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2004-01-28T08:10:28Z

People looking for the continuing adventures of Ryan/Boplicity:

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Older. Wiser. Uncut. Now with behind the scenes commentary.

Whatever.

I Get Hate Mail

2003-05-08T02:59:35Z

how about all those innocent people who lost their lives in 9/11 or terrorist attacks? they have families too. why does everyone seem to forget this? how is it wrong to go kill innocent people in Iraq but it is ok to kill innocent people in the U.S.? Get your fucking head on and face the facts.

You're the winner of Boplicity's "BIGGEST FUCKHEAD OF THE MONTH!" prize. You'll recieve a copy of the Turner Diaries and a months worth of free laundry service for your Klan robes! Thank you for playing!"

In rebuttal

2003-05-07T05:28:11Z

A) I question the validity of a "hero" as someone who has complicity in the killing of innocents. "An eye for an eye" is the lowest form of human exsistence. Partaking in an action against a sovreign nation in an unprovoked aggression is the act of a terrorist, not a "hero". A smart bomb that goes off track and kills civilians is no different than an airplane that goes into a building and kills civilians. The difference being, they're brown, we're white, they're evil, we're good. I'll save the urge to sing "Deutschland Uber Alles"

As terrorists go, U.S. action in Iraq has created more terrorists than bin Ladin ever could have. Every man, woman, and child who lost family, friends, property, their very humanity, will have one essential goal: revenge. Once again, an eye for an eye makes peace impossible. Blood for blood leads to unending conflict, as we have seen in Palestine.

B: What happened on 9/11 was what they call "blowback". At one point, Osama was our ally. We trained, financed, and armed him. Then we cut him loose, and attempted to wipe him out. His continued exsistence is testament to how well we trained him. He then hit us back, in a terrifying way. Now we continue that battle, and with the justification of self defense.

However, the lesson, rather then: "let's go kill us some sandniggers", should have been "let's think through the kind of evil men we ally ourselves with". Instead, we continue to ally ourselves with Afghani, Colombian, Saudi, Israeli, monsters. He finance the regimes that brutalize their citizens, and create even more terrorists. It perpetuates. We can't win this kind of war.

C) If we continue along this path, we will galvanize the world againt us: it's no suprise that we backed the hell off on Syria when it threatened to make a fool of Tony Blair and his claims that this would be a singular conflict. The historical rule is that the most powerful country will force the weaker countries to unite and form a united front. What if the next 9/11 happens, and our only choice is a war against a united Arab front? A massive war of attrition?

What is being confused for "patriotism" is actualy good old fashioned ultra-nationalism. The goal of the government in Washington has nothing to do with "a war on terrorism", but a war of dominance, or as Paul Wolfowitcz called it "the continuance of the American century".

D) I continue to renew my call to the nationalists: you're young, able bodied, and enthusiastic. If this is your fight, it's cowardice to let others die for your cause. If you're so unsafe from the terrorist threat here that we need to go kill over there, then you have to ask yourself if maybe you'd be safer in Baghdad.

For me, I value health care over smart bombs. I don't place the lives of Iraqis as being worth less than our right to strategic resources. When a foreign army lands on our shores, unprovoked, then I'll go to fight for America. But I'll be damned if I'm going to fight for an empire.

Oh, and I'm still waiting for those weapons of mass destruction to show up.

boplicity @ 2003-05-06T14:00:00

2003-05-06T23:57:16Z

Next year's Republican Convention in New York is set to coincide with the 9/11 anniversary/memorial, and will "prominetly honor the victims, while emphasising President Bush's leadership through this time of crisis".

I see no ethical problem in pimping a massive tragedy for political gain.

Why not?

boplicity @ 2003-05-05T12:35:00

2003-05-05T21:21:04Z

On the radio, they've been doing this thing on KISW called 'Maytallica'... highlighting, amongst other things that previous to the Black album, Metallica seems to have recorded two songs, "Battery" and "Master of Puppets", despite having done ...searches memory... at least ten albums I can think of off the top of my head.

What gets me, though, is this MTV Icon performance thing. I don't really feel one way or the other about Metallica, but to a lot of people, Metallica's music defined them as human beings. A weird thing to say, but amongst the heavy metal community, there is still a kind of awe held around what that band achieved.

