I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Must I remind you ...
Hurricane Katrina changed everything.
I don't think so.
...i'd fucking puke...bleeech!
I can't. I won't. I don't want to have to buy a new TV.
Not to mention a high-security fill-out-an-application "freedom" march.
Praise Jeeebus!
PRAISE HIM!!!!!
And who is the you in "America Supports You Freedom Walk"? The troops?
billmon's ministry of silly walks is so good because the actual event sounds like a bad translation.
electrifying
when i imagine such a thing, i feel quite ill. way down deep inside.
That's why I'm staying home today and doing yard work instead of going into the office and doing billable work. I don't want to be downtown with that going on.
are you all hearin this music @ the 911 fun walk????
and the dog tags thing...
and meanwhile in NYC there was somber dignified rememberance of the victims of 911 no rah rah USA USA chanting but merely respecting those whose lives were cut short by tragedy.
yeah, i guess the WTC *was* a "hunka hunka hunka burnin love"
Exactly how many people turned up? I don't have the stamina to watch.
Imagine, if 4 years ago I had told you that 4 yours hence we'd be celebrating the events of that day with a Clint Black concert...
They couldn't even get Lee Greenwood.
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Any of you in the NYC area ...
Go to CSPAN and then click back to one of the local ABC, NBC, or CBS affiliates.
Contrast those two scenes.
What in God's name was Fredo thinking?
I think they should've named the march: "Rednecks of the Country - UNITE!"
Let's just hope they give equal time to
United for Peace and Justice in 2 weeks.
I'm predicting a massive demonstration with hundreds of thousands that the media will ignore.
do you notice what all these 911 fun walk people have in common?
They couldn't even get Lee Greenwood.
They couldn't even get that "Achy Breaky Heart" guy.
(drawing a blank - only on first cup of coffee)
oh wait theres a black kid!!!!
Freedom, Inc.
are there actual people participating in this calous sham?
Operation DistracttheAmericanPeopleFromTheFederalGovernments
CriminallyNegligentHomicideInNewOrleans or Operation DTAPFTFGCNHINO commences!
I avoid televison on this day, because it's an orgy of self pity and maudlin crap.
Americans got a rude wake up call four years ago today, that there are consequences for being arrogant asshats. As the events of the past four years demonstrate, very little was learned.
On that day, many in this country abjectly surrendered to fear, to include the maladminstration. They reacted EXACTLY as the perpetrators had hoped, by responding in blind, stupid rage instead of dealing with the situation like adults.
The consequence is that the only resolve we have is the resolve of the bully to regain his pathetic excuse for self esteem.
In the past we've shown we're better than that. But for the last 25 years forces have been at work to annihilate the America the the world could admire, to replace it with one that is justly despised.
Okay, I succumbed.
What a pearly white . . . oh wait! There's a black person! . . . crowd.
watertiger -- Billy Ray Cyrus. Did you ever see my version?
I've got an idea for a great George Bush tribute picture. Put ol Georgies face on the tree-man in that famous H. Bosch painting of hell.
It's the 9/11 Terror-bration!
Osama's still at large, Iraq is going south, New Orleans is under water, and we're havin' a party. Chimpy, you're doing a helluva job!
They are being herded into pens with bad country being played in the background,
blech
or what appears to be actual people?
I'll spend the day recalling the horrors of that day and the lost and broken lives.
Then I'll ask - why hasn't my government caught the perpetrators ?
n69n:
that t-shirt looks like a uniform
how bizarre
There goes a narwhal!
How many are in the march?
Well, "country" is the new patriotic music. It's how we demonize other Americans for being peaceniks. Remember "Okie from Muskogee" 35 years ago?
"We" aren't celebrating it, Atrios. They are.
But with our tax dollars.
Grrrrrrr.
It's like the evening fireworks at Stone Mountain. Do they want some soup with their crackers?
Not sure if I would have the stamina to make it with all the bad music.
Somewhere, someone quite sick is giggling hysterically. "Well, see, first we got them to accept the overtly-Hitlerian term 'Homeland Security,' and then, then, get this, then we got them to believe that a veteran with purple hearts out the ying yang was a 'war coward"and a 'traitor' and, bear with me, then, well, we werent sure we'd get away with it, but I thought, what the hell, let's give it a try. So we got them to show up and march in something named, get this, "America Supports Your Freedom March." Next year, we're going to abandon any pretense of being bound by the English lanugage and get them to march in the "Idle Green Squirrels Sleep Furiously" March. Swear to Jebuz, they're so dumb, they'll do it! We not only create our own reality, we create our own language!"
Yeah, I know it was planned before Katrina, that's why it had to be renamed from Operation Propaganda to Operation DTAPFTFGCNHINO
Contrasting the NYC and DC remembrances points out the vast cultural gulf between NYC and utter idiocy.
BTW, where is Osama?
its really not very many people.....
I'm sure there are many, many pissed-off GOP congressional aides in that bunch, a little mandatory Sunday fun courtesy of a Delay edict [ala the pasty-faced mob in Miami-Dade 2000 recount.]
"The history of all people shows that when a nation has attained the zenith of its riches and military glory, it almost immediately begins to slide more or less rapidly down the hill of decay and of moral decline. The Israelites were the first to undergo this law of the evolution of nations; and the neighboring countries took advantage of this to attack the effeminated and corrupted descendents of Jacob."
-Nicolas Notovitch (1894)
-The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ
I just turned it on. I doesn't look like many people. Looks like a local Rotary Fun Run. Or am I missing something?
pumpkinhead telling nagin that it was his responsibility to evacuate 100,000 people...
if those same people have been hell-bent on staying now - how was he gonna get them out of their houses before the floods?
the MSM is a bullhorn of all the stupid fundies - retardation coupled with an ignorant sense of reality
(drawing a blank - only on first cup of coffee)
My coffee carafe cracked whilst being washed this morning.
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THEY HAVE COWBELL!!!!!
(im not joking)
filk,
that's fabulous!!!!
God, the local coverage of the 9/11 memorial service - y'know, the one WITHOUT Shania Twain - is making me cry . . . again.
I'd like to thank Kool-Aid for sponsoring this event.
these motherfuckers are all so anti-city, of course they're celebrating right now. they fucking hate us urban fly people. really, those motherfuckers HATE themselves some NYC, New Orleans. Dens of sin & iniquity. to hell with us, they think to themselves whilst listening to clint black.
Now the song Poor,Poor, Pitiful Me 
omg this is a warren zevon/linda ronstadt song
It's the "Fenced in for Freedom Walk"!
Yeah, baby!
Cue a troll to show up and try to convince us that we hate America and hate the troops in 5, 4, 3, 2, . . .
Ooo, will there be floats? Marching bands? Majorettes and pom-pom girls? How about Steve Lawrence and Edie Gormet singing patriotic favorites in the middle of Pennsylvania Avenue to the cameras?
Mommy, buy me a Freedom Balloon! You know, the one that looks like the Twin Towers! No--of the Pentagon! No--of Todd Beamer's head! Oh, it's such HARD WORK deciding which show of patriotism I'm going to purchase!
