Pat Buchanan is railing about how shameful Mark Felt's (Deep Throat!) behavior was in the Watergate matter. "What he did was very dishonorable," sayeth Pius Pat.
"Here he was, this guy who had taken an oath trying to damage the President during the middle of a campaign," spewed Pat!
That's all well and good, but Pat talking about a guy who was the no. 2 man at the FBI who saw a crime that was being covered up, and he did the honorable thing and told the truth.
Just as ANYONE in the federal government who has access to information that PROVES the high crimes that this administration has so obviously committed, should feel compelled to come forward and provide the public with the vital information about the actions of the President that we need in order to make fact based rational determinations regarding our federal government.
Nixon was a liar. Nixon was a criminal. Mark Felt is a patriot. It's that simple.
Somewhere in Washington D.C., sitting quietly in an office, is a person who has the information that will liberate the people of our nation. I just pray they are brave enough to come forward.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Pat Buchanan is still whining about how disloyal Mark Felt was. Oh, and Woodward and Bernstein didn't break Watergate. And he just insinuated that people that brought down Nixon (Felt) are responsible for the Genocide in Cambodia. Sooooooooper!
Pat Buchanan is an asshole.
Tuesday, May 31, 2005
Fox News' London Bureau Chief admits Fox News' bias in a very direct and colorful way...
Sound the klaxons! Corporate Message breakdown at Fox News! This is not a drill. Repeat: This is not a drill. Assume battle stations! Fire in the hole! A-woo-ga! A-woo-ga!
Hehehe...
Norvell is London bureau chief for Fox News, and on May 20 he let the mask slip in, of all places, the Wall Street Journal. So far, the damage has been contained, because Norvell's comments—in an op-ed he wrote decrying left-wing bias at the BBC—appeared only in the Journal's European edition. But Chatterbox's agents are everywhere.
Here is what Norvell fessed up to in the May 20 Wall Street Journal Europe:
Even we at Fox News manage to get some lefties on the air occasionally, and often let them finish their sentences before we club them to death and feed the scraps to Karl Rove and Bill O'Reilly. And those who hate us can take solace in the fact that they aren't subsidizing Bill's bombast; we payers of the BBC license fee don't enjoy that peace of mind.
Fox News is, after all, a private channel and our presenters are quite open about where they stand on particular stories. That's our appeal. People watch us because they know what they are getting. The Beeb's institutionalized leftism would be easier to tolerate if the corporation was a little more honest about it.
Norvell never says the word "conservative" in describing "where [Fox's anchorpeople] stand on particular stories," or what Fox's viewers "know … they are getting." But in context, Norvell clearly is using the example of Fox News to argue that political bias is acceptable when it isn't subsidized by the public (as his op-ed's target, the leftish BBC, is), and when the bias is acknowledged. Norvell's little joke about clubbing lefties to death should satisfy even the most literal-minded that the bias Norvell describes is a conservative one. (Lord only knows where Norvell acquired the erroneous belief that Fox News is "honest" about its conservative slant; perhaps he's so used to Fox's protestations of objectivity being ignored that he literally forgot that they continue to be uttered.)
This is one of life's great pleasures. When a group of people insist on repeating things that are demonstrably not true, there will eventually be one within their ranks that ruins the lie for the rest of them by telling the truth.
Read the whole article here.
Anyone want to take bets on how long this guy stays London Bureau Cheif?
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Fox News' London Bureau Chief admits Fox News' bias in a very direct and colorful way...
Sound the klaxons! Corporate Message breakdown at Fox News! This is not a drill. Repeat: This is not a drill. Assume battle stations! Fire in the hole! A-woo-ga! A-woo-ga!
Hehehe...
Norvell is London bureau chief for Fox News, and on May 20 he let the mask slip in, of all places, the Wall Street Journal. So far, the damage has been contained, because Norvell's comments—in an op-ed he wrote decrying left-wing bias at the BBC—appeared only in the Journal's European edition. But Chatterbox's agents are everywhere.
Here is what Norvell fessed up to in the May 20 Wall Street Journal Europe:
Even we at Fox News manage to get some lefties on the air occasionally, and often let them finish their sentences before we club them to death and feed the scraps to Karl Rove and Bill O'Reilly. And those who hate us can take solace in the fact that they aren't subsidizing Bill's bombast; we payers of the BBC license fee don't enjoy that peace of mind.
Fox News is, after all, a private channel and our presenters are quite open about where they stand on particular stories. That's our appeal. People watch us because they know what they are getting. The Beeb's institutionalized leftism would be easier to tolerate if the corporation was a little more honest about it.
Norvell never says the word "conservative" in describing "where [Fox's anchorpeople] stand on particular stories," or what Fox's viewers "know … they are getting." But in context, Norvell clearly is using the example of Fox News to argue that political bias is acceptable when it isn't subsidized by the public (as his op-ed's target, the leftish BBC, is), and when the bias is acknowledged. Norvell's little joke about clubbing lefties to death should satisfy even the most literal-minded that the bias Norvell describes is a conservative one. (Lord only knows where Norvell acquired the erroneous belief that Fox News is "honest" about its conservative slant; perhaps he's so used to Fox's protestations of objectivity being ignored that he literally forgot that they continue to be uttered.)
This is one of life's great pleasures. When a group of people insist on repeating things that are demonstrably not true, there will eventually be one within their ranks that ruins the lie for the rest of them by telling the truth.
Read the whole article here.
Anyone want to take bets on how long this guy stays London Bureau Cheif?
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Monday, May 30, 2005
Blogger Sucks...
Apparently, blogger is having problems using FTP publishing to publish to people who went through the trouble of setting up their own domains, like OklahomaHippy.com for instance.
As soon as the people at Blogger get their heads out of their asses and address this fundamental problem with their service, (Which worked fine until last Wednesday afternoon, by the way) then I will delete this post.
But until then, everyone can read here that I think Blogger Sux, and I wouldn't suggest using it.
So, I'm not gone. I still have things I want to say, but until they get it fixed, I'm silenced.
FIX IT!
-The Oklahoma Hippy
As soon as the people at Blogger get their heads out of their asses and address this fundamental problem with their service, (Which worked fine until last Wednesday afternoon, by the way) then I will delete this post.
But until then, everyone can read here that I think Blogger Sux, and I wouldn't suggest using it.
So, I'm not gone. I still have things I want to say, but until they get it fixed, I'm silenced.
FIX IT!
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Blogger Sucks...
Apparently, blogger is having problems using FTP publishing to publish to people who went through the trouble of setting up their own domains, like OklahomaHippy.com for instance.
As soon as the people at Blogger get their heads out of their asses and address this fundamental problem with their service, (Which worked fine until last Wednesday afternoon, by the way) then I will delete this post.
But until then, everyone can read here that I think Blogger Sux, and I wouldn't suggest using it.
So, I'm not gone. I still have things I want to say, but until they get it fixed, I'm silenced.
FIX IT!
-The Oklahoma Hippy
As soon as the people at Blogger get their heads out of their asses and address this fundamental problem with their service, (Which worked fine until last Wednesday afternoon, by the way) then I will delete this post.
But until then, everyone can read here that I think Blogger Sux, and I wouldn't suggest using it.
So, I'm not gone. I still have things I want to say, but until they get it fixed, I'm silenced.
FIX IT!
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Thursday, May 26, 2005
An important Diary entry over at Kos...
It is precisely because Memorial Day brings home to us the uniqueness and value of every life that one group of war dead will be conspicuous by their absence from all our commemorations: and that is the many thousands of Iraqis we have killed since March 2003. Because who really wants to be reminded that at least 20,000 and perhaps as many as 100,000 Iraqis - people just like us - are dead today because of a war we should never have started?
Their names will never be engraved on the Mall, and their faces will never warrant a spread in the Washington Post, but I will commemorate here 100 or so of those Iraqis who, thanks to us, made the "ultimate sacrifice" whether they wished it or not.
1. ZAIDOUN FADEL HASSOUN, 19
Zaidoun Hassoun, a twelfth-grader about to graduate high school, drowned after being thrown into the River Tigris by a U.S. Army patrol in Samarra, in January 2004.
FORT HOOD, Texas -- An Iraqi civilian testified yesterday that he and his cousin were forced at gunpoint into the murky Tigris River and that US soldiers laughed while the two struggled against the current. Marwan Fadel Hassoun said he struggled to shore and tried to save his 19-year-old cousin by grabbing his hand, but the powerful waters swept Zaidoun Fadel Hassoun to his death. ''He was calling my name, said 'Help me! Help me!' " Marwan Hassoun testified through an interpreter on the second day of the military trial for Army Sergeant First Class Tracy Perkins, 33. (Source)
Sergeant Perkins explained at his court martial that he had ordered the men thrown into the river because "I didn't want them to think we were soft or weak." He was sentenced to 6 months in prison.
Manslaughter charges against Army 1st Lt. Jack Saville, who authorized Sergeant Perkins' order to throw the Hassoun cousins into the Tigris, were dropped in a plea bargain. He was sentenced instead to 45 days imprisonment for having a third Iraqi thrown into the Tigris, this time at Balad, in December 2003. Saville had reportedly made a bet with another platoon about who would do such a thing first. He assured his court martial that he had learned from his mistakes, and been "forgiven by God".
2. FIFTEEN MEMBERS OF THE AL-KHAFAJI FAMILY
The al-Khafaji family was fleeing the fighting in Haidariya on 31 March 2003, when their pickup truck was destroyed by a missile from an Apache helicopter. Razek Al-Kazem Al-Khafaji lost his six children, his wife, his mother, his father, three brothers and three sisters-in-law.
Photo: Razek Al-Kazem Al-Khafaji grieves for three of his children. (By Karim Sahib for AFP; via The Jordan Times, 2 Apr 03)
3. HUSSEIN and KAMILA HASSAN, ages not known
Hussein Hassan, his wife Kamila, and six of their nine children were riding in their car when it came under fire from a U.S. Army patrol in Tal Afar on 18 January 2005. Hussein and Kamila were killed instantly. Their 12-year old son, Rakan, was hit in the stomach by a bullet that exited through his spine, damaging vertebrae and leaving him unable to walk.
Photo: An Iraqi girl screams after her parents were killed when American soldiers fired on their car when it failed to stop; Tal Afar, Iraq, 18 January 2005. (By Chris Hondros/Getty Images).
See the rest here.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
An important Diary entry over at Kos...
It is precisely because Memorial Day brings home to us the uniqueness and value of every life that one group of war dead will be conspicuous by their absence from all our commemorations: and that is the many thousands of Iraqis we have killed since March 2003. Because who really wants to be reminded that at least 20,000 and perhaps as many as 100,000 Iraqis - people just like us - are dead today because of a war we should never have started?
Their names will never be engraved on the Mall, and their faces will never warrant a spread in the Washington Post, but I will commemorate here 100 or so of those Iraqis who, thanks to us, made the "ultimate sacrifice" whether they wished it or not.
