I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Yeehaw!
As I said, below...
Eh... I'll have another cuppa.
Then, scoot off to McD's.
I also have to do marathon laundering... our laundrette will be closed from 5/1 - 5/11, for remodeling and new machines.
The company paid the association $20K to get in here, which makes me wonder what it's gonna cost to do a load AFTER the fact. It's already doubled in the two years I've lived here.
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Indeed.
But remember Pat Robertson's il-fated presidential campaign? Remember when he announced that Cuba had nuclear missiles hidden in caves?
I don't notice him being shunned by mainstream Republicans. Instead, I see him being courted by them, and his mittle minions now populate every department of the executive branch.
Yeah, I get it.
Fantasy.
They've been this way for the last 30 years.
someone will have go get around cataloging these myths believe by the right, for future historians.
Wow, Grant Lee Phillips on Studio 360?
I had a couple of birches fall down in the last quasi-nor'easter.
So, we covered this twice this morning...? Dang, I might as well re-run some cats!
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I had a couple of birches fall down in the last quasi-nor'easter.
I've got a chainsaw...
anything that goes wrong is automatically the fault of feminists/the left/atheists/multiculturalism/Muslims, the right is too lazy to actually do proper research and find the underlying cause
I've got a chainsaw...
Whatcha doin' aftah?
Individualism and the left-right split
Aw, fuckit -- I'll make Hillbilly Ambrosia, and do the burritos tomorrow morning.
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I got an instant headache just reading that.
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Ever since George Marshall sold this country to the Soviet Union, things have been going to hell in a handbasket...
Ever since George Marshall sold this country to the Soviet Union, things have been going to hell in a handbasket...
ProfWombat
Perfect comment in the spirit of the post.
Whatcha doin' aftah?
Moonbootica...I find you very intriguing. Do you currently have a significant other?
Ahem....
Salon, without tears -
http://www.salon.com/news/cookie...56.html?
aid=280
s h e e p s
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"'My country, right or wrong,' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying. It is like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober'" -- GK Chesterton
"My Attorney General, weak or idiotic" doesn't even reach this standard.
OT:
DFL, GOP, and........Paulose?
Former state Attorney General Mike Hatch said Friday that he didn't take court action last summer on allegations against an autism center because the center had links to state GOP chairman Ron Carey. At the time, Hatch was the DFL candidate for governor, Carey was an antagonist and Hatch feared a lawsuit might look like retaliation.
Instead, Hatch referred the case to the U.S. attorney's office, and it was taken up by an assistant who recently sought an appointment to a judgeship from Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty.
U.S. Attorney Rachel Paulose, who once did legal work for the Republican Party and is a former party delegate, recused herself from the autism case when it arrived at the federal courthouse.
These developments demonstrate the political intrigue and complications that surround the investigation into whether the Minnesota Autism Center overbilled the state millions for medical assistance payments at a time when the GOP's Carey was also the Autism Center's chairman.
Hatch said he didn't pursue court action last year against the center because it would look bad.
"I looked at it and thought, 'If I sued that out, I guarantee ... you would have said, 'That ... Hatch is abusing the system.' "
Salon, without tears -
http://www.salon.com/news/
cookie...ookie...56.html? aid=280
See above post.
ProfWombat -
How do I go about achieving a 'superficially comatose' state? It sounds lovely.
a lot of these former lefities ( ex-Stalinist, trots n' Tankies - members of the official UK Communist party who supported the Soviet Unions repression of the Hungarian uprising)) who turned into right wing arseholes looked for a Soviet Union substitute which they have sort of found in the US after WW2 and the growth of the the military industrial complex.
They have deep seated authoritarian personalities.
The right wingers seem to lack a systemic analysis, they can't see the wider picture which is what the left has a gift for.
Moonbootica...I find you very intriguing. Do you currently have a significant other?
Neill Naughtse |
Neill, if you aren't polite to Moonbootic, about 100 people here will kick your ass.
Just sayin' -
be nice!
I'll repeat what I just said below:
I liked Greenwald's column about the British neo-con conspiracy author Phillips. I can see why this scenario gets credibility. It combines the stunned disbelief of the Rightwingers that there actually really were no WMDs in Iraq with their growing nausea over the utter incompetence and collapse of the Bush regime. Mix in that with their all pervasive paranoia (that which most truly defines a modern Rightwinger) that some James Bond type anti-Amerikan villain entity is controlling the world and you've got yourself a sure fire succesfull conspiracy theory. She's going to be as rich as JK Rowling.
