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Mars, Snugglebunnies!
Somehow, the phrase "mainstream media" seems particularly oxymoronic this morning.
BTW, Howler's doing well on this, too.
I think the phrase "mainstream media" is not oxymoronic at all. It refers to the primary urination that the RNC is conducting through the media. In this case it is Soros that is getting pissed on.
The difference between now and the time of the Clinton administration is that we're on to them. But how to use this knowledge?
Holy shit. I keep forgetting the past. This from a 1998 Orlando Sentinel article discussed in the link:
This low-life, lying draft-dodger who has already gutted and demoralized the American military has the chutzpah to count on the patriotism of the American people to support him because he has committed their sons and daughters to an unconstitutional war for illegitimate reasons.
Iraq has been the victim of a big-lie campaign dating all the way back to the Persian Gulf War.
It's ironic that, time and again, Iraq has been shown to have told the truth while the United States has been shown to have lied.
A smackdown of Bush? Nope. Just another example of the shit Clinton had to put up with while in office.
Send copies of this to everyone you know and the transcript of Big Fat Liar Tony Blankley on Horseshit and Colmes --
this is the hate based administration of the George Bush
promoting antisemitism while sucking up to the organized Jewish vote.
The "Jew who escaped the Halocaust remark .." should be sent to every Jewish organization in America with the acknowledgement that fat ass is am employee of the Rev Moon.
ps
and that is in an organized action of the Bush campaign -Gillespie
The GOP has no memory of past words. They pretend Clinton controlled the FBI when the FBI was conspiring to unseat him.
Yeah, if only he'd done the polite thing and simply died like all those other Jews, we wouldn't have all these problems now.
/Blankley
Fuckwit.
A.
it's not fair to all these little grass roots conservative activists. How can they can possibly compete against all these billionaire liberals?
WTF? I thought we controlled the media!
Crap like this is a pain in the ass when you've got a world-domination project and whatnot.
OT, but have you noticed that story saying that Reagan's health is deteriorating?
Am I just too cynical, or do I see this as a possible gotcha card that the GOP will pull out AT THE LAST MINUTE before the elections: "Our fearless leader hath died! Show respect for him and keep the REAL man in office!"
I bet Reagan is already dead. If there is a God, the poor guy will die long before the elections and the nostalgic faux-patriotism will have passed on as well.
RIP Reagan, Rest in Peace. Hopefully you won't be used as a tool like you were while in the office.
I don't know if this has been posted early, but Vonnegut nails it.
http://www.inthesetimes.com/site...le/cold_turkey/
Hopefully you won't be used as a tool like you were while in the office.
I dunno, I think there might be a small bounce but not much more. The USA Today article that I saw about Reagan mentioned the stem cell issue. I don't think Nancy is going to make it too convenient for Bush to campaign on Reagans corpse.
there goes the soccer ball...
Dead pool for Ronnie?
So what is it with Corrente and Mozilla? Am I the only one who just gets gibberish?
Sadly, since they've insisted on using their new, "improved" template, I no longer visit them...
OT: Pardon my language, but this has me in a fucking rage.
For a while I've wondered if Reagan is already dead and his "death" will be used as an "October Surprise." But it probably isn't true if they're talking about his death now. Why would they ruin the surprise?
Dave, yeah, Corrente (and a few other sites) are scrambled by Mozilla. I switch to Internet Explorer to read them. Opera works, too, and it's available for Windows, Mac & Linux. Free with a little advertising, $39 for the ad-free version.
Boobies and a Lime Rickey, please.
Reagan and Osama may be roommates in the same freezer? Huh,
OT, but
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steadfast_bushs_amazing_flip_flops/>he flips! He flops!
The amazing Flip flopper!>
Try again...
cles/2004/06/05/
steadfast_bushs_amazing_flip_flops/>He flips! He flops!
It's the amazing flip flopper!
OK, I give up...
Yes, this smearing of Soros is reprehensible.
But I don't expect it to gain any traction with the 90% of Americans who have no idea who he is, and wouldn't care even if they did. Just as counter-smears against Rev. Moon and Rupert Murdoch probably won't gain any traction, even if anyone bothers to make them.
