Morning muddle
Jan. 6th, 2005 09:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
weaktwosI must go to work shortly, but ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
syreene and scarcrest are passing along interesting articles:
1. You know how bad the situation is when the president's choice for attorney general has to formally pledge not to support torture anymore.
Now think about that, people. Think about why we revile people like Hitler and Saddam, and any country that would do such things to other people. Do you really think it makes you safer? Do you? How safe were those countries when they were overrun by other countries who thought Germany and Iraq's practices were Draconian? What do you think is going to happen when we stop becoming the terrorized and start becoming terrorists on a large, organized scale?
Think about who we are choosing. Think about what they say, and what they have done. And then realize that what they have done is the truth.
Well, that has taken longer than expected...
And about this Livejournal merger. I'm not sure why people are getting so upset about it. The people who run these services have to make a living. I'm amazed Livejournal has been kept free for so long. We pay 20 bucks a year and we expect the same reliability that we expect from our banking institutions. They need to do what they need to do. Because they want to succeed, I think they will make some kind of setup that is still attractive to us as users.
syreene and scarcrest are passing along interesting articles:1. You know how bad the situation is when the president's choice for attorney general has to formally pledge not to support torture anymore.
Now think about that, people. Think about why we revile people like Hitler and Saddam, and any country that would do such things to other people. Do you really think it makes you safer? Do you? How safe were those countries when they were overrun by other countries who thought Germany and Iraq's practices were Draconian? What do you think is going to happen when we stop becoming the terrorized and start becoming terrorists on a large, organized scale?
Think about who we are choosing. Think about what they say, and what they have done. And then realize that what they have done is the truth.
Well, that has taken longer than expected...
And about this Livejournal merger. I'm not sure why people are getting so upset about it. The people who run these services have to make a living. I'm amazed Livejournal has been kept free for so long. We pay 20 bucks a year and we expect the same reliability that we expect from our banking institutions. They need to do what they need to do. Because they want to succeed, I think they will make some kind of setup that is still attractive to us as users.
