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Decoy:
Tawnya, you are doing delicious.
(Wed Sep 12, 2001 - 3:54:14 pm)

Decoy:
That Jills photo gallery needs some MAJOR photographer help. My 4 year old takes better pictures.
(Wed Sep 12, 2001 - 3:56:45 pm)

Decoy:
I understand that Tawnya is now 21 years old!
(Wed Sep 12, 2001 - 3:59:05 pm)

Decoy:
Awww shit only 4pm? It seems later. Wax, I think this new server and the script are both compensating for EDT. Or not. I'll call you later.
(Wed Sep 12, 2001 - 4:04:38 pm)

(Wed Sep 12, 2001 - 4:05:55 pm)

Queenie:
Just sold 3 computers for about a grand. But still no car. :-(
(Wed Sep 12, 2001 - 4:06:36 pm)

Decoy:

From Alpha
(Wed Sep 12, 2001 - 4:06:41 pm)

Queenie:
So I called my mom, right? She's the one we bought the car from. At the time of purchase, we paid her extra for a year's worth of coverage on her insurance policy. But now she says she dropped us immediately after she signed the car over to us. So we were apparently uninsured all this time. And now we're completely fucked.
(Wed Sep 12, 2001 - 4:17:09 pm)

:
'Should have kept it up on the blocks
(Wed Sep 12, 2001 - 4:21:09 pm)

Queenie:
Yeah that's it. Kick me when I'm down.
(Wed Sep 12, 2001 - 4:27:34 pm)

Decoy:
Since its her mistake, mom should buy you a new van.
(Wed Sep 12, 2001 - 4:28:44 pm)

Decoy:
No?
(Wed Sep 12, 2001 - 4:28:52 pm)

Myk Murphy:
i once got my rental car towed in Sevilla, Spain. that was kinda funny. at least there is only one big semi-official car lot for towed cars. i explained to the tough looking spanish bitch cop (in my best castillian spanish) that we were tourists and were not aware of the rules (which were not posted... this is Spain). i paid her and also the private towing company. quite a racket they have there.
(Wed Sep 12, 2001 - 4:43:34 pm)

Myk Murphy:
whatever you do, queenie, don't sell family heirloom stuff. i have an aunt who did that, due to her limited means, and now our family doesn't have some furniture handmade by my grandfather. just don't do it.
(Wed Sep 12, 2001 - 4:50:48 pm)

Queenie:
The biggest problem is how to get Sidney to and from school every day.
(Wed Sep 12, 2001 - 5:16:39 pm)

Chewing Wax:
She has a thumb doesn't she? Just kidding. I hope it works out. What about school busses?
(Wed Sep 12, 2001 - 5:33:27 pm)

Chewing Wax:
Is that car drivable?
(Wed Sep 12, 2001 - 5:33:53 pm)

Queenie:
It's a private school and they don't have bus service.
(Wed Sep 12, 2001 - 6:02:19 pm)

Queenie:
Crap on a crutch. Sidney's school requires a two week notice to pull her. WTF? It's not a freakin' apartment, it's a school!
(Wed Sep 12, 2001 - 6:30:28 pm)

Gordon Sinclair:
Widespread but only partial news coverage was recently given to a remarkable editorial broadcastfrom Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television commentator. What follows is the full text ofhis trenchant remarks as printed in the CongressionalRecord:
"This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly theleast appreciated people on all the earth. Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italywere lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgaveother billions in debts. None of these countries is today paying even the interest on its remainingdebts to the United States. When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was theAmericans who propped it up, and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets ofParis. I was there. I saw it.
When earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the United States that hurries in to help. This spring, 59American communities were flattened by tornadoes. Nobody helped.
The Marshall Plan and the Truman Policy pumped billions of dollars into discouraged countries.Now newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent, warmongering Americans.
I'd like to see just one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States dollarbuild its own airplane. Does any other country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing JumboJet, the Lockheed Tri-Star, or the Douglas 10? If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all theInternational
lines except Russia fly American Planes? Why does no other land on earth even consider putting aman or woman on the moon? You talk about Japanese technocracy, and you get radios. You talkabout German technocracy, and you get automobiles. You talk about American technocracy, andyou find men on the moon -- not once, but several times -- and safely home again.
You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everybody tolook at. Even their draft-dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, andmost of them, unless they are breaking Canadian laws, are getting American dollars from ma and paat home to spend here.When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking downthrough age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania railroad and the NewYork Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both are still broke.
I can name you 5000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble. Canyou name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't thinkthere was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.
Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them getkicked around. They will come out of this thing with their flag high. And when they do, they areentitled to thumb their nose at the lands that are gloating over their present troubles. I hope Canadais not one of those."
(Wed Sep 12, 2001 - 8:20:12 pm)

Catch Me Now I'm Falling:

I remember, when you were down
And you needed a helping hand
I came to feed you
But now that I need you
You won't give me a second glance
Now I'm calling all citizens from all over the world
This is Captain America calling
I bailed you out when you were down on your knees
So will you catch me now I'm falling

Help me now I'm calling you
Catch me now I'm falling
I'm in your hands, it's up to you
Catch me now I'm falling

I remember when you were down
You would always come running to me
I never denied you and I would guide you
Through all of your difficulties
Now I'm calling all citizens from all over the world
This is Captain America calling
I bailed you out when you were down on your knees
So will you catch me now I'm falling

Help me now I'm calling you
Catch me now I'm falling
I'm in your hands, it's up to you
Catch me now I'm falling

When you were broke you would come to me
And I would always pull you round
Now I call your office on the telephone
And your secretary tells me that she's sorry,
But, you've gone out of town.

