From email correspondence with my friend Todd:<\/p>\n
| Todd:<\/span><\/td>\n | On an unrelated note, I was reading the messianic praise of Obama\u2019s speech, and in the article in The Star was a quote from Reagan in the 80\u2019s.\u00a0 He described the Afghans battling the Russian invaders as \u201cfreedom fighters\u201d.\u00a0 It confused me.\u00a0 I thought that the term for people of a sovereign nation that attempt to oust or otherwise resist their country\u2019s invasion by a non UN sanctioned aggressor nation was \u201cinsurgent\u201d or \u201cterrorist\u201d.<\/span>Would you help this poor, uneducated slob and show me the errors of my ways?<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n| Me:<\/span><\/td>\n | DOES NOT COMPUTE | \nDOES NOT COMPUTE \nDOES NOT COMPUTE \nDOES NOT COMPUTE \nDOES NOT COMPUTE<\/span><\/p>\n This is an automatic message from the Internet. Your email of: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:30:30 -0400<\/strong> to junior@heroesinrehab.ca<\/strong> could not be transmitted because it contained a logical proposition purporting to demonstrate the moral illegitimacy of certain military actions of the United States of America. Pursuant to the Patriot Act and the Freedom of the Internet Act, this is completely and utterly illegal and really quite cheeky of you to even attempt. We’re the United States of America. We still control everything, including teh Intarwebs, and if you don’t like it, we’ve got two words for you, my friend: Dick Fucking Cheney. Bum ticker and all, that guy is our enforcer and he’s still roaming around “randomly” shooting people in the face. How’d you like to be next? I didn’t think so. Well, give your head a shake the next time you want to think about going and sending a message like that.<\/span><\/p>\n Suggested alternative content: “God Bless America.”<\/span><\/p>\n Thank you.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n As to Mr. Cheney, Mr. Cuddles to his friends, why, I would never like to come face to shotgun with him. unless he wanted me to, that is. Then for sure, I’m up for some \u201cpeppering\u201d. I am, after all, also a lawyer, albeit somewhat less aged.<\/span><\/p>\n I also agree that they should leave their troops in Iraq for as long as it takes to break the fighting spirit of those Middle East people. It\u2019s been done in the past, and it can be done again. It\u2019s been done before, right? Didn\u2019t the Soviets manage to\u2026.wait. Never mind.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n |