by Steven Weber (Actor most of us have never heard of) When you're an out of work actor,what better way to gain attention than to pursue an enemy in defeat...
So there it stands: a naked, pigeon-chested old man, random strands of white hair on its boney shoulders; its swollen-knuckled hands clasped over its dead genitals, looking at once forlorn and menacing, shivering with self-loathing and xenophobia, raging pathetically at its timely and appropriate defeat at the hands of Reason. I keep my hair high and tight,dude. And you can blow my dead genitals for all I care.
Ladies and gentlemen: The Republican Party.
With every passing day, the people who stubbornly, maddeningly cling to an obsolete ideal and who stand in the way of the cultural advancement of this country, this America, spew the base reality of their caustic ideology into the air. You'd think these leftist mugs would be gracious in victory, except they sound like they've been defeated. And Steven, y'all are the ones with control of the media "spewing caustic ideology in the air." The rest of us are just trying to make a living; trying to get government to back down.
The Republican Party is like a dying tyrant, mad with syphilis, ironically like that very Stalin they would accuse their enemies of associating with. How else to account for their desperation to resurrect the wraith of Joseph McCarthy; the hammy and baffling utterances from high level party officials like Boehner and McConnell; the blatant desire on their part to let the country fail out of sheer resentment; the wanton sedition of Conservative shit-stirrers ranging from the quasi Madame Defarge Michele Bachmann to the porcine, pill-popping porcine propagandist Rush Limbaugh? The thing was, Steve, McCarthy was telling the truth. And Bachmann wasn't saying anything the left didn't say for eight solid years, so as soon as you get your skivvies washed,you can calm down.
It is an all out assault on reason, on progress, on truth. What is the difference between the Republican Party and, say, the Taliban? A rogue by any other name would smell as rank. Their frantic accusations all churned out in a futile effort to explain their current pariah status is as pathetic and draconian as stoning a woman in the street. The difference between the republican pary and the Taliban? 5.5mm, Mk82, A-10, and about 50,000++ dead Talibans unable to further shelter terrorists planning to murder Americans.
I feel I must apologize for my own particularly febrile anger. It's unseemly and ugly. But finally, the enemy is clearly outlined. We can see it for what it is and what it always has been. It exists not in myth but in a reality which has plagued humanity for millennia: utter, hateful ignorance born from a fear of truth, indeed a fear of life itself; a mad and impotent pursuit of some long-forgotten ecstasy having spawned generations of paranoid power addicts who chase the past at the expense of the future, cloaking their real intentions in perfumed patriotism and the seductive swoon of religion. For a millenia? Either you can no sense of time, or you have an outsized sense of the meaning of the Nov 2008 election. I'm going with selection B myself.
It's so fitting that we are living in an age where beheadings, torture, piracy and now unbridled power mongering are all common place. Perhaps that element of humanity is going back into hibernation and is snapping at any and everything before its eyes finally close. In our lifetime the choice has never been so stark. And no better overture to Obamanation than what you just wrote, Steve.
Don't be intimidated by that naked, pigeon-chested old man. His party's over. As yours will surely soon be...
Oh, yeah - the younger brother on the Wings TV sitcom (in what? the 1980's?).
Well, I guess that settles it then. Who better to get your political opinion from that him?
/sarc
Guess he must be feeling neglected.
Here's an idea - let's neglect him some more. He certainly deserves it.
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Mme DeFarge was a character who supported the French Revolution. The genesis of all things left of center politically. IOW, the genesis (and final state, it would seem) of today's Democrats.
Weber doesn't know literature, or history. But it's a fine rant for the ignorant. to be sure.
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I don't get it. What, specifically, is this guy talking about? He's about as incoherent as some of the muzzie trolls that visit this site from time to time. You know they're ticked off about something but you just can't figure out what it is.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
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For a moment I thought the first paragraph was a self-portrait.....
Besides, Stevie, you forgot to mention Glenn Beck in your rant. Didn't you pay attention to today's official talking points in JournoList? Sheesh.
Next time, study the KCNA. That's damn good spittle! 3.4, only because I'm overlooking your repetitive "porcine, pill-popping porcine" description of Rush. Dammit, boy, get a thesaurus next time!
Though we'll all agree that keeping the human rights lawyers and activists out of it would greatly improve the situation.
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drink up!
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"Crittenden even calls for Q-ships. Oh my.
Though we'll all agree that keeping putting the human rights lawyers and activists out of it on a ship and sinking it mid-ocean would greatly improve the situation."
Fixed that for ya', Doc.
No charge - what are friends for? ;-p
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Though we'll all agree that keeping putting the human rights lawyers and activists out of it on a ship and sinking it mid-ocean would greatly improve the situation.
