Now it's about Iran as well. Iran is right next door, 20 miles from where this video was taken. 20 miles. Who the hell do we think is gonna win this one? The neocons are shouting "On to Tehran!" with their dicks in each other's hands. They must not prevail this time.
In the first segment, Koppel asked the U.S. Ambassador if he could recall any other embassies in his career that were as big as the one in Baghdad. His answer?
Saigon in 1973. We're going to lose this one too. We knew that.
Offering a candidate money to stand down is one of the tools used to suppress opposition activity in banana republics. If the offer made by Michael Savage isn't against the law, it certainly should be ...
To fuck off." Now the GOP has to live with the monster they created:
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For the Conservatives -- both Apostate and Brahman -- who are now wailing and gnashing their teeth over the possibility of Newt Fucking Gingrich being the standard bearer for the GOP next year, what is there left to say but...
....we told you so.
Holy Mother of God did we ever tell you so.
Over and over again. Begged you to listen. Begged you to stop and consider what long-term horrors you were visiting on this country in exchange having your bigot G-spot stroked.
And you told us to fuck off.
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And now we get to sit back with our popcorn and watch with bemusement and laughter.
So it was that the Republican candidates who are deemed worthy of attention (which somehow includes Rick Santorum but not John Huntsman or Buddy Roemer, both former governors) held another goddamn debate in goddamn Iowa last night. Goddamn Iowa, we might note, is one of the whitest goddamn states in America, which means it tells us approximately nothing about how nominations or elections are going to go, but its caucus is still honored like some bloated, louche lord of the manor who must be fed peeled grapes by the nude boy children of his subjects.
Other horrors in this spectacle of the decline and fall of the Republican party:
1. Benjamin Netanyahu is the greatest living American. And Israel is the most important state in the union. It's the location that got mentioned more than any other (besides the United States), and Romney and Gingrich got into a fight over who's got the longest Bibi: "I've known Bibi since 1984," said Newt. Countered Mitt, "I've also known Bibi Netanyahu for a long time. We worked together at Boston Consulting Group," which was in 1976, so Romney's balling Bibi for nearly a decade longer than Newt. ...
Oh, hell. What else do you want to talk about here? Bottom line: Santorum's a creepy idiot who has family values shoved up his ass like spiked beads. Ron Paul is Ron Paul is Ron Paul (even if he seemed like Don Knotts running for president in a kooky movie with a chimp as his running mate). Most frightening, Michele Bachmann actually came across as saner and more in control because, compared with the flailing Romney and the failing Perry, she was (or maybe it was just fun to see her go after Romney and Gingrich).
I think Crazy Eyes got off a great zinger with the "Neut Romney" line. Heh.
Republicans have lost this election before it started. All that matters now is seeing how long Mitt Romney goes before the barely contained rage inside him bursts out. And how long until someone actually listens to exactly what the hell Newt Gingrich believes.
Frankly, President Obama should just ignore these fools and merely campaign on giving him a Congress that wants to accomplish something.
Indeed. His line oughta be "You want anything to happen, anything at all, good, bad, or indifferent, hold yer nose and vote straight Democratic."
'Alternative TO knowledge' is more like it. I don't like Frum very well for obvious reasons, but I fully understand his reasoning: F**Noise is on Neutie's side and he's not, and the bickering is going to blessedly kill the Repugs' chances of taking over.
Imagine the fun when the battle for the soul of the Repuglican't party between the 'money', or 'establishment', end and the 'base', or 'batcrap crazy', end is won and the victor finds he has won something that doesn't exist. Soul? What soul?
In an article published by New York Magazine in late November, Frum had argued that conservative media like Fox News and talk radio “immerse their audience in a total environment of pseudo-facts and pretend information.” ...
“The question is what is the impact on the viewer?” he continued. “And we know, for example, that people that watch a lot of Fox come away knowing a lot less about important world events. That’s a correlation that we know.”
Recent polling appears to back up Frum’s assertion.
Fairleigh Dickinson University found last month that “some outlets, especially Fox News, lead people to be even less informed than those who say they don’t watch any news at all.”
U.S. Criticizes Mexico for Torturing Jailed American They could have at least flown him to another country.
