"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb disputing the outcome." --(Attributed to) Benjamin Franklin
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Thursday, August 19, 2010
"Woody, Why Ya Gotta Talk So Dirty?" -- DILLIGAF?**
This message was left for me on my Facebook account:
I replied:
For someone who has a degree in literature, journalism, education and philosophy I can't help but marvel at your choice of words to describe your feelings and opinions. I have friends who are sensitive to such language, even though I understand the need to preserve Freedom of Speech and Expression, the "vernacular" of the day? I find it narrow, violent and limiting in it's appeal to connect in a dimensional way. I have no right to ask you to "curb your enthusiasm" only to reconsider whether you are effective in communicating this way. It's basically a one dimensional, "common" way of speaking/yelling out. For me it's hard to get past that verbage and actually appreciate your ideas. Is it really essential to the cause/message you are sharing/imparting?
I replied:
Given my credentials/record/vita/life, you'd might imagine that I introduced profanities, crudeness, childish mockeries, and the like, in a conscious rhetorical strategy?**DILLIGAF -- An acronym I learned in the Air Force in the '60s: "Do I Look Like I Give A Fuck?"
Call it a rhetorical "shock doctrine."
My conceit is that I am a rhetorical insurgent, planting rhetorical land mines and booby-traps all over the landscape.
I hope that, after I've pissed a little on your cheerios, you won't see Obama's name and not also see "Shamwow." That you won't see "Deficit Reduction Commission" without also reading "Cat-fucking-food Commission," with all its attendant passion. That when you hear about the 'differences' between the 'parties,' you also recall me: "The only difference is when they fuck ya, the Dims use a lube, the Pukes go bareback."
Even if you quit reading after the first time I offend, you'll remember the offense.
I learned in a psychology course: You can't unsee.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
When I Listen To this Skeevy, Venal SOB Equivocate, I Want To Beat Him Unconscious With A Limb I Cut Off his Child
These fuckers meddle around and fuck up people's lives and they NEVER pay ANY price for their mendacity, venality, concupiscence, corruption and the violence they inflict on those of whose existences they ar scarcely aware... We gotta figger out a way to make 'em squeal!
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Just Crazy, Hairball, Mad drops On 40-50 Foot Waves
In Fiji, Tahiti, and Hawai'i, accompanied by some very cool Congolese club music.
Way cool...
Way cool...
Monday, August 9, 2010
Friday, August 6, 2010
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
The Turning Worm?: Anne Applebaum Criticizes Bush, GOPukes, For Excesses, Derides "Memory Loss"
Gee, nobody could have EVER anticipated that putting a mixed-race person in the White House for the first time in history could have caused the slate of the past 30 years to be wiped clean, now could they?
Hillary would have had the same fate, except that it wouldn't be race but gender the focus would be on.
You have to regard the Obama period as the elites do: a sort of palate-cleanser, a neutral-flavored morsel designed to wipe the taste of the shit from the previous 30-40 years off the tongues of the White electorate, while it is still a majority, and to make the next recrudescence--probably Jebbie--look like a delicate, fabulous treat...
The only way the people would have known they were supposed to remember would have been if the SCUM (SoCalledUnbiasedMedia) had had a nice, juicy, treason/war crimes trial to follow, when Shazama's DoJ prosecuted the departed Busheviki for their myriad, manifest, and manifold mis- and malfeasances in office. The CorpoRat press is not gonna remind the People of the Press' pitiful, pandering performances in permitting those events to pass unnoticed in the first place.
I must say I am surprised to find the author of the sentiment upbraiding the body politic for it's amnesia as well as offering puoi8nted reminders of Bushevik responsibility in these matters is (former?) neocon stalward Anne Applebaum.
Hillary would have had the same fate, except that it wouldn't be race but gender the focus would be on.
You have to regard the Obama period as the elites do: a sort of palate-cleanser, a neutral-flavored morsel designed to wipe the taste of the shit from the previous 30-40 years off the tongues of the White electorate, while it is still a majority, and to make the next recrudescence--probably Jebbie--look like a delicate, fabulous treat...
The only way the people would have known they were supposed to remember would have been if the SCUM (SoCalledUnbiasedMedia) had had a nice, juicy, treason/war crimes trial to follow, when Shazama's DoJ prosecuted the departed Busheviki for their myriad, manifest, and manifold mis- and malfeasances in office. The CorpoRat press is not gonna remind the People of the Press' pitiful, pandering performances in permitting those events to pass unnoticed in the first place.
I must say I am surprised to find the author of the sentiment upbraiding the body politic for it's amnesia as well as offering puoi8nted reminders of Bushevik responsibility in these matters is (former?) neocon stalward Anne Applebaum.
Monday, August 2, 2010
BP Scaling Back Cleanup Efforts After Pretending Oil is Disappearing in the Gulf
Via Crooks&Liars:
This is really just disgusting. There's no way in hell all of those millions of gallons of oil and dispersants that poured in to the Gulf are just gone. Billy Nungesser, President of Plaquemines Parish, LA is at the end of his rope here and I don't blame him. BP is saying that they can't find any oil and are pulling assets out of the gulf for cleanup and the Coast Guard is letting them do it.Check out the Update, on the site...
Digby has more on this latest dog and pony show from our media -- Dismissing The Gusher:
I posted yesterday about the emerging meme that the BP disaster was not big deal and today Brad Johnson at Grist puts that meme in perspective. Read on...
As the AC360 segment notes, Billy Nungesser isn't buying this either. They went out there and saw for themselves how much oil is still on the water.
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