August 2010
The Truculent And Bullying
“The word ‘appeasement’ is not popular, but appeasement has its place in all policy. Make sure you put it in the right place. Appease the weak, defy the strong.”
Churchill argued that “appeasement from strength is magnanimous and noble and might be the surest and perhaps the only path to world peace.”
And he remarked on the painful irony: “When nations or individuals get strong they are...
Heil, das Glennster →
azspot:
Mike Godwin had his tongue in his cheek when he first invoked his law in 1989: “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.” No matter what the subject—gardening, fashion, even tea parties—Hitler will raise his evil analogous head.
Godwin, an attorney and expert on Internet law, added that mention of Hitler stops the...
How Does Jesus The Advocate Of The Poor And Sick...
If you wish to be perfect, sell all you have, and you will have treasure in heaven, and follow me.” - Jesus, Gospel of Mark
via tumblr.com
Jesus was a massive advocate of the poor and the sick. Spent his time on Earth as Son of God telling his followers such behavior will be rewarded.
Now you have corrosive conservative leaders like Glenn Beck pushing the notion that working and advocating...
Compare The Lives Of King And Beck
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Preserve Social Security = Let Bush Tax Cuts...
via oliverwillis.com
Letting taxes go back to where they should be for 1% will take care of the other 99% of America. Or conversely, extend the toxic cuts and give more help to the richest 1% and hurt 99% who really need it.
Is everyone paying into Social Security now willing to take a cut to help the top 1% get richer?
America is one vindictive culture when this reasoning is considered...
New Left Media Covers Beck's Rally
via newleftmedia.com I guess Civics class was not a requirement. Or facts. The Beck crowd has perfected the dissemination of misinformation to the point these people don’t know the facts and proport to know, not an opinion, but the truth. ex: Takes 21 years to apply for residency for parents of children born in the US. The whole “anchor baby” issue loses all meaning. ...
The Pakistani Rubix Cube
“Economic growth is not a panacea for social ills or political disarray, but policies designed to unleash Pakistan’s economy during the next decade are far more likely to reduce the threat of Taliban-inspired revolution than are military operations and drone strikes. Examples of success exist: Indonesia, which, like Pakistan, has a large Muslim population and implausible borders left behind...
Teddy Roosevelt On Limited Corporate Suffrage: 100...
“We must have complete and effective publicity of corporate affairs, so that people may know beyond peradventure whether the corporations obey the law and whether their management entitles them to the confidence of the public. It is necessary that laws should be passed to prohibit the use of corporate funds directly or indirectly for political purposes; it is still more necessary that such...
Dick Morris: GOP Will Shut Down The Government...
Republican pollster Dick Morris told conservative political activists that newly elected Republicans should shut down the government next year. Morris said the party must elect lawmakers who will stand up and say “No” to President Obama’s requests for more government spending and predicted a repeat of how Republicans forced a shutdown under President Clinton after they won...
“Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of...”
– Albert Einstein in “Why Socialism” (via joshuatang) (via adamquinn)
“Forty percent of the workforce are white-collar workers, most of whom have some...”
– Bob Black (via adamquinn)
The line about not leaving early if you’re done, they want your time, is so spot on. Misery loves company.
Where Did Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh Go To...
Where did Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh go to college? Don’t think too hard: it’s a trick question. Neither went to college. via politicalprof.tumblr.com The Rodeo Clown and The Pill Popper have no use for higher education. The game of life and slight of hand are all they need in the fact-free “d’ya ever wonder” verbal diarrhea they dish up for every show. Posted...
Beck Donations Pay For Event First, Troops Second
How do we know this? The fine print buried at the bottom of the official Glenn Beck website:“All contributions made to the Special Operations Warrior Foundation (SOWF) will first be applied to the costs of the Restoring Honor Rally taking place August 28, 2010. All contributions in excess of these costs will be retained by SOWF.” Suckers. Courtesy of Heather at C&L,...
“It shouldn’t have been said. It was poorly said … I have a big fat mouth...”
– Glenn Beck said that he regrets once having called President Obama a racist who hated white people. - Fox News Sunday via PoliticsDaily
(Beck had made the statement about Obama last year on Fox & Friends during a discussion of Obama’s criticism of Cambridge, Mass. police. Obama had said they...