Maybe the best way to counter it is by quoting all the Republicans who for the past 20 years have been saying that "people should be allowed to give as much as they want to political campaigns, as long as there is full disclosure." Then point out that Soros has fully disclosed his political contributions, which is why they're complaining and smearing him.
Repukes are congenital liars.
Their brains have dangling wires.
That they sing the same song,
No matter how wrong,
Proves they're nothing but fucking pismires.
Don't put too mcuh weight on the media:
The numbers, and the country's mood are all against Bush.
I piss on those pismires from the urine stream media.
"So what is it with Corrente and Mozilla? Am I the only one who just gets gibberish?" - No, it's an error in their html. However, if you do a reload on the page area, it generally comes thru fine.
I think the wurlizter is off key with this attack. If a smear on a successful billionaire is the best they can do, then their tank is empty, and their stairs don't quite reach the attic.
These smearing, thugish brutes in the GOP are SO comfortable sliming a good, honorable, generous man like Soros. It's dispicable and so are they. Decent folks know it.
nacy doesn't likle playing among the bushes. NO WAY she would stand for georgie to pimp HER ronnie.
and how come the retardican LOVE to throw mud, but call for their mommy when they get hit with a feather?
I heard O'Reilly call Soros "far left" Thursday. That bloviator uses the term "far left" so much it loses all meaning. Apparently there is a large, homogenous "far left" that includes Ted Kennedy, Soros, Trots and Maoists.
Does O'Reilly really see no distinctions between a paternalistic corporate liberal and a Marxist-Leninist? Is he really that fucking stupid? Or is he just a disingenuous whore pretending to be as stupid as his audience?
Dave & Donkey--I got gibberish too. Just reload. Comes out fine.
OT, but drip, drip, drip...
Man, that "Jew/holocaust" quote of Blankley is seriously strange and hateful and fucked-up and weird and ominous and weird-threatening and just fucking weird and hostile and crypto-murderous. Last week he was bemoaning that the media can't be sent to Gitmo for sedition. These people are losing the debate and it's making them increasingly lose their minds but they still control the megaphone and they are dangerous.
Send an email complaint to afoxman@adl.org. I already did.
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You'd think this guy was a writer for People's Daily:
"Soros -- a self-styled citizen of the world who has spent billions meddling in the internal affairs of many nations -- has been credited with wrecking national currencies and toppling governments."
Actually, it's James Norell, a writer for the NRA whose piece is in the electronic rag, Frontpagemag.com.(May 31)
Just try to remember: The neocons and Bushies spread democracy, while Soros "meddles in the internal affairs of others".
Of course, when Soros does it, it's on his dime, but when the neocons do it, it's on yours.
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Yeah pansy, Nancy has been a hella stand-up, no-bullshit girl on not allowing herself or her Ronnie to be exploited for the Chimpire. Good god, she's reminding me of (the elderly) Barry Goldwater these days.
I don't know if this has been posted early, but Vonnegut nails it.
http://www.inthesetimes.com/site...le/cold_turkey/
What a subversive meme, oil as a drug more addictive than heroin. Well worth bookmarking.
Thanks, Bush-Nader 2004
Can we please quit with calling them the "mainstream media" and start calling them what they are.. the "corporate controlled media?"
Even SCLM isn' accurate/derisive enough.
I eagerly await the day the "corporate controlled media" explicitly uses Atrios as a source.
It's reasonable to assume that anyone who still supports Bush, despite what any objective observer can recognise as his inadequacy, is motivated solely by their blinding hatred of the Left and not at all by anything that could be remotely characterized by regard for their own country.
Am I just too cynical, or do I see this as a possible gotcha card that the GOP will pull out AT THE LAST MINUTE before the elections: "Our fearless leader hath died! Show respect for him and keep the REAL man in office!"
No, like others I don't think Nancy will allow the GOP (or rather, Bushco) to hijack Reagan's death for political purposes. For starters, the Reagans and the Bushes never liked each other much; Nancy and Beautiful Mind Babs are meant to have no love lost for each other. And the stem-cell issue has magnified this in recent months.