That would make the Exxon Valdez shore line clean up look like child's play in comparison to the slick that event would leave on the world's beaches. On the other hand that could get us those 6 million new jobs and Shamwow orders through the roof.
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P2K, if they sink it mid-ocean, and are careful about containing any toxic waste, there won't be much of a pollution problem. Mid-ocean is a LONG way from land.
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Such ships must act promptly and ruthlessly, as piracy will spread unless it is stamped out. The Gulf of Aden is an exit from the Mediterranean, one of the world's most important seas, crossed annually by thousands of ships. So our campaign must be ruthless and pitiless: pirate ships must be sunk on sight and the crews left to swim to safety, if it can be reached.
Many would complain about such tactics but, in my opinion, pirates have no rights indeed, it will be vital to exclude human rights lawyers from the anti-piracy campaign. To bring any captives to Europe or America for trial would probably be to grant them their dearest wish, which is to secure entry to a new life in the First World.
It is vital to begin re-equipping sooner, rather than later. Like the IRA, the pirates will not go away. Nor can they be negotiated out of the system. They needed to be hunted to extinction and the time to start the hunt is now.
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I'll go one better than Gorb. I'll volunteer to man one of the Ma-deuces on the Q-ship. No more difficult than hunting ducks with a cross-bow. We always ate well...
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"Millions for defense but not one penny for tribute." - Robert Goodloe Harper
SEOUL -- North Korea's latest missile test raises a critical question. Why should anyone consider giving aid to this regime that has already squandered hundreds of billions of dollars on firing off missiles and producing nuclear warheads?
No good reason we know of, but then Rantburg readers already know this.
Here's an impoverished country, the single biggest recipient of aid from the World Food Program, where half the people are underfed, if not starving and diseased, hundreds of thousands consigned under unspeakable conditions to a vast prison system, and world leaders wonder whether to ply them with billions more.
It is not just that such thinking is ridiculous. It's that it has no chance of working. We've been disillusioned again and again. Remember the North-South Red Cross talks of 1972, the harbinger of exchanges of mail, of visits by long-lost relatives?
And what about the North-South agreement for a nuclear-free Korean peninsula, signed in 1991? No sooner was the world getting comfortable with that deal than North Korea withdrew from the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.
Then there was the Geneva framework of 1994 in which American diplomats masterminded an elaborate arrangement for bequeathing North Korea twin light-water nuclear reactors in return for the shutdown of its nuclear facilities.
All the while, North Korea was wheeling and dealing with A.Q. Khan, father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb, for an entirely separate program to fabricate nukes from enriched uranium.
It's mind-boggling to imagine that any one could have fallen for North Korea's promises again, but Christopher Hill, as President George W. Bush's nuclear envoy, fell for two more agreements in a year of talks after the North conducted an underground nuclear test on October 9, 2006.
No way, of course, would North Korea reveal all the details of its nuclear inventory, much less get rid of the six to 12 warheads it possesses. The latest evidence was Sunday's launch of a Taepodong-2 missile with a range of at least 2,000 miles.
The North Koreans went through an elaborate exercise of claiming the missile was a two-stage booster assembly from which a satellite would be lofted into orbit. They made the same claim in 1998 when they fired Taepodong-1 in much the same trajectory over northern Japan.
Then as now, North Korea announced the missile had lofted a satellite into space from which wafted paeans to Dear Leader Kim Jong Il and his late father, Kim Il Sung, "eternal president."
It's dubious if the attachment picked up by satellite imagery at the tip of the missile was a satellite. Far more likely, North Koreans were bamboozling the world in a shell game that would be funny if the implications were not so deadly.
There's plenty of evidence that North Koreans by now are good at manufacturing missiles. They export short-range Scuds and mid-range Rodongs, the products of Russian engineering. They also are well known to have made nuclear warheads. No one has ever heard or seen any signs of building satellites.
So we're left with one reason for Sunday's test: The satellite story was indeed a cover for the testing the Taepodong-2, which had fizzled in a previous attempt at launching it in July 2006.
Now what? President Barack Obama and South Korea's President Lee Myung Bak talk about "stern" countermeasures. Nobody imagines a military response. Most analysts expect resumption of talks.
When they do get to the table, our side should make one point clear: No more aid that you will only spend on missiles and nukes. That would be the sternest -- and most effective -- penalty anyone could inflict.
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Because Madeline Albright says so.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
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Koreans are duplicitous, its perfectly acceptable in their culture to have a public face or side one shows to the world, and a private face or hidden side nobody knows. This is the mindset. Being duplicitous is not seen as lying per se. Koreans are also ruthless and stop at nothing to get what they want. I saw many women going after married men with children in the military and these same home wreckers would cry and kick and scream when the GI went back to his wife and kids. She would go ballistic calling him a liar, even though her behavior was gutterball dishonest too. Koreans are not to be trusted, and bat shit crazy too. If I offend anyone by telling what I observed, dial 1-800-Suck-IT.
