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Post by shin on May 21, 2007 0:15:23 GMT -5
Only in George Bush's America can John Ashcroft come across as a sincere defender of the Constitution.
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Post by shin on May 22, 2007 22:17:41 GMT -5
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Post by Thorngrub on May 23, 2007 9:58:52 GMT -5
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Post by Thorngrub on May 23, 2007 10:10:39 GMT -5
^ Most brilliant website on the WWW ? *U decide* ^
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Post by Thorngrub on May 23, 2007 10:11:27 GMT -5
"Truthiness is what you want the facts to be, as opposed to what the facts are. What feels like the right answer as opposed to what reality will support." - Stephen Colbert
Truthiness refers to the quality by which a person knows something in their gut, instinctively, without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or facts. Colbert shared this ground-breaking new word during the first episode (October 17, 2005) of his top-rated cable-TV news program, The Colbert Report, as the subject of a segment called The WØRD.
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Post by Thorngrub on May 23, 2007 10:11:53 GMT -5
"Heroes and Lady Heroes, it's time to grab the Torch of Truth and shed the light of liberty into the reason-darkened recesses of the WikiWorld. Are you one of the few, the proud, the truthy? If so, we invite you to join FATWA[2], the Faithiness Army for Truthiness and Wikiality in America. With the Wiki-Free-For-All looming on the horizon, the FATWA's current mission is to prepare a surge of truthiness on these Internets Tubes. So Nation, it's time to grab your balls[3] and get your Truth on! "
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Post by shin on Jul 5, 2007 11:12:07 GMT -5
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Post by shin on Jul 26, 2007 18:26:12 GMT -5
Only in George Bush's America can the total annihilation of Israel be considered a "pro-Israel" stance, one supported by Joe Lieberman, and only in George Bush's America can the unprovoked nuclear attack of another country be considered a wise, just, and Christian action. Only in a political movement striving for the destruction of its own country, a political movement praying for death and decay, can such events occur. matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com/archives/2007/07/christians_united_for_israel.php |
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Post by Dr. Drum on Jul 27, 2007 7:04:59 GMT -5
Only in Bush's America? I wonder about that....
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Post by Paul on Jul 27, 2007 8:45:45 GMT -5
I'm not politically articulate enough to really write what I think - typically keep politics to myself around here - anyway, I don't like W at all, in fact I'm very proud I didn't vote for him twice. But I don't really agree with what Shin wrote. Basically, what Dr. Drum wrote sums it up for me.
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Post by shin on Jul 27, 2007 10:57:00 GMT -5
I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to say.
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Post by Dr. Drum on Jul 27, 2007 11:38:10 GMT -5
Actually, I agreed with much of shin's post. I was questioning the 'only in Bush's America' bit. This millennialist, end-times bullshit obviously pre-dates Bush (pre-dates America itself, for that matter) and it's not like it hasn't been in close proximity to political power before – arguably not as influential on policy but I'm sure there were enough people actually in or paid to lobby the Reagan and Bush I administrations who espoused some variant of it. You have a man who was tapped to be vice president in a Democratic administration who has no problem whatsoever cozying up to it. There are high-ranking military officers who think that they're fighting the "War On Terror" or the war in Iraq on behalf of Judeo-Christian civilization against Satan and his minions....
You may be about to replace Bush with a Democratic administration that's part of the reality-based community for a term or two but who's to say that this stuff doesn't just recede from view for a bit, only to spring up again somewhere down the line in an even more pernicious form. That was more or less the story from the mid-80s to the turn of the century.
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Post by Paul on Jul 27, 2007 12:32:00 GMT -5
Basically I thought Drum was just getting at that it could happen else where - not just Georgie's America.
Who knows what I was trying to get at - politics typically pisses me off, so I stay out of it.
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Post by shin on Jul 27, 2007 17:59:25 GMT -5
In what part of our nation's history has an unprovoked nuclear attack of another country been considered a wise, just, and Christian action? You could argue that at least during the Cold War, any such action against Russia could possibly have been considered provoked, though whether it would have also been wise, just or Christian is another debate entirely. This is truly uncharted territory: an extremely loud and powerful minority voting bloc literally wants to end the world as quickly as humanly possible and take all of us with it.
These people are worse than Al Qaeda. At least Al Qaeda's members have the excuse, even just a small one, of being born in second/third world countries with little or no education, growing up in shit conditions with nothing to look forward to in life. And they limit their destruction to just US, not the entire world.
These people on the other hand, are AMERICANS, and they fucking pray openly for human annihilation and murder. They should know better.
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Post by Matheus on Aug 11, 2007 2:39:50 GMT -5
I think it could be worse... Dick Cheney's America....  |
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