Phew. I was just wondering what Martin Scorcese thought about the Iraqi unpleasantness.
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Greenhouse Gasses
Senators McCain and Lieberman have introduced legislation to curb global warming and the emission of greenhouse gasses. Both state they will not pimp and posture for every microphone and camera in sight for the next year, thus dramatically reducing the amount of hot air produced by the country.
Who Are You Going to Believe, My Spin, or My Reporting?
The odious left continues their smear of all Republicans as racist, and this one is a peach. Read Dave Niewart’s post (of course via Atrios, who seems to have amassed a network of bottom-feeders):
Here’s an excerpt from from an interview Matt Hale gave a columnist for the Greenwich Village Gazette Aug. 8, 2000:
The caller also told me that he was now leaning toward Bush and that his victory in November would give him and the white-supremacist movement “cause for celebration and hope.”
The man calling himself Mr. Hale told me that he was persuaded by Bush after watching both party conventions this summer.
“The conventions left me with the impression that the Democrats actually mean it when they say they want a diverse tent and the Republicans are like ‘OK, this is a way to get some votes so let’s go throw bait to the blacks.’ So they trot out their yard (N-word) for show and dress them better than black democrats could ever dream of.”
Bush was endorsed by Hale, David Duke and Don Black of Stormfront. This is not to imply that Bush is racist. Rather, it is clear that he makes enough gestures that are interpreted by extremists as sympathetic to gain their votes.
BOLD ITALICS= Niewart, Italics = Village Voice Gazette
Hey Niewart? Who did Pol Pot favor? How about Osama- did he watch the conventions? Who do you think he wanted? He seemed to be doing o.k. under Clinton/Gore, so maybe Gore could have put off enough gestures to let him think he would be able to get away with a couple more embassy bombings. What about Hussein? Did he want Gore or Bush? Fill me in, please.
This is the kind of absurd shit that once again gets chalked up in the “Why I Won’t Vote For Democrats” category. The mere notion that Bush is sending code words, or gestures to white supremacist groups is absolutely absurd. Funny how they could only be understood by twerps like Hale and morons who want to try to make something about it (Niewart, anyone?). What was the signal? Is it because Colin Powell is more of a light-skinned black? Fill us in, Mr. Hale and Mr. Niewart.
And don’t you love the weasel words- he searches for a quote from Hale in a back-issue of the Village Voice Gazette (how many of you had that one handy?), implying CLEARLY that Bush is employing code words and gestures to woo racists and supremacists, and then tries to deny what he is actually stating.
You get the foam brick the next time I see you on MSNBC, Niewart.
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Cops With Knives
Cops With Knives
Misha found this gem:
A Detroit police officer with a knife cut off the finger of a 45-year-old woman he was trying to handcuff in a parking lot on 8 Mile.
Great. Go read Misha’s entire take.
This is Your Brain. This is your Brain on Arianna Huffington.
From the Cannabis News, this dandy little description of Arianna Huffington’s latest anti-SUV ad campaign.
Patterned after the commercials that try to discourage drug use by suggesting that profits from illegal drugs go to terrorists, the new commercials say that money for gas needed for S.U.V.’s goes to terrorists.
“This is George,” a girl’s voice says of an oblivious man at a gas station. “This is the gas that George bought for his S.U.V.” The screen then shows a map of the Middle East. “These are the countries where the executives bought the oil that made the gas that George bought for his S.U.V.” The picture switches to a scene of armed terrorists in a desert. “And these are the terrorists who get money from those countries every time George fills up his S.U.V.”
A second commercial depicts a series of ordinary Americans saying things like: “I helped hijack an airplane”; “I gave money to a terrorist training camp in a foreign country”; “What if I need to go off-road?”
At the close, the screen is filled with the words: “What is your S.U.V. doing to our national security?”
Hey Arianna? What are your thoughts on drilling in ANWR? Oh, against it.
Look- Oil is an issue that needs to be treated seriously. I do not like our dependence on foreign oil for a number of reasons. I wish there was another way to heat my house, get to the grocery store, etc. But until there is a real renewable resource that works, oil is here to stay. Deal with it. And quit carping on people for their choice in vehicle. IF you were really serious about saving oil, you would quit trying to guilt people who drive their SUV’s with stupid campaigns invoking terrorism and Jesus. This creates nothing but enemies. Domestic ones.
*** Update ***
Alex Knapp at Heretical Ideas has more.
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What’s Next, The Dick Armey Dance-A-Thon?
Former Congressman Bob Barr (R, GA) may be doing more to defend yourcivil liberties than anyone currently in Congress. Check out this op-ed on Minority Report and the Virginia Temperance Nazi’s Police:
In last year’s mega-hit movie “Minority Report,” starring Tom Cruise in a mid-21st-century sci-fi thriller, D.C. police identify persons who have not yet committed a crime, but who, based on premonition evidence are going to commit a crime, and then swoop in and arrest these pre-criminals before they can carry out their dastardly deeds.
A fine movie; I saw it and liked it. Well, it isn’t even 2054 (the year in which the movie is set), and already, Washington-area police
Worst Post on Daily Kos
Kos has been busy with the Political State Report, so Billmon and Steve Soto have been filling in, doing a decent job. Until today. Check out this crap winner from Billmon:
White Supremacist Matt Hale was arrested in Chicago Tuesday allegedly for soliciting the murder of a United States District Court judge.
The East Peoria leader of the World Church of the Creator was at the federal courthouse in Chicago to appear at a contempt of court hearing on an infrigment lawsuit. Federal agents arrested him when he entered the building.
This is most unfortunate, as I understand the Republican Senate was looking for a new chaplain.
Billmon
The italics is from the news story, the bold is Billmon’s obnoxious musing.
Get it? Subtle, hunh? Republicans look to white supremacists for spiritual guidance. Funny, hunh?
By that logic, I guess because H. Rap Brown sided with many Democrats, the Senate Democrats are all cop-killers.
Because Fidel Castro likes a single-payer health care system, all Senate Democrats who like that idea must be communists.
Grow up, folks.