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Saturday, Nov 7, 2009
DrJay1966
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It is simply bizarre that progressives who have no problem with calling out the leaders of the American religious right for the fascist wackos they are are so full of respect and even admiration for people in the Middle East who make the likes of Robertson and Falwell look like free-loving hippies. The "moderates" who took over from the "radical" Taliban in Afghanistan have so much respect for other religions that they believe anyone who converts from Islam to one of those other religions should be put to death. Our friends in Saudi Arabia do not allow women the right to drive, vote or do much of anything else without the permission of their husbands. If a woman is raped in moderate Pakistan, she will be, in accordance with Islamic law, stoned for adultery unless she can find four men, unrelated to herself, to testify that she was raped. Homosexual acts earn the death penalty in any Moslem country, and legalized abortion isn't even an issue. Nonetheless, so many progressives, caught up in a dualism that is the mirror image of the flag-and-Bible-waving jingoism of the right, simply can't get over this ridiculous notion that the Islamic fundamentalists who got so upset over those Danish cartoons simply want peace, justice and mutual respect. Face it, the world is uglier and more complicated than that.
Sowell has simply shown that he's a "compassionate conservative," like his beloved president. And "compassionate conservatism," in case anyone hasn't figured it out yet, means "compassion for conservatives" (especially rich ones)(unless they get caught doing something gay). Thus, conservatives generally believe that even first time drug users should go to prison, but when a drug user named Bush or Limbaugh gets arrested...they start talking like lefty social workers, saying things like "the important this is that he's getting help." With this kind of logic, how could they possibly be expected to follow a judge's orders in the case of that poor Libby?
I honestly sometimes wonder if some of these hardcore animal rights types are being paid by the beef, cosmetics and puppy mill industries to make it easier to dismiss those concerned about humane treatment for animals as misanthropic wackos. It's hard to imagine how a person could do more damage to the cause than by comparing owning pets to slavery or, as PETA has done, equating raising animals for food with the Holocaust, petitioning suicide bombers to avoid huritng animals when blowing up buses full of people, protesting doctors who are working on finding a cure for AIDS and asking Timothy McVeigh to eat a vegetarian last meal. If these people truly care about lessening the amount of cruelty to animals in the world, or have brains, they should stop this crap, even if they really do believe it, now.
Why is Hilary's (or the Republicans') belief that a terrorist attack will help Republicans politically bizarre? Do you think Bush would still be president, or that he'd have been able to do half of the awful things he's done as president without 9/11? For that matter, would Reagan have been elected without the Iranian hostage crisis? Do you actually believe that the American people have learned their lesson and, next time, will say "okay, let's be sensible and drastically reduce our consumption of oil from the Middle East and change our policies toward these countries?"
I agree in terms of PETA being polarizing--considering what an incredible job they've done of making anyone who cares about animals look like a misanthropic wacko, I've long suspected that they must be getting some of their funding from the beef lobby, cosmetics companies and puppy farms. As for your grass-fed beef, however: imagine what would happen if we tried to satisfy the American appetite for meat with free range farming. Where would all the "range" come from? Say bye-by to trees!
Actually, I'd say there are only two choices: paper towel or pants, as wiping hands on pants inevitably follows use of the air dryer. The air dryer, thus, is a total waste: it uses energy and doesn't accomplish anything.
Yes, Republicans have appointed some African Americans. Big whoop. The fact is that were it not for race baiting, and, more recently, gay baiting, the Republican ascendancy since the '60's simply would not have happened. This is not to say that Nixon, Reagan or the Bushes themselves have been racist or homophobic, but that they simply would have had a much harder time getting elected and reelected without the bigot vote, and the same goes for Newt Gingrich's "revolution." Can anybody deny that? Should Obama win the nomination, there can be no doubt that racism will rear its head at the top levels of the American political system in ways that it hasn't in decades. While Republican party leaders and the more respectable conservative commentors will stay relatively subtle, like Golberg and the people who keep childishly harping on Obama's name, does anyone believe that we'll make it to election day without Ann Coulter dropping an n-bomb?
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The Maine fight was supposed to be the dress rehearsal for repealing California's Prop. 8 -- but gay marriage lost
Once one obtains Seriousness credentials in the Washington media, they are irrevocable no matter one's conduct.
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