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12/22/07
How Conspiracy Theories Work
12/18/07
Test Your Bible Knowledge
12/17/07
The United States of America Is Not a Christian Nation
12/11/07
And Another Thing About Atheism
Religious people often refuse to vote for a politician if he is not religious. Christians distrust atheists more than almost any other group, including Muslims. They say this is a Christian country, and if we don't like "under God" in the pledge of alegiance and statues of the ten commandments in court houses, we can leave it. Well, okay, maybe I will leave, but I'm taking some stuff with me.
I am taking electric light. Thomas Edison, a fire-breathing atheist, invented it, and I'm taking it with me. You can cut and paste Bible quotes into Internet discussions by candle light. Oh, wait. Alan Turing, father of the binary computer, was an atheist. I'm taking you fucking computer with me, too. Well, at least you can listen to a few CDs... Oops, Edison invented recorded music, too. Taking that with me, too. I guess that's not so bad, since the power that would have run your CD player is probably partially nuclear-generated, and nuclear power is brought to you by Einstein, a confirmed atheist. I know, you claim he was religious, but he said it himself that he wasn't. Are you black? Well, I'm taking your fucking freedom back, because Abraham Lincoln was an atheist. You can call me Massuh and pick me some cotton now, Jesus Boy. Are you perhaps sick with something that gene therapy might help? Well, I'm taking the knowledge of DNA with me, because Sir Francis Crick and James Watson were atheists. Woah, not much left of the modern world now, is there, God Boy?
But you say that I can leave because I am not Christian, not because I am atheist. There are some other guys who are religious, but were not Christian, that you probably didn't know about. Here are some guys who were not Christian. Some Deists are James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin... So, I'm taking the US Constitution with me, so you can go back to monarchy and religious persecution, but you'd like that, though, wouldn't you? No, wait. Didn't Franklin have something to do with harnessing electricity? I'm taking all electricity with me. Thomas Paine was a Deist. William Howard Taft denied the divinity of Jesus, oh, and I'm taking Jodi Foster and Mira Sorvino, too. Bill Gates... well, you can keep that asshole even though he is an atheist. I am taking Steven Hawking, but not sure you will care about him.
In short, I'm sure you'll be happier once I'm gone and have taken all those awful corrupting forces of the modern world with me. You can take up cave painting by torch light with all the free time you have after breaking your computer addiction because I TOOK ALL THE COMPUTERS WITH ME.
Editorial on Atheism
What I have noticed about the public perception of atheists is that when we are attacked intellectually and defend our point, it usually, at least in the logic department, defeats the opposition decisively. Perhaps atheism lacks a certain poetry that religion tends to excel at, but atheists are intrinsically interested in truth first, not poetry, not the warm buzz one gets from a God fix or a needle for that matter, not the feeling of wellbeing one gets from being promised that the master of everything that exists in this vast universe cares about us personally, not that security that comes from, however mistakenly, thinking one is going to live forever. At last resort, after being rebuffed in their attacks, religious people fall back on a logical fallacy called "shifting the burden of proof," which is one form of "Argumentum ad Ignorantiam," or argument from ignorance. Basically, they say, "You can't prove God doesn't exist." That is true, we say, and we can't prove there is no Flying Spaghetti Monster, either. Finally, the disguised ad hominem fallacy is used. "Atheists are arrogant," we hear.
Well, forgive us our arrogance, but I think we are entitled to a little slack. After all, we've had religious people tell us we are going to hell all our lives, as if their preposterous fantasy should be taken seriously, and then after such a threat, we are told it is only the finest of motives that forced them to try to use terror to control us. We've been told God will strike us dead with a bolt of lightening, for crying out loud, as if we might believe that the religious person is capable of predicting or calling down God's wrath even after dozens of such predictions or threats go unfulfilled. We have heard religious people pray in their central rites for God to crush us and then smile in our faces. We have heard that God destroyed New Orleans for being sinful, and every time God destroys a Protestant trailer park, he works in mysterious ways. Apparently, he's only a mystery when he kills people of one's own religion. When he kills anyone else, there are nothing but reasons. We are told this is a Christian country, even though our founding fathers were mostly Deists, not Christians. Moreover, there has never been a cross on our flag or on our money, Thomas Jefferson re-wrote the Bible to omit all reference to miracles and the divinity of Jesus, and Madison and Jefferson both proclaimed a wall between Church and State. And then we are told if we don't like Christianity, we can leave America. Sometimes the geniuses who tell us these things do so while wearing hilarious hats and hairstyles.
In short, if there is anything in this world that is arrogance incarnate,
it is the religious person trying to impose his faith on the world, and,
by and large, that is what most of them are trained to do. As evidence
of this colossal arrogance, we are treated below to Ted Haggard, who had
a habit of doing meth and having sex with a gay hooker, presuming to tell
Richard Dawkins to not be arrogant.
Christians, please don't be arrogant.
WMD
Mike Huckabee Hearts Rapists
Click here for a really large, high quality copy of this picture of Mike Huckabee suitable for printing and plastering on mega-churches.
12/09/07
How to Burn a Witch
It has come to my attention that conservatives don't really know what liberals are anymore. This is no accident. It has come about because of a concerted effort of the right wing media to scapegoat and demonize liberals. They are fermenting this rabid hate in order to do away with whatever vestiges of critical thought exist within the conservative electorate. Once the word "liberal" is stigmatized beyond a certain point, just the mere suggestion that a person or platform is liberal will lead to automatic rejection by the electorate, but now instead of having some kernal of substantive differences with the liberal viewpoint, now the conservative electorate is forced to toe the line or face excommunication, much the way they have done in the case of gays. In other words, reason has been supplanted by fear of rejection.
Although I should preface the next statement with the caveat that I dislike Communism, the conservatives have also piggybacked the rabid hatred of Communism they promoted in the "50s, now they have painted liberals as Communists. On some occasions, you will find a liberal who has Communist sympathies, just like you can find plenty of conservatives with Nazi and Fascist sympathies, but in a very formalistic sense, you can't really be both Liberal and Communist. That doesn't really stop them from brushing Liberals with the same red paint.
But why would the conservative media be trying to cultivate an angry, unthinking mob? Well, obviously to give them freedom to set the agenda any way they like, even against the historical core beliefs of the Conservative ideology themselves. Now, as we see, not only don't conservatives know what Liberalism is, they no longer even know what Conservatism is. Like the judge in Monty Python's Holy Grail, who is called in to judge the witch, it can now use whatever illogic it likes as a rationale for condemning something as liberal the same way the knight decides if a woman weighs the same as a duck, she should be burnt as a witch.
So, below I present the Conservative dream. It's complete with all the illogic, the phony science, the worshipping of the upper classes, the screaming and hollering, and the self-congratulation. (Note the hilarious line at the end when the knight asks Arthur, "Who are you who are so wise in the ways of science?") She's a witch! BURRRRRRN!
11/19/07
NIN WARNING
11/18/07
Separation Lies
Click here to find out about the lies Christian fundies have promoted about separation of Church and State.
Benn Beats Bolton
11/14/07
Barack Impersonates MLK
I want to like Barack Obama, but I just listened to a speech of his, and he is now putting on an accent from the deep south. It is embarrassingly unmistakable that he is immitating MLK's speeches so much that he is starting to sound like him. I don't want to be manipulated by a chimeric chameleon. I will vote for him if I have to, but he doesn't strike me as genuine at all. Just be yourself, kid. You sound worse than Mick Jaggar trying to sound like he is from the deep south. Icky, very icky.