When Ronnie does shuffle off -- and while no fan of his, I wouldn't wish Alzheimer's on my worst enemy -- my one regret is that it'll be wall-to-wall Crazy Jesus Lady Nooner on the box.
Kevin Carson - the answer is "A". Yes, O'Reilly really is that stupid.
For a while I've wondered if Reagan is already dead and his "death" will be used as an "October Surprise." But it probably isn't true if they're talking about his death now. Why would they ruin the surprise?
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I really, really doubt it. Why? Because look at the way Nancy and Ron Jr. have refused to go along with how conservatives are trying to use Reagan's image. In an Esquire interview, Ron Jr. was pretty disgusted with how conservatives were trying to speak for his father, who can no longer speak for himself.
And Nancy put the kabosh on the Reagan dime, as well as the Ronald Reagan University concept. She's also been vocal about how we should fund stem cell research.
Doesn't seem to me the Reagan family has much interest in seeing Ronnie used as a neo-con tool.
The right has given up their country, and are waiting to be told by Moon and O'Lielly what their new country is going to look like. A cross between Nazi Germany and North Korea, I would think, especially given Miserable Failure's parallels to Kim Il Jong...
When Ronnie does shuffle off -- and while no fan of his, I wouldn't wish Alzheimer's on my worst enemy -- my one regret is that it'll be wall-to-wall Crazy Jesus Lady Nooner on the box.
You're right. Criminy, when Reagan goes, if I see Nooners bloviating on it for more than 5 minutes I may join him in leaving this mortal coil.
OT: A visual tour of Bush's visit to Italy Yesterday
(OT, but the D-Day coverage on the 24/7 news networks is really fucking moronic. I've been tracking the BBC video feed, and it's like going from an elementary school class to a university lecture.)
Strange, nary a word about Republican "angels" like Rev. Moonie and Richard Mellon Scabbie.
Ever seen George Soros' name in the same paragraph as one of those right-wing nutjobs?
Well, don't worry - you won't, because the nutjobs don't want to tell you *that* part of the story...
"The president, because he respects the pope so much and wanted to see him, has chosen to fly all night in order to see the Holy Father in the late morning," the ambassador said. Bush will leave Washington at 7 p.m EDT and arrive in Rome at 10 a.m. local time.
Ah yes, the horror of the red-eye air force one presidential sleeper de-luxe private catered cabin...
CJR's Campaign Watch also has something on thism with some attention also for the SCLM:
http://www.campaigndesk.org/
e of its two pieces on the event, decided that providing color meant providing condescension. Note the following description of the participants: "They're the polite Left, the conference-attending Left, the politically pragmatic Left that has no interest in getting in a skirmish with riot police. These people are not so enraged by globalization that they want to race across the hotel lobby and trash the adjacent Starbucks." Given that conference attracted unabashedly liberal Democrats -- those who find Kerry's centrist rhetoric dispiriting and unappealing -- it was an odd description. Apparently, the Post felt it necessary to inform its readers that a conference attracting the likes of Hillary Clinton and Howard Dean wasn't swarming with black-clad anarchists who just wanted to break stuff. >
If it ain't your
"The president, because he respects the pope so much and wanted to see him, has chosen to fly all night in order to see the Holy Father in the late morning," the ambassador said."
Well, the Holy See sure as shit doesn't respect him. Glad to know his little papal visit was an ass-chewing as opposed to the Little King George routine he is accustomed to.
Well damn that sure got screwed up.
Anyway, see the link above for the CJR commentary. The point is - although the right-wing spin is knee-jerkish and misleading , the SCLM spin isn't a whole lot better. That's not news, of course.
And as I was trying to say, if it ain't your enemies, it's your "friends".
OT - WAR CRIMES - Washington Post:
"The Acting U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights released a report yesterday that said the mistreatment of detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison could amount to war crimes.
