“I’m not really certain how intellectually strong she would be..." - Karl Rove.
It's an argument used 20 years ago and one the Pro Human Pain and Suffering Racist Flabby Republicans can never let go.
''It's just that they may not have some of the necessities..." was the infamous line of Al Campanis on Nightline in 1987, which Rove et al are taping into. The "not smart" racist attack is not even thinly veiled or alluded to in a roundabout way it's blatantly stated by Rove.
The Republicans and their Toxic Commentators have learned an important lesson; before someone confronts you with your bigotry and wrong doings accuse them of the same charge. Hence the ridiculous Republican cries of Racism leveled against Sotomayor from the old, fat, puffy faced, flabby assed, bigoted white men who control the party. There is possibly no better retort than to simply look at (Video From Crooks and Liars) those leveling the charges; R. Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Newt Gingrich, Karl Rove, Tom "No to Evolution, Yes to Deferment" Tancredo, and Pat Buchanan. Old, Flabby, white and Racist. All of them professional bureaucrats, none of whom have probably ever done a day's labor and all of whom are Chicken Hawk members of the Party of Deferments, save Pat Buchanan who is staunchly anti-war and for which I give him much credit.
But you see to the Flabby Chicken Hawk Pro Human Pain and Suffering Party of Deferments, it doesn't even matter if the leaders believe the claims they make or not. It's simply part of their Art of War; Always disagree with the Socialist Democrats, always make outrageous attacks on them because the Party of Deferments are talking to their members, cooing malevolently into the ear of the rapidly aging and shrinking demographic who believes there really is no non-white male who possesses the necessary accoutrement and Sotomayor is a poor choice because she's an affirmative action choice just like all the other Hispanic Women on the Supreme Court, raised solely because of race.... err... and umm... their gender.
Update:
As for all the idiots (Red State and others) declaring it's an outrage they have to pronounce Judge Sotomayor's name correctly did all of you morons cheer on Brett Favre as FA-V-Ray or FARV for the Green Bay Packers?
It may be typical of the pro-Obama Dungeons & Dragons crowd to disparage a fellow countryman's memory of war from the comfort of mom's basement.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Monday, May 25, 2009
Self-Hating Veterans
You know who you are! The nasty and brutish vets who voted for a Hussein!
As the shift in voting patterns moves more people towards the Democratic Party and away from the insane Republicans, efforts are made to proclaim the vast majority of veterans are still republicans, this recent gallup poll shows veterans are more likely to be Republican, than the general public, but 62% identify themselves as Democrat/Independent. While it is fatuous to declare the parties have no difference whatsoever, I agree with words of Gore Vidal (“There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party ... and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.") and Bill Maher (The Democrats are what the Republicans used to be).
Today the Democrats occasionally support progressive liberal issues but, most often kow-tow to the Corporate Power which controls this Nation and uses the government and veterans to enrich their off-shore bank accounts.
But, perhaps today there is a chance as The Pimp and The Prostitute Liz Dick continue their Media Tour, young vets will move away from the Pro Human Pain and Suffering Right Wing Chicken Hawks and towards the progressive liberal self-hating views of Pat Tillman and afford the poor and the middle class a chance to do something with their lives other than be allowed the Freedom to protect the property of the rich.
To all the Veterans out there... Ooh-Rah.
I add this here because I forgot one of principle problems with the Pro Human Pain and Suffering Republican America of today. Ideology trumps all in their eyes. Because of this veterans who do not hold to conservative ideals are ignored or ridiculed. Therefore, ignorant conservative fanatics ensure The Veterans of Foreign Wars supported a non-veteran Peter Roskam over Tammy Duckworth, a wounded veteran of a foreign "war" for political office. Or vehemently defend their decisions to support Saxby Chamblis over Max Cleland. One of the two went to Vietnam and was severely wounded one received 4/5ths the number of deferments Dick Cheney received.
Update:
This comment by Wile E. Quixote sums up nicely the current Conservative/Republican, a cowardly chicken hawk who more than willingly talks tough and ensures others go to fight for him/her. The Republican Party, the Party of Deferments:
As the shift in voting patterns moves more people towards the Democratic Party and away from the insane Republicans, efforts are made to proclaim the vast majority of veterans are still republicans, this recent gallup poll shows veterans are more likely to be Republican, than the general public, but 62% identify themselves as Democrat/Independent. While it is fatuous to declare the parties have no difference whatsoever, I agree with words of Gore Vidal (“There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party ... and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.") and Bill Maher (The Democrats are what the Republicans used to be).
Today the Democrats occasionally support progressive liberal issues but, most often kow-tow to the Corporate Power which controls this Nation and uses the government and veterans to enrich their off-shore bank accounts.
But, perhaps today there is a chance as The Pimp and The Prostitute Liz Dick continue their Media Tour, young vets will move away from the Pro Human Pain and Suffering Right Wing Chicken Hawks and towards the progressive liberal self-hating views of Pat Tillman and afford the poor and the middle class a chance to do something with their lives other than be allowed the Freedom to protect the property of the rich.