11/13/07
Nazis Hearts Ron Paul
Forget Godwin's Law for a second. Stormfront.org, one of the biggest Nazi organizations, has endorsed Ron Paul. Paul is not returning their donations. Here for complete story.
11/09/07
In Your Face, Republicans and Oil Tycoons
Berkeley, California, is going to install solar energy systems for anyone who wants one.
11/07/07
Rudy Defending Abortion
Biden is a Plagiarist?
http://www.famousplagiarists.com/politics.htm#biden
10/31/07
Detroit Suits Sell Out America: America Strikes Back
This guy makes a hummer out of stock GM parts that runs on biodeisel and gets 60mpg. Fuck you, Detroit. I mean, fuck you, Detroit. Click here.
Progress Report on Ethnic Cleansing of Texans in Washington
Karen Hughes, the last of the major Texan Bush appointees that has infested Washington in the last few years is leaving at the end of the year. Karen Hughes, the Texan battle-axe who spins the war to the world, is dragging her battered Tex-ass out of the administration. As it turns out, an occupation of a foreign country is impossible when you don't have the support of the local populace, especially when the invader is Texas and the occupied country is America. So long, Karen Hughes. There are plenty of broad, flat rocks in Texas under which to lose touch with reality to your heart's content without harming anyone. Bush will follow your slime trail under there soon, so don't feel lonely. Full story here.
10/19/07
Finally, Here's a Democrat Who Knows How to Talk to Republicans
This guy is a rock star.
10/10/07
Uncle Sam Wants You to Defend Our Country Against All Enemies, Foreign and Domestic
Click the image above for high-quality version suitable for reproduction.
10/08/07
The Lapel Pin Obama Doesn't Wear
Washington's Lapel Pin
09/30/07
GW Bush the Dumbass
"Childrens do learn." -GW Bush
09/29/07
Clarence Thomas the Dumbass
I'm sorry, he just sounds like a dumbass in the quotes from his book. I am not going to buy it, of course. But one thing struck me. As the Washington Post writes that Anita Hill "misrepresented herself at the time of the hearings as a 'devoutly religious Reagan-administration employee.' In fact, she was a left-winger who'd never expressed any religious sentiments.'" This kind of suggests that it was one of the reasons he hired her. Does Thomas have a religious test for hiring? Considering his views and this statement, I think it's fair to guess she never would have gotten hired if she were an atheist or a Muslim or a Buddhist. Let me tell you something, Clarence. The religion of your employees is none of your damned business, you Jesus freak.
09/26/07
Generals Who Didn't Betray Us
In the wake of the Move On Betray-Us = Petraeus ad, I just made a page with lots of video listing all the generals I can find who have spoken out against the Iraq War. Click here.
09/22/07
FDNY Fireman Says WTC7 Is Going to Fall
One of the big propositions of the conspiracy nuts/911 truth movement is that the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7 (WTC7) bore all the hallmarks of a controlled demolition. They say charges made the building collapse upon itself, and films of the collapse certainly look like controlled demolitions; however, as we see in the below video, at least one New York fireman on 9/11 knew the building was going to fall because it was leaning as he points out and had lost all structural integrity. Nothing could stop it from falling, he says. Another 911 conspiracy theory debunked. This doesn't mean that Bush isn't a criminal though.
Cenk Uygur Says it All about the Betray-Us MoveOn Ad
09/18/07
New "View" Co-Host Doesn't Know if the World is Flat
OMG, Whoopie Goldberg asks her if she believes in evolution, and she answers she doesn't, period. Then Whoopi asks her if she thinks the world is flat... and she doesn't know! Click for HuffPo video.
09/16/07
Condaleeza Owns House with Woman Film Maker *Snicker*
Condaleeza Rice not only owns a house with a woman film maker, she also shares a line of credit with her. Gay. Click for full story. If that wasn't bad enough, the woman film maker used to work with BILL MOYERS! OMG THE RICE STORY IS A RIGHT WING HOUSE OF HORRORS... or guilty pleasures. Tell me something. Are there any Republican's who aren't gay?
09/14/07
Sum 41: We're All to Blame
Here's another alternate late night music to protest how Crooks and Liars only picks ancient music for their Late Night Music Club. Well, here's Sum 41 preaching strong about current issues.
He's finally Back, with a New Cooking Show
Shock Doctrine
It would explain a lot.
09/13/07
WTC: Another Conspiracy Theory Blown
I have been convinced for quite a while that the conspiracy theory guys have been blowing smoke out their asses, but I have to admit that when I watch that video of the WTC 7 falling, it really did look like a controlled demolition. The building had not even been hit on 9/11, right? The conspiracy guys say the building was not hit by a plane that day. However, even though there are no shots of the building from telling angles that day, there are some eyewitness accounts of a large hole in the side of the building where an airplane engine had apparently entered. Even so... it still looks suspicious. Then there is that video of the owner saying the fire department decided to "pull it." The conspiracy guys say "pull it" means "blow it up" in the demolitions business lingo. However, it turns out that "pull it" means no such thing in demolitions lingo. Alex Jones just made that up. What the owner was talking about was that there was too much damage, so they decided to "pull" the fire department team that was trying to put the fire out, and it's a good thing they did. Even so... it still looks suspicious. But then there is this, an FDNY guy saying on video that the building is leaning, has lost its structural integrity, and is bound to fall. That kind of clinches it. The WTC7 was not a controlled demolition. People on the ground far away could tell it was going to fall. It didn't just suddenly implode. That's that. p.s. Bush is still a criminal.
$3 Billion a Week, American Blood: Small Price
I don't know if it's just me, but doesn't John Boehner look like and sound like a rich, coutry-club drunk whose passenger seat you would not get into if he were driving?
09/07/07
Scott Ritter
09/01/07
On Republican Gay Sex Scandals
Before you get all excited about the newest Republican sex scandal, consider that the gloating might be premature. It is true that Karl Rove said that no Republican royal clusterfucks were responsible for their congressional losses. Instead, Rove said only one thing caused the losses: Mark Foley. Now, Rove happens to be smart about politics, and Democrats seem to be DUMB about politics. What Rove knows about his base is that 1) they are stupid and 2) they have no memory. Because they are stupid, the only deal-killer issue they have is queers. Because they have no memory, the gay sex scandal has to happen very close to the election. The Repugs ignore billion of years of this planet's existence. Do you think they can't ignore something that happens a year before the election? You see, once a few covert cocktails wash the taste of semen out of the Republican mouth, to them it's like the BJ never happened. The Democrats have to learn to save up these sex indiscretions until right at election time, or they will not register at all in the lizard-brained Repugs. So all of these recent scandals have really been completely wasted in terms of the presidential election.
08/31/07
Here's How Much the Government REALLY Cares about Your Baby
Absolutely criminal and disgusting.
08/29/07
The Dingbat Flower of American Womanhood
Some wonder how a loser like GW Bush could have been elected in 2004. I no longer ponder this question. Miss South Carolina answered every question I had about red state America.
In case that was hard for you to understand, here is a map someone created
to explain.
08/28/07 Ted Nugent is a Draft Dodger
The Video of Nugent Dissing Obama and Hilary clinton
Did Ted Nugent Dodge the Draft during the Vietnam War?
