It's over.

Needs to put Hillary in a funny hat and make her stand in the corner.

Its not reasonable evidence in anything HIV related, but the existence (and longevity) of the experiment is enough to fuel suspicions about government from an oppressed minority (American blacks).

What can be said about American involvement with the spread of AIDS is largely provable, however: we did withhold medicine and funds for seemingly political reasons, we do discourage frank and realistic discussion about prevention methods considered immoral by the religious right, and we had a US Congressman, a doctor, claim that it could be passed through tears.

So if anything, we are at least considered the world's backward, redneck, moron nation when it comes to preventative health being diluted with the backwash of politics and religion.

I don't personally believe our government is competent enough to have manufactured AIDS, but the possibility cannot be outright dismissed by anyone.

The Syphillis thing is real, it happened, and Congress had to apologize for it.

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

You don't have to have some sort of mental disorder to fear, and yes perhaps hate the government that allows this sort of thing to happen. In fact, having a negative attitude against such a government would be considered very sane -- except in your mind only communist China or Russia or Nazi Germany is capable of these infractions.

A closer inspection of US history reveals that "the good old days" and the glorious past are fiction. How do you think Native American's feel about their Hitler being on our $20 bill? What side of the Civil War would the modern Republican have been on? What of the overt concentration of Japanese nationals during World War II? Where were the concentration camps for Italians and Germans? How about the continuing war on the black male in the guise of the Drug War -- really, a class war on the poor. Or poor rural whites, the kind in West Virginia and Arkansas who overwhelmingly favor Clinton who is herself complicit in their virtual indentured servitude to Walmart, the coal industry or Con-Agra foods?

I'm not suffering some syphallitic fever, Elephantman. But this country is, and it needs a shot in the ass STAT.

Go go gadget Operation Chaos! Welcome the Oxycontin worshipping ditto-jerks to feign support for Queen Clinton!..

Because it is true. Absolutely true, undeniably true.. Our government is out of control, corrupt and criminal and it has been for decades.

We armed and trained Osama bin Laden. No one denies this. We gave Sadam the gun and the bullet but when he pulled the trigger on the Kurds, it wasn't our fault. Bullshit. Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit.

Every last one of the people who died on 9/11, there is blood on the hands of the government, just as the blood of every soldier, civilian, child, woman, freedom fighter, everyone in the wrong place at the wrong time who got blown to bits.. that's on Cheney's hands. On Clinton's. Bush's. Sure, even Obama's.

The difference between Hagee and Wright is that while they both say that there are consequences for our actions, Wright is correct in what the cause and effect is; Hagee blames it on secularism, homosexuality, catholicism, insufficient support of Zionism. He blames all the wrong things, and his God is a personal God, who interferes directly with our lives when we let him down.

His is the God that told the Jews to kill every last man, woman and child of Canaan.

Wright knows that we are to pay for our own mistakes on their own terms. What you sow in the Spring so shall you reap in come the Fall.

Wright is right. God damn America!

Made Keith Olbermann's "Worst Persons" list today for the reason cited in Glenn's post today.

Clearly, someone at Countdown, perhaps KO himself, has been following GG as this is not the first time UT has been cited on the programme.

Incidentally, I'm waiting for someone to tell me how the caste, male dominated society of Tibet is better or worse than DPRC. That said, I agree with a boycott on China for all the reasons cited by LWM plus the fact that China enables US companies an end-run around labor rights fought for and won by my ancestors.

It would have been nice if, like Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com was talking about this two months ago instead of their futile war against Barack Obama.

Representative Dan Lungren (R-CA) is on TV spouting the tired pony of FISA right now (C-SPAN).

If by "taking great pains to hide" Obama's 'muslim roots' you mean talking openly about it in both of his books, then sure. Otherwise, you got me on that one.

You are right, however. Jews are not a united voting bloc (although overwhelmingly liberal). Greenwald points this out again and again. The problem is that the loudest voices get heard the most, whether it is the voices who shout anti-Sematism at the slightest criticism of some Israeli policies, or the idiots spreading the "Obama is a muslim" swift-boat attack.

Hopefully Obama will continue to deftly parry these attacks, but as we saw in West Virginia, it is impossible to sway everyone with reason and fact.

Link to Greenwald in sig.

"THE JEW IS USING THE BLACK MAN FOR MUSCLE, WHACHA GONNA DO ABOUT IT, WHITEY?"

I started in on a half-witted defense of polygamy, then decided it was a too complex issue for a comment here and saved it off as a draft on my blogger account.

Anyway, it feels better than usual today to be a Californian (that said, I should be getting a call from the FTB to make me feel not-so-good any minute now!).

Glenn, I personally hope that someday we'll all live in a country that doesn't penalize its citizens for their sexual orientation.