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Thanks. Yea, some skeptics would tell me I should get out a psychology book and analyze why Koreans are they way they are to foster international understanding, handholding, all that. I just say, they are the way they are, and they cannot be trusted.
This is from my direct observation, so if I sound xenophobic its coming from the standpoint that even South Korea is still defined as a third world country by the U.N. due to their numerous human rights violations (doozies, like wholesale, flagrant human trafficking, forced prostitution of minors, ick) So I have no illusions about the Koreas, North or South, they have some way to go in the morality department.
Check out the text of the Pakistan Enduring Assistance and Cooperation Enhancement (PEACE) Act of 2009, officially titled HR 1886, introduced by Rep. Howard Berman (D-CA) on April 2 and currently referred to the committee.
If this bill did not relate to a serious issue in the backdrop of a very grim situation facing Pakistan and this region, one might have dismissed it as a bad joke. While it would be an essential exercise to deconstruct it clause by clause to lay bare its intent, and one hopes the Foreign Office will do exactly that, it is important here to at least point to what is obvious.
First, the bill and some of its clauses, especially those pertaining to India's interest, are the work of Indian lobbying. That, one should, without any grudge, say is excellent work from India's perspective. Equally, one might ask what effort, if any, was made by us to thwart India's designs.
The question, however, is this: should the United States be dealing with Pakistan on the basis of its (US) interests or India's? The question, at this stage, assumes quite arbitrarily that US interests vis-à-vis Pakistan may be different from India's. Increasing evidence may even put paid to this assumption but for now we shall not touch upon that.
One may also assume that given the Obama administration's own rhetoric, the US faces a grave threat in the region, which it cannot tackle without Pakistan's help. Logically this means that the US should be trying to find points of convergence with Pakistan. Coming up with a bill that does not even purport to hide its India tilt is a strange way of doing that.
Velupillai Prabhakaran is in an unpredictable mood these days. Sometimes when his gimlet eyes fix on those around him, he looks murderous.
Sometimes he looks like a broken man muttering under his breath, I am dying, Eelam, dying, as though he were in some Shakespearean melodrama. Those around him are wary of talking to him when Prabhakaran is having a conversation with himself. When they see a rage building up inside him, they keep out of the line of his sight. The only time they go to tell him something is to give the news from the battlefront. Sometimes the battlefront is four kilometres away. At other times it is less than a kilometre away. All the time the battlefield is shrinking. Sometimes they don't have to tell Prabhakaran some of the news because he can hear it coming too. That is when the Sri Lankan shells come with a high whine and explode and body parts lie everywhere. It is not what the explosion does that is terrible. It is the sound of screaming that follows that is unbearable. The screaming goes on for hours without stop.
All the news from the battlefront is bad news. All the news that comes via the satellite phone is bad news. They couldn't get the UN to intervene. This MP will try to do this but it is difficult. They couldn't do this. They couldn't do that. They had to shoot a few who were trying to break the cordon here. They had to fire into the crowd to restrain a rebellion there. All the stack of medicine was over and amputations had to be done without the help of medicines. Water was running low. A thousand were dying of bullet wounds and other injuries. Many were already dead from the pain. There were no more ablebodied youngsters left to defend the last positions, should they look for older persons? More shells had fallen in such and such place and so many had been wounded and so many dead. Should they ask people to start burying those who had been dead for a day? Whenever he gets the latest bad news, those around Prabhakaran keep their fingers crossed. They have no idea whether he is going to burst into tears or start shooting at everything and everyone in sight. Often these days Prabhakaran feels he has been stabbed in the back with a knife that has Tamil lettering on its handle.
He had had the same feeling many years ago, when Rajiv Gandhi had corralled him into Hotel Ashok in New Delhi and coerced him into accepting the Indo-Sri Lankan Accord. Then he had complained to V Gopalasamy that he had been stabbed in the back. "I feel like committing suicide," he had confessed to V Gopalasamy on the phone twenty-two years ago. The lettering on the knife handle then had been English.
Anton Balasingham had translated it for him, clause by clause. Often these days Prabhakaran thinks of committing suicide.
He wants to ask Gopalasamy, "What have I done to deserve this fate? Have I sacrificed my whole life for this? Should I have settled for much less than Eelam?" Eelam was slipping away from his grasp like a fistful of Puthukudiyiruppu beach sand.
