I submit that Godwin's Law be retired and replaced with the Clenis Law - Any argument is lost when a conservative has to resort to invoking the Clenis.

I mean for fuck's sake people, you're still obsessing over a consensual blowjob that put exactly zero people in harm's way, yet you can't wait to attach more electrodes to the genitals of detainees in GTMO? You and everyone like you are the crowd that future history students shake their heads at in numb disbelief. I know you think sex is shameful, I just wish to hell you'd think atrocities are too.

I hope everyone realizes by now that a lying President is a serious matter.

Oh we do. Every morning we wake up and are assaulted by fresh crimes from the Bush administration, veiled in flimsy lies of convenience, we understand just how bloody serious it is.

What we can't take serious is people like you, who are obsessed with pecadilloes and faux morality plays, oblivious to the impact that real presidential misdeeds have on the world at large.

You are discontented Romans who fired Claudius and hired Nero because you prefer how he fiddles.

I am somewhat familiar with the Law of Attraction and feel it has some validity.

Sorry meatpuppet, but I've got more experience with psychology than you and I can spot the soft cell a forum away. If you're a psychologist then you must be either (1) one of those self-accredited Reiki-and-est types or (2) a damn shoddy one. Clearly you've swallowed enough of the poison here to fall for it, and yet you think you're being objective. Worse, you apply your biased cant to the reading of the forum and see exactly what you expect to see, instead of what's really there.

How convenient that you decide to remain anonymous, so that no one can call you on your supposed expertise. But then I guess any credible person looking for genuine psychological councilling would be able to cross you off the list right away if your used your real name, and I know you can't have anything hurting the magic pocketbook you got from Jesus.

Next time either stand up for your words or stay silent, charlatan.

Sorry for the complete tangent, but there's very little I have to say about the topic directly, because it nauseates me something fierce. I recognize the need for a military and the bravery it takes to be a full-fledged member thereof, but none of that applies when the war being waged is in profit's name, and those who fight are the expendable raw material in the business process chain. I don't know why anyone would be surprised that this is going on, it's just business rules in action - recycle your material where possible in order to maximise profits. If it's too costly (in terms of political power) to get new material, take what's on the shelf and use it again.

Coming back to the title I used, I really think we should all consider voting Republican in the coming election, at least for President. Because if a Democrat gets in, they'll have to fix this, and that's a no-win scenario. Look at Clinton - he took two terms to undo the deficit and economic decline and social losses of the 12 Year Reich, and all that did was create a bigger treasury for Il Dunce to loot. This cycle of "build it up to tear it down" needs to stop, and I suspect another 4 years of gross mismanagement might finally disillusion enough people away from the GOP for it to stay gone. But if we get another Dem president, that's just fresh grist for the hate mill and we'll be doing this dance again in another 4-8 years.

(Note that my suggestion is only partly in jest. I don't think anything will separate the zealots from their beloved GOP, so that part is pure fantasy. But I fully believe the rest is accurate, and will play out exactly as described.)

Thanks for another LiveJournal posting by the woman who exists by continually swallowing her own tail. I see she's still touting the same has-been celebrities as relevant, probably because they were last known names that wanted to be associated with her. And her grasp of realpolitik remains as tenuous as always.

Why exactly is she here again? Is it just to pump up the letters pages, which clearly she does? Is it that you get a passably recognizable name cheap? Does she have incriminating negatives of Walsh in a safe deposit box? Or was she just part of some kind of matter-antimatter package deal when you picked up the much better Greenwald?

I'm all for contentious and provocative content, but her stuff is just solipstic maundering. Reading her now is the journalistic equivalent of watching a washed-up boxer reminisce - what should be fiery instead elicts discomfort and pity for the missing faculties of the speaker.

First off, I hate the autorefresh you have on every page. I think I've used the web long enough to find refresh on my own. It's especially annoying when I open an article in War Room or Broadsheet to read, get sidetracked with something else, and then come back later to find it's way down the page thanks to the autorefresh. Kindly add an option to disable this setting at will.

But now you've done something to the damn cookie settings as well and I'm constantly getting logged out. Seriously, if you want so badly for me to cancel my sub and view the site as a non-paying guest, just tell me.