ProfWombat -
How do I go about achieving a 'superficially comatose' state? It sounds lovely.
GWPDA,
I could tell you = but I know you - you don't want to hear it.
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Tena, don't get so parental. Maybe Moonie will meet somebody and have some naughty fun. She's all growed up now, mum.
Sheetz, sweeties.
o don't fuck with me - this is a pro forma notice, halo.
The modern GOP, making LaRouchians seem sane and respectful since 2000.
Respectable, I mean. Dang it.
Tena, don't get so parental. Maybe Moonie will meet somebody and have some naughty fun. She's all growed up now, mum.
Bad Art |
Moon has had her share of trolls and I"m not being a mommy - I just wanted to put that out there because she's been hassled by the same motherfucker I have.
Wolcott has a taken on nutty conservatives:
"[Lawrence Auster's] blog, what little of it I could stand, has the sonority of someone whose loquacity has so dulled his other faculties that he has ascended into a higher realm of dimwit. I get the same impression when I venture into Eternity Road, where the Christian piety and pseudophilosophizing is a thin camouflage for fear and loathing of gays, minorities, liberals, and uppity women; a frustrated desire to lash out while preserving a more-in-sorrow-than-anger pose. When the mask slips, the pose is abandoned and smoke pours from the nostrils: "So, to you European elite and frothing-at-the-mouth Liberal Leftist Elites here at home, I say: 'Go to Hell!'" Yes, I can see the European elites and their American cousins (which I guess would include moi) slinking over the horizon line after such a harsh talking-to.
I don't possess the psychotherapeutic credentials of a Dr. Charles Krauthammer, yet I have no hesitation in designating Auster as a highly evolved species of weirdo. I blink in disbelief when I read a dialogue between Auster and a correspondent named Mark E., inseminated by the sad news that Isaiah Washington of Grey's Anatomy has withdrawn his name from Emmy contention, that arrives at this strange junction: "I want to add [writes Auster to Mark] that if you are implying that blacks in general can be our ally against the left in saving the west, I think that is folly. The tiny number of blacks who are Western patriots--that is, blacks who love the West and who, as part of that love of the West, at least implicitly accept the West's historic white majority character--will join us without our having to make some special appeal to them of the type that 'conservatives' are always making to 'conservative' blacks and 'conservative' Hispanics, making that appeal to nonwhites the cornerstone of their politics."
speaking of nutty:
What is the “Tiahrt Amendment”?
The “Tiahrt Amendment” is a provision members of Congress have tucked into federal spending bills that restricts cities and police from accessing and using ATF trace data from guns recovered in crimes.
Gun trace data helps police figure out where illegal guns are coming from, who buys them and how they get trafficked into their communities. The Tiahrt Amendment restricts a city’s access to:
* its own crime gun trace data;
* crime gun trace data from other cities and states;
* crime gun trace data as evidence in trying to hold dealers accountable for violating the law; and,
* annual ATF reports on nationwide illegal gun trafficking patterns that were once valuable tools for local police.
http://gotv.blogspot.com/2007/04...-
amendment.html
via sideshow
no wonder i have crazy thoughts like wonder if carol lam was targeted because she was too successful busting up drug cartels.
One of the reasons that right wingers are paranoid is that they think everyone is as crazy as they are (& sadly, not everyone really is out to get them - would that they were...)
Dave Gaubatz was the 1st U.S. Civilian Federal Agent sent into Iraq at the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003.There's one leetle problem: key OIF folks were deployed in 2002.
anything that goes wrong is automatically the fault of feminists/the left/atheists/multiculturalism/Muslims, the right is too lazy to actually do proper research and find the underlying cause
Moonbootica, Jog On! | Homepage | 04.21.07 - 10:52 am | #
Yes and they don't believe in fixing anything anyway. Destruction and whining are their passions.
Fuck 'em all.
AND TAX ALL CHURCHES.
Wonder who Auster and Sheila E's son? think are current patriotic West loving submissive Blacks? Stepn Fetchit and I are waiting with bated breath for their list he more so since he's dead.