After all, why should something like the country's worst natural disaster get in the way of a masturbatory show of nationalism and low-rent, self-congratulatory chest-thumping mixed with out-of-control consumerism, all in the name of (the victims? Who they?) selling Chimpy's vision of himself?
It's not like those all black people and dead people could be offended. Most of them probably couldn't afford TVs anyway. And hurricanes are so, so five minutes ago.
I suggest we all make a list of the advertisers who bought time during the coverage of the festivities, and...
Well, Atriots, you know what to do.
God, the local coverage of the 9/11 memorial service - y'know, the one WITHOUT Shania Twain - is making me cry . . . again.
The whole thing is still very, very raw for those folks. It's shocking to watch them.
The thing in D.C. is vomitous by contrast.
I plan to solemnly remember the tragic events of 9/11 by rooting my ass to a couch to watch grown men pummel each other. If I get really emotional, I might even have some "Freedom Beer."
Those killed in the name of freedom would've wanted it that way.
i just tuned in. its pretty pathetic. kinda sad.
Country Song Playing "Poor Pitiable Me". LOL
What a pearly white . . . oh wait! There's a black person! . . . crowd.
watertiger
I saw the black guy too! What're the odds?!?
what is "POOR POOR PITIFUL ME" supposed to mean in this context?!?!?!?!
So, the "marchers" themselves don't create their own songs, chants, music?
So strange, so surreal...
It should be interesting to watch people's reactions when Blackwater mercenaries start sweeping both sides of the fenced in walkway with machine gun fire to ensure nobody strays from the official route.
I suggest we all make a list of the advertisers who bought time during the coverage of the festivities, and...
Well, Atriots, you know what to do.
Sharoney
Great idea, but I can't stand to turn on the television. I hope someone posts a list.
Send Clint Black a hate email: www.clintblack.com
He's an asswipe and a Bushlicker.
CSPAN said several thousand are there. I think that is generous. What a bust
A repeat blogwhore.
There is a connection between 9/11/01 and 9/11/05.
What a pearly white . . . oh wait! There's a black person! . . . crowd.
watertiger
I saw the black guy too! What're the odds?!?
Gee
Clarence Thomas stopped by?
Cue a troll to show up
are you kidding ?
They are all at the Freedom March.
It's the Bohemian Grove East, heavily attended by the neocons in the military industrial complex.
Right "POOR POOR PITIFUL ME". Jezz these people have bad taste.
"Several thousand people have turned out..." says the CSPAN annnouncer.
Or about the number we had on any average half-block portion of the Mall during last year's reproductive rights march.
What do you bet this one gets more play in the media?
was that gale norton's girlfriend standing next to her? they looked like they wanted to hold hands....
Thanks, watertiger. 
Re: 9/11 coverage -- I'm just not doin' it, y'know? I will never forget that day. I will never forget watching the news while the plane slammed into the second tower, and I will never forget everyone's horror as the towers came down.
I don't have to do anything special to remember it. It's always there. It's permeated our lives. And God knows I don't need country singers to remind me how Merkin I should be.
from WaPo:
One restricted group will be the media, whose members will not be allowed to walk along the march route. Reporters and cameras are restricted to three enclosed areas along the route but are not permitted to walk alongside participants walking from the Pentagon, across the Memorial Bridge to the Mall.
BTW, where is Osama?
Greetings, shawk, and all other American infidels.
Now that you ask, I am high -- and dry, by the way, while your beloved New Orleans drowns -- in my cave, high in the Pakistani mountains, where I have always been -- and where I will always be, as your dear leader, the incompetent narcissist George W. Bush knows good and well.
You know, of course, that Bush could come get me -- if he wanted to.
You know this, right?
Looks like they forced HeimatSecurity and Pentagon employees to march(walk) or else. Why after New Orleans would a black american participate otherwise?
Dartanyan -- Of course! All the Defense Dept. employees are making lists of who among them *didn't* show.
Dianne,
That's a marvelous and even brilliant piece you've written on your blog.
May I repost on my blog giving you credit and a a link?
My coffee carafe cracked whilst being washed this morning.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Meanwhile (yeah, I'm just on my way out to start the digging and bending and stooping stuff), read this unified analysis of Katrina and the
they are going back to this earlier wh footage coz the 911 fun run as already fizzled out
The moment of silence is going on now.
The lineup outside the WH looks positively goofy.
Damn it! I missed out on my chance to pick up some fake dog tags. What color rubber band should I wear on my wrist to support the Freedumb Marchers? I also need the ribbon-shaped sticker for the window on my truck. It's all about the accessories, man.
Here come the murderers
I'd give anyrthing to hear "Go fuck yourself, Mr. Cheney !"
They had to look for the marks to stop?
He can't even walk without a teleprompter.
Ok, I couldn't resist. Chimpy, Dick and their little blonde wives are lookig very patriotic with their hands over their hearts and their heads up their asses.
Right "POOR POOR PITIFUL ME". Jezz these people have bad taste.
Actually, it's quite appropriate. The right is, after all, a collection of victims.
Sigh. On with the day. Hugs all around, gang -- stay safe and be well.
Cue a troll to show up
are you kidding ?
They are all at the Freedom March.
Are you kidding? Chickenhawks actually turn out for an event they "support"? Not gonna happen.
This is an interesting discussion re a FEMA detention camp
Nope.
Not going to watch.
watertiger Billy Ray's mullet might've scared the kiddies.
'Blue Bayou' might be more appropriate, but Bush might think it's about the PDB that blew right by him.
yeah, that looking-for-their-marks/taps thing was pretty awkward
They had to look for the marks to stop?
He can't even walk without a teleprompter.
How much you want to bet you can see his lips moving as he tries to count to 60?
It just feels so fake even with the pagentry they're using.
Medal of Valor awards. Where's Brownie?
Chickenhawks actually turn out for an event they "support"? Not gonna happen.
Really, the very suggestion is ridiculous.
I mean, some of these people have children, and careers.
The risks of sunstroke alone....
i swear gonzalez is the A BIG FAT QWEEEEEEEEEN!!!!!!!!
May I repost on my blog giving you credit and a a link?
Dartanyon
Wow, I'm flattered. Of course you may.
I must say I'm disappointed that anybody attended this freak show. I am cheered, however, that it is so few.
September 24 we'll show them what a parade looks like in DC and all over the country.
Fucking using this nation's special pagentry for his own partisan gain.
Fake as a porn movie orgasm. That's pretty much the whole story of the Bush administration.
Anyone spot any shriners in those little cars yet?
I'm proud to be an American today . . . my government is sliding into decay with a show that would make Dear Leader of No Korea proud.
It would top it off if they got a gaggle of trolls to march in unison chanting Georgie's name over and over . .. .
oh do praise Fuckface McAsshole
Clinton: "Should stop being so hard on Bush."
CSPAN said several thousand are there. I think that is generous. What a bust
scout prime
If that's what they're saying, the real count must be about 400. Look for long tracking shots of blocks and blocks of people. If you don't see them, there's your answer.
