BlackHat's Journal: Capped teeth two-inch eyelash/ Pseudo gamma delta doll

Quote(1):
This is What I Believe In, Adrian Belew
Hold tight to your faith
Don't let nobody make you jaded
Your love is precious,
Give it to somebody who deserves it
This is what I believe in

Hold tight to yourself
Don't let nobody give you hell
Your life is sacred
Live it right, but live it your way
This is what I believe in

All the world is a cannibal
Even time itself will eat us all
But that's no reason to be a jerk
You either make it better or make it worse

I believe this. I believe it's true
I believe it

All the world is dangerous
Full of homicidals and terrorists
But underneath their blanket of hate
The only thing that will survive is our love and faith

I believe in truth
And I believe in me
And I believe in you

Quote(2):
Whenever we improve, it is right to leave room for a further improvement. It is right to consider, to look about us, to examine the effect of what we have done. Then we can proceed with confidence, because we can proceed with intelligence. Whereas in hot reformations, in what men, more zealous than considerate, call MAKING CLEAR WORK, the whole is generally so crude, so harsh, so indigested; mixed with so much imprudence, and so much injustice; so contrary to the whole course of human nature and human institutions, that the very people who are most eager for it are among the first to grow disgusted at what they have done.

Then some part of the abdicated grievance is recalled from its exile in order to become a corrective of the correction. Then the abuse assumes all the credit and popularity of a reform. The very idea of purity and disinterestedness in politics falls into disrepute, and is considered as a vision of hot and inexperienced men; and thus disorders become incurable, not by the virulence of their own quality, but by the unapt and violent nature of the remedies. A great part, therefore, of my idea of reform is meant to operate gradually; some benefits will come at a nearer, some at a more remote period. We must no more make haste to be rich by parsimony, than by intemperate acquisition.

Civil freedom, gentlemen, is not, as many have endeavoured to persuade you, a thing that lies hid in the depth of abstruse science. It is a blessing and a benefit, not an abstract speculation; and all the just reasoning that can be upon it is of so coarse a texture, as perfectly to suit the ordinary capacities of those who are to enjoy, and of those who are to defend it. Far from any resemblance to those propositions in geometry and metaphysics, which admit no medium, but must be true or false in all their latitude; social and civil freedom, like all other things in common life, are variously mixed and modified, enjoyed in very different degrees, and shaped into an infinite diversity of forms, according to the temper and circumstances of every community. The EXTREME of liberty (which is its abstract perfection, but its real fault) obtains nowhere, nor ought to obtain anywhere. Because extremes, as we all know, in every point which relates either to our duties or satisfactions in life, are destructive both to virtue and enjoyment.

When any community is subordinately connected with another, the great danger of the connection is the extreme pride and self-complacency of the superior, which in all matters of controversy will probably decide in its own favour. It is a powerful corrective to such a very rational cause of fear if the inferior body can be made to believe that the party inclination, or political views, of several in the principal state will induce them in some degree to counteract this blind and tyrannical partiality. There is no danger that any one acquiring consideration or power in the presiding state should carry this leaning to the inferior too far. The fault of human nature is not of that sort. Power, in whatever hands, is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself. But one great advantage to the support of authority attends such an amicable and protecting connection, that those who have conferred favours obtain influence; and from the foresight of future events can persuade men who have received obligations, sometimes to return them. Thus, by the mediation of those healing principles (call them good or evil), troublesome discussions are brought to some sort of adjustment, and every hot controversy is not a civil war.

The individual good felt in a public benefit is comparatively so small, comes round through such an involved labyrinth of intricate and tedious revolutions; whilst a present, personal detriment is so heavy where it falls, and so instant in its operation, that the cold commendation of a public advantage never was, and never will be a match for the quick sensibility of a private loss: and you may depend upon it, sir, that when many people have an interest in railing, sooner or later, they will bring a considerable degree of unpopularity upon any measure, So that, for the present at least, the reformation will operate against the reformers, and revenge (as against them at the least) will produce all the effects of corruption.

Nor is it the worst effect of this unnatural contention, that our LAWS are corrupted. Whilst MANNERS remain entire, they will correct the vices of law, and soften it at length to their own temper. But we have to lament, that in most of the late proceedings we see very few traces of that generosity, humanity, and dignity of mind which formerly characterized this nation. War suspends the rules of moral obligation, and what is long suspended is in danger of being totally abrogated. Civil wars strike deepest of all into the manners of the people. They vitiate their politics; they corrupt their morals; they pervert even the natural taste and relish of equity and justice. By teaching us to consider our fellow-citizens in a hostile light, the whole body of our nation becomes gradually less dear to us. The very names of affection and kindred, which were the bond of charity whilst we agreed, become new incentives to hatred and rage when the communion of our country is dissolved. We may flatter ourselves that we shall not fall into this misfortune. But we have no charter of exemption, that I know of, from the ordinary frailties of our nature.