The report by Bertrand Ramcharan noted that "willful killing, torture or inhuman treatment" of detainees constitutes a grave breach of international law, adding that such acts "might be designated as war crimes by a competent tribunal."
The report called for "full accountability" regarding the mistreatment of prisoners at detention facilities throughout Iraq. It recommended a "high-level international ombudsman" be designated to monitor U.S. and other coalition troops while they remain in the country."
How long is it going to take to get an independent investigation of the whole sorry mess? It's excruciating to watch this thing unfold without a serious effort to expose the real criminals. So sickening...
OT- Check out the "Warhead" video by OTEP at www.otep.com.
Aggressive anti-Bush/anti-war speedmetal.
If they've lost the speedmetal bands...
"The president, because he respects the pope so much and wanted to see him, has chosen to fly all night in order to see the Holy Father in the late morning," the ambassador said."
Well, the Holy See sure as shit doesn't respect him. Glad to know his little papal visit was an ass-chewing as opposed to the Little King George routine he is accustomed to.
Not only a Papal ass-chewing (or gumming anyway, 'cause the Pope's pretty much nursing-home frail nowadays), but a cacaphonous, "first amendment zone" free, large-scale protest chomp from the people of Italy.
Gotta dig it that Spain is denying that it was ever complicit in that sham investigation of that Oregon lawyer at this moment as well...
CNN, FUX, et. al. remained silent about right wingnut benifactor Richard Mellon Scaiffe, but they are piling on Geogre Soros...and they get away with it!!!
I wonder if he wasn't giving him the medal if the pope would have been interested in seeing him. What did it accomplish? There hasn't been a camera queen like JPII since the death of Gloria Swanson.
I wonder if Reborn Georgie believes deep down that the Roman Catholic Churich is the Whore of Babylon. Lots of his followers do and they aren't always quiet about it.
Pretty soon he's going to be charged with "Wealthy While Democrat" -- a misdemeanor if not a High Crime.
Scorpio
Eccentricity
Everyone knows Richard Mellon Scaiffe was different because he was after Satan.
I will say, he did keep a lower profile, though, didn't he? And the press helped keep it that way, of course.
free republic has chimed in on Soros:
"I wouldn't be surprised if patriots put a $100 million or more bounty on Soros' head. Maybe even get some D-10 and level his property down."
Now we know where the militia types went to after Oklahoma City.
I say when Orrin Hatch gets the constitution changed so that his buddy Ahnuld can run for President we nominate Soros to go against him. Son of a Nazi vs. Holocaust survivor and all. (Of course, once the "mainstream media" gets hold of it, it'll turn out that 6 year old Sondercommando George bullied Ahnuld's father, who had, some reports will say, been heroically protecting Jews in his attic, into reluctantly joining the Reich ...)
Dear Abby,
I am a crack dealer in Beaumont, Texas, who has recently been diagnosed as a carrier of HIV virus. My parents live in Fort Worth and one of my sisters, who lives in Pflugerville, is married to a transvestite. My father and mother have recently been arrested for growing and selling marijuana. They are financially dependent on my other two sisters, who are prostitutes in Dallas. I have two brothers; one is currently serving a non-parole life sentence at Huntsville for the murder of a teenage boy in 1994. My other brother is currently in jail awaiting charges of sexual misconduct with his three children. I have recently become engaged to a former prostitute who lives in Longview. She is a part time "working girl".
All things considered, my problem is this: I love my fiancé very much, and look forward to bringing her into my family. I certainly want to be totally open and honest with her. Should I tell her about my cousin who still supports Bush?
Signed, Worried About My Reputation.
Dear Abby,
I am a crack dealer in Beaumont, Texas, who has recently been diagnosed as a carrier of HIV virus. My parents live in Fort Worth and one of my sisters, who lives in Pflugerville, is married to a transvestite. My father and mother have recently been arrested for growing and selling marijuana. They are financially dependent on my other two sisters, who are prostitutes in Dallas. I have two brothers; one is currently serving a non-parole life sentence at Huntsville for the murder of a teenage boy in 1994. My other brother is currently in jail awaiting charges of sexual misconduct with his three children. I have recently become engaged to a former prostitute who lives in Longview. She is a part time "working girl".