1. ZAIDOUN FADEL HASSOUN, 19
Zaidoun Hassoun, a twelfth-grader about to graduate high school, drowned after being thrown into the River Tigris by a U.S. Army patrol in Samarra, in January 2004.
FORT HOOD, Texas -- An Iraqi civilian testified yesterday that he and his cousin were forced at gunpoint into the murky Tigris River and that US soldiers laughed while the two struggled against the current. Marwan Fadel Hassoun said he struggled to shore and tried to save his 19-year-old cousin by grabbing his hand, but the powerful waters swept Zaidoun Fadel Hassoun to his death. ''He was calling my name, said 'Help me! Help me!' " Marwan Hassoun testified through an interpreter on the second day of the military trial for Army Sergeant First Class Tracy Perkins, 33. (Source)
Sergeant Perkins explained at his court martial that he had ordered the men thrown into the river because "I didn't want them to think we were soft or weak." He was sentenced to 6 months in prison.
Manslaughter charges against Army 1st Lt. Jack Saville, who authorized Sergeant Perkins' order to throw the Hassoun cousins into the Tigris, were dropped in a plea bargain. He was sentenced instead to 45 days imprisonment for having a third Iraqi thrown into the Tigris, this time at Balad, in December 2003. Saville had reportedly made a bet with another platoon about who would do such a thing first. He assured his court martial that he had learned from his mistakes, and been "forgiven by God".
2. FIFTEEN MEMBERS OF THE AL-KHAFAJI FAMILY
The al-Khafaji family was fleeing the fighting in Haidariya on 31 March 2003, when their pickup truck was destroyed by a missile from an Apache helicopter. Razek Al-Kazem Al-Khafaji lost his six children, his wife, his mother, his father, three brothers and three sisters-in-law.
Photo: Razek Al-Kazem Al-Khafaji grieves for three of his children. (By Karim Sahib for AFP; via The Jordan Times, 2 Apr 03)
3. HUSSEIN and KAMILA HASSAN, ages not known
Hussein Hassan, his wife Kamila, and six of their nine children were riding in their car when it came under fire from a U.S. Army patrol in Tal Afar on 18 January 2005. Hussein and Kamila were killed instantly. Their 12-year old son, Rakan, was hit in the stomach by a bullet that exited through his spine, damaging vertebrae and leaving him unable to walk.
Photo: An Iraqi girl screams after her parents were killed when American soldiers fired on their car when it failed to stop; Tal Afar, Iraq, 18 January 2005. (By Chris Hondros/Getty Images).
See the rest here.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Wednesday, May 25, 2005
Watching Propaganda Form... The Great Cyberterror lie...
Lookie here! I just found some fresh propaganda!
From the AP:
We're going to go piece by piece and deconstruct the propaganda here. This is the first paragraph and we've got our first reference to September 11th. That's number 1. There will be more.
This is not an accident. This is intentionally using emotionally impactful imagery to equate the topic of cybersecurity to the most traumatic collective event that most Americans have experienced in their lifetime.
You also have your first invocation of "industry." Don't kid yourself. That's what this is really about. You'll see what I mean in just a bit. Let's continue.
Shhhh... This is a super secret national security matter. Yeah, but someone authorized this person to talk to the AP on background, right? Is it really that big of a secret? I don't think we're supposed to ask questions like that, but who gives damn what the Propagandists or their Sheeple (sheep people!) want.
You see how slyly they have equated Anti-Americanism with Anti-Globalization? What they really mean is quite transparent.
If you are like me and believe that our society has been co-opted by huge multinational corporations, then you are the enemy they're referring to. They want people who don't know anything about cybersecurity to fear you the next time you take your HP Laptop into a Starbucks and sit down.
Oh, there's September 11th again. Even after acknowledging that the experts in the field think this isn't really something we ought to worry about. What do experts know. They're probably baby-killin' America-hatin' liberal experts, right?
OK, so now we have a reference to Pearl Harbor. Alright. Notice anything else? Remember what I said about the experts who don't think we have to worry about cyber security are most likely going to be labeled as liberal? Well, the one expert quoted here is from Dartmouth. He's worse than most, you see. He's an Ivy League Liberal. Now they can say it... Liberals are soft on cyberterrorism.
Yeah, this is such a big secret that someone from the CIA is telling an AP reporter. Remember this is the Official Truth, for now.
Also, did you notice how the CIA is running this "with other current and former U.S. officials." You got it... That means the private sector. Here come those corporations again.
OK, again using they're using the imagery of actual terrorism to drum up the significance of this fake threat. Propagandists are usually more subtle than that.
Terrorist will combine physical attacks with hacker attacks to disrupt rescue efforts.
Now that September 11th has been mentioned a couple of times and Pearl Harbor has also been dropped into the conversation, you're supposed to have the word "heroes" in your mind.
When you hear that terrorists want to disrupt rescue efforts, you're supposed to be thinking of Police Officers and Firefighters dying in an attempt to do their job saving people from the mass carnage of Explosions and Hackers.
Dorothy Denning is in the Navy. None of that Elitist Dartmouth shithead stuff here, boy. You see, the American Military knows what's good for us. We need to be prepared even for the stuff that's not likely to happen. If that Ivy League schmuck is saying that it's not really that big of a concern, it's because liberal elitists hate America.
What? The government may not have the capability of responding to such an event in the manner deserving of proud Americans? What ever can we do to save ourselves from cyberdoom? He need a savior!
And so we reach the end of the news item and we see what the real motive is. Private Technology Companies are our only hope for salvation. I guess we should hire them to keep us safe. Look what they've done for the airports. Ted Kennedy isn't getting on this flight, damnit!
This is a scam designed to but an unbelievable amount of resources into yet a new corner of the private sector. They'll protect us from terrorists and make sure we don't have an E-9/11 or a Cyber-Pearl-Harbor.
I guess while they're doing that it wouldn't be too hard to set up the monitoring system so that it proactively monitors all internet activity all the time right? We'll of course hear it. "Put on your tinfoil hat, you paranoid hippy!" But, after the PARTIOT ACT, I don't put anything past these assholes.
So, now you have seen how they insert their propaganda into the public conscience. This is how it happens people. We're watching it happen.
Oh, just in case you're wondering... I got the link from Drudge.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
From the AP:
CIA Overseeing 3-Day War Game on Internet
By TED BRIDIS
WASHINGTON - The CIA is conducting a war game this week to simulate an unprecedented, Sept. 11-like electronic assault against the United States. The three-day exercise, known as "Silent Horizon," is meant to test the ability of government and industry to respond to escalating Internet disruptions over many months, according to participants.
We're going to go piece by piece and deconstruct the propaganda here. This is the first paragraph and we've got our first reference to September 11th. That's number 1. There will be more.
This is not an accident. This is intentionally using emotionally impactful imagery to equate the topic of cybersecurity to the most traumatic collective event that most Americans have experienced in their lifetime.
You also have your first invocation of "industry." Don't kid yourself. That's what this is really about. You'll see what I mean in just a bit. Let's continue.
They spoke on condition of anonymity because the CIA asked them not to disclose details of the sensitive exercise taking place in Charlottesville, Va., about two hours southwest of Washington.
Shhhh... This is a super secret national security matter. Yeah, but someone authorized this person to talk to the AP on background, right? Is it really that big of a secret? I don't think we're supposed to ask questions like that, but who gives damn what the Propagandists or their Sheeple (sheep people!) want.
The simulated attacks were carried out five years in the future by a fictional new alliance of anti-American organizations that included anti-globalization hackers. The most serious damage was expected to be inflicted in the closing hours of the war game Thursday.
You see how slyly they have equated Anti-Americanism with Anti-Globalization? What they really mean is quite transparent.
If you are like me and believe that our society has been co-opted by huge multinational corporations, then you are the enemy they're referring to. They want people who don't know anything about cybersecurity to fear you the next time you take your HP Laptop into a Starbucks and sit down.
The national security simulation was significant because its premise - a devastating cyberattack that affects government and parts of the economy on the scale of the 2001 suicide hijackings - contradicts assurances by U.S. counter-terrorism experts that such effects from a cyberattack are highly unlikely.
Oh, there's September 11th again. Even after acknowledging that the experts in the field think this isn't really something we ought to worry about. What do experts know. They're probably baby-killin' America-hatin' liberal experts, right?
"You hear less and less about the digital Pearl Harbor," said Dennis McGrath, who has helped run three similar exercises for the Institute for Security Technology Studies at Dartmouth College. "What people call cyberterrorism, it's just not at the top of the list."
OK, so now we have a reference to Pearl Harbor. Alright. Notice anything else? Remember what I said about the experts who don't think we have to worry about cyber security are most likely going to be labeled as liberal? Well, the one expert quoted here is from Dartmouth. He's worse than most, you see. He's an Ivy League Liberal. Now they can say it... Liberals are soft on cyberterrorism.
The CIA's little-known Information Operations Center, which evaluates threats to U.S. computer systems from foreign governments, criminal organizations and hackers, was running the war game. About 75 people, mostly from the CIA, along with other current and former U.S. officials, gathered in conference rooms and pretended to react to signs of mock computer attacks.
Yeah, this is such a big secret that someone from the CIA is telling an AP reporter. Remember this is the Official Truth, for now.
Also, did you notice how the CIA is running this "with other current and former U.S. officials." You got it... That means the private sector. Here come those corporations again.
The government remains most concerned about terrorists using explosions, radiation and biological threats. FBI Director Robert Mueller warned earlier this year that terrorists increasingly are recruiting computer scientists but said most hackers "do not have the resources or motivation to attack the U.S. critical information infrastructures."
OK, again using they're using the imagery of actual terrorism to drum up the significance of this fake threat. Propagandists are usually more subtle than that.
The government's most recent intelligence assessment of future threats through the year 2020 said cyberattacks are expected but terrorists "will continue to primarily employ conventional weapons." Authorities have expressed concerns about terrorists combining physical attacks such as bombings with hacker attacks to disrupt rescue efforts, known as hybrid or "swarming" attacks.
Terrorist will combine physical attacks with hacker attacks to disrupt rescue efforts.
Now that September 11th has been mentioned a couple of times and Pearl Harbor has also been dropped into the conversation, you're supposed to have the word "heroes" in your mind.
When you hear that terrorists want to disrupt rescue efforts, you're supposed to be thinking of Police Officers and Firefighters dying in an attempt to do their job saving people from the mass carnage of Explosions and Hackers.
"One of the things the intelligence community was accused of was a lack of imagination," said Dorothy Denning of the Naval Postgraduate School, an expert on Internet threats who was invited by the CIA to participate but declined. "You want to think about not just what you think may affect you but about scenarios that might seem unlikely."
