April 2008

That charming fount of reason and civility, “Emperor” Misha, is again demanding that someone be murdered for the heinous crime of offending his delicate sensibilities.

To which I say: Put up or shut up, you puling gutless wannabe.

If you are indeed convinced that unrestrained homicidal violence is The Solution To All That Ails Us, then you should be out there killing people right now. Go on. Go out and start being a role model for all those brave, murdering culture warriors you want to set loose on society. Kill, and keep killing.

You won’t, of course, and for one simple reason: You’re a coward, Misha. Loudmouth bullies who make an endless string of hysterical threats do so because that is all they can do. Such threats are the product of fear and insecurity, not bravery.

So Misha exhorts other to do what he lacks the stones to do himself. Such is the way of the feckless wimp. Misha is an endless source of entertainment for those who recognize him for what he is, but little else.

Thanks for the laugh, melvin.

Kit Lange (nee Jarrell), noted genocide advocate, is outraged — OUTRAGED!!!!!, I tell you — about the latest ad from the Democratic National Committee, which takes John McCain to task for his willingness to keep US soldiers in Iraq for 100 years…

The fact that Dems would even THINK of using the deaths of two American soldiers to further their defeatist political agenda makes me want to put THEM by a palm tree with an IED.

Of course it does. Kit is a murder worshipper — disagree with her, express an opinion she dislikes, think the wrong thoughts, and the first and only response that comes to her mind is murder.

The thing is, they’re gleeful about it.

Kit demonstrates her amazing telepathic abilities. Of course no one is ‘gleeful’ that soldiers are dying in Iraq. That’s why keeping them for 100 years is such an asinine idea.

They’re unapologetic. Do they not get that those soldiers are someone’s husband and father and brother and son?

Why should anyone apologize for pointing out the fact that husbands and fathers and brothers and sons are dying in Iraq — and would continue to do so for a century, under the policies of John McCain?

What kind of ghouls are these people?

I have a better question: What kind of ghoul calmly asserts that he is “fine” with sending Americans to die in an occupied country for 100 years?

UPDATE 05/01/08 10:58 AM EDT: Citing the faux furor over the alleged source of the video footage, The Carpetbagger Report asks:

The RNC is worried about footage from a Michael Moore movie, after the RNC used footage from al Qaeda?

Whose side are they on?

BBC NEWS: Two US soldiers dead in Baghdad:

Two American soldiers have been killed in separate attacks in Baghdad, according to the US military.

One died when his vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb, while the other was killed by small arms fire.

The deaths bring to 46 the number of US troops killed in Iraq this month, making April the worst month for US casualties since September 2007.

The US military said both soldiers died in the north-west of the city on Tuesday night in separate attacks.

But of course, we can stay for another 100 years… no problem, right, John?
 

Dave Neiwert points out a very basic truth about the right-wing obsession with Jeremiah Wright and “God damn America”:

What’s obvious, in fact, is that the longtime right-wing “America, love it or leave it” style of patriotism has become part of the media’s standard narrative in the post-9/11 world. I think Al Franken had it right:

If you listen to a lot of conservatives, they’ll tell you that the difference between them and us is that conservatives love America and liberals hate America…. They don’t get it. We love America just as much as they do. But in a different Way. You see, they love America the way a 4-year-old loves her Mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups.

To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad. Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad, and helping your loved one grow. Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.

In the new media universe, Mommy America would never ever hurt those poor black people. And if maybe she did once upon a time, well, she made up for it a long time ago and now things are all better. Bringing up evidence to the contrary just means you hate Mommy.

Which might explain why people like Wright get all contemptuous on their asses.

Ogre says he wants to change his pseudonym, and is pondering the alternatives.

I prefer the straightforward: How about Fabulist Liar?

A comment came in on yesterday’s post Pot, meet kettle, and I knew immediately that I had to promote to its very own post:

After reading through your blog, the best thing I can say is that your a sub-literete fool

Sometimes, the punch lines just write themselves…

Warner Todd Huston shares his latest amazing revelation: From a single post on “a tiny little blog”, he has deduced “how the left conducts a “debate””. Yes, folks: Warner reads one blog entry, and he knows instantly how an entire segment of the population conducts discussions. He claims that “It’s All About the Name Calling”.

Hmmmmm. If Warner Todd Huston can learn all this from one post, what can we learn from several of his own posts?

…our government dolts…

…Dobbs comes off far more as a ranting nut…

…loudmouthed, petulant, jerk…

…feminazis…

…wimpy creep…

…feminized weaklings…

How Warner Todd Huston argues: It’s all about the name calling.

If a wingnut is trying to sell a favored point of view, facts are the first thing to get thrown in the dustbin. I present Amy Proctor as today’s textbook example.

In her post The Last Battleground In Iraq, Amy tries to sell the talking point that religion is essential to ending the internecine warfare in Iraq. Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. Amy quotes at length from a piece in the LA Times — and since it doesn’t make the point forcefully enough for Amy, she happily twists it until it does.

Does anybody realize that John McCain is talking crazy talk when he claims that al-Qaeda could take over Iraq?

Juan Cole does.