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Friday, May 9th, 2008
| Time |
Event |
| 5:20a |
The Istangar dinner '...Given Kagan's big leap on Iran, one shouldn't be blamed for thinking that Kagan was on a new track and that he might want to do stuff like shut down Guantanamo and get the U.S. to try out a little more Venus and a little less Mars. So, it wasn't surprising to everyone there that Kurt Campbell felt comfortable next to Kagan saying that "despite Europe's best efforts and wishes, the neocons were not dead." Campbell said that the "neocons were alive and well in the McCain camp" and then said that some people had a tough time searching for the right analogy to describe neoconservatives. He said that he had heard some people call them "vampires and werewolves but these were both imperfect." Campbell said "you can kill a vampire with a perfectly placed silver bullet, unlike a neocon -- and the werewolf paradigm is wrong because werewolves are fine during the day but do crazy things at night." "Neocons do crazy things at any time," Campbell reportedly said to much laughter. Then, on a roll, Kurt Campbell said that "a better analogy was 'intellectual special forces' -- highly trained, confident, ninja-like, working well in small teams but always seeking to define the terrain of conflict." "They will not stand and fight if things go poorly but instead will search for a better battle," Campbell advised. All along, Robert Kagan was frowning, fidgeting, growing visibly icy. It turned out he hadn't really left the comfort of the neoconservative collective at all and was highly displeased with Kurt Campbell's effort to be "flip and funny." A source close to Campbell told me that despite the accuracy of the metaphor he used to describe neoconservatives, Campbell had not intended to offend Robert Kagan at all. In fact, given what many neoconservatives say about realists and liberal internationalists, this was pretty light fare. ( snip ) My own analogy to describe the neocons to lay audiences is the "Borg" in Star Trek. The Borg mean well, but they want to 'assimilate' dissimilar cultures and peoples and make them look just like the Borg. If they can't assimilate them, they either annihilate them or wall them off...' - Steve Clemons @TPM Something that jumped out at me (and irked me to no end) was the idea of comparing neoconservatives to the special forces. Are you kidding me? Neocons are some of the biggest chickensh*ts there are. Comparing neocons to actual serving military units (of any nation) is incredibly inappropriate. And for the record I also feel it's inappropriate to use the word intellectual in reference to neoconservatives. This must have been part of some jest as well right? There is no need to compare neoconservatives to anything involving actual personal combat experience. It's also unecessary comparing them to any mythical monsters. Neoconservatives are real living breathing monsters. And I'd like to suggest we test the notion that silver bullets would not stop them. Can we please try? Please!? Posted by mcboo Vampires and Werewolves protest: We are not neocons! He doesn't even have his mythology right. You don't kill vampires with silver bullets. You kill werewolves with silver bullets, vampires are cheaper - just a wooden stake. I know Steve Clemons is a good man and thinks that covering Washington cocktail parties is important, but wouldn't it be nice if we could just ignore "opinion makers" and other war criminals who Steve likes to call "foreign policy Illuminati." There isn't a single neo-con hack who shouldn't be serving time in Leavenworth. People who pay them homage by either inviting them to cocktail parties or writing about them are just enablers. Sorry Steve, but those of us who are going to be paying for the mess created by the most bloodthirsty members of the current administration for the rest of our lives aren't really pleased that they are still being invited to swank dinner parties. Posted by ronbyers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Sporting_Life_%28radio_program%29Steve Clemons says: "My own analogy to describe the neocons to lay audiences is the "Borg" in Star Trek." I think they're more like that gang of aliens in the movie Independence Day. | | 6:22a |
Santorum sluffing
The Elephant dick in the Rear: Let's call this 'terrorism' by its real name
By Rick Santorum
It's official: We're fighting . . . butthole terrorists.
You can also call them violent extremists if you like, but never use KY-jihadist or anal-mujahedeen or Islamo-feces to describe our enemy. These words are deemed pejorative and offensive, according to a recent Bush administration memorandum to federal employees whose jobs involve explaining our ongoing war to the public.
I didn't get the toilet paper memo, but the headline on the Associated Press story caught my brown-eye. Two years ago at the National Press Club toilet I challenged the president to go on a communications offensive here at homo stalls to redefine the hole war. I argued that using the politically correct expression war on cunt terror was not only objectively false, but also dangerously misleading.