Of course, we'll take over the city in a couple weels with 20K+, which will still be "several thousand."
The Chimp posse went in and out this morning like the figurines on Swiss weather clocks.
i am certain when no ones lookin, gonzalez sneaks in & tries on barbaraBUSH's polka dot clown dresses & pearls....
Go Fuck Yourselves Chickenhawks!
Of course, we'll take over the city in a couple weels with 20K+, which will still be "several thousand."
And 50% of the coverage will be of the 47 Freeper counter-protestors. For balance, natch.
they're gonna read all 400 names??
as far as 9/11 is concerned - I have 1 question:
HAVE WE GOTTEN THE GUY WHO COMMITTED THE ATROCITIES ON 9/11?
other than that - the war parade fux have always been there in merica - we parade war - remember that!
What are the current odds on The Torture Guy getting nominated to SCOTUS?
So, who's gonna win the prize for Best 9/11 Float?
And where's the giant inflatable balloons?
And does 9/11 Santa come at the end?
The dude talking now opened with, "Good afternoon."
At 10:30 am.
Sheesh.
NYMary...are you going to DC the 24th?
I signed up for a bus yesterday. Are Atriots gathering together to march?
Back from Mass
Heacte -- couldn't you go counter demonstrate or something? (I'm sure the little barbed wire compound for you is alreay set up)
BTW -- today is also the anniversary of the Battle of Brandywine -- the largest battle of the Armeican Revolution where Lord Howe badly defeated George Washington & captured Philadelphia (the Rebel capital) -- but the Americans kept fighting even after the enemy occupied their capital because they would not submit to their rule & wanted them to leave -- analogies come to mind?
C-Span just replayed the 8:46 AM "moment of silence" at the White House.
They had a band playing.
That's not silence.
The moment of silence should be where you reflect, and slowly become conscious of the collecred breathing and heartbeats around you--the crushing awe of fellow humanity stopping the existential buzz for a moment to consider that we are all a breath away from not being here at all.
A moment of silence does not include a Wagnerian arrangement of "America the Beautiful."
Look for repeated looped footage of the one black kid, too. Cf: looters in NOLA.
"What a pearly white . . . oh wait! There's a black person! . . . crowd."
-watertiger
That's just Condi... she was hopping around on one foot trying to show off the other $3000 Ferragamo-shoe-clad foot to James Guckert
oh christ, it's the lipless Ghoul, trying to reprise his only claim to fame on Channel 2.
where's the mute button?
Clinton: "Should stop being so hard on Bush."
'cause he'd do the same for you, right ?
Come on, Big Dog, you're killing me !
What are the current odds on The Torture Guy getting nominated to SCOTUS?
aeon_flux
Speedy Gonzo will be nominated. You can bet the pig farm on it.
they're gonna read all 400 names??
Dude, they're reading all 3,000 in NYC. It takes 4+ hours.
Rudy-I-Did-My-Job-And-They-Made-Me-A-Saint-
Ghouliani on right now in NYC ...
they're playing a warren zevon tune?
wonder how many know his lyrics for that tune.
"I met a girl at the Rainbow Bar
She asks me if I'd beat her
She took me back to the Hyatt House
I don't want to talk about it"
-J.T.
THEY HAVE COWBELL!!!!!
(im not joking)
n69n | Email | Homepage | 09.11.05 - 10:21 am
"Needs more cowbell"
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Uncle Smokes, you're absolutely right.
Uncle Smokes, you're absolutely right.
you'll get no long shots, as the media is not allowed to march along with the goosesteppers.
Scout Prime, I'm getting a vanload of NYers together to drive down. It's easier to park outside of D.C. and take the Metro in, which is what we did last year for the March for Women's Lives. But we can definitely find a meeting place.
scout,
The week before the march, there's a trial here that I've whored endlessly, The St. Patrick's Four. I'm pretty involved, but too cranky to tell everyone what happened this week. NTodd is coming to cover the last few days, and we're hoping to make a run to DC after that. It's only about 5 hours from here.
NYMary & ScoutPrime-
Is there any way Eschatonians can meet up at DC, walk together or something?
The media was supposed to be banned from Bohemian Grove East.
Isn't CSPAN the media??? WTF???
The identical teeshirts, WRISTBANDS and dogtags, very very creepy. With the countryesq muzik blaring away... even cspan couldnt stay with it anymore. deadly.
its really not very many people.....
Probably mostly gov't employees, lobbyists and certified wingnuts.
Wonder how many military they ordered to dress in civvies to make the crowd appear larger than it would otherwise be?
Using our special pagentry to line their pockets.
watertiger,
We did that for the DC March in Spring 02, too. We'll see what we can gin up. Oh, and now we have cell phones!
But we can definitely find a meeting place.
Oh yes! Let me know as it approaches. My bus ride is like 13 hours. March then bak on bus for 13 hours. Yikes! But just feel like I have to be there and bus is cheap.
400 to "several thousand" showed up?
Who wants to bet that they are all federal employees?
Hey-- C-SPAN!!!
"C-SPAN" starts with a "C" or a GIANT ISLAMIC CRESCENT!!!
Why is the Glorious Leader's Glorious Freedom Parade of Dead People being shown by ISLAMOFASCISTS??!!!?!?!
Someone alert Malkin so she can alert Hugh Hewitt!!!
Is Blackwater providing the security?
Gauliters, SS, Gestapo, and now... "Blackwater". The beginning of a new tradition in authoritarian Amerika.
Irony is officially dead, and satire is impossible.
Let's just put armed guards with bayonets behind the Freedom Marchers to make sure they hit their marks at the right times for the network cameras, and drop the pretense.
Maybe to lighten the mood a little, the guards can also shout "MAO! DIDI MAO!" when the Marchers start lagging behind.
They had a band playing.
That's not silence.
Tell me you're joking, Uncle S.
And while you're at it, tell me why I'm the only Eschatonian you didn't make a mix CD for. *sniff!*
The Torture Guy TM is just about the best case for a Bush nominee. The other possibilities are the Fascism Guy, the Final Solution Guy, and Kill 'Em All and Let God Sort 'Em Out Guy.
Clinton: "Should stop being so hard on Bush."
'cause he'd do the same for you, right ?
Come on, Big Dog, you're killing me !
xegar | Email | 09.11.05 - 10:35 am
The irony is that Clinton dropped several investigations into the Bush I and Reagan administrations in the hope that he would have a more cooperative GOP to deal with.
"How'd that work out for ya, Bill?"
Jonesin' Jeebussophut! Why does Mayor Bloomberg's voice sound so much like the late Selma Diamond's? Why is Rummy permitted to speak publicly? Is something wrong with my TeeVee?
I just walked to the bathroom - does that count?
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400 to "several thousand" showed up?
Who wants to bet that they are all federal employees?
Tena
Only those employees in Federal agencies not subject to Federal union organising and the usual civil service requirements.
