tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post2113025390039259909..comments2024-01-09T15:21:52.135-08:00Comments on Sayet Right: The Left Rallies for Terror in LAEvan Sayethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15989761214143022432noreply@blogger.comBlogger126125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-2798651451075871032010-04-16T11:52:37.658-07:002010-04-16T11:52:37.658-07:00ytba said...
THE BEST PROOF THAT WHAT EVAN SAYS IS...ytba said...<br />THE BEST PROOF THAT WHAT EVAN SAYS IS TRUE...<br /><br />...is all the drek the howling moonbats spew after his lucid and pertinent comments.<br /><br />YTBA<br />That is such a mindless comment that makes no sense and is not even true. You sound like a stupid little piggish bully whose education consists of talk radio and FOX. No wonder why a brainless butthead like you admires Sayet, you both lack any critical thinking skills as well as intelligence.Tupper Lakehttp://www.nyroute30.com/towns/tupper-lake.phpnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-5975232003869543442010-03-08T10:48:44.868-08:002010-03-08T10:48:44.868-08:00Most of those "Liberals" you rant about ...Most of those "Liberals" you rant about were Palestinians and their Muslim sympathizers. Thanks once again for your usual 0 dimensional FrontPageMag level of thinking. Where do you get all you info, from the Michael Savage show?Lake Placidhttp://www.adirondacknorthway.net/towns/lake-placid.phpnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-47761477033508082282009-09-30T10:24:04.333-07:002009-09-30T10:24:04.333-07:0010401040Stanleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285805692236281537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-8623599833271672332009-09-30T10:20:28.493-07:002009-09-30T10:20:28.493-07:00DasriteDasriteStanleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285805692236281537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-36183016664024562952009-09-30T10:18:47.863-07:002009-09-30T10:18:47.863-07:00The GOP is dead.The GOP is dead.Lannynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-62197062613323845452009-09-08T12:59:45.893-07:002009-09-08T12:59:45.893-07:00So do a few warped protestors speak for all libera...So do a few warped protestors speak for all liberals, including liberal Jews who support Israel? This is the kind of lying through gross overgeneralizations that Sayet and the right is famous for. So now are conservatives Like Ron Paul and Pat B and Stormfront types neo liberals too, since they don't like Israel? I guess if anyone who complains about Israel at all is a commie-nazi-jew hating-liberal-jihadist-leftist who hates everything good in the world?Jakesterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03589306218906845495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-58438750223646983142009-06-16T19:04:44.663-07:002009-06-16T19:04:44.663-07:00THE BEST PROOF THAT WHAT EVAN SAYS IS TRUE...
......THE BEST PROOF THAT WHAT EVAN SAYS IS TRUE...<br /><br />...is all the drek the howling moonbats spew after his lucid and pertinent comments.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-74600806364688384442009-02-22T21:15:00.000-08:002009-02-22T21:15:00.000-08:00Wow, you have no idea what a neoliberal is, do you...Wow, you have no idea what a neoliberal is, do you? I bet you heard the term and it reminded you of neo-Nazis. What a dishonest jackass you are.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-48722298376480286872009-01-26T04:35:00.000-08:002009-01-26T04:35:00.000-08:00^^Pseudostinian crying for himself^^^^Pseudostinian crying for himself^^Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-28518754080455752352009-01-21T21:33:00.000-08:002009-01-21T21:33:00.000-08:00Zionism is an Incurable Disease of the MindTo desc...Zionism is an Incurable Disease of the Mind<BR/><BR/>To describe the colonial immigration to Palestine of a European people with no proven historical link to the ancient Israelites – and whose great, great recorded ancestors have never set foot there – as some kind of a “return” to that land is indicative of a perverted misunderstanding and misapplication of the verb to “return” and can only be a result of a disease of the mind. ContinueGaza: 'I watched an Israeli soldier shoot dead my two little girls'<BR/><BR/>By Donald Macintyre in Gaza City<BR/><BR/>Grieving Palestinian father says children were killed after family obeyed order from troops to leave Gaza home. Continue<BR/><BR/><BR/>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR/><BR/>Embedded With Gaza Medics<BR/><BR/>Must see video: <BR/><BR/>WARNING - Video depicts the reality and horror of Israel's attack on the people of Gaza - Viewer Discretion Advised. Continue<BR/><BR/><BR/>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR/><BR/>Israel Wanted a Humanitarian Crisis<BR/><BR/>By Ben White<BR/><BR/>Targeting civilians was a deliberate part of this bid to humiliate Hamas and the Palestinians, and pulverise Gaza into chaos. Continue<BR/><BR/><BR/>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR/><BR/>"Prima Facie Evidence of War Crimes" by Israel<BR/><BR/>5 Minute Video Report<BR/><BR/>Channel Four News journalist Johnathan Miller travelled to Gaza where he interviewed civilians sheltering in a UN run school attacked by Israel using white