Well, it looks like Ted Nugent did dodge the draft according to an article in the Detroit Free Press. In it, he says he pooped and pissed his pants for a month, and then went in to the draft board. Here is an article that explains things and presents a document that shows Nugent failed his physical, which would tend to back up what he claimed in the Detroit Free Press article. I don't know if the document has been authenticated by anyone. Nugent also had a student deferment during most of the time he was playing about 300 shows a year. I wonder how he found time to study? One Internet forum user also brought up how on the cover of one of the Amboy Dukes albums, there was a lot of drug paraphernalia, but when Nugent went Republican, he claimed he didn't know what it was when asked if he had ever advocated drug use. Yep, it looks like he's just another Neocon hypocrite.
Now, this would all be okay with me. I don't mind people refusing to fight immoral wars. If it was WWII, that would be different, but people were lining up to fight that one because it was a pretty good fight. It would have been okay if he had not strutted around stage with machine guns telling Obama to suck on them and calling Hilary Clinton a "bitch." But, now, sorry, Nuge, but the world has to know you are a draft-dodging, chickenhawk, neocon punk. Here are some other reasons he is a coward.
Ted Nugent is a Coward Because...
1. The Motor City Madman, now known as Hanoi Ted, just loves to kill defenseless animals. Of course, he claimed to have killed some dangerous ones with just a knife. Yeah, right. I think he's just a gun nut, and you know how gun nuts are. Cowards who feel tough because they have guns.
2. He plays guitars that don't fight back. Yeah, I have played the Gibson Birdland, and it has a SHORT scale, which means it is SHORT and has a VERY THIN NECK, making it SUPER EASY TO PLAY, kind of like TRAINING WHEELS but in guitar form. I have no idea about the following, but I would bet because Nuge is such a secret PUSSY that he uses PUSSY STRINGS like Super Slinky 8s.
3. When I try to post anything like the above on his forums at his Website, he's hired people to work into the night immediately deleting them because TED NUGENT CAN DISH IT OUT BUT HE CAN'T TAKE IT. The next day, I got an email from his daughter, Sasha Nugent, telling me I was wrong, etc. I can't believe THE BIG TOUGH GUY HIDES BEHIND HIS DAUGHTER'S SKIRTS. HE'S LITERALLY USING HER FOR A HUMAN SHIELD TO GET BETWEEN HIM AND THOSE BAD LIBERALS WHO HUWT HIM WITTLE FEEWINGS!
Ted, you're just a little bitch who compensates for his small guitar size with big machine guns, but, Ted, I don't need a machine gun. All I need is one shot to deal with your scrawny ass. New Orleans REPRESENT!
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Wastoid GOP Padre Haggard $cam$ w/ Fake Charity Run by Sex Offender
08/27/07
Gonzales Resigns
Another Republican Caught Lewdly Gay
The GOP (Gay Old Pervs) just got caught in more lewd gay conduct in an airport rest room. Click.
08/26/07
Norman Mailer: The Right Will Probably Triumph
Jesus off my Penis
08/25/07
Toward More Effective Hate Mail
Thanks to Perry Logan for sending this link on how to write better hate mail if you are an illiterate Republican who failed Freshman Composition at the community college.
08/19/07
Mickey the Jew-Hating Hamas Mouse
WTF
08/18/07
Check Music Club
In continuing protest against the anemic, obvious, overplayed, and OLD OLD OLD music at the Crooks and Liars Late Night Music Club, here is my pick of the day, dedicated to all Republicans: Rage Against the Machine, with Bulls on Parade.
08/16/07
AT&T and the NSA: Those Paranoid Delusions about the Gov. Reading Your Emails Were True
Listen to these Buscho lawyer argue about what may or may not be inside what may or may not be a top secret NSA room in an AT&T building in SF, but we can't know because it is top secret. The government lawyer stands by the administration's assertion that the government does not spy on communications inside America under oath. When he is asked to sign a statment to that effect, he refuses! If these dirty dirty kkkorpo-governmedia assholes were to have all the lies removed from their bodies, the only thing left would be a small pile of carbon dust on the floor. Click for Wired story.
08/13/07
The Democratic Musical Problem
The occasion of this writing is Patrick Leahy's warnings that the Rove inquiry is not over yet. Well, I am sure Rove is shaking in his shoes that Leahy might *gasp* write a letter or *waaa!* initiate a no-confidence vote. You know, I have been following the Late Night Music Club at Crooks and Liars, and I came up with an interesting idea that maybe the problem with Democrats is too many lame records in the collection. I wonder if Leahy listens to some lame protest music like Buffalo Springfield’s “For What It’s Worth.” We should start a collection to put some more energetic music in his collection, Blondie’s “One Way or Another” for instance, or some Accept with “Balls to the Wall” or, even better, Ratt’s “What Goes Around Comes Around.” Maybe that would turn these impotent posturings into action. Perhaps even the Sex Pistols’ “Liar” would teach Democrats how to talk to Republicans. It would be fun to check how many amorphous, swimmy, wimpy Stevie Nicks records are in the Democratic congressional collections. We know the Republicans’ are full of mullet country music, but how many Cat Stevens records are in the Democratic senatorial bladder clogging its narrow urethra. We had to put up with Stevie Nicks back in the Clinton days. Maybe we should start an alternate selection campaign for Hillary’s campaign. You know, give her some better music to choose from, like some Rage Against the Machine, Ministry, and Metallica. Yeah, the Ministry “War Pigs” album would be good right about now. Seriously, how can you get any action out of someone who likes bland, nothing music like Stevie Nicks, or, in Leahy’s case, probably Lawrence Welk.
I'm starting my own music club to counter the pasty, lame music at Crooks and Liars, and this one is dedicated to Karl Rove. It's called "Balls to the Wall," by Accept.
Too many slaves in this world
Die by torture and pain
Too many people do not see
Theyre killing themselves - going insane
Too many people do not know
Bondage is over the human race
They believe slaves always lose
And this fear keeps them down
Watch the damned (God bless ya)
Theyre gonna break their chains (hey)
No, you cant stop them (God bless ya)
Theyre coming to get you
And then youll get your
Balls to the wall, man
Balls to the wall
Youll get your balls to the wall, man
Balls to the wall - balls to the wall
You may screw their brains
You may sacrifice them, too
You may mortify their flesh
You may rape them all
One day the tortured stand up
And revolt against the evil
They make you drink your blood
And tear yourself to pieces
You better watch the damned (God bless ya)
Theyre gonna break their chains (hey)
No, you cant stop them (God bless ya)
Theyre coming to get you
And then youll get your
Balls to the wall, man
Balls to the wall
Youll get your balls to the wall, man
Balls to the wall - balls to the wall
Come on man, lets stand up all over the world
Lets plug a bomb in everyones arse
If they dont keep us alive - were gonna fight for the right
Build a wall with the bodies of the dead - and youre saved
Make the world scared - come on, show me the sign of victory
Sign of victory - sign of victory
You better watch the damned (God bless ya)
Theyre gonna break their chains (hey)
No, you cant stop them (God bless ya)
Theyre coming to get you
And then youll get your
Balls to the wall, man
Balls to the wall
And here's the farewell gig of the Pistols, with them doing "Liar," which I here dedicate to good old Karl Rove.