So it seems odd that to honor them, they chose, amongst others, Avril Lavinge, Sum 41, Snoop Dogg, and Aerosmith. Out of all the people that have had their lives influenced, all the bands that's own creations where sparked by Metallica, they chose to honor the band with two pop acts, a washed up shit rock band, and a rapper who's managed to make himself safe to the white kids.

wow.

boplicity @ 2003-05-02T23:43:00

2003-05-03T07:32:14Z

It's kind of ammusing that a man who spent the Vietnam War drunk, AWOL and hiding in Texas while thousands of other airmen came home in bags now has the gall to put back on an airmen's uniform and walk alongside the same class of people he placed himself above. What's even more absurd is this cowardly, rich, ballsless sack of shit is treated like a hero by them.

Oh, and he's cutting veteran's benefits. Nothing says 'sacrifice pays' like risking life and limb to get fucked in the ass, while the ultra rich get another tax cut to go buy a new Humvee.

But that's not the best part. The best part is, this corrupt sack of shit won't just get re-elected; he'll get re-elected in a land slide. And it's going to be Mondale big.

42% of the people voting, of which Bush will take 55%-60%, whatever fucking joke the Republi-crats run taking maybe 32%, and the rest going to the leftist protest canidate who I will vote for. Because I like wasting my vote.

boplicity @ 2003-05-01T15:18:00

2003-05-01T22:34:57Z

I've become kind of enamored with the current crop of electronic music out there; granted, the good ones, not the crap ones;

Massive Attack
Jazzanova
Theivery Corporation
Cinematic Orchestra
Roko... eh, I won't attempt to spell it.. the Norwegian fellows...
The inevitable DJ Spooky...

I think the Techno-heads call it Downtempo, though for the life of me I just see this as another fucking lame attempt at a label.

'It's under 180-bpm... woa.....'

mid-day

2003-05-01T22:20:49Z

"My friend here want's to know if he can have a lap dance from the shemale"-

I haven't watched talk-television in months. It's like smoking. You return to it after a long break and it can be really easy to fall back into it.

And someday, they will study the form language used on Jenny Jones, and the future linguists of the world will collectively have brain aneurisms.

"Ya'll-down-no-notin-like-ya'll-say-not-sit-down-ya'll-bitches-you-down-no-wha-eva-wha-eva-wha-eva-wha-eva-ya'll-doaaaan-naw"

boplicity @ 2003-04-29T11:46:00

2003-04-29T18:52:37Z

Anger Mounts After U.S. Troops Kill 13 Iraqi Protesters
by Edmund Blair

FALLUJA, Iraq - U.S. soldiers killed at least 13 Iraqi civilians who marched on a school west of Baghdad to demand the troops leave the building and get out of Iraq, doctors and witnesses said on Tuesday.

Medics said 75 were also wounded in the march by more than 200 protesters on the school after Muslim prayers on Monday evening in Falluja, 30 miles from the Iraqi capital. Some witnesses put the death toll as high as 17.

Residents said the marchers were unarmed. U.S. forces said the troops opened fire only after they were shot at by a group of gunmen armed with AK-47 assault rifles.

The shooting outraged local people who, like many other Iraqis, welcomed the removal of Saddam Hussein by U.S.-led forces but now want the American troops to leave. It is likely to fuel anti-American sentiment elsewhere in Iraq.

U.S. helicopters hovered overhead as angry mourners buried the dead on Tuesday. The white walls of houses near the school were pock-marked by bullets, bullet-riddled cars stood by the roadside and traces of blood marked the ground.

"Our soul and our blood we will sacrifice to you martyrs," hundreds of mourners chanted as they carried at least four simple wooden coffins shoulder-high through the town.

Ahmed Ghanim al-Ali, director of Falluja general hospital, confirmed the death toll was at least 13 and said the hospital had carried out about 30 operations in the past few hours. "Some were wounded by shots. Some were wounded by shrapnel," he said.

"They are stealing our oil and they are slaughtering our people," said Shuker Abdullah Hamid, a cousin of one of the victims, 47-year-old Tuamer Abdel Hamid.

"Now, all preachers of Falluja mosques and all youths...are organizing martyr operations against the American occupiers," said a man cloaked in white, using the term often used to describe suicide attacks in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

There have been a few isolated suicide attacks at military checkpoints, and U.S. troops killed seven Iraqis during a violent demonstration in the northern city of Mosul on April 15, but most anti-American protests have ended peacefully.