All things considered, my problem is this: I love my fiancé very much, and look forward to bringing her into my family. I certainly want to be totally open and honest with her. Should I tell her about my cousin who still supports Bush?
Signed, Worried About My Reputation.
If Chomsky, et al can be pilloried as a "self-hater" (or "race traitor") for criticizing certain foreign nation states (among domestic ones), this Blankley should be either fucking banished or reminded of this at every future appearance.
Spielberg reacted yet? Oh, wait, we forgot, according to the Mel Gibson Corollary, you're only allowed to criticize anti-Semitism if it's not commercially successful.
Now we know where the militia types went to after Oklahoma City.
The word you're looking for is terrorists.
Stephen King a seer?
see "The Dead Zone" Martin Sheen as an evil prez (not the cute West Wing kind)
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/
a...icle_4636.shtml
"a picture of an administration under siege has emerged, led by a man who declares his decisions to be “God’s will” and then tells aides to “fuck over” anyone they consider to be an opponent of the administration"
"But the President who says he rules at the behest of God can also tongue-lash those he perceives as disloyal, calling them “fucking assholes” in front of other staff, berating one cabinet official in front of others and labeling anyone who disagrees with him “unpatriotic” or “anti-American"
he has his hand on the button??? OMG!
.....
OT: Cheney interviewed in Valerie Plame investigation
--Kynn
Corporate Media is, I think, the more correct term. For example: The Fox Entertainment Group's (FEG) Board of Directors includes a representative of Citigroup Global Markets Inc; and Smith Barney (part of Citigroup) received compensation for investment banking services. Among the top 15 institutional investors in FEG are Fidelity, Barclay's Global, Capital Research and Management, Goldman-Sachs, Mfs Investment Management, and JPMorgan-Fleming. On the Board of the Fox parent company are the president of the Australian Wine Makers Fed, the CEO of British Airways, the managing director of Allen & Co., and a representative of the Rothschild Investment Trust.
IMHO I'm not sure one can get much more corporate.
Heh, Chirac is classy. Starts out by saying that he's speaking to the veterans tomorrow and saying a big thank-you to them on behalf of France. That is, he's thanking the people who did the fighting, not Bush the glory-stealer.
Enjoyable quote from a righteous Buzzflash editorial this morning:
Dick Cheney commented a few weeks back that FOX News is the only network that accurately reports the news. That's like a "john" testifying on the virginal sweetness of their favorite street whore.
Indeed.
And yet another dig at francophone David Gregory. 'Mon-sewer'. Jeez, Louise.
As I was getting out the tin foil to cover up a vegetarian lasagne I just made, I started wondering about why the White House was so forthcoming about both Bush and Cheney talking to outside lawyers.
Since I am so used to them lying about everything, including stuff they don't need to even lie about, I wondered what they were lying about this time.
Since we know they are getting lawyers, they are telling the truth there. Instead, it must be the reason they are giving - the Plame affair - that they are lying about.
My conclusion: they are getting ready for results of the 9/11 report.
Excellent lasagne by the way!
Murdoch prides himself on packaging content to appeal to the masses. But when you cover week-old rotten fish in glitter, hey, it's still rotten fish.
There's the replacement for "lipstick on a pig." What poetry!
Thanks, sdf!
Glitter Fish is a trademarked and copywrited item. Please refrain from using it or mentioning it in future.
PigStick is still acceptable, tho our company is currently in negotiations to purchase the product from the Iowa farmer who invented it.
OT
This is from a nominally anti-Kerry essay in Counterpunch, and it raises the best moral arugment for a Kerry presidency we've seen:
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Among those "left behind," it is not far-fetched to imagine that masses of people who were reluctant to take to the streets in protest of Bush's War will have no such hesitation with Kerry sitting in the White House. Those who "settled" for Kerry and voted for him, not because they believed in him, but because they thought he could beat Bush, will want to bring forth the issues they suppressed during the campaign. Their ranks will be swelled substantially by Republicans who don't want to appear disloyal to a Republican president. They are telling each other privately today that Bush's War is a disaster. They will go public against Kerry in a way that will make Clinton look like a GOP icon by comparison.