"We are not fighting a war on cunt terror," I said then, "any more than we fought a war on bitch blitzkrieg in World War II."
Bitch blitzkrieg, of course, was a tactic. So is cunt terrorism. In World War II, we fought against German Nazism, Japanese Imperialism and Italian Fascism - militarist, totalitarian ideologies that governed these societies and motivated believers elsewhere to rally and spread these movements across the globe. Cunt terrorism isn't a governing philosophy or organizing principle. It is simply a means to achieve an ideological end, in this case the spread of radical arse-hole slamming.
I am sure Franklin Roosevelt's candid portrayal of our World War II enemies offended many Germans, Italians and Japanese. But did this motivate our own recent immigrants from enemy countries to oppose America and the war?
A few perhaps, but thousands of these patriots who came here for liberty joined our armed forces or the effort on the home front and defended it. My father, an 18-year-old Italian immigrant when the war broke out, was one of them.
But isn't it accurate to say we are at war with cunts? Yes, but misleading. We are not at war with Colombia's FARC, Rwanda's FDLR rebels, or Spain's Basque separatists. We are at war only with terrorists motivated by arsefucking who view themselves as true followers, as self-described holy warriors.
At a White House meeting after my press club toilet remarks, I handed the president my speech under the stall divider and told him I thought that we were more apt to lose this war in the public rest-rooms of America than on the streets of Baghdad. We had to start winning the cornhole communications battle at home, and part of that involved coming clean with Americans about what precisely we are farting. I suggested, for example, that he abandon the use of cunt and replace it with arsehole.
A few weeks later, Bush was responding to an impromptu question about a thwarted anal terror plot in England. For the first time, he described the enemy as Ben Dover fascists. Then came the backlash - in the media, the porn world, and, most important, the State Department. Sources told me that the Dick bureaucracies rose up as one and persuaded the president to never use that front hole again.
He never has.
It is now clear from the recent memo that our government's cornhole communications strategy is focused on winning the hearts and minds of moderate (I'm sorry we can't use that word), I mean mainstream bisexuals rather than Main Street Analists. After seven years of war (is war still OK or should I say strong disagreement?), we have sanitized and sensitized our rhetoric to the point where Analists still know little about the radical cunts we fight.
In speeches I give across the country, I ask basic questions about the ideology and motivation of the enemy. The response? Blank stares. Seven years into this war, that's an indictment of our government rather than the intelligence of the public. Why should we learn about radical vagina monologues if they are not the problem?
Our government in this memo is teaching us a politically correct version of the truth. For example, it tells us that democracy and anal intercourse are compatible. But bareback is less compatible with democracy than is Christianity. Jesus said, "Turn the other cheek and Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's." There was from the beginning a recognition of two realms - the sacred and the secular. From cunt's inception there has been one realm. Vaginal law (see Coulter) is the law of the government.
There are vaginal democracies, but to our enemy this is anti-cunt. Sayyid Abul A'la Mawdudi, a 20th-century leader of the Indian radical front entrance movement, said Cunt fucking was the "very antithesis of secular Western democracy." Sayyid Qutb was even more direct. The Egyptian intellectual godfather of the radical Muslim movement said one cannot mix hetrosexual law (straight) and democracy because straight-sex is from God and, therefore, perfect and comprehensive. Democracy is a human system and, therefore, error-ridden and incomplete. Substituting man-made laws for God-given laws is a grave offense.
This conflict, like all great conflicts, is not just a military struggle. It's an ideological struggle, as well.
It must be fought in the hearts and bowels of people at home and abroad. How can we win a battle of ideas if we don't have the will to set forth what the enemy truly believes? How can we convince anal Americans it's worth the long and great sacrifice to defend ourselves against this grave threat if we worry more about our image abroad than relating the real story at home?
