Sacred moments in the neocon era.

The neocon's sacred rituals are to die for, are they not? Rendition, torture, war, surveillance, hysteria, hyperbole, and a defilement of all that is humane.

Hideous.

To chide, to argue, to protest, to resist, to refuse, to document, to speak the truth ... Those moments are indeed sacred. I wonder if the time is coming when those sacraments will need to be practiced in secret.

What are the real chances that the McCain loving media will actually do their job as journalists?

In the high profile, talking heads, tv shows, slim to none.

In the print media, it might appear on page 23.

I am hopeful that it will plastered all over Democratic campaign advertisements.

http://mediamatters.org/columns/200801290001?f=h_column

or, click at sig

I suspect there are a lot of candidate supporters who are going to need rehab on November 4th (?). It's unlikely they will be Republican voters, however.

Thanks for that FISA status/update.

And, I meant to thank you for this the other day:

I absolutely abhor and despise, and completely renounce and repudiate, in every way, what passes for the "values" and standards of official conduct for the vast majority of the incumbent seat-warmers now preventing our voices from being heard, while indifferently looking the other way as our liberties are stolen and crushed, in the Congress of the formerly free and democratic United States of America.

Those words echoed in my head for hours. You captured my own sentiments exactly.

Better yet, we should get everyone to carry openly, and scare these tards off.

Why do these nitwits assume that they are the only people who own, and are licensed to carry? That type of 'tard could get him/herself killed with that kind of logic.

Never display your wares.

If you'll allow me to mix metaphors, if not an axiom, then certainly a corollary.

I believe it's closely related to, Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. (Napoleon Bonaparte), is it not?

Gordon: Bisexual? That's funny. At least they didn't say it was an oxymoron. I didn't get interested in shooting until a type of injury sidelined me from almost every other sport I loved. I became thoroughly taken with the zen of cleaning brass, reloading, types of targets, gun mechanics, distances, breath and heart rate control... Once recovered I began to fantasize about training and preparing for a biathlon. That goal is out in the future somewhere, but it's by far my favorite daydream.

William Timberman: Once war is declared, and sides are chosen, it may surprise them to find that the faggot with purple hair and a single earring has been their undoing, but by that time, the fate of individuals won't matter to anyone, even to the individuals themselves. is certainly one of the saddest and most mournful sentences I've read in a long time. The sheer and utter waste of human resource contained therein. I'm quite certain I have a different relationship with my guns than the freepers; as well, a different relationship with the world at large. I don't relish the nature of their dreams. As you indicated before, I sincerely hope I'm never tested. The anonymous' musing of civil war settles around my shoulders like a heavy blanket soaked in dread. I prefer to be hopeful, but I rule out very few possibilities. I am, perhaps, too old.

Remember jaklos invoking James' exhortation to act as though one has Free Will?

Jaklos or William Timberman? Or, did one exhort and the other second the motion? Either way... I still do a lot of second guessing.

Apologies for more of the navel-gazing-type speech...

No apology needed here. That's kind of where my head is today.

I truly believe that multiple contradicting ideas, impulses, and things can all be true simultaneously.

"I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

T'was a skilled thinker who wrote those words.

Wishy-washy?

Nope. Human.

Your "aim," as always, is perfectly centered in the gold.

The link to article from which Dirigo quoted in The Nation.

It ought to be required reading.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080218/dobie

No geek needed. You offered more than ample information to trace it. It's just that as I began reading, I decided to make it as easy as possible for others to find and read it. It's compelling, and horrifying, and sickening, and maddening. And, it ought to be required reading. I'd sort of like to shove it down some CiC's throat.

Anonymust recommended Salon employee Sam Porter to me for unraveling aspects of my account. I'd recommend you email him.

Don't do a column on Obama and Tony Rezko without talking with Jane Hamsher first.