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July 05, 2003
On my way
Bill Whittle's latest essay is called Trinity. He writes the following message for people like me:
To hell with those people! It�s our birthday, dammit. This one is for us. Americans. This includes all you Americans living in foreign lands with foreign passports, speaking foreign languages and holding foreign citizenships. You know who you are. If you�re an optimist, if untrammeled freedom makes you giddy, if you think you know of a better way to do something and just want a chance to try, if you can tell right from wrong and still care about the difference, if you�re soft hearted and tough minded, if you think we could all get along just great if we�d all just leave each other alone, if you don�t like to fight but know sometimes you just have to, and most especially, if the idea of leaving the huddled masses and joining the pursuit of happiness has a mystical appeal for you, then you are already an American in your heart. Welcome home. Get here any way you can. We need people like you.
And then... I tend to post links to Bill Whittle's material before I have finished reading it. In fact, I am taking a break from Trinity to type this. This is in part because I want to let what he is saying sink in. It is also because I don't want the essay to end just yet. But mainly it is because I have to share this cosmos-shatteringly excellent image...
... the world�s first fusion-powered, laser-armed, flying stealth submarine, the USS George W. Bush.
Let us build it at once.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at July 5, 2003 12:56 PM
Comments
Well, come on over then! What are you waiting for?
Posted by: Mollbot at July 6, 2003 12:46 AM
Phase one: finish PhD.
Phase three: profit!
Posted by: Nicholas Packwood at July 6, 2003 08:56 PM