To all the Veterans out there... Ooh-Rah.
I add this here because I forgot one of principle problems with the Pro Human Pain and Suffering Republican America of today. Ideology trumps all in their eyes. Because of this veterans who do not hold to conservative ideals are ignored or ridiculed. Therefore, ignorant conservative fanatics ensure The Veterans of Foreign Wars supported a non-veteran Peter Roskam over Tammy Duckworth, a wounded veteran of a foreign "war" for political office. Or vehemently defend their decisions to support Saxby Chamblis over Max Cleland. One of the two went to Vietnam and was severely wounded one received 4/5ths the number of deferments Dick Cheney received.
Update:
This comment by Wile E. Quixote sums up nicely the current Conservative/Republican, a cowardly chicken hawk who more than willingly talks tough and ensures others go to fight for him/her. The Republican Party, the Party of Deferments:
American conservatives have less than zero credibility on military matters. Rush Limbaugh dodged the draft. Dick Cheney got five deferments during Vietnam (he needed five because he lost two of them for drunk driving). George W. Bush pulled strings to get into a champagne squadron of the Texas Air National Guard. Mitt Romney fagged off to France to be a missionary for a couple of years (All of the Mormons I knew in the Army did their two year missions and then once they were done, enlisted. Guess that never occurred to Mittens). Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Glen Beck, Michael Steele, Michael Savageweiner, William Bennett, Eric Cantor, John Boehner, Kathryn Jean Lopez, Rudy Giuliani, Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, Max Boot, Jonah Goldberg, William Kristol, John Podhoretz, Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachman, are there any prominent conservatives under the age of 70 who have ever signed up, taken the oath to uphold and defend the Constitution, put on a uniform and served their country?
Saturday, May 23, 2009
bible
Can you feel it, see it, hear it today?
If you can't, then it doesn't matter anyway ~ Epic, Faith No More
2010 has been proposed, by Representative Paul Broun (Yes That Paul Broun of the Obama is exactly like Hitler and exactly like the Soviet Union) to be the Year of the bible.
Of course, fortunately this means mankind can claim the next 5+ Billion years of our Sun's life span for reality.
However, in light of the recent important fossil find of Ida (go here for list of media/blog coverage), erroneously trumped up as the "missing link" and the outrage Google caused by it's Ida-inspired fossil logo which dishonored and angered god and brought man one step closer to righteous destruction, I am loathe to admit that the bible hath been proven true.
Here is the proof from Mr. Andy Schlafly. Italics to accentuate the logic.
I placed this under my Argument from Authority label but really what do you call this? Argument from the Neener Neener? Argument from god, bible and logic are in the same paragraph? Presto?
This lovely bon mot of wisdom comes from the egregious Conservapedia Liberal Page. I guarantee hours of stupefying enjoyment from perusing the site. The Liberal and Evolution pages are especially gratifying since they prove all liberals equal socialist atheists who, in turn, equal Hitler.
And as Paul Broun proved in 2008 Obama is exactly like Hitler.
If you can't, then it doesn't matter anyway ~ Epic, Faith No More
2010 has been proposed, by Representative Paul Broun (Yes That Paul Broun of the Obama is exactly like Hitler and exactly like the Soviet Union) to be the Year of the bible.
Of course, fortunately this means mankind can claim the next 5+ Billion years of our Sun's life span for reality.
However, in light of the recent important fossil find of Ida (go here for list of media/blog coverage), erroneously trumped up as the "missing link" and the outrage Google caused by it's Ida-inspired fossil logo which dishonored and angered god and brought man one step closer to righteous destruction, I am loathe to admit that the bible hath been proven true.
Here is the proof from Mr. Andy Schlafly. Italics to accentuate the logic.
James, you've been misled in your education. The Bible is the most logical book written. People have a free will to reject logic, and reject that 2 and 2 are 4, but that doesn't change the logical truth of it.--Andy Schlafly 22:03, 7 April 2009 (EDT)
Andy Schlafly, would you do me the honor of explaining why the Bible is the most logical book written? ShmuelB 22:58, 7 April 2009 (EDT)
God created the world, and then man. Man incurred the ultimate offense against God, and that required the ultimate sacrifice to redeem it. God intervenes with miracles from time to time as He likes. This is completely logical. Now everyone has free will to reject this and conjure up any alternative theory they like, but Christianity is the most logical religion and the Bible is the most logical book.--Andy Schlafly 23:30, 7 April 2009 (EDT)
I placed this under my Argument from Authority label but really what do you call this? Argument from the Neener Neener? Argument from god, bible and logic are in the same paragraph? Presto?
This lovely bon mot of wisdom comes from the egregious Conservapedia Liberal Page. I guarantee hours of stupefying enjoyment from perusing the site. The Liberal and Evolution pages are especially gratifying since they prove all liberals equal socialist atheists who, in turn, equal Hitler.
And as Paul Broun proved in 2008 Obama is exactly like Hitler.
Friday, May 22, 2009
The Pimp and The Prostitute
Everyone knows that Anderson Cooper is understating the outrage which would occur if a Democrat took on, as his mission, to undercut the president and cheer on another terrorist attack the way Liz Dick are doing. They would be called traitors.
