whomod, with all due respect, didn't you notice that DK and I kept following up our posts with a winking graemlin, you know, the one that is universally recognized as meaning "just kidding"?
For a guy who loves to punctuate his posts with the graemlin you sure seem to have a problem deciphering what a graemlin means.
Unless you have access to an uber-powerful flashlight.
"Well when I talk to people I don't have to worry about spelling." - wannabuyamonkey
"If Schumacher’s last effort was the final nail in the coffin then Year One would’ve been the crazy guy who stormed the graveyard, dug up the coffin and put a bullet through the franchise’s corpse just to make sure." -- From a review of Darren Aronofsky & Frank Miller's "Batman: Year One" script
whomod, with all due respect, didn't you notice that DK and I kept following up our posts with a winking graemlin, you know, the one that is universally recognized as meaning "just kidding"?
For a guy who loves to punctuate his posts with the graemlin you sure seem to have a problem deciphering what a graemlin means.
Well.. yeah, I use graemlins all the time to little effect. All I usually read is derision that I actually dared to use them as if their use somehow denotes a failure to communicate intelligently.
Regardless, since you explained yourselves, it makes sense now since what I was reading sounded so over the top immflamatory.
I had a friend in college who noticed that local hippie-protester contingent never did much between November and April. His theory was that good weather increases the number of people with a "social conscience."
Following are the ABC News Investigative Unit's summaries of Iraqi documents from Saddam Hussein's government, which were released by the U.S. government Wednesday.
Correspondence regarding election campaigns in France. This includes a document from the Iraqi intelligence service classified as "secret," ordering the translation of important parts of a 1997 report about campaign financing laws in France. It also includes a document from the foreign minister's office indicating the report was attached. The attached translated report included very detailed information about all the regulations regarding financing of election campaigns in France. Translation was done by someone called "Salam Abdul Karim Mohammed."
(Editor's Note: This is an intriguing document which suggests Saddam Hussein's regime had a strong interest in the mechanics and legalities of financial contributions to French politicians. Several former French politicians are implicated in receiving oil vouchers from Iraq under the U.N. Oil for Food program.)
In this book, Eric Shawn details that France was a fairly dependable ally until Jacques Chirac was elected in 1995.
After that, he writes, France’s relations with the U.S. began to sour quickly. France reversed its role at the U.N., going from an ally (even if a somewhat capricious one) to antagonist. Prior to Chirac, Shawn alleges, France would disagree with us primarily to advance French interests. After Chirac, France began actively protecting terrorist states through its Security Council Veto power.
With its Veto power, Shawn writes, France has almost single-handedly made the UN useless in the global war against terrorist nations. Not that the UN is in any rush to do anything about terrorism, but France makes doing nothing both easy and inevitable.
the French leader announced Sunday that he will not seek a third term in presidential elections in six weeks. In a televised address, Chirac said he would find new ways to serve his country after leaving office: "Serving France, and serving peace, is what I have committed my whole life to."
I'm sure that the suspected ties to the "oil for food" scandal and the rising Muslim violence gripping his country had nothing, nothing, to do with his decision.
Dennis Miller on O'Reilly's show tonight was discussing his indifference to anything the French have to say at this point. He mentioned that France just took snack vending machines out of public schools, a move Miller described as "an attempt to raise healthier cowards"
"Batman is only meaningful as an answer to a world which in its basics is chaotic and in the hands of the wrong people, where no justice can be found. I think it's very suitable to our perception of the world's condition today... Batman embodies the will to resist evil" -Frank Miller
"Conan, what's the meaning of life?" "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women!" -Conan the Barbarian
"Well, yeah." -Jason E. Perkins
"If I had a dime for every time Pariah was right about something I'd owe twenty cents." -Ultimate Jaburg53
"Fair enough. I defer to your expertise." -Prometheus
graemlin you sure seem to have a problem deciphering what a graemlin means.
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