“‘Terrorism’ has replaced Communism as the rationale for the militarization of...”
– Howard Zinn (via elledark) (via ihatethismess) (via adailyriot)
“… this is a moment that, quiet honestly, i think we reclaim the civil rights...”
– -Glenn Beck
… yeah, Glenn, about that, I think there’s multitudes of afro-american people and people of color as well as historians and history books that would tell you ya’ weren’t. GTFO.
(via adailyriot)
What part of “we” is Beck claiming to be a part of. What an interloper. Civil...
The Prodigal Gay Son
“Mehlman would like us to believe that he didn’t know he was gay back then. And, I’m sorry, but that doesn’t pass the smell-my-finger test. Mehlman rose quickly through the ranks of the GOP, wound up on top, cashed the checks, made the contacts, did real and lasting harm to other gays and lesbians, and Mehlman knew damn well what he was and what he was doing.”...
Simple Glenn Beck Quiz
Huckster Glenn Beck plans an August 28th demonstration in DC:
A. Is Beck an idiot and not realize 8/28 is the same day as MLK’s “I have a dream” speech at the same location?
B. Is Beck an idiot, knowing full well the MLK history, and just lies to the media about it?
C. Is Beck an idiot?
D. Are Beck’s followers idiots for either, not knowing that 8/28 is an important day...
Colbert: The Mighty Morphin Martyr Rangers
via bobcesca.com Too funny. Beck hopes to inspire an 8-year old to be the next George Washington 25 years form now: a hatchet-wielding, toothless slave owner. Posted via email from liberalsarecool.com | Comment »
Your House Is Burned: Who's At Fault Rebuilding...
Okay, here’s a heavy-handed analogy, followed by a brief quiz: So, some guys burn a house down. Then they walk away. Another guy comes along, sees the charred remains and wants to rebuild. He tries to gather materials but is thwarted by the friends of the guys who burned the house down. Having little choice, he tries to get money to buy materials from those same guys. ...
Palin: Nationalistic, Hawkish, Vapid, And Above...
Roger Ebert’s post on the Park 51 project is a must-read, but this bit about Sarah Palin was especially good: 6. Somewhere on the Right is an anonymous genius at creating memes. Sarah Palin floats a suspicious number of them: Death Panels, Ground Zero Mosque, 9/11 Mosque, Terror Babies. Her tweets are mine fields of coded words; for her, “patriot” is defined as, “those who agree with me.” When...
Catholic Church Involved In 1972 IRA Bomb Cover-Up...
via andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com
Mollie Wilson asks, relative to Cordoba mosque in NYC:
“On one level, it’s the same dynamic we’ve seen revealed in the sex-abuse scandal applied to a different crime. But it’s also the real-life illustration we didn’t know we were looking for on the question of how much responsibility ordinary believers ought to take for the worst atrocities committed...
Carter wins release of American from North Korea -... →
brooklynmutt:
Former President Jimmy Carter is leaving North Korea Friday with a U.S. citizen who was imprisoned in the communist country after entering it illegally in January, according to the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia.
Aijalon Mahli Gomes was imprisoned in January of this year and later sentenced to eight years of hard labor with a fine of about $600,000 for the crime of illegal...
Libertarian Utopia Meets Reality
Timothy B Lee tackles seasteading, “a program for political reform based on a proliferation of self-governing ocean colonies”:
If all you care about is avoiding the long arm of the law, that’s actually pretty easy to do. Buy a cabin in the woods in Wyoming and the government will pretty much leave you alone. Pick a job that allows you to deal in cash and you can probably get...
More Empty Homes Than Homeless: An American...
About 3.5 million US residents (about 1% of the population), including 1.35 million children, have been homeless for a significant period of time. Over 37,000 homeless individuals (including 16,000 children) stay in shelters in New York every night. This information was gathered by the Urban Institute, but actual numbers might be higher. Fox Business estimates, there are 18.9 million vacant...