Just ask the Dixie Chicks, and they were not even praying Al Qaeda would attack America the way Liz Dick, She Who Will not be Named 2, and the Thrice Divorced, Drug Addicted, Pedarast Child Rapist are...
So Liz Dick tell the American people why is it that everyone who undergoes a very controlled and completely supervised water boarding states it is torture? Yet Liz Dick and the other members of the Pro Human Pain and Suffering Crowd who have not, rabidly cheer on the practice.
Mancow Muller is the latest and his wasn't even "enhanced", Muller somewhat sheepishly admits he did not want to believe water boarding is torture but concedes it is drowning. And the guy administering the "water cure" admits to be untrained plus he doesn't place Muller in hour long stress positions, slap him in the face or sleep deprive him before hand.
Who can take seriously the stance of the Pimp and the Prostitute who have never been shot at, who have never shit in a hole in the desert, and who have never experienced water boarding? Liz Dick should be tried for warcrimes and subjected to enhanced water boarding prior to their final sentencing.
Update:
The disgusting Pro Human Pain and Suffering Crowd predictably declare it's not Torture because Muller was able to stop the procedure whenever he wanted and drowning isn't dying if you live...
Monday, May 18, 2009
The President is a Muslim
Former President Bush.
Bush is a secret muslim who worked for 8 years in office to destroy and fragment America. The answer to all of Bush's illegal and immoral actions as president stem from one unassailable truth, Because President Bush is a Secret Muslim who hates America and loves Islam.
Because President Bush is a Secret Muslim who hates America and loves Islam:
- is why Bush kissed The Saudi King and often walked around with him holding hands.
- is why Bush repeatedly called Islam a lovely beautiful peaceful religion:
There are thousands of Muslims who proudly call themselves Americans, and they know what I know -28 Sept 2001. Bush clearly is telling Muslims he is secretly with them and against America.
- is why Bush ignored the August 6 memo Bin Laden Determined To Strike In U.S. Bush agrees with his personal hero Osama Bin Laden and hates America.
- is why Bush allowed his personal Hero Osama Bin Laden to escape from Tora Bora by undercutting and stopping Delta Force from killing Bin Laden. President Bush loved Osama Bin Laden so much he made sure he escaped.
Leaving the back door open gave the rat a chance to run. - Kill Bin Laden, pg.294 by Dalton Fury.
The nome de guerred Delta Force Commander Dalton Fury tasked with killing Osama Bin Laden explained during an interview, how the Secret Muslim Bush actively worked to stop Delta Force from Killing Bin Laden.
Delta developed an audacious plan to come at bin Laden from the one direction he would never expect.
"We want to come in on the back door," Fury explains. "The original plan that we sent up through our higher headquarters, Delta Force wants to come in over the mountain with oxygen, coming from the Pakistan side, over the mountains and come in and get a drop on bin Laden from behind."
But they didn't take that route, because Fury says they didn't get approval from a higher level. "Whether that was Central Command all the way up to the president of the United States, I'm not sure," he says.
The next option that Delta wanted to employ was to drop hundreds of landmines in the mountain passes that led to Pakistan, which was bin Laden’s escape route.
But they didn't do that either, because Fury says that plan was also disapproved. He says he has "no idea" why.
"How often does Delta come up with a tactical plan that's disapproved by higher headquarters?" Pelley asks.
"In my experience, in my five years at Delta, never before," Fury says.
- is why Osama Bin Laden's brother, Salem Bin Laden gave Bush a huge bailout in the 1980s because Bush expressed his devout muslim faith to the family of Osama Bin Laden and the Bin Laden family gave Bush money. And Bush helped repay them by whisking away 11 members of the Bin Laden family right after the attacks of 9/11.
- is why Bush worked on his faith based imitative. Bush wanted to funnel American Tax Payer dollars to Muslims.
- is why Bush gave up alcohol and cocaine. Bush specifically stated Islam helped him give up alcohol.
"First is to recognize that there is a higher power. It helped me in my life. It helped me quit drinking."
- is why Bush attacked Iraq. Saddam was an apostate to Islam and since Bush is a devout Muslim he hated Saddam more than the perpetrators of 9/11, the Saudis, with whom he expressed solidarity with by kissing their King.
- is why Bush kept the US military in Iraq killing thousands of American "infidels" in the military whom Bush hates and draining the American treasury plus spending billions to rebuild a Muslim country while ignoring America. Bush actively worked to cause another Great Depression because Bush hates America.
- is why the terrible scar in the heart of New York City was left open and ugly for his entire presidency. The hole at Ground Zero was Bush's way of praising Islam by leaving the monument of their evil attack on America for all muslims to see.
- is why he violated US law by spying on Americans, approving torture and issuing Presidential signing statements circumventing the US Constitution. Bush believes he answers to Allah and not to man made laws.
- is why he fought against the Second Amendment of the US Constitution by limiting gun owners rights to carry concealed firearms in national parks. It wasn't until the True lovers of America the Heroic Democratic Congress passed legislation to allow Americans to have their rights.
