Balloon Juice - By now you have probably

By now you have probably read the WaPo article by Tom Ricks on our enemy, the House of Saud. If you have not read it, go read it. I will wait.

My first impression while reading it was a big “No Screaming Eagle Shit!” I did, however, enjoy this quote:

Asked for reaction, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the Saudi ambassador to the United States, said he did not take the briefing seriously. “I think that it is a misguided effort that is shallow, and not honest about the facts,” he said. “Repeating lies will never make them facts.”

Think about it. Repeating lies will never make them facts. What kind of lies?

Lies like this one, about the blood libel?

Or these lies about Jews poisoning fountains during the bubonic plague. That only got about 20 thousand Jews murdered.

Or maybe this one, about Jewish control of the United States Congress?

Or how bout one of my favorties, the ‘Jews run the media.’

Or more recently, the good old Jenin massacre. Oops. Can’t really call it a massacre, can we, since it never happened. Didn’t stop Saudi television from raising 100 million in a telethon to distribute to Palestinian terrorists and the families of suicide bombers, though.

Or virtually any of the bile that these putrid bastards spew any day that Charles Johnson is able to collect and document every day? Why are we dealing with these scum?

Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

To the privileged, equality seems like oppression.

This is dead girl, live boy, a goat, two wetsuits and a dildo territory. oh, and pink furry handcuffs.

Is trump is trying to break black America over his knee? signs point to ‘yes’.

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

“Loving your country does not mean lying about its history.”

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

Many life forms that would benefit from greater intelligence, sadly, do not have it.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

Hey hey, RFK, how many kids did you kill today?

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.

You cannot love your country only when you win.

Their boy Ron is an empty plastic cup that will never know pudding.

I like political parties that aren’t owned by foreign adversaries.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

I am pretty sure these ‘journalists’ were not always such a bootlicking sycophants.

… gradually, and then suddenly.

’Where will you hide, Roberts, the laws all being flat?’

By now you have probably