The problem I have with the "underground bunkers containing advanced WMD" theory is that yes, the three-square-mile ammo dump at al Qaa-qa was stripped bare by Iraqis coming over in pick-up trucks and driving all of the material off to udisclosed locations. The reason I believe the al Qaa-qa story is that we're talking about a simple evolution involving the movement of relatively small items using low-tech retrieval methods and an American force tha was genuinely distracted, rushing towards Baghdad.
The theory that Greenwald describes involves Iraqis going into underground bunkers (Which would have been very easy to secure) and removing much larger items (WMD technology) and whisking them off with no trace as to where they went (Iraq had all kinds of aerial surveillance overhead since 1991. Lots and lots of pickup trucks disappearing? Sure. WMD technology? I don't think so.)
Yeah, Greenwald describes a fairy story.
Just routine maintenance of the Nemesis. How can you be heroes of the world, masters of the universe, bearers of the one and only truth, and all moral and shit if you don't have a proper Nemesis.
You see communism over there, it is dead by the side of the road, no fun there.
but this oh this will do.
Every time I read one of these right-wing "explanations", it reminds me of the scene with the witch in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. You know the one -- Sir Bedivere patiently and painstakingly leads the crowd through the scientific method of figuring out whether some one is a witch, until they reach the correct conclusion: "If she weighs the same as a duck, she's made of wood, and therefore a witch."
God, I miss the days when that scene was simply funny as hell and not the least bit prescient. Fucking Republicans. I don't care if they compromise our moral authority. But dammit -- they're ruining Monty Python!
The truly amazing thing about all of this is that right-wing looniness has been a constant for seven decades and not just restricted to the Birchers. It’s evident in many Republican elected and appointed officials at all levels, local, state and federal.
I’ve insisted for some time that the biggest news story since the last months of World War II is the power of the Conservative Movement and the stunning fact that it has been treated as a legitimate entity in our public life.
Atrios is right. These people, not just the right-wing bloggers, but the whole ‘Movement’ are nuts. Close contact with many of their elected/appointed officials is downright frightening.
In the last three plus decades they’ve managed to significantly weaken a bedrock solid nation. Their continued hold on power will quicken the pace of decline until we become a second rate joke.
Yup. In America Left-wing crazy is confined to a fringe, Right-wing Crazy is mainstream.
Ha-ha-ha. I hope people see the irony in the "They're All Birchers Now" headline. Regarding the John Birch Society, when it became famous in the 1950s or 1960s, or the John Birch Society today: NEITHER ONE WAS/IS AS EXTREME AS THE OBSCENE RELIGIOUS-CRACKPOT SELF-DEALING MORALLY BANKRUPT AND IMMORAL CREEPS IN THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY OF TODAY. I would be GLAD to have the John Birch Society take over our government. That would be an IMPROVEMENT.
If we know where the WMDs are and they are planning to use them on us, THEN WHY AREN'T WE BOMBING THE KNOWN STORAGE SITES?
SHEESH THEY ARE STUPID
Duhhhhh, well, you know what they say, where there's smoke, there's fire; which means that any assertion, no matter how nutty, must have some truth to it merely by virtue of the statement having been made. Saddam Hussein was a space alien.
I'm not one to promote their ideas, but the John Birch Society is actually very much against the war in Iraq:
http://www.jbs.org/node/2163
Their current big issue is railing against NAFTA. Again, generally I don't agree with them but if you read this Q and A the writer actually makes a few good points about Iraq.
Just so I understand this correctly, over the years that we controlled the skies of Iraq and also had countless satelite images to use, the Iraqi's somehow built dams and the constructed huge underground storage facilities beneath the Uphrates and the breached the dams without our government knowing about it.
Hmmm.
Please note: Once again, the neocon apologists are blaming Dubya, because that's the only way to defend the legitimacy of their fantasy-based world view. A shorter version of her piece is: "We were right all along, our philosophy is sound, but this idiot screwed up in the execution." Do not allow these people to get away with blaming Bush. He was following their playbook to the letter. Call them on it at every opportunity. Are there any polls comparing Bush's disapproval rating with attitudes towards the neocon agenda? I suspect many who disapprove of his performance still hold these neocon beliefs. Stunerik
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