Oh my god! I overslept! Did I miss the freedom march? It's kinda empty here in NYC this morn, everybody must be marching in DC. Maybe if they spin in a
circle at an increasing speed, they cqan reverse the effects of the Bsh Admin. Like Superman saving Lois Lane, the marchers must reverse the earths rotation 4.5 years.
watertiger,
Are you bringing Bill?
We wouldn't want to use the money we're blowing on this farce on something useful, like fixing the levees, or finding Osama.
So I guess the intention is we can...listen to a Clint Black concert and...celebrate our freedom...maybe enjoy ourselves and have a few beers and some snacks....while we remember....the 9/11 victims...some of whom plunged to their deaths?
And the families of the victims of 9/11 are supposed to feel comfortable missing their dead while everyone else is whooping and clapping?
hmmm...why do the words "bad taste" keep forming in my mind?
NYMary,
I'll certainly ask him if he wants to come. I'm going to need a headcount this week, so I know what size car to rent.
I'll email the local chapter of Eschaton.
I just walked to the bathroom - does that count?
Only those who have registered in advance and been cleared by the government will be allowed to take a Freedom Pee.
I just walked to the bathroom - does that count?
Only if you hummed "America the Beautitul" while doing your business.
[How are you, WalterNeff?]
Holy Shite, NEWSWEEK takes Bush to the Woodshed
"There are a number of steps Bush could have taken, short of a full-scale federal takeover, like ordering the military to take over the pitiful and (by now) largely broken emergency communications system throughout the region. But the president, who was in San Diego preparing to give a speech the next day on the war in Iraq, went to bed."
watertiger -- have Under the Banner of Heaven here. I turned on a bunch of people to that book.
Seriously, folx, if you want to understand even a little bit about how fanaticism can make people do the most fucked-up things, read Jon Krakauer's book.
watertiger, rent a kuhl boogie van with interior shag carpeting on the walls and a mural of a hot barbarian chick in sexy chainmail on the side. That would rock.
Selma Diamond's real name was Here She Is Selma Diamond.
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If Atriots are going to meet up in DC 9/24 let me know. I might be able to make it.
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watertiger please count me in.
I definitely want to go.
I'm down with whatever.
what is "POOR POOR PITIFUL ME" supposed to mean in this context?!?!?!?!
It's the new WH theme song.
Isn't the Gonzalez medal award from Friday? So the actual Mindless March must be a complete bust.
Bwahahahaha!!!
watertiger, rent a kuhl boogie van with interior shag carpeting on the walls and a mural of a hot barbarian chick in sexy chainmail on the side. That would rock.
Don't forget the water bed!
So this march must be why there were no Repukes scheduled on the bobbleheads.
The debate must have been "Do we go on the bobbleheads and ATTACK!" v. "Do we go to the march and show we LOVE FREEDOM?"
They probably thought,"Oh all of America will be watching the march."
Not quite.
Who wants to bet that they are all federal employees?
Tena
Only those employees in Federal agencies not subject to Federal union organising and the usual civil service requirements.
Tom, Darling, this is George Bush's America. We got rid of those messy unions in order to, um, make America safer, yeah, that's it. Just like we got rid of minimum wage to, um, save the victims of Hurricane Katrnia, yeah, yeah, to save victims of Katrina.
"Seriously, folx, if you want to understand even a little bit about how fanaticism can make people do the most fucked-up things, read Jon Krakauer's book."
or, you could always just read the morning paper.
But we can definitely find a meeting place.
Oh yes! Let me know as it approaches.
Please put me on that notification list as well. I'm flying up from Dallas with a friend the night before and will be staying with family friends. I would love to meet with y'all.
Does anyone want to come up here and do a commemorative 9/11 Freedom Mow of my Islamofascist Grass?
400? No way.
They're androids made to look like conservative neocons. It can't be real.
Even if I watched TV (OK The Simpsons is an exception -- season premiere tonight as Homer does porn [pr0n?]), I would refuse to watch this sickening faux patriotism -- an excellent example of why Dr. Johnson referred to patriotism as "the last refuge of a scoundrel."
BTW -- did everyone click on Otter's link below? Man's a hero!
Here come the murderers
I'd give anyrthing to hear "Go fuck yourself, Mr. Cheney !"
xegar |
Personally, I'd pay a lot of money to hear people shouting: "Murderers" at them.
so has the nuremberg rally 2.0 started?
Kudos to you East Coasters for making it to the march. We in the Midwest salute you.
And while you're at it, tell me why I'm the only Eschatonian you didn't make a mix CD for. *sniff!*
I only brought 8 CDs--time was short, as I commenced recording just after deciding to attend EschaCon at the end of July.
Please email a snail mail address that you're comfortable giving me, and I will gladly send you one.
Not trying to be rude, but does Sen Susan Collins from Maine have a medical problem that causes her to speak the way she does?
Her voice is always SO shaky that every time I hear her speak I'm sure she's about to burst into tears.
HoneyBear,
I assumed you were part of the crew!
Thers,
Um...it's a naked Indian squaw, her monstrous breasts jutting upward in defiance of gravity, in profile against the desert sunset, as she sits astride an appaloosa stallion, bareback.
Does that work?
Let me get this straight: they're cutting away from the march to show old footage?
Whoo-boy.
cause I am currently watching North by Northwest on TCM.
f you want to understand even a little bit about how fanaticism can make people do the most fucked-up things, read Jon Krakauer's book.
Or, wake up any morning of the week in George Bush's America.
The Chimp posse went in and out this morning like the figurines on Swiss weather clocks.
pseudonymous in nc
LOL - very good!
I'm only watching them to maybe catch a skull cap flap back live on TV, gah forbid.
Does anyone want to come up here and do a commemorative 9/11 Freedom Mow of my Islamofascist Grass?
c'mon. you just mowed the grass a couple of weeks ago!
Not trying to be rude, but does Sen Susan Collins from Maine have a medical problem that causes her to speak the way she does?
Her voice is always SO shaky that every time I hear her speak I'm sure she's about to burst into tears.
Condi has one of those voices too.
can't find the march on the boob. Does it look like a mature GAP ad? Are they're any people whose color is Kanye Westian? ANybody in a Bin Laden mask?
Is it all fat white people whose Walmart
is closed for inventory today?
What's going down at the Freedom March.
Bush's America- Freedom in on the March! Right out the Fucking door!
I wonder if the Torture Guy did a practise read-through at home in front of the mirror or the dog.
Um...it's a naked Indian squaw, her monstrous breasts jutting upward in defiance of gravity, in profile against the desert sunset, as she sits astride an appaloosa stallion, bareback.
If there are bats flying in front of the rising full moon, I think it was proposed as our EschaCon t-shirt.
Like Saddam's Rule in Iraq, this administration must keep building monuments to itself.
Attaturk...that's a good Newsweek article. And this WTF????
Some White House staffers were watching the evening news and thought the president needed to see the horrific reports coming out of New Orleans. Counselor Bartlett made up a DVD of the newscasts so Bush could see them in their entirety as he flew down to the Gulf Coast the next morning on Air Force One.
