"See in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."
- George W. Bush
"How fortunate for leaders that men do not think."
- Adolph Hitler
In an incredible escalation of rhetoric for even the desperate neocon fascist Bushreich the invocation of the shameless accusation that Barack Obama and Democrats are akin to Nazi appeasers in front of the drooling assembly of Likudnik war freaks gathered together in The Knesset to festively celebrate the 60th anniversary of Zionist oppression was a thing of ugliness and awe. The Bush-Cheney-Neocon Axis of Evil have now taken Jew baiting to the apex of audacity and in signature fashion for this bund of criminals who have used 9/11 as an opportunity for their evil little coup d'etat to hijack America in order to implement a domestic police state and wage the war of civilizations against those evil Muslims. Yet another of those timely Osama bin Laden tapes just happened to follow in the wake of Bush's sulfuric vapor trail and he even had his old gray beard back this time.
Can someone explain to me what the fuck Mike Huckabee thought he was doing here? This is a joke? Fantasizing about someone aiming a gun at possibly the first black president of the United States? And note that he's in Louisville, Kentucky; deep in the heart of Hillary's (ahem) "key demographic."
Americans speak of the divide within this country. Most accept the labels. We are a nation of Red states and Blue regions. People define themselves as Conservatives or Liberals. West Virginian primary election voters, who were asked, reinforced the notion in this nation we are not unified. One fifth of those polled stated, skin color influenced their decision. Former Senator John Edwards often expresses his distress for what he sees as "Two Americas." The one time Presidential candidate reminds us of why the common folks clamor. The rich get richer while the poor become more impoverished. For some of those who fight to endure, a "gas tax holiday" is thought essential. Others believe such a measure will negatively effect the infrastructure and the environment. In Grand Rapids, Michigan on May 14, 2008 a Black man and a white man stood on a stage together united and equal. Some, in this splintered nation of ours, thought this was a sign. Perhaps, Americans would finally come together as one.
"You know, 'power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely?' It's the same with powerlessness. Absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely. Einstein said everything had changed since the atom was split, except the way we think. We have to think anew."
Mebbe ya might recall a post I put up about a month ago, warning about the intrusion of former Govt spies conducting 'intelligence' operations in the 'private' sector?
I caught a bit of "slime shit" for it, accused of being alarmist, at best. You could look it up or not depending.
But the story doesn't wanna go away, strangely. Read more about it on the Jump!
The bitter and recalcitrant Hillary Rodham-Clinton's whopping 43 percent win in the West Virginia primary despite the category 5 spin doesn't mean jack fucking shit. Consider that the mountaineer state's demographics, the sort of folks that Clinton aide Mickey Kantor so eloquently refers to as "white niggers" make the longtime GOP red state base denizens of peckerwood nation down south of the Mason-Dixon Line look like a fucking master race by comparison. These hard-workin' (when they are able to even find jobs that haven't been offshored) white voters are as easily duped with allegations of secret Muslim conspiracies, anti-Americanism by a 'darky' who refuses to wear a flag pin or hold his hand over his heart during the ridiculous fucking Stalinist pledge of allegiance and actually gives a rat's ass about economic conditions in such capitalist desecrated shit holes like West Virginia rather than engage in laying stink bait about guns, gays and God.
There has been so much death and destruction in the news this week: the Myanmar government continues to stymie outside efforts for recovery from the cyclone, China is struck by a gigantic earthquake, tornadoes cut a swath of destruction across the United States, and here in my own state of Florida, there are over 108 wildfires burning at last count.
You've got to wonder if there is a Mother Earth, because if there is, she seems to be royally pissed at the humans who seem intent on messing up her tidy abode. Perhaps this latest run of natural disasters is her way of getting revenge on the clueless homo sapiens who seem to think they can destroy the habitats of other species with impunity.
Most of the world (with the notable exception of the Bush administration) seems to be concerned with the effect we are having on climate change and working toward ways to ameliorate it, but few of us think about extinction of species and decreasing biodiversity on a regular basis.
Although the rate of extinction has increased, at an unprecedented rate, due to climate change, habitat loss and other man-made insults, the good news is that new life forms are still being discovered.
The Pentagon's latest information warfare effort involves a network of foreign language web sites that promote U.S. interests. I doubt whether anyone at the Pentagon seriously thinks foreign language web sites are going to win over any foreign hearts and minds, but foreign language web sites could be neat placea to plant covert propaganda that can migrate into the domestic press without anyone knowing it originated at the Pentagon, huh?
Stop in for a few minutes, if only to relieve the agony tension. This week's look at news items outside the headlines, in the arts and science; foreign news that generates little notice in the US media and ....well, just plain whimsy.....
Today, in his friendly little chat with Politico bloggers and Yahoo News, for the first time, the Chimperor revealed a deeply felt, personal way in which he has tried to acknowledge the sacrifice of soldiers and their families: He has given up
Theory vs. Reality, that is the question (sorry Bard ). Over the past 3 years here, we've seen many arguments against the actions of the U.S. government and our citizens of European ancestry. So many things we appear to have done wrong, badly or just plain stupidly. We rant against the things in our lives today which were created by our actions, right or wrong, of previous days, years, decades, centuries, even eras. My question today I suppose is philosophical. I pondered a version of it here almost three years ago in an ongoing debate with the infamous Galiel (I think that was the username) about Christianity.
Follow me into the unknowable beyond for the rest....
Now that even the corporatist beltway elite lackey media has slowly come to recognize the inevitability of the political version of the unbeatable New England Patriots losing the big one it's time to put the intramural pissing matches aside and to start reorganizing for a shot at the true target. The Hillary Rodham-Clinton campaign now faces fourth and thirty-two, has the ball at it's own twenty yard line, is down by eight and there are sixteen seconds left in the Super Bowl. It's not exactly officially in the books yet but the fat lady is humming and the opposing team has just administered the traditional Gatorade baptism to their head coach on the sidelines.
Today the senior leader of the gutless, spineless, useless, worthless Democratic caucus in the US Senate took questions from a flock of folks who desperately wanted to hear the Majority Leader of the Senate say something, anything, onto which they might attach their tattered hopes about reining in the horrendous, criminal, perpetual abuses rained down upon the Congress, the People, and the Constitution by the vicious fascist pigs reigning in the ShiteHouse these past 7 years and change.
On the Jump is the full ThinkProgress report on the procedings at the blog FireDogLake, one of those extra-cool, careful A-List blogs on which I am not exactly banned, but am shunned and my posts are ALWAYS held for hours by the limp-dick mods over there (cuz, you know, sometimes I'm maybe a little impolite), and my reply, somewhat amended.
A lively debate erupted at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, over the question, "Should men and women that make a career out of making babies so that they can live off government assistance be required to participate in sterilization or forced birth control to continue receiving benefits?" Certainly, I get a little bitter thinking about my hard-earned tax money going toward women making a career out of making babies. In fact, the entire welfare state makes me more than a little sick. So, I say yes. Let's sterilize everyone that abuses our great nation's most generous welfare programs.
"Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you ALIVE."
