:: blame the extended gestation.... ::

:: Friday, March 29, 2002 ::

You’re reversing the order if you put learning to speak the truth before learning to speak.

:: Jim Nichols 3/29/2002 09:44:00 AM [+] ::
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This guy would hate me
"I have an extreme dislike for vague, confused, and oracular writing;and I have very little patience with authors who express themselves in this style. I believe that what can be said at all can be said simply and clearly in any civilized language or in a suitable system of symbols, and that verbal obscurity is almost always a sign of mental confusion."
Charlie D. Broad --Contemporary British Philosophy: Personal Statements

:: Jim Nichols 3/29/2002 04:25:00 AM [+] ::
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yee gods so I wake up at 1:30 with with an idea(finally!!)for the thesis of my history term paper bouncing around my head... now its 3:50 and here's what i've pulled together... i'm not sure which one I like best

The subjective realities of United States at the time of its acquisition of the Philippines
colony from Spain describe not just a new player in the imperialist paradigm of
capital/market creation via industrialized nation-state competition but the genesis of a
change in international power politics; its domestic binary philosophical construct of
economic pragmatism and egalitarian political idealism, as well as the countries power
struggle--internal and external--explain this colonial acquisition as neither premeditatedly actuated nor fortuitously annexed but as a transformation in the international balance of power, the beginnings of the slow progression from an Imperial-world-order to Empire.

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okay... but not perfect so then I try...


The subjective realities of United States at the time of its acquisition of the Philippines
from Spain describe not a new player in the imperialist paradigm of capital/market creation via industrialized nation-state competition but the genesis of a change in international power politics; its philosophical binary construct of economic pragmatism and egalitarian political idealism, as well as the countries power struggle--internal and external--explain this colonial acquisition as neither premeditatedly actuated nor fortuitously annexed but as a transformation in the international balance of power, the beginnings of a slow progression from Imperial-world-order to Empire.

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better I think...cleaner but then I thought about trying to take a knife to it and just say it all in one quick breath and came up with......

The philosophical binary construct of economic pragmatism and egalitarian political
idealism, as well as the power struggle--internal and external--of the United States at the time explains the countries colonial acquisition of the Philippines as neither premeditatedly actuated nor fortuitously annexed but as a result of a transformation in the international balance of power, the beginnings of a slow progression from Imperial-world-order to Empire.

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so I don't know... I guess i'll sleep on it....

:: Jim Nichols 3/29/2002 03:57:00 AM [+] ::
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Human beings are so vile Well they're going for the death penalty for that 20th highjacker... the unhighjacker if you will. In case all those carpet bombs and dictators hadn't reassured the world of how civilized we are. Maybe the French can redeem us on this one...if they have a spine...but they'll prob. fold on holding it up in any way or fashion. Beholden to the mighty hyper-power as they like to call us.

:: Jim Nichols 3/28/2002 10:23:00 AM [+] ::
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Trading Places Its so true, Republican presidents have always tended to be protectionist... which brings another interesting point. Many egalitarian-globalist (labeled anti-globalist) are against the protectionism and point to that (that being the recent steel fiasco) as the point. That free trade is only good enough when you're gonna win the competition but as soon as things start going bad jumping ship. Well imposing those rules(locked into "free-trade" by way of--do this or else-- loans) on others without a thought is reprehensible and economically backwards...

:: Jim Nichols 3/28/2002 10:13:00 AM [+] ::
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And some mornings you wake and there is nothing there that whole no meaning void is such a bad way to get started at 5 in the morning so what do I do...but throw on the headphones and head to my qoutes page....(160 pages at this point, I think they call this a sickness)....

