December 31, 2009 archive

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Blog Satan Demands A Sacrifice For The New Year

(Cross-posted from The Free Speech Zone)

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On this New Years Eve, before it is over, there will be a sacrifice of a diary virgin to Blogosphere Satan. To fulfill his lust of sockpuppet blood, I as High Admin and Sole Practitioner of the Satanic Blogosphere Faith, shall perform the ceremony.

Stay tuned.

Uncle Cheney: ‘I don’t recall.’ ‘I don’t remember.’ ‘I dont know.’

Why the fawning Media runs to cover, every ranting statement that Dick Cheney, mumbles — I’ll never understand?   When really they should be bringing him a Blanket, a Rocking Chair, and maybe a super-hero comic book.

Dick Cheney’s FBI Interview Notes on Valerie Plame Leak

Oct 30, 2009,  TalkLeft

Cheney could not recall 22 things, including, whether he had ever told Scooter Libby about Valerie Plame. Via Mother Jones, A list is below

It seems the old man, may be suffering from Amnesia, Dementia, or perhaps even Unchecked-Power-withdrawals?  

But don’t take my word for it, you be the judge.  Are these the actions of a rational, stable man…

Rushed to the Hospital

http://www.nytimes.com/aponlin…

Rush Limbaugh is in the hospital again.

I wonder if they’ll ask for his insurance card ?

The Accidental Terrorist

Initially, I was completely skeptical of this latest so called terrorist act by a 23 year old Nigerian.  The whole thing smells like a local mushroom farm during springtime.  The incident shook the entire western world with an immediate increase in airport security.  Blame games started immediately between the Republicans and Democrats.  The Republicans took the offensive and left many wondering why the democrats weren’t fighting back.  There are even calls to attack Yemen, because that’s where he supposedly learned how to do the dirty deed.  

Somewhat belatedly, the democrats and the administration are fighting back.  Obama is taking a low key approach so as not to create fear in the public like Bush did.  Calm, cool, and collected.  Good thing to, because I’m tired of attaching a video of “Duck and Cover” in my essays.  

From the Whitehouse Blog:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog…

“To put it simply: this President is not interested in bellicose rhetoric, he is focused on action. Seven years of bellicose rhetoric failed to reduce the threat from al Qaeda and succeeded in dividing this country. And it seems strangely off-key now, at a time when our country is under attack, for the architect of those policies to be attacking the President.

There are numerous other such public statements that explicitly state we are at war. The difference is this: President Obama doesn’t need to beat his chest to prove it, and – unlike the last Administration – we are not at war with a tactic (“terrorism”), we at war with something that is tangible: al Qaeda and its violent extremist allies. And we will prosecute that war as long as the American people are endangered.”

Hear that?  OUR COUNTRY IS UNDER ATTACK!  WE ARE AT WAR!  WE WILL PROSECUTE THAT WAR AS LONG AS THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE ENDANGERED!  That’s a low key approach for ya.  

The party faithful are very pleased with that.  Take that Republicans!  Leave the terror fighting to Obama!  Eric Massa is a new hero for taking on Darth Vader.  It’s the republicans fault dammit, because they didn’t do it right!  Shit Dick, you wouldn’t know a terrorist from a hole in the ground.    

I just don’t know.  I’ve typed the word IMPERIALISM so many times in the last year that those letters are getting especially worn on my keyboard.  I’ve talked about the oil and natural gas pipelines, heroin psyops and off the book money for the CIA and banks, permanent bases to achieve Full Spectrum Dominance, the uncanny ability of terrorists to be located right where the resources are.  

I’ve said too many times to count:  THE WAR ON TERROR IS BULLSHIT!  To be clear, not because there aren’t any terrorists.  Sure, there are terrorists, most created because of our own foreign policies of death and destruction.  But that is not why we’re spending one trillion dollars per year on “national security”.  It is not why we have 1000 military bases covering the entire planet.  The terrorists are in the way of our imperialist mission.

People need to WAKE UP!

Now we have a back and forth between our political parties on who is the best terrorism fighter.  Who is best at keeping the American people safe.  An opening for the Nobel Peace Prize winner to show the world just what he said he would do.  It undoubtedly delays any major public dissent against the military industrial complex for some time.  Then we’ll do it again.  And his supporters are eating it up, while who knows how many of them are worrying about paying rent.

So, Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, at first I refused to acknowledge you as a terrorist.  But by the mere act of trying to light your balls on fire, you’ve done more than most.  So I’ll give you some credit, and call you The Accidental Terrorist.  You belong in the Pantheon.  

Booman is of two minds, like a tree in which there are three birds.

Booman the politico makes some recondite point that is also not easily understood by the lay person.

What brought people together into progressive blogging communities and networks was related to policy (the invasion of Iraq, torture, illegal surveillance, regressive taxation, bad environmental policy) but also other things (a one-sided corporate media, incompetent government, and lack of meaningful and effective resistance by the Democrats). But notice something. The progressive blogosphere rarely if ever engaged in serious policy debate about legislation pending in Congress. Insofar as it was discussed at all, it was normally opposed. And that kind of blogging can be habit-forming. What was appropriate when the Republicans ran everything is carried over and used against the Democrats.

The More That Comes Out

The more it’s showing what the cheney and his puppet bush were telling us, after They established the Homeland Security Agency and Swore that the Intelligence Agencies would share information and work together for Homeland Security etc. etc. etc., that They Didn’t Do Much Of Anything As To Security Against Any Criminal Terrorist Attacks!!

Hai, everyone & Happy New Year!

Embedding disabled by request: but this is one of the bravura performances this year:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…

King Tut realm

Oh, I am an asshole: I will have to work on New Year’s Eve Y New Year’s Day.  So I am wishing all my dharmaniac friends a wonderful holiday.

Monkey Nuts Open Thread

A Capuchin Monkey uses a a rock and a log as hammer and anvil to crack palm nuts for food in the cerrado of Brazil.  

Banger in a comment today laments the widespread lack of use of simple rules of logic and science among humans lately.

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