08/12/07
1994 LOL!
08/06/07
Tomorrow's Headlines Today
Permit me to report some future news pertinent to gutting FISA.
The FBI was caught secretly taping the private conversations of all the Democratic frontrunners today. Sources say all major journalists' phones are also bugged. Disturbingly, top Bush Administration aids have also been caught listening in to phone sex calls involving young boys. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said he could not comment, citing national security concerns. When subpoenaed, President Bush claimed executive privilege exempted Gonzales from answering questions. Sources who tipped off reporters to the wiretaps of political rivals, young boys, and journalists have been detained indefinitely. Even those who reported the eavesdropping have been deta
Spineless Democrats
I don't know if anyone is reading this, but remember when Bush got busted breaking the law and spying on Americans without court orders? Well, under the existing FISA law, a judge rebuked Bush's claim that what he was doing was legal. In fact, it was clearly unconstitutional. So, what did the dirty cocksucker do? He got the law changed. Now, this is to be expected. We are, after all, now living in the early stages of dictatorship; however, what wasn't expected was DEMOCRATS HELPING BUSH CIRCUMVENT THE CONSTITUTION! For what it's worth, here's a list of the Democratic collaborators.
AR Jr Sen. Mark Pryor Democrat Y
AR Sr Sen. Blanche Lincoln Democrat Y
CA Jr Sen. Barbara Boxer Democrat NV
CA Sr Sen. Dianne Feinstein Democrat Y
CO Jr Sen. Ken Salazar Democrat Y
DE Jr Sen. Thomas Carper Democrat Y
HI Sr Sen. Daniel Inouye Democrat Y
IA Jr Sen. Thomas Harkin Democrat NV
IN Jr Sen. Evan Bayh Democrat Y
LA Sr Sen. Mary Landrieu Democrat Y
MA Jr Sen. John Kerry Democrat NV
MD Sr Sen. Barbara Mikulski Democrat Y
MN Jr Sen. Amy Klobuchar Democrat/Farmer/Labor Y
MO Jr Sen. Claire McCaskill Democrat Y
ND Jr Sen. Byron Dorgan Democrat-NPL NV
ND Sr Sen. Kent Conrad Democrat Y
NE Jr Sen. E. Benjamin Nelson Democrat Y
PA Jr Sen. Robert Casey Jr. Democrat Y
SD Sr Sen. Tim Johnson Democrat NV
VA Jr Sen. James Webb Jr. Democrat Y
WA Sr Sen. Patty Murray Democrat NV
Barbara Boxer? Et tu, Barbi?
US State Department Using Philipino Slaves to Build New Baghdad Embassy
08/05/07
Dictatorship Deepens
07/20/07
George W. Bush to Get Huge Hose up Ass
OMG, Cheney will be president during Bush's anal hosing. I want to know the results of the test. What exactly does he have up there? Probably a few severed horse cocks tattooed with pentacles.
07/19/07
I'm Doing Interpretive Dance
National Review Cruise
This story is really really funny!
07/06/07
Priceless
07/05/07
Kieth Kicks Ass
Blogger Bashes Bully
Alex Jones, conspiracy nutjob extraordinaire, gets pwned here.
Smarmy July 4 Meditations
Thanks be to sweet tapdancing Ganesh, the smarmy July 4th meditations in the media are gone. I can still hear the fireworks outside, and I am thinking the average American is as far as from understanding the meaning of the holiday as the fireworks I'm hearing are from the bombs of war. Ask the average Joe or Josephine what the meaning of the day is and they will tell you it is about freedom. What do you do for freedom? Fight. Fight whom? Some brownish people on the other side of the world. Ask them what freedom is, and they will talk about fucking televisions, cars, washing machines, and malls, the fucking assholes. When they talk about freedom, what they are really talking about is theft, stealing or extorting resources from other countries.
July 4 is not about freedom. It is about sovereignty. Once a people fight for and gain their sovereignty it is up to them whether they will institute freedom. Freedom is done with a brain and a pen and the moral resources of a people. Thousands of countries have gained their sovereignty but pissed away their chance for freedom. Only a few, like America in the 1700s, used their sovereignty to try to institute something like freedom, and even then it took them a hundred years to abolish slavery, about the clearest affront to freedom imaginable.
But there was that Constitution, hand written on a delicate medium. It was the pen that did it, and the minds that thought past the prejudices and the politics of the day, that created freedom in America. The Holiday to celebrate freedom is Juneteenth, not July 4th. July 4th is about sovereignty, and sovereignty in itself is good. We should thank the warriors for it, but freedom came from men of thought, men of the enlightenment, men of intellectual vigor, not warriors. Warriors in all countries, full of piss and vinegar, can be raised from the cities and the hinterlands to fight for their countries, and they love their countries, and cannot stomach being ruled by foreigners, but what they rarely fight for, even in America, is freedom. It is not necessarily a bad thing. They fight for the sovereignty of their countries, and only with sovereignty can freedom arise. They fight for their units and the men and women with whom they fight shoulder-to-shoulder. They fight for their officers, and sometimes they respect their officers and brother in arms enough to die for them. They fight for their flag, and they will say they fight for freedom, but rarely does the soldier fight for the abstract of freedom.
He thinks of freedom in specifics, like being able to go fishing in a favorite lake, like being able to have a barbecue in his back yard, drink beer, watch the game, and make love to his wife. But, truth be told, the warrior may grow to prefer a strong leader, who gives simple orders, to this complicated business of Democracy. He will fight for his country, and will be lionized for it, but he has fought for the sovereignty of his country, not its freedom. Fighting for freedom is practiced quite differently from wars. In wars, we kill our enemies in foreign countries. When we fight for freedom, we fight for the rights of those in our own country whom we may not even like or agree with, but they are fellow Americans, so if they are not hurting anybody, we fight for their right to carry on.
This seemingly simple idea seems to be lost on many people who waved the flag and talked about freedom today. As I listen to the fireworks outside, there is a sudden crescendo. It is midnight, and the whole city is booming and whistling with fireworks. That's New Year's Eve, guys. There's nothing special about midnight on July 4. You guys don't know shit. You don't know how many stars are on the flag. You'll open your fat mouths about freedom and then talk about throwing gays in jail. You keep looking for the heroes of freedom in military regalia, but the heroes of freedom in most cases are men of vigorous intellect, not men brandishing guns.
They are a different kind of hero entirely.
07/03/07
I Make Joke
What's this sound? "Quack, thump, evildoers, quack, thump, stay the course, quack, thump, subliminable." A lame duck, get it?
Tony Snow: The Lance Armstrong of Lies
Cancer survivor Tony Snow is in inspiration to liars and traitors everywhere. He is the Lance Armstrong of lies. Instead of a bicycle, he has a lectern, and he came back from cancer to attempt yet another Tour de False. Here he is trying to explain Scooter's commutation.
07/02/07
Honor Among Thieves
Bush lets Libby off the hook. http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/07/02/libby.sentence/index.html
06/29/07
Moyers pwns Rupert Murdoch
06/27/07
You Bin Served, Cheney!
Cheney's office subpoenaed for records.
