first, a start with a quote:

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
-- Dwight Eisenhower, April 16, 1953

this quote, obtained from a fortune and first spread through the omlettesoft webchat, was parodied by arsjerm. ignoring that part of his latest update, we see that i've been accused of being a 'leftist liberal' and a 'rioting, slandering nincompoop'.

first, i point you to a recent posting by jmoiron, which seemingly addresses this exact point, despite having been posted 2 days prior to the libel of arsjerm. secondly, how much trust would you put into the words of a conservative religious rightist? from a member of an organization which sides with bush because he prays, i am yet to see anything from him addressing the issue at hand here, besides gross generalizations that are entirely baseless and totally incorrect.

in the interest of brevity, and on the fact that this is jerm's first offense, i shall progress no further with this at the present time.

a 'real' update will be made tonight.