Clearly we've had a Islamo-Fascist in the White House for years and now the burden of cleaning up two wars, stabilizing an economic nightmare and bringing America back to the rule of law and the respect of the decent peoples of the world falls on The 91% Marxist-Communist-Fascist President Hussein.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
If You Come Upon the Buddha in the Roadway...
A standard avenue of attack on an atheist is the "What are you going to do when you die and find yourself face to face with god". It's a nonsensical question which holds no sway and causes no consternation in the atheist's mind.
But, as a gamer and avid thinker I have an active and fertile mind, as a result of evolution and my own cultivation. So here's a response (adapted from The Shawshank Redemption).
I've said, when the spirit moves me, that god knows the reasons I have for why he does not exist.
This life is the real life this world is the only world and it is one's paramount duty to live life to the fullest, to cherish one's friends and loves, to soak in the glories of the world and in other words; To Be.
Addendum:
Suddenly, a bright light shines from above; with my eyes heavy and mouth dry I manage a sandpaper like croak, What is happening?
It's okay Mr. Grunge. The effects will wear off shortly. Your stem cell regeneration procedure was a complete success.
I'm hazy. I'm not sure I understand.
Of course allow me to explain. Since the mid 21st century due to medical and scientific advances mankind is capable of regenerating all the cells and organs of your physical self while the true self your mind remains and advances throughout the ages. Thus providing all of humanity a real Immortality instead of the fable once bandied about by insane brain washing fanatics and psychotic witch-doctors.
I had this dream I was brought before the holy trinity.
That's a common enough occurrence. While resting the mind moves throughout the REM cycle and further and vivid dreams and hallucinations are known to occur. People often dream about meeting imaginary beings.
Thus when the fog lifted I recalled what I knew. All the gods are imaginary. They are stuff of delusions, dreams and hallucinations.
But, as a gamer and avid thinker I have an active and fertile mind, as a result of evolution and my own cultivation. So here's a response (adapted from The Shawshank Redemption).
A door of perception opens and I find myself face to face, as it were, with the Holy Trinity.
Grunge it says here you have served a 109 years of a life sentence are you ready to face judgement and God?
God? Well, now let me see. You know, I have no idea what that word means.
Well it means Me. The Creator of Heaven and Earth. The Alpha and Omega...
I know what you think it means sonny. God is just a made up word. A politicians word. So little weak men can wear funny costumes and have a job stealing from and controlling people. What you really want to know is if I'm sorry I didn't believe in you while I was alive.
Well are you?
There's not a day goes by that I did not try and use my reason. And I'm not sorry the use of my mind and the evidence of the world led me to know you don't exist.
God? God is just a bullshit word. So go ahead and stamp your form and quit wasting my fucking time. Cause I don't give a damn.
I've said, when the spirit moves me, that god knows the reasons I have for why he does not exist.
This life is the real life this world is the only world and it is one's paramount duty to live life to the fullest, to cherish one's friends and loves, to soak in the glories of the world and in other words; To Be.
Addendum:
Suddenly, a bright light shines from above; with my eyes heavy and mouth dry I manage a sandpaper like croak, What is happening?
It's okay Mr. Grunge. The effects will wear off shortly. Your stem cell regeneration procedure was a complete success.
I'm hazy. I'm not sure I understand.
Of course allow me to explain. Since the mid 21st century due to medical and scientific advances mankind is capable of regenerating all the cells and organs of your physical self while the true self your mind remains and advances throughout the ages. Thus providing all of humanity a real Immortality instead of the fable once bandied about by insane brain washing fanatics and psychotic witch-doctors.
I had this dream I was brought before the holy trinity.
That's a common enough occurrence. While resting the mind moves throughout the REM cycle and further and vivid dreams and hallucinations are known to occur. People often dream about meeting imaginary beings.
Thus when the fog lifted I recalled what I knew. All the gods are imaginary. They are stuff of delusions, dreams and hallucinations.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
The Legacy
"Torture has never been a reliable means of extracting information. It is ultimately self-defeating as a means of control. One wonders it is still practiced." ~ Jean Luc Picard
Watching the "warped frustrated old man" Dick Cheney who is "more machine now than man, twisted and evil" frantically defending his warcrimes has been illuminating. Cheney is even so desperate he's pimping out his own daughter to equivocate on Torture.
Cheney's Torture message incorporates several avenues of attack: What was authorized wasn't Torture, but even if it was the Democrat Party knew about it too, however we only used the tougher methods on a select few and despite everything the methods protected America from future attacks.
Part of the Cheney defense strategy is if Torture hearings would threaten to bring down Pelosi and Reid (and other Democratic Party members) then the Dems and the NBC championed, Moveon.org backed, Soros Funded Liberal World Wide Conspiracy won't be willing or able to investigate the matter fully.
This is actually a fairly solid plan as the Democrats probably wont be willing to move forward unless they have built up enough of a wedge in people's minds that Pelosi and other Democratic members of congress were not given the full information or were actively kept in the dark about the depth and nature of the methods.