06/26/07
Kudos for Republicans
A lot of times, when I tar and feather Republicans on here, I have to admit it is only because of the rhetoric the right uses in the media, and most of that only originated in the Karl Rove era. There are the right-wing jocks on AM radio, and the Rushes and Coulters and Savages of the world, too. They all deserve a strong smackdown in the rhetorical sense in answer to their demonization of Democrats. Unfortunately, I have to admit that I agree with Republicans on certain things, and I also have to admit that I have Republican friends who are much better people than some of the Democrats I know. It is not Republicans I have a problem with, though I might find myself more in disagreement with them than with those in my own party. My problem is with the Republicans who are in power right now and how they have twisted the positive things that their constituencies believe in. Here are some positive things I have noticed about Republicans in my personal interactions, and I emphasize here that these are only the Republicans that I have known.
Personal Responsibility: The Republicans I have known tend to be where they are supposed to be when they say they are going to be there, with what they said they were going to bring with them. In other words, you can count on them. They do what needs to be done. They are not whiners.
Loyalty: I guess this is a part of responsibility, but the Republicans I have known are generally more loyal in a broad sense.
Guts/Balls: The Republicans I have known tend to have guts. They don't quit when faced with adversity.
Decorous: The Republicans I have known tend to behave properly according to our social traditions.
The question is, how did these responsible, loyal, gutsy people, who believe in traditional social values, end up voting for Bushco twice? I still can't figure it out, but I will try to work it out on here.
First of all, I think the reason they are able to overlook the Republican administration's crimes is despair. They, I think, believe that corruption is just the way of the world, and a corrupt Republican is going to be better for the country than a corrupt Democrat. The rich will always get rich, and the poor will always get poorer, and that's that. No use fretting over it.
However, I think the rest of it is that they think we do not show any of the above-listed qualities. We should attempt to show them how they are wrong when they are wrong, and improve where they are right.
Personal Responsibility: On the interpersonal level, it is obviously a great thing to have personal responsibility. If you don't, everyone will hate you, and you will never get anything done. The Republican reveres someone who pulls himself up by his bootstraps and makes good. This can go awry, however, because there is the implicit belief that someone who does not do so is worthy of contempt. Republicans often drive to work in a car made by low wage workers in foreign countries on a road made by low wage workers to a building built by illegal immigrants, none of whom had the same opportunities, in a civilized country with a middle class that was created by unions, and the Republican driving himself to work may congratulate himself on his personal success. He did it by himself, he says to himself. If someone can't afford to provide for himself and his family, or turns to crime or drugs, it is not because of lack of opportunity and the despair it can create; it is because he is a bad person. It is not the government's responsibility to make sure people don't fail in life. This makes sense on the interpersonal level, but when it comes to large groups like a country, we are a great one because the government, at least for many years, took the welfare of the people seriously. If someone worked his whole life, we set it up so that he could not be left destitute after retirement. We set up standards below which we would not tolerate Americans living. We at least tried to make sure everyone had a chance at an education. So, fine. Pull yourself up by your bootstraps, but don't judge a man until you walk a mile in those work boots.
Loyalty: There is a scene in All the President's Men when Woodward or Bernstein, I forget which, goes to ask a woman questions about Watergate. She is not a top-level operative. She scolds the reporter for asking her to betray people she has worked with for years, and at least the inference is that the reporter is morally inferior for asking her to go against her loyalties. This is the perfect representation of the much-noted Republican loyalty. We would all want this woman for a friend or even a mother or relative. We would trust our money with her. We might let her babysit our kids. However, personal loyalty can be a fault, and sometimes the Republicans need to be reminded to prioritize their loyalties. It may be harder to be loyal to an abstract concept like the Constitution than a person we know, so although we might trust a Republican to take care of our kid, we might not want to trust the principles of our founding to the Republican politicos since Nixon. To the Democrat, loyalty that furthers anything unconstitutional is not loyalty at all, but treason. Republicans often respect loyalty, even if it is against the Constitution and the American People. Like with Scooter Libby. The Democrat cannot figure out why anyone would stick up for a guy who obstructed a federal investigation into possible fraud that might be costing lives every day in Iraq. To the Republican, it is obvious. He didn't talk. He lied for his bosses, for the administration he worked for. He's the kind of guy we would want with us in a street fight. He's got guts/balls. To the Democrat, this is nothing but honor among thieves. To the Republican, well, they figure politicians all lie, so why single him out? But how can people who constantly claim to stand on principle, on law and order, on decorum and propriety, remain loyal to a guy who obstructed justice on a matter vital to the country? Loyalty. It is an end in itself to the Republican. Also, there is kind of a built-in reverence for authority in the Republican tradition.
Guts / Balls: There is very little bad to say about having guts / balls. They are one quality that leads to success in life; however, Stalin had great brass balls, but they do not recommend him for a leadership position in the eyes of the Democrat. Balls are good, but they are morally neutral. To the Republican, they are sometimes seen as an end in themselves.
Decorum: Republicans like respectful decorum, or at least used to. That is good. They are also quick to scold Democrats when they are out of order. That is also good. But where have they been all these years while Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, and all the rest, have spewed their totally indecorous, wild rants to millions? Notably absent.
So, in conclusion, when I answer the likes of Coulter, Limbaugh, and Savage with a taste of their own medicine, I don't mean to equally pepper all of my fellow Americans who happen to be Republicans. This Heretic personality is a stage name, a pen name, used to fight hard without having to lose my job. I don't speak so disrespectfully to Republicans in real life, unless they spout off like Ann Coulter or Rush Limbaugh. Why the conciliatory mood? Well, I see the cracks starting to form in the resolve and loyalty of the everyday Republican, and what I want to say is that loyalty of itself is not a good thing. One must be loyal to something worthy, and in this case, I think you are starting to see how your leaders have let you down. You only asked for tough, respectable, respectful leadership, and instead you got this. I will tell you right now that Bushco has really helped me develop a respect and even a nostalgia for the kinds of Republicans we used to have to deal with, like Arlen Specter, William F. Buckley Jr., and Dwight Eisenhower. Part of the problem is you guys got all our problem children back in the '90s. I'm talking about the Confederates who have overrun your party. You're going to have to fight to beat them back into their holes. We did. Now it's your turn.
06/25/07
How a Foreigner is Destroying America
06/24/07
Sneakin'!
06/22/07
Back in Despair
Hello, anyone who reads this blog. I am back online after having a laptop stolen. I'm starting to think this country is eating itself. I think I need antidepressants because I am in despair. I just posted this, about Bush's people being exempt from oversight, on C&L.
The way this works is that Bush is simply taking dictatorial powers steadily and without the need for violence. We are willing to give up the Republic, and Bush will continue unless someone stops him. But here is my thesis. Nobody will. If we were going to do something, we would have done it back when he first declared himself above the law, and that was over a year ago. Even I, even when I am one of the only ones who seems to remember that this is already a dictatorship, don't remember when, exactly, the president said he didn't have to abide by the laws requiring court orders to spy on US citizens. I am lazy. It's water under the bridge. I am spoiled. The Republic is already in the past.
The Dems just don't have the guts. It comes down to that. Gutless. The
Republicans are ready for some monarchy. The broad consensus of the people?
They want their bread and circuses, and history repeats itself. After
we lose the republic, though, this will probably still be one of the better
countries to live in for a long time. This is a kinder, gentler dictatorship.
