Doggedly searching for the crux of the biscuit.
Now that Iraq to the Future, Part III: the Salvador Option has begun arriving in theaters near you, make sure you do not miss Tim Dunlop's Cliff Notes version of Episodes One and Two. Really - don't miss it, or else the title of this post makes no sense whatsoever. You may as well catch Billmon's condensed version of the prequel as well, though it certainly isn't nearly as funny. Then again, it's hard, hard work making the mass murder of innocent civilians by your own government humorous.
Back during the endless, teary farewell to Ronald Reagan, I was taken to task by some for being insufficiently reverent in his hour of saintly ascension. Well, go click Billmon's link and the links therein and read the sort of ugliness we were not just turning a blind eye to, but actively training and funding. I'm not a Christian, so I don't have to forgive, see? If I believed in Hell, I'd believe Ronnie was screaming his ass off right now, waiting for John Negroponte and Otto Reich and George W. Bush to come join him. Fortunately for them all, if my suspicions are correct, he's instead just slowly turning into dust, with the same blissful disregard of others' lives by which he lived his own.
It's the same distaste I carry for Colin Powell, who inexplicably still manages to give a chubby to nearly all of the otherwise reasonable people I know. Again, since I'm not a Christian, I'm under no obligation to forgive him for his long, long history of complicity in horrific human rights abuses. Oh, I have a suspicion how he has managed to escape the same vilification the rest of that amoral crowd of hypocritical moralizers usually receives, but I guess that's probably best left unspoken.
I've been keeping it light here recently because, well, it's been a really bleak period for America these past few months and years and we all need a laugh. But, you know, they bring these f*cking vampires like Negroponte back into the government and then he crawls over the moat and starts enacting the same death squad schemes he got famous for the first time around and after a while I just get disgusted with this entire country. At least, anyhow, the half of you that voted for that prissy, half-witted, trust fund screw-up with his ridiculously fake southern accent and even more ridiculously fake religious pretensions.
It's not as though all this was some sort of secret. Either you knew better or you're a zen master of willful ignorance. I can see getting fooled once; but this last time around, you just didn't have an excuse. Huff and puff all you like: at least I didn't vote for torture and death squads and I'm one of those immoral secular humanists that rolls his eyes when you blather on about some mythical "culture of life" that ends as soon as the umbilical cord is cut. Half of this country would use week-old pigshit as body wash if it had the Stars and Stripes and a photo of a bloody Jim Cavaziel slapped on the package. I should start lining up the venture capital.
So now I've blown off the steam I needed to release and you can feel free to use the comments to tell me how I'm alienating middle America and hurting the Democratic Party. Fill 'em right on up.
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Tim's got a great comic, and empathizes with your disgust regarding the Teflon President.
P.S.- You're alienating middle America (who are already pretty alien) and hurting the Democratic Party (but not as well as they are themselves).
Posted by: by at at January 10, 2005 06:29 PMMiddle America needs to feel a little alienation to gain some perspective on their role in worldwide crimes and the Democratic party deserves a swift kick in the ass. Keep it going!
Posted by: Ru at January 10, 2005 06:37 PMwith you on all counts.
you can't alienate what already thinks you should be shipped to another country.
Posted by: m at January 11, 2005 11:59 AMHell, a bunch of them think the death squads would be great here, just as long as they're hunting down us evil liberals...
Posted by: Jason at January 11, 2005 04:44 PMThe world is finding more ways to blame America for the tsunami tragedy. Already, as I predicted, we have "environmentalists" suggesting that the earthquake, and thus the tsunami, was triggered by global warming which, of course, is triggered by greedy Americans driving SUVs. Now we are learning that the tragedy in these countries was multiplied because they're so poor, and the reason that they're so poor is because the evil United States refuses to end their poverty through some device or another.
Remember this. Americans are going to spend tens of millions of dollars helping the victims of this tragedy and rebuilding their countries. Then, as soon as we are through, these nations they'll be right back to resenting us and hating us for the very wealth that allowed us to help them in the first place. Also .. many of the nations we'll be spending the money on are heavily or predominantly Muslim. Remember ... no good deed goes unpunished.
Posted by: John Johnson at January 11, 2005 04:54 PMOh yeah, I guess I should mention that I copied and pasted this straight from Neal Boortz's web site.
There's sure enough alienation to go around.
Posted by: John Johnson at January 11, 2005 04:56 PMWell, in case you blinked and missed it (Brit Hume's Special Report, transcript, 1/11/05), there is no Iraq insurgency. Absolutely not. It's only an insurrection. A distinction without a difference, you might ask? Not according to TV Army General and "military historian" Robert Scales:
SCALES: We've got to be careful about use of words here. Words count. This is not a classic insurgency, like Mao Tse-Tung or Che Guevara .... This is really more of a Sunni insurrection. I mean the Sunnis don’t have the numbers to either foment a civil war or a classic insurgency.
Well, hell's bells, there's the problem. We thought we were fighting Mao and Che! All that's needed is a little tweaking -- cork-face the death squads and let'em rip.
Posted by: Miss Authoritiva at January 13, 2005 12:33 AM
SCALES: We've got to be careful about use of words here. Words count. This is not a classic insurgency, like Mao Tse-Tung or Che Guevara .... This is really more of a Sunni insurrection. I mean the Sunnis don’t have the numbers to either foment a civil war or a classic insurgency
Why does this remind me of most of my ex-gf's who would tell me, "I'm not angry...I'm just upset?"
Posted by: Mr. Sticky at January 13, 2005 03:09 AMJohn Johnson: That's all well and good, but what in pluperfect hell does it have to do with U.S.-funded and -trained death squads?
Just askin'.
Posted by: Lex at January 13, 2005 10:35 AMHa! Alienating middle America? OK look. The European space agency just landed a probe on Titan, a moon of Saturn, and those pictures looked more like Terra firma than the picture of middle America today! Feel for the poor sane slobs that live among the zombies! Always having to be careful what they say, always looking over their shoulder.
No, I loved your rant. It was perfect! And it was accurate! I think it's time to reactivate the hippies and take it to the streets! CSNY in 4 part harmony on stage in the middle of a weekend of peace and harmony, just before the cops goose step all over everything and the cause gets splashed across the head lines of every paper in the country!
Rant on brother!
Posted by: Leslie at January 17, 2005 12:38 AMVy do you hate der fatherland so, mein aryan friend?
Posted by: Adolf's MeatTenderizer at January 18, 2005 05:34 AM