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December 15, 2003
Fighting the war -- cell by cell?
Forget, for a moment, things like plastic turkeys and rubber chickens. Tim Blair offers a map showing the exact locations of the Coalition of the I hate to sound paranoid but that map (especially the MoveOn version) bears a striking resemblance to the T-mobile cell phone coverage map! Surely, this cannot be a coincidence! It is well known that terrorist "cells" are everywhere. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to suspect a foreign conspiracy. First of all, GSM cell phones (which all German Telekom T-mobile phones are!) are un-American, and have already been allowed to take over Iraq: [US Congressman Darrell Issa]... had been campaigning to exclude "un-American" GSM from Iraq in favour CDMA.GSM phones not only cause cancer, but they have been implicated in mind control projects! Worst of all, the evil, perverted Germans who run T-mobile have recently been implicated in an insidious plot to inundate their users with pornographic images! I have been using T-mobile for over a year now. I am a satisfied customer. Too satisfied? While I don't think I have developed full-blown Pissy Syndrome, I am worried that for all of the above reasons I may be in danger of being an asymptomatic "carrier." Stranger things have happened.
Michael Moore, one of the regime's trenchant critics, put it well in an open letter to his President: "The fake honey glaze on that fake bird wasn't much different from the fake honey glaze that covers this war. And the fake stuffing in the fake bird was just the right symbol for our country during these times. America loves fake honey glaze. It loves to be stuffed, and damn it, you knew that."Michael Moore is hardly one to complain at all -- much less use the words "fake" and "stuffed" in the same breath! A rich New York millionaire (as distinguished from the poor ones) who lives on the fashionable Upper West Side, where he sends his daughter to an elite private school, Michael Moore very ample stuffing is matched only by his faker-than-fake working-class-hero pretense. Unbelievable. Where do people get off, taking such things seriously? Is anti-Bush hysteria making people delusional? On the other hand, if the hysteria induces enough anger on the other side, it could both backfire (with a Bush landslide, as Steven Malcolm Anderson predicts) and simultaneously fuel itself further. I don't think such anger and psychotic polarization are a good thing -- but who asked me? REALLY LATE UPDATE: Hey, come on folks! When I said "rubber chicken" I was just kidding, OK? (Link via Tim Blair.) posted by Eric on 12.15.03 at 12:01 PM
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As a practical matter, your T-Mobile GSM phone probably will not work in Europe, nor a German-issued phone here - they're both GSM, but they transmit on different frequency bands. We need to get a ruling from den Beste (who probably knows more about mobiles than anyone else in all of blogdom) before we start canceling accounts. (I get darned good service from Tmo, myself.) CGHill · December 15, 2003 09:14 PM Thanks for the comments! Steven, I never thought about the relationship between guns and sodomy laws; you may have stumbled onto another paradox. Charles, I'd love to hear what den Beste says. But I get good service and I won't cancel. Besides, things are so interconnected that boycotts can becoming self-canceling. (Starbucks, for example, is being targeted by the anti-Israel crowd and the gun crowd at the same time -- the latter somewhat unfairly, in my view....) I think the tri-band GSM phones (as opposed to dual banders) will work anywhere there's GSM coverage. Motorola V60 and V66 will work, for example. Eric Scheie · December 15, 2003 11:09 PM "Michael Moore... sends his daughter to an elite private school..." Actually, I feel sorry for the poor girl, having Michael Moore for a father. Mary in LA · January 16, 2004 05:02 PM |
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That yellow/blue Dean vs. not-Dean map, like the red/blue maps, looks like one of those satellite photos showing population density (and light pollution). If you look at such a map, you will see why we need the Electoral College. Without it, a politician could conceivably become President while writing off the entire U.S. west of the Mississippi. "Oregon? What's an oregon?" Ties in with what men like Madison were speaking of, and what John C. Calhoun articulated as a "concurrent majority" of diverse minorities as opposed to a simple "numerical majority". I notice that the "red" states tend not to have gun control while the "blue" states tend not to have had "sodomy" laws (penis/vagina control). Dean's own state of Vermont has _both_ concealed carry (_shall_ issue) for guns _and_ civil unions for men's men and Lesbians, the best of both the Conservative and the Liberal. He should have been capitalizing on that strength instead of appealing to the Coalition of the Wimps.