W’s blag

One morning on IRC;

[06:56] [_W_] Bjorn, but who cares if you get to remove one liar if you’re just replacing him with another?
[06:56] <Bjorn> I don’t think obama is a liar
[06:57] <Bjorn> I think clinton was a liar but that didn’t bother me then
[06:57] <Bjorn> he bothers me now though
[06:57] [_W_] Bjorn, are you really that blind?
[06:57] <Bjorn> see we settled for clinton then because there wasn’t anything better
[06:57] <Bjorn> _W_: blind to what?
[06:57] <Bjorn> you think Obama is a liar?
[06:58] [_W_] absolutely
[06:58] <Bjorn> well, I disagree
[06:58] <Bjorn> whole heartedly
[06:58] [_W_] as is anyone likely to get even close to a presidential nomination
[06:58] <Bjorn> I think anyone who thinks he is a liar is either ignorant or jaded
[06:58] [_W_] Bjorn, you’ll see

One of Obama’s pledges (http://www.barackobama.com/2007/08/01/the_war_we_need_to_win.php)

As President, I will close Guantanamo, reject the Military Commissions Act, and adhere to the Geneva Conventions. Our Constitution and our Uniform Code of Military Justice provide a framework for dealing with the terrorists.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_corpus

Obama on prosecuting for torture (http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/attytood/Barack_on_torture.html)

…if crimes have been committed, they should be investigated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Principles

It’s not a Proper Boomstick unless it has a switch like this:

At long last I won the hardest game ever, Nethack. The game lasted over a month, mainly due to me not playing while on vacation. I blame my ascension on the early wishes (first a magic lamp then a random wishing wand) and trying to combine stormbringer and pets, which made me really paranoid and careful with every move. Finding a spellbook of polymorph was the cream on the cake. By the time I entered the quest I had -40-something AC, 300+ hp, and was generally immortal. Knew practically every spell (no charm monster though, no matter how many spellbooks I polymorphed), and had more magic markers than I knew what to do with. Ascending was simple, Death was a wimp, and my only scare was when I fought both the arch priest of Moloch and double-trouble Rodney at the same time, they got me down to half HP, and I wished up some potions of full healing. Next turn a cockatrice showed up, and that was that.