Comments on: Be Vewy Qwiet http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/14/be-vewy-qwiet/ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:04:21 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Berkeley Student` http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/14/be-vewy-qwiet/comment-page-1/#comment-187177 Berkeley Student` Sat, 17 Feb 2007 00:51:20 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/14/be-vewy-qwiet/#comment-187177 Is this for real? Are my politics that radical? Is this for real? Are my politics that radical?

]]> By: abb1 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/14/be-vewy-qwiet/comment-page-1/#comment-186995 abb1 Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:53:54 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/14/be-vewy-qwiet/#comment-186995 Oh, c'mon now, killing mullahs and atomic scientists is not murder. It's a legitimate act of self-defense. If carried out by a liberal democracy anyway. Oh, c’mon now, killing mullahs and atomic scientists is not murder. It’s a legitimate act of self-defense. If carried out by a liberal democracy anyway.

]]> By: frankis http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/14/be-vewy-qwiet/comment-page-1/#comment-186986 frankis Thu, 15 Feb 2007 03:58:19 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/14/be-vewy-qwiet/#comment-186986 "Murder" is an underworked word these days, imho. “Murder” is an underworked word these days, imho.

]]> By: rea http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/14/be-vewy-qwiet/comment-page-1/#comment-186980 rea Thu, 15 Feb 2007 01:44:33 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/14/be-vewy-qwiet/#comment-186980 "There’s word for this – it’ll come to me in a moment – begins with a “T”, I think…" "Evil," "criminal" and "stupid" come to mind, but none of those begin with a "T". “There’s word for this – it’ll come to me in a moment – begins with a “T”, I think…”

“Evil,” “criminal” and “stupid” come to mind, but none of those begin with a “T”.

]]> By: chris y http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/14/be-vewy-qwiet/comment-page-1/#comment-186947 chris y Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:35:26 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/14/be-vewy-qwiet/#comment-186947 <i>We should be responding quietly, killing radical mullahs and iranian atomic scientists</i> There's word for this - it'll come to me in a moment - begins with a "T", I think... We should be responding quietly, killing radical mullahs and iranian atomic scientists

There’s word for this – it’ll come to me in a moment – begins with a “T”, I think…

]]> By: bubba http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/14/be-vewy-qwiet/comment-page-1/#comment-186919 bubba Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:52:52 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/14/be-vewy-qwiet/#comment-186919 Dr. Helen needs to get her husband under control. Sounds like a job for Mission Impossible. Is Tom Cruise busy? Yup, being Second Jesus is taking up all his itme. OK then. How about Ahnold? Any chance he'll take a break from being Governator and take are of this piece of international assassination? No? Last chance. Rambo, you busy? 'Cause the Partridge Family just won't do this time. Dr. Helen needs to get her husband under control.

Sounds like a job for Mission Impossible. Is Tom Cruise busy? Yup, being Second Jesus is taking up all his itme.

OK then. How about Ahnold? Any chance he’ll take a break from being Governator and take are of this piece of international assassination? No?

Last chance. Rambo, you busy? ‘Cause the Partridge Family just won’t do this time.

]]> By: nick s http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/14/be-vewy-qwiet/comment-page-1/#comment-186917 nick s Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:32:16 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/14/be-vewy-qwiet/#comment-186917 I believe it was actually the Dean of West Point who wanted '24' to include scenarios in which torture doesn't work, because he was sick of new students coming in to ethics classes and saying 'b-but what about "24"?' Joel Surnow missed the meeting because he was talking to the head of Fox News. I believe it was actually the Dean of West Point who wanted ‘24’ to include scenarios in which torture doesn’t work, because he was sick of new students coming in to ethics classes and saying ‘b-but what about “24”?’

Joel Surnow missed the meeting because he was talking to the head of Fox News.

]]> By: Glorious Godfrey http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/14/be-vewy-qwiet/comment-page-1/#comment-186901 Glorious Godfrey Wed, 14 Feb 2007 10:31:32 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/14/be-vewy-qwiet/#comment-186901 <i> Norbizniz wins teh thread! </i> Indeed. Any reference to Howard the Duck turns you automatically into one of teh hermetic Archons of teh Universe. Norbizniz wins teh thread!

