Tag: Open Thread

Below the fold you will find 9/11: The Day The World Stood Still, a film that was produced for the 2008 Republican National Convention.

It’s only 2:48 and this copy played correctly for me twice, but you don’t have to watch it on my account, indeed I never want to watch it again; but I do have some observations I’d like to share.

The first is that if this really is the one shown live (and I can’t prove it myself as the whole dreary affair tonight put me to sleep, thank goodness I set my alarm otherwise I would have missed TDS/TCR entirely), there are no images of people actually jumping out of the World Trade Center that I could see although it does show the second plane hit in slow motion and the voice over talks about it.

A more disturbing observation is that the opening line is- “The first attack occured in Iran.  444 Days, America held Hostage.”

Flat Fucking Not True!

Are we having a McSame Senior Moment™ again?  How many times do we have to say that Sunni’s (like Al Queda) and Shia’s (like Iran and most of Iraq) are as different as Irish Catholics and Protestants!

There is no relation between 9/11 and the Iran Hostage Crisis AT ALL!

It’s as big a lie as the one that Saddam Hussein had anything to do with 9/11.

It is THE SAME LIE as a matter of fact!

Now I hesitate to read tea leaves, but to me this indicates that the Republican Party wants to commit another war crime and guess what?  This time we lose!  There is absolutely no way we can keep the Straits of Hormuz open however much damage we inflict on Iran and the likelihood is that we isolate and destroy our occupation force in Iraq (basically our whole Army and Marine Corps) and mobilize the entire Islamic world against us.

And that’s an optimistic scenario, could be that the whole world gets together to put us down like the rabid mad dog Nazi’s we are.

So let’s get this straight.

When 3 white supremacists are arrested with high powered rifles after bragging that they wanted to kill Barack Obama it’s just a minor meth bust because their threats were merely “aspirational“.

On the other hand, protest at the Republican National Convention and you’re a “terrorist“.

If you had the good fortune not to watch the convention tonight you missed an extremely white display of blind hatred, naked greed, and willful ignorance.

And that’s what blows my mind.  How these people take what is bad, twisted, and shameful about human nature and celebrate it.

They are Cthulhu worshippers-

As you may know by now, I’m not a kumbaya type and I’m telling you that in a just world these people would not only be out of power, their party as dead as the Whigs, Federalists, Know-nothings, and Anti-Masons; they would be locked up as punishment for their crimes and to prevent any further damage to society.

Hate ’em?  The fires of hell are like glaciers.

Sung to the tune of Battle Hymn of the Republic.

We Got Docudharma Horoscopes!

Yeah, I figure if all these other folks can go on and on about horoscopes, why can’t I?  I’m as psychic as the next guy!  And I know this because I’m psychic!

So here are your Docudharma  horoscopes, courtesy of Madame NPK.

Aires

Only the second day after the new moon, time of purification and emptiness, and you’re already raring to go fill everything up in a heartbeat!  Well, impetuous Aires, go right ahead, no one is going to stop you as they’re all too worn out eating at barbeques and otherwise engaged in Labor Day activities.  You’ll be the one to steal the march on everyone else and by the end of the day, if anyone tries to stop you, you’ll be gone like a cool breeze.

Taurus

Sure you are stubborn, why wouldn’t you be?  Isn’t the Earth herself awfully stubborn, hanging around as long as she has?  Consider it a virtue, I say.  Use this day to catch up on your sybaritic pleasures, long sensuous bath, a glass of wine, loving your lover or, if you are single, wooing a new lover with your not inconsiderable charms.  You’ll need this break because the week ahead will be chock full of adventure!

So today we have learned that The Republican National Convention has been virtually canceled.  Have they at long last found a sense of decency?

• Until this moment, Senator, I think I never gauged your cruelty or your recklessness.

No, This is not a diary about Palin.

I’m tempted to chastise them simply for depriving me of some amusingly lame television. W, it turns out, is too COWARDLY to face even his own convention on his personal tribute night.  What is there to say really?  The CRAVEN AND TRAITOROUS BAND of THIEVES AND CUTTHROATS that is his party equally desires to distance themselves from his taint and stain on history and is going to cancel the whole convention and slink away.

AND W is going to TEXAS so that after he ‘concerns the nations’ on Monday night about the terrible terrrible tragedy of Gustav and the need to drill, drill, drill everywhere so we’re not so dependent on Gulf (of Mexico) oil.

Gotta get that plywood up in Crawford.  Help out.  Heh.

There are people who don’t think that I’m a cold hearted killer of a partisan Democrat.  They are mistaken.

My motivation is my conviction that the radical, social democratic parts of my political agenda are more likely to come to pass under a party that at least espouses some claim to the principles this nation was founded on and can perhaps be shamed in to action on the most egregious offenses.

I believe that the most efficient way to create an atmosphere where that can happen is to permanently eradicate the Republican Party root and branch and make the “conservative” brand a mark of Cain.  Biblical destruction, sowing of salt in the fields, their lamentations music to our ears.

Dead as the Whigs.

It may be that we will have to suffer under 8 or 16 years of Democratic Party failure too, but at least it will be Democratic Party failure and not a frog march into the dustbin of history.

I expect massive disappointment at best.

The struggle will be to create a democratic wing that is strong enough to fly on it’s own, and it’s just not yet.  The environment needs to get better.

It is no secret that I think we need change in the Corporate Media Culture of Washington D.C..  Sally Quinn and Tim Russert deserve the judgement of history on their complicity, but nobody lives forever.  Things can change and they are changing.  People don’t buy the bullshit so much anymore, look at the ranking of “journalists” in any credibility poll.

Right there with Congress.

So better Democrats and Rachel Maddow, that all you got ek?

It’s a start.  We need to build on this success.

Most of all we need to keep our eye on the goal and it will be hard because we’re a long way away.  It’s certainly not going to end in November.

(I’m heavily editing this, but the reason I’m doing it is I think it’s important for you to see and I want rjones2818 to get the credit he deserves for it.- ek)