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In other words (and, recalling also the Orlando Sentinel editorial below the last Corrente linked post), we know that the government/media/establishment as a whole, by dint of being a capitalist corporate animal, is essentially a "conservative" and a Republican animal. And we have seen, as in the Orlando Sentinel by way of Corrente, how the Right got positively Abbie Hoffman-esque in revulsion at a Democratic war, and we have seen the things they will let a Rethug get away with.
So a vote for Kerry, being a vote to make Iraq into Kerry's war, is a vote to (for the first time!) actually make it possible, and even desirable, for the Hierophantate to attack the obscene wars of aggression, even if only out of Tuckerish hillariphopbia.
Next time the temptation arises to blame Nader for the rotation of the Earth (which he controls in joint holding with The Jews, Ltd.), think of this.
Yes Jerry won't go against all "conceivable political currents" and actually admit that mass murder is wrong, but making it Kerry's mass-murder frees up a possibility of changing it, whereas as long as it's Bush's it will continue to the enthusiastic bloodthirsty paeans of the Establishment and the Arbiters of Received Wisdom and Common Knowledge.
Sorry, now back to the other thing.
pandy:
agreed, great point!
http://www.letsroll911.org
I think this is the way to go to be rid of the evil that haunts the WH,
cause they have all 3 braches covered, controlling stock in the media and a traumatized citizenry...and just in case "electronic voting" (die-bolt)
tin foil good
and sticking it to "them" over 9-11:
priceless
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I am a lifelong Democrat and a loyal Atrios follower BUT:
I am very offended by the offhand comments regarding President Reagan because:
--He deserves respect for serving 8 years as President although I never did and never would vote for him or support his policies.
--The above comments will be turned against our cause by the wingnuts in the media.
Can we use some restraint at a sad time for the Reagan family, please?
So can we start calling these suck-up's who would be journalists the "Vichy French Press"? One would think with their panting desire to be liked by the Bushies, such a label might help wake them up.
Toes, who respects Hitler because, evil as he was as a man, "Leader" is a very respectable and official-sounding position to be respected regardless of its record:
ah, sorry, can't hear you, I'm currently stumbling among piles of Salvadorean bodies [slipping] {SQUISH!} ewwww, that's gonna stain...
Moon vs. Soros: A handy comparison chart
Of course, the previous post from g-dwina is beneath contempt.
I am very offended by the offhand comments regarding President Reagan because:
--He deserves respect for serving 8 years as President
I have more respect for an air-traffic controller who struggled to keep his family together and pay his mortage through the 1980s.
Of course, the previous post from g-dwina is beneath contempt.
I'm sure you're going to be equally outraged when the Republicans use Reagan in the Fall (should the, uhm, inevitable come) as an election prop.
Oh, btw, Arafat was also elected. Do you think he deserves "respect" for the time he's served in office?
The above comments will be turned against our cause by the wingnuts in the media
So what. They'll just lie and say the things they were going to say anyway.
Censoring yourself with an eye to what the wingnuts will say is futile. They find something, take something out of context, or make something up.
Reagan was a great guy. If only he hadn't authorized the organization and support of all those death squads.
Do you think he knew that one of the Contras favorite tactics was to toss a hand grenade thru an open window of a day-care?
Do you think he knew that one of the Contras favorite tactics was to toss a hand grenade thru an open window of a day-care?
Didn't he say "I'm a contra too"?
Beneath contempt? I'm beneath this mountain of unburied Central American bodies is what I'm beneath! Ha! Ha! Hey, did you know that inbetween the liquidation of "suspected Communist" villages, Ronald Reagan enjoyed horseback riding and jelly beans? Nice guy, except for the whole killing lots of scapegoated poor people thing...
Also, how can you possibly care what wingnuts "will use against us" after Soros got accused of missing his date with a gas chamber?
the moral equivilent of our Founding Fathers.
the moral equivilent of our Founding Fathers.
