May 5, 1981- “THE GREAT TERRORIST HUNT”, NYT [emphasis added]:

“…the Reagan Administration and the subcommittee [the new Senate Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism] might yet manage to find some kind of a terrorist threat to American security, and a need to counter it with tough legislation. Secretary of State Haig has accused the Soviet Union of controlling international terrorism, and the Administration is reported to be working hard to document his charges and develop an antiterrorism policy. Chairman Denton said that the C.I.A. had recently broadened its definition of terrorism to include ''threats.'' “The magic result, a State Department official told reporters, would be to double - from 3,336 to 7,000 - the previously reported ''incidents'' of world terrorism from 1968 through 1979. The number killed or wounded, of course, would remain the same -about 8,000 - since this bookkeeping slight-of-hand merely makes the same situation look twice as bad as it did before.”

http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/article?res=F60713FC3C5C0C768CDDAC0894D9484D81

Wir wollen lieber Rosen, oder vielliecht ein bisschen Schincken!

The irony meter is about to explode.

MTwilight:"If the point of Terrorism is to inspire fear to change the direction of a nation... then it has certainly worked on many conservatives (and some liberals too)."

Our new nick name should maybe be:

Terrorisation Nation.

OY! Schnecken instead of Schinken...I have notheing against Snails [when I can feast on them instead of them feasting on my lettuces]...but liking Schwarzwalder Schinken as I do, I can surely sympathize with your Bruder.

And Jebbie! Mein Freund!

Deine Oma hat es richtig! :-)

=naughty rascal.

No. Are you thinking what I'm thinking?

I think you got your tenses wrong on that one.

I would imagine that's HOW it might be said; but I can't help wondering WHY it might be said?

hmmm? Bamage?

Or do you mean "I'll finish you?" ["fertig" means "done"]

I think I'd better stop, now.

Oh! That explains it, then.

“[…] We recall them [two one-person attacks on the WH in the 90’s] because, as a comedian, we did a few jokes about these events (and perhaps one other) for a brief time in early 1995. Our premise? The crazy attacks seemed to stop as soon as Newt Gingrich became House speaker. (In the wake of the November 1994 elections.) Our jokes got a few laughs in DC. (We were surprised.) We didn’t try them elsewhere.

[…]

Isn’t it time to report it out straight? There are crazy areas of our discourse, in which people are encouraged to believe crazy things. Yes, we know: Powerful people are sometimes involved in these wild promulgations. But isn’t it time to report it out straight: That there’s lunacy inside our discourse?

http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh061109.shtml

Voltaire said:

“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities”

A slight change in perspective==>

Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities.

N/T

Yep! :-) Wouldn't enjoy it so much any other way!

Have another cup of coffee, turn on your irony/satire meter and read it again. ;-) Good Morning!

Lieberman: “That’s why the President, if the House insists on taking our amendment out, really has to issue that executive order. [Graham: “He has to. He has to”] It’s to protect the troops, and it’s also to show who is in charge of our Government.

O’Reilly: “President Obama is going to have to override Nancy Pelosi.”

L/G: “Right. Right.”

O: “I’m starting to dislike Nancy Pelosi at a really really high level [He admitted before that he didn’t even know her] It’s getting personal and I don’t want it to, and I don’t want it to. But I’m starting to dislike this woman [footage of Pelosi] because she’s putting some of my friends in physical danger.”

[…]

O: “Keep fighting the good fight.”

L: “Thank you, Bill. You’ve been a great help.”

I'll be back after a shower.

I was wrong about the technique. Thanks for correcting me. But I do think RK didn't catch that Glenn does not agree with the suppression of the information in question.

Maybe I need another cup of coffee.

I was fortunate that I hadn't eaten breakfast yet.

and L. thanks O. for being a "great help" in the "good fight". They are a band of brothers.

The country is being overrun by a band of right-wing authoritarian primates.

[Apologies to all Primates everywhere].

It's me who's eating the humble pie today. Sorry about mis-understanding. :-/

da-da-da-da-push the pramalot!!!

Good phrase!

Thanks very much for that link, and for showing how it "links" to the discussion.

Our more perfect Union wasn't stillborn back in the 18th century, the perfect, unimprovable, static creation of patriarchal demigods. We are forming or destroying it right now by our actions and failures to act.

Take your own advice and try to remember what Ferraro actually said. You are indulging in 2008 Democratic Primary Tribalism.

Wow. That's quite a creepy story.

"Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy."-Henry Kissinger, quoted by Bob Woodward in The Final Days, 1976

Many thanks for the links to Horton/Donne:

"John Donne and the Outlawing of Torture"

By Scott Horton

http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/08/hbc-90000907

John Donne: Against the Abomination of Torture

[Preached on April 17, 1625, on Easter Sunday, to the Congregation at St Paul’s Cathedral in London]

http://harpers.org/archive/2007/08/hbc-90000902