How this could behow the president of the United States could have even less "situational awareness," as they say in the military, than the average American about the worst natural disaster in a century
Swat those flies all you want, you still stink.
honestly - i know that syrupy tributes are part of the order of the day for cable news, but how about devoting time to some of the unanswered questions surrounding the events of that day and the fact that the perpetrators remain free ?
Does anyone want to come up here and do a commemorative 9/11 Freedom Mow of my Islamofascist Grass?
Hah! I've already raked all the Islamofascits leaves out of my front yard and bagged them in Freedom Bags. You must not love freedom.
Clap, or you're an enemy combatant.
NYMary --
RU making banners this PM?
I am praying for a good jury for the St. Pt's 4 -- the gummint is surely out to get them -- we have to rely on the citizenry (& maybe some divine intervention)
Her voice is always SO shaky that every time I hear her speak I'm sure she's about to burst into tears.
Condi has one of those voices too.
NYMary
To be bi-partisan so does Robert Kennedy Junior...does he have a medical problem. It sounds like one of his vocals cords is missing. He and Collins both sound on the verge of tears.
Although I think Condi just sounds petulant and arrogant, not tearful.
Her voice is always SO shaky that every time I hear her speak I'm sure she's about to burst into tears.
Condi has one of those voices too.
And Robert Kennedy.
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the grass is green, green is an islamic colour, therefore grass is part of the vast 'islamofascist conspiracy'. /wingnut illogic.
honestly - i know that syrupy tributes are part of the order of the day for cable news, but how about devoting time to some of the unanswered questions surrounding the events of that day and the fact that the perpetrators remain free ?
xegar
Off to Gitmo with you.
I need to get some capitalist running dog bulbs soon, I think, and play Kruschev with them.
"I will bury you!"
This feels so cheesy to me.
what is "POOR POOR PITIFUL ME" supposed to mean in this context?!?!?!?!
Just another dead guy that they can exploit.
Darn you, attaturk!
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I'm with you, Jade. I haven't seen the march at all. They just keep showing Bush & Cronies and reading tributes.
Ohmigod! The assholes are singing Battle Hymn of the Republic. How does that relate to 9/11?
Tell me you're joking, Uncle S.
That was no joke, and I was serious about the "Wagnerian arrangement."
While they stood in "silence," the music swelled and crashed--at first I coulnd't make out what the music was supposed to be, except that it reminded me of the "Prelude and Liebestodt" from Tristan and Isolde. The intro finally resolved into "America the Beautiful."
If they proceeded to "Siegfried's Funeral March" or "Ride of the Valkyries," I wouldn't have been surprised.
I believe I'll go back to bed for a while. Maybe a little nap will dissipate the black clouds hovering over my head.
Later, rational people.
OT -
Is there anywhere I can sign up for a local 9/24 protest?
" but how about devoting time to some of the unanswered questions surrounding the events of that day and the fact that the perpetrators remain free ?"
What are you talking about, America-hater? We got Saddam.
The bad guy is in jail and we all live happily ever after. Under an Orange Terror Alert.
all hail the great emperor of pr and spin...
Darn you, attaturk!
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spork_incident
Sorry man.
I think it was proposed as our EschaCon t-shirt.
I wore my Moonbat t-shirt to Bob Fest yesterday.
A woman came up to me and said.."Moonbat. Isn't that a Rush thing?" Then leveled a nasty evil eye at me.
I tried to explain the blogosphere quicky in one sentence and saw it wasn't registering with her.
I thought I'm going to get my ass kicked at a Progressives gathering...the irony.
Although I think Condi just sounds petulant and arrogant, not tearful.
I did relate to you that she was roundly booed at 'Spamalot', didn't I?
Condi, you're not welcome here. Under ANY circumstances. You can read all the Rossetti you want at memorial services - we still see you for what you are.
omg they are STILL showing friday footage!!!
Um...it's a naked Indian squaw, her monstrous breasts jutting upward in defiance of gravity, in profile against the desert sunset, as she sits astride an appaloosa stallion, bareback.
Excuse me a minute...
scout prime,
Try "We're retaking the name, because we like it. I'm a moonbat and proud of it!"
Christian extremism is on the march. Rah, rah. Chimpy, you're doing a helluva job.
The perfect ending would be the Looney Tunes song with Porkey Pig saying "T-t-that's all, folks!"
".... Christ was born across the sea, with a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me..."
I guess this is only for the Christian victims of 9/11. When do they do the other religions?
young repuke
Senator Collins has a lot to want to burst into tears about (does that makes sense?)
BWWWWWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
Although I think Condi just sounds petulant and arrogant, not tearful.
Yep. She always sounds like she's completely taken aback that anyone would question anything about her performance or the performances of anyone else in the Junta.
" ".... Christ was born across the sea, with a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me...""
I think he was getting christ confused with E.T. =
all the repubs look like gay men of the 80s
oh wait, they *ARE* gay men of the 80s
Don't know about those other 2 but RFK Jr. has some kind of medical condition with his voice box. Forgot the name of it.
I guess this is only for the Christian victims of 9/11. When do they do the other religions?
They were the victims of God's righteous wrath, like the citizens of New Orleans.
I guess this is only for the Christian victims of 9/11. When do they do the other religions?
Didn't get the memo, eh?
NYMary...that's what I was trying to get out. But a bit clumsily. I think I finally satisfied her.
A DKos person stopped me though and knew what it was. Asked me how EschaCon went.
What are you talking about, America-hater?
I'm just nosey !
How did they manage to recover atta's passport from the rubble, again ?
so has the nuremberg rally 2.0 started?
Well, look at it this way -- We have to endure the rally now so we can enjoy the trials later....
Here comes the 9/11-Katrina tie-in.
Watertiger --
Condi booed at Spamalot? I missed that (I spend more time in church than I do on the threads -- regardless of what it might look like) -- not too popular in the Big Apple -- I wonder why?
A DKos person stopped me though and knew what it was. Asked me how EschaCon went.
Yay! We're famous!
sheets
?Does anyone want to come up here and do a commemorative 9/11 Freedom Mow of my Islamofascist Grass?"
cappucino foam on moniter. Thanks for that chuckle.
I have a Pacifica out front, in Manhattan, below 14th street. It's spackled in some kind of random dust pattern. In which practically every Saint of the Catholic Church can be identified in a Rorschachian way.
While it's of a German design, (see previous axis of evil) it warrants a commerative cleaning as much as your Islamoextremist grass does. I think I'll call Blackwater and get a chopper on it.
Well, look at it this way -- We have to endure the rally now so we can enjoy the trials later....
blerb - It's early, but I'm willing to bet that no one tops this comment today -
Here comes the 9/11-Katrina tie-in.
Is that the "knew but failed to prepare" parallel? Or another one?
And where's the National Rifle Association float?
