A couple more things I've been shocked I say shocked about:
Apparently, most Americans don't care that the Pres. approved illegal wiretapping. And think they wouldn't mind being wiretapped themselves if it was helpful to the NSA. I think we should test this theory by doing it. Wiretap all those people and bring them into their local FBI office, play the tape back and question them about inconsistencies on the tape. Give them coffee and water and inform them if they leave the room to piss it will be noted that they walked out on an offical FBI interview. Can I do it? Please please please? If the president can do it, I should be able to do it, right?
Someone I don't care about on the radio was talking about the increase in radical islamic sentiment in the mid-east (read:anti-Americanism). and I was thinking, the last time I remember things being this bad was when I lived in Germany and the PLO was bombing crap and Libya was involved and everthing was just insane and out of control. Burning American flags and effigies of Reagan and all that. But now I'm reminded of reports of the surge in Anti-War movements here over the past several years. Do they really not get it? If you bomb people, they demonstrate against you and threaten you and don't like you. If you are in a war, anti-war protestors demonstrate against you and threaten you and don't like you. If you don't bomb people and invade their country, they may dislike you a great deal less. In fact, they may largely ignore you. If you're not perpetrating a war, peace activists may largely ignore you.
Statistics are crap. By the way. In case you didn't know. Unless they account for attribution. Which they don't. Because statistics is math and math only says what it says and nothing more. YOU can say whatever you want about the math, but the math is just math.
Posted by jlp716 at February 3, 2006 11:36 PM