Bush doesn't care about taking away freedom of speech because nobody believes
anything anyone else says anymore, and a good, functional lie that makes
the trains run on time is welcomed by all like a new messiah. We the people
are losing this republic because we have become stupid and indolent, and
bourgeois smarty pantses sitting in front of new iBooks will never do
more than talk. Even the spoiled left is to blame for tarring the founding
fathers as criminals for their contemporaneous slave holding and ignoring
the principles they used to found this republic. They were certainly a
lot better than the founding actors in most other countries' founding
myths, but we have pasty neo-Puritains teaching the children that they
were evil. The right are just pragmatists, understanding that the way
of the world is slavery, with only limited interludes of freedom and justice,
and the ones who are ready to jump on the slavery bandwagon first will
be the slavers. Dirty dirty Republicans. But Congress doesn't have the
guts to stop these traitors. The people don't have the will. I am in despair.
I hope for a leader.
Give me antidepressants.
05/28/07
Ben Affleck Lets the Democrats Have It
A surprisingly articulate Ben Affleck voices what most of us are thinking about these pussy Democrats we elected. (Requires Quictime)
Cindy Sheehan Resigns with a Few Choice Words
Click for Cindy Sheehan resignation.
05/27/07
Bible Warning
05/25/07
Dems
I'm not sure the Dems have the guts to stand up to Republicans. They went and funded the war. I know, there was no way to get a supermajority. They funded the war. I know, it would have looked bad for them to fund the war, but only if they were shaking in their shoes about how the GOP would paint them. And they funded the war. The Inquiries into the Department of Justice and the Attorney General have been pretty successful. I wonder what kind of slap on the wrist they are cooking up. They already gave the dumb blonde immunity, and Gonzales still has that shit-eating grin, like, "Look at these fools; they really think they are going to nail me!" We don't need Conyers and Pelosi. We need Eliott Ness, Rico, and Youngblood.
05/22/07
Not Your Modern Republican
Now it is true that I believe this country is following a dangerous trend when it permits too great a degree of centralization of governmental functions. I oppose this--in some instances the fight is a rather desperate one. But to attain any success it is quite clear that the Federal government cannot avoid or escape responsibilities which the mass of the people firmly believe should be undertaken by it. The political processes of our country are such that if a rule of reason is not applied in this effort, we will lose everything--even to a possible and drastic change in the Constitution. This is what I mean by my constant insistence upon "moderation" in government. Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Among them are H. L. Hunt (you possibly know his background), a few other Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid. -Dwight D. Eisenhower
Bush Plans Government Takeover
This is it. It really looks like it's coming.
05/16/07
Hitchens Kicks Falwell's Fat Dead Ass
05/15/07
Military Bans YouTube, Tells Soldiers to Visit YouTube
God Shut's Jerry Falwell's Fat Mouth Permanently for Being a Right-Wing Asshole
A couple of days after the 9/11 attacks, Jerry Falwell said God let us get attacked because of "the pagans and the abortionists and the feminists and the gays and the lesbians." Let me be the first to say that God killed Jerry Falwell because he was a Republican bigot, and Jesus, as we all know, is a Liberal. (Irony Alert: Of course there are no such beings as God and Jesus.)
05/12/07
Powell's Right Hand Man Talking Impeachment
View Crooks & Liars video on Colonel Wilkerson's impeachment call.
05/11/07
What's in a Flag?
05/08/08
Tornado Hits Kansas Town, Dumbshits Plan to Rebuild
How stupid do you have to be to build a town in an area called Tornado Alley? Well, the residents of Greenburg, Kansas, did just that, and now they are wondering what happened. Let me give you a hint, Greenburg Kansas. It’s called a tornado, and you dumbshits built your town in its alley. And what do you think the first thing they started doing was after the twister leveled the town? They started planning to REBUILD IT! IN THE SAME PLACE! The stupidity of you people just boggles.
But, I think we all know what is really going on here. God is punishing Greenburg, Kansas, for voting Bush. I am not saying I am glad that all those red state traitors are dead, but I’m just saying its understandable.
But let me just put my two cents worth in here. I am sick of all these losers building their houses right in the way of tornados, and I am sick of shelling out money for these trailer trash, white trash, crank-addicted whores with their ten mewling brats coming up to me with their hands out for disaster relief funds. If you want to build your house in tornado alley, get a job and pay for it yourself, you bums.
Irony? Maybe, but you red state cocksuckers said the same stuff about New Orleans after Katrina, so FUCK YOU!
05/06/07
Kucinich's Wife Is HAWWWWWWT!
The Big Political Drag Show
All of the political philosophies are cross-dressing. None remain true to their roots, and many in fact have become the opposite of what they started out as. I think what I am having to face right now is that most of the broad political movements that I had come to think of as rather cohesive are just ad hoc collections of different strategies and beliefs. For instance, when we think of the classic ideals of Conservatism, we think of limited foreign interventionism, tight purse strings, value for anything old enough to be called traditional, bootstrap ideals, Rand-style placing of all responsibility for consequences upon the individual, elimination of regulation on industry, slashing taxpayer-funded social programs, and limited government ideology.
However, we see in the Neocon, which is ostensibly conservative, an abandoning of a good percentage of the above. First, the new conservatism has a hardon for invading other countries for no other purpose than a messianic mission to remake them in our image. The tight purse strings are now loose, and we are going into incredible debt to foreign countries. They do ostensibly maintain the traditional social values, but with a major undercurrent of Objectivism diluting the traditional Christian dogma. They are certainly against taxpayer funding for social programs. Not. They want "faith based" initiatives. Another new thing is the big government giveaways of money to major corporations, which is a direct attack on their traditional free market ideology.
We see first of all, when considering Liberalism and Libertarianism that they both seem to have the same founding father in John Stuart Mill. However, modern "Liberalism" seems to have abandoned Mill's philosophy when it comes to engineering social justice. When there are minorities involved, the modern Liberal takes a Proportionalist approach. Two wrongs make a right (social discrimination + government-mandated preferences = level playing field). This makes some sense, but it is certainly wrong when working from the general principle that the government should treat people the same. Other direct attacks on Mill's philosophy were the generally unsuccessful attempts to create hate speech laws, which generally came from Liberals or lefties if I am not mistaken. (I may be mistaken here, because I am working from a general impression rather than any concrete knowledge here.) Anti-porn feminist currents of Liberalism and far right notions of traditional sexual propriety actually colluded during the Reagan era Meese Commission hearings to limit pornography, which is arguably a form of speech. So, Liberalism has actually become quite heretical in the context of Mill's Liberalism. For incontrovertible evidence of this, we need only make note of the fact that we must put the word "Classic" before the word "Liberalism" in order to be understood properly when speaking of Mill's philosophy because Mill's Liberalism is nothing like today's Liberalism.
So, maybe cross-dressing is not even the most apt methphor. I think the major political philosophies have actually undergone hormone treatments in preparation for a sex change operation. Imagine the crisis if Republicans had to admit they are left wing and Democrats had to admit they are right wing.
But, it hasn't gone that far yet, and the truth of the matter is that these broad currents in politics were established a long time ago in different cultural/social times. Their pet issues and stances were grafted to these movements on an ad-hoc basis to take advantage of constituencies that no longer exist as they were when the movements were delineated.