Dorothy Denning is in the Navy. None of that Elitist Dartmouth shithead stuff here, boy. You see, the American Military knows what's good for us. We need to be prepared even for the stuff that's not likely to happen. If that Ivy League schmuck is saying that it's not really that big of a concern, it's because liberal elitists hate America.
An earlier cyberterrorism exercise called "Livewire" for the Homeland Security Department and other federal agencies concluded there were serious questions over government's role during a cyberattack depending on who was identified as the culprit - terrorists, a foreign government or bored teenagers.
What? The government may not have the capability of responding to such an event in the manner deserving of proud Americans? What ever can we do to save ourselves from cyberdoom? He need a savior!
It also questioned whether the U.S. government would be able to detect the early stages of such an attack without significant help from private technology companies.
And so we reach the end of the news item and we see what the real motive is. Private Technology Companies are our only hope for salvation. I guess we should hire them to keep us safe. Look what they've done for the airports. Ted Kennedy isn't getting on this flight, damnit!
This is a scam designed to but an unbelievable amount of resources into yet a new corner of the private sector. They'll protect us from terrorists and make sure we don't have an E-9/11 or a Cyber-Pearl-Harbor.
I guess while they're doing that it wouldn't be too hard to set up the monitoring system so that it proactively monitors all internet activity all the time right? We'll of course hear it. "Put on your tinfoil hat, you paranoid hippy!" But, after the PARTIOT ACT, I don't put anything past these assholes.
So, now you have seen how they insert their propaganda into the public conscience. This is how it happens people. We're watching it happen.
Oh, just in case you're wondering... I got the link from Drudge.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Watching Propaganda Form... The Great Cyberterror lie...
Lookie here! I just found some fresh propaganda!
From the AP:
We're going to go piece by piece and deconstruct the propaganda here. This is the first paragraph and we've got our first reference to September 11th. That's number 1. There will be more.
This is not an accident. This is intentionally using emotionally impactful imagery to equate the topic of cybersecurity to the most traumatic collective event that most Americans have experienced in their lifetime.
You also have your first invocation of "industry." Don't kid yourself. That's what this is really about. You'll see what I mean in just a bit. Let's continue.
Shhhh... This is a super secret national security matter. Yeah, but someone authorized this person to talk to the AP on background, right? Is it really that big of a secret? I don't think we're supposed to ask questions like that, but who gives damn what the Propagandists or their Sheeple (sheep people!) want.
You see how slyly they have equated Anti-Americanism with Anti-Globalization? What they really mean is quite transparent.
If you are like me and believe that our society has been co-opted by huge multinational corporations, then you are the enemy they're referring to. They want people who don't know anything about cybersecurity to fear you the next time you take your HP Laptop into a Starbucks and sit down.
Oh, there's September 11th again. Even after acknowledging that the experts in the field think this isn't really something we ought to worry about. What do experts know. They're probably baby-killin' America-hatin' liberal experts, right?
OK, so now we have a reference to Pearl Harbor. Alright. Notice anything else? Remember what I said about the experts who don't think we have to worry about cyber security are most likely going to be labeled as liberal? Well, the one expert quoted here is from Dartmouth. He's worse than most, you see. He's an Ivy League Liberal. Now they can say it... Liberals are soft on cyberterrorism.
Yeah, this is such a big secret that someone from the CIA is telling an AP reporter. Remember this is the Official Truth, for now.
Also, did you notice how the CIA is running this "with other current and former U.S. officials." You got it... That means the private sector. Here come those corporations again.
OK, again using they're using the imagery of actual terrorism to drum up the significance of this fake threat. Propagandists are usually more subtle than that.
Terrorist will combine physical attacks with hacker attacks to disrupt rescue efforts.
Now that September 11th has been mentioned a couple of times and Pearl Harbor has also been dropped into the conversation, you're supposed to have the word "heroes" in your mind.
When you hear that terrorists want to disrupt rescue efforts, you're supposed to be thinking of Police Officers and Firefighters dying in an attempt to do their job saving people from the mass carnage of Explosions and Hackers.
Dorothy Denning is in the Navy. None of that Elitist Dartmouth shithead stuff here, boy. You see, the American Military knows what's good for us. We need to be prepared even for the stuff that's not likely to happen. If that Ivy League schmuck is saying that it's not really that big of a concern, it's because liberal elitists hate America.
What? The government may not have the capability of responding to such an event in the manner deserving of proud Americans? What ever can we do to save ourselves from cyberdoom? He need a savior!
And so we reach the end of the news item and we see what the real motive is. Private Technology Companies are our only hope for salvation. I guess we should hire them to keep us safe. Look what they've done for the airports. Ted Kennedy isn't getting on this flight, damnit!
This is a scam designed to but an unbelievable amount of resources into yet a new corner of the private sector. They'll protect us from terrorists and make sure we don't have an E-9/11 or a Cyber-Pearl-Harbor.
I guess while they're doing that it wouldn't be too hard to set up the monitoring system so that it proactively monitors all internet activity all the time right? We'll of course hear it. "Put on your tinfoil hat, you paranoid hippy!" But, after the PARTIOT ACT, I don't put anything past these assholes.
So, now you have seen how they insert their propaganda into the public conscience. This is how it happens people. We're watching it happen.
Oh, just in case you're wondering... I got the link from Drudge.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
From the AP:
CIA Overseeing 3-Day War Game on Internet
By TED BRIDIS
WASHINGTON - The CIA is conducting a war game this week to simulate an unprecedented, Sept. 11-like electronic assault against the United States. The three-day exercise, known as "Silent Horizon," is meant to test the ability of government and industry to respond to escalating Internet disruptions over many months, according to participants.
We're going to go piece by piece and deconstruct the propaganda here. This is the first paragraph and we've got our first reference to September 11th. That's number 1. There will be more.
This is not an accident. This is intentionally using emotionally impactful imagery to equate the topic of cybersecurity to the most traumatic collective event that most Americans have experienced in their lifetime.
You also have your first invocation of "industry." Don't kid yourself. That's what this is really about. You'll see what I mean in just a bit. Let's continue.
They spoke on condition of anonymity because the CIA asked them not to disclose details of the sensitive exercise taking place in Charlottesville, Va., about two hours southwest of Washington.
Shhhh... This is a super secret national security matter. Yeah, but someone authorized this person to talk to the AP on background, right? Is it really that big of a secret? I don't think we're supposed to ask questions like that, but who gives damn what the Propagandists or their Sheeple (sheep people!) want.
The simulated attacks were carried out five years in the future by a fictional new alliance of anti-American organizations that included anti-globalization hackers. The most serious damage was expected to be inflicted in the closing hours of the war game Thursday.
You see how slyly they have equated Anti-Americanism with Anti-Globalization? What they really mean is quite transparent.
If you are like me and believe that our society has been co-opted by huge multinational corporations, then you are the enemy they're referring to. They want people who don't know anything about cybersecurity to fear you the next time you take your HP Laptop into a Starbucks and sit down.
The national security simulation was significant because its premise - a devastating cyberattack that affects government and parts of the economy on the scale of the 2001 suicide hijackings - contradicts assurances by U.S. counter-terrorism experts that such effects from a cyberattack are highly unlikely.
Oh, there's September 11th again. Even after acknowledging that the experts in the field think this isn't really something we ought to worry about. What do experts know. They're probably baby-killin' America-hatin' liberal experts, right?
"You hear less and less about the digital Pearl Harbor," said Dennis McGrath, who has helped run three similar exercises for the Institute for Security Technology Studies at Dartmouth College. "What people call cyberterrorism, it's just not at the top of the list."
OK, so now we have a reference to Pearl Harbor. Alright. Notice anything else? Remember what I said about the experts who don't think we have to worry about cyber security are most likely going to be labeled as liberal? Well, the one expert quoted here is from Dartmouth. He's worse than most, you see. He's an Ivy League Liberal. Now they can say it... Liberals are soft on cyberterrorism.
The CIA's little-known Information Operations Center, which evaluates threats to U.S. computer systems from foreign governments, criminal organizations and hackers, was running the war game. About 75 people, mostly from the CIA, along with other current and former U.S. officials, gathered in conference rooms and pretended to react to signs of mock computer attacks.
Yeah, this is such a big secret that someone from the CIA is telling an AP reporter. Remember this is the Official Truth, for now.
Also, did you notice how the CIA is running this "with other current and former U.S. officials." You got it... That means the private sector. Here come those corporations again.
The government remains most concerned about terrorists using explosions, radiation and biological threats. FBI Director Robert Mueller warned earlier this year that terrorists increasingly are recruiting computer scientists but said most hackers "do not have the resources or motivation to attack the U.S. critical information infrastructures."
OK, again using they're using the imagery of actual terrorism to drum up the significance of this fake threat. Propagandists are usually more subtle than that.
The government's most recent intelligence assessment of future threats through the year 2020 said cyberattacks are expected but terrorists "will continue to primarily employ conventional weapons." Authorities have expressed concerns about terrorists combining physical attacks such as bombings with hacker attacks to disrupt rescue efforts, known as hybrid or "swarming" attacks.
Terrorist will combine physical attacks with hacker attacks to disrupt rescue efforts.
Now that September 11th has been mentioned a couple of times and Pearl Harbor has also been dropped into the conversation, you're supposed to have the word "heroes" in your mind.
When you hear that terrorists want to disrupt rescue efforts, you're supposed to be thinking of Police Officers and Firefighters dying in an attempt to do their job saving people from the mass carnage of Explosions and Hackers.
"One of the things the intelligence community was accused of was a lack of imagination," said Dorothy Denning of the Naval Postgraduate School, an expert on Internet threats who was invited by the CIA to participate but declined. "You want to think about not just what you think may affect you but about scenarios that might seem unlikely."
Dorothy Denning is in the Navy. None of that Elitist Dartmouth shithead stuff here, boy. You see, the American Military knows what's good for us. We need to be prepared even for the stuff that's not likely to happen. If that Ivy League schmuck is saying that it's not really that big of a concern, it's because liberal elitists hate America.
An earlier cyberterrorism exercise called "Livewire" for the Homeland Security Department and other federal agencies concluded there were serious questions over government's role during a cyberattack depending on who was identified as the culprit - terrorists, a foreign government or bored teenagers.
What? The government may not have the capability of responding to such an event in the manner deserving of proud Americans? What ever can we do to save ourselves from cyberdoom? He need a savior!
It also questioned whether the U.S. government would be able to detect the early stages of such an attack without significant help from private technology companies.
And so we reach the end of the news item and we see what the real motive is. Private Technology Companies are our only hope for salvation. I guess we should hire them to keep us safe. Look what they've done for the airports. Ted Kennedy isn't getting on this flight, damnit!
This is a scam designed to but an unbelievable amount of resources into yet a new corner of the private sector. They'll protect us from terrorists and make sure we don't have an E-9/11 or a Cyber-Pearl-Harbor.
