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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
This meandering essay wonders from Mumbai to Venezuela, but all the stalin.com regulars, agree with him of course. They all nod in unison,
Nod nod nod.
This here saloon sure got a lot of that there DIE VERSITY, yep, nod nod nod.
This Glen fellow, is not your typical "useful idiot" twit, he's also a genius. Only a card carrying member of Mensa could take his readers on such unique intellektual journey, which only fellow brilliant thinkers can follow.
Just because these weird connections and puzzling conclusions may seem to make no common sense, or no logical sense, doesn't mean we're not breaking new air, no, new ground, around here.
Yes, of course, it is India's fault this happened. Why wasn't the Indian PM down there in Venezuela to help welcome great Russian Navy and to make good bizness with great leader, Hugo, great new Bolivar leader, to smash, together, Amerikan Imperialzm, and capitaliztic oppressors with Walmarts selling hunting rifle to plain peoples and Coca Cola just exploiting workers of the world.
Yes, why didn't Indians burn down their own stock exchange to show these lads they meant no harm, and pleaze to stop murdering innocent civilians all over da place, instead of running after them, and shooting back at them and really pissing them off? Only geniuses understand that shooting back is vile provocations, right? What does criminal shooting back say to a peace loving world, the libral-pwogwessive intellecktuals must wonder.
Yes, it looks like more Bush dirty tricks, which only brilliant, Mensa Libralz can clearly see through, so I devote this poem to you, and to wonderful Comrad Celery:
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Coca Cola, go home, capitalist pigs
Nebbermind Russian sailors on leave want Rum and Coke
Nebbermind they want Marlboros to smoke
We will lock them sailors in the brigs
Great Ruskie people make friendship with Venezuela
Nukes for oil and oil for nukes
Let us hope Hugo The Great does not go whoops
And accidentally blow up Sidney Greenwald in Australia
How dare brave India count their many dead
Make love not war
What the hell are we fighting for?
When will they ever learn, when will they ever learn?
Why fight back, it's far better to be a potted fern
Tonight just take a misguided terrorist to bed
Just remember do not give Ali Baba a Marlboro in bed
Unless you want Ali Baba to cut off your head
Thanks to Mr. Greenwald for "Fisking the NYT" as Andrew Sullivan put it. Perhaps if enough of us pay attention for long enough, we'll learn to do it ourselves. (Though over at FireDogLake the winning entry for a title for a Bush Bio was "You Can Fool Enough of the People Some of the Time.")I get that the lessons to be learned here are 1)don't get sucked into empowering authority to do whatever it wants, and 2)speak up against revisionism where're you find it (assuming you are awake enought to recognize it). But it seems that for we, the people to not get fooled again the whole nature of our relationship to media is going to have to change. How is that to happen? Not everyone can spend hours a day sifting through the blogs.
Venezuela and the US have no intention and little real world ability to meddle in one another's affairs. If Venezuela erupted in flames tomorrow I wouldn't care. And if it happened to us, Chavez would suddenly find religion and thank god.
Your original post to me mentioned little of what I actually had to say. Would you care to address my point on how inadequate education results in people who cannot take a stance of reasonable doubt to the maunderings of the media and politicians? Noooo! You apparently would not, being to busy playing preemptive defense attorney for Obama.
You seem to believe that millions (or some large number) voted on "faith" where as I believe that a relative few voted on faith. So, as I wrote in my previous reply, I think that the case against "leftists" "voting on faith", and now being angry or disappointed about Obama because they supposedly expected someone other than who he is, is a way overblown assumption.
Ever since Obama has begun to choose his cabinet and staff there have been people who supported him expressing their dissatisfaction/disappointment here at Salon. Others resist this saying things like "I trust Obama" and "I have faith in Obama." Indeed, some of these are people who expressed faith/belief in the past. Need I add that those people have archives here at Salon (as do you).
I never specified a number. If you will actually read my original post, you will see that I was referring particularly to those people in general (both Bush supporters and Obama faith believers) who could not seem to apply the fine skill of reserving judgment when there was not the necessary information upon which to judge.
Now we have more information: It is a top priority for us to stamp out Al Queda once and for all. Barack Obama said that on 60 Minutes.
Now, as far as I am concerned, you can either address my intial post about education or you can tell me why we must get Bin Laden as a method of stamping out Al Queda when in fact the methods and beliefs which Bin Laden espouses has spread to most of the Muslim world from Indonesia to Turkey. Yet somehow, we must -- as a way to get Bin Laden -- re-engage with the Taliban, infuriate Pakistan, and do nation building (spread Democracy) in Afghanistan?
I would dearly love to know why we must do this? No one has yet given me a coherent reason.
Spreading Democracy (capital D for democracy connected specifically to our uniquely American approach which is wedded to capitalism) is just the biggest meme in the world that GWB adopted concerning Iraq once it was clear that there were no significant WMDs.
I DO NOT believe that we should have faith in Obama. I suggest that we let him choose his Cabinet and then see which way things go once he takes office, but I'll be damned if I am going to suspend my critical faculties just because Wow! We finally have a Democrat for president.
I am not "political." I don't think the victory of one party -- the one I happen to prefer" -- necessarily means that Obama is going to be the anti-Bush.
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
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