hickdude (8:08 PM):
whassssssssssssssssssssssssssssupppppppppppppppppp?me (8:09 PM):
yohickdude (8:09 PM):
no brain but plenty of sould here.hickdude (8:09 PM):
soul here.me (8:09 PM):
no brain, huh?me (8:09 PM):
that's a shame...hickdude (8:09 PM):
well a little one...me (8:10 PM):
kinda shriveled up & gooey? Jme (8:10 PM):
(just kidding)hickdude (8:10 PM):
lolhickdude (8:10 PM):
now arent you the witty one?me (8:10 PM):
for once none of my usual horde of friends are on tonight, so i thought i'd see if anything was going on in these silly chat roomshickdude (8:11 PM):
i see, the chat rooms suck, but everynow and then you meet some cool folk.hickdude (8:11 PM):
how old kiw?me (8:12 PM):
yeah, i spent a week or so hanging around the Phish chat room - seemed the only place people said anything other than "A/S/L!"me (8:12 PM):
too old for chat rooms Jhickdude (8:12 PM):
lolme (8:12 PM):
20-somethinghickdude (8:12 PM):
i see, matches my 30-somethinghickdude (8:13 PM):
can you believe what has gone on?me (8:13 PM):
well, yeah, kindame (8:14 PM):
i mean, look at what we've been doing to the middle east for the last... 15 yearshickdude (8:15 PM):
attacking innocent civilians without warning?me (8:15 PM):
on a personal level it's all tragic & sad & shit... but when you look at the global economic & financial bullshit the US has been up to, i'm surprised half the planet isn't standing up & taking the credithickdude (8:15 PM):
fuck off.me (8:15 PM):
no, i'm seriousme (8:16 PM):
read some noam chomskyhickdude (8:16 PM):
i am too. Desert storm vet. Panama Vet. Fuck off. You dont appreciate what you haveme (8:16 PM):
that's probably trueme (8:16 PM):
but i try to have perspectivehickdude (8:16 PM):
yeah, greatme (8:18 PM):
well, what do you think?hickdude (8:18 PM):
I think if you wear a country's uniform, you accepted the fact that you are a target...hickdude (8:19 PM):
I think the civilians, babies, moms, dads who happened to be on the wrong plane didnt ask for this.hickdude (8:19 PM):
I think its cowardly, it was wrong, and retribution should be swift.hickdude (8:20 PM):
But what kills me...hickdude (8:20 PM):
I work with a colleague who is arabic and tells people all day long israel doesnt have a right to exist...hickdude (8:20 PM):
and that the US deserved this.me (8:20 PM):
why does that surprise you?hickdude (8:21 PM):
I actually stuck up for him and told people to leave him alone and that he is entitled to his belief just as you are.me (8:21 PM):
but...?hickdude (8:21 PM):
But think about this--how many times have we send aid money to any place that has a tragedy without asking a single thing in return?me (8:22 PM):
i dunno - how many people have died in the middle east b/c of US trade embargos?hickdude (8:22 PM):
Hell, we forgave Egypt 8 billion dollars in debt and this is the thanks we get.hickdude (8:22 PM):
IRAQ?hickdude (8:23 PM):
Are you serious? What if a nuke or bio had been on board that plane? That would end your right to think like that pretty quickme (8:23 PM):
not reallyhickdude (8:23 PM):
Ever seen it?me (8:24 PM):
might have ended the *thought* itself...hickdude (8:24 PM):
Ever seen the effects of it?me (8:24 PM):
but nothing better end my right to think anythingme (8:24 PM):
so long as i'm capable of thought, that ishickdude (8:24 PM):
We have made our actions against a govt not a people.hickdude (8:24 PM):
There is a differenceme (8:25 PM):
in theory - but isn't that what they were doing? they (whoever they were) were attacking the symbols of us financial & military powerme (8:25 PM):
not the people with families insidehickdude (8:26 PM):
no, you dont seem to understand that bin laden has said since 1994 he intends to bring the fight to the american people.me (8:26 PM):
which he's been highly trained to do by the CIAhickdude (8:26 PM):
bullshitme (8:26 PM):
(according to the BBC)hickdude (8:27 PM):
former intelligence guy here. Believe what you wanthickdude (8:27 PM):
I know what I am speaking ofhickdude (8:28 PM):
You have probably never even been to the middle east, only what you know of in books or in your intellectual (supposed) symposiums.hickdude (8:28 PM):
bin laden is not cia trained.me (8:28 PM):
well, i would trust the BBC before i'd even think about reading CNN or watching TV, but who the hell knows what goes on underground & behind doors ... just that nothing would surprise me.hickdude (8:28 PM):
agreedhickdude (8:29 PM):
but the bbc has its slants too.me (8:29 PM):
heh. don't we all? Jhickdude (8:29 PM):
Yes, the faction group that opposes bin laden and the talaban is CIA trainedme (8:29 PM):
and no, i've never been to the middle east, but i know many who have, are from there live therehickdude (8:29 PM):
well bully for youme (8:30 PM):
what does that have to do with anything?hickdude (8:30 PM):
i think that was my pointme (8:30 PM):
i live in america - doesn't mean i know about US government secretsme (8:30 PM):
or whateverhickdude (8:30 PM):
you bore me.me (8:31 PM):
really?me (8:31 PM):
i'm having funme (8:33 PM):
too bad your shriveled & gooey little brain can't handle a little challenge or new perspective on the world. ciao.**(sadly I didn't get that last quip in. he'd logged off)