I keep hoping to find a Conservative, as in in the old days of, say, 2002, with whom discussion and disagreement was possible. Innocent times.

We. Are. Going. To. Die. We must restore hope in the world. We must bring forth a new way of living that can sustain the world. Or else it is not just us who will die but everyone. What have we got to lose? Go forth and Fight!—Xan

Sarah:

If the Clinton Administration followed it’s own report, in 1997.There would be no 9/11 and no war.

You all have crucified Bush for less.

Please post a musical version on Youtube.