Another line of the Torture defense strategy comes when Liz Cheney opens her mouth and Dick's (words) come out. We only used the methods on select few. However, this part undercuts the idea that the methods used helped to protect America. When raids are done and insurgents rounded up it's very difficult to identify them. They don't have social security numbers, many don't know their birthday, there were no fingerprint databases so it's possible after a raid on a VBIED warehouse that some HVT was there and got picked up with the rest of the lower level chaff. He won't speak up and confess because he's hoping to be detained for a short period of time before being released.
Therefore it is only prudent that we must Torture every single prisoner of war. How will we know, know conclusively, one of those terrorists we captured did not just recently meet with UBL in Damascus after having planned the next 9-11 unless we water board him?
Underlying all the Torture talk is this message from Cheney: Attempt to bring me down for warcrimes and I will destroy America. It's the MAD gambit. The Republicans and their Toxic Allies will work ceaselessly to turn the regular Americans against one another, fragment society and cheer on another terrorist attack.
And that is The Legacy of the Bush/Cheney Presidency. The Destruction of America.
Bush and Cheney will have accomplished a feat the Nazis, Soviets, Southern racists, Bill Ayers, all failed at; The Destruction of America.
Watching the "warped frustrated old man" Dick Cheney who is "more machine now than man, twisted and evil" frantically defending his warcrimes has been illuminating. Cheney is even so desperate he's pimping out his own daughter to equivocate on Torture.
Cheney's Torture message incorporates several avenues of attack: What was authorized wasn't Torture, but even if it was the Democrat Party knew about it too, however we only used the tougher methods on a select few and despite everything the methods protected America from future attacks.
Part of the Cheney defense strategy is if Torture hearings would threaten to bring down Pelosi and Reid (and other Democratic Party members) then the Dems and the NBC championed, Moveon.org backed, Soros Funded Liberal World Wide Conspiracy won't be willing or able to investigate the matter fully.
This is actually a fairly solid plan as the Democrats probably wont be willing to move forward unless they have built up enough of a wedge in people's minds that Pelosi and other Democratic members of congress were not given the full information or were actively kept in the dark about the depth and nature of the methods.
Another line of the Torture defense strategy comes when Liz Cheney opens her mouth and Dick's (words) come out. We only used the methods on select few. However, this part undercuts the idea that the methods used helped to protect America. When raids are done and insurgents rounded up it's very difficult to identify them. They don't have social security numbers, many don't know their birthday, there were no fingerprint databases so it's possible after a raid on a VBIED warehouse that some HVT was there and got picked up with the rest of the lower level chaff. He won't speak up and confess because he's hoping to be detained for a short period of time before being released.
Therefore it is only prudent that we must Torture every single prisoner of war. How will we know, know conclusively, one of those terrorists we captured did not just recently meet with UBL in Damascus after having planned the next 9-11 unless we water board him?
Underlying all the Torture talk is this message from Cheney: Attempt to bring me down for warcrimes and I will destroy America. It's the MAD gambit. The Republicans and their Toxic Allies will work ceaselessly to turn the regular Americans against one another, fragment society and cheer on another terrorist attack.
And that is The Legacy of the Bush/Cheney Presidency. The Destruction of America.
Bush and Cheney will have accomplished a feat the Nazis, Soviets, Southern racists, Bill Ayers, all failed at; The Destruction of America.
Monday, May 11, 2009
Things aren't always bigger in Texas
Barbara Cargill spearheads the way to an 11-3 vote which proves the Universe is not billions of years old. Texas Secede Already! Go Galt, rejoin Mexico, just go away... So Long and thanks for all the Wars.
The Republican party wonders why Americans believe they are the party of anti-science. The answer is because they are.
Stalag XVII-B, Revisited
"You just kicked the shit out of an innocent man."
"Innocent? Innocent of what?" ~ Gene Hackman explains his style of policing from the film Unforgiven.
Remember the film Stalag 17? One of the techniques the Nazis use is Sleep Deprivation. Watch the scene. In it Von Scherbach also declares Lieutenant Dunbar is not a prisoner of war. Strange how much Ari "Sleep Deprivation, I have no Problem with" Flesciher resembles Von Scherbach and not Otto Preminger.
The CIA was granted the authority to keep captured enemies shackled and awake for days. Detainees were clad only in diapers and not allowed to feed themselves. A prisoner who started to drift off to sleep would tilt over and be caught by his chains, according to the report.
What anti-american terrorist loving fucks those movie producers were in the Fifties. Of course, I don't know what to do with prisoners of war. But do we really need to further dehumanize them?
My strongest ire is held for those who craft such policies and then sit back at a distance never having to dirty their hands. Those who chickened out when they were younger, those who deferred their military service, yet in latter days became Hawkmen. The men and women who have to carry out the orders and are tasked with sifting through the excrement and filth are the ones who become most damaged. For they are the ones we torture too. We allow their humanity to be stripped as they work to deprive another of theirs.
This is a supreme tragedy of war.
"Innocent? Innocent of what?" ~ Gene Hackman explains his style of policing from the film Unforgiven.