I guess while they're doing that it wouldn't be too hard to set up the monitoring system so that it proactively monitors all internet activity all the time right? We'll of course hear it. "Put on your tinfoil hat, you paranoid hippy!" But, after the PARTIOT ACT, I don't put anything past these assholes.
So, now you have seen how they insert their propaganda into the public conscience. This is how it happens people. We're watching it happen.
Oh, just in case you're wondering... I got the link from Drudge.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Reformed Thinkers...
I got this in my email at work. It's great. I don't have a real cite for it, but if you wrote it, let me know and I will give you full credit!
-The Oklahoma Hippy
It started out innocently enough: I began to think at parties now and then--to loosen up. Inevitably, though, one thought led to another, and soon I was more than just a social thinker. I began to think alone --"to relax," I told myself--but I knew it wasn't true. Thinking became more and more important to me, and finally I was thinking all the time. I began to think on the job. I knew that thinking and employment don't mix, but I couldn't stop myself. I began to avoid friends at lunchtime so I could read Thoreau and Kafka. I would return to the office dizzied and confused, asking, "What is it exactly we are doing here?"
Things weren't going so great at home either. One evening I had turned off the TV and asked my husband about the meaning of life. He spent that night at his mother's. I soon had a reputation as a heavy thinker.
One day the boss called me in. He said, "Shirley, I like you, and it hurts me to say this, but your thinking has become a real problem If you don't stop thinking on the job, you'll have to find another job." This gave me a lot to think about. I went home early after my conversation with the boss.
"Honey," I confessed, "I've been thinking--" "I know you've been thinking," he said, "and I want a divorce!" "But honey, surely it's not that serious." "It is serious," he said, lower lip aquiver. "You think as much as college professors and college professors don't make any money, so if you keep on thinking, we won't have any money!" "That's a faulty syllogism," I said impatiently, and he began to cry. I'd had enough. "I'm going to the library," I snarled as I stomped out the door. I headed for the library, in the mood for some Nietzsche, with NPR on the radio. I roared into the parking lot and ran up to the big glass doors. They didn't open. The library was closed.
To this day, I believe that a Higher Power was looking out for me that night. As I sank to the ground, clawing at the unfeeling glass, whimpering Zarathustra, a poster caught my eye. "Friend is heavy thinking ruining your life?" it asked. You probably recognize that line. It comes from the standard Thinker's Anonymous poster. This is why I am what I am today: a recovering thinker. I never miss a TA meeting. At each meeting, we watch a non-educational video; last week it was "Dumb and Dumber." Then we share an experience about how we avoided thinking since the last meeting.
I still have my job, and things are a lot better at home. Life just seemed . . . easier, somehow, as soon as I stopped thinking.
Soon, I will be able to vote Republican.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Reformed Thinkers...
I got this in my email at work. It's great. I don't have a real cite for it, but if you wrote it, let me know and I will give you full credit!
-The Oklahoma Hippy
It started out innocently enough: I began to think at parties now and then--to loosen up. Inevitably, though, one thought led to another, and soon I was more than just a social thinker. I began to think alone --"to relax," I told myself--but I knew it wasn't true. Thinking became more and more important to me, and finally I was thinking all the time. I began to think on the job. I knew that thinking and employment don't mix, but I couldn't stop myself. I began to avoid friends at lunchtime so I could read Thoreau and Kafka. I would return to the office dizzied and confused, asking, "What is it exactly we are doing here?"
Things weren't going so great at home either. One evening I had turned off the TV and asked my husband about the meaning of life. He spent that night at his mother's. I soon had a reputation as a heavy thinker.
One day the boss called me in. He said, "Shirley, I like you, and it hurts me to say this, but your thinking has become a real problem If you don't stop thinking on the job, you'll have to find another job." This gave me a lot to think about. I went home early after my conversation with the boss.
"Honey," I confessed, "I've been thinking--" "I know you've been thinking," he said, "and I want a divorce!" "But honey, surely it's not that serious." "It is serious," he said, lower lip aquiver. "You think as much as college professors and college professors don't make any money, so if you keep on thinking, we won't have any money!" "That's a faulty syllogism," I said impatiently, and he began to cry. I'd had enough. "I'm going to the library," I snarled as I stomped out the door. I headed for the library, in the mood for some Nietzsche, with NPR on the radio. I roared into the parking lot and ran up to the big glass doors. They didn't open. The library was closed.
To this day, I believe that a Higher Power was looking out for me that night. As I sank to the ground, clawing at the unfeeling glass, whimpering Zarathustra, a poster caught my eye. "Friend is heavy thinking ruining your life?" it asked. You probably recognize that line. It comes from the standard Thinker's Anonymous poster. This is why I am what I am today: a recovering thinker. I never miss a TA meeting. At each meeting, we watch a non-educational video; last week it was "Dumb and Dumber." Then we share an experience about how we avoided thinking since the last meeting.
I still have my job, and things are a lot better at home. Life just seemed . . . easier, somehow, as soon as I stopped thinking.
Soon, I will be able to vote Republican.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Could it be that people are starting to wake up?
I'm seeing more and more analysis of what has been going on with the Bush Administration's Propaganda Machine since September 11th. People are starting to get it.
I don't know if they're reading more Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn, but it's definitely out there.
The latest example can be found here.
Here's a taste:
Wow. I can only hope that it's happening. Perhaps we're closing out on the era ofOrwelliang Language Shifts and the administrationstendencyy to reframe reality.
That for example Scott McClellan pretending yesterday that he had not blamed Newsweek for the riots thatoccurredd.
From Editor and Publisher Online:
Last week, we in the reality based community were angry that The White House had blamed Newsweek for violence it didn't cause and angry at Newsweek for printing a retraction of a story that had widely been reported elsewhere and is ostensibly true.
What is the new official truth this week? "We never said that!"
Errrrrg!
But, that's alright. Maybe the collective cognitive dissonance and mass hysteria generated by September 11th and then proactively nurtured by the despicable people in the Bush Administration is finally starting to collapse.
For our own safety, we can only hope.
One last thought for people who want to fight the propaganda.
You don't have to agree with me on any issue other than needing transparency in government and honesty from our leaders. When we have that, we can work out any ideological differences. Until then, I will continue waiting for the thought police to flush me down the memory hole.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
I don't know if they're reading more Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn, but it's definitely out there.
The latest example can be found here.
Here's a taste:
After 9/11, the Bush administration creates a huge cabinet-level agency whose entire purpose is to be relentlessly, stringently paranoid about the possibility of terrorist attacks. Simultaneous to the creation of the DHS, the administration creates the color-code alert system, which has absolutely no concrete purpose beyond generally scaring the shit out of the population.
Now it comes out that the Bush administration routinely overruled its own house paranoiac to unilaterally declare orange and red alerts. The White House, of course, doesn't have its own intelligence apparatus. In making a dissenting assessment of intelligence, its judgments were entirely political.
We already knew that the timing of these alerts was extremely suspicious. The public has forgotten already, but it's worth recalling now that just four days before Christmas in 2003, at a time when the country was still somewhat divided over whether or not to go to war in Iraq, the DHS announced a code orange alert. Just as the population was settling in for the holidays, Donald Rumsfeld made an unequivocal announcement:
"Indications [are] that [the] near-term attacks," he said, "will either rival or exceed the [9/11] attacks."
Then there was the code red in New York on July 29, 2004 the same day that John Kerry made his acceptance speech at the Democratic convention. We were told, among other things, that al-Qaeda was planning on blowing up the Citibank building. News leaked out later that this intelligence was at least three years old.
At the time, everyone blamed Tom Ridge for this. It was Ridge, after all, who said of the Citibank threat: "The quality of this intelligence, based on multiple reporting streams in multiple locations, is rarely seen."
Now it comes out that it wasn't Ridge at all, but the White House, acting on its own initiative. Considering the timing of the alerts before elections in 2003, in a period when the administration was garnering support for the Iraq invasion, and before the 2004 election—the idea that the White House just pulled these stunts willy-nilly is criminal. Watergate started as a bunch of cheap frat pranks to knock Ed Muskie out of the race. This would be terrorizing 270 million people to go to war and win an election, if that's what they did. What does it look like?
Wow. I can only hope that it's happening. Perhaps we're closing out on the era ofOrwelliang Language Shifts and the administrationstendencyy to reframe reality.
That for example Scott McClellan pretending yesterday that he had not blamed Newsweek for the riots thatoccurredd.
From Editor and Publisher Online:
NEW YORK At a White House press briefing Monday, Press Secretary Scott McClellan, pressed by reporters and with Afghan President Karzai in disagreement, retreated on claims that Newsweek's retracted story on Koran abuse cost lives in Afghanistan.
He also claimed that he had never said it did, even though a check of transcripts disputes that. On May 16, for example, he said, "people have lost their lives." On May 17, he said, "People did lose their lives," and, "People lost their lives" due to the Newsweek report.
Last week, we in the reality based community were angry that The White House had blamed Newsweek for violence it didn't cause and angry at Newsweek for printing a retraction of a story that had widely been reported elsewhere and is ostensibly true.
What is the new official truth this week? "We never said that!"
Errrrrg!
But, that's alright. Maybe the collective cognitive dissonance and mass hysteria generated by September 11th and then proactively nurtured by the despicable people in the Bush Administration is finally starting to collapse.
For our own safety, we can only hope.
One last thought for people who want to fight the propaganda.
Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
–Abbie Hoffman
You don't have to agree with me on any issue other than needing transparency in government and honesty from our leaders. When we have that, we can work out any ideological differences. Until then, I will continue waiting for the thought police to flush me down the memory hole.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Could it be that people are starting to wake up?
I'm seeing more and more analysis of what has been going on with the Bush Administration's Propaganda Machine since September 11th. People are starting to get it.
I don't know if they're reading more Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn, but it's definitely out there.
The latest example can be found here.
Here's a taste:
Wow. I can only hope that it's happening. Perhaps we're closing out on the era ofOrwelliang Language Shifts and the administrationstendencyy to reframe reality.
That for example Scott McClellan pretending yesterday that he had not blamed Newsweek for the riots thatoccurredd.
From Editor and Publisher Online:
Last week, we in the reality based community were angry that The White House had blamed Newsweek for violence it didn't cause and angry at Newsweek for printing a retraction of a story that had widely been reported elsewhere and is ostensibly true.
What is the new official truth this week? "We never said that!"
Errrrrg!
But, that's alright. Maybe the collective cognitive dissonance and mass hysteria generated by September 11th and then proactively nurtured by the despicable people in the Bush Administration is finally starting to collapse.
For our own safety, we can only hope.
One last thought for people who want to fight the propaganda.
You don't have to agree with me on any issue other than needing transparency in government and honesty from our leaders. When we have that, we can work out any ideological differences. Until then, I will continue waiting for the thought police to flush me down the memory hole.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
I don't know if they're reading more Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn, but it's definitely out there.
The latest example can be found here.
