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Saturday, April 21, 2007 12:00 AM

Right-wing blogs discover massive conspiracy to hide WMDs in Iraq

The embrace by leading neoconservatives and other war supporters of the most bizarre and deranged conspiracy theories speaks volumes about their credibility and judgment.

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Sunday, April 22, 2007 12:17 PM

Mapping Mosques

I was checking out that site and saw the same post you highlighted. Astounding. That's probably the most Islamophobic piece I've ever seen apart from outright hate speech.

Sunday, April 22, 2007 12:33 PM

Over in Iraq...

This is how they deal with people who fail to worship the correct invisible being.

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Gunmen in northern Iraq stopped a bus filled with Christians and members of a tiny Kurdish religious sect, separating out the groups and taking 23 of the passengers away to be shot.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/04/22/iraq.main.ap/index.html

One gets the feeling that our current troll would be quite comfortable in such a place. Except for the fact that the cold blooded killing ISN'T a morbid fantasy being played out on the internets but is as real as it gets.

Sunday, April 22, 2007 12:38 PM

anyone bother forwarding this to Neiwert?

The lady writing a book about the fall of London to hordes of Islamofascists because of the collapse of traditional identify citing a white supremacists to revise reality to help justify endless war on Islamofascists seems to be up his ally.

In a hurry and I didn't skim the rest of the comments, as I'm sure plenty of people already identified the fascist motifs.

Sunday, April 22, 2007 12:48 PM

nevermind

I sent him a link

Sunday, April 22, 2007 12:50 PM

A very brief impression of the SANE organization ...

Yikes!

I went to the site using the link Glenn provided expecting to see the typical foaming-at-the-mouth drivel that is so prevalent on right-wing blogs and websites.

What a scary shock and surprise I received instead!

These folks are educated and extremely literate, to say the least. I only read one essay and its corresponding 18-comments but that was enough in my view. These people are arrogant beyond description and IMHO very dangerous. I'm not going to waste mine or the readers time going over what was written. Instead I have to STRONGLY urge people to pay the site a visit and read for themselves just what exactly I'm talking about here.

Here's a link to the essay I'm referencing:

http://www.saneworks.us/Suicide--Islam-The-connection-to-the-slayings-at-Virginia-Tech-article-435-3.htm

Note the "tone and tenor" of the comments after a regular poster dared to broach the idea as rooted in our Constitution concerning "innocent until proven guilty ..."

I've been a big fan of horror fiction for years, no matter whether the quaint styling of a Wakefield or Charles Grant, to the mainstream of King and Koontz, including the splatter punk ethos of the more hardcore practitioners of the genre, but this site scares the living daylights out of me!

Sunday, April 22, 2007 02:32 PM

WMDs

DAVE GAUBATZ should have his own 1 hr show on Fox, get a chair next to Rush Limbaugh to be Rushbo's sidekick and co-host and go on the lecture circuit with Ann Coulter. This guy is an up and comer in the Rightwing fantasy world.

Sunday, April 22, 2007 03:48 PM

Disappearing WMD's - Got away Scott Free?

How about asking Scott Ritter to comment on these vast missing stores of WMD's? Nuclear, too! My! My! Wonder where they got that stuff? And how could anthing that HOT go undetected?

How about getting together a regular spot on one of the national t.v. networks to present a public debate on issues like this, sort of a Deal/No Deal? Only, it would be more like: Truth,or Lie? Then let the national audience participate and decide online, by phone and live. The audience would also vote for what subjects they would like to know the truth about,as well as which persons they would like to have appear to support and defend their positions. Those found to be Liars agree to a "Known Liar" label to precede all future articles they publish, or any public statements they make. A rotating panel of respected, international jurists could be on hand to detect and disallow any obvious outright untruths, distortions, circular and otherwise defective reasoning and ideological rantings, regardless of stripe. That panel could also render its decision, after the public has voted, and could outline the reasoning behind the majority opinion, as well as any stringent dissent. A list of those Known Liars, who have failed to identify themseles after being awarded the title, could be posted on the show each week. And, of course, there would also be room for a Hypocrite of the Week award for repeat and/or blatant offenders!

Sunday, April 22, 2007 04:32 PM

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And thanks to the anti-war-saner humans!

The bomb-bomb-bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran...that the neocons want to do...Is bomb,bomb,bomb-mom-too...And 'um are insane. What a maladministration! 12 X's-horrid.

I recall Kissinger and Nixon, years after the crazies reconsidered bombing with Nukes in Vietnam, and peacekeepers stateside stopped the sick-hate-rants. In the name of fanatic globalism, this crown would bomb us into cave0age-times or bomb Mother Earth's 'guest' plant, anomal human, back to oblivion. In 1969, when that war was going bad, "conservatives may have done that? They talked on it. Genocide.

The damn regiments of peasants coming down South of the 17th-Parallel Line were a menace. The whiz-kids, then, wished to do-it...BOMB...for some Michelin Rubber Trees.

PS. Rubber Tree honey is more excellent than the black Locust Honey Tree Honey along the Interstates. Rubber makes nice tire wheels. Locust trees make good fence post for barbed-wire to fence 'folk' in. The same Interstate may have buggy-wagons some day again. A wagon may replace the 18-wheeler commerce truck, and the wagon will be drawn by mules and ponies. The various assortments of trees will begin popping via the unpatched highway systems. Concrete crumbles.?!

That's okay if we learn and adjust slowly. Don't read MAKE NO MISTAKE: This is War, by Michael Chertoff, former White Collar Crime Investigator Administrator, under John Ashcroft, is now our secretary of homeland security. He's the non-open letters guy. He loses the peoples bank fraud grievance written-'stuff' during the 2000's? Yes.

O, read how M.C. takes on common wisdom's when Zbigniew Brzezinski in theis "culture of fear." Believe somebody, if this batch of frauds don't go to the Hague, they bomb the world in pride. That, sadly would be on a scale that really would teach about the ill-autoritarian, insecure, mentality.

The opposition to insane-minds can prevent antidipressants and premature death from mass pschopathi's slaughtering. Thanks.

And thanks for the anti-war movemnt in the 60-70's. Vigilance. There real name is 'murder.'

My POINT: In brief. "The global economy," is a vacuum-packed word. "The global context," is a world of the bad underling vain, neocon, plans. They are actually weal subservients for ill-greedy, malvolemt absent, earth-ruinious, etc., those hidden 'others.'

Local sensible economist prefer words like, "watershed," "place," "homeland," "family," friend," "dear and precious, kind-simple, good people," and real people with real names and live in, preferably, "safe households."

We are weary and demand a sanctuary place, HOME, and a country where we don't have to hide from our own government, who threaten her citizens, tax their labor, rob everwthing.

There are those who will not cower and bow to these quack "leaders." Thank 'goodly nature.'

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