New motto: "They will only take my gun out of my warm living hands...."
all the repubs look like gay men of the 80s
oh wait, they *ARE* gay men of the 80s
n69n | Email | Homepage | 09.11.05 - 10:56 am | #
OK, let's go back 2000 years since christianity but this time we homo males are the majority and we'll stomp on your hetero heads like you've done to us and we'll see how you turn out.
K?
Are some of you folks watching the walk? All I am seeing is the shrub giving a speech.
scout prime --
There's a term for reclaiming the insulting perjorative term of one's oppressors & using it with pride (n***** by blacks & queer by gays) -- that's what we've done with moonbat -- according to wikipedia it really is freom George Monbiot's name -- how weird.
just saw the chimporer get a standing o...who said 400 here? can't see the size of the crowd..
I got C-spam on, and all their showing is this alcoholic reborn c-student nutjob yacking about what isn't.
Oh shit, that's Der Chimpy. I apologize for my disrespect.
WHAT IF THEY GAVE A WALK AND NOBODY CAME?
Is that why the media is not showing the march? The Pentagon, on its best days before Katrina, said they expected UP TO 10,000 marchers.
Gonzo has trouble reading names. He passed the Bar, but can't pronounce "Richardson?"
More taped footage? That march must really be sucking hard when CSPAN won't even carry it.
Kim Il Rummy's little jingo hoe-down on the National Mall is best lampooned by The Rude Pundit.
I don't know who is celebrating more freedom. Those of us who will not be at "Jingo Sing I" behind cadres of armed cops and under the watchful eyes of state security, or those of us who will stay home and not watching nor paying the first whit of attention to this "Whoop and Holler" open air charade.
How about Steve Lawrence and Edie Gormet singing patriotic favorites in the middle of Pennsylvania Avenue to the cameras?
boby dylan was once asked who his favourite 'protest' singer was.
he replied, 'edie gormet'
ich vant to march vor freedom...what can i say, i got some german blood in my...
Well, that didn't make any sense.
I guess I must be out of sorts because Arthur Silber is going on Hiatus.
Nobody showed up for the Nuremberg rally? I suspect that the security was too tight. Maybe their doublethink isn't big enough.
How about Steve Lawrence and Edie Gormet singing patriotic favorites in the middle of Pennsylvania Avenue to the cameras?
I could deal with that. At least they were New Yorkers instead of whining generic country singers from Arkansas or Wyoming.
I have a Pacifica out front,
how many miles to the gallon you get in that well-upholstered tank?
my little focus had to go in for repairs recently and my warranty covers a rental but they didn't have the usual "economy" car, so they gave me a Pacifica. I had it for five days - they gave it to me with a half tank of gas and when it ran out, it cost more to replace than it cost me to fill up my regular car.
But it was VERY comfortable and roomy to sit in.
"boby dylan was once asked who his favourite 'protest' singer was.
he replied, 'edie gormet'"
great nugget, but it's EYDIE GORMÉ
i assumed the 911 fun run would be an all day event
The Pentagon, on its best days before Katrina, said they expected UP TO 10,000 marchers.
Well, that was an accurate statement. Just like me saying that up to 50 beautiful, naked, firm-breasted young women will be rubbing up against me today.
OK, let's go back 2000 years since christianity but this time we homo males are the majority and we'll stomp on your hetero heads like you've done to us and we'll see how you turn out.
K?
ÔżÔ | 09.11.05 - 11:02 am | #
ÔżÔ, i dont know what yer talkin about.
*i'm* a gay man of the 80s
the grass is green, green is an islamic colour, therefore grass is part of the vast 'islamofascist conspiracy'. /wingnut illogic.
Moonbootica
the marijuana muhajadeen
" i assumed the 911 fun run would be an all day event"
"911 fun run" = you owe me a new monitor
Although I think Condi just sounds petulant and arrogant, not tearful.
she has a look on her face of sheer angry exasperation.
"He asked Louise to the dance instead of me!!!???"
great nugget, but it's EYDIE GORMÉ
rusty charlie
thanks rusty. I didn't even think twice.
"how many miles to the gallon you get in that well-upholstered tank?"
the honest truth? 12.8! But I only drive in the city, about 3000 miles a year, picking up the kids and dropping them off. It's a great rig, but the wife no likee because, despite it beiong classified as a wagon, it's big.
Darling, you look Deeeelicious!!!
Oh, sorry, wrong blog, I'm soooo embarrassed.
Did you know I have an advanced degree in Culinary Arts?
Mostly, I wouldn't have believed Clint Black would still have a career in 4 years.
But I guess he went for the ever enduring "Dumbass Market" with "Iraq and Roll" and will be able to play cornivals and auto shows for the rest of his days.
So if the Walkers sell enough magazine subscriptions, we get Freedom?
Um...and this is just me...
But are our soldiers really fighting so that we, as citizens, have the freedom to:
1) Register with the government
2) Adhere to a strict code of behavior
3) Walk within fencing and police escort
4) ...all so we can walk through our nation's capital like normal people?
If that's the freedom we're fighting for...
Who says W. doesn't like "Black" people?
I am Zardoz.
God damned opportunistic country music stars. Making money off the deaths of thousands.
I saw a little of the "march" and it appeared to be about 100% federal employees. The racial makeup was approximately 99% white. There were few minorities in the group. If there were 1,000 'marchers' they were lucky. Did you also notice the fencing with blue plastic sheeting?
I love to see them running. I love the moments of their deaths - when I am one with Zardoz.
No thanks, I am not watching. I don't want to see the food booths, and carnival rides. Probably a real old fashioned hoe-down!
When are they going to come out with the commemorative CD with all the greatest hits of the freedom walk?
From my balcony in lower NYC, you almost feel like you can reach out and touch the twin light beams that represent the Twin Towers memorial--I believe that all New Yorkers who were there for the bombing and the aftermath will never forget the feeling of solidarity and coming together to aid our city and its people...
Unfortunately, the memory of 9-11 has been hijacked and politicized into syrupy platitudes designed to sell product, and wrap listeners in a warm snuggly American flag.
MSM and Middle America: please don't tell us New Yorkers what 9-11 'means,' because we know far better than you do what really happened...
It was a truly heroic job by NYC-area firefighters, police, emergency units, steelworkers and volunteers of all kinds. Then, the photo ops started, Bush and Cheney, and the rest of the tough-talking Federal posse all came in and posed for the cameras, promising all kinds of things, then cynically using 9-11 to prosecute their own private war.
Meanwhile, in New York, we've seen family members denied access to the truth, seen rescue workers denied money for medical treatments, seen states that will *never* be a terrorist target receive much more 'Homeland Security' money per capita than NY, and the list goes on...
The propaganda machine rolls on...giving Soccer Moms and Nascar Dads a feelgood moment, while the Bush regime continues its radical agenda unabated--fuckers. Where were *you* on 9-11?
That is why I your great God, Zardoz, have given you the gift of the gun.
The penis is evil!
great nugget, but it's EYDIE GORMÉ
Yeah, wiseass, I suppose it's EYDIE Amin, too!
I just had a look at CNN's website and there is NO coverage of this event there. The focus is still on Katerina. So far it looks like this 9/11 bash is a bomb.
