It's a hard job trying to bring up stuff with interesting concepts in it, or exposing the real through a transcendent lens because I almost always only get crickets... or someone coming in to dis my obsession with space aliens while warmongering and being a fascist tool... a "disinfo agent"... or for not obsessing on nine-years-ago-Saturday while doing all this.
I was going to bring up all the riots and protests in Europe where the author points out how Americans are strangely docile, and I was going to pull out that Parenti "Real History" audio again to try to hammer it in that this IS fascism, in my immortal delusion that it will penetrate the clouds that have benighted the masses, but it's only so much I can do while juggling my pills and drops and freaking out about my Poppa.
I'm trying to think of a nice cowboy book I can bring down to read to him, if he's still alive by the time I can get there. :(
Sheesh - took 3 page reloads to get the comment edit box to show up.
Big Dan said: How about this for a longshot: this Koran burning is a set up
I replied: I think you are on to something there Dan. This morning the little ticker tape thingy at the bottom of the screen during the morning news kept proclaiming that the FBI was warning of terrorist attacks in retaliation and Obummer was calling it a recruiting tool for al Qaeda.
Once again - "Be afraid, be very afraid!"
Yes - if the media had just ignored this it would be meaningless, instead they play it out every 15 minutes on the news and in the papers turning some idiot radical preacher of a 50 person congregation into an international incident.
Strictly speaking, no, I do not. I can see fine with my cheaters now. Just a big hassle, BUT my mother, who is looking for EVERY excuse to keep me away, is digging in her heels about it and griping even that I would come directly as the eye thing is handled.
BIG PROBLEM.
I have to rely on her to put me up, and she's being really awful about it.
She fucking went and had her hair done while my dad was hauled off to the ER with a stroke. She's not exactly what you would call willing to face ANYTHING unpleasant... and I think she unmoored herself from any family feeling for everyone but her brother... and maybe my sister.
IT'S FUCKING BEYOND THE PALE AWFUL. She's got mental problems... big time... but, as far as she's concerned, she's the only one with her head on straight.
So. You might forgive me for sometimes weakening and pleading for my wealthy socialist gentleman....
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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This and the two below - what a great way to start the day!
ReplyDeleteThanks!
Sowwy.
ReplyDeleteIt's a hard job trying to bring up stuff with interesting concepts in it, or exposing the real through a transcendent lens because I almost always only get crickets... or someone coming in to dis my obsession with space aliens while warmongering and being a fascist tool... a "disinfo agent"... or for not obsessing on nine-years-ago-Saturday while doing all this.
I was going to bring up all the riots and protests in Europe where the author points out how Americans are strangely docile, and I was going to pull out that Parenti "Real History" audio again to try to hammer it in that this IS fascism, in my immortal delusion that it will penetrate the clouds that have benighted the masses, but it's only so much I can do while juggling my pills and drops and freaking out about my Poppa.
I'm trying to think of a nice cowboy book I can bring down to read to him, if he's still alive by the time I can get there. :(
Sheesh - took 3 page reloads to get the comment edit box to show up.
ReplyDeleteBig Dan said: How about this for a longshot: this Koran burning is a set up
I replied: I think you are on to something there Dan. This morning the little ticker tape thingy at the bottom of the screen during the morning news kept proclaiming that the FBI was warning of terrorist attacks in retaliation and Obummer was calling it a recruiting tool for al Qaeda.
Once again - "Be afraid, be very afraid!"
Yes - if the media had just ignored this it would be meaningless, instead they play it out every 15 minutes on the news and in the papers turning some idiot radical preacher of a 50 person congregation into an international incident.
FUCK!
Who would Jesus hate?
Do you have to wait for your eye med cycle to go see your Poppa?
ReplyDeleteStrictly speaking, no, I do not. I can see fine with my cheaters now. Just a big hassle, BUT my mother, who is looking for EVERY excuse to keep me away, is digging in her heels about it and griping even that I would come directly as the eye thing is handled.
ReplyDeleteBIG PROBLEM.
I have to rely on her to put me up, and she's being really awful about it.
She fucking went and had her hair done while my dad was hauled off to the ER with a stroke. She's not exactly what you would call willing to face ANYTHING unpleasant... and I think she unmoored herself from any family feeling for everyone but her brother... and maybe my sister.
IT'S FUCKING BEYOND THE PALE AWFUL. She's got mental problems... big time... but, as far as she's concerned, she's the only one with her head on straight.
So. You might forgive me for sometimes weakening and pleading for my wealthy socialist gentleman....
October 26 - Burn the Patriot Act!
ReplyDeleteIt'll take us at LEAST that long to afford to print it out to burn.
ReplyDeletePLANETS!
ReplyDeleteI can't KILL anyone.