phosphorus munitions. The attack - described as "Outrageous" by the UN Secretary General - was filmed by a school worker on his mobile phone. Continue<BR/><BR/><BR/>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR/><BR/>Israel Accused of War Crimes<BR/><BR/>Gaza offensive 'a crime against humanity': UN Special Rapporteur<BR/><BR/>By Chris Gelken <BR/><BR/>"Gaza is ablaze," he told the UN General Assembly, "it has been turned into a burning hell." Continue<BR/><BR/><BR/>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR/><BR/>Posturing and Laughter as Victims Rot<BR/><BR/>By Robert Fisk<BR/><BR/>Mahmoud Abbas stepped further into humiliation by saying the only option for Arabs isto make peace with Israel. Continue<BR/><BR/><BR/>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR/><BR/>In Case You Missed It<BR/><BR/>Exposed: The Gaza Bombshell<BR/><BR/>By David Rose <BR/><BR/>With confidential documents, corroborated by outraged former and current U.S. officials, the author reveals how President Bush, Condoleezza Rice, and Deputy National-Security Adviser Elliott Abrams backed an armed force under Fatah strongman Muhammad Dahlan, touching off a bloody civil war in Gaza and leaving Hamas stronger than ever. Continue<BR/><BR/><BR/>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR/><BR/>Israel’s Doctrine of Destruction<BR/> <BR/>Bombs to ‘send Gaza back decades’<BR/> <BR/>By Jonathan Cook in Nazareth<BR/><BR/>Diplomats point out that, even if western aid flows to the Palestinian Authority, it will make little effect if Israel maintains the blockade, curbing imports of steel, cement and money. Continue<BR/><BR/><BR/>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR/><BR/>Now We've All Seen Through The Israeli Government's Excuses<BR/><BR/>If the Hamas rockets are so lethal, why doesn't Israel swap an F-16 for some?<BR/><BR/>By Mark Steel<BR/><BR/>The worrying part about whether the ceasefire in Gaza can hold together will be whether the international community can stop the flow of arms to the terrorists. Because Israel's getting their planes and tanks and missiles from somewhere and until this supply is cut off there's every chance it could start up again. Continue<BR/><BR/><BR/>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR/><BR/>PM Gordon Brown, Here Is My Shopping List For Palestine<BR/><BR/>By Gilad Atzmon<BR/><BR/>In his desperate attempt to appease notorious Israeli war criminal leadership, Brown pleaded to redeploy the British Navy in the region. “We'll send Royal Navy to help fight (weapon) smuggling,” said the British PM. Continue<BR/><BR/><BR/>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR/><BR/>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR/><BR/>Unanimous Consent <BR/><BR/>When Israel acts, Congress applauds. No debate required. <BR/><BR/>By Glenn Greenwald<BR/><BR/>In most of the world, the Israeli attack on Gaza is viewed as an intensely controversial act and, more commonly, an excessive, unjustifiable, and brutal assault on a trapped civilian population. But not in the United States—at least not among America’s political and opinion-making elite. ContinueAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-8463661076295591852009-01-18T19:23:00.000-08:002009-01-18T19:23:00.000-08:00.These people equating Israel with the Nazis have ....<BR/>These people equating Israel with the Nazis have to be insane, and they are mostly from the Left. The Left acting like Nazis and calling for a new Hitler, and for the Jews to go to the ovens, wow! Hitler, someone even most of them would say they hate. The Left, many are anti-semitic Nazis, they should be so proud. The truth is coming out, it is getting harder to hide.<BR/><BR/>The MSM is insidious, they are instrumental in fanning these flames. We must keep trying to de-brainwash as many people as possible. As the brave Geert Wilders put it recently, "To begin with, there is already a Palestinian state, and that is Jordan. This land covers nearly eighty percent of the historic Palestine. Most residents of Jordan are Palestinians, for instance queen Rania."<BR/><BR/>Why doesn't Jordan take the poor Palestinians in the West Bank and Egypt control the nut jobs in Gaza?<BR/><BR/>They don't want them, that's why. They should be made to take them. That may be the only answer.<BR/><BR/>Hamas is what makes Gaza much worse than it could be. If they would give up the dream of destroying Israel and the Jews and stopped all missiles and suicide bombers, and all terrorist attacks, Israel would welcome doing business with them, and things would be peaceful. But they can't do this as long as they follow their Koran strictly.<BR/><BR/>There is no negotiating with a mad man, or with Jihadis who want to die to go get their 72 virgins.<BR/><BR/>I hope Israel doesn't quit too early. Hamas will never honor a ceasefire, and as soon as they start firing rockets again, Israel must too. If Israel is destroyed, terrorism in the rest of the world will just increase, it will never stop, as long as there are Radical Muslims, or rather, Muslim Fundamentalists; who are appeased, defended, and kissed up to.<BR/>.<BR/>absurd thought -<BR/>God of the Universe says<BR/>let someone hit you<BR/><BR/>over and over again<BR/>and NEVER hit back harder<BR/><BR/>.