Here's a taste:
After 9/11, the Bush administration creates a huge cabinet-level agency whose entire purpose is to be relentlessly, stringently paranoid about the possibility of terrorist attacks. Simultaneous to the creation of the DHS, the administration creates the color-code alert system, which has absolutely no concrete purpose beyond generally scaring the shit out of the population.
Now it comes out that the Bush administration routinely overruled its own house paranoiac to unilaterally declare orange and red alerts. The White House, of course, doesn't have its own intelligence apparatus. In making a dissenting assessment of intelligence, its judgments were entirely political.
We already knew that the timing of these alerts was extremely suspicious. The public has forgotten already, but it's worth recalling now that just four days before Christmas in 2003, at a time when the country was still somewhat divided over whether or not to go to war in Iraq, the DHS announced a code orange alert. Just as the population was settling in for the holidays, Donald Rumsfeld made an unequivocal announcement:
"Indications [are] that [the] near-term attacks," he said, "will either rival or exceed the [9/11] attacks."
Then there was the code red in New York on July 29, 2004 the same day that John Kerry made his acceptance speech at the Democratic convention. We were told, among other things, that al-Qaeda was planning on blowing up the Citibank building. News leaked out later that this intelligence was at least three years old.
At the time, everyone blamed Tom Ridge for this. It was Ridge, after all, who said of the Citibank threat: "The quality of this intelligence, based on multiple reporting streams in multiple locations, is rarely seen."
Now it comes out that it wasn't Ridge at all, but the White House, acting on its own initiative. Considering the timing of the alerts before elections in 2003, in a period when the administration was garnering support for the Iraq invasion, and before the 2004 election—the idea that the White House just pulled these stunts willy-nilly is criminal. Watergate started as a bunch of cheap frat pranks to knock Ed Muskie out of the race. This would be terrorizing 270 million people to go to war and win an election, if that's what they did. What does it look like?
Wow. I can only hope that it's happening. Perhaps we're closing out on the era ofOrwelliang Language Shifts and the administrationstendencyy to reframe reality.
That for example Scott McClellan pretending yesterday that he had not blamed Newsweek for the riots thatoccurredd.
From Editor and Publisher Online:
NEW YORK At a White House press briefing Monday, Press Secretary Scott McClellan, pressed by reporters and with Afghan President Karzai in disagreement, retreated on claims that Newsweek's retracted story on Koran abuse cost lives in Afghanistan.
He also claimed that he had never said it did, even though a check of transcripts disputes that. On May 16, for example, he said, "people have lost their lives." On May 17, he said, "People did lose their lives," and, "People lost their lives" due to the Newsweek report.
Last week, we in the reality based community were angry that The White House had blamed Newsweek for violence it didn't cause and angry at Newsweek for printing a retraction of a story that had widely been reported elsewhere and is ostensibly true.
What is the new official truth this week? "We never said that!"
Errrrrg!
But, that's alright. Maybe the collective cognitive dissonance and mass hysteria generated by September 11th and then proactively nurtured by the despicable people in the Bush Administration is finally starting to collapse.
For our own safety, we can only hope.
One last thought for people who want to fight the propaganda.
Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
–Abbie Hoffman
You don't have to agree with me on any issue other than needing transparency in government and honesty from our leaders. When we have that, we can work out any ideological differences. Until then, I will continue waiting for the thought police to flush me down the memory hole.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Where's John Bolton when you need him?
From CNN:
Read the rest here.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Syrian government has halted all cooperation with the United States in sharing information about the war on terror, Syria's ambassador said Tuesday.
Imad Moustapha told CNN that Syria's decision came in the wake of recent "unfair and inaccurate" statements by U.S. officials that Damascus was allowing foreign fighters to cross Syria's border to aid in the insurgency in Iraq.
"This is actually the state of the affairs. Today, we are not cooperating with the United States," Moustapha told CNN's Wolf Blitzer.
Read the rest here.
Where's John Bolton when you need him?
From CNN:
Read the rest here.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Syrian government has halted all cooperation with the United States in sharing information about the war on terror, Syria's ambassador said Tuesday.
Imad Moustapha told CNN that Syria's decision came in the wake of recent "unfair and inaccurate" statements by U.S. officials that Damascus was allowing foreign fighters to cross Syria's border to aid in the insurgency in Iraq.
"This is actually the state of the affairs. Today, we are not cooperating with the United States," Moustapha told CNN's Wolf Blitzer.
Read the rest here.
Just thought it would be to remind everyone...
Since it's almost summer, and practically is now that so many kids are out school, I just thought now would be a good time to ask.
When does the pool open? Where will the coolest fireworks be this Fourth of July? Can I get a hot dog with mustard and relish? Where did you get those cool flip flops? Are you going to the lake?
Oh, and by the way. Has the war with Iran started yet? I heard it was coming this summer. I wonder what kind of conjured threat we're going to get this time?
Perhaps this headline:
Iran offering free abortions to Christian Cheerleaders!
Or this one:
Ayatollah Khomeini flushes a Buddy Christ figurine down a French Toilet!
Find info here, here, here, here, here, here,
ESPECIALLY HERE, and finally, sign a petition here to protest the coming war with Iran.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
When does the pool open? Where will the coolest fireworks be this Fourth of July? Can I get a hot dog with mustard and relish? Where did you get those cool flip flops? Are you going to the lake?
Oh, and by the way. Has the war with Iran started yet? I heard it was coming this summer. I wonder what kind of conjured threat we're going to get this time?
Perhaps this headline:
Iran offering free abortions to Christian Cheerleaders!
Or this one:
Ayatollah Khomeini flushes a Buddy Christ figurine down a French Toilet!
Find info here, here, here, here, here, here,
ESPECIALLY HERE, and finally, sign a petition here to protest the coming war with Iran.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Just thought it would be to remind everyone...
Since it's almost summer, and practically is now that so many kids are out school, I just thought now would be a good time to ask.
When does the pool open? Where will the coolest fireworks be this Fourth of July? Can I get a hot dog with mustard and relish? Where did you get those cool flip flops? Are you going to the lake?
Oh, and by the way. Has the war with Iran started yet? I heard it was coming this summer. I wonder what kind of conjured threat we're going to get this time?
Perhaps this headline:
Iran offering free abortions to Christian Cheerleaders!
Or this one:
Ayatollah Khomeini flushes a Buddy Christ figurine down a French Toilet!
Find info here, here, here, here, here, here,
ESPECIALLY HERE, and finally, sign a petition here to protest the coming war with Iran.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
When does the pool open? Where will the coolest fireworks be this Fourth of July? Can I get a hot dog with mustard and relish? Where did you get those cool flip flops? Are you going to the lake?
Oh, and by the way. Has the war with Iran started yet? I heard it was coming this summer. I wonder what kind of conjured threat we're going to get this time?
Perhaps this headline:
Iran offering free abortions to Christian Cheerleaders!
Or this one:
Ayatollah Khomeini flushes a Buddy Christ figurine down a French Toilet!
Find info here, here, here, here, here, here,
ESPECIALLY HERE, and finally, sign a petition here to protest the coming war with Iran.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Tuesday, May 24, 2005
AP either oblivious or masters of irony...
I'll let you decide which:
Heheheh. Good Lord.
Here's the link.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
WASHINGTON (AP) - Social Security's top analyst said Tuesday the nation faces budget challenges in less than four years if Congress does not change the program.
At the same time, President Bush warned members of his own party they would join Democrats in facing voters' wrath if they don't support his proposed overhaul.
Heheheh. Good Lord.
Here's the link.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
AP either oblivious or masters of irony...
I'll let you decide which:
Heheheh. Good Lord.
Here's the link.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
WASHINGTON (AP) - Social Security's top analyst said Tuesday the nation faces budget challenges in less than four years if Congress does not change the program.
At the same time, President Bush warned members of his own party they would join Democrats in facing voters' wrath if they don't support his proposed overhaul.
Heheheh. Good Lord.
Here's the link.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
An Open Letter to Insiders...
Countdown to Memorial Day: An Open Letter to Insiders
Memorial Day is just a few days away. Our troops in Iraq are under siege. Who among them, living and breathing at this very moment, will be dead by our day of national commemoration? And what will be the cause of death? Bullets and bombs? Or deception and silence?
We, the community of The Daily Kos, are seekers of truth. Based on our investigations, we know that President Bush was intent on invading Iraq from the beginning of his first term and that, further, his Administration "fixed" intelligence and promulgated false reports toward that end. Although this information has surfaced in one form or the other over the last few years, it has had little impact on the Administration, which continues on its perilous course, and the American people, who, by and large, remain woefully ignorant.
Meanwhile:
- Our women and men in uniform are sitting ducks, with over 1,600 dead and thousands more injured.
- Iraq is set to explode in a civil war as it simultaneously implodes from lack of infrastructure and security.
- Anywhere from 25,000 to over 100,000 Iraqi civilians are dead.
- American and foreign "privateers" are on a feeding frenzy; and almost $9 billion in Iraqi funds cannot be accounted for by the former Coalition Provisional Authority.
- Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib have been imprisoned, humiliated and tortured without legal recourse; terrorism is skyrocketing; and the U.S. has earned the emnity of people in the Middle East and throughout the world.
In short, the war and subsequent occupation are a catastrophe. Yet no one in authority is being held accountable. Without accountability, there can be no solution; without a solution, more people will die.
We appeal to those of you "inside the Beltway" to come forward with any information you may have about the discussions, decisions and deceptions that enabled this Administration to go to war. The American people want the truth, and no one deserves it more than those we've sent into harm's way--and their families: families that wait and worry, families that agonize over the suffering of their injured loved ones, families who will honor their dead this Memorial Day.
We understand full well what we are asking of you, and we don't ask it lightly. We understand, too, that righting an egregious wrong is a formidable and daunting task. But that is the history of our nation; that is, in fact, our national character. From the Founding Fathers of our country to the leaders and activists of great movements--for suffrage, civil rights, labor, and peace--people of courage have put their lives on the line for what they believed. Sometimes they won, sometimes they lost, but they always, always made a difference.
We don't expect the impossible. We know that no one can turn back the clock or bring back the dead. We ask only that you come forward to save lives. Whatever that requires of you, ask yourself what, in comparison, is your sacrifice compared to preventing even one more unnecessary death?
The dead cannot speak. You can. The dead will never know why they died. You do. Please, in the spirit of Memorial Day, heed these words by Mother Jones: "Mourn for the dead and fight like hell for the living."
You can fight for the living with Truth.
Thank you.
Link
-The Oklahoma Hippy
An Open Letter to Insiders...
Countdown to Memorial Day: An Open Letter to Insiders
Memorial Day is just a few days away. Our troops in Iraq are under siege. Who among them, living and breathing at this very moment, will be dead by our day of national commemoration? And what will be the cause of death? Bullets and bombs? Or deception and silence?