Indeed. Any reference to Howard the Duck turns you automatically into one of teh hermetic Archons of teh Universe.

]]> By: eugene http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/14/be-vewy-qwiet/comment-page-1/#comment-186891 eugene Wed, 14 Feb 2007 06:46:26 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/14/be-vewy-qwiet/#comment-186891 Norbizniz wins teh thread! Norbizniz wins teh thread!

]]> By: dsquared http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/14/be-vewy-qwiet/comment-page-1/#comment-186889 dsquared Wed, 14 Feb 2007 06:16:11 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/14/be-vewy-qwiet/#comment-186889 It was in the paper yesterday that the CIA had finally lost patience and put in a complaint to the producers of "24" asking them to stop portraying US intelligence as a bunch of torture-happy loose cannons. It was in the paper yesterday that the CIA had finally lost patience and put in a complaint to the producers of “24” asking them to stop portraying US intelligence as a bunch of torture-happy loose cannons.

]]> By: Hasan Jafri http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/14/be-vewy-qwiet/comment-page-1/#comment-186885 Hasan Jafri Wed, 14 Feb 2007 03:48:53 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/14/be-vewy-qwiet/#comment-186885 "The mullahs' expat business interests." Would that be the old Russian stroganoff retsurant in downtown Tehran? “The mullahs’ expat business interests.” Would that be the old Russian stroganoff retsurant in downtown Tehran?

]]> By: eweininger http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/14/be-vewy-qwiet/comment-page-1/#comment-186883 eweininger Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:59:21 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/14/be-vewy-qwiet/#comment-186883 <i>putting the mullahs’ expat business interests out of business....</i> What, exactly, is this bit supposed to refer to? putting the mullahs’ expat business interests out of business….

What, exactly, is this bit supposed to refer to?

]]> By: david still http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/14/be-vewy-qwiet/comment-page-1/#comment-186882 david still Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:27:31 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/14/be-vewy-qwiet/#comment-186882 More nonsense from tenured "libertarians"--ie.,conservatives who live in a world of trash tv and assujme it to be reality, as though the CIA et al are not doin g some of the stuff that thsese would-bne cowboys woul;d likle to see Others Do For Them--why is it that these gun slingers are alway sasking others to do that which they will not themselves offer to do? More nonsense from tenured “libertarians”—ie.,conservatives who live in a world of trash tv and assujme it to be reality, as though the CIA et al are not doin g some of the stuff that thsese would-bne cowboys woul;d likle to see Others Do For Them—why is it that these gun slingers are alway sasking others to do that which they will not themselves offer to do?

]]> By: Hasan Jafri http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/14/be-vewy-qwiet/comment-page-1/#comment-186881 Hasan Jafri Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:25:29 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/14/be-vewy-qwiet/#comment-186881 LOL...A plucky, moderate Iranian law professor with a slight accent won't pass muster. If we want popular support we should send Iran a sumptuous, resilient, well-perfumed Persian nightclub diva who has been whiling away her time in Paris hotel rooms. Or a singing femme-bot, if noone's available. Or -- my fave -- a mechanical bull that rocks and talks and recites passages from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty at same time. Get creative, pahleeez. LOL…A plucky, moderate Iranian law professor with a slight accent won’t pass muster. If we want popular support we should send Iran a sumptuous, resilient, well-perfumed Persian nightclub diva who has been whiling away her time in Paris hotel rooms. Or a singing femme-bot, if noone’s available. Or—my fave—a mechanical bull that rocks and talks and recites passages from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty at same time.

Get creative, pahleeez.

]]> By: Kieran Healy http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/14/be-vewy-qwiet/comment-page-1/#comment-186880 Kieran Healy Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:07:24 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/14/be-vewy-qwiet/#comment-186880 (fixed) (fixed)

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