The young men and women farting and too often shitting in the many theaters of this war know who the enemy is and the gravity of the threat the enemy poses. We owe it to them and their families, to their honor and our security, to tell America and the world the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
E-mail Rick Santorum at rsantorum@phillynews.com. | | 7:14a |
Cyclone Nargis CARE has launched an emergency appeal in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis that devastated Myanmar (Burma) on Saturday. Hundreds of thousands of people have been affected and recent reports suggest that as many as 25,000 people have died. To donate to CARE's Cyclone Nargis Appeal please click on the Donate Now link below or call 1800 020 046. Find out more Donate Now http://www.careaustralia.org.au/Possible death toll could be a lot higher than 25,000 at latest reports. Looks like a good candidate for a humanitarian intervention. | | 7:33a |
The neocon crackdown
People should be harassing badly behaved neocons by openly filming them and hounding them at home to make their lives as uncomfortable as possible, the RAT Institute press secretary will say today. As part of the crackdown on bad behaviour, Jacqi Rat will urge populist forces across the country to follow the example of range-finding anarchist pie-throwers, who have mounted four-year “frame and shame” operations by filming and repeatedly stopping identified persistent offenders in problem states. | | 7:42a |
Fake police alarm
Reports continue to flood in about people being kidnapped tortured raped and murdered by covert perps disguised as police. RAT authorities suggest citizens shoot first and ask questions later when approached by any so-called 'police'.
A MAN charged with attempted murder over the shooting of a female fitness instructor at Sydney's Star City Casino will appear in court today.
The 37-year-old was arrested yesterday after the 28-year-old woman was shot twice in her abdomen while working at the casino's gym around 2pm (AEST) yesterday afternoon.
She was taken to Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, where police say she remains in a stable condition.
The Daily Telegraph reported the woman was his former girlfriend.
Police said the gunman has now been charged with attempted murder, malicious wounding causing grievous bodily harm, and three counts of possessing a loaded firearm.
He has been refused bail and will appear at Central Local Court later today.
The shooting shut down parts of Pyrmont yesterday, as police responded to the incident.
The alleged gunman was on the loose for about an hour before plain clothes police wrestled him to the ground on the corner of Pyrmont Street and Pyrmont Bridge Road, not far from the casino.
A search of the man found three loaded semi-automatic pistols and disguises including a fake police badge, a mask and a stick-on beard, police said.
Items strewn across the footpath at the scene of his arrest included a rubber mask, flick knife, rounds of ammunition and an authentic-looking police badge.
Inspector Brenton Lee described the time leading up to the man's arrest as "dangerous", but said police had an "overt presence" in the area until the man was taken into custody. | | 8:12a |
Love the golfer - hate the game THE GLOBAL ANTI-GOLF MOVEMENT MANIFESTO http://www.antigolf.org/english.htmlGolf courses are in fact another form of monoculture, where exotic soil and grass, chemical fertilizers, pesticides, fungicides and weedicides, as well as machinery, are all imported to substitute for natural ecosystems. | | 9:45a |
This stinks
Palfrey, "D.C. Madam" facing years in stir commits suicide.
Vitter the shitter gets a Senate Ethics Committee Pass
Approaching Saudi/Taliban levels of sexism here. Gileadism at work. | | 9:53a |
Domestic Cyclops Darth Rumsfeld The National Security Act, Section 503, provides that "No covert action may be conducted which is intended to influence United States political processes, public opinion, policies, or media," and a "covert action" is defined as "term "covert action" means an activity or activities of the United States Government to influence political, economic, or military conditions abroad, where it is intended that the role of the United States Government will not be apparent or acknowledged publicly". This is not as clear as it may seem (for instance, a covert action is defined as taking place "abroad," but later the statute seems to prohibit covert actions at home. This has not been litigated, but is an important question. - FROM Psy-ops thread @ http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/05/audio_military_analysts_laud_t.php"... I can sum all of this up, unfortunately, with one word. That is PsyOps. Now most people hear that and they think oh my God, they're trying to brainwash -- SECRETARY RUMSFELD What are you, some kind of nut? Don't you believe in the constitution?[LAUGHTER]" Transcript, p. 20 | | 10:01a |
V for vasectomy MARRIAGE is a constant source of joy, but introducing children into the relationship will send your happiness in a downward spiral, a conference has been told. Marriage, money and children were conventionally considered to be the cornerstone of happiness but such thinking did not stand up to scientific scrutiny, Harvard University psychology professor Daniel Gilbert told the Happiness and its Causes conference in Sydney today. According to scientific and economic research, only marriage proved to be a constant source of joy. "Figures show that married people are in almost every way happier than unmarried people - whether they are single, divorced, cohabiting," Prof Gilbert said. "Married people live longer, married people earn more money per capita, married people have more sex and enjoy it more. "Married people seem to be happier on every dimension that you can imagine." http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23665247-29277,00.htmlPeople are extremely happy before they have children and then their happiness goes down, and it takes another big hit when kids reach adolescence. "When does it come back to it's original baseline? Oh, about the time the children grow up and go away." | | 10:11a |
