The mantra widely circulated throughout the American psyche (for the most part) aided by this administration and enabled by the mainstream media is that our purpose for continuing to occupy Iraq is to spread freedom and democracy for the Iraqi people. If we don’t do this, it is opined, “the tur’sts” will spawn in record [...]
Archive for March, 2007
As mantras go….
Posted in Uncategorized on March 30, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Round up all the usual suspects
Posted in Uncategorized on March 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Taibbi, as usual, hits the proverbial nail on the head. This ballet, or better, this Shakespearian dramedy, we call our government, is something to behold, indeed. The “drug-seeking behavior” analogy is spot on. One of the intriguing conundrums to me also which I’ve been thinking about has to do with the complicity of the potentially [...]
Ruh roh! This April Fools prank came a bit early
Posted in Uncategorized on March 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Don’t get too worried. Someone on McCain’s staff screwed up and used the template owner’s (Newsine CEO, Mike Davidson) template inproperly on McCain’s MySpace page and pissed him off. So as a prank, Davidson posted the above on the page.
Jon Stewart of the Daily Show reviewed a video of McCain just coming off the “Straight [...]
The Screwed Tape Letter
Posted in Uncategorized on March 26, 2007 | 6 Comments »
With apologies to C.S. Lewis, through some amazing technical hackery, I have intercepted the following email:
Hello Wormwood -I want to congratulate you on your latest piece of handiwork with your patient. Putting the thought into his head that our enemy actually desires that humans suffer was a master stroke. Now he is busy preaching that [...]
Friday Interlude: "Getting It", by Greg Boyd
Posted in Uncategorized on March 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
For those of us living for the weekend, Happy Friday!
I found this little nugget from theologian, Greg Boyd (http://www.gregboyd.org/ ). I first learned about Dr. Boyd from one of my favorite theologians (and newly minted “Dad” to RC shown here: http://carn-dogcomments.blogspot.com/ ), the inimitable, redoubtable, Master-PostPost-Modern Theologian, Josh Carney, from…whom…all… my post-post-modern theological wisdom….flows…. [...]
Total-lit-aryan Part Dos
Posted in Uncategorized on March 22, 2007 | 4 Comments »
…continued
http://salon.com/ent/video_dog
Laurence Britt examined fascist regimes of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Franco’s Spain, Salazar’s Portugal, Papadopoulos’s Greece, Pinochet’s Chile, and Suharto’s Indonesia. Analysis of these 7 regimes revealed 14 recognizable patterns of abuse of power. (I’m only listing 4 at a time for brevity).
5. Rampant sexism. Beyond the simple fact that the political elite and the [...]
"The Planet has a Fever!" or "The Crib’s on Fire!"
Posted in Uncategorized on March 22, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Ok, why is Representative Joe Barton (6th District Texas) so opposed to treating our environment with a little R-E-S-P-E-C-T? Surely, it has nothing to do with Barton’s connection, like many who say there’s bad science behind global warming, to the fact that his top two financial backers are the Oil & Gas ($1,108,720) and the [...]
You can’t make this stuff up. And, for all the loy…
Posted in Uncategorized on March 21, 2007 | 4 Comments »
You can’t make this stuff up. And, for all the loyalists, I know already. Blame Clinton. It’s his fault. He did it first and wah wah wah, trifling all the way home. I’m wondering what a crisis we’ve got ourselves into, or rather someone got us into all on his own (with a little help [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on March 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
——————————————————————————–Today’s Must ReadBy Paul Kiel – March 19, 2007, 8:47 AM It’s becoming one of the central rules of the U.S. attorney purge scandal: whatever “performance related” complaint the administration claims as the justification for a U.S. attorney’s firing, it’s actually an area of performance for which that U.S. attorney was lauded.
In this instance, the [...]
Objective journalism
Posted in Uncategorized on March 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Time’s Joe Klein claimed GOP candidates with multiple marriages “live like liberals” Monday, March 19, 2007 1:38PM
Beck smeared ABC colleague Rosie, claimed “I never said that Hillary Clinton was a bitch” Friday, March 16, 2007 7:22PM
Boy Tyrrell: still writing bad fiction Friday, March 16, 2007 6:58PM
Imus’ McGuirk on “young colored fellah” [...]