Now, the only thing that seems to remain stable is the fashions. There is no rule anywhere in the world that states that a Republican cannot wear Birkenstocks; however, it is pretty clear, indeed, that virtually none do. Likewise, there is no law that a Democrat can't overdo it with gratuitous flag waving, but virtually none do. But there is nothing that makes sandals inherently incompatible with Republicanism any more than gratuitous nationalistic displays are incompatible with Democrats. It is just a political culture, and the fact of the matter as I see it is that style is now the only substance in the public political debate. I blame this to a great extent on Newscorp/Fox News, which has really made extraordinary efforts to make people stupid and ill-informed, and this is more ominous to me because the owner is a former foreign national who never should have been given the opportunity to own American media. That is one thing that Clinton did that really did sell out America. He made it possible for people born in foreign countries to own large chunks of American media when it was wisely never allowed before. There is debate about this, of course, but I don't want foreigners to be able to shape public opinion in the US by publishing lies. Rupert Murdoch has gone on record as saying that Newscorp chose to back the president's Iraq policy rather than trying to report objectively.
Would an American have distorted the truth and tried his best to divide Americans in half like former foreign national Rupert Murdoch has done to maximize his profit? Well, I guess if it is Karl Rove, my argument breaks down because he is a native traitor. But this style war started by Republican strategists and Newscorp seems to be falling apart. Americans have gotten a taste of what it is to hate their fellow Americans, and some are starting to get tired of it, and that is a good thing. (Although it gives me endless satisfaction to see Republicans all confused and bewildered when Democrats let them know they hate their fucking stinking Republican traitor guts as much as they hate us. They're like, "Hey, wait! You're suppose to love my ignorant ass!"
Funny how they only start talking about healing the national divide when they get pushed back and pushed back hard! Is it time for Democrats to stop pushing back? No. We need to see a few convictions. We need to see some jail time. We need to see those Republican noses rubbed in the turd they laid on top of our country a little more. Not until kids stop dying for their pigheaded collusion with this obvious criminal enterprise in Iraq that is just another gift to the oil companies like the multi-billion dollar giveaway last year. Not until they go back to being fucking Republicans instead of dirty stinking rotten traitor fucking Republicans is it time to make nice.
Stop with the big drag show, Republicans. All it would take is a little fashion consult, like one of those dumb makeover shows on TV. We want to see the real you, Republicans! You can't run around in a hummer and body armor anymore. You're embarrassing the fuck out of your family! So, we've brought in a hair stylist, a fashion consultant, and got you a day at the spa. Now it's time for the big reveal.
OMG, you're gorgeous! You look just like John Edwards after a $600 haircut! I can't believe it! *tears* You're just so beautiful! And basic black and those trendy black frame glasses make Karl Rove look slim.
05/05/07
Three GOP Pres. Candidates Don't Believe in Evolution
04/27/07
Fox Reports Internet Parody as FACT!
Oh, this is fucking brilliant. Fox took an ironic story about Muslims on an Internet site similar to The Onion and REPORTED IT AS FACT! OMGWTFBBQ! THE REPUBLICANS ARE TRYING TO DESTROY AMERICA.
Dean Demands Apology from Giuliani
Governor Howard Dean, head of the Democratic National Committee, is demanding an apology from Rudy (The Rubble Ranger) Giuliani for politicizing 9/11 and claiming Democrats will put us on the defensive against terrorism. There is even a form right here to demand your own personal apology from Rudy.. Of course, I just used it to tell him and all his stinking Republican criminal buddies that they will be in jail soon.
04/24/07
Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich Introduces Articles of Impeachment
Only Cheney... for now.
04/23/07
Heckuva Job
That's it. Bush is trying to destroy America.
04/22/07
I Think I Love Sarah McLachlan
FDA to Rule on whether Chocolate is Chocolate
This is a time-sensitive one. Click here as soon as you see this to protect chocolate from redefinition by the junk food corporations.
04/19/07
VA Tech Shooting
Finally, someone tries to talk some sense into the media about the pictures and vids of the VA Tech shooter. Huffpo needs a little schooling, too. Click for story.
04/16/07
Pew Survey Finds Republicans Are Generally Dumbshits
A new Pew survey finds that, on a quiz of national affairs, "...those who scored the highest were regular watchers of Comedy Central's The Daily Show and Colbert Report. They tied with regular readers of major newspapers in the top spot -- with 54% of them getting 2 out of 3 questions correct. Watchers of the Lehrer News Hour on PBS followed just behind.
"Virtually bringing up the rear were regular watchers of Fox News. Only 1 in 3 could answer 2 out of 3 questions correctly. Fox topped only network morning show viewers.
...
"Democrats and Republicans were about equally represented in the most knowledgeable group but there were more Republicans in the least aware group."
Click for Editor & Publisher article.
04/12/07
Own a Piece of Imus History
Vonnegut Dead
I didn't expect to feel this way. Kurt Vonnegut.dead.
04/09/07
Terrorist Watchlist
Click here for amazing story. I have not verified it yet, but it is worth a look. Update: C&L wrote to tell me that the blog it appears on is very credible.
An Interview with the Westboro Baptist Child Abusers
Liberal Dumbasses
I have been noticing in the comment sections of many of the major Liberal blogs a major resurgence of the liberal dumbass. Driven underground during the Bush ascendance, they seem to be crawling out of the woodwork again. I say this as a Democrat and someone most rightards would describe as a Liberal, but I write to you today to encourage you to help police your own. First let's get past the polemics and admit that though there are many liberal geniuses, and the right are definitely dumber per capita, there are plenty of liberal dumbasses. These are people who can often be right, but are right by accident of birth or chance rather than by using mental faculties which may not exist at all.
Before I continue, let me remind you intelligent Liberals of what Liberal dumbasses have done for the movement:
• Spoiled perfectly dignified demonstrations with displays of rank
and unoriginal exhibitionism and ending up being the only part of the
demonstration that ends up on the news that evening, lending an air of
wacko to the proceedings.
• Cried wolf so many times about racism and sexism that nobody pays attention to them anymore, making racism and sexism now almost acceptable on the broadcast media and leaving the country ripe for the Rush Limbaughs and Ann Coulters of the world.
• Bought or made every frivolous, staged complaint about racism
or sexism while ignoring real problems.
• Tried to import Communist sympathies into the Democratic Party,
posing on NVA tanks, wearing Che T-shirts, and wearing hammer-and-sickle
pins.
• Transformed whole English departments into radical monocultures, sidelining writing and critical-thinking skills in favor of pushing ideology, driving graduate students who actually care about the English language and its literature to comp. rhet. or comparative lit, and minting millions of fresh, shiny new Republicans with each section of Freshman Composition they taught. (I guess you can tell what I majored in.)
• Were just really, really dumb.
We need to differentiate ourselves as much from the Republicans as we can. One of the strategies I suggest is to not remain loyal to those undesirables we don't really want representing the Democratic party. Unquestioning loyalty has been the undoing of the Republican party. However, there are many among us whom we seem to remain loyal to that don't really help us any when it comes to public opinion. We have a big tent, true, and that is good, but maybe we need a smaller tent off to the side and out of view of the cameras. We love to blame the GOP for everything, but who exactly is responsible for the GOP's great comeback during the Gingrich/Bush years? I blame us, for celebrating every dumbass among us. Instead, I think we should let it be known what we think, and for this it will be necessary to think something first.
If someone shows up to a liberal demonstration with a costume, an exposed naughty bit, or any Communist gear, please tell them to go have their own protest elsewhere. We do not have to welcome exhibitionistic dumbasses. This may not work, but perhaps it will discourage them.
