The sad truth is that you can decide whether or not someone is a Talibangelical Rethug idiot by asking them which Palin daughter Letterman was joking about. If they answer “Willow”, then they are a moron you no longer need to listen to.
Funny how Palin finds new and more creative ways to ruin public discourse for her own benefit. Dave has apologized THREE times and still she pushes the envelope into an alternate reality on her and her hatemonger fans believe in.
Palinites are – true to form – vile anti-family shits.
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Something occurred to me just now.
Since Letterman inadvertently started up his feud with Sarah Palin, not one right wing terrorist has shot up a church or tried to perform a mass killing at a Holocaust museum or gay theatre or abortion clinic or NAACP or LULAC affair.
This means that the Palinites have stayed in their mom’s basements writing hate mail to CBS rather than assassinating Americans they don’t agree with. As long as they still have tissues to clean themselves off with while staring at their Miss Wasilla bathing suit posters, America is safe.
Somebody give this guy a medal.
Ebert calls out O’Reilly and his ilk for sullying the public discourse and making things worse than they already are.
Kudos, Roger.
“When I see violence directed at peaceful protestors, when I see peaceful dissent being suppressed, wherever that takes place, it is of concern to me and it’s of concern to the American people. That is not how governments should interact with their people… I do believe that something has happened in Iran where there is a questioning of the kinds of antagonistic postures towards the international community that have taken place in the past, and that there are people who want to see greater openness and greater debate and want to see greater democracy. How that plays out over the next several days and several weeks is something ultimately for the Iranian people to decide.”
– President Obama, 6/16/2009 on the Iranian protests
Normally I’m with the say it prainly and clearly – and somewhat loudly – crowd. Obama is clearly of the “speak softly” crowd and is currently withholding the “big stick”. This is an internal affair and since our history of messing with Iranian politics is pretty horrific, our prez is doing the right thing by standing by and pointing out that violence and repression are bad. Besides, the guy at the top and his cronies will still be in charge no matter who gets to be president there; and those cats have never liked us.
Meanwhile the GOP are running around like idiots and screaming for Obama to condemn the election as a sham and, presumably, send in Force Recon to back the protestors.
The Iranians already see anything we are doing as meddling. Why antagonize them further?
“A state television channel in Iran says the government summoned the Swiss ambassador, who represents U.S. interests in Iran, to complain about American interference. The two countries broke off diplomatic relations after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. An English-language state-run channel quoted the government as calling Western interference ‘intolerable.'”
One, even if the opposition is seen to win last week’s election, they are STILL more conservative than even the current whack job crowd of conservatives we have. Two, where the fuck was the GOP where Bush stole two elections in THIS country? Their hypocrisy stinks to high heaven.
Even the media is missing the friggin point, as this short-sighted article clearly shows.
Look, just because eight years of Bush taught us that knee jerk emotional reactions were the approved policy response doesn’t mean Bush and Co. were ever RIGHT in their overreactions to situations. Quite the contrary, in fact.
“(Obama) should speak out that this is a corrupt, flawed sham of an election and that the Iranian people have been deprived of their rights.”
– McCain, over-reacting as usual
Some are billing this as Obama v. McCain 2. If so, Obama still wins on both points and correctness.
As a segue, this article points out how much worse we would be if John Sidney McCain III was nominally in charge these days.
The core point is this however: we have no dogs in this fight and no real reason to jump in other than to express an interest in the will of the people prevailing without much violence. Yep, that’s it.
Besides, weren’t the neocons actually pulling FOR Ahmadinejad?
The GOP is forgetting one important lesson from the Bible studies they supposed go to:
“A gentle answer turns away rage, but a harsh word stirs up anger.”
– Proverbs 15:1
Apparently I just found out how much Firefox is worth to me.
Ten thousand Australian dollars.
Microsoft has put out some bizarre kind of search contest where you can “find” AU$10,000 on the internet. Go here if interested.
It won’t let you use Firefox (and presumably not Opera or Chrome, etc.) to perform the search.
Granted, I don’t have the spare time to play the game. Nor do I use IE for much more than some work sites I need to use it for.
However, I really don’t see where Microsoft thinks it’s viable strategy is to insult a rival’s better product while trying to bribe tech savvy customers to come back to it’s flawed product.
Not to mention that Microsoft search has always sucked (though the new stuff apparently is *pretty*).