Leave directions in my mail box and the key under the mat on the roof... and a few beers chilling out in the snow.

Johnathon,

WFB, Jr. is a pompous ass, but he is smart and he is a Georgist, like Churchill. I give him props for that. It takes real chutzpah to be a Georgist in the Disneyland of "keep off the grass".

"I agree with some of Bush's decisions..."

Which ones? This could be instructive...

"Hate clouds judgment worse than love."

I rather doubt that, just based on my limited knowledge of neuro-chemistry. Neither is a state of objective equanimity and detachment, and "blind with rage" implies high levels of adrenaline (a stimulant) coursing through the body. Garden variety "hate" of a despot like Bush is much less likely to cloud judgement than the endorphin drenched adulation of such a tyrant.

The Golden Rule is a good guide...

Which one? We know which Golden Rules you live by.

Those who have the gold, make the rules.

You tell the poor to live by the other one while you do unto others before they do unto you.

>I can say though, that a blog that is 100% disparaging about a group, be it blacks, jews, gays, or Republicans.... it's a sure sign of prejudice.

People choose to be Republicans and right about now, it's only authoritarians idiots like you. So, we hate you. You could leave the country. We'd appreciate it.

Chris Floyd's piece on how we treat refugees in Somalia...

And the tendency for any government, administration, bureaucracy or agency to "lose" or "overlook" embarassing documents...

It's from yesterday's AP:

Six years after declaring the U.S. killing of Korean War refugees at No Gun Ri was "not deliberate," the Army has acknowledged it found but did not divulge that a high-level document said the U.S. military had a policy of shooting approaching civilians in South Korea.

The document, a letter from the U.S. ambassador in South Korea to the State Department in Washington, is dated the day in 1950 when U.S. troops began the No Gun Ri shootings, in which survivors say hundreds, mostly women and children, were killed.

Exclusion of the embassy letter from the Army's 2001 investigative report is the most significant among numerous omissions of documents and testimony pointing to a policy of firing on refugee groups — undisclosed evidence uncovered by Associated Press archival research and Freedom of Information Act requests. . . .

More than a dozen documents — in which high-ranking U.S. officers tell troops that refugees are "fair game," for example, and order them to "shoot all refugees coming across river" — were found by the AP in the investigators' own archived files after the 2001 inquiry. None of those documents was disclosed in the Army's 300-page public report. . . .

Despite this, the Army's e-mail to the AP maintains, as did the 2001 report, "No policy purporting to authorize soldiers to shoot refugees was ever promulgated to soldiers in the field." . . .

Josh Marshall has more

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/013639.php

I'd say this is a good demonstration of hate speech. Alluding (sic) Republicans to Nazis is vicious.

That may have been hyperbole (at one time), but it certainly isn't hate speech, or even eliminationist rhetoric.

Now this, OTOH, is just fun and games, a frat house prank!

Trained killers! Why aren't more of them in Iraq?

"Republicans learn how to fight hard against Democrats by practicing on one another first. 'There are no rules in a knife fight,' Grover Norquist instructed the young conventioneers in a speech."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/donnie-fowler/evil-maybe-dumb-no-_b_8339.html

Monica "Buzzsaw" Goodling worked for "Tim Griffin, then the deputy research director of the RNC who bragged that his shop made the bullets in the war against Democrats -- and later the administration's pick to be the U.S. attorney for eastern Arkansas."

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/002933.php

Even the women are killers.

Morgan Wilkins, the intern hired by the College Republicans National Committee to win the hearts and minds of Michigan 20-somethings, is planning events that some may find odd. To others, they may be offensive.

One such idea is "Catch an Illegal Immigrant Day," in which a volunteer would play the part of an illegal immigrant and hide somewhere on campus while others try to find him. The winner would receive a prize.

Her other ideas include an event called "Fun with Guns," in which young Republicans would use a BB gun or paintball gun to shoot cardboard cut-outs of Democratic leaders such as Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.)

Morgan is still running for office!

http://www.morganwilkins.com/

It was a backhanded compliment.

Triune brain

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triune_brain

I'd say this is a good demonstration of hate speech. Alluding (sic) Republicans to Nazis is vicious.

Tom DeLay's new book contains a passage which reads: "liberals have finally joined the ranks of scoundrels like Hitler."

http://forum.newshounds.us/viewtopic.php?t=15804&sid=9c5a17983b1fa0a27fd7a72b54ae81ff

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