U.S. MILITARY

A U.S. military spokeswoman said at war headquarters in Qatar that soldiers in Falluja opened fire on gunmen who shot at them with assault rifles.

"Members of the 1st Battalion of the 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne Division came upon a group of Iraqis armed with AK-47s last night," the spokeswoman said. "The Iraqis fired on them. The troops returned fire."

A local Sunni Muslim cleric, Kamal Shaker Mahmoud, said the protesters had asked the troops to leave the school so that lessons could resume there.

"It was a peaceful demonstration. They did not have any weapons," the cleric said. "They (the U.S. troops) opened fire on the protesters because they went out to demonstrate."

"We are asking the Americans to leave Iraq completely but first we want them to leave residential areas," he added.

Murhij Rashid, 52, pointed to a grave where gravediggers were throwing dry earth on top and kicking up dust. His 18-year-old son Hussein had just been buried.

"There was a demonstration but he did not have any weapon," he said.

Some residents said some of the dead may not have been taking part in the protest.

Salah Abdullah Hamid said his cousin, a 36-year-old man employed by the Oil Ministry, was an innocent bystander.

"He was not part of the protest. He did not have a weapon. He was killed by American bullets," he said.

Asked why the troops had fired, he replied: "We don't know. No one knows why...We want the Americans to leave our country completely. We are a Muslim country."

Mahmoud Fawzi Hamdan, 33, said one man, 32-year-old Waleed Saleh Abdel-Latif, was shot dead as he opened the gate to his house for his brother to drive in and two women in the house were hit by bullets but survived.

lessons we can learn from conquistadors

2003-04-28T04:58:30Z

Before committing mass genocide, Hernan Cortez brought his ships to the shore of mexico and burned them, declaring they would have victory or they would die.

This was in the face of an unknown continent with unknown inhabitants, something that would give pause to most prudent people.

boplicity @ 2003-04-25T22:00:00

2003-04-26T05:34:30Z

pourquoi Français? pourquoi non français? le Français est la plus grande langue sur terre. Je me souhaite pourrais parler français. Cependant, je ne peux pas parler français, n'importe comment beaucoup d'amusement il doit me feindre peut.

boplicity @ 2003-04-25T21:54:00

2003-04-26T05:32:12Z

écrivez le non-sens essentialy sans signification pour le fait simple que n'importe qui qui lit ceci véritablement sera tout vers le haut dans une question triste de perdu et trouvera, perdue et trouvée. vous vous souhaitez pourriez lire ceci, à travers et les libérer et destruction d'individu. vous vous souhaitez pourriez lire ceci. vous biseautez. branleurs endommagés par cerveau.

boplicity @ 2003-04-23T17:22:00

2003-04-24T00:37:23Z

There'd be a certain amount of cathardic release in the ability to hurl something heavy through a window.

Sadly, that seems rather unlikely.

Oh well.

boplicity @ 2003-04-21T22:58:00

2003-04-22T06:29:18Z

I just qualified to be an Edmonds Community College Honor Roll Student. I can't even express my fucking joy.

I haven't wrote in almost a week, mostly because you have to have a suitably active life to actualy write:

"today I went to school, watched tv, and went to sleep"
"today I went to work, went to school, was too tired to watch tv, and went to sleep"

I'm more and more convinced that I won't be registering at any school come September. I sometimes try to justify it in grandiose, "i'm giving 'thou-shalt' a swift kick in the balls" kind of hyperbolic inner-monologue, but it's really not that at all. It comes down to: I suck. I lack motivation, an ability to focus on a goal more long term than the end of the week, and I'm going to wickedly fuck myself over.

I sometimes wish that there was actualy someone in my classes who I could actualy relate to: my math class has maybe 6 people out of 40 under the age of 35 and my psychology class makes me sick. I love psychology, which is what makes me even sicker. How a discussion on the fundamental precepts of nature/nurture devolved into "what's your favorite TV show" for forty minutes leaves me kind of dumb founded.

Essentialy, I wish I had something interesting going on in my life.

