"Saddam Hussein killed millions. Al-Qaeda and all the islamofascists kill indescriminately. "

Saddam Hussein killed millions, during the period when the Reagan and Bush administrations were propping him up. Twenty years later, you have a crisis of retroactive conscience?

Similarly there would be no Al Qaeda if the Reagan administration hadn't helped bin Laden create it, because they were killing Russians indiscriminately at the time, not Americans.

Of course, that's the link between Al Qaeda and Saddam the Bushies have been looking for; both were supported militarily by the Reagan administration.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedomites#Public_protest

"Fuzzy Wuzzu was a bear

Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair

But Fuzzy Wuzzy didn't care

Because he was a Doukhobear"

Great times to have an immature sense of humor. Also good times for editorial cartoonists.

Yeah, that's not appropriate; let the kids go back to reading about a woman who eats children until an enterprising duo push her into her own oven, and about a wolf who eats a little girl's grandmother, and about a giant who grinds the bones of Englishmen to make his bread.

hasn't Unwed Motherhood been Not a Big Deal in the Scandinavian countries for quite a while now, with the government helping the mothers and babies keep from starving, in the normal, rational, "social democratic" fashion? Are they now inundated with the offsprings' epidemic of "drug-abuse, stints in jail and bastard children"? Isn't it just possible that all the folks that suggest that the main problem with single mothers is their financial problems? Certainly agrees with the 'epidemic' of upper middle class 'single mothers by choice' in my age group, whose various artificial inseminated, sperm donated, or adopted children seem pretty well-balanced.

you mean some black people are still resentful that their lives were squelched so that they could never realize their full potential, even though things are quite a bit better now, mostly? why, the ungrateful bastards.

this kind of taxation without representation had consequences, once.

Brilliant.

now those hanging judges in Texas can get the US into a war. not enough their asshole exgovernor did.

the other morning they were exploring the disconnect between US media iraq news and the rest of the world. stuck a mike in some baghdad resident's face and asked, "so do you and your family to out shopping now? out to dinner?" he looked at the interviewer as though she were insane and said "of course not!"

yes, all these folks who are worried about the climate getting out of hand don't understand that natural feedback cycles serve to keep the climate in normal bounds, despite temporary deviations.

for instance, this current relatively cool, low carbon dioxide, few million years in the history of a world that was, for most of the time, ten degrees warmer on the average with three times as much carbon dioxide, will soon return to its normal hot state; people are just nature's way of getting all that carbon that was buried during the carboniferous era out from underground and back into the air where it belongs. then, having played our role, our usefulness over, we can peacefully become bit players in the biosphere again.

"From a UK perspective, America seems like a right wing police state in terms of media cover-up. Who's behind this cover-up? Who's pulling the strings of the great democracy?"

Like most stable situations, there's no one malevolent or benevolent actor; our media are more short-term-profit-driven than ever before, and the news divisions of the broadcasting networks are no longer immune from this constraint. Sponsors won't, in general, pay for shows that don't deliver ratings on a daily basis, out of the goodness of their hearts. And people don't want to watch a balanced nuanced deeply thoughtfull and well researched (and expensive) treatment of the war after they've spent the whole day at work and now have to deal with the kids.

The administration of course doesn't mind this state of affairs, and aren't the type to institute regulations requiring intelligent news broadcasts in the first place. The media themselves are parts of giant corporations now, and the CEO isn't terribly interested about having the low-profit news division of the broadcasting company publicize something that's going to put a big crimp in the giant profits of the defense industry side of the conglomerate.

and so it goes.