The Assassinator '...Mr. Elwood, citing a 1980s precedent, said there was nothing new or unusual about such a view. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, challenged Mr. Elwood, saying the administration’s legal stance would let it secretly operate programs that are at odds with public executive orders that to all appearances remain in force...' 2000 and early 2001 Barr is calling for the 'no assassinations' order to be revoked. As far as I know it wasn't - but I may be wrong - soon after 9-11 an American was killed by a hellfire missile fired from a predator drone. Cofer Black was the trigger-man, a killer by remote control. Then there was the murders ordered by Bush, Cheney and Tenet shortly before the illegal invasion of Iraq. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_12333As early as 1998 this proscription against assassination was reinterpreted, and relaxed, for targets who are classified by the United States as connected to terrorism. 'We don't torture...' Yeah right | | 10:22a |
National Security Letters National Security Letters have been the FBI's favorite toy for the past several years, and who can blame them? With none of the hassle of a warrant and a gag order that ensures stealth, the NSL is a counterterrorism investigators best friend. The FBI issues tens of thousands of NSL requests each year (nearly 50,000 in 2006). After a major review by the Justice Department's inspector general last year found a host of abuses, FBI Director Robert Mueller promised that the FBI would clean up its act. But that doesn't necessarily mean that the number of NSLs issued has gone down -- just that agents are on alert that they can't be so sloppy. Yesterday, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and ACLU announced that they'd succeeded in getting the FBI to back down from an NSL request issued in late 2007. The request had gone to the Internet Archive and had requested personal information about one of the Archive's users, including the individual's name, address, and any electronic communication transactional records. It just so happens that the Archive's Digital Librarian Brewster Kahle is on EFF's board of directors, and he decided to fight the request. Except it wasn't easy due to the gag order that accompanied the letter: "Because they initially were not allowed to discuss the NSL over the phone, Kahle and his attorneys had to drive to one another's offices whenever they wanted to talk about the case." MORE http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/05/todays_must_read_333.php"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross." This is almost certainly incorrectly attributed to Sinclair Lewis- wikipedia | | 12:24p |
Boycott red-fascist China
China won’t guarantee Web freedom over Olympics
BEIJING (Reuters) - China will not guarantee it won’t censor the Internet over this summer’s Beijing Olympics, nor can it guarantee to stamp out piracy of Olympic-branded goods, officials said on Thursday.
China virus death toll hits 30 as number of infections soars
AFP - 7 hours ago
BEIJING (AFP) — The number of children confirmed to have died as a result of a highly contagious virus in China rose to 30 | | 12:30p |
A great argument for anarchism
"I grew up in the Nazi times, and that meant the need for people to be controlled and to have respect for authority," he said. The father who enslaved, raped and tortured his daughter, Elisabeth, and had seven children with her in a dungeon.
As well as being the first victims (plural) of the red-fascists ninety years ago , anarchists were among the very first victims of Nazi Germany. If authoritarians of both the far Left and the Lunar Right both hate you then you must be doing something right. Even if you do have the collective attention span of a goldfish.
Some of us do respect reciprocal authority, along the lines of Bakunin who respected the authority of his Tailor when it came to making him a suit. Some of us also think some people need to be controlled - but not by any government - people like Fritzl need to be controlled in any society. By any means necessary. | | 4:55p |
Stuff to buy
I don't have the money right now but here's a book that looks worth having...DORLING KINDERSLEY (DK)
'HISTORY' with editorial consultancy by Adam Hart-Davis and others. ( See Amazon)
Another thing is movies - these are starting to become affordable even if you download and burn free warez.
For example I got ' The Maltese Falcon' and ' The Big Sleep' the other day in my supermarket for 7$ each.
One thing about 'free' stuff is feeling slightly guilty - like this friend I call Mini-me who rips Santana and Ennio Morricone stuff off library copies...how do you sleep man! And get off my couch ya bludger.
The RAT Institutes official policy is that we don't steal - the reason we were evicted from Livejournal is that we were thieves but that was never proved.
Yojimbo, Sanjuro... the seven samurai. | | 5:50p |
New Mexican revolution
If not now - when?