We, the community of The Daily Kos, are seekers of truth. Based on our investigations, we know that President Bush was intent on invading Iraq from the beginning of his first term and that, further, his Administration "fixed" intelligence and promulgated false reports toward that end. Although this information has surfaced in one form or the other over the last few years, it has had little impact on the Administration, which continues on its perilous course, and the American people, who, by and large, remain woefully ignorant.
Meanwhile:
- Our women and men in uniform are sitting ducks, with over 1,600 dead and thousands more injured.
- Iraq is set to explode in a civil war as it simultaneously implodes from lack of infrastructure and security.
- Anywhere from 25,000 to over 100,000 Iraqi civilians are dead.
- American and foreign "privateers" are on a feeding frenzy; and almost $9 billion in Iraqi funds cannot be accounted for by the former Coalition Provisional Authority.
- Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib have been imprisoned, humiliated and tortured without legal recourse; terrorism is skyrocketing; and the U.S. has earned the emnity of people in the Middle East and throughout the world.
In short, the war and subsequent occupation are a catastrophe. Yet no one in authority is being held accountable. Without accountability, there can be no solution; without a solution, more people will die.
We appeal to those of you "inside the Beltway" to come forward with any information you may have about the discussions, decisions and deceptions that enabled this Administration to go to war. The American people want the truth, and no one deserves it more than those we've sent into harm's way--and their families: families that wait and worry, families that agonize over the suffering of their injured loved ones, families who will honor their dead this Memorial Day.
We understand full well what we are asking of you, and we don't ask it lightly. We understand, too, that righting an egregious wrong is a formidable and daunting task. But that is the history of our nation; that is, in fact, our national character. From the Founding Fathers of our country to the leaders and activists of great movements--for suffrage, civil rights, labor, and peace--people of courage have put their lives on the line for what they believed. Sometimes they won, sometimes they lost, but they always, always made a difference.
We don't expect the impossible. We know that no one can turn back the clock or bring back the dead. We ask only that you come forward to save lives. Whatever that requires of you, ask yourself what, in comparison, is your sacrifice compared to preventing even one more unnecessary death?
The dead cannot speak. You can. The dead will never know why they died. You do. Please, in the spirit of Memorial Day, heed these words by Mother Jones: "Mourn for the dead and fight like hell for the living."
You can fight for the living with Truth.
Thank you.
Link
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Amen! The House calls the President's bluff on stem cells...
From CNN:
Good for them. Praise be on those who voted for this bill. This hostility to science is absurd. We're better than that. Let the President show his true colors with using his first veto ever for this bill.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- After impassioned debate, the House passed a controversial bill Tuesday that would expand public funding for embryonic stem cell research -- a measure President Bush threatened to veto last week.
The vote was 238-194, short of the two-thirds supermajority necessary to override a veto. The measure now goes to the Senate.
The House then overwhelmingly passed a Republican-backed proposal that would use federal money to study stem cells taken from adults and umbilical cord blood, instead of using human embryos.
The vote was 431-1. One Republican voted against the bill, which was supported by Bush.
The first bill passed would extend funding to research on embryonic stem cell lines that were nonexistent in 2001, when Bush limited funding to lines in existence at the time.
Good for them. Praise be on those who voted for this bill. This hostility to science is absurd. We're better than that. Let the President show his true colors with using his first veto ever for this bill.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Amen! The House calls the President's bluff on stem cells...
From CNN:
Good for them. Praise be on those who voted for this bill. This hostility to science is absurd. We're better than that. Let the President show his true colors with using his first veto ever for this bill.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- After impassioned debate, the House passed a controversial bill Tuesday that would expand public funding for embryonic stem cell research -- a measure President Bush threatened to veto last week.
The vote was 238-194, short of the two-thirds supermajority necessary to override a veto. The measure now goes to the Senate.
The House then overwhelmingly passed a Republican-backed proposal that would use federal money to study stem cells taken from adults and umbilical cord blood, instead of using human embryos.
The vote was 431-1. One Republican voted against the bill, which was supported by Bush.
The first bill passed would extend funding to research on embryonic stem cell lines that were nonexistent in 2001, when Bush limited funding to lines in existence at the time.
Good for them. Praise be on those who voted for this bill. This hostility to science is absurd. We're better than that. Let the President show his true colors with using his first veto ever for this bill.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
EJ Dionne hit the bull's eye as usual...
From Tuesday's Washington Post:
Read the rest of the brilliance here.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and other Republicans who backed the nuclear option hurt themselves badly with shameful rhetoric suggesting that murder and mayhem, not honest differences, were at the heart of this battle.
Thus did Frist accuse the Democrats of wanting to "kill, to defeat, to assassinate" President Bush's nominees. Oh, my. That's what comes out when a Princeton graduate plays the role of counterfeit populist in pandering to the Christian right.
Frist is waging this fight because he wants to be president and needs support from social conservatives. But especially in a time of terrorism, politicians worthy of the presidency don't toss around the word "assassinate" with the alacrity of a small-market radio host. The Republican moderates knew this.
Then there was the comment from the other Republican senator from Pennsylvania, Rick Santorum. Senate debates routinely produce tortured metaphors. But in arguing that Democrats had no right to demand that Republicans follow the standard rules in changing the Senate's filibuster procedures, Santorum hit new heights of weirdness.
Read the rest of the brilliance here.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
EJ Dionne hit the bull's eye as usual...
From Tuesday's Washington Post:
Read the rest of the brilliance here.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and other Republicans who backed the nuclear option hurt themselves badly with shameful rhetoric suggesting that murder and mayhem, not honest differences, were at the heart of this battle.
Thus did Frist accuse the Democrats of wanting to "kill, to defeat, to assassinate" President Bush's nominees. Oh, my. That's what comes out when a Princeton graduate plays the role of counterfeit populist in pandering to the Christian right.
Frist is waging this fight because he wants to be president and needs support from social conservatives. But especially in a time of terrorism, politicians worthy of the presidency don't toss around the word "assassinate" with the alacrity of a small-market radio host. The Republican moderates knew this.
Then there was the comment from the other Republican senator from Pennsylvania, Rick Santorum. Senate debates routinely produce tortured metaphors. But in arguing that Democrats had no right to demand that Republicans follow the standard rules in changing the Senate's filibuster procedures, Santorum hit new heights of weirdness.
Read the rest of the brilliance here.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Hand-puppet to the Religious Nutballs, Bill Frist, tells the moderates to shove their compromise...
From ThinkProgress:
This may very well begin the struggle for control of the Republican party. If the moderates win, the wingnuts will split. If the wingnuts win, the moderates will have to come to the Dems.
It's clutch time. There's about to be a battle for the future of the country, and the superstition first crowd is behind it. God, God, God. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Faith is good. Being a hypocrite is repugnant.
To these people who use the 18th Chapter of the Book of Leviticus as a vile excuse to hate gays, I say fine, but let's not be hypocrites here.
We need to alter the constitution to allow us enforce the entire Book of Leviticus.
Here are some of the great changes you can look forward to if the crazy people win...
A Federal Mandate to keep the Sabbath Holy. Don't make any plans for the weekend.
A Federal Mandate that someone who has sinned unintentionally should go to their nearest church with a bull and slaughter it. There is some more to do, but it's up to the Priest.
A Federal Mandate that requires you to go to a priest and have him check your acne to see if you need to be declared unclean. Failure to do so will result in death by stoning for ignoring the law.
A Federal Mandate that requires you to take any mildewed clothing to your local priest and have him examine the mildew. If he doesn't like the look of the mildew, you have to burn your clothes.
A Federal Mandate that requires you to not turn to Mediums or seek out spiritits, or you should consider yourself defiled. Whether watching NBC's Medium counts or not is a matter of debate.
A Federal Mandate that forbids tattoos. Sorry to those of you who were in the greek system in college. You have to die.
A Federal Mandate that forbids you from cutting the hair on the sides of your head or trimming your beard. I hope everyone likes the Grizzly Adams Look.
A Federal Mandate that requires anyone who has had relations with their spouse while the monthly visitor is in town must be deported. How you plan to enforce such a thing, I have no idea.
You see, the point is quite simple. If you choose to follow these guidelines strictly, that takes discipline and I respect you. But once you've crossed the line into feeling that these things should be crimes against the state, you're the Taliban.
I for one am against the Taliban. Why is James Dobson in favor of the Taliban?
Hmmmmm.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
BREAKING: Ignoring Deal, Frist to File for Cloture on Myers
In the deal struck yesterday evening, negotiators agreed that two judicial nominees - William G. Myers and Henry Saad - “will be filibustered or withdrawn.”
Last night, Frist indicated he would abide by the agreement:
Mr. President, a lot has been said about the uniqueness of this body. And, indeed, our Senate is unique. And we all, as individuals and collectively as a body, have a role to play in ensuring its cherished nature remains intact.
And, indeed, as demonstrated by tonight’s agreement and by the ultimate implementation of that agreement, we have done just that.
But Congress Daily PM reports that Frist has other ideas for later in the week:
Senate Majority Leader Frist will file for cloture on President Bush’s nomination of William Myers to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals later this week, according to sources on and off Capitol Hill, wasting no time in testing the resolve of 14 Republican and Democratic senators who forced at least a temporary halt to the battle over Democratic filibusters of President Bush’s judicial picks.
That didn’t take long.
This may very well begin the struggle for control of the Republican party. If the moderates win, the wingnuts will split. If the wingnuts win, the moderates will have to come to the Dems.
It's clutch time. There's about to be a battle for the future of the country, and the superstition first crowd is behind it. God, God, God. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Faith is good. Being a hypocrite is repugnant.
To these people who use the 18th Chapter of the Book of Leviticus as a vile excuse to hate gays, I say fine, but let's not be hypocrites here.
We need to alter the constitution to allow us enforce the entire Book of Leviticus.
Here are some of the great changes you can look forward to if the crazy people win...
A Federal Mandate to keep the Sabbath Holy. Don't make any plans for the weekend.
A Federal Mandate that someone who has sinned unintentionally should go to their nearest church with a bull and slaughter it. There is some more to do, but it's up to the Priest.
A Federal Mandate that requires you to go to a priest and have him check your acne to see if you need to be declared unclean. Failure to do so will result in death by stoning for ignoring the law.
A Federal Mandate that requires you to take any mildewed clothing to your local priest and have him examine the mildew. If he doesn't like the look of the mildew, you have to burn your clothes.
A Federal Mandate that requires you to not turn to Mediums or seek out spiritits, or you should consider yourself defiled. Whether watching NBC's Medium counts or not is a matter of debate.
A Federal Mandate that forbids tattoos. Sorry to those of you who were in the greek system in college. You have to die.
A Federal Mandate that forbids you from cutting the hair on the sides of your head or trimming your beard. I hope everyone likes the Grizzly Adams Look.
A Federal Mandate that requires anyone who has had relations with their spouse while the monthly visitor is in town must be deported. How you plan to enforce such a thing, I have no idea.