Liberalism v Conservatism: A Debate
Via DougJ at Balloon Juice:
I’ve always been liberal, proud to call myself liberal, and if people who want fiscal sanity and a decent health care system think they should call themselves “progressive” instead, I’ll all myself a progressive instead. If there’s two sides and one of them is wrapped up in meaningless ideology and the other is at least somewhat interested in attaining practical...
The Strategic Dimension of the Mosque Debate
“Islam did not attack the United States on 9/11. It is simple collectivism—the denial of individual agency that libertarians reject—to believe that the tiny band of thugs who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks speak for an entire religion, culture, or creed. Our sympathy to families of 9/11 victims and our vestigial fears should not allow us to indulge gross and wrong generalizations about...
Bush Campaign Chief and Former RNC Chair Ken...
Ken Mehlman, President Bush’s campaign manager in 2004 and a former chairman of the Republican National Committee, has told family and associates that he is gay. via theatlantic.com Ken managed the most anti-gay Presidential campaigns in modern history. He spent his entire adult life attacking and taking away human rights from groups he was a member of. Classic Republicanism and...
Collateral From Idiots: NYPD Charges Man With...
Thank you, hateful Tea Bagger and Conservative Americans for making crazy people feel like they can act out:
The New York Police Department has confirmed to TPM that a cab driver in Manhttan was allegedly stabbed by a passenger who asked if the cabbie was Muslim, and says the incident is being treated as a hate crime. The suspect has been charged with attempted murder and other crimes.
via...
“Either Scripture was true and evolution was wrong or evolution was true and I...”
– Christianity and Evolution (via azspot)
Republicans Hot And Cold On Constitution
The Republicans claim to be strict Constitutionalist, except when they want to change it:
Republican Rep. Paul Broun of Georgia won his seat in Congress campaigning as a strict defender of the Constitution. He carries a copy in his pocket and is particularly fond of invoking the Second Amendment right to bear arms.
But it turns out there are parts of the document he doesn’t care for —...
Republican Exceptionalism
Everyone has Constitutional Rights except:
Muslims
Gays
Latinos
Pregnant women
Babies born in America to immigrants
Bush’s gamble with tax cuts, increased borrowing, and historic spending, which promised to create jobs, ownership, and prosperity but FAILED on a global scale, should involve all Americans paying their share except:
the mega-wealthiest top 1% who got the toxic tax cuts...
The Kansas Billionaire Koch Brothers’ War Against...
With his brother Charles, who is seventy-four, David Koch owns virtually all of Koch Industries, a conglomerate, headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, whose annual revenues are estimated to be a hundred billion dollars. The company has grown spectacularly since their father, Fred, died, in 1967, and the brothers took charge. The Kochs operate oil refineries in Alaska, Texas, and Minnesota, and...
Gutting The Middle Class: The GOP's "Mission...
Aftershock: The Next Economy and America’s Future by Robert B. Reich. When the nation’s economy foundered in 2008, blame was directed almost universally at Wall Street. But Reich suggests a different reason for the meltdown, and for a perilous road ahead. He argues that the real problem is structural: it lies in the increasing concentration of income and wealth at the top, and in a...
Newt The Lizard
via thepoliticalcarnival.net Crawling on his belly, looking for other low-lifes to rally. Posted via email from liberalsarecool.com | Comment »
What Your Opposition To Gay Marriage Means
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Palin's Word Salad Performance Art Tanking
Sarah Palin can’t sell tickets to her word salad performance art — in Florida.“An Evening of Hope with Sarah Palin,” an event featuring the former Alaska Governor, was supposed to be a minor blockbuster in Jacksonville, Florida, next week, but not everything has gone as planned. Slow ticket sales have forced event organizers to move the function from the 2,936-seat...
The Southern Strategy Lives On
“The president says he’s a Christian. I take him at his word,” McConnell told Meet the Press host David Gregory.
via bobcesca.com
This statement leaves some doubt, of course, which is precisely what he meant to do. It’s a dog whistle for the extremists and radicals. Obama is “not one of us”. Therefore, everything he does can be opposed with righteous lunacy.
...
Not A Book
The Bible is a collection of 66 “fairy tales”, written by 44 authors in three different languages, that all needed translating, on three continents over approximately 1600 years.
Always liked it explained this way.
And it’s lasting effect? God does not kill people. People who believe in God kill people.