Yes, and I've been aware of this most of my adult life, yet EVEN as I am screaming about this stuff, this basic thing seems somehow as though it wasn't but now is or will be, and so I really DO understand how people can continually fuzz-out on actuality... but it STILL just drives me wild.
It seems to me I ought to be able to post a link to this on EVERY political blog and grind every one of them to an instant halt with it.
As long as total ditzes like Sarah Palin and meaningless TV shows like Dancing With the Stars, Are You Smarter Than a Fitfh Grader and American Idol can dazzle the populace I fear there is little hope.
Maybe the mother of all hurricanes splatting crude all over the Gulf Coast and islands, flinging glops of black gold all over buildings in Houston and the casinos in New Orleans, sliming Camp No and Havana, will snap them out of it.
Perhaps a mega-tornado could come out of a hurricane, suck up about 500,000 gallons of crude sludge, carry it to D.C. and splatter it all over the White House.
Hey, I just noticed you quoted me over there on the right side of the page. Thanks for the honor. (Now where can I get Obama overprinted on my Impeach Bush tee shirt?)
Exactly! You did. When we were frickin' puppies... and I probably even knew about it before that! But integrating intellectual concepts into daily life starts to become extremely complicated. There are so many tiers of knowing that have to flow together properly... clogged synapses that have to be kept open. And even if you hadn't told me and if I never bothered to go get it off Wikipedia, I figured it out REALLY early, AND have added nuance to it over the years, EVEN without any intersection with any scholarship on the matter, and STILL it keeps sneaking up to bite me in the ass!
My friend Linda, a former Obama supporter, has gone from "Why do you have to be such a cynic?" to "It looks like you were right." to "I hate him! He's worse than Bush."
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. —John F. Kennedy
The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so. —Ronald Reagan
Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak. —Martin Luther King
We're all fucked. I'm fucked. You're fucked. The whole department is fucked. It's the biggest cock-up ever. We're all completely fucked. —not uttered by anyone in charge lately
Anyone calling Obama a leftist, liberal, or progressive needs to have the stupid beat out of them. —Old Uncle Dave
As for the Taliban ... their stated grievance is the same as Gen. Washington’s in our war with the British: If you want this war to end, get out of our country. —Pat Buchanan
Obama-era drone warfare ... in general looks like Bush-era drone warfare on steroids. —Scott Horton
There has to be altruism in the universe. —Frank Drake
The morons in Washington are pushing the envelope of nuclear war. The insane drive for American hegemony threatens life on earth. The American people, by accepting the lies and deceptions of “their” government, are facilitating this outcome. —Paul Craig Roberts
I am a child of the South. Janet Napolitano tells me I need to be afraid of people who are labeled white supremacists but I was raised around white supremacists. I am not afraid of white supremacists. I am concerned about my own government. The Patriot Act did not come from the white supremacists, it came from the White House and Congress. Citizens United did not come from white supremacists, it came from the Supreme Court. —Cynthia McKinney
No one has to "marry" anyone else politically; no one has to embrace every tenet or belief that an anti-imperialist ally might hold. You simply have to say: "All of us, regardless of our other views, believe this truth to be self-evident: dismantling the empire will bring immediate and enormous benefits to our nation and to the world." —Chris Floyd
The power of the people on top depends on the obedience of the people below. —Howard Zinn
...the government only starts listening to its voters once the more corrupt option turns out to be untenable. —Matt Taibbi
· One out of seven American homeowners will probably lose their homes by the end of 2010.
· Only 4.7 percent of distressed homeowners who enrolled in the modification plan have gotten any help.
· Out of Obama's $75 billion program, only $2.3 million has been spent—or 0.03 percent.
Obama's performance on the foreclosure crisis—along with unemployment, the biggest problem America faces—makes Bush's laissez faire approach to Hurricane Katrina look caring and loving in comparison. If ever there were a cause for impeachment, look no further. —Ted Rall
As self-appointed champions of civilisation against barbarism, they fail to see that a certain barbarism is the flipside of civilisation itself, inseparable from its smooth operation. For every cathedral, a pit of bones; for every artistic masterpiece, human wretchedness and back-breaking toil. —Terry Eagleton
Here at home and throughout the world people are fighting back against the forces of wealth, privilege, and militarism — some because they have no choice, others because they would choose no other course but the one that leads to peace and justice. —Michael Parenti
I've found that culture, however useful and important, is neither the foundation nor the ceiling of human experience, even if it is commonly used for walls. —Thomas Cleary
I really consider President and Mrs. Mubarak to be friends of my family. So I hope to see him often here in Egypt and in the United States. —Hillary Clinton
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Wow...
ReplyDeleteThat about sums it up, doesn't it!
Yes, and I've been aware of this most of my adult life, yet EVEN as I am screaming about this stuff, this basic thing seems somehow as though it wasn't but now is or will be, and so I really DO understand how people can continually fuzz-out on actuality... but it STILL just drives me wild.
ReplyDeleteIt seems to me I ought to be able to post a link to this on EVERY political blog and grind every one of them to an instant halt with it.
IT REALLY SEEMS THAT WAY TO ME.
But, you know, that doesn't happen.
As long as total ditzes like Sarah Palin and meaningless TV shows like Dancing With the Stars, Are You Smarter Than a Fitfh Grader and American Idol can dazzle the populace I fear there is little hope.
ReplyDeleteMaybe the mother of all hurricanes splatting crude all over the Gulf Coast and islands, flinging glops of black gold all over buildings in Houston and the casinos in New Orleans, sliming Camp No and Havana, will snap them out of it.
ReplyDeletePerhaps a mega-tornado could come out of a hurricane, suck up about 500,000 gallons of crude sludge, carry it to D.C. and splatter it all over the White House.
ReplyDeleteNah...
Even that wouldn't give them a clue!
Maybe WE could be the tornado.....
ReplyDeleteWouldn't that be fun!
ReplyDeleteYes.
ReplyDeleteIt seems we have the beginnings of a plan here!
ReplyDeleteAT LAAAAAAST!
Made an adjustment to my sidebar in response to Blue's comment...
ReplyDeleteI told you about that book ages ago. We studied it in college. It's the closest the social sciences have come to a law a la the physical sciences.
ReplyDeleteHey, I just noticed you quoted me over there on the right side of the page. Thanks for the honor.
ReplyDelete(Now where can I get Obama overprinted on my Impeach Bush tee shirt?)
Exactly! You did. When we were frickin' puppies... and I probably even knew about it before that! But integrating intellectual concepts into daily life starts to become extremely complicated. There are so many tiers of knowing that have to flow together properly... clogged synapses that have to be kept open. And even if you hadn't told me and if I never bothered to go get it off Wikipedia, I figured it out REALLY early, AND have added nuance to it over the years, EVEN without any intersection with any scholarship on the matter, and STILL it keeps sneaking up to bite me in the ass!
ReplyDeleteRe: The t-shirt
ReplyDeleteI think you should cut yer finger and just drip his name in blood over the W....
And, not only did I quote you, but I may even keep it on top of the quotes, because it says it SO satisfyingly!
ReplyDeleteMy friend Linda, a former Obama supporter, has gone from "Why do you have to be such a cynic?" to "It looks like you were right." to "I hate him! He's worse than Bush."
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