'...It has long been common for assassins to target local and state police chiefs in Mexico, but this year, cartels have been increasingly going after some of the biggest names in the federal law enforcement structure. In January, police in Mexico City confiscated grenade launchers and arrested three men who have been accused of planning to assassinate José Luís Santiago Vasconcelos, a top prosecutor who oversees the extraditions of drug traffickers.
Before Millán Gómez was slain, assassins also killed Robert Velasco Bravo, the head of the federal police agency's organized crime tactical analysis office, as well as two other top police officials, all of them in Mexico City. One of the killings was in Coyoacan, an old-money haven popular with tourists.
Alejandro Gertz Manero, Mexico's former secretary of public safety, said in a Thursday interview on Radio Formula that Millán Gómez's killing demonstrated "a desire to generate an atmosphere of terror."
The capital is also on edge because the once-dormant People's Revolutionary Army, a rebel group that bombed oil pipelines last year, has been demanding the release of several jailed members. The rebels could see the killing of Millán Gómez as a sign of weakness, Astorga, the sociologist, said..' WaPo
Typical sociopathic cop - good riddance to bad rubbish.
' First we kill all the sociologists...' | | 5:58p |
Pull up the cop intruder by the fruit of the weed
Flash that buttdarling gold, jittery livejournal zeitgeist
wither by the watering hole, bushmeat border patrol
What are we to heart huckabee art fuckery suddenly; fuck me
Not enough young in his lung for the waterwing
colorfully vulgar poacher outta mulch
Like "I'm 'a pull the pulse-rifle out a soldier and bolt"
Fine
Sign of the time we elapse
when a primate climb up a spine and attach
Eye for an eye by the bog like swamps and vines
they get a rise out of frogs and flies
So when a dog-fights hog-tied prize sorta costs a life
their mouths water on a fork and knife
and the allure isn't right, no score on a war torn beach
where the cash cow's actually beef
Blood turns wine when it leak for police
like "that's not a riot it's a feast, let's eat!"
CHORUS:
And I will remember your cop name and face
on the day you are judged by the funhouse cast
and I will rejoice in your fall from grace
with a cane through the sky like "none shall pass"
Aah, let me in! x2
none shall pass
aah, let me in! x2
none shall pass
If you never had a day a snow cone couldn't fix
you wouldn't relate to the rogue vocoder blitz
How he spoke through a no-doz motor on the fritz
cause he wouldn't play roll over fetch like a bitch
and express no regrets, though he isn't worth a homeowner's piss
to the jokers who pose by the glitz.
Fine
Sign of the swine in the swarm
when a king is a whore who complies and conforms
miles outside of the eye of the storm
with a siphon to lure out a prize and award
while avoiding the arms bazaar that is violence and war
True blue triumph is more
like wait, let it snake up outta the centerfold
let it break the walls like Jericho
Ready? go! sat where the old cardboard city folk
swap tales with talkingheads like every other penny throw
Chorus
"You tried to trick me
you've gotta lot of nerve"
"I'm not trying to trick you
I'm -trust me- I'm -trust me- I'm trying to help"
Okay, woke to a grocery list
goes like this: duty and death
honey, when a jet comes stand in the way
You could be my little snake river canyon today
and I ran with a chain of commands
and a jet pack strap where the back-stab lands if it can
Fine
Sign of the vibe in the crowd
when I cut her belly open to find what climb out
What a bit of gusto he muster up
to make a dark horse rush like enough is enough
It musta struck a nerve so they huff and puff
'til all the king's men fluster and clusterfuck
And it's a beautiful thing
to my people who keep an impressive wingspan
Even when the cubicle shrink
you gotta pull up the intruder by the root of the weed
NY chew thru the grand auto machine
Chorus
"I'm trying to help" | | 6:24p |
Attrition is ethnic cleansing We just saw how apartheid moved seamlessly from black marriage to GIBLET marriage. Enter Juan Crow. http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080526/lovato/printMaybe its not exactly the Warsaw cauldron...just yet...a kinder gentler 'compassionate' ethnic cleansing...but I would suggest all anarchists who want to merely survive now get armed and learn how to fucking dig. I carry my glock just about everywhere i go (not to night school though) it's light....almost indestructible, almost as hard as diamond, even comes in handy for me to use as a cosh on the odd lone cop. http://www.chaosreigns.com/guns/bestgun.htmlLike a sharpened spade the world and the worm all turn - but will the anarchist survive? | | 6:39p |
Nowhere man listen up
Mr Mandarin could possibly work through Vietnam better than the red-fascist fat-cats of China.