<BR/>absurd thought -<BR/>God of the Universe says<BR/>DO NOT defend your country<BR/><BR/>from terrorist monkeys<BR/>just let them bomb you at will<BR/><BR/>.<BR/>absurd thought -<BR/>God of the Universe says<BR/>blame your failings on the Jews<BR/><BR/>for a few more thousand years<BR/>they are Earth's scapegoats<BR/><BR/>.<BR/>absurd thought -<BR/>God of the Universe says<BR/>give Israel away<BR/><BR/>to appease her enemies<BR/>dishonor ALL Jews<BR/><BR/>.<BR/>absurd thought -<BR/>God of the Universe says<BR/>never mock Hamas<BR/><BR/>it's just their religion<BR/>you RIGHT-WING INFIDEL<BR/>.<BR/>All real freedom starts with freedom of speech. Without freedom of speech there can be no real freedom.<BR/>.<BR/><A HREF="http://www.terrorismawareness.org/what-really-happened/" REL="nofollow">What Really Happened in the MidEast?</A><BR/>.<BR/><A HREF="http://haltterrorism.com" REL="nofollow">Help Stop Terrorism Today!</A><BR/>.<BR/><A HREF="http://www.lulu.com/content/2457373" REL="nofollow">USpace</A><BR/><BR/>:)<BR/>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-66737459277697566242009-01-14T07:47:00.000-08:002009-01-14T07:47:00.000-08:00How the far left elected Jesse Ventura... and gave...How the far left elected <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Ventura" REL="nofollow">Jesse Ventura</A>... and gave Norm Coleman the Senate seat.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-22118143170041479882009-01-13T22:01:00.000-08:002009-01-13T22:01:00.000-08:00How The Far Right Elected Al FrankenJanuary 12, 20...How The Far Right Elected Al Franken<BR/>January 12, 2009 · Filed Under 2008 Election, Bill O'Reilly, Fox News, Media, Rush Limbaugh <BR/>“I don’t know if we’ve ever had an opponent who is so disliked by Republicans as Al Franken,” said Minnesota Republican Party Chair Ron Carey. “It’s one thing to lose to an honorable opponent, but Al Franken is not considered an honorable opponent by Minnesota Republicans.”<BR/><BR/>If Mr. Carey and the rest of the Republicans would like to see how they’ve come to realize their - as well as Bill O’Reilly’s worst nightmare - they need only look in the mirror.<BR/><BR/>When I sat down in 2002 to speak with Franken about how seemingly adversarial conditions played a positive part in his life for my book, “Great Failures of the Extremely Successful… Mistakes, Adversity, Failure and Other Steppingstones to Success,” he had no idea that some of his greatest adversaries would help him to become a member of one of America’s most exclusive clubs…the U.S. Senate.<BR/><BR/> <BR/><BR/>Air America was not yet a twinkle in the liberal’s eye, and despite his book, “Rush Limbaugh Is A Big Fat Idiot and other Observations” Franken was still more known for his comedy than he was for his political stance. His “Strange Bedfellows” bits on Comedy Central during the 96 election with then Republican Arianna Huffington were just a small hint of the direction Franken was heading.<BR/><BR/>The straw that broke the far right wing’s back came in the form of a 2003 law suit where the right-wing elevated the comic/author Franken from comic and author to Michael Moore danger level.<BR/><BR/>Penguin Books published Franken’s book “Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right,” which included a cover photo of O’Reilly and a chapter accusing O’Reilly of lying. The book had sold fairly well, but would have run its course until Fox News, pushed by O’Reilly taking the bait, sued claiming infringement of its registered trademark phrase “Fair and Balanced.” A federal judge found the lawsuit to be “wholly without merit” and Fox then filed to dismiss it. With the media attention drawn by the legal folly, Franken’s sales and his public image went bonkers. He not only beat O’Reilly and made him appear thin-skinned and toothless, but his books and satirical approach taught the Democrats to fight back creatively. More importantly, he gave open-minded Republicans a bit of the truth behind far-right talk show zealots claims. Claims that had pretty much gone without scrutiny even by the so-called liberal mainstream media who were happy to book people like Limbaugh, O’Reilly and Ann Coulter to get their take on politics.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Rather than paint Franken as a deviant, it drew even more support and closed the divide between him and Coleman. The more venom the right threw at Franken, the more money came in to his campaign and the less he had to spend to get a camera or microphone in front of him. Franken had already had notoriety but the Republicans attempt to turn Franken into Fagin gave his race a national je ne sais quoi.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-49023773150892380782009-01-13T15:09:00.000-08:002009-01-13T15:09:00.000-08:00Evan,Off Topic AlertI stumbled across a recording ...Evan,<BR/>Off Topic Alert<BR/>I stumbled across a recording of this superb speech that you gave to the Heritage Foundation http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=eaE98w1KZ-c&feature=PlayList&p=FF69220B4B8E6862&index=0&playnext=1<BR/>and I immediately thought of a book I read a couple of years ago: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Praise-Prejudice-Necessity-Preconceived-Ideas/dp/1594032025/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1231887814&sr=1-1<BR/><BR/>What you call discrimination, Dalrymple calls prejudice.