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January 21, 2003

question the internet

Snow again this morning! It's been a good winter for snow. It nicely offsets the hellish month of oppressive heat we had this summer. God that month sucked in many ways. If anything drives me away from this area, it will be the summer heat. It's just awful.

But I'm feeling that stirring in me again (no, not that kind of stirring!). I saw some seeds for sale at the Rite Aid and bought some zinnias and little white flowers of some sort. And it's still February! Must nurture plant life...

I neglected to mention all the DC bloggers I saw this weekend. Some posing as creatures of leather, others claiming they were just there for the show. Whatever, Master Mary. You get freaky in the bedroom and you know it, so 'fess up. We wouldn't want to display any kind of deviant streak in this town, now would we? There were also an alarming percentage of ruggurls there from the team as well. I saw or cavorted with al-Tardia, DCdork, CHRISAFER, Stebbins, and one half of Mr. and Mrs. Howell from the rugby team. Now the last link is a new one on my list of fellow bloggers. Be sure to check the sidebar links of other bloggers for several other new additions.

Yaay! I may free Sparky of his harness. It's used (read: previously defiled) but probably cheaper than a brand new one. Rapidly approaching complete outfit.

I followed a questionable link the other day that shows a satellite image of the Korean peninsula at night. The difference between North and South Korea is quite radical. In fact I have a hard time believing in the image at all. In a word: Photoshop. No, two words: Photoshop, Propaganda. If the image is correct, most of North Korea is completely unpopulated and has no source of artificial illumination at night. I find that hard to believe. They would have NO discernable economy with no lighting at night. Even the most depressed areas of Kazakstan had lights. Also note that the website this image is featured on is a .org website, meaning it's an organization of some sort. It's not an official .gov website. Please question anything you see on nonprofit or organizational websites, as they can say anything they want, or post whatever they create.

Watching the Today show every morning I've noticed quite a lot of pro-war human interest sketches and interviews, such as Katie Couric on board some battleship or military base. Everything in the media is blatantly biased towards the pro-war viewpoint. While I'm pretty much a fence-sitter on the war issue (future blog entry with opinion promised some day) at the moment, I would like to ask both the pro- and anti-war supporters to really look twice at what's being fed to us...from both sides. Question everything you see, including 'official' information from the White House, DOD or your favorite pacifist organization. Hell, even Jimbo made some White House pages back in tha day. And if Jimbo can make pages for the White House, who knows what other nuts can do? I see complete bullshit coming from the left, and gracefully veiled misinformation from the right. The only way most of us could find the real truth is to actually go there to Korea or Iraq, but for now we need to think about what comes in on the boob tube, process and question.

Posted by jimbo at January 21, 2003 10:35 AM

Comments

Posted by: Chrisafer at January 21, 2003 12:56 PM

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Posted by: David Payne at March 28, 2004 1:28 PM