A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood. He would feel some apprehension at being called to a tremendous account for engaging in so deep a play, without any sort of knowledge of the game. It is no excuse for presumptuous ignorance, that it is directed by insolent passion. The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man. But I cannot conceive any existence under heaven (which, in the depths of its wisdom, tolerates all sorts of things) that is more truly odious and disgusting, than an impotent helpless creature, without civil wisdom or military skill, without a consciousness of any other qualification for power but his servility to it, bloated with pride and arrogance, calling for battles which he is not to fight, contending for a violent dominion which he can never exercise, and satisfied to be himself mean and miserable, in order to render others contemptible and wretched.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. In such a country as this they are of all bad things the worst, worse by far than anywhere else; and they derive a particular malignity even from the wisdom and soundness of the rest of our institutions. For very obvious reasons you cannot trust the crown with a dispensing power over any of your laws. However, a government, be it as bad as it may, will, in the exercise of a discretionary power, discriminate times and persons; and will not ordinarily pursue any man when its own safety is not concerned. A mercenary informer knows no distinction. Under such a system, the obnoxious people are slaves, not only to the government, but they live at the mercy of every individual; they are at once the slaves of the whole community, and of every part of it; and the worst and most unmerciful men are those on whose goodness they most depend.

In this situation men not only shrink from the frowns of a stern magistrate, but they are obliged to fly from their very species. The seeds of destruction are sown in civil intercourse, in social habitudes. The blood of wholesome kindred is infected. Their tables and beds are surrounded with snares. All the means given by Providence to make life safe and comfortable are perverted into instruments of terror and torment. This species of universal subserviency, that makes the very servant who waits behind your chair the arbiter of your life and fortune, has such a tendency to degrade and abase mankind, and to deprive them of that assured and liberal state of mind which alone can make us what we ought to be, that I vow to God I would sooner bring myself to put a man to immediate death for opinions I disliked, and so to get rid of the man and his opinions at once, than to fret him with a feverish being, tainted with the jail-distemper of a contagious servitude, to keep him above ground an animated mass of putrefaction, corrupted himself, and corrupting all about him.

If we repent of our good actions, what, I pray you, is left for our faults and follies? It is not the beneficence of the laws, it is the unnatural temper which beneficence can fret and sour that is to be lamented. It is this temper which, by all rational means, ought to be sweetened and corrected. If froward men should refuse this cure, can they vitiate anything but themselves? Does evil so react upon good, as not only to retard its motion, but to change its nature? If it can so operate, then good men will always be in the power of the bad; and virtue, by a dreadful reverse of order, must lie under perpetual subjection and bondage to vice. --E. Burke

I knocked off Edmund's headings in the above section(Q2) as they are repeats of the first line or redundant [see PG:spweb*.txt for your own adventures].

The reactions to reform, both at home and abroad, becomes the main focus in the political direction of the period 1799-1899. Who's revolting, when, why, and what they did about-- it is a catalog far greater in scope than this/these JE(s). None the less, I will pick a few of the 'issues', and their history, to illustrate some of that chaos in the next JEs. Until then.

News thrown overboard while still shackled:
A timely and ironic twist to my spastic ref'ing. The Fallen Madonna with the Big['ah] Boobies is stolen.

Not so swift boaters.

Taiwan told off. Singapore's new prime minister says he would not support Taiwan if it provoked a war with China over independence. Lee Hsien Loong visited Taiwan before he was sworn in earlier this month, causing official outrage in Beijing and a chill in Singapore-China relations. In a national address, Mr Lee explained that he needed to understand the views of Taiwanese politicians first-hand.

The sultan of the Malaysian state of Selangor has called for urgent action to save one of the country's natural wonders from extinction. He has accused the authorities of buck-passing over efforts to protect a famous colony of fireflies that draws thousands of tourists each year. ...and this part is a laugh... Scientists are still trying to explain how it is that thousands of the creatures - which are actually small beetles rather than flies - blink on and off in unison, their lights flashing within one 30th of a second of one another. 'Synchronous Fireflies' is a popular 100 level project for several disciplines.

Best of luck. Members of Somalia's first parliament for 13 years have been sworn in after lengthy talks between rival factions. The ceremony in Kenya went ahead without a few dozen of the planned 275 members after "disputes" over their selection, officials said. Watched by international mediators, MPs pledged to defend their country and "work honestly for the Somali people".

countthevote.org "We're hoping groups form in every DRE county to keep the electronic voting disasters to a minimum. We have no idea what's going on inside the machines, but at least we can ensure that the security procedures are followed," said Roxanne Jekot, the computer consultant who researched and developed the guide. A pair of questions come to my mind; You here Rox'? --and/or-- Is this YA-astro-turf? The site does not appear to be of that ilk. ie. No Photo's of big teeth.

Free and not dead press.

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OYAITJ:
43427 : Boys of simmer--The BBC's Gordon Corera, in Guantanamo Bay, says the US's interviews with the three children - aged between 13 and 15 - reveal they may have been coerced into fighting in Afghanistan. General Geoffrey Miller who leads operations at the camp is seeking to have the children released in recognition of their age and co-operation, our correspondent says. , Annan babbles--Declaring "the ache in our souls is almost too much to bear," Secretary-General Kofi Annan sought today to console the grief of the United Nations family worldwide with a message of sheer determination to carry on undaunted by the deadly terrorist bombing Tuesday of UN offices in Iraq. , Vampirellia's minions rear their ugly heads, and more.

Texttoon:
Fumetti : Stock photo of Bob Dole. Overlayed speech bubble has him saying; "Bob Dole knows blood when he sees it. So does the wife." Caption on the bottom with; "Bush chum flip flops ancient gums."