<BR/><BR/>Cheers from England,<BR/>JohnAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-65721020950827940652009-01-13T11:58:00.000-08:002009-01-13T11:58:00.000-08:00The Ridiculous Right:Lol...that VV piece is hilari...The Ridiculous Right:<BR/><BR/>Lol...that VV piece is hilarious...while these poor, irrelevant morons are worrying about Franken and Hollywood, the rest of the country is trying to clean up their disasters and is in no mood for their petty whining.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-70537593508203502242009-01-13T11:41:00.000-08:002009-01-13T11:41:00.000-08:00The Incompetent Right:Already last spring, nearly ...The Incompetent Right:<BR/><BR/>Already last spring, nearly two thirds of 109 professional historians polled by the 'History News Network' rated Bush the worst president in the nation's history, while another 35 percent said he was among the ten worst of the 42 who preceded him. And that was six months before the mid-September financial crisis that most economists agree will turn out to be the worst since the Great Depression of the 1930's!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-45902375064501857072009-01-13T09:11:00.000-08:002009-01-13T09:11:00.000-08:00The Village VoiceOut There In The Dark: Rightblogg...The Village Voice<BR/><BR/>Out There In The Dark: Rightbloggers Go Hollywood!<BR/>Posted by Roy Edroso at 12:52 AM, January 12, 2009<BR/> <BR/>As we get closer to the actual transition, rightbloggers are shifting gears. They're losing interest in the remaining pre-inaugural Obama business. We probably won't see anything like the Hillary Clinton Constitutional crisis again. Leon Panetta's CIA appointment drew some criticism on the grounds that he's not a spy, but also surprising rightblogger endorsements, as well as playful suggestions that Panetta may be more friendly toward black-bag operations than Obamans are supposed to be. Even the Blagojevich scandal that lately energized them has, with the Illinois governor's impeachment, lost its savor. <BR/><BR/>So rightblogger energy is being redirected to two main activities. One is laying groundwork for future anti-Democrat activities, with Al Franken's brazen election theft their first big project. The other is morale-building. <BR/><BR/>Since they have few subjects about which to be positive these days, rightbloggers are juicing the troops by reminding them who the real enemy is: Not Obama, not even Al Qaeda, but the People's Republic of Hollywood. <BR/><BR/>As the Minnesota Board of Canvassers prepared to certify Franken's victory over incumbent Senator Norm Coleman in a recount, and Coleman's people prepared a court challenge, the Wall Street Journal ran an editorial that stopped just short of declaring the Board's findings a fix. Rightbloggers happily went the extra distance, and also cut out the middleman, putting responsibility for their ruling directly onto Franken. <BR/><BR/>"Yep, Franken Stole the Election," said Ace of Spades. "Mean-Spirited Minnesotan Steals a Senate Seat," said Gay Patriot. "Al Franken steals the election," said Thoughts of a conservative mind. "Franken Steals Senate Election," said God & State. <BR/><BR/>"The Angry Clown Steals an Election," declared UrbanGrounds. "Thankfully for Franken, he's not black," he added, referring to Roland Burris' troubles entering the Senate. "Or [Harry] Reid would move mountains to prevent him from taking his ill-gotten seat." Also: "Between Franken, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Fran Drescher -- our US Congress has become a joke where celebrity and nepotism is more important than qualifications." (UrbanGrounds has in the past been kinder toward Schwarzenegger, and more aware that he does not serve in the U.S. Congress.) <BR/><BR/>Election expert Nate Silver forcefully disputed the Journal's version of events, but rightbloggers ignored this, moving on to more far-reaching analyses such as Say Anything's "How and why George Soros put Al Franken in the Senate" ("Norm Coleman's work uncovering the oil-for-food scandal got in the way of George Soros plan to have his own man running the world bank" -- wheels within wheels, people!) When Politico noticed that Franken had become the GOP's "top public enemy," this too became the subject of spin: "Al Franken, Already an Unpopular Democrat?" asked NewsBusters. <BR/><BR/>Wizbang's Cassy Fiano predicted with understandable confidence that liberals would not dispute the outcome, though they have "for the past eight years... screeched and moaned about how President Bush STOLE THE ELECTIONS!!!11!!!1!!!1!!!" Which, she helpfully added, "is a load of crap, as President Bush actually did win the election." Of course, if Franken's victory holds, we can count on rightbloggers to repeat their present claims that Franken stole the election, with or without 1's and exclamation points, any time his name is mentioned. By 2010, when many House seats will be up for grabs, Franken will be cited as proof of Democratic criminality. Maybe by then they'll have been doing it long and loudly enough that people will believe them. <BR/><BR/>Better news for rightbloggers emerged this week as Andrew Breitbart's Big Hollywood site rolled out. Conservatives have of course been shaking their fists at the godless liberals of filmdom since the days of Joe McCarthy, and rightbloggers have kept it up on the web, but