Zero 7
Monday, March 12th, 2007Harmonized smoothness or whining white women?
You decide.
Archive for March 12th, 2007
The reason for war
Monday, March 12th, 20071/18/03, 2 months before the start of the Iraq War:
I can’t imagine that anybody would say, We’re going to war because there are 11 empty warheads, probably left over from 10 years ago. These warheads are not the nuclear weapons we’ve been warned about. They travel about 12 miles.
But this is being used as a pretext for a decision that’s already been made at high levels of the U.S. government to change the government in Iraq. It has nothing to do with, boy, we’re — we are really worried about these little chemical warheads that’s going to cause a holocaust in the Middle East.
But the last thing that the hawks inside the administration, and their friends outside the administration, want is a coup d’etat that would replace Saddam Hussein. They want a war as a manifestation of U.S. power in the world and as a sign that the United States is capable of changing the balance of power and the political map of the Middle East.
Talking to a senior official, and he said to me, he said, Well, if we don’t hit in Iraq, where are we going to hit? And they — it’s a desire that the United States, the superpower, is going to manifest its authority to the rest of the world.
Listen, I just feel that this potential — this war, I just trust it comes off easily. But I have trepidation that it won’t be easy, and there’s going to be a terrible consequences from it.
Uttered Robert Novak of all people.
Terrible consequences? How prophetic.
God dammit.
Damn Foreigners
Monday, March 12th, 2007I am starting to hear people refer to our highway system as “the thirty five” or “the nine four”.
Look, I don’t care what state you came from, but we do things a bit different here in Minnesota. It’s not the three five, it’s just thirty five. It’s not the nine four, it’s ninety four.
If you continue using your local idioms we will continue to identify you as foreigners and you will continue to be shunned Minnesota nice style.
TC Cycling Community Blog
Monday, March 12th, 2007I had an idea.
A blog for the cycling and racing community in the Twin Cities. Requirement to be a contributing member of the blog:
• Live in or around the Twin Cities
• Be an active cyclist
This blog would be good for those who don’t blog and want to give it a try, those who currently blog and want to add some work on another site to further publicize their work and increase traffic to their own site, and those who currently blog but are thinking of dropping their blog but still want an opportunity to do some public writing.
So what do you think? Would you read such a thing? Would you be interested in being a contributor? Let me know.