"There is something I don’t know that I am supposed to know. I don’t know what it is I don’t know, and yet am supposed to know, And I feel I look stupid if I seem both not to know it and not know what it is I don’t know. Therefore, I pretend to know it. This is nerve-wracking since I don’t know what I must pretend to know. Therefore, I pretend to know everything." -R.D. Laing

I'm an illusion, I want you to know
I want to grow up but I can't seem to grow
I'd do it again if god gave me the time but
I'm drowning alone and doin' just fine -Voltaaron

"how we end up labeled depends on what we're willing to show in front of others." -tonja

"The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree
with you and are too cowardly to let you know." -- Joe Moore

"In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry,
and has been widely regarded as a bad idea." -- Douglas Adams,

'...what I realize is mostly what I hate about Evie is the fact that she's so vain and stupid and needy. But what I hate most is how she's just like me. What I really hate is me so I hate pretty much everybody.' Chuck Palahniuk "Invisible Monsters"

"Everybody here thinks the whole story is about them... Definitely that goes for everybody in the world. Oh, and this has gone way beyond sorry, Mom. Sorry, God. At this point, I'm not sorry for anything. Or anybody." -invisible monsters

One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire
cat in a tree.
'Which road do I take?' she asked.
'Where do you want to go?' was his response.
'I don't know,' Alice answered.
'Then,' said the cat, 'it doesn't matter.' --Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

Lust, fear, hate, even spiritual enlightenment--all our emotions boil down to disembodied dances with molecules. Our most profound thoughts are nothing but neurotransmitters blinking messages to each other inside the blackness of our brains. -K.C. COLE

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference. Richard Dawkins

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then out of this haze things seem to fade into what was/is/always will be...and it no longer matters that none of it matters...and I can't help but laugh

:: Jim Nichols 3/28/2002 09:54:00 AM [+] ::
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okay he sent to me what got him going on it and I have to pass it on....no more questions from Huey today

:: Jim Nichols 3/27/2002 08:55:00 PM [+] ::
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My dad and I were just talking about how ground breaking the whole napster thing was...and how the record business is gonna die out if it doesn't change and quick. So I thought it was time for some Nofx.....

DINASOURS WILL DIE
(This is not a test on the emergency broadcast system
This is the real thing)

Sit back watch it crumble, see the drowning, watch the fall
I feel just terrible about it, that’s sarcasm, let it burn
I’m gonna make a toast when it falls apart
I’m gonna raise my glass above my heart
Then someone shouts "that’s what they get!"
For all the years of hit and run for all the piss broke bands on VH-1
Where did all their money go? don’t we all know...
Parasitic music industry... as it destroys itself
We’ll show them how it’s supposed to be

Music written from devotion not ambition, not for fame
Zero people are exploited there are no tricks up our sleeve
Were gonna fight against the mass appeal
Were gonna kill the seven record deal
Make records that have more then one good song
The dinosaurs will slowly die and I do believe no one will cry
I’m just fucking glad I’m gonna be there to watch the fall
Prehistoric music industry three feet in la brea tar
Extinction never felt so good

If you think anyone will feel badly you are sadly mistaken
The time has come for evolution fuck collusion kill the (big) five
What ever happened to the handshake? whatever happened to deals no one would break? whatever happened to integrity?
It’s still there it always was for playing music just because
A million reasons why all dinosaurs will die

:: Jim Nichols 3/27/2002 08:47:00 PM [+] ::
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Say what?

thank-you-ma'am
Function: noun
Etymology: probably from its causing a nodding of the head
Date: 1849
: a bump or depression in a road; especially : a ridge or hollow made across a road on a hillside to cause water to run off
© 2002 by Merriam-Webster, Incorporated

:: Jim Nichols 3/27/2002 01:09:00 PM [+] ::
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Living in Cali is so much more fun Poor Bill Simon nobodys giving him a chance in hell. Heck I voted for the guy... cause I find things like that funny. Plus I was tired of hearing mutterings on the Left that people should vote for Riordan so that it would make Davis toe the line when it came down to it. Which I think is such a bad long-term plan for the left. In my eyes you want the democrats to move even farther into the center. It splits the Republican base of economic conservative's (which many democrats are) and social conservatives (who tend to dwindle the more you start edjumakating people) and leaving a vacum for the Green Party (since the left is no longer being catered to by the Dem's) to become an actually viable party(viable in the since that the Republicans are currently a viable Party in California). Yes it is only a tactic of meaningless (semantic) porportions... but at this point destroying the Republican party sounds like fun

:: Jim Nichols 3/27/2002 09:40:00 AM [+] ::
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One of the possible good things from Enron... is a better perspective though I'm not one to talk. (some of us still need to learn to better read the financial reports but...) but I do like the idea. even though like all other potentially good things it takes up too much time. How are we expected to buy all that neat shit and reaserch (and kick and scream and yell (yes you have to do that in everything)) stuff.

