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« on: November 07, 2005, 05:35:11 pm »
Any of you folks ever heard of a blogger named ... Adam Yoshida?

The cape fits him quiet comfortably.
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« Reply #1 on: November 07, 2005, 06:29:46 pm »
Thanks.  Now I need blood pressure medication. :(
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« Reply #2 on: November 07, 2005, 06:35:23 pm »
Delightful. I'm especially fond of the "!Watergate = win in Vietnam" conclusion, which is just... uh? It's the kind of logic train I might be able to follow with a lot of elaboration, but this dude just takes it as read. What the HELL, people.
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« Reply #3 on: November 07, 2005, 07:25:51 pm »
What?

Quote from: "Loony"

And what evil hath Mr. Felt wrought?

Without Watergate, there’d have been no defeat in Vietnam. Absent what happened to Nixon, the Congress wouldn’t have been able to cut off aid to the South Vietnamese. A free South Vietnam would endure to the present day. Absent the fall of South Vietnam, Pol Pot would probably have never been able to take over Cambodia and murder millions there.

Without Watergate there’d have been no Jimmy Carter and, hence, no Iranian Revolution (or at least none like we’ve known). It took a leader of special incompetence to lose Iran as Carter did. Without Carter in the White House, there’d probably have been no Soviet invasion of Afghanistan either. It’s questionable if, without those events, there’d ever have been a rise of Islamism like we have seen. Almost certainly, there’d have been no 9-11.

Without Watergate, there probably wouldn’t have been an Iran-Contra: because, at heart, Iran-Contra was simply a Democratic effort to recapture glory days of Watergate. And without Watergate and Iran-Contra there’d probably have been no Clinton Impeachment which was, at least in part, vengeance for those earlier events.


STOP THIS RIDE I WANT TO GET OFF
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« Reply #4 on: November 07, 2005, 07:30:31 pm »
Without Watergate, my toast would have landed jam side up!  Without Watergate, I could still sport wood!
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« Reply #5 on: November 07, 2005, 07:36:47 pm »
I also like how he completely glossed over gerald ford
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« Reply #6 on: November 07, 2005, 07:45:54 pm »
Without Sirhan Sirhan many of these things may have happened differently as well. I want a companion rant.
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« Reply #7 on: November 07, 2005, 07:54:52 pm »
My eyes are bleeding.  There isn't enough lye in the world to clear out the realization that there are people who truly feel these things which I have read.


BLEEDING PEOPLE.. BLEEDING
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« Reply #8 on: November 07, 2005, 08:05:08 pm »
If it weren't for Watergate then when the Watergate hotel went condo prices would've been slightly less ridiculous.
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« Reply #9 on: November 07, 2005, 08:13:45 pm »
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If it weren't for Watergate then when the Watergate hotel went condo prices would've been slightly less ridiculous.


The watergate hotel went condo?
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« Reply #10 on: November 07, 2005, 08:27:42 pm »
Without Watergate, Hunter S. Thompson would have never done that Paul Oakenfold song.

That alone was worth all the other stuff.
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« Reply #11 on: November 07, 2005, 08:30:23 pm »
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If it weren't for Watergate then when the Watergate hotel went condo prices would've been slightly less ridiculous.


The watergate hotel went condo?

Indeed. I remember hearing about it a while ago but I guess parts of it are still a hotel. This was the first link I came across and damn is it poorly done.
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« Reply #12 on: November 07, 2005, 10:43:10 pm »
The greatest thing about Adam Yoshida is that he isn't even American. Sorry, Smells. Sorry Andalucia. Sorry all Cannuks out there, but he's one of you.

Also, I can't believe any of you have said anything about what he thinks ought to be done with space aliens if/when we encounter them in our future travels to the stars.

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It might also be worth pointing out that, if aliens do exist, there is little reason to assume that they will be, as most have postulated, more advanced than we are. There is an equally good reason to believe that they will be less advanced. Would it not be prudent then to be prepared to restrict various alien races to the surface of their home planets?

This, of course, assumes that faster-than-light travel is possible. I, quite frankly, have no idea if it is. But, to base our policy on the assumption that it is not would be supremely foolish.

It may even be that we will find alien races that will have to be destroyed, lest they pose a threat, or that we will find races of servile aliens which might prove useful to us in other ways. I don’t know if we will, and we won’t know unless we try.
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« Reply #13 on: November 07, 2005, 11:04:58 pm »
I thought the Watergate was a mixed use facility all along -- i.e. it had offices, apartments, hotel rooms, commercial space and condos even back in the day.
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« Reply #14 on: November 07, 2005, 11:51:16 pm »
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I thought the Watergate was a mixed use facility all along -- i.e. it had offices, apartments, hotel rooms, commercial space and condos even back in the day.

Yeah, upon further research turning the hotel part into condos is still firmly in the rumor category.
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