Big Hollywood is a major aggregator -- one-stop shopping for culture-warriors looking for an angry fix at dawn or whenever else the fit is on them. It brings together Republican politicians, well-known rightbloggers like National Review's Kathryn J. Lopez and former Washington Post correspondent Ben Shapiro, and Hollywood apostates like Gary Graham for a smorgasbord of hatin' on Hollywood liberals. <BR/><BR/>As in other incarnations, these culture warriors sometimes claim they've actually already conquered Hollywood ("Top of the box office so far: the blatantly pro-war on terror Dark Knight"), but mostly gripe that the place is infested with traitors who will not let them do their nation-saving work. <BR/><BR/>Gainfully employed conservatives are enlisted to testify that they have been blacklisted. Filmmaker John Ziegler, despite his lengthy resume, nonetheless talked about "the hardships associated with being a 'conservative' in and around Hollywood" and being "on the firing line with the scars (and lost jobs) to prove it." James Hudnall, who has a development deal with Universal Pictures, said in Hollywood it's a "social crime to support your government or want to express patriotic thoughts in a public forum." Famous comedian Orson Bean claimed "my voice-over career dried up" because he supported Richard Nixon. <BR/><BR/>Bad enough Hollywood has limited these men to their current successes -- it also seeks to destroy the United States of America from within. Andrew Klavan denounced a film in which "hundreds of innocent people are destroyed, but we're not supposed to care. Just pay attention to the Nietzschean Super-Men fighting center screen, children, they're the only ones who matter... killing alone has significance, the good or evil of the killer and victim count for nothing..." Was he talking about Che? No, the Angelina Jolie potboiler Wanted. But don't think Klavan's patriotic rage is limited to popcorn-selling trifles: he also scorned Clint Eastwood's "silly Iwo Jima pictures" in which we are allegedly pushed to "root for the noble Japs over the corrupt Yanks." Elsewhere Endre Balogh attacked that "particularly vile, obscenely violent exercise in pointless nihilism," No Country for Old Men, and Breitbart reviewed Gone Baby Gone thus: "If [director] Ben [Affleck] is willing to rethink his love of Marxism and former neighbor, pal and history revisionist Howard Zinn, perhaps there is redemption for him." <BR/><BR/>The treasonous object doesn't have to be a movie to enrage Big Hollywood operatives: Debbie Schlussel was angered when Obama appeared in a Spider-Man comic book ("When Obama goes to share some baklava with his new friend Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or his buds in HAMAS, will we see Spidey cheering that on, too, and, again, tell America's comic book readers we're in 'capable hands'?"). And a film doesn't even have to exist, strictly speaking, in order for them to review it: National Review's Jonah Goldberg warned readers that the graphic novel on which the upcoming Watchmen film is based "places the blame for the omnipresent climate of fear on Reagan," when in Goldberg's reading "the existential angst and moral nihilism that serves as the spine of the book isn't a product of Reaganism, but of the left's ill-advised, ahistoric, and self-indulgent response to Reaganism." <BR/><BR/>Do you think Goldberg presumptuous for re-interpreting Alan Moore according to his own politics? Then get a load of Evan Sayet,,who claimed that Bruce Springsteen doesn't even understand his own songs. "While Springsteen the multimillionaire, rock star with the mansion in Beverly Hills may be a Liberal," said Sayet, "Bruce Springsteen the poet is one-hundred percent Republican." Attend Sayet's close reading of "Thunder Road": <BR/><BR/>Springsteen implores "Mary" to "Trade in these wings on some wheels." After all, wings may fly you quickly and safely over all of the bumps and potholes on the road... but they don't exist! Wheels -- cars -- on the other hand, do exist and are the only way to achieve the dream of finding something of value somewhere further down the road.<BR/>This proves to Sayet that Springsteen is no utopian, but "the epitome of the Conservative vision," even if Springsteen, in ignorance of his own work, supports traitors like Barack Obama. <BR/>A Hollywood where conservatives are simultaneously persecuted and triumphant, blacklisted and successful, and where artists are simultaneous conservative and liberal -- even regular readers of our column may find this unrealistic. But that's the wonderful thing about the arts, especially for people who really have no respect for them -- they're even more subject to interpretation than provisional ballots. With situations like the Franken election, rightbloggers have to craft new, flattering realities out of slurs and lies -- but movies are magic. If a couple with their popcorn can lose themselves in big-screen fantasy, why can't a horde of rightbloggers? As the inauguration looms, there are much less comforting places they could be than out there in the dark.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-8830996390383192512009-01-12T22:33:00.000-08:002009-01-12T22:33:00.000-08:00The First GOPig: Let's Be Honest About Abe, S...The First GOPig:<BR/><BR/><BR/> <BR/> Let's Be Honest About Abe, Shall We?