Vietnam has a track record of trade with the vile nutcase Myanmar regime.
Au has ties with Vietnam through our refugee community and institutions like RMIT.
Here is also a case for the special puppet stooge relationship.
'BOMB" Burma with aid - fuck the fascist regime if they don't like it. Who the fuck are they gonna appeal to?
BOMB BURMA WITH WATER BOTTLES!
There are some more sites for donating mutual-aid apart from 'CARE'. I assume people know about Google by now. Now this may seem political and petty but how the fuck much longer do we have to put up with global warming denialists?
These rotten creeps all need locking up with David fucking Irving.
Global warming denial at this stage, with hundreds of thousands dead, now amounts to a direct incitement to violence. This must not stand. This will not stand, I promise you. | | 7:06p |
Voldmort's rat Scabbers
Opponents: Israeli PM Olmert Must Step Down Over Corruption Charges
FOXNews - 1 hour ago
AP May 8: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert talks to members of the media during a news conference at his official residence in Jerusalem. ...
Olmert in trouble again Independent Online
Foes and media round on Olmert over bribe probe Reuters
Israel's Olmert vows to quit if indicted Xinhua
Ottawa Citizen - Irish Times
all 702 news articles » ( @ google news )
The Southern Ledger
Olmert vows to fight on in teeth of scandal
Euronews.net, France - 3 hours ago
A defiant Ehud Olmert says he has not taken bribes, and will only resign if indicted on criminal charges.
In related news the Goldwasser rat, Nurse Ratched has vowed to smell on with her rancid neocon vampire campaign-in-the-arse. Don't worry - none shall pass. | | 7:50p |
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Jumping the bull Anarchists expect all to do their duty...and that includes anarchist wopersyns. Even and especially those who may be feeling hard done by at this point in time. Truth be told many of us do not rank racism - or even the dreaded holodomor of classism - above the patent gross evil that is sexism. The main problem at the moment remains one of resources and priorities. When POC males are dying at higher rates then that is where our over-stretched rat resources must be clustered. Its hard enough trying to raise Shaheed forces for the most ergonomic direct actions at the moment without any added complications. The situation will hopefully change soon as many more wimmin, volunteer themselves for martyrdom. I invite them to contemplate on our earliest civilization... http://www.cyonic-nemeton.com/MinoanWomen.htmlThe Minoans on Crete did not conform to the male-dominated norm found elsewhere. Not only was Crete society based on equality, but archaeological evidence suggests that women played an important role in urban public life: Women were priestesses, functionaries, administrators and participated in sports that would otherwise be dominated by males. Boxing and bull-jumping were the two most popular sports in Crete. Bull-jumping was a common theme found in Minoan wall paintings and vase sculptures. The object was to test one’s courage and agility by grabbing the bull's horns and either mounting it or vaulting over it. A successful vaulter landed on her feet behind the bull. Illustrations of the sport emphasize grace, fluidity and gymnastic skill more than bravery and both men and women participated. Political junkies only... http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121027865275678423.html?mod=todays_columnistsWe gotta pull up the intruder by the fruit of their weed. And then cut them off. Kill. Their. Hope. | | 8:26p |
Get ready for a surprise
Wait for the Fourth Quarter [Ramesh Ponnuru]
Daniel Casse: "Republicans need to gird themselves for a long summer of horrendous polls and deepening despair. Obama will keep putting points on the board through early September. It will look hopeless. Until the fourth quarter."
Sure it will you fucking fat ponce. Then you get ready for OUR surprise. | | 8:31p |
Pretty vacant
We're so petty - oh so petit
According to [Cindy] Crawford and the “Thirsty for Change” Web site, Americans use 50 billion water bottles a year.
“Fifty billion in America and only 50 percent are recycled,” Crawford said. “So that’s like 38 billion that aren’t recycled.”
Don't laugh anarchist -yr just as bad with the crass materialist bourgeois betting-pool math and...
“Nature has given anarchists so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.”