All that answers him is the warm evening wind moving among the coconut trees near his bunker. But now he cannot get on the phone and tell Gopalasamy that he wants to end it all. The only person who gets on the satellite phone nowadays is Nadesan. He is on the phone to Malaysia, to Thailand, to UK, Canada. They are all advising Nadesan to tell Thalaivar to save himself and escape while he still can. With him around there will be hope for the movement. Soosai had the boats ready. All that had to be done is to give the signal and they could make a break for it past the cordon of vessels four nautical miles away where they are safe from LTTE range and head towards a mid-sea rendezvous under the cover of darkness.
Prabhakaran curses himself often for asking the Tamil people to boycott the November 2005 presidential polls that brought Rajapaksa to power. Sometimes when those around him think that Prabhakaran is talking to himself he is not. Prabhakaran sometimes talks to Rajapaksa whom nobody can see except Prabhakaran. These are not good conversations. They make Prabhakaran angry. During every conversation with Rajapaksa, Prabhakaran walks with exaggerated slow steps away from Rajapaksa and suddenly whirls around, whips the revolver from his waist holster and fires at the imaginary Rajapaksa screaming, "Go ahead. Make my day." The first time that it happened they told Pottu Amman of the chief's disturbing behaviour. Pottu, looking for clues, had asked a technical question: "Does he whirl to the left or does he whirl to the right before shooting, and how is his aim?" They had been too surprised to notice.
They became worried again when Prabhakaran had pointed a gun at those who were refusing to dig trenches to defend the last positions and declared, "In this world there's two kinds of people, my friends. Those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig." Then Pottu, the intelligence chief, understood clearly what was going on. " I think he is beginning to think he is Clinton Eastwood." They asked Pottu, "Is that good or bad?" Pottu had given them no answer and lapsed into silence. Then he said: "It all depends.
It could be good. It could be bad. Or it could be ugly." Over the radio that Prabhakaran was now in the habit of listening came a song Undhan desathin kural, tholu doorathil ado, seviyil vizhatha...sonda veetuntrai va vendru azhaikuthuda thamizha.... (Do you not hear your country calling you from afar? It is calling you to come home Thamizha...) It was a poignant song with a funereal rhythm and the nadaswaram made it sound even sadder. Prabhakaran was silent as he heard the song. His gimlet eyes softened with a faraway look. Then came the commercial breaks and after that the headlines.
The announcer was saying in Chennai the political parties had called for a ceasefire.... Prabhakaran heard the headline and flew into an immense rage. He began muttering to himself and started to walk with exaggerated slowness away from the radio. Suddenly he whirled around whipped out the revolver and shot the radio.
In one smooth movement. He had whirled to the left and the radio was shattered.
In his hand the gun was smoking.
Politicians, he spat out the word. "These are politicians, Pottu, politicians. They will bury us all here. I should have been a politician.
There's no future in this business." It was suddenly dark. Over the wild wind came the sound of shells hurtling down.
There came a series of deafening explosions nearby. Somewhere a child began to cry in a whimper. The screams grew steadily louder as more voices joined in
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"I should have been a politician."
Indeed. but instead you and your followers chose the route of murder and terrorism to achieve your aims. You got the fate you deserve.
"There are two kinds of people in this world, my friend. Those with loaded guns, and those who dig [holes]. You dig."
-- Clint Eastwood, "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly"
which is almost as favorite as this:
"Owing to the neglect of our defences and the mishandling of the German problem in the last five years, we seem to be very near the bleak choice between War and Shame. My feeling is that we shall choose Shame, and then have War thrown in a little later, on even more adverse terms than at present."
-- Winston Churchill in a letter to Lord Moyne, 1938
A site dedicated to the preservation of truth, justice and the American way. Where true American citizens can monitor and report all anti-obama activities taking place on the world wide web.
This is a place where one can post and report on all activities, web sites and or blogs that would be considered erroneous, slanderous or detrimental to the newly elected President of the United States.
There are those who go under the disguise of patriotism who seek to undermine the President by reporting false allegations as truth and there by starting a incendiary viral campaigns based on lies and innuendo.
This site is dedicated to exposing all of them. Bringing those guilty of playing with the fire of deceitful comments out of their secret little lairs, the forums where they think they are safe to discuss their hate mongering and racist ways and expose them to the light of day for all the public to see.
They are extremely scared of this, so please for the sake of the American way, join our cause and root out these sites and post them for all the world to see.
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I'd say David Brooks is the guy who denounced terrorist-spying by Bushitler McChimpyHalliburton, but thinks this is a great idea. A tool, and a kid who got beat up in gym class for watching other guys shower, but that's just my take. There, am I on "the list"?
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I strongly support the idea that President Obama be removed from office by legal means - impeachment, or proof that he is not a natural born citizen. I oppose most of his policies, especially the ones that seem to be taking the country down the road to socialism.
Does that put me on the list?
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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