Remember the film Stalag 17? One of the techniques the Nazis use is Sleep Deprivation. Watch the scene. In it Von Scherbach also declares Lieutenant Dunbar is not a prisoner of war. Strange how much Ari "Sleep Deprivation, I have no Problem with" Flesciher resembles Von Scherbach and not Otto Preminger.
The CIA was granted the authority to keep captured enemies shackled and awake for days. Detainees were clad only in diapers and not allowed to feed themselves. A prisoner who started to drift off to sleep would tilt over and be caught by his chains, according to the report.
What anti-american terrorist loving fucks those movie producers were in the Fifties. Of course, I don't know what to do with prisoners of war. But do we really need to further dehumanize them?
My strongest ire is held for those who craft such policies and then sit back at a distance never having to dirty their hands. Those who chickened out when they were younger, those who deferred their military service, yet in latter days became Hawkmen. The men and women who have to carry out the orders and are tasked with sifting through the excrement and filth are the ones who become most damaged. For they are the ones we torture too. We allow their humanity to be stripped as they work to deprive another of theirs.
This is a supreme tragedy of war.
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Onward and Upward with Prayer
We will not renounce our part in the mission of our race, trustee, under God, of the civilization of the world. ...and thanksgiving to Almighty God that He has marked us as His chosen people, henceforth to lead in the regeneration of the world. Senator Albert J. Beveridge, In Support of an American Empire
The video of the Army chaplain evangelizing has caused a stir. It's showing Americans and the world that the US military has been taken over by evangelical fanatics who want to follow the words of She Who Shall Not Be Named, "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to christianity."
Of course, the zealots have reared their heads and reacted. Rawwwr the Beast shouts! This endangers the Troops! Al Qaida Television selectively edited the video! Christian Fight Pilot specifically makes these points at his blog in defending the actions of the chaplain.
Christian Fight Pilot, however, like the chaplain is arguing in bad faith. And as opposed to being vindicating as he believes I think the unedited version is actually more damning. It shows the unbroken flow of conversation it shows the chaplain teaching the soldiers how to break the spirit of the general order while not breaking the letter of the order. It's proselytizing by stealth.
Listen to the words of not only the chaplain but the SSG to wit:
But CFP gets puffed up with righteous holy zeal. His main point is soldiers can express their belief. This is a protected right in the military!
Missing, of course, the whole issue. This isn't some academic debate, this isn't occurring in the vacuum of a classroom where the dialectic is turned to the subtleties of the immaculate conception and how many angels bellow forth from the muzzle of a Ma Deuce. This talk of bringing people to the christ is coming from the mouths of those who are ubiquitous through out the land holding guns and controlling the streets.
Anyone who has been in the military can attest that religion is crammed down the gullets of the every member. You can't attend a large formation (a welcome home, a sendoff, or a promotion) without having a chaplain issue the call to prayer.
Admittedly it's not as bad as the Lt Colonel Hensley, the chief of the U.S. military chaplains in Afghanistan, declaring:
The spreading the faith from the barrel of a gun. Which is how the faith was spread anyway, through violence, force, rape, murder and destruction.
This whole incident could be passed off as a rogue chaplain if it wasn't for the large amount of evidence which indicates this is not "a few bad apples" but part of a pattern; disgusting Air Force Cadets confronting non-evangelicals with Cult-esque Shame Circles to browbeat them into accepting the "true" faith, the comments I've highlighted and the unacceptable boot camp religious brain-washing 'God's Basic Training'! The First Strategic Objective of which is to: Evangelize and Disciple All Enlisted Members of the US Military. And the last: Change Continents for Christ. Transform nations of world through the militaries of world.
"Well you know what I knew, that my God was bigger than his. I knew that my God was a real God, and his was an idol."
The video of the Army chaplain evangelizing has caused a stir. It's showing Americans and the world that the US military has been taken over by evangelical fanatics who want to follow the words of She Who Shall Not Be Named, "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to christianity."
Of course, the zealots have reared their heads and reacted. Rawwwr the Beast shouts! This endangers the Troops! Al Qaida Television selectively edited the video! Christian Fight Pilot specifically makes these points at his blog in defending the actions of the chaplain.
Christian Fight Pilot, however, like the chaplain is arguing in bad faith. And as opposed to being vindicating as he believes I think the unedited version is actually more damning. It shows the unbroken flow of conversation it shows the chaplain teaching the soldiers how to break the spirit of the general order while not breaking the letter of the order. It's proselytizing by stealth.
Listen to the words of not only the chaplain but the SSG to wit:
"Be careful how you do it", "There are ways to win people to christ", "You can not proselytize but you can give gifts", "You share the word in a smart manner", "Be smart about it", "If you make it a gift and walk away from it..."
But CFP gets puffed up with righteous holy zeal. His main point is soldiers can express their belief. This is a protected right in the military!
Missing, of course, the whole issue. This isn't some academic debate, this isn't occurring in the vacuum of a classroom where the dialectic is turned to the subtleties of the immaculate conception and how many angels bellow forth from the muzzle of a Ma Deuce. This talk of bringing people to the christ is coming from the mouths of those who are ubiquitous through out the land holding guns and controlling the streets.