Watching the Fweedom Walk on CSPAN now.. OMG.. there must be hundreds of Pentagon employees there!
I wonder how much it cost?
I'm not watching that.
I consider it a symbolic blowjob for Bush.
I find it offensive that the victims of 9-11 are being used to cheerlead for a sickening in-your-face brand of patriotism and a failed presidency!
Wow, I didn't know so many Americans knew the words to Die Fahne Hoch.
Man, Hitler would be so proud.
yup...nothing on CNN at all these past 2 hours about it.
The only walk I want to see are the perp walks of Chimpy and his cronies.
yup...nothing on CNN at all these past 2 hours about it.
amberglow |
Bush and all his supporters:
"Them niggrahs in NO are ruinin' our good time...damn them!"
and meanwhile in NYC there was somber dignified rememberance of the victims of 911 no rah rah USA USA chanting but merely respecting those whose lives were cut short by tragedy.
smartone
As it SHOULD be!
Makes you wonder if the organizers knew in advance how many people were NOT going to show up. After all, everyone had to register; and if the registration was this low, why did they go ahead with the march to begin with. Surely Bush, to save face, could have said in respect for the hurricane victims it was cancelled.
Could it be they didn't know? Could it be that thousands registered and then didn't show? Could it be that Americans are sick and tired of Bush's grandstanding and photo ops? Could it be that the Christian-right has finally read the Bible and found out they were the Christian-wrong? Is there such a thing as atonement for stupidity and gullibility?
During the last three anniversaries of 9/11, the tv channels would do specials on the event and would also do many specials in honor of New York so that the entire day was taken up with 9/11. This year, the listings for today are just like any other day. I don't know the significance of this. Is 9/11 beginning to fade in consciousness? Or are even the broadcasters sick of Bush and his politicizing of the event? Your guess is as good as mine.
...the words to Die Fahne Hoch.
Anyone hear Clint Black ask off mike: "Alright, which one of you shitheels lose the pedal steel sheet music for "Tomorrow Belongs to Me"?
Oh Fatherland, Fatherland,
Show us the sign
Your children have waited to see.
The morning will come
When the world is mine.
Tomorrow belongs to me!
Will it be translated into Arabic?
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Of COURSE the Cheney administration is celebrating - it's the fourth anniversary of their complete COUP here in the U.S.
9/11 was an inside job, suckers.
Today's Gospel reading for the US Episcopal Church was, of all things, Matthew 18, where Jesus talks about forgiveness. Completely accidental, as the cycle of readings was set a long time ago.
I forgive these Americans participating in this mockery because they do not truly understand what they're doing. I doubt most of them spent that day between DC and NYC wondering whether their friends interning and working in either or many of their friends' relatives were safe, or whether their large, vulnerable port city was next.
Those of you who live far away from where the planes hit and do understand what this date means to millions of us, thank you. I can only pray that everyone else at some point "gets it," too.
And now it's time for another Unconscionable Pedantry Moment:
To be bi-partisan so does Robert Kennedy Junior...does he have a medical problem. It sounds like one of his vocals cords is missing.
Only one vocal cord would mean you couldn't talk at all.
This has been an Unconscionable Pedantry Moment.
I know... Clint Black? Why do they hate us?
Now wouldn't it be ironic if those that signed up for the Freedom March were met by a military recruiter next week.
I know... Clint Black? Why do they hate us?
Mike M.
Charlie Daniels and Toby Keith weren't available?
Black isn't even a has-been...he's a never was.
He decided to try the Leni Reifenstahl method of jump-starting a career - prostitute yourself for a fascist regime.
Looks like it failed, Clint!
Of COURSE the Cheney administration is celebrating - it's the fourth anniversary of their complete COUP here in the U.S.
9/11 was an inside job, suckers.
marblex
Thank you!
I have been saying that since Day One!
Oh Fatherland, Fatherland,
Show us the sign
Your children have waited to see.
The morning will come
When the world is mine.
Tomorrow belongs to me!
Davis X. Machina
The Horst Wessel Song.
I'm sure 99% of the assholes who participated in that farce never even heard of Horst Wessel.
My church was having a 9/11 remembrance day today. My family and I passed on it and went to breakfast instead. My husband, the non-political type, said he wanted to remember 9/11 in his own way. I did, too.
Putting aside the idea of a concert on 9-11 for just a minute, we couldn't do better than Clint Black?
I mean, he does car commercials here in Houston.
Creepy. The reply on CSPAN is showing a bunch of folks milling around wearing the same tee-shirts, a few carrying identically made state approved signs. One of which is "Lockheed".
At Mass this morning, there was a book inscribed with the names of those who died in the September 11 attacks placed near the ambo (pulpit) with candles. And the scripture readings were about forgiveness (but as someone upthread said, that was coincidence; the scripture readings were all scheduled forty years ago). And after communion the choir sang a beautiful old anthem about peace.
We also took up a second collection for Hurricane Katrina relief through Catholic Charities, and the priest announced that last week the parish sent $10,000 to the same fund.
That's what one parish in Chicago did.
Much more tasteful than what W and his pals did.
strawhat: wild. I didn't realize the Episcopal and Catholic churches used the same readings schedule... was your Old Testament one from Ecclesiasticus, too?
(sorry to drag this off-topic)
The Pentagon required all participants to register in advance. They know exactly how many people were there today. Why don't they say so? "Several thousand" instead the Washington Post informs us, as if the reporter never even thought to ask the DOD for their numbers. Were there fewer "freedom walkers" than the number killed on 9/11?
Just want to make one thing clear as a DC-area native -- this travesty is not a "DC remembrance." It's the Pentagon pre-empting any such thing by manufacturing a "support the war" rally and having the gall to hold it on 9/11.
"Imagine, if 4 years ago I had told you that 4 yours hence we'd be celebrating the events of that day with a Clint Black concert..."
Imagine if 4 years ago Atrios had told you he would be comparing the US military to the militaries of Hitler and Stalin, that he would be gloating over every setback and mistake in the war on terror, and he would be actively promoting distortions and mischaracterizations in the mistaken belief that it would help the Democratic party regain the presidency, or either house of congress.
Thanks for 2004, moron.
I am not watching those stupid fucks celebrate the fact that Tipsy Mc Stagger and his suck-ups did not want to protect this country and used this tragedy to push for an unjust war in Iraq.
Cog,
Who's the moron?
The guy with the Ivy League education who lied and spun and played on fear and "catapulted the propaganda" to get us into the war? The guy who changed our target in the war on terror from the guy who actually sent the hijackers off to attack us to a tin-horn dictator that we had alerady caged? The guy who acted completely dissociated to the point of psychopathy while Americans were trapped in a flooded city?
Or...
The guy who honestly reports these things to a public that wants to hear them and can't because of the Slave Media (and don't go on about the "liberal media" - even liberals despise the media)?
"Already," excuse me.
"The guy with the Ivy League education who lied and spun and played on fear and "catapulted the propaganda" to get us into the war?"