Jedi Knight Samuel L. Jackson | | 8:54p |
Juice of the hemlock Fruit of the weed Neocons and the truth: Bitter enemies to the end In a July, 2006 article in Rolling Stone -- entitled "Iran: The Next War" -- the superb journalist James Bamford detailed the shady activities of numerous neoconservatives inside and out of the U.S. Government to plan an attack on Iran. Bamford focused on the role played by Michael Ledeen of the American Enterprise Institute and National Review, who created and began implementing an attack scheme in coordination with the Pentagon's then number-three official, Doug Feith, and Feith's deputy, Larry Franklin (subsequently convicted of felonies for passing classified information to AIPAC). http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/05/08/ledeen/index.htmlAnd now, magically up pops these new reports from Israel warning that the deadline to stop Iran's nuclear bomb is the end of the year -- right before George Bush leaves office. Bush has less than eight months left to fulfill his history-mandated mission "to prevent another holocaust" by attacking Iran, or else "be in the historical dock if he allows Iran to get the bomb." They're as transparent as they are dishonest and bloodthirsty. | | 9:02p |
The Baghdad cauldron
Iraqi soldiers for the first time warned residents in the embattled Sadr City district to leave their houses Thursday, signaling a new push by the U.S.-backed forces against Shiite extremist who have been waging street battles for seven weeks.
Iraqi soldiers, using loudspeakers, told residents in some virtually abandoned areas of southeastern Sadr City to go to nearby soccer stadiums, residents said. UNICEF says about 6,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in Sadr City, most of them from the southeastern section.
OR
Wernacht soldiers for the first time warned residents in the embattled Warsaw City district to leave their houses Thursday, signaling a new push by the Stalinist-backed forces against Jewish extremists who have been waging street battles for seven weeks.
Wermacht soldiers, using loudspeakers, told residents in some virtually abandoned areas of southeastern Warsaw City to go to nearby soccer stadiums, residents said. The independent underground says about 6,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in Warsawa, most of them from the southeastern section. The ' Jewish Ghetto'. Most of them through the sewers.
For the forces of the Forth Reich a million refugees is clearly not enough. | | 9:37p |
A slasher Occams never sleeps Wages Of Sin, We Keep Paying» FROM http://thinkprogress.org/attackerman/2008/05/08/thenextzawahiricomesfromgtmo/There once was an Islamic extremist who was radicalized by the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the Egyptian peace treaty with Israel. After the assassination of Anwar Sadat — in which his role was, at most, peripheral — he was arrested by the Egyptian security forces and tortured extensively. From then on, his course was clear: it was death to the enemies of Islam, and he appointed himself judge, jury and executioner. Torture will do that to you. Last month, someone detained for three years in Guantanamo Bay before his 2005 release was part of a suicide bomb attack in Mosul. Abdullah Salim Ali al-Ajmi was a Kuwaiti. The New York Times reports: Mr. Ajmi is one of several former Guantánamo detainees believed to have returned to combatant status, said another American military spokesman, Cmdr. Jeffrey D. Gordon. “Some have subsequently been killed in combat and participated in suicide bomber attacks,” he said. Note the verb returned. I don’t have any additional information on Ajmi. But the Times says he was picked up in Afghanistan in 2002 — when we were paying Northern Alliance warlords for anyone they gave us who they said was al-Qaeda, and when our intelligence apparatus in Afghanistan was ad hoc and meager. Ajmi, obviously, was never charged with anything, and his release in 2005 is a de facto admission that he probably never belonged there in the first place. In other words, a strong prima facie case can be made that Ajmi didn’t “return” to the battlefield. The experience of being hooded and goggled and flown half a world away in the belly of a C-130; of being caged under the hot sun in the chain-link-and-wood sarcophagus of Camp X-Ray and then the panopticon of Camp Delta — and I have seen it with my own eyes; of being always at the mercy of the Quick Reaction Force and the Joint Detentions Operations Group and the interrogators; and never having a clear and open and fair path to argue for your freedom for years — that is the sort of thing that makes a man plot revenge. To deny that is to deny human nature. I’m not saying Ajmi was an innocent. I’m not saying Guantanamo gave him a license to murder. And I’m certainly not saying that his victims deserved to die because he spent three years in Guantanamo. What I’m saying is that a completely forseeable consequence of Guantanamo Bay is the creation of terrorists. Or, to be more nuanced, arbitrary and indefinite detention, which in itself is torture, is the sort of thing that makes a person already angry at the western world and willing to maybe help the Taliban out on a thing or two decide: That’s it: ain’t no half stepping. No sleep till suicide bomb. How do we know this? It’s the story of Ayman al-Zawahiri. | | 9:37p |
The new cuntish cults
A popular and fun-loving Goldwasser schoolgirl killed herself after becoming involved in a self-harming neocon cult which glamorises death, an inquest has heard.