Anyone who has been in the military can attest that religion is crammed down the gullets of the every member. You can't attend a large formation (a welcome home, a sendoff, or a promotion) without having a chaplain issue the call to prayer.
Admittedly it's not as bad as the Lt Colonel Hensley, the chief of the U.S. military chaplains in Afghanistan, declaring:
"The special forces guys -- they hunt men basically. We do the same things as Christians, we hunt people for Jesus. We do, we hunt them down," he says.
The spreading the faith from the barrel of a gun. Which is how the faith was spread anyway, through violence, force, rape, murder and destruction.
This whole incident could be passed off as a rogue chaplain if it wasn't for the large amount of evidence which indicates this is not "a few bad apples" but part of a pattern; disgusting Air Force Cadets confronting non-evangelicals with Cult-esque Shame Circles to browbeat them into accepting the "true" faith, the comments I've highlighted and the unacceptable boot camp religious brain-washing 'God's Basic Training'! The First Strategic Objective of which is to: Evangelize and Disciple All Enlisted Members of the US Military. And the last: Change Continents for Christ. Transform nations of world through the militaries of world.
"Well you know what I knew, that my God was bigger than his. I knew that my God was a real God, and his was an idol."
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Drunken Cubs "Fans"
So Come On And Have A Good Time
And Get Blinded Out Of Your Mind ~ AC/DC, Have a Drink On Me
Roughly 5 hours after the end of a Cubs game this last weekend, our Dispatch received a call from the Metra police asking for assistance in taking 12-15 Cubs fans off the train as it stopped in my town.
And guess why?
Becuase they had just spent the last 4 hours boozing it up in Wrigleyville and now were causing problems for the conductors by such admirable actions as urinating in the train, throwing beer cans at one another, jumping around the cars and generally being sloppy drunks.
When I arrived all I could hear over Coms was yelling. When I got onto the train the group was loud, disorderly, obniouxs, profane, vulgar, combative and whinny.
Their yelling was punctuated with variations of the following:
As I helped one young lady who refused to get off the train leave, she turned on me and shouted you can’t push me I know my rights.
I stopped (still holding her arm ever so gently) and said, "You do? Well, tell me your rights? What are your rights?"
She paused and with head titled, mouth slightly agape she looked at me wordlessly.
I continued, "Your behavior is prohibited by Metra, they want you off the train, You're getting off."
After the train had departed and the drunks had mostly been packaged off to their suburban wonderlands I asked a buddy of mine "Do you know who you would never see act like that? Brothers."
Because if they got blasted were throwing beer cans at each, swearing, jumping around the train and then decided to mean mug and confront a group of cops they know they would catch a beat down.
When was the last time you saw an African-American man run onto Wrigley Field? (Mute the Commentary.)
And Get Blinded Out Of Your Mind ~ AC/DC, Have a Drink On Me
Roughly 5 hours after the end of a Cubs game this last weekend, our Dispatch received a call from the Metra police asking for assistance in taking 12-15 Cubs fans off the train as it stopped in my town.
And guess why?
Becuase they had just spent the last 4 hours boozing it up in Wrigleyville and now were causing problems for the conductors by such admirable actions as urinating in the train, throwing beer cans at one another, jumping around the cars and generally being sloppy drunks.
When I arrived all I could hear over Coms was yelling. When I got onto the train the group was loud, disorderly, obniouxs, profane, vulgar, combative and whinny.
Their yelling was punctuated with variations of the following:
But, we’re going to fancy upscale Chicago Suburb How are weeeeee suppossed to get there? This is bullshit... What the fuck man... Screw you... I gah-tah piss... Dude, hey dude dude dude hey dude dude let me talk to you for a moment...
As I helped one young lady who refused to get off the train leave, she turned on me and shouted you can’t push me I know my rights.
I stopped (still holding her arm ever so gently) and said, "You do? Well, tell me your rights? What are your rights?"
She paused and with head titled, mouth slightly agape she looked at me wordlessly.
I continued, "Your behavior is prohibited by Metra, they want you off the train, You're getting off."
After the train had departed and the drunks had mostly been packaged off to their suburban wonderlands I asked a buddy of mine "Do you know who you would never see act like that? Brothers."
Because if they got blasted were throwing beer cans at each, swearing, jumping around the train and then decided to mean mug and confront a group of cops they know they would catch a beat down.
When was the last time you saw an African-American man run onto Wrigley Field? (Mute the Commentary.)
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Justice (as seen through a hoop)
Ach, too easy... How's about:
You are the Enemy I name Thee now... and this I swear: to my last breath I shall block You on earth.... ~ Amadeus: A Play by Peter Shaffer
The Bulls did end up losing to the Celtics in Game 7 of a very exciting playoff series. Too bad, however, the Bulls players did not resort to cheap shots on the Celtic players in order to win the game or in retaliation for the Celtics dirty play through the series, mainly by Rajon Rondo.