<BR/><BR/>By KEN WARD<BR/><BR/>January 11, 2009 "Capitol Hill Blue" -- When Barack Obama takes the oath of office Jan. 20, he will place his left hand on Abraham Lincoln's Bible.<BR/><BR/>Much has been made of the Lincoln connection, with the first black man assuming the presidency in the 200th anniversary of Honest Abe's birthday. The historic alignment has occasioned renewed spasms of idolatrous odes to "The Great Emancipator."<BR/><BR/>But before we're all swept away in a paroxysm of national ecstasy, a few inconvenient truths must be noted about "Honest Abe."<BR/><BR/>First, Lincoln's Bible wasn't some well-worn family tome. It was purchased for his first inauguration by William Thomas Carroll, clerk of the Supreme Court.<BR/><BR/>Lincoln himself wasn't exactly a traditional Christian, or even religious. In his 20s, he wrote a "little Book on Infidelity," which questioned the inspiration of the Bible. Most research suggests that Lincoln believed in some form of providence, but wrestled with the idea of a personal God, despite frequently invoking deity in public utterances.<BR/><BR/>Such heterodoxy might have placed Lincoln ahead of his time in terms of secular philosophy, but his thinking on racial matters was truly mainstream for the period. During the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858, for example, he declared:<BR/><BR/>"I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is a physical difference between the two, which in my judgment, will probably forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality.<BR/><BR/>"I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people. I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race."<BR/><BR/>Four years later, in an Aug. 22, 1862, letter to New York Tribune Editor Horace Greeley, Lincoln wrote:<BR/><BR/>"If I could save the union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race I do because I believe it helps to save the union."<BR/><BR/>When Lincoln panned those words, a draft of the Emancipation Proclamation lay in his desk drawer.<BR/><BR/>So who was "The Real Lincoln"? Loyola (Md.) College professor Thomas DiLorenzo, who titled a 2003 book with that question, says it's important that the public get the unvarnished picture.<BR/><BR/>"The average American -- who has not spent much time reading Lincoln's speeches, but has learned about him through the filter of 'Lincoln scholars' -- will be surprised or even shocked by some of his words and actions. He stated over and over again that he was opposed to political or social equality of the races; he was not an abolitionist, but denigrated them, and distanced himself from them; and his primary means of dealing with racial problems was to attempt to colonize all American blacks in Africa, Haiti, Central America -- anywhere but in the United States."<BR/><BR/>Much like Soviet-era schoolchildren who were indoctrinated to worship Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin, a corpus of 16,000 books on Lincoln conditions Americans to believe that the simple country lawyer from Illinois honorably defended his country and freed a race. His ethereal presence at Obama's inaugural ceremonies, and Obama's copious references to him, reinforce this national mythology.<BR/><BR/>Indeed, Lincoln was positively clairvoyant about the Leviathan State, and fought to usher it in.<BR/><BR/>"Lincoln thought of himself as the heir to the Hamiltonian political tradition, which sought a much more centralized governmental system, one that would plan economic development with corporate subsidies and the printing of money by the central government," DiLorenzo writes.<BR/><BR/>While waging the Civil War, Lincoln turned constitutional rights on their head, imprisoning thousands of Northern citizens without trial (including dozens of newspaper publishers and members of the Maryland legislature), confiscating citizens' firearms and even deporting a member of Congress, Clement Vallandigham, for opposing Lincoln's income tax proposal.<BR/><BR/>Obama and Lincoln certainly wouldn't see eye to eye on race today, but they could yet become soul mates on wielding power for the "greater good."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-73229394215397486252009-01-12T13:51:00.000-08:002009-01-12T13:51:00.000-08:00"Limbs And Meat" In The StreetBy Ewa Jasiewicz'A b..."Limbs And Meat" In The Street<BR/><BR/>By Ewa Jasiewicz<BR/><BR/>'A boy next to me, he went crazy, he was overwhelmed, he saw the massacre, the street was full of blood, the nails from the shells were as long as your hand' Continue<BR/><BR/><BR/>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR/><BR/>Weapons Killing People In Gaza, Made In USA<BR/><BR/>By Ron Paul<BR/><BR/>What moral responsibility do we have for the violence in Israel and Gaza after having provided so much military support to one side? Continue<BR/><BR/><BR/>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR/><BR/>US Plans Massive Arms Delivery to Israel<BR/><BR/>By Press TV<BR/><BR/>The Pentagon plans to make a large arms delivery to Israel, rising fears that the military campaign in Gaza will go on for a long time. Continue<BR/><BR/><BR/>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR/><BR/>Both Parties Cheerlead Still More Loudly for Israel's "War"<BR/><BR/>By Glenn Greenwald<BR/><BR/>Apparently, it isn't enough that we supply the very bombs being dropped on the Palestinians and use our U.N. veto power to prevent any U.N. action to stop the war or even to urge its cessation. The U.S. Congress wants to involve the U.S. further still in Israel's war. Continue<BR/><BR/><BR/>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR/><BR/>Israel Rejected Hamas Ceasefire Offer in December<BR/><BR/>By Gareth Porter<BR/><BR/>Contrary to Israel's argument that it was forced to launch its air and ground offensive against Gaza in order to stop the firing of rockets into its territory, Hamas proposed in mid-December to return to the original Hamas-Israel ceasefire arrangement, according to a U.S.