This is Captain America calling
This is Captain America calling

Help me now I'm calling you
Catch me now I'm falling
I'm in your hands, it's up to you
Catch me now I'm falling

Catch me now I'm falling
Catch me now I'm falling
Catch me now I'm falling
Catch me now I'm falling

I stood by you through all of your depressions
And I lifted you when you were down
Now it's your chance to do the same for me
I call your office and your secretary tells me
That you've gone out of town

This is Captain America calling
This is Captain America calling

Catch me now I'm falling
Catch me now I'm falling

I was the one who always bailed you out
Of your depressions and your difficulties
I never thought that you would let me down
But the next time you're in trouble
Better not come running to me

Now I'm calling all citizens from all over the world
This is Captain America calling
I bailed you out when you were down on your knees
So will you catch me now I'm falling
Catch me now I'm falling

Catch me now I'm falling
Catch me now I'm falling
Catch me now I'm falling
Catch me now I'm falling

(Wed Sep 12, 2001 - 8:30:38 pm)

Myk Murphy:
a fine song, but know this: America is anything but falling. we need no one to catch us. we certainly appreciate all assistance, but it isn't just bravado to say that this is only a flesh wound. this is a country of 280 million people, all relatively hard working due to our more freewheeling version of democratic capitalism. God knows what fury will be brought down around the world by our hand, but even if we acted alone while all others mutely observed, it would be an overwhelming and disproportionate response. to have the entire civilized world assist us in changing the global order is certainly welcome and will make the task that much easier.
(Wed Sep 12, 2001 - 9:24:53 pm)

Myk Murphy:
i've been giving a great deal of thought to the future, as have many of you. two weeks ago, i was reading some interesting opinion papers about the (then) current "pax americana" and the nature of empire. was the US acting as an imperial power? some argued that, yes, this power was imperial in the sense that it was global and stabilized world market activity. this, in turn, strengthens capitalism. some argued that it wasn't imperial, simply because no great standing armies directly dominated many countries around the world. after tuesday's events, it is fairly plausible that the US will not shy away from a more imperial role, finally fostering a powerful empire in partnership with other (mostly western) powers. accelerated partnerships with russia and perhaps china will be formed to counterbalance the threat that everyone only talked about behind closed doors: anti-western states which ignore international law and convention. if islam poses a threat to the world, it is only in the sense that it has theology and legal code intertwined in koranic doctrine, and this has always been its contradiction. all religions are flawed, of course, but this flaw becomes fatal when the faith is radicalized, such as with the shia branch of islam. in short, this empire may simply attempt to outlaw the existence of theocratic governments throughout the world. it's unknown if this empire will be built by oppression or encouragement. also unknown: will this be a new colonialism or will this be less "hands on"?
(Wed Sep 12, 2001 - 9:46:11 pm)

Queenie:
I like eggs.
(Wed Sep 12, 2001 - 11:12:31 pm)

Queenie:
Sorry. Myk's paragraph was so articulate that it made me feel all dumb inside.
(Thu Sep 13, 2001 - 3:12:59 am)

Queenie:
A feeling I am quite used to.
(Thu Sep 13, 2001 - 3:13:09 am)

Queenie:
Goddamn these low flying military planes freak me out.
(Thu Sep 13, 2001 - 3:28:11 am)

orange:
America talks of encouraging democracy, but only democracy that conforms to its liking. Its imperial beliefs have led to this (indirectly). while the massive loss of life is tragic, and indefensible, it has been as a result of a 'gung-ho' foreign police that has seen it bomb middle eastern countries and others, that had differing views. the western world has the belief that everyone else should conform to 'our' way and doesn't understand when other creeds objects to the oppression that causes. Now is not the time to try and quash others, but to try and understand them and maybe consider their views. The loss of life is tragic, but terrorism tends to do that.
(Thu Sep 13, 2001 - 5:39:23 am)

Decoy:
Obviously. My first thought wa to understand them, I figured maybe their children are starving or something. But, orange, its just not the case. Now is the time to cleaaanse the world of terrorism. Killing may not be he ultimate answer, but it sure as hell is part of it.
(Thu Sep 13, 2001 - 5:57:31 am)

orange:
you have to understand why they do this, they're oppressed by western countries. normally they carry out their attacks on europe as the US it too hard to reach. now they have. Europe has been under terrorist attack for decades, the US have supported the IRA and only recently tried to do something about it. This is the world that the west has created, their intolerance of other beliefs and their pursuit of imperialism can only lead to such actions. I'm not condoning the actions, but the US can't claim to be innocent. No doubt the retaliatory actions will involve the killing of innocent citizens, but they'll be foreigners, so it's ok.
(Thu Sep 13, 2001 - 6:38:02 am)

Cushca:
I could be wrong here, but didn't a big scrap over a patch of land start all of this, as opposed to a dislike of democracy and/or imperialistic rule?
(Thu Sep 13, 2001 - 6:55:02 am)

Chewing Wax:
Orange is full of shit. But being a tolerant American, I invite his input.
(Thu Sep 13, 2001 - 7:15:26 am)

Cushca:
And you're the bigger man for it.
(Thu Sep 13, 2001 - 7:18:22 am)