http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374605/posts/summaryThu, 13 Jul 2006 09:35:25 +0000http://chebucto.ca/Current/P7/blog/blogger.htmlBernard Tremblay15http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374605/posts/summary/115272645999009000Wed, 12 Jul 2006 17:39:00 +00002006-07-13T03:53:19.778-06:00*update at bottom*Israel has rolled into Lebanon. Six years after it "unilaterally" withdrew its forces, Israel has launched raids into southern Lebanon.see "Israel has rolled into Lebanon. Here we go again?" - HfxBen"How many realize that Hezbollah owes its existence to Israel's unilateral withdrawal from the area six years ago? Now they kidnap Israeli soldiers with a cross-border attack?! It http://chebucto.ca/Current/P7/blog/2006/07/sabres-so-often-rattled-too-often.htmlBernard Tremblayhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374605/posts/summary/115134535127411383Mon, 26 Jun 2006 18:08:00 +00002006-06-26T12:09:11.286-06:00In his "Say what?" Jon Udell responds to a comment about his writing style. (He self-deprecatingly called it a "dope slap" ... Jon's the sorta fellow who knows the benefits arise from proper user of a clue stick or clue by 4.) BTW "Say what?" is an allusion to Ami Hendrickson's blog, ''Muse Ink''. Later in the piece Jon describes a system users Eureka moment ... "we bought the wrong kind of http://chebucto.ca/Current/P7/blog/2006/06/its-always-hard-to-say.htmlBernard Tremblayhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374605/posts/summary/115118387855538547Sat, 24 Jun 2006 21:17:58 +00002006-06-24T15:18:01.816-06:00hfx_ben: If folk act as stunned as I say they do .... This post to LiveJournal, citing "'Thirst for knowledge' may be opium craving", reads in part:Maybe I get upset. Maybe too upset, and maybe too often. And maybe angry, and then depressed. But at least I'm thinking. So what? *D'uh!* is the appropriate answer to that pseuco-clever trash. [...] But hey, go ahead ... coast ... the planet will die http://chebucto.ca/Current/P7/blog/2006/06/affect-and-quality-of-consciousness.htmlBernard Tremblayhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374605/posts/summary/115077546291577411Tue, 20 Jun 2006 03:51:00 +00002006-06-19T21:58:54.910-06:00In the first post to the blog for the new "Democratic Strategist", Scott Winship (the Managing Editor) included this invitation: "you (dear reader) can help make this a better blog by passing along links to articles or studies that I can deconstruct. I know that sounds like I'm pushing my work off on you, but hey"My reply was this: Passing along links and articles you can deconstruct? Ok! FWIW http://chebucto.ca/Current/P7/blog/2006/06/in-first-post-to-blog-for-new.htmlBernard Tremblayhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374605/posts/summary/107288682497348173Wed, 31 Dec 2003 16:07:04 +00002004-04-11T12:39:15.950-06:00A rough draft of my core idea (see also material on "dispositional" and "punitive"): Solipsistic, individuals seek out the company of those who a) they can dominate, or b) who do not threaten the integrity of their own denials (ideally, who actually corroborate them, conspiratorially, which provides entertainment, validation, and other forms of social utility). Those who maintain their http://chebucto.ca/Current/P7/blog/2003/12/rough-draft-of-my-core-idea-see-also.htmlBernard Tremblayhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374605/posts/summary/106330105092794811Thu, 11 Sep 2003 17:24:10 +00002003-09-11T11:24:10.913-06:00Two years ago, in NYC, hundreds of "just folk" died while going about their daily lives. Thirty years ago, in Chile, a nation's democratically elected government was overthrown in a coup that shocked even the aristocrats and oligarchs who had pressed for it. 3000 of those who were executed or killed by torture had their bodies hidden away so that their families could not reclaim them and grieve.http://chebucto.ca/Current/P7/blog/2003/09/two-years-ago-in-nyc-hundreds-of-just.htmlBernard Tremblayhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374605/posts/summary/106194461110290813Wed, 27 Aug 2003 00:36:51 +00002003-08-26T18:36:51.033-06:00Why is 30 years more potent than 25? A couple of weeks ago I had a profound insight into my PTSD, but didn't get it quite right: it turns out that I taint moments of success /not/ because I have come to believe myself unworthy, but rather (and, friends, incredible as it might seem, this next detail explains away my writer's block!), because that "success" was actually negative ... retrograde ...http://chebucto.ca/Current/P7/blog/2003/08/why-is-30-years-more-potent-than-25.htmlBernard Tremblayhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374605/posts/summary/105935383670189756Mon, 28 Jul 2003 00:57:16 +00002003-07-27T19:01:47.516-06:00War Nerd - Iraq: the “Duh!” Theory from eXile #170: "Q: Why don’t they love us? A: Cause we invaded them, DUH!"http://chebucto.ca/Current/P7/blog/2003/07/war-nerd-iraq-duh-theory-from-exile.htmlBernard Tremblayhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374605/posts/summary/95724983Mon, 16 Jun 2003 18:30:10 +00002003-06-16T12:30:10.456-06:00KRT Wire | 05/30/2003 | Mean streets getting meaner; Cities launch crackdowns on homeless (Chicago Tribune) "A growing number of cities, including Los Angeles, Seattle and Atlanta, are criminalizing activities of the homeless, according to the National Coalition for the Homeless. More than 60 cities are introducing measures to make it illegal to beg or sleep on the streets, to sit in a bus http://chebucto.ca/Current/P7/blog/2003/06/krt-wire-05302003-mean-streets-getting.htmlBernard Tremblayhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374605/posts/summary/95723757Mon, 16 Jun 2003 17:51:04 +00002003-06-16T11:52:04.000-06:00You a good person? Typically honest, typically loyal, typically rational? Read this, wudya? The biggest difference between this dude and I is that he collected salary for the decades it took him to do the arithmatic; I walked out when I was 19. Ex-security aide blasts terror warhttp://chebucto.ca/Current/P7/blog/2003/06/you-good-person-typically-honest.htmlBernard Tremblayhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374605/posts/summary/95218436Tue, 03 Jun 2003 02:43:16 +00002003-06-02T20:52:37.000-06:00A volunteer with UK Indymedia and independent reporter had the back of his leg torn off by a concussion grenade fired at close range. (Even when mortared up into the air these things are some wicked dangerous.) This took place in a police attack against a group of returning from peaceful anti-G8 demonstration. *What, if you don't smash windows, you get gunned down for failing to provide the copshttp://chebucto.ca/Current/P7/blog/2003/06/volunteer-with-uk-indymedia-and.htmlBernard Tremblayhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374605/posts/summary/95140704Sun, 01 Jun 2003 04:00:59 +00002003-05-31T22:07:01.000-06:00Hey! Yank! Did you raise your boys to be Gestapo? I'm not saying I did right by shit-canning my military career ... but I did that rather than do wrong. What, precisely, is your problem? Gutless? Spineless? Brainless? Crooked? Corrupt? Sold out? On the take? Too lazy? ('Scuze me, but neither pot nor booze is an excuse for eating the sort of shit you're choking back by the bucket-full.) I've gothttp://chebucto.ca/Current/P7/blog/2003/05/hey-yank-did-you-raise-your-boys-to-be.htmlBernard Tremblayhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374605/posts/summary/94615201Tue, 20 May 2003 03:48:48 +00002003-05-19T21:48:48.893-06:00I don't think actions like this are taken without appreciation of the message that's sent to the public. And I don't think it's done with the intention of inspiring young Americans with digust for their nation's foreign policy. I think its done understanding that those who it disgusts can be set aside for special treatment, so that those with principles can be dealt with in the same manner as Majhttp://chebucto.ca/Current/P7/blog/2003/05/i-dont-think-actions-like-this-are.htmlBernard Tremblayhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374605/posts/summary/94585023Mon, 19 May 2003 15:40:27 +00002003-05-19T09:40:27.570-06:00Bottom line: Rumsfeld isn't strong enough to support free speech, sets Army up as censors. Army Orders Troops to Seize TV Station in Northwest Iraq - The Wall Street Journal Classroom Edition "The U.S. Army issued orders for troops to seize this city's only television station, leading an officer here to raise questions about the Army's dedication to free speech in postwar Iraq, people http://chebucto.ca/Current/P7/blog/2003/05/bottom-line-rumsfeld-isnt-strong.htmlBernard Tremblayhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/3374605/posts/summary/94480868Sat, 17 May 2003 02:26:58 +00002003-05-16T20:45:04.000-06:00This blog has drifted a long way from its initial intent ... but the situation requires it. How is it that the "coalition of the willing" have funds to destroy, but not to protect? If a water plant were selected as a target, millions would be spent in its destruction (Remember: a single plain vanilla cruise missile is US$1M ... a fancy one can be half again as much), but resources aren't http://chebucto.ca/Current/P7/blog/2003/05/this-blog-has-drifted-long-way-from.htmlBernard Tremblay