"It is about time investors start making demands of their companies. After all, the transfer of wealth from companies' shareholders to their executives in recent years has been nothing short of immense. Investors have been amazingly silent as the money changed hands."

"Shareholders of the world, take note: Start acting like the owners you are. Make demands of managers, keep a watch on their activities, rein in their obscene pay packages. Corporate executives are your hired hands, after all, but you've let them get pretty uppity in recent years. It's time to show them who's boss."

:: Jim Nichols 3/27/2002 08:42:00 AM [+] ::
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French politicians are old as dirt. And this one's a nazi to boot. But I always think its funny that the idea you can gain from a right wing nut not running (okay scary how many votes the man gets but 'nother story) it really should say something... even if its not true. I don't know whos gonna win. Europe has been swinging to the right with the downturn. Josphin was up in the polls I think (as of like a few weeks ago)

:: Jim Nichols 3/27/2002 07:55:00 AM [+] ::
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Robin Williams, god that'd be such a great show

:: Jim Nichols 3/27/2002 07:44:00 AM [+] ::
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Boondocks the only way to start the day

:: Jim Nichols 3/27/2002 07:38:00 AM [+] ::
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okay gotta run. Gilmore Girls is on in 15. Tonights is "Run Away, Little Boy" its got the guy from Popular in it (woe is the history of the failed(triumphant) wb sitcom) dating Lorelai!

"Well, it's so depressing because everybody dies, but the clothes were so cute."

:: Jim Nichols 3/26/2002 07:49:00 PM [+] ::
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structural racism/classism at it again! Apparently you can only have a drug problem if you’ve been systemically predisposed towards capital working in your favor instead of against you.

:: Jim Nichols 3/26/2002 06:52:00 PM [+] ::
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grateful for the ammunition but... Why didn't Bush just release the damn information instead of putting up some fake front about presidential powers. Seems like they could have killed this a long time ago. Everyone already knew what it was gonna say. But then again Rove has got to know better than I do that people just aren't gonna pay attention to the reality. Preception is reality!

:: Jim Nichols 3/26/2002 06:41:00 PM [+] ::
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The word on the street is "shocking!" once again proving the big bad government has to spend money before the markets can work the way society wants them to

:: Jim Nichols 3/26/2002 06:34:00 PM [+] ::
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lets see if this works.... Judges speech I'm not sure what I think about this yet. Should judges even run? The jeffersonian in me says yes. The elitist in me says no.

:: Jim Nichols 3/26/2002 06:19:00 PM [+] ::
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apperently without my knowing i'm currently recommending davenetics, plastic, and google? And oddly enough I haven't figured out how to recommend anything. Even simple formats baffle me... I know so little about computers its embarrassing. And I tried to link something on that last one... good good this is going well

:: Jim Nichols 3/26/2002 02:38:00 AM [+] ::
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I don't know what i'm doing here. Intentional obfusication of observation, pedantic self-servering diatribes. Or just something to kill time extending to the outside the internal rumblings of the inside, something to scream out loud and clear across the land that I can't spell and have no trouble thinking all at the same time (its a tough job). And maybe i'm here cause i'm too lazy to write in my journal, too infuriating (to others) to email friends on those random things that hit me at 1:13 in the morning, and too self-obsessed to sing sonic youth songs over and over to myself and not share with the group. This may turn into an utterly embarassing failure to create something interesting (once again) but as Woody Allen said "If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative."

:: Jim Nichols 3/26/2002 01:16:00 AM [+] ::
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