You see, the point is quite simple. If you choose to follow these guidelines strictly, that takes discipline and I respect you. But once you've crossed the line into feeling that these things should be crimes against the state, you're the Taliban.
I for one am against the Taliban. Why is James Dobson in favor of the Taliban?
Hmmmmm.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Hand-puppet to the Religious Nutballs, Bill Frist, tells the moderates to shove their compromise...
From ThinkProgress:
This may very well begin the struggle for control of the Republican party. If the moderates win, the wingnuts will split. If the wingnuts win, the moderates will have to come to the Dems.
It's clutch time. There's about to be a battle for the future of the country, and the superstition first crowd is behind it. God, God, God. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Faith is good. Being a hypocrite is repugnant.
To these people who use the 18th Chapter of the Book of Leviticus as a vile excuse to hate gays, I say fine, but let's not be hypocrites here.
We need to alter the constitution to allow us enforce the entire Book of Leviticus.
Here are some of the great changes you can look forward to if the crazy people win...
A Federal Mandate to keep the Sabbath Holy. Don't make any plans for the weekend.
A Federal Mandate that someone who has sinned unintentionally should go to their nearest church with a bull and slaughter it. There is some more to do, but it's up to the Priest.
A Federal Mandate that requires you to go to a priest and have him check your acne to see if you need to be declared unclean. Failure to do so will result in death by stoning for ignoring the law.
A Federal Mandate that requires you to take any mildewed clothing to your local priest and have him examine the mildew. If he doesn't like the look of the mildew, you have to burn your clothes.
A Federal Mandate that requires you to not turn to Mediums or seek out spiritits, or you should consider yourself defiled. Whether watching NBC's Medium counts or not is a matter of debate.
A Federal Mandate that forbids tattoos. Sorry to those of you who were in the greek system in college. You have to die.
A Federal Mandate that forbids you from cutting the hair on the sides of your head or trimming your beard. I hope everyone likes the Grizzly Adams Look.
A Federal Mandate that requires anyone who has had relations with their spouse while the monthly visitor is in town must be deported. How you plan to enforce such a thing, I have no idea.
You see, the point is quite simple. If you choose to follow these guidelines strictly, that takes discipline and I respect you. But once you've crossed the line into feeling that these things should be crimes against the state, you're the Taliban.
I for one am against the Taliban. Why is James Dobson in favor of the Taliban?
Hmmmmm.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
BREAKING: Ignoring Deal, Frist to File for Cloture on Myers
In the deal struck yesterday evening, negotiators agreed that two judicial nominees - William G. Myers and Henry Saad - “will be filibustered or withdrawn.”
Last night, Frist indicated he would abide by the agreement:
Mr. President, a lot has been said about the uniqueness of this body. And, indeed, our Senate is unique. And we all, as individuals and collectively as a body, have a role to play in ensuring its cherished nature remains intact.
And, indeed, as demonstrated by tonight’s agreement and by the ultimate implementation of that agreement, we have done just that.
But Congress Daily PM reports that Frist has other ideas for later in the week:
Senate Majority Leader Frist will file for cloture on President Bush’s nomination of William Myers to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals later this week, according to sources on and off Capitol Hill, wasting no time in testing the resolve of 14 Republican and Democratic senators who forced at least a temporary halt to the battle over Democratic filibusters of President Bush’s judicial picks.
That didn’t take long.
This may very well begin the struggle for control of the Republican party. If the moderates win, the wingnuts will split. If the wingnuts win, the moderates will have to come to the Dems.
It's clutch time. There's about to be a battle for the future of the country, and the superstition first crowd is behind it. God, God, God. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Faith is good. Being a hypocrite is repugnant.
To these people who use the 18th Chapter of the Book of Leviticus as a vile excuse to hate gays, I say fine, but let's not be hypocrites here.
We need to alter the constitution to allow us enforce the entire Book of Leviticus.
Here are some of the great changes you can look forward to if the crazy people win...
A Federal Mandate to keep the Sabbath Holy. Don't make any plans for the weekend.
A Federal Mandate that someone who has sinned unintentionally should go to their nearest church with a bull and slaughter it. There is some more to do, but it's up to the Priest.
A Federal Mandate that requires you to go to a priest and have him check your acne to see if you need to be declared unclean. Failure to do so will result in death by stoning for ignoring the law.
A Federal Mandate that requires you to take any mildewed clothing to your local priest and have him examine the mildew. If he doesn't like the look of the mildew, you have to burn your clothes.
A Federal Mandate that requires you to not turn to Mediums or seek out spiritits, or you should consider yourself defiled. Whether watching NBC's Medium counts or not is a matter of debate.
A Federal Mandate that forbids tattoos. Sorry to those of you who were in the greek system in college. You have to die.
A Federal Mandate that forbids you from cutting the hair on the sides of your head or trimming your beard. I hope everyone likes the Grizzly Adams Look.
A Federal Mandate that requires anyone who has had relations with their spouse while the monthly visitor is in town must be deported. How you plan to enforce such a thing, I have no idea.
You see, the point is quite simple. If you choose to follow these guidelines strictly, that takes discipline and I respect you. But once you've crossed the line into feeling that these things should be crimes against the state, you're the Taliban.
I for one am against the Taliban. Why is James Dobson in favor of the Taliban?
Hmmmmm.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
More glee from the right...
Thanks to AmericaBLOG for pointing to the following:
Boo Hoo Hoo.
The link is here.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Note To Bill Frist: You Suck
To: Bill Frist, US Senate.
From: Mitch Berg, Schmuck Citizen and pissed-off former GOP contributor
Re: Your Infinite Cretinism
Senator Frist,
Mitch Berg here. You probably don't know who I am; I'm a typical schmuck. I write a blog, and I try to pitch in on GOP activities around Minnesota.
And on behalf of the entire GOP, I'm having a hard time seeing an upside to this deal right now. At first - and second, and tenth - glance, it looks like you've sold out your party.
No, not just the party; not just the assembly of suits and climbers and hangers-on that no doubt surrounds you at work every day. No, I'm talking about all of us who busted our asses overcoming a full-court media press (and continue to do so), and gave of our time and money until it hurt - hurt our wallets, our families, our relationships, our equilibrium. We gave them all with enthusiasm because we knew what was at stake; a whole generation of Supreme Court decisions.
So we gave. And you took.
And today, you looked us all in the face, and spat.
Reading Michelle and John and Ed, I'm about as depressed as I can be.
We won you a majority, pinhead. What the hell good is it? You think the Democrats are going to abide by your little gentleman's agreement? You got conned. You entered into an agreement with a Klansman, a drunk machine hack and a party bag man. You are the Neville Chamberlain of my generation.
I don't believe in Karma, but I believe what goes around comes around. And I guess you demonstrate it, Frist. The Democrats elect a pinhead doctor to lead their party - I guess it's only fair we did, too.
Thank God for Tom Delay. The least you could do is make it hard for the Dems to neutralize you, rather than walking off the cliff into the kool-aid vat on your own.
Captain Ed is right. Not one more dime. You have made me ashamed to be a Republican.
Oh, I'll bounce back. We all will - most of us, anyway. We'll have to. Because you showed us today - the grass roots have got to do it for themselves; we'll get no help from hamsters like you.
Sincerely - go back to medicine.
Mitch Berg
Saint Paul.
UPDATE 10:48: I toned down one bit of, er, slightly overheated rhetoric from last night.
But just one.
Boo Hoo Hoo.
The link is here.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
More glee from the right...
Thanks to AmericaBLOG for pointing to the following:
Boo Hoo Hoo.
The link is here.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Note To Bill Frist: You Suck
To: Bill Frist, US Senate.
From: Mitch Berg, Schmuck Citizen and pissed-off former GOP contributor
Re: Your Infinite Cretinism
Senator Frist,
Mitch Berg here. You probably don't know who I am; I'm a typical schmuck. I write a blog, and I try to pitch in on GOP activities around Minnesota.
And on behalf of the entire GOP, I'm having a hard time seeing an upside to this deal right now. At first - and second, and tenth - glance, it looks like you've sold out your party.
No, not just the party; not just the assembly of suits and climbers and hangers-on that no doubt surrounds you at work every day. No, I'm talking about all of us who busted our asses overcoming a full-court media press (and continue to do so), and gave of our time and money until it hurt - hurt our wallets, our families, our relationships, our equilibrium. We gave them all with enthusiasm because we knew what was at stake; a whole generation of Supreme Court decisions.
So we gave. And you took.
And today, you looked us all in the face, and spat.
Reading Michelle and John and Ed, I'm about as depressed as I can be.
We won you a majority, pinhead. What the hell good is it? You think the Democrats are going to abide by your little gentleman's agreement? You got conned. You entered into an agreement with a Klansman, a drunk machine hack and a party bag man. You are the Neville Chamberlain of my generation.
I don't believe in Karma, but I believe what goes around comes around. And I guess you demonstrate it, Frist. The Democrats elect a pinhead doctor to lead their party - I guess it's only fair we did, too.
Thank God for Tom Delay. The least you could do is make it hard for the Dems to neutralize you, rather than walking off the cliff into the kool-aid vat on your own.
Captain Ed is right. Not one more dime. You have made me ashamed to be a Republican.
Oh, I'll bounce back. We all will - most of us, anyway. We'll have to. Because you showed us today - the grass roots have got to do it for themselves; we'll get no help from hamsters like you.
Sincerely - go back to medicine.
Mitch Berg
Saint Paul.
UPDATE 10:48: I toned down one bit of, er, slightly overheated rhetoric from last night.
But just one.
Boo Hoo Hoo.
The link is here.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Divertor!
I don't know if you had a chance to see TV Funhouse on Saturday Night Live this past weekend, but if you didn't you must see it.
Over at The Political Teen's Blog, the video is available online. It's fantastic. It's a commentary on the Propaganda Machine that influences most of the population.
We saw it in action during the last presidential campaign, when every time Kerry pulled ahead in the polls, DHS would issue a terror alert.
The Propaganda Machine is the reason that most Americans have never heard of the Downing Street Memo, but they all know who Scott Peterson is. They know who the runaway bride is. They are kept distracted with American Idol and Michael Jackson's trial.
The American public does not know who Jose Padilla is. The American public does not know who George Galloway is.
Watch the SNL Clip here. You'll see that the guys at TV Funhouse get it. It would also be really hysterical if it's didn't reveal such a sad truth.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Over at The Political Teen's Blog, the video is available online. It's fantastic. It's a commentary on the Propaganda Machine that influences most of the population.
We saw it in action during the last presidential campaign, when every time Kerry pulled ahead in the polls, DHS would issue a terror alert.
The Propaganda Machine is the reason that most Americans have never heard of the Downing Street Memo, but they all know who Scott Peterson is. They know who the runaway bride is. They are kept distracted with American Idol and Michael Jackson's trial.
The American public does not know who Jose Padilla is. The American public does not know who George Galloway is.