-based source who has been briefed on the proposal. Continue<BR/><BR/><BR/>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR/><BR/>Wherever I go, I Hear the Same Tired Middle East Comparisons<BR/><BR/>By Robert Fisk<BR/><BR/>"When does the mandate of victimhood expire?" he asked. "At what point does the Nazi genocide of Europe's Jews cease to excuse the state of Israel from the demands of international law and of common humanity?" Continue<BR/><BR/><BR/>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR/><BR/>British MP George Galloway: "Victory To The Palestinian Resistance"<BR/><BR/>Video <BR/><BR/>"The Palestinian People Will Never Surrender" Continue<BR/><BR/><BR/>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR/><BR/>In Washington, All Roads Lead to Tehran<BR/><BR/>By Daniel Luban<BR/><BR/>As the war in Gaza approaches its third week, a chorus of influential voices in the U.S. media has cast the conflict as a proxy war in which the real enemy is not Hamas but Iran. Continue<BR/><BR/><BR/>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR/><BR/>What You Don’t Know About Gaza<BR/><BR/>By Rashid Khalidi<BR/><BR/>NEARLY everything you’ve been led to believe about Gaza is wrong. Below are a few essential points that seem to be missing from the conversation, much of which has taken place in the press, about Israel’s attack on the Gaza Strip. Continue<BR/><BR/><BR/>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR/><BR/>Israeli attack has killed at least 800 people In Gaza: medics: At least 800 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip since Israel launched a massive military attack on the territory two weeks ago, the head of Gaza's emergency services said on Friday.<BR/><BR/> <BR/><BR/>UN: One-third of Gaza dead, injured are children: Palestinian children are dying at a heavy rate in the Israeli-Hamas fighting _ about one of every three persons killed, according to Gaza statistics.<BR/><BR/> <BR/><BR/>Massacre of a family seeking sanctuary: The Samounis claim they were guided to a safe haven by Israeli troops – only to be cut down by shells.<BR/><BR/> <BR/><BR/>UN human rights chief accuses Israel of war crimes: Official calls for investigation into Zeitoun shelling that killed up to 30 in one house as Israelis dismiss 'unworkable' ceasefire.<BR/><BR/> <BR/><BR/> <BR/><BR/> <BR/><BR/> <BR/><BR/> <BR/><BR/> <BR/><BR/>.........................<BR/><BR/> <BR/><BR/>Israeli troops close in on Gaza City: Israel's foreign minister Tzipi Livni has declared her country "is not going to show restraint" as its forces close in on the main Hamas stronghold in Gaza.<BR/><BR/> <BR/><BR/>Dead Gaza fighters "bulldozed into piles": "They used a bulldozer to pile up the bodies of the dead. There were bodies of many fighters," said the man, who was released by the Israelis after five days of detention and allowed to return to Gaza.<BR/><BR/> <BR/><BR/> Gaza: international plan hatched to bring back Fatah: A plan to create a new foothold in Gaza for the Palestinian Authority and to bring in international monitors was being drawn up by diplomats yesterday<BR/><BR/> <BR/><BR/>Thousands rally in world capitals to protest against Gaza war: Police in riot gear confronted about 20,000 protesters waving banners and Palestinian flags outside the Israeli embassy in central London.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-55729498915163672552009-01-12T10:55:00.000-08:002009-01-12T10:55:00.000-08:00The Kind Who Support Israel:Neo-Nazis For IsraelWh...The Kind Who Support Israel:<BR/><BR/>Neo-Nazis For Israel<BR/><BR/>While much of the neo-Nazi fringe remains opposed to the existence of Israel, the whites-only British National Party recently declared its full-throated support for Israel's attack on Gaza. The shelling of Gaza City [1] by Israeli forces has brought joy to the heart of BNP head of legal affairs Lee Barnes: "This sort of 'disinfecting' process whereby Israel is required to sterilise areas of radical Islamist support ... is what all nations have to do in order to eradicate Islamist cells who have managed to take over territory either within or on the edges of their borders," Barnes wrote [2] on his blog on January 4. He continued, "Get used to the casualties -- for without them any nation so infected with Islamism will surrender, rot away into liberal apathy and then dies as it is taken over."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-16305194725341966392009-01-12T10:22:00.000-08:002009-01-12T10:22:00.000-08:00The Rats Desert:Another GOP senator to retire? Ohi...The Rats Desert:<BR/><BR/>Another GOP senator to retire? Ohio Republican George Voinovich is expected to announce Monday that he won't seek reelection to the Senate in 2010. First, Kit Bond, and now likely Voinovich.