The next one has to do with the feminazis and PC police. If a liberal ever says anything about a white person or man that one could not get away with saying about a black woman, please reprimand that person. For instance, here is a model exchange.
Andrea Dworkin: Only when manhood is dead - and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it - only then will we know what it is to be free.
Intelligent Liberal: I find your comments sexually abusive to my six-year-old
son here, so get out of my fucking house, bitch.
You know, it's a funny thing, but Andrea Dworkin had great influence
on the US government's approach to porn legislation. Here is a very
interesting discussion I found here. So, the next time some feminazi
gender feminist tells you something innocuous is inppropriate, or that
she is not feeling safe around you, or that you are the reason women get
raped, tell her the facts of the matter: She is a dumbass. Note: For all
you dumbasses who think I just called all feminists dumbasses, you are
a dumbass, dumbass.
And another thing. Democrats are not Communists. Communists are not Democrats. Communists are Communists. Democrats are Democrats. So, when you see Democrats at a Democratic event wearing Communist gear, like Che shirts or hammers and sickles, tell them they must be at the wrong meeting. Communist tyranny was responsible for the virtual slavery and actual deaths of huge numbers of people. Regardless of Che being a formidable leader and the subject of a friendly Hollywood movie, he was in favor of a nuclear first strike against the US. So, no, Communists are not nice guys. Nobody likes traitors on either side. Here we differentiate between Communism, a political system with an unelected central committee, and Socialism, a monetary system where taxes pay for some of the people's needs. Please please tell them to bone up on history and in the meanwhile to stop giving us a bad name.
I love to write, and I love English literature, so I especially don't like the PC police that have taken over English departments as an opportunity to try to indoctrinate the youth. First, it doesn't work and tends to turn them into stark, raving Republicans as soon as they get the grade. Secondly, everybody in America seems to be fucking illiterate right now, so we need to actually teach what we are supposed to teach, and stop promoting grad students to to their own level of incompetence as teachers because of their shade, their perfect recitation of the party line, or their inny or outyness.
Oh, and just plain really really dumb Liberals should have that fact explained to them and asked to keep their stupid gobs shut.
Hmm, I wonder if my Purge the Party article stands up after this much time.
04/08/07
Happy Atheist Easter
Yes, on Atheist Easter, atheists from all over the world celebrate Jesus staying dead.x_x
04/07/07
Fallacy
The following image was inspired by something Perry Logan wrote.
04/06/07
OMGWTF Young Geek-Boy Karl Rove Working on '72 Nixon Campaign
04/03/07
Here's a Free Book to Really Check Your Unreality
A People's History of the United States. Fascinating. Thanks to Mrdie for the forum post.
MCain and Co. Stroll Through Never Never Land
Yesterday, John McCain led a congressional delegation to the Shorja, Baghdad's central market, to show how things have impoved. One Indiana Republican member of the delegation compared the market to "a normal outdoor market in Indiana in the summertime." Yeah, except for the unusually heightened momentary secuirty measures in place for your delegation, the restricted vehicular access, the blast walls around the markets’ perimeters, the five gunships circling over your delegation... oh, and the body armor you're wearing... and the fact that five days before, 60 mostly women and children were killed there in a suicide bombing... and the, um, military escort with machineguns at the ready. Or maybe I just don't know what an Indiana market in summertime is like. Note to self. Stay the fuck away from Indiana in the summertime. What a disgusting puppet show.
04/02/07
9/11 Unanswered Questions
Here is one of the unanswered questions about the unanswered questions. Thanks to bje for the forum post.
Banned Books
Tron Hoax?
The Tron story below may be a hoax. If it is a hoax, April Fool's! It didn't fool me, and I put it on here as an April Fool's prank, and sure got you! If it is not a hoax, remember you heard it here first!
04/01/07
2001 Report: Warming "Very Likely" Caused by Humans. Update Due Fri. Called "Highway to Extinction."
A 2001 internationalb report by 2000 climate scientists said that humans very likely cause global warming. An update to the report by a consensus of scientists is being called the "Highway to Extinction." But, what does a Republican care? "It's just a piece of paper," says the Republican, "and we know what paper is for, don't we boys? We wipe our Republican asses with it." Click for Highway to Extinction.
03/30/07
Homeland Security Bans TRON
That's right, kiddies. The twenty-five-year-old Disney movie TRON has been banned by Homeland Security. It turns out that there might be some material in it that might by some stretch of an overactive imagination be helpful to someone trying to build a nuclear program, but the quixotic act of recalling all copies of it from Disney when there are already countless DVDs on the market and countless copies of it floating around the Internet makes you wonder if the people charged with protecting out national security might be, at least mildly, mentally retarded. Click over.
03/28/07
Fundies Say the Darndest Things
03/27/07
Tony Snow's Cancer is Back
Sometimes bad things happen to good people... but then sometimes bad things happen to bad people, too.
03/24/07
Redeploy
I have to call bullshit on the Democrats this time. It just struck me how dishonest the term "redeployment" is. I am tempted to say they should just say "withdraw", "pull out," or the ever popular "leave," but I seem to remember myself talking about how the Democrats always name things wrong so that stupid people will not like them. "Redeploy" seems to be an example of the Democrats' new sensitivity to language. I am not sure it is going to work though. Sneaky names work on invasions and initiatives, perhaps because most of us will be forced to use them ourselves, unless we are thinking about it. "Net Neutrality" was a bad name. The new "Restoring the Constitution Act" is a good one, but, either way, these are the names by which most people will refer to the initiatives because WTF those are the names of the initiatives. But "redeploy"? Is any regular person going to say "redeploy"? It sounds as dishonest as replacing the term "shot down" with "crashed due to enemy fire."
03/23/07
OMG WTF LOL Tom Delay!
Tom Delay denies quote that's in his own book! Click!
03/19/07
Religion
Stats have been presented showing that atheists are underrepresented in prison populations. Those stats may or may not be real, but I ask you to watch this 50 Cent video, listen to the lyrics, and watch the crucifix dangling from his neck the whole time. LOL!
03/18/07
Watch Brit Hume Lie Like a Snake
It's almost not worth showing how Fox lies anymore because their disinformation strategy is so well documented. Even Rupert Murdoch, the former Australian foreign national who came to this country to take over our media, explicitly admits he has been corrupting the "news" over at Fox to mislead America into throwing away the lives of its servicemen and women. When asked if his Newscorp had managed to shape the agenda in the war on Iraq, he replied, "We tried." If only Murdoch weren't so good at propaganda and the American heartland were just a little bit SMARTER. Anyway, here's Brit Hume, lying a lie that is actually treason.
03/17/07
Global Warming Petition
Sign Al Gore's petition to stop global warming now. It only takes a second. Do it.
03/07/07
Libby Juror Gives Blow-By-Blow Account of Trial
03/06/07
Britney's Breakdown
Remember in Fahrenheit 911, when Britney Spears says that we ought to just "be faithful" to Bush, as if we have God-kings in America? Well, the bitch is breaking down bigtime, and, get this, she has declared herself the Antichrist. Such is the corrosive effect of making a deal with a real devil, like Bush, as opposed to a make-believe one like in the Bible. This makes me warm and happy to see the little Republican willing religion victim degraded. She scrawls 666 on her head, lol!
