This is a big country, and despite the buffoons now running its government, it still has a lot going for it. I'm not much impressed, and certainly not intimidated by the loonies and ninnies who come here to sell their absurd and bloodthirsty fantasies, but I do admit that they can get in the way of the real business of citizenship.

No, RealName, it's not all lies, not even your part in it, although given your deficiencies in the common sense department, you'd do well to listen more and yap less. America can't rule the world, or direct it, or even single-handedly set the agenda for it. It's simply not in our power to do so. Must we kill millions before you and your colleagues realize it?

What we can do is make a serious attempt to live up to the ideals embedded in our Constitution, and -- I have to say it -- in the religions which we profess, which have nothing whatever to do with punishing the perceived iniquities of others, either in our own backyard, or in other people's homelands.

Have you ever considered what it would mean if we made a serious effort to feed all our people, and educate more of them, or to begin the design, development and construction of an infrastructure which would allow human beings and the rest of the earth's species to live in relative harmony? If we can't -- or won't -- agree to less energy-intensive modes of living, how can we provide for this energy when economically convenient fuels run out, or if it should prove an indisputable fact that burning fuels on the present scale will cause our doom?

Hell, RealName, these aren't really even political questions, and they certainly can't be answered by the neo-nazi mouthbreathing shit-slingers like yourself who mistake themselves for the voice of God on blogs like this one.

I don't find you worth a reasoned response; considered in the aggregate, such ignorance, and such belligerence is simply tiresome, especially when there's so much real work to be done.

Thomas Hardy

"In Time of "the Breaking of nations"

I

Only a man harrowing clods

In a slow silent walk

With an old horse that stumbles and nods

Half asleep as they stalk.

II

Only thin smoke without flame

From the heaps of couch-grass;

Yet this will go onward the same

Though Dynasties pass.

III

Yonder a maid and her wight

Come whispering by:

War's annals will cloud into night

Ere their story die.

1915.

Thanks.

Sleep in blessed rest. Good night. And peace. thanks.

You're welcome...

Thank you for bringing the poem to our attention.

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2007/04/open_season_on_.html

thats the left - FACTS ARE IRRELEVANT
- - Pamela Geller Oshry on Sunday, April 22, 2007 at 01:51 PM

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2007/04/wmdwhy_joe_wils.html

But tell me how much you have heard about .Dave Gaubatz. Yeah met too. Melanie Phillips has it all here. And read it all, particulalry you leftarded lurkers . . . Expect apoplexy from the left, I love watching the peace consipirators spin positive on Saddam.
- - Pamela Geller Oshry on Sunday, April 22, 2007 at 03:24 PM

The virtually hallucinatory mind-set of many of the people who call themselves "Conservatives" (or the sub-set "Ditto Heads") is a phenomenon worthy of serious study by social psychologists. I make this observation as much sympathetically as critically

I'm referring of course to the collective, disordered sensorium that permits (or necessitates) the essential incoherence of the quasi-hysterical nationalists and militarists in the US who are apparently oblivious to the dangerous implications for themselves and others of their paranoia and implacable hostility to their "enemies," foreign and domestic.

That a psychological, rather than an argumentative approach is in order is evidenced by the oft-noted futility of attempting to engage them on an evidentiary or even logical basis, as their ability to deal with their percepts, concepts, and feelings (their reality processing) is manifestly impaired.

This accounts for the common observation, as it is again made here by Glenn Greenwald, that one often "honestly doesn't know where to begin" in making response to their fulminations.

So if someone forsees a horrible future, and warns people about it, and by their warning that future is averted, does that mean that their prediction is invalid? Especially if the main reason for that aversion is the scrutiny raised by the prediction?

Whereas certain predictions regarding flowers and short stay required were so on target? And predictions that failure to produce a appropriate funding bill would require extended tours of duty came true even before the predictions were made.

I think this text from their article is telling:

"We don’t care how many immigrants and resident aliens – legal or illegal – will be inconvenienced by our concerns. Every single life of an American as a member of a distinct and unique People is worth more than all of the “aliens” put together. "

This shows a fundamental assumption in their thinking. It is that White Christian, or at least American lives are worth more than those who are not. They really think that they are better than others.

I would boldly assert that this underlying assumption comes through in their social policy, foreign policy and everywhere else. We are entitled to have our needs met, no matter the cost to others.

How dare anyone deny us!

Statement at the funeral of Hebron Mosque gunman Baruch Goldstein: "A million Arabs are not worth one Jewish fingernail."

Melanie Phillips sounds like the British version of Laurie Mylroie, the American Enterprise Institute residential crackpot. Mylroie was extremely influential in the lead-up to the Iraq war, seeing the hand of Saddam everywhere. She believes that Saddam was completely behind both World Trade Center bombings, the first one being facilitated by a Ramzi Yousef imposter working for Iraq. Mylroie even believes that Saddam was the cause of the Oklahoma City bombing and the TWA flight 800 disaster. Despite the outrageousness of her claims, she was highly influential with the neocon crowd attempting to link Saddam with Al-Qaeda, including Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, and Feith. Mylroie has worked closely with Judith Miller, co-authoring a book on Saddam with her. Melanie Phillips cites Mylroie frequently on her website, as recently as last October where she ties Saddam to Al-Qaeda with the debunked Mohamed-Atta-in-Prague theory. The fact that these nutcakes are taken seriously by both the neocons running our foreign policy as well as the mainstream media is a disturbing fact.