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-81226796716840514382009-01-12T10:20:00.000-08:002009-01-12T10:20:00.000-08:00WP: Bush oversaw weakest eight-year span in decade...WP: Bush oversaw weakest eight-year span in decades and economists increasingly view tenure as a time of little progress on fiscal challenges.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-60460219000082550522009-01-12T07:23:00.000-08:002009-01-12T07:23:00.000-08:00White House reporters for The New York Times predi...<I>White House reporters for The New York Times predict that the market collapse will force President-elect Barack Obama to abandon for now many of his campaign promises.<BR/><BR/>If his stimulus plan "doesn’t work out, he may very well be a one-term president,” said Jeff Zeleny, who covered Obama’s campaign. “It’s hard to imagine that he could be reelected if the economy’s in the exact same position four years from now.”<BR/><BR/>“A lot of the things he said on the campaign trail you can now dispense with,” said correspondent Peter Baker. “For the moment he has to focus on the economy.”<BR/><BR/>The reporters, gathered at a Sunday afternoon panel at the New York Times Center in New York City, largely concurred with the assessment that turning around the economy now trumps the issues Obama focused on from the stump until the market meltdown in August.<BR/><BR/>Baker suggested Obama would tackle smaller-scale issues related to his major agenda items as a kind of political “down payment” on his promises, for now would retreat from even some of his firmest pledges.<BR/><BR/>“You’re not going to see universal health care, I don’t think, this year,” Baker said. “You’re not going to see a cap on carbon emissions, as he has promised, probably, this year.”<BR/><BR/>And for all of his campaign trail talk about collective sacrifice, Baker observed, Obama has seemed reluctant to call for austerity in a challenging economic moment.<BR/><BR/>“He hasn’t asked anybody for sacrifice,” Baker said. “His whole economic package is about giving things to people.”<BR/><BR/>Sheryl Gay Stolberg, who has covered the Bush administration for the Times, suggested Obama would use his Inauguration, which takes place in nine days, as an opportunity to ask for patience from an uneasy public.<BR/><BR/>One of Obama’s principal political challenges, Stolberg said, is: “How will he try to lower expectations?”</I>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-56132378577521553092009-01-12T00:06:00.000-08:002009-01-12T00:06:00.000-08:00Psychotic, right wing scum department:Ex-gitmo gua...Psychotic, right wing scum department:<BR/><BR/>Ex-gitmo guard who saw 'torture' calls co-workers 'psychotic'Jeremy Gantz<BR/>Saturday January 10, 2009 <BR/><BR/><BR/>As the Guantanamo Bay detention center reached its seventh birthday this week, a U.S. veteran said he witnessed cell beatings, forced head shavings and interrogation tactics--including sleep deprivation, floor shackles and loud music--while guarding detainees there.<BR/><BR/>"It's torture," Chris Arendt, who worked at Guantanamo when he was 19, told the BBC in this video. "It's a means of extracting information that I didn't even believe these people probably had. It's a means of making their lives more miserable." <BR/><BR/>Arendt, who joined the U.S. military when he was 17, testified at the Winter Soldier Hearings in Washington D.C. last March.<BR/><BR/>Wearing an Iraq Veterans Against the War sweatshirt, Arendt told the BBC that many people he worked with at the camp thought of their Guantanamo posting as "vacation."<BR/><BR/>"...This was the opportunity that they'd always wanted, to be violent and awful people...because they are genuinely psychotic. And for others, it's just a job," Arendt said.<BR/><BR/>For years, the Guantanamo prison has inspired global protests against alleged U.S. human rights violations. President George W. Bush has said he would like to close the camp, but his administration has been unable to find countries willing to accept many Guantanamo detainees. President-elect Barack Obama has said he will close the prison and prosecute many Guantanamo detainees in the United States.<BR/><BR/>On Thursday, the U.S. military admitted that 25 Guantanamo detainees -- or 10 percent of the prison's captives -- have starved themselves for weeks and are being fed through tubes in their noses. Human rights groups have called the practice of force-feeding hunger strikers "inhumane and unlawful." <BR/><BR/>Thirty detainees are currently on a hunger strike.<BR/><BR/>In testimony during the Winter Soldier Hearings last year, Arendt said: "There were methods [in place at Guantanamo] to make certain that we got around to torturing these people."<BR/><BR/>The U.S. Department of Defense has said its policy is "to treat detainees humanely."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-20961662838690405152009-01-11T15:57:00.000-08:002009-01-11T15:57:00.000-08:00After his disasters in Iraq and Afaghastistan, Bus...After his disasters in Iraq and Afaghastistan, Bush did not get us into any more catastrophic wars, and cannot be blamed for losing these two wars because he is managing to hand them on to someone else.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com