April 24, 2003
ATMs and Iraq
Discovery: apparently, an ATM will let you overdraw your account, even when it knows your balance. I went right inside and they let me put the money back in (and said I therefore wouldn't be charged an overdraft fee), but it was still annoying. They claimed it was so if you were at a restaurant or something, and paying, they wouldn't have to block the payment and embarrass you or something; but we all know it is really because they want to get the overdraft fees.
In other news, we are now threatening France, Germany , and Iran with various consequences for their lack of support for our war, in addition to our bluster about WMD in Syria.
Juxtaposition of the incongruous:
"The pilgrims...engaged in religious rituals that were banned for a quarter of a century under Saddam Hussein. This included self-flagellation and the cutting of heads with swords, to mark the death in the 7th century of Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Mohammed. Mr Fleischer said President George W Bush had been delighted to see the people given a chance to express their religious fervour."
And some lovely news about Iraq:
"A US army commander in Iraq says the fighting there is not over and there are now more American troops in the country than ever."Looks like the armband's staying on for a while longer. Just this afternoon I saw a car flying a black flag from a mount on its back window, which is such a great co-opt of the whole flag-on-car movement that I wish I'd thought of it---too bad I don't drive my car very often, or I'd do that too.
Well, back to my thesis.
"Bush made it clear a month ago that this was all about finding weapons
of mass destruction... no, wait a minute, last week he made it clear this
was all about liberating the Iraqi people... hold on, this morning he made
it clear this was about cutting off the flow of oil to Syria, a known haven
for terrorists... well, in any event, it has NOTHING to do with American
oil interests: that much has been made clear." --Bill Swift
Posted
by blahedo
at 1:35pm
on 24 Apr 2003