Watch the SNL Clip here. You'll see that the guys at TV Funhouse get it. It would also be really hysterical if it's didn't reveal such a sad truth.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Divertor!
I don't know if you had a chance to see TV Funhouse on Saturday Night Live this past weekend, but if you didn't you must see it.
Over at The Political Teen's Blog, the video is available online. It's fantastic. It's a commentary on the Propaganda Machine that influences most of the population.
We saw it in action during the last presidential campaign, when every time Kerry pulled ahead in the polls, DHS would issue a terror alert.
The Propaganda Machine is the reason that most Americans have never heard of the Downing Street Memo, but they all know who Scott Peterson is. They know who the runaway bride is. They are kept distracted with American Idol and Michael Jackson's trial.
The American public does not know who Jose Padilla is. The American public does not know who George Galloway is.
Watch the SNL Clip here. You'll see that the guys at TV Funhouse get it. It would also be really hysterical if it's didn't reveal such a sad truth.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Over at The Political Teen's Blog, the video is available online. It's fantastic. It's a commentary on the Propaganda Machine that influences most of the population.
We saw it in action during the last presidential campaign, when every time Kerry pulled ahead in the polls, DHS would issue a terror alert.
The Propaganda Machine is the reason that most Americans have never heard of the Downing Street Memo, but they all know who Scott Peterson is. They know who the runaway bride is. They are kept distracted with American Idol and Michael Jackson's trial.
The American public does not know who Jose Padilla is. The American public does not know who George Galloway is.
Watch the SNL Clip here. You'll see that the guys at TV Funhouse get it. It would also be really hysterical if it's didn't reveal such a sad truth.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Monday, May 23, 2005
Boo Hoo! We're still a bunch of unreasonable whiners...
Uh oh. Here comes the Wah-bulance:
Poor pity us... We don't control the universe... Boo Hoo Hoo!
-The Oklahoma Hippy
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., May 23 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Focus on the Family Action Chairman Dr. James C. Dobson today issued the following statement, upon the announcement by members of the U.S. Senate that a "compromise" had been reached on the filibuster issue:
"This Senate agreement represents a complete bailout and betrayal by a cabal of Republicans and a great victory for united Democrats. Only three of President Bush’s nominees will be given the courtesy of an up-or-down vote, and it's business as usual for all the rest. The rules that blocked conservative nominees remain in effect, and nothing of significance has changed. Justice Clarence Thomas, Justice Antonin Scalia, and Chief Justice William Rehnquist would never have served on the U. S. Supreme Court if this agreement had been in place during their confirmations. The unconstitutional filibuster survives in the arsenal of Senate liberals.
"We are grateful to Majority Leader Frist for courageously fighting to defend the vital principle of basic fairness. That principle has now gone down to defeat. We share the disappointment, outrage and sense of abandonment felt by millions of conservative Americans who helped put Republicans in power last November. I am certain that these voters will remember both Democrats and Republicans who betrayed their trust."
Poor pity us... We don't control the universe... Boo Hoo Hoo!
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Boo Hoo! We're still a bunch of unreasonable whiners...
Uh oh. Here comes the Wah-bulance:
Poor pity us... We don't control the universe... Boo Hoo Hoo!
-The Oklahoma Hippy
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., May 23 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Focus on the Family Action Chairman Dr. James C. Dobson today issued the following statement, upon the announcement by members of the U.S. Senate that a "compromise" had been reached on the filibuster issue:
"This Senate agreement represents a complete bailout and betrayal by a cabal of Republicans and a great victory for united Democrats. Only three of President Bush’s nominees will be given the courtesy of an up-or-down vote, and it's business as usual for all the rest. The rules that blocked conservative nominees remain in effect, and nothing of significance has changed. Justice Clarence Thomas, Justice Antonin Scalia, and Chief Justice William Rehnquist would never have served on the U. S. Supreme Court if this agreement had been in place during their confirmations. The unconstitutional filibuster survives in the arsenal of Senate liberals.
"We are grateful to Majority Leader Frist for courageously fighting to defend the vital principle of basic fairness. That principle has now gone down to defeat. We share the disappointment, outrage and sense of abandonment felt by millions of conservative Americans who helped put Republicans in power last November. I am certain that these voters will remember both Democrats and Republicans who betrayed their trust."
Poor pity us... We don't control the universe... Boo Hoo Hoo!
-The Oklahoma Hippy
The fall into fascism is complete....
I've been saying for at least 2 years now that The United States has become a fascist state, and things must change.
Now we have a nice little visual aid to go with my claim. Thanks to Eric Blumrich.
Watch This.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Now we have a nice little visual aid to go with my claim. Thanks to Eric Blumrich.
Watch This.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
The fall into fascism is complete....
I've been saying for at least 2 years now that The United States has become a fascist state, and things must change.
Now we have a nice little visual aid to go with my claim. Thanks to Eric Blumrich.
Watch This.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Now we have a nice little visual aid to go with my claim. Thanks to Eric Blumrich.
Watch This.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Sunday, May 22, 2005
This needs to happen...
From the London Times Online:
Read the rest here.
I am starting more and more often to be haunted by the title of John Dean's book, Worse than Watergate.
Could anyone have imagined that we would be looking back on the corruption of the Nixon Administration and wishing it were only that bad.
And why is it that corruption of this magnitude in the last century has only happened in the Republican Party?
That's something to think about the next time you hear some Bush Lovin' Hypocrite going on about "values."
-The Oklahoma Hippy
SENIOR American congressmen are considering sending a delegation to London to investigate Britain’s role in preparations for the war in Iraq.
Democratic opponents of President George W Bush have seized on a leaked Downing Street memo, first published three weeks ago by The Sunday Times, as evidence that American lawmakers were misled about Bush’s intentions in Iraq.
A group of 89 Democrats from the House of Representatives has written to Bush to ask whether the memo is accurate.
It recounts a discussion between Tony Blair and his military and intelligence advisers about the Bush administration’s views in July 2002, three months before Congress authorised the White House to go to war with Iraq.
Read the rest here.
I am starting more and more often to be haunted by the title of John Dean's book, Worse than Watergate.
Could anyone have imagined that we would be looking back on the corruption of the Nixon Administration and wishing it were only that bad.
And why is it that corruption of this magnitude in the last century has only happened in the Republican Party?
That's something to think about the next time you hear some Bush Lovin' Hypocrite going on about "values."
-The Oklahoma Hippy
This needs to happen...
From the London Times Online:
Read the rest here.
I am starting more and more often to be haunted by the title of John Dean's book, Worse than Watergate.
Could anyone have imagined that we would be looking back on the corruption of the Nixon Administration and wishing it were only that bad.
And why is it that corruption of this magnitude in the last century has only happened in the Republican Party?
That's something to think about the next time you hear some Bush Lovin' Hypocrite going on about "values."
-The Oklahoma Hippy
SENIOR American congressmen are considering sending a delegation to London to investigate Britain’s role in preparations for the war in Iraq.
Democratic opponents of President George W Bush have seized on a leaked Downing Street memo, first published three weeks ago by The Sunday Times, as evidence that American lawmakers were misled about Bush’s intentions in Iraq.
A group of 89 Democrats from the House of Representatives has written to Bush to ask whether the memo is accurate.
It recounts a discussion between Tony Blair and his military and intelligence advisers about the Bush administration’s views in July 2002, three months before Congress authorised the White House to go to war with Iraq.
Read the rest here.
I am starting more and more often to be haunted by the title of John Dean's book, Worse than Watergate.
Could anyone have imagined that we would be looking back on the corruption of the Nixon Administration and wishing it were only that bad.
And why is it that corruption of this magnitude in the last century has only happened in the Republican Party?
That's something to think about the next time you hear some Bush Lovin' Hypocrite going on about "values."
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Dear Lord...
From Saturday's Washington Post: (This means the Justice Department didn't want you to notice.)
Read the rest here.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
WASHINGTON, May 20 - The F.B.I. would gain broad authority to track the mail of people in terror investigations under a Bush administration proposal, officials said Friday, but the Postal Service is already raising privacy concerns about the plan.
The proposal, to be considered next week in a closed-door meeting of the Senate Intelligence Committee, would allow the bureau to direct postal inspectors to turn over the names, addresses and all other material appearing on the outside of letters sent to or from people connected to foreign intelligence investigations.
The plan would effectively eliminate the postal inspectors' discretion in deciding when so-called mail covers are needed and give sole authority to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, if it determines that the material is "relevant to an authorized investigation to obtain foreign intelligence," according to a draft of the bill.
The proposal would not allow the bureau to open mail or review its content. Such a move would require a search warrant, officials said.
The Intelligence Committee has not publicly released the proposal, but a draft was obtained by The New York Times.
The provision is part of a broader package that also strengthens the bureau's power to demand business records in intelligence investigations without approval by a judge or grand jury.
Read the rest here.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Dear Lord...
From Saturday's Washington Post: (This means the Justice Department didn't want you to notice.)
Read the rest here.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
WASHINGTON, May 20 - The F.B.I. would gain broad authority to track the mail of people in terror investigations under a Bush administration proposal, officials said Friday, but the Postal Service is already raising privacy concerns about the plan.
The proposal, to be considered next week in a closed-door meeting of the Senate Intelligence Committee, would allow the bureau to direct postal inspectors to turn over the names, addresses and all other material appearing on the outside of letters sent to or from people connected to foreign intelligence investigations.
The plan would effectively eliminate the postal inspectors' discretion in deciding when so-called mail covers are needed and give sole authority to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, if it determines that the material is "relevant to an authorized investigation to obtain foreign intelligence," according to a draft of the bill.
The proposal would not allow the bureau to open mail or review its content. Such a move would require a search warrant, officials said.
The Intelligence Committee has not publicly released the proposal, but a draft was obtained by The New York Times.
The provision is part of a broader package that also strengthens the bureau's power to demand business records in intelligence investigations without approval by a judge or grand jury.
Read the rest here.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Saturday, May 21, 2005
Here's a question...
Why do the "Christian" evangelicals who use the Book of Leviticus as an excuse to carry on their hate mongering towards the gay community have no problem wearing poly-cotton blends and shaving when they get up in the morning?
Oh, and I bet they often have bacon or ham with their eggs. Might they have also had a glass of milk with that breakfast?
Morons.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Oh, and I bet they often have bacon or ham with their eggs. Might they have also had a glass of milk with that breakfast?
Morons.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Here's a question...
Why do the "Christian" evangelicals who use the Book of Leviticus as an excuse to carry on their hate mongering towards the gay community have no problem wearing poly-cotton blends and shaving when they get up in the morning?
Oh, and I bet they often have bacon or ham with their eggs. Might they have also had a glass of milk with that breakfast?
Morons.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Oh, and I bet they often have bacon or ham with their eggs. Might they have also had a glass of milk with that breakfast?
Morons.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
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