What struck me as pertienent was the Bulls’ fans reactions to the perceived injustice in the foul calling. The actions of Rondo were against the rules and the spirit of the game. When the fans saw his actions were not be penalized they wished the Bulls players would exact some measure of revenge.
Humans have an evolved sense of right and wrong. What the fans wanted was a variation of the Tit-for-Tat, Retaliator or other system given to the evolutionary defense mechanism of reciprocal altruism.
Tit-for-Tat is not the best strategy ever and has been defeated but only when others have worked out detailed attempts to specifically defeat it. The one I favor and have used (playfully) is nicknamed Grim. Grim punishes cheats with ETERNAL vengeance. I do seem to recall "someone" else favoring the Grim strategy.
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Republicans Hate You but, so do the Democrats
"What? Why would you do that?!?!?"
"Because I hate you Trebek..." ~ Will Ferrell as Alex Trebek and Darrell Hammond as Sean Connery from SNL Celebrity Jeopardy
Mitt Reagan Redux flanked by Bush III is urging Americans to rise up and violently overthrow the Democrats in the Federal Government so they can once again enjoy the spoils of the Kleptocracy with their Republican allies.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Reagan Redux compared the GOP to Americans fighting the British during the Revolutionary War. "We are the party of the revolutionaries, they [Democrats] are the party of the monarchists," he told the overwhelmingly Republican crowd, saying the Republicans needed to "once again lead the American Revolution."
Both parties hate you. Those in high office really think you have nothing to offer other than to provide them with office. To accomplish this they will use any and all propaganda techniques they can imagine to make you hate the other toiling workers to support them. It's quite ridiculous.
High ranking Politicians are all members (or at least imagine they are) of the Better Class so they are merely looking out for their interests. Their interests are too use the government to enrich themselves, their families and their cronies.
The history of the United States is of Class Struggle. The Founding Fathers knew this. James Madison hoped the United States would not succumb to extremes of poverty and wealth, because of commerce and manufacture, but he was a fatalist who thought his Constitution would eventually become impractical.
Unfortunately, the rich-poor gap in the United States is the worst it has ever been.
As Warren Buffett noted, "The rich people are doing so well in this country. I mean, we never had it so good. It's class warfare, my class is winning, but they shouldn't be.
"Because I hate you Trebek..." ~ Will Ferrell as Alex Trebek and Darrell Hammond as Sean Connery from SNL Celebrity Jeopardy
Mitt Reagan Redux flanked by Bush III is urging Americans to rise up and violently overthrow the Democrats in the Federal Government so they can once again enjoy the spoils of the Kleptocracy with their Republican allies.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Reagan Redux compared the GOP to Americans fighting the British during the Revolutionary War. "We are the party of the revolutionaries, they [Democrats] are the party of the monarchists," he told the overwhelmingly Republican crowd, saying the Republicans needed to "once again lead the American Revolution."
Both parties hate you. Those in high office really think you have nothing to offer other than to provide them with office. To accomplish this they will use any and all propaganda techniques they can imagine to make you hate the other toiling workers to support them. It's quite ridiculous.
High ranking Politicians are all members (or at least imagine they are) of the Better Class so they are merely looking out for their interests. Their interests are too use the government to enrich themselves, their families and their cronies.
The history of the United States is of Class Struggle. The Founding Fathers knew this. James Madison hoped the United States would not succumb to extremes of poverty and wealth, because of commerce and manufacture, but he was a fatalist who thought his Constitution would eventually become impractical.
Unfortunately, the rich-poor gap in the United States is the worst it has ever been.
As Warren Buffett noted, "The rich people are doing so well in this country. I mean, we never had it so good. It's class warfare, my class is winning, but they shouldn't be.
Friday, May 1, 2009
Deadly Democrat Partyfluenza
Every major blog, news site and America's top journalist Jon Stewart have already laughed at the ignorant Michele Bachmann for her latest insane comment;
"I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out then under another Democrat president Jimmy Carter. And I'm not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it's an interesting coincidence." ~ Watch it if you really want to...
Bachmann's entire body langauge is odd with excessive blinking, a frozen faced smile, and wide-eyed stare stilted speech patterns punctuated with strange arm and hand gesticulations.
Michele Bachmann speaks to they that hear. "...Someone might hold some very hateful beliefs, but we are America, shouldn't they be allowed to hold those beliefs?"
What she is really saying with her "Democrat Party", dropping of the article "the" whenever she says (The) United States, her definition of Obama's Tyranny is it's okay to be bigoted, it's okay to hate, it's okay to commit crimes of violence because of your "sincerely held religious beliefs" because the Democrat party is the party of the unrighteous, the unjust, the communists, the america-haters, the homosexuals, the heathens, the damned. And the election of Obama is a sin for which United States is receiving god's just vengeance.
But, whatever, there are enough sites and more gifted commentators who can more artfully expose Bachmann to the evil light of reality that even when Bachmann expresses Solidarity with Bill Ayers in calling for Open Revolution against United States I'll focus on my Representative and the ongoings in Greater Chicagoland.
Palin/Bachmamm 2012!
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