"Even smiling makes my face ache."

[ebonlock]

So at some point last night what I thought was just a bad allergy attack turned out to be a rather sneaky cold. It pounced on me around 11 pm and kept me up most of the night with a runny nose and sinues that threatened to burst out of my skull. Now that would've been a pretty sight for Aelf to wake up to. "Hey Ellie, why aren't you up yet, it's after se-...OH MY GOD!"

I'd attributed the general run down feeling to being tired post-houseguest as I usually am, but I guess there was a bit more to it. *sigh* I used to have an immune system that worked, I really did.

Anyway the decongestants seem to be working a bit, and a cup of hot cappuccino soothed my throat sufficiently. I know I should be drinking tea, but as much as I want to be a tea drinker I'm just not. I like teas, I love the smell of them, and I like the idea of them, but I'm just not into drinking them. *shrug*

So, got to see the first two eps of Horatio Hornblower last night and was highly entertained. I think I also managed to vastly amuse caredhel and cyranocyrano when I dismantled the afghan I'd been working on and created the biggest yarn ball ever. I'm much happier with the new version of the afghan I got about 1/3 of finished last night, and I hope my sis likes it. If nothing else it's warm and soft and that's definitely something.

Am considering sending in a piece to the Lord of the Rings Official Fan Club’s 2003 Fan Art Contest, but I'm not sure of what yet. And the entries have to be in by March 31. Is it really reasonable to expect to finish something I like by then? Hmm. I kinda liked the Frodo portrait I did, but I'm not sure it's good enough for a contest. I'll ponder this.



WASHINGTON - The intense interrogation of Khalid Shaikh
Mohammed, the suspected architect of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks
on America who is in U.S. custody, is likely to stop just short
of torture, U.S. intelligence experts said Monday.

Source of the above quote

Good to know we're "likely to stop just short of torture", but it does make me wonder what definition they're using for "torture". Personally I thought we'd all come to the conclusion long ago that such methods were hopelessly inefficient for gathering anything even vaguely resembling useful information from prisoners, but hey, what do I know? And if we're fighting a "war on terrorism" does that mean Khalid gets POW treatment under the Geneva Convention?

Just thinking aloud...

Oh, before I forget, there will be another Anti-War march in SF on March 15th:
The A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition and other organizations are calling
for an Emergency National Anti-War Convergence to TAKE IT TO THE
WHITE HOUSE on Saturday, March 15. There will be a parallel
activities in San Francisco (gather at 11 am at Civic Center
Plaza) and Los Angeles (gather 12 noon at Olympic and Broadway,
march to Downtown Federal Building).

http://www.internationalanswer.org/campaigns/m15/index.html

I'm planning to attend this one, anyone interested in coming with?

Comments

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Let me change the question slightly, if there was to be an organized pro-war march/rally/what-have-you, and you wanted to support it, would you choose not to do so because one of the organizations involved was, say, the Chrisitan Coalition?

Yeah, actually. :} This is why, though I agree (in broad strokes) with the "right wing coalition" on issues like gun control, you won't catch me dead marching or protesting with them. The people involved have crapped on the moral carpet far too often, and I don't want to get my shoes dirty.

And I think comparing the WWP to Nazis is a bit much, but again, it's one group among many. I may not entirely agree with the WWP or with socialism as a viable political viewpoint in the world today, but I'm afraid I don't automatically label them "evil".

The WWP, regardless of how it self-identifies ideologically, supports murderous socialist regimes the world over. The WWP has been unwavering in its support for Fidel Castro, Slobodan Milosevic, Kim Il Jung, Saddam Hussein, and the People's Republic of China, regardless of the body count. The WWP has gone so far as to claim that nobody actually died at the Tiananmen Square massacre, and that Saddam Hussein never gassed the Kurds, putting itself in the same moral category as Holocaust deniers. If this doesn't make them as evil as the Nazis, I don't know what does.

I'm not certain how you'd care to define the difference between Marxism and Stalinism. What I do know is that these people are proponents of and apologists for the same kind of murder and tyranny that was employed by communist leaders in the Soviet Union under the rubric of Marxism/socialism.

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Yeah, actually. :} This is why, though I agree (in broad strokes) with the "right wing coalition" on issues like gun control, you won't catch me dead marching or protesting with them. The people involved have crapped on the moral carpet far too often, and I don't want to get my shoes dirty.

Hey, fair enough.

I'm not certain how you'd care to define the difference between Marxism and Stalinism. What I do know is that these people are proponents of and apologists for the same kind of murder and tyranny that was employed by communist leaders in the Soviet Union under the rubric of Marxism/socialism.

And if you can find me some of their official organizational statements that support the allegations I'll probably agree with you. However, I'm not talking about quotes taken from right-wing opponents that equate Communism/Marxism with evil. How those ideologies have been put into practice, well that's another discussion. But again, gimme me clear evidence that this is their stand, preferably from the horse's mouth, and that International ANSWER is just a front for the WWP. I'm willing to keep an open mind on this, and like I say, I'm always ready to learn something new.