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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Yes, yes, yes.
Those with authority should fear the public. Unfortunately, those with authority have sold us fear. I am ashamed for all those suffered through WWII when Bush and Bush voters use the phrase, "Global War on Terror." It is their wet dream of a war, but in 1944, 30,000 people died, on average, every damn day. That's 9-11 times ten, day after day, month after month. It disrespects the magnitude of the suffering endured by the world in 1944, when it wasn't just towers that fell. Whole cities fell.
big that is a really great post. i think cheapening real experience in exchange for sound bites is rampant these days.
the entire war on terror is SO beyond absurd - i mean, all we need for a terrorist act is one single person who wants to terrorize, no?
and we cant wipe everyone out, so....
She is running for VP and has qualifications and leadership. Sarah Palin also seems to be a relatively happy,well balanced governor,former mayor, mother, wife, small business owner, college graduate. She has much to offer and the democrats hate it. She is smart and articulate,Washington outsider who is willing to serve. I am a democrat, prochoice. For once the democratic party is not scaring me into voting for a very unqualified person with very questionable background and associations. Who would rather continue campaigning then go to washington and take care of business of running the country. 143 days as a senator is no experience!
" I have already made it abundantly plain that the yelping and howling and barking of hoi polloi at their betters -that would be McCain & Palin... is a source of pain and fearful ruminations for me."
Would you like a fainting couch?
Some smelling salts, perhaps?
Let me get this straight, Telly: our various rebuttals to the high-handed claim that McCain & Palin are our 'betters'... causes you pain?
Life itself must be an agony for you.
"The individuals you mention have doubtless like most of us used all sorts of bad language in private and upon appropriate occasions. They do not, however, knowingly, deliberately, gratuitously pollute the public language space by such language."
Hhmmm... what was it that old Dick Cheney said to Patrick Leahy in the public space of the Senate floor? It's on the tip of my tongue... if only I could recall the phrasing...
And, to follow your line of reasoning through the thick overgrowth of your verbiage... on which "occasions" is it "appropriate" to call one's wife a "cunt"? Perhaps you could you ask John McCain for me? I'd ask him myself, but y'know... him bein' my better an' all...
Thanks!
There are also the White House's comparisons of Bush and Churchill and in this thread, comparing Palin to Truman and Churchill. It would be comically ridiculous if Republicans hadn't be unwilling to pay for their wet dream of global war. Their wars have been funded by foreign powers and fought, to a bankrupting extent, by mercenaries. So, they want war, but they neither want to pay for it nor bleed for it. In the end, bin Laden has won, for, while strongmen come and go, it's collapsing economies that kill countries. I'm guessing bin Laden is cackling in his cave as he sees our financial institutions collapse and fall and as they do, the reverberations will be much more terrible than when the Twin Towers struck asphalt.
...should have read: ExempLify, not 'Exempify'.
Didn't spell-check; fire away.
I am a Republican. I voted for Bush times two. I even volunteered to waterboard prisoners and I spied on my neighbors. I have voted for Republicans even way back before they became insane. Yep, I voted for Lincoln, but the insanity of quadrupling the debt and torturing in the name of Jesus hasn't kept me from voting Republican. However, for the first time, I'm going to vote for a Democrat because, uh, er, Palin spent 67 days away from Wasilla when she was supposed to mayoring. Yeah, that's my reason! That's the ticket!
See how silly you sound, Concern Troll?
Oh my. You do not disappoint! It's been a long time since I encountered the word "interstitial."
Okay, for those who can't be bothered wading through T's posts, the last one before this said, "You think you're hot but you're really not."
This one is a little harder to analyze, because he starts in about people who don't have the discipline to get a good education. Personally I hate people like that, who major in non-subjects like communication and switch schools five times in six years, so I was applauding T's good sense for finally coming around to our side. Then when he started talking about how nowadays a public profession of faith can be used to excuse any kind of behavior, I was thrilled. I mean, this is clearly a man who knows that when you stand before the throne on Judgment Day, that wide stance argument just isn't going to fly! Congratulations, Salon, you finally convinced someone!
But... wait. No, he isn't saying that at all. Instead he's saying... can he possibly be saying that Democrats are opposed to the reality principle? How the heck does that work? Wasn't it Rove, a Republican, who said reality is what he says it is?
Oh, hey, I get it! Once you throw reality in the toilet, you're free to say ANYTHING, including that it was the other side who flushed!
Now, if only Dems were shameless enough to use this technique ourselves, we could say the moon is a big round peach pie and when we win NASA will go and fetch peach pie for everyone, and the election would be in the bag. Alas, that's not the case. All the shameless liars seem to be on the other side.
Incidentally, starrs, you need to be a little more subtle here. You can't just paraphrase the fake letter that's already been revealed as a fake on the same news site that revealed it as a fake. You're going to have to come up with your own fake letter.
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 survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
