Interesting point. The notion of apartness emphasised through seemingly innocuous linguistic structure. We are never to be allowed to forget that his middle name is Hussein. It's back to chapter six, I fear.
There is nothing like putting random presidents together on a graph with something. What's next, a graph for Railroads Built with a bunch for Abraham (middle name never existed) Lincoln vs. Barack H. Obama? Hamburgers eaten? Cool beards and/or powdered wigs worn?
You're comparing apples to oranges buddy. They were entirely different circumstances. I notice there's no graph for Dubya, I wonder how many pirates he killed. That would be the only measure that would matter in the end.
Fact: Bush was the last President before Obama. Fact: Bush was President when the piracy thing started getting serious. Fact: Comparing the Somali pirate situation to the Barbary War is like comparing The French and Indian War to the current Iraq War. Tactics are completely different, military strategy is different, equipment is different.
Because of all these facts, I think you know where you can stick your Bush card racist.
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Date: 2009-10-08 02:19 am (UTC)http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/3002/pirates.gif
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Date: 2009-10-07 01:37 pm (UTC)Ninjas stand on YOU (briefly before they spring back into the night)
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Date: 2009-10-07 10:23 am (UTC)Why no middle initial for the other presidents listed on the graph?
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Date: 2009-10-07 10:42 am (UTC)There is nothing like putting random presidents together on a graph with something. What's next, a graph for Railroads Built with a bunch for Abraham (middle name never existed) Lincoln vs. Barack H. Obama? Hamburgers eaten? Cool beards and/or powdered wigs worn?
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Date: 2009-10-08 03:48 am (UTC)ARABICMUSLIN MIDDLE NAMEno subject
Date: 2009-10-07 11:09 am (UTC)for whoever actually bothered to make that graph
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Date: 2009-10-07 01:14 pm (UTC)The facts speak for themselves.
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Date: 2009-10-07 02:11 pm (UTC)We're supposed to kill people?
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Date: 2009-10-07 02:27 pm (UTC)Guh.
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Date: 2009-10-07 02:29 pm (UTC)::shakes head sadly::
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Date: 2009-10-07 05:03 pm (UTC)Greeeeeeeeeat attitude there Tori.
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Date: 2009-10-12 03:30 am (UTC)S/he's not racist of course.
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Date: 2009-10-07 06:26 pm (UTC)Fact: Bush was President when the piracy thing started getting serious.
Fact: Comparing the Somali pirate situation to the Barbary War is like comparing The French and Indian War to the current Iraq War. Tactics are completely different, military strategy is different, equipment is different.
Because of all these facts, I think you know where you can stick your Bush card racist.
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