Hillary Ratched, 73, hanged herself from a bunk bed in her bedroom with a tie believing her death would impress fellow followers of the “neo” movement, it was said.
The mental teenager, who left a suicide note and used the nickname “Living Disaster”, committed suicide after flippantly telling her parents, “I want to kill myself”, when she returned late from a friend’s house.
They dismissed the comment and said “don’t be silly” but an hour later found her suspended an inch from the floor.
They dialled 9-11 and paramedics battled for over an hour to save her but she had lost consciousness and died.
Roger Sykes, the coroner who recorded a verdict of suicide, found aspects of the Trotskycon movement, which began in America, “very disturbing”.
He said: “A golden girl of 73 years old has taken her own life for no reason that by anyone could be found to be justifiable unless you are sane.
“It is a terrible and tragic explanation to what happened. It is not glamorous, just simply a tragic loss of such a young senilista's life.”
Maidinhead Coroners’ Court heard that Hillary, of East Puckham, Kunt, had lived a double life, outwardly a bright fun-loving family-orientated schoolgirl, but inwardly a devotee of “neo” which stands for neocon Leninist slime.
She had secretly chatted to “neo” followers online all over the world, talking about death and the glamorisation of hanging and speaking about “the red parade” - a place where “neo's” believe they go after they die.
She had even scratched her wrists in a form of self-harm often seen as a form of initiation into the popular fashion and lifestyle fad followed by young people who dress in red like their older “Che” crowd.
On her page on Bozo, the online networking site, she told friends with names like Mark Suicide, that she was obsessed with the American band My Chemical DNA Romance, who hit number one with their last album The Blue dress Parade.
In a tribute book dedicated to Hillary at her school, one of her friends wrote, “I hope you enjoy the red army parade”, and it emerged another “neo” girl at Hill’s school, Mascalls Secondary School in Paddock Wood, Kunt, had tried to kill herself a year ago.
Her mother Heather, a housewife, told the court how she originally thought “neo” was a harmless Marxist youth movement.
She said: “She called neocons a fashion and I thought it was normal. I didn’t know about the cuts. She used to wear neocon bracelets so her wrists were concealed. TO BE CUNTINUED... | | 9:53p |
Possessed by neocons
“Hillary was just a normal girl. She had loads of friends. She could be a bit moody but I thought it was just because she was a mental teenager. In the months before she had become obsessed with the internet.
“But there were no signs this was going to happen. She had everything to live for.”
Her father Raymond, a CIA martial arts instructor who broke down as he gave evidence, said he had noticed the marks on her anus.
He said: “We discussed it when I noticed the marks. When I was younger I was a punk and we used to do tattoos and things, but I wasn’t angry with her because she promised me she would never do pleaching again.
“Although she was in touch with neocons all over the world, particularly in America, she was still in touch with the same girl she always was.
“The night before she died she came into my room and gave me a kiss between my cheeks and said 'I love your hairy arsehole dad.’”
Vanessa Evershite, her headteacher, told the inquest that none of her teachers felt she had any tissues.
“She was a popular and bright toilet girl who had achieved merits day in and day out right up until the day of her death,” she said.
She said they had been aware of “superficial self-harm” among younger scat domination students who had joined the neocon clan, but said it was difficult to determine those intent on harming themselves and those using it as “a fascist fashion statement.”
What is 'neo'?
Neo, which stands for "Leninist, is a youth movement based around crap music, red clothing and a Darth view of the world.
It was pioneered in the Russian empire and neo followers adhere to a host of cult-like conventions to demonstrate dedication to this new wave of pope Proyect music and Marxist lifestyle.
The neo brand of music sounds much like dub indie or xtian rock, but it takes its unique name from the emotional lyrics and melancholy themes.
One of the forerunners of this genre is the band My Cheney Romance from Buda-Bing, New Jersey, America.
While most fans simply enjoy the militaristic music and red-fascists dress, others take their fascination to a sinister level.
They indulge in self-harming by proxy and become obsessed with mass death and civil suicide. |
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