Like smuggling cocaine: "George, vat do jew no abowt cocaine". I'm convinced between the people that I know read this bullshit, and the people who read it but won't tell me because I used to accuse everyone who had a journal of being sad 'lil prats and are unwilling to call me on my hypocrasy, that we could create a pretty bitchin smuggling ring.

We lack a certifiable Mister T-style bad motherfucker though.

Was there a point to ANY of this?

burn, edmonds, burn

2003-04-15T05:39:21Z

boplicity @ 2003-04-14T21:46:00

2003-04-15T05:17:11Z

I ended up, in the period of last thursday through sunday, puting in 36 hours, three of which where opening shifts. The problem being, i don't hate work near as much as I let on: i'm a big fan of the work that I do, and i even have some pride in being in the top three inventory departments on the west coast. i'm not assinine enought to suddgest i'd like to do it five years from now, or even five months: but i enjoy it.

on the downside, i then come home from working a fuckload of hours, and i'm confronted with having to do school: I fucking hate school. i fucking hate studying. however, i'm also confronted by the fact that i'll be ejected from my home, and don't have the funds to exsist... yet.

i have no illusions: i won't get to a 4 year school, i probably am going to have trouble getting past a 2 year one. and it's not because i can't; it's because i don't care.

so fucking hooray for that

boplicity @ 2003-04-14T14:11:00

2003-04-14T21:25:50Z

I wasn't prepared for the Al-Jazeera photos of the war deaths. Precision bombing. Shock and awe. YOU MOTHERFUCKERS! DID THAT ADOLESCENT GIRL WITH HER EYE SHATTERED FROM SHRAPNEL THREATEN US? DID THAT CHILD WITH THE TOP OF HER HEAD MISSING THREATEN US?

This is our responsibility. WE OWN THIS. WE CAUSED THIS. These people did NOTHING to us. This is liberation. Do you think that father holding what's left of his child is feeling a whole lot of joy over his freedom? DOES HIS DEAD DAUGHTER MAKE UP FOR 9/11? HOW MANY FUCKING PEOPLE ARE WE GOING TO KILL FOR THAT DAY?

Look at those photos. Every fucking person who slept comfortable in their bed at night, saying "I feel war is necessary". You know exactly who I'm talking to, you intelligista motherfucking college students, making judgement calls on loss of human life based on how "unsafe" you feel. Their lives are shattered. I hope you feel safer now, because those people are going to want revenge for what you and everyone like you has done to them. You are as responsible as the person that killed them.

http://www.shianews.com/hi/middle_east/news_id/0000758.php

boplicity @ 2003-04-10T15:25:00

2003-04-10T23:42:31Z

As a postscript:
I went to the Barns and Noble next door to work, looking for Chomsky's '9/11' pamphlet. The current events shelf is a collection of ultra right bullshit, culminating in a book explaining "how left wing politics continues to weaken national morale, actively aiding terrorist causes".

The scary part wasn't that book: it was that the bookstore had five or six of those types of books for every left wing one.

The world needs to wake up now: everyday you deal with our nation, placate to it's demands, is another Munich Confrence. The spirit of Roosevelt is dead, you are a target. The nation sees Arab culture as plague to be exterminated, disenters as traitors to be crushed. Survival is depenedant on collective security: we will, if allowed, pick off country after another. Syria may be next. The collective think tank at the Pentagon has formulated ideas involving region wide American military action, so every Arab can be a Palestinian, free so long as you humble yourself. Be frightened. Be very frightened.

boplicity @ 2003-04-10T15:15:00

2003-04-10T23:27:35Z

I had to work at 6:30 this morning; I've never opened on my own. It amounted to 9 hours of the most painful rape I can imagine: taking calls from District and not having answers, filling out forms I don't understand, more calls from district, being expected to manifest loads for shipments I didn't even know where going out. I ended up having to call my very hungover Sup at 7:30 in the morning to have him explain the stuff that could have gotten me fired if I had done it wrong.

Which may yet happen: #172 is a repair center in Kent, and #177 is regional shipping in Dinuba, California. We'll hope I picked the former rather than the later, as I honestly am not sure which I wrote down. If I fucked up, some people's very expesnive equipment is headed south.

Oh Best Buy, how I love thee.
Let me count the ways.
Motherfuckers.

Greatest. Game. Ever.

2003-04-09T21:08:21Z

:: how nintendo are you? ::

Greatest. Game. Ever.

