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January 26, 2005
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The Beatitudes from The Gospel According to Dubya:
“Blessed are the children whom the sea swallows, for they shall tug at our heartstrings. / Cursed are the children whom our bombs blow up, for they shall roam the dark alleys of our indifference.” We’ve been Iraq’s tsunami. But expect no charity drive, no minute of silence, no flag at half-staff: nothing that would allow shame to rear its ugly face.
Posted by: beq | Jan 28 2005 14:50 utc | 101
beq and SKoD, thanks – amazing and all that in the name of God. If this creativity for shams would only be used for the good of the world, it would be a great place.
Posted by: Fran | Jan 28 2005 14:55 utc | 102
Dubya Gospel:
Pictures of The Children of Iraq
No difference to pictures from Palestine. Will the fight be as long?
I also got that email. Guess some spambot has gathered adresses here or on lespeakeasy as these are the only places I use this adress. Kind of funny in a way.
Posted by: A swedish kind of death | Jan 28 2005 15:23 utc | 104
Mark Morford – today’s column is just relaxing, a little balm for the mind, a little rest from reality
The Parrot In The Bathroom – Our dog-loving columnist finds the bird life surreal indeed. And you thought your cat was strange
SKoD – I don’t know if it is from these sites, I usually to not leave my mail adresse when I comment.
Posted by: Fran | Jan 28 2005 15:37 utc | 105
@SKOD:
Don’t ever remember you posting an EMail address here–Haven’t been over at Speakeasy much.
Might have happened very early on.
Hope I don’t get one.
Last thing I need is salvation by swindle.
Posted by: FlashHarry | Jan 28 2005 15:38 utc | 106
In re: The Children of Iraq, Thanks Bernhard, now how do we get these projected from every idiot box in murka?
Posted by: beq | Jan 28 2005 15:49 utc | 107
I have left my email adress here, but not for a while as the memory of “Remember personal info?” isn´t quite perfect and I didn´t bother to rewrite it all the time. So it was a while ago I last used it here (before today).
As I always use emailadresses I can cut off when writing on the Internet, I know that I have only used this adress here and at lespeakeasy.
Posted by: A swedish kind of death | Jan 28 2005 15:49 utc | 108
Thanks for the Morford too, Fran. My SO bought me a budgie at a neighbor’s yardsale several years ago. (Budgies + cats = nononononooooo) I named him Mingus until two years later when I came home and found an egg in the bottom of “his” cage. It’s Ming now and she is a most important element in my life. I hope one day she can sort of whistle “somewhere over the rainbow” but now it’s mostly me. =)
Posted by: beq | Jan 28 2005 16:16 utc | 109
beq, what is a Budgies? I asume a bird, considering she is laying eggs. 😉
Posted by: Fran | Jan 28 2005 16:23 utc | 110
I was just googling it, yes they are birds.
Posted by: A swedish kind of death | Jan 28 2005 16:25 utc | 111
Thanks SKoD, looks I have been misnaming those budgies, they are called ‘Kanarienvögel’ in Switzerland, and I always called them ‘canary birds’;-p – sometimes its really worthwhile looking stuff up.
Posted by: Fran | Jan 28 2005 16:32 utc | 112
That is ‘Kanariefågel’ in swedish so I understand ‘canary birds’ perfectly 🙂
Posted by: A swedish kind of death | Jan 28 2005 16:39 utc | 113
@ SKoD, That looks like Ming except she has yellow on her head. “Budgie” comes from budgerigar aka parakeet but most parakeets, I think are larger. The aussies are small.
Posted by: beq | Jan 28 2005 16:42 utc | 114
got the e-mail too. i also receive Asian spam at the addresses I leave around here.
There are amazing sites that make fun of the Nigerian scam letters (…long search – no link found here at work, must have it at home…sigh…)
I’ll open a new open thread now.
Posted by: Anonymous | Jan 28 2005 17:00 utc | 115