Flaming hell...

Congress OKs Iraq Measures

by JIM ABRAMS, .c The Associated Press


WASHINGTON (Oct. 11) - Congress approved the use of America's military might against Iraq, reinforcing President Bush's insistence that Saddam Hussein's government had no other option but to disarm. ''The days of Iraq acting as an outlaw state are coming to an end,'' Bush said.

After days of solemn debate, both the House and Senate passed and sent to the White House a resolution authorizing the president to use military force, if necessary, to compel Iraq to get rid of its biological and chemical weapons and disband its nuclear weapons program.

( Let's just give a child a match and tell him not to light it, shall we? )

Friday five stolen from darkest_eve

1. If you could only choose 1 cd to ever listen to again, what would it be?

Oh, this is just cruel...umm, wow, I could name like ten, but right off the top of my head...Moby's "Play."


2. If you could only choose 2 movies to watch ever again, what would they be?

Sixteen Candles and ...damn. Another toss-up - between The Princess and the Warrior and American Beauty.


3. If you could only choose 3 books to read ever again, what would they be?

Shel Silverstein's The Missing Piece, Geek Love by Katherine Dunn, and Love in Vein, a compilation of short stories that Poppy Z. Brite threw together, if nothing but for the one story, "Alchemy of the Throat."


4. If you could only choose 4 things to eat or drink ever again, what would they be?

are speaking survival here, or just whatever we feel like eating? If it's the latter, hell...apples, water, nachos and steak.


5. If you could only choose 5 people to ever be/talk/associate/whatever with ever again, who would they be?

My family, my friends, the plants that live with us, the animals...wait, you said humans, right? Oh well...I lose.