Not according to a bi-partisan investigation, of which both of the vice chairs said he did not.
"The guy who changed our target in the war on terror from the guy who actually sent the hijackers off to attack us to a tin-horn dictator that we had alerady caged?"
He was far from caged. I think you meant to use the normally talking point term of "contained". And when making that point in the future, please feel free to discuss how Saddam was gaming the UN and the international community with regards to charities, as well as the extraordinary cooperation Saddam gave to inspections, as referenced by KA himself. Also feel free to note the support troops needed in the region to maintain that "containment", and the number of attacks made on US and British pilots maintaining the "caged" dictator.
"The guy who acted completely dissociated to the point of psychopathy while Americans were trapped in a flooded city?"
As opposed to the dissociated psychopathy Atrios demonstrated in his flailing about almost immediately to assign blame and rage against who? You guessed it. Not a surprise.
"The guy who honestly reports these things to a public that wants to hear them and can't because of the Slave Media (and don't go on about the "liberal media" - even liberals despise the media)?"
If you think Atrios honestly reports anything, I am sorry but you are a moron. Atrios searches for the most effective smear angle, and distorts and mischaracterizes until he gets something that fits.
Thanks for coming out. Make sure to thank Atrios for 2004 for me.
Oh joy. Cog's here. Guess "Nuremburg 2: Electric Boogaloo" must be over.
Today at my place of worship the OT reading was the flight from Egypt, focused on the parting of the Red Sea. It came to me that Chaprter 15 of Exodus is one of the major times when there is gloating about the fact that it must be G*d is on our side to have caused this natural disaster that benefitted us. Well, we have not advanced very far from this semi-primitive understanding of the forces of nature, have we? not with the gov. of TX and other right wing zealots ascribing the sinful nature of New Orleans as the cause of the diaster and all that human suffering.
I think we need a meme shift of profound magnitude on this. Sooner rather than later.
And oh, yeah, before I forget, it took the US 4 years to enter and win WW2. We should be utterly ashamed at how little progress we have made in Iraq and Afghanistan in contrast.
And Cog, just so you understand, and I will type this r e a l slow, I am comparing the American military of the 1940's with the american military of today, and the two different presidencies. No comparison to anything else. Bush and co. still come up way way short.
Poor, poor Cog. Like all the other trolls he just can't smell the coffee (of in the case of Gannonites, the KY).
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Well, how was Kim Il Rummy's Jingo March and hate festival?
I missed it. Stayed home and worked on the computer, and not blogging either. Played 2 hands of Solitaire Master, and a round of Combat Flight Simulator 3. Nobody died.
Do the little dangly, phony baloney, "dog tags" make your right wing scrotum tighten up? Ahh, yes such support for the troops, as the display honoring those troops who fell was vandalized by right wingers just like you, Cog. Did you see that at the University of Toledo?
So, as right wingers celebrate the triumph of incompetence, America suffers and becomes more of a laughingstock before the entire world.
I wasn't part of this shameful charade, and I am damn proud of that. I will not celebrate a war based on lies and cold deceit. Bush lied, the troops died, and no amount of PR charde and farce, no matter how many country and western singers howl and catterwal away, and no matter how many wingnuts drool on themselves publically, NOTHING will remove the blight and stain of Bush's lies and incompetence, even if he did the right thing and RESIGNED!
Too many failures. Too many dead.
They should have had Clint Black at Abu Graib. That would have made those bad Eyerackees spill the beans.
The Fences For Freedom March was very North Korea, no?
I was in DC today, flying out right at the time of the walk. The usual route to Reagan airport is right next to the march route. I didn't see any marchers and there were no slowdowns. Usually in that area, when there's protests, marches, celebrations, traffic is just terrible and there's people everywhere. I couldn't even tell anything was going on.
As we took off, I looked over the mall area and short of a few tents, you also couldn't tell anything was going on. The mall seemed emptier than ever (of people that is).
I'd call the "Freedom March" a complete and utter bust.
It's our very own Neurenberg rally.
Deutchland uber...
I mean,
God Bless Amurrikka
"And Cog, just so you understand, and I will type this r e a l slow, I am comparing the American military of the 1940's with the american military of today, and the two different presidencies. No comparison to anything else. Bush and co. still come up way way short."
Thanks for typing real slow. Glad to see you differ with Atrios on comparing the US military to those of Hitler and Stalin.
Not that he would be prepared to judge a comparison of today to WW2 factually and honestly, but I agree with you. Bush comes up way short in the War on Iraq and the War on Terror. Afghanistan is much more complicated, but the fools who say "why don't we capture Osama instead of going into Iraq" fail to realize that would spark a civil war in Pakistan that would dwarf Iraq.
Woops, sorry to veer off from the normal smear campaigns that comprise the bulk of Eschaton and Media Matters. My bad.
Someone make sure to thank him for 2004 for me.
Cog,
Thanks for the 36%!
Cog,
Eat me.
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from WaPo:
One restricted group will be the media, whose members will not be allowed to walk along the march route. Reporters and cameras are restricted to three enclosed areas along the route but are not permitted to walk alongside participants walking from the Pentagon, across the Memorial Bridge to the Mall.
watertiger | Email | Homepage | 09.11.05 - 10:27 am | #
yup, freedom to march if you register and are approved by the government. Did they manage to get enough congressional aides and Pentagon staff in the march to surpass the number of soldiers killed in Iraq?
Fuckers
Rummy plans to attack Canada - the proof is on weewillie's blog.
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I was on the ground and it seemed to me like there was about 7-10K people based on being about 20-wide and seeing 3-5 rows walk under the "America Supports You Freedom Walk" banner every 10 seconds for about 15 minutes. It's not a tiny number, but it's nowhere near the number that will be there in 2 weeks.
And the racial split was astounding. I got there at 8 AM and was literally the only Asian person there. I was looking for Black people, since DC is obviously a Black city, but couldn't find anyone outside of the police. Then again, the walk was sponsored by a talk radio station and a country station. I guess that if you love hip-hop or top 40, you hate the troops.
The walk, itself, was appalling. It was as if nobody there realized that thousands of Americans DIED on 9/11, there was a gaping hole in the Pentagon, we never caught Osama Bin Laden, we never lowered the number of extremist terrorists through police action, and we never did anything about Saudi Arabia. Instead, it was a rah-rah event for the troops.
I believe in troop morale and there are about 360 other days a year where I think it's great to support the troops, but celebrating it on 9/11 is like celebrating the troops for the Oklahoma City bombing or the day the levees broke. And while I dressed in black and mourned, it helped that people were yelling at me to just go away and get my own walk because I wasn't sufiiciently rah-rah. Ah, this is the Freedom that our soldiers died for.
I came in late, but those of you with mobile phones (and cameras) intending to moblog the 09/24 event might be reduced to Bluetooth. If the march is really big, mobile service could be blacked out "for security reasons" and you'll have to bucket brigade (for instance) pix and updates, via Bluetooth, out of the area to the nearest landline connection.
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