I'm a Contra too!!!
As for showing the proper "respect" for ol' Ronnie Reagan, well...my pappaw had Alzheimer's for five years before he finally kicked, and I personally wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. Since his ailment, every single member of my family has put it in their wills to not have us "survive" like that. If euthinasia is outlawed, we're expected to "take matters in our own hands", so to speak. I will not watch my mother or grandmother or uncles or aunts suffer that. Never again.
Nevertheless, fuck Ronald Reagan. I spent my formative years convinced the world would end in a nuclear holocaust thanks to his big-dick diplomacy, and that's more than enough to put him off my Christmas card list forever. I respect the family for not allowing the old boy to be a tool for the nu-metal Republicans and my heart goes out to them for the disease that's more'n likely rendered him dead to the world already...but that's it.
Republican "logic" is akin to thinking like this: "You're not drinking milk, therefore you must be drinking beer." Now, most folks can see how stupid something like that is on the face of it. But when you change it to "You're not supporting Bush, therefore you must be supporting al Qaeda" then it's a little easier to confuse people. But it's no less false a dichotomy.
Of course with Soros, it's more like "You're not drinking milk, therefore you must be shooting heroin and eating babies."
"Blog*Spot blogs occasionally render a massive amount of gibberish in Mozilla (due to a complex bug involving gzip). The current workaround is to force-reload the page." From: Blogger.com Known Issues Tech Support Page
Palmer, no, in this case it's more like "you didn't die in the Holocaust, therefore you're one sneaky Jew bastard".
And while the other bit was better this is Venerable's take on how excellently that whole "is your name Muhammad?" security thing is going.
Willoughby:
Coolness. Thanks for the link! Otep is awesome.
My apologies to Toes. I started the whole Reagan thing, not to point out that he was a dick, but that his apocalyptic administration gave me nightmares for 8 years (my formative ones, btw) and killed thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of people, and is seen as the APEX of conservative legislation in American History...
The man was sick. Now he is not. I'm happy for his family, who was no doubt looking forward to this day with great sadness/enthusiasm, as it finally ends his struggle and theirs.
But I am also sad for our country on this day, not for his loss, but for the manipulation that will take place, the faux-nostalgic pipe-dream versions of his presidency, and the inevitable vitriol that will be aimed at 'liberals' for their lack of utter worship of the sad Republican tool this man was turned into by the people around him. His family sees this, and is fighting the good fight to keep his corpse out of the political arena.
RIP Ronald Reagan
kei and yuri,
Unfortunately, the neocons have a double standard when it comes to tarring people with the "anti-semitic" brush.
Say anything bad about Israel's foreign policy, its "amen corner" in the U.S. Congress, or AIPAC, and they'll make you out to be Josef Goebbels.
But if you're a dispensationalist nutcase from the Criswell/Lindsey/LaHaye borg collective, it doesn't matter how many times you say "God Almighty does not hear the prayers of a Jew"--just so long as you support the ethnic cleansing of the West Bank. Er, I guess I should have said "Judea and Samaria."
Attaturk,
I wouldn't be surprised if Nooner tried to do the Hindu widow immolation thing at Reagan's funeral.
Kevin, well yes, exactly, and that's something we've been trying to rant about.
Churchill wrote a thing about useful Jews (Zionists, Orthodox) who should be protected and potential threat Jews (commies, professors, atheists) who were to be thrown to the dogs.
And this is so significant, because just like knowledge of the goddess religion explains the myogyny of the Bible, so too does this "distinguishing Jew hatred" explain so well how that filthy lying shyster Foxman could coddle Burlosconi and yet a guy like Chomsky is supposed to be some kind of Nazi or something.
There is no inherently psychopathic "Christian mob" awaiting the flipping of a switch to run rampant against all Jews and nobody else. Sure as shit not in a country where black people are summarily shot in ghettos while Jews live among the best measurable way. Concern about anti-Semitism, especially when you hear about it perversely, impossibly divorced from other hatreds, is not a real concern, it is another rightist hammer like concern about Communist infiltration.
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