Taking The Back Door?
Norman Podhoretz may still be publicly peddling the bomb Iran’s nukes line (to “prevent another holocaust”) as a clever way to promote his new book, but, according to Sy Hersh (and as Kyle has contended for quite some time now), the Bush admin has adopted a new marketing strategy.
The GreenBush Home-Grown Comedy Show and Snake Oil Carnival
In re: The Global Warming Conference
With every day that passes it becomes clearer and clearer that when Bush isn’t acting like those other King Georges and building his monarchy, he sees himself as EmCee of the World’s Biggest Sales & Marketing Circus, bringing enlightenment to the masses at a rock-bottom price - paying for his protection rackets by agreeing to US control over all the resources on the planet, especially OIL.
When word leaked out that Co-President Cheney’s high-powered Energy Task Force - a gathering of the most powerful oil execs in the country - weren’t banging out a comprehensive energy policy for the nation but huddled around maps of the oil fields in Iraq (and this was months before the invasion), it became fairly obvious to everyone who hadn’t already sold their soul to the Bush Cult what the Administration’s agenda really was: control of the world’s oil supply, or as much of it as they could grab for their cohorts in the industry.
I’m 4 Ron Paul In ‘08 - SRSLY!!!1
…or at least I would be, if only I were a citizen of the United States of America (le soigh). After the fold, the Top Ten Reasons Why Ron Paul Is My #1 SexyBeast Man Crush Of The Moment:
In Honor (Imagine the Possibilities)
What is most significant about the blogosphere, in my view, is that it enables direct and immediate communication — and coordination — among huge numbers of dissatisfied citizens who want to force new ideas and arguments into what was previously a closed and highly controlled media and political dialogue. And, gradually and incrementally, it’s working. I think we are at the very beginning of that process and the impact on our country’s political processes will only grow, vastly.
-Glenn Greenwald, Unclaimed Territory (April 26, 2006, pre-Salon.com)
I could not agree more. In just five days our campaign to raise money for Fisher House on behalf of the the Op-Ed soldiers Omar Mora and Yance Gray has produced a previously unimaginable $4,871. Now imagine how much we could raise if Glenn Greenwald were to actually plug this fund raising effort? Or how about Andrew Sullivan, Duncan Black, Markos Moulitsas, Michelle Malkin, or any number of other highly influential bloggers.
Late Night Logic: Too Little, Too Late
Gah.
4 quick, funky joints before bed. Apologies for the lateness of the hour; damn socializing got in the way of blogging this evening.
Something Light for a Saturday Night: Don’t Stop the Party, Macswain’s Still Up!
Sorry to interrupt the Ron Paul sit-in that’s taking place in response to Mick’s post, but hey it’s Saturday night and time for a few tunes that even the Ron Paul supporters might enjoy during their policing of the internet.
Before the tunes though, here’s a big thanks to Kevin Drum who is the latest to join the long list of conservative and progressive bloggers to support our fund raising effort. You may have noticed that for his good deed, Kevin was rewarded with a little karma. His USC Trojans survived a scare tonight in Seattle, holding on to beat the Washington Huskies 27-24. Hey, you too can earn such karma by simply throwing a coin in the fountain.
Ron Paul? Really?
(Updated below)
I’ve been going to New Hampshire off and on for the last three weeks to see my brother. Week before last, I got off the highway to take the scenic route along the coast, then cut inland and went north to where my brother lives, and I noticed something fairly…odd. Ron Paul lawn signs everywhere. They outnumbered the Giuliani signs, the Romney signs, and the Hillary signs combined.
Now, I don’t want to make too much out of this, but I grew up in NH surrounded every 4 years by the primary machines of candidates from the excessively well-financed to the shoe-string-and-a-prayer. There are certain patterns that come with lawn signs, and very small but occasionally stunningly-accurate predictions can be made from watching them.
Jena 6 Update: On Good Samaritans And What Happens Next
Was wondering who actually posted the bond to get Mychal Bell out of jail; figured it would have been Al or Jesse finally taking heed of Earl Ofari Hutchinson’s words of wisdom (to summarize: show Mychal the money!)
Senior al Qaeda in Iraq Leader Killed - Again
Yawn.
Thoreau @ Unqualified Offerings:
Osama Bin Laden is currently advertising for another #3 guy, and said that he seeks an “enthusiastic self-starter who is comfortable drumming while midgets dance on stage.”
Something Depressing For The Weekend
Don’t know why, but I pretty much feel like crap. Instead of infect you readers, and my fellow writers with this unrelenting malaise, I’m just going to leave yall with a couple non uplifting songs, and try and keep away from this place for the weekend.
And before anyone gives me crap, I can’t be obscure all the time… Just be glad I’m not posting Staind songs. Piss me off and I will.
Revisiting Paris 1919
The other night Kyle expressed (lukewarm) support for Joe Biden’s (non-binding) partition resolution, which was “overwhelmingly endorsed” by the Senate 75-23, including 26 Republican votes.
Others aren’t so hot on the idea.
Untended Wounds
I used to get a periodic newsletter in my email; a conservative bookseller’s club. I signed up for it, to be honest, I have a tendancy to do such things. Though I haven’t in some time, I’ll occasionally check out the Christian Broadcast Network, typically when I’m really pressed for something to write about, and I’ll sign up for conservative newsletters if only jut to hear what the other side is talking about.
One Inconvenient Truth About Michael Medved: He’s An Imbecile
The title says it all: “Six inconvenient truths about the U.S. and slavery“. Yes, it’s exactly what you think it is, a revisionist ‘essay’ on slavery - and yes, it’s as bad as (if not worse than) you’d expect, considering the source. Apparently erstwhile movie critic and conservative pundit Michael Medved is living on some cozy, antebellum plantation far, far away from what the rest of us commonly refer to as ‘reality’.
Quote of the Day: ‘You Can’t Make This Sh*t Up’ Edition
elle, Kevin and Carmen D. (and countless others, I’m sure) all beat me to this:
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Bush Budget Shifts FBI’s Resources from Crime to Counterterrorism
Lost between the battles over SCHIP and funding the occupation of Iraq, a lot of the other elements of Bush’s budget are being lost in the shuffle. One of them, while not new, is a major round of deep cuts in the law enforcement budget of the FBI and a Big Step towards Bush’s dream of a GOP-run police state. Simply put, a new study by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer shows that the budget for non-terrorist law enforcement activities is being erased and hundreds of agents are being shifted into counterterrorism operations - you know, the ones where the Democrats agree with Bush that things like “warrants” are an unnecessary drag and the
kingpresident can throw anybody he wants to in jail without having to be bothered by the onerous task of proving they did anything wrong.
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Journamalism At Its Finest
Newsflash: nuclear PR shill Patrick Moore (Co-founder of Greenpeace™!) is a “popular environmentalist” the same way David Horowitz is a “staunch Marxist” or Joe Lieberman a “partisan Democrat.”
Which is to say, not in the fucking least.
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California Will Remain Winner Take All
Somewhere deep in the bowels of the Republican evil secret layer, the sinister underworld bosses saw a problem. In smoke filled rooms, these shadowy pit bosses with a slitted and every vigilant eye saw room to hamstring the efforts of their Democratic foes.
Thus was the new project born. Target: California.
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