Congress Considers Cameras in Supreme Court They'd be hidden, out of sight, and the justices wouldn't be told about them.
I doubt if this will work. I think Congress wants to see if SCOTUS is getting more money from special interests than they are. Scalia and Thomas have great respect for the law and the court and accept their payoffs elsewhere.
England: Queen's Pay Frozen Until 2015 She's already told Prince Philip to “drink the cheap stuff.”
Freeway Pileup in Japan Totals 8 Ferraris, 1 Lamborghini and 2 Mercedes Subaru that caused it went unscathed.
And its driver, Mrs. Fukuhara, 97, never even noticed.
GOP Voters Less Enthusiastic About Voting in 2012 The tea party's over.
Ferrari Berlusconi - looks a little cramped from the outside, but fits up to six prostitutes comfortably in the roomy back seat. You’ll say bunga-bunga!
La Dia de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe commemorates the day in 1531 when Juan Diego saw a vision of a young lady surrounded by light near Mexico City, apparently after a nice comida of mushrooms he had found, and gave Mexico its most popular religious image and tattoo. One stoned indio kid changed Mexico and the Americas forever.
Linda Ronstadt, Los Lobos and the Chieftains: Ireland meets Mexico. A wonderful ranchera that will put you in a dancing mood.
Don't laugh. Well, OK, laugh, but there are a lot of Irish Mexicans.
WAYNESBURG, Pa. – Through the hilly fields here in southwestern Pennsylvania, crews worked for months this year, cutting a trench through woods and past farms for a new natural gas pipeline.
Like many other lines crisscrossing the state’s Marcellus Shale regions, this pipe was big – a high-pressure steel line, 20 inches in diameter, large enough to help move a buried ocean of natural gas out of this corner of the state. It was also plenty big enough to set off a sizable explosion if something went wrong.
Put 'em all up against the wall and start fresh ... with term limits:
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About three-quarters of registered voters (76%) say most members of Congress do not deserve re-election, the highest such percentage Gallup has measured in its 19-year history of asking this question.
Who makes Karl Rove and the GOP soil themselves in fear is great in my book. That's why I support Elizabeth Warren in whatever office she feels like running for.
Why are they ready and willing to spend $Millions on attack ads a year out from the election? Because they know that Ms. Warren will pound Scott Brown like a tent peg if the voters know who she really is.
Every once in a while Turner Classic Movies sneaks in a good flick in the middle of the night. I was lucky to catch the 1946 Till The End Of Time (fair synopsis, but skimmed over the point I'm trying to make) last night. I never heard of the flick before, but I'm glad I saw it.
It's about three Jarheads who muster out after WWII and their problems with adjustment to civilian life. Here's the setup clip. More clips here.
I couldn't find a clip of the part that really got my attention so I'll try to describe it. After a buncha trials and tribulations, girl trouble, etc., the next-to-last scene brings it all together. The three Marines are drinking in a saloon and trying to come to answers. At one point they play pinball with a black GI. Some shady looking characters approach them offering membership in a Veterans' group called the "America War Patriots" which was unknowingly prescient of today. One of the bennies of membership is $200 a month "without those foreign commie unions".
Uh-oh...
Then the Marines are told of certain "restrictions" of eligibility to join - "No Catholics, Jews, or Negroes". Perhaps not exactly the point of WWII...
Mitchum's character says, and I must paraphrase, "A buddy of ours, Maxie Klein, would spit right in your face for saying that. He's dead on Guadalcanal, so I'll do it", and he does and the fight is on. Great bar fight scene. The bigots get well and truly thrashed, as they should in a perfect world, and the movie goes on to a pretty happy ending with hope for the future. No way this flick was trying to predict anything other than a possible good future for WWII GIs, which mostly they went on to have, I think.
My point is they had right-wing racist assholes then and we've still got them now. That old flick caught it and we're still dealing with it.
I'm going to try and get a DVD or VHS of the movie and get that scene for you. Seeing those assholes get what I wish I could give them will warm the cockles of your heart.
There'a an art to condensing important subjects so they'll fit on a bumpersticker. Right-wingers are very good at doing it with talking points. They have to be, given the attention span of their base. It's much harder to do with the truth.