2003-04-09T21:08:15Z

:: how nintendo are you? ::

boplicity @ 2003-04-04T00:13:00

2003-04-04T09:20:31Z

Open sky
Falling
Freedom is everywhere
and it is terrifying
best of intentions
buring
freedom is everywhere
and it is terrifying
day after day after day
of inhibitions and
fear, fear that burns
like the sun,
that maybe there was something
worthwhile past along the
road, something missed
a path that has gone by

there is no path
freedom is terrifying
everyday the situation
is staired in the face
shrink away from it standing
like the monument to inhibition
fear. a monument, a cage, a prison,
a lost island where nothing
but stupid, rambling, incessant,
redundant, prison. beaten by guards
beaten by self, beaten til everyday
looks the same as the last, beaten to
apathy, beaten to the point of fear, so
unbridled and unrestrained that it knows
no bounds but itself.

free from yourself ?
freedom is terrifying.

boplicity @ 2003-04-03T00:43:00

2003-04-03T10:11:45Z

Just to quiet some fears:
My sister informed me tonight that the student population of my old highschool is convinced that the reign of fire from Iraqi missles apon Mukilteo/Boeing is on the way as we speak.

To help some people sleep soundly at night from the subhuman, better dead than alive, Arab menace:

-When people think of nuclear weapons, we think of "end of the world, nuclear destruction of the planet". Only one country can do that: the United States. The U.S. standard missle, the Trident D-5, can deliver multiple payloads to 14 different targets, at an average of 500 kilotons (10x Hiroshima), to any spot on the planet. That's 1 missle. Now times that by however many missles are on a submarine, and however many submarines we have.

-The Trident is culmination of 60 years of intensive work by the most brilliant engineers and physcists on the planet, at a cost of trillions of dollars. The average Iraqi missle, if fired from Seattle, could not hit Spokane. As we are witnessing now, Iraq can't hit fucking Kuwait City. America is well out of his reach.

-The Iraqi nuclear program was bombed out of exsistance by an Israeli air-raid in the late 80s. Scientists, facilities, the whole bloody thing. Any attempt to reconstitute it would involve small amounts of stolen uranium, with maybe a hundreth the power of the Hiroshima bomb, and would have to be constructed in an area so remote that our intelligence or Israel's wouldn't spot it. It would then have to be delivered, which as we've discussed, they don't have the capabilities to do.

-Biological and Chemical weapons are a threat, but much like with nuclear weapons, a truely effective weapon costs billions in R&D, and is just as hard to deploy. We and the Russians have diseases that could end humanity if they ever got out. Think Ebola, and times it by a thousand. Saddam has the same thing the Germans had in 1917. A real bitch if you're within artillery range, as our troops are. Sadly, Mukilteo isn't. Remember anthrax? It was sure scary, but in a population of over 200 million, it killed less than 50 people. If Saddam manages to get hundreds of thousands of gallons of a resiliant, weapons grade strain of anthrax, and the ability to deploy it over a major city, that would be bad. Yet another thing that's well out of his ability.

And no, that's not Noam Chomsky talking. That's not theorem. That's fact. Don't believe me? Ask a man who controls hundreds of billions of dollars in intelligence gathering assets:

"It is our belief that Iraq poses no threat beyond it's borders unless it is attacked"-
CIA Director George Tennet

So no, I'm sorry, he can't "kill the whole US population"...

boplicity @ 2003-03-30T22:44:00

2003-03-31T09:18:08Z

So, I got bored, and went to ViewAskew.com, because, as I said, I was bored, and because I also own every movie Kevin Smith has ever done.

But the new one coming out is called "Jersey Girl", with Afflek and Jennifer Lopez. I also wondered how post "jay and silent bob" would work, and this doesn't sound promising: they had the review from a test screening going, and prominently mentioned was "has left the indy style behind" and is "showing himself capable of writting for grown ups".

yeah, 'jay and silent bob strike back' ... well, it didn't suck, not at all, but it's not comparable to 'clerks' or 'dogma'... but even when he went for a more "grown up" style with chasing amy, there was no doubt he knew where his roots where.

i'm gonna be so pissed off he goes all guy richie on us...

boplicity @ 2003-03-30T18:32:00

2003-03-31T04:43:25Z