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T H E J U I C E A N D G I N
Tuesday, June 07, 2005
Term XXXVIII, Issue 6 (#151)
Weather outlook:
Don't let your guard down.
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* Contents *
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- Editor's Blurb
- Ongoing Events
- Photographia
- Greg's DTK
- Humour
- General Info
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* Editor's Blurb *
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Hey all
I really should write these things earlier, since it looks like I'm
running out of time to get this in for the midnight deadline to make the
"Tuesday" advertised in the subject line. Although I know that everyone
really reads these on Wednesday anyway, I'd just like to get some sleep
tonight. Unfortunately, as everyone knows: sleep is for losers.
Looks like the PARTE squad is pulling together nicely. I saw a message
about going to Yuk Yuks this week, but I seem to have misplaced the
email. But it's all archived in the Yahoo group, so jaunt on over there
and take a look.
Until next time,
Upon closer inspection, these are loafers.
Michael (mailto:nutsinfo$yahoo.ca)
And now, the rest of the story...
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* Ongoing Events *
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[See the Event Calendar on the web site for full descriptions.
--Ed.]
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Pool League
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Mondays
http://www.solutionsatsource.com/pool
http://nutsevents.topcities.com/events/pool/index.html
Contact: Jason and Michael (mailto:pool$solutionsatsource.com)
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Indoor Rock Climbing
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Thursday evenings some weekends
Contact: Claire (mailto:Claire.Mettier$alcatel.com)
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* Photographia *
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Sorry I didn't have time to update the Punch of the Week this week.
Looks like I'll have to try doubly hard to get things together for next
time. This is why I need an assistant. That, and there should be
someone around to pass me test tubes and tell me how great I am.
http://nutsevents.topcities.com/pictures/Punch/index.html
http://torpedo.ca.newbridge.com/mirror/pictures/Punch/index.html
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* Greg's Deep Thought Korner *
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Flypaper.
http://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/news/editorials/story.html?id=a58752d1-34fe-416f-a1b6-45c8e5e220ab
(subscription required, sorry)
Columnist David Warren was writing in the Ottawa Citizen that the
current rationale for the invasion of Iraq is that it can serve as
"flypaper." Yes. One hundred thousand Iraqis have been killed,
millions are starving... all to serve as flypaper for America's enemies.
Just sit back in blissful ignorance and let the logic wash over you
like... um... the sewage that Iraqis have been drinking for over a
decade.
The argument goes something like this: "You see, the enemies of
America, who hate america for entirely invalid and illegitimate reasons
(take your pick: religion; women wearing pants; pop music; freedom)
want to attack America. So rather than having them attack americans in
the US of A, let's send some americans to another country to invade it.
Since it's much cheaper for all those anti-americans (mostly Arabs and
Persians, we're told) to hitch a ride to Tikrit than to catch a boat to
New York, the war in Iraq will serve as 'flypaper.'"
I don't even know where to start in describing the sheer, unadulterated
evil that you would have to absorb in to your soul in order to espouse a
theory like this. Let's put millions of people at risk of murder,
starvation and rape so that the hardship we are forcing on them will
gather all of our enemies in one spot. Let us *become* the evil of
which we are accused and focus our machinations on an innocent people so
that... bah! Seriously. That's evil. Red lightsabre evil. Drowning
kittens evil.
And the stupidest part about it, much like all that torture stuff, is
that it *doesn't actually work*. It's the same thing the Israelis have
been doing in Palestine for four decades, and it hasn't worked for
them. In trying to "hammer away at terrorism," all they've done is
killed a lot of innocent bystanders, generating even more "terrorists"
from among their surviving family members.
Iraq isn't serving as flypaper. It's serving as a recruiting ground,
generating more of that violent, anti-american sentiment that is so
grievously collated under the moniker "terrorism."
What's even worse, if you can imagine something being worse than an anti
Animal Shelter protester kicking puppies just to gather his SPCA
opponents in one location, is that it reveals the extent to which some
are willing to go to support the invasion of Iraq. First it was WMD,
which didn't exist. Then it was democracy, and freedom, up until the
Iraqis tried to hold municipal elections, which were stopped. Then it
was WMD associated program activities, of which there were none. Then
it was the torture chambers, which were promptly reopened. Now it's
"flypaper."
At some point, they're going to run out of rationalizations and they'll
have to admit the real reason for their invasion -- a reason most of the
rest of the world figured out a long time ago. Chug-a-lug.
Greg.
[Send responses to DTKs or new Editorials to mailto:nutsinfo$yahoo.ca]
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* Humour *
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[Forward any good jokes or interesting web sites you see to
mailto:nutsinfo$yahoo.ca]
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Store Wars
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Thanks to Greg G. @ Alcatel
Organic Food Strikes Back
http://storewars.org/flash/index.html
(Flash presentation)
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The Confession
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Thanks to Linda G.'s Shout Out For This Week
A man goes into Confession. He tells the priest that he picked up two
teenage girls hitchhiking and they came back to his place where they
used him as a boytoy all night, taking turns making wild passionate love
to him.
The priest says, "What kind of a Catholic are you?"
The man replies, "I'm not Catholic."
The priest inquiries, "Why are you telling me then?"
The man replies, "I'm telling everyone."
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* General Info *
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Contact the NUTS Committee:
mailto:nutsinfo$yahoo.ca
The NUTS Website is:
http://nutsevents.topcities.com
http://torpedo.ca.newbridge.com/mirror (for people within Alcatel)
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