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Dec 08 2008
Return of the Black Helicopter Brigades
They’re Baaaaaaaaack!
I’ve always had a healthy respect for the Black Helicopter Brigades. We haven’t seen them around for a while. Not since the Clintons. They positively, absolutely loved to hate the Clintons. But with the election of one of ‘them’, George W. Bush, the greatest president ever, the compassionate conservative who restored dignity to the White House and spread American Christo-fascist freedom around the globe in a series of cakewalk wars, they went into hibernation or suspended animation or back into their natural state – grey gelatinous couch potato stasis, jerking off to Sean Hannity and Ann Coulter.
But now, they’re back and they got their mojo on to dethrone the Manchurian Muslim before he is able to take the oath of office and turn the keys of the kingdom over to the Muslim god, better known as Satan.
And after years of bitter-sweet calm they’re back with their paranoid fantasies, delusions of grandeur and pit-bull frothing about the end of the world.
Nov 20 2008
The REAL Bush Doctrine
Most folks when asked to define the Bush Doctrine, other than stealing elections, would point to a document called the National Security Strategy of the United States published in September 2002, which states among other things:
To forestall or prevent such hostile acts by our adversaries, the United States will, if necessary, act preemptively in exercising our inherent right of self-defense.
Preemptive war. The idea if the United States perceives a threat outside of our borders, even a 1% chance of danger against American interests, then the U.S. has the right to “defend” itself preemptively.
But I would argue historians will define the Bush Doctrine as something else. Something much more dangerous, reckless and un-American. The Unitary Executive.
Nov 18 2008
Though the Heavens Fall…
No justice for war criminals. No justice for Lieberman. No justice for corporate greed.
Are Obama’s critics right? Does he just talk a good game?
Nov 14 2008
You Say Recession; I say Depression; Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off
The difference between a recession and a depression?
A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours.
Old joke.
But who is laughing now?
Sep 26 2007
Bobblehead Nation
Some don’t want to admit the truth. They don’t want to see the facts on the ground but resort to magical thinking in the face of ten-thousand years of contrary history.
Sep 19 2007
The House of Wisdom
Most of the younger detainees are held in a facility that the military calls the “House of Wisdom.”
The House of Wisdom is a prison for kids.
Sep 17 2007
Wargasms
So I came back to see him a few weeks later, and by that time we were bombing in Afghanistan. I said, “Are we still going to war with Iraq?” And he said, “Oh, it’s worse than that.” He reached over on his desk. He picked up a piece of paper. And he said, “I just got this down from upstairs” — meaning the Secretary of Defense’s office — “today.” And he said, “This is a memo that describes how we’re going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.” I said, “Is it classified?” He said, “Yes, sir.” I said, “Well, don’t show it to me.” And I saw him a year or so ago, and I said, “You remember that?” He said, “Sir, I didn’t show you that memo! I didn’t show it to you!”
Wesley Clark in an interview with Amy Goodman
From before the stolen election of 2000 and the preposterous judicial fiat that made the crime of the new century legal, peace was always the enemy and war the motive force.
Then, after 911, although more elections were stolen, it wasn’t really necessary as bribe-addicted, power-hungry, beady-eyed politicians of the “two-party system” made Stalin proud and morphed the illusion of choice into the reality of one-party rule – the War Party.