- When evaluating the effectiveness of US foreign policy, always pay the most attention to the Grand Ayatollah of Iran. He’s the one expert I trust most.
‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard, and shamelessly pilfered from Sadly, No.
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A few weeks ago, the ever-amusing Cao issued a bogus warning about this website. Despite the fact that her ‘evidence’ clearly pointed to a site with a different IP (Internet Protocol) address than that belonging to Thinkingmeat.net, she chose (as always) to ignore the facts and stuck to her ridiculous accusations.
Cao’s claim was based wholly on a few screenshots provided to her by one of her wingnut pals. I have a couple screenshots of my own, taken just this morning after searching Google for ‘caosblog’:
(click each image to enlarge)
Does this mean that Cao’s site is infected, and that you should never visit her site? Nope. As it happens, Google was giving false malware positives for a good chunk of the Internet this morning, as discussed on the Google webmaster forums and in Twitter. Google has since issued an explanation of the problem.
It’s a mistake to believe, as Cao clearly does, that one can always rely on a given Internet service to give correct results all the time. But again, it is obvious that Cao is more interested in hysterically smearing others than in any rational consideration of the facts.
(hat tip: Balloon Juice)
Fresh from her spectacular crash-and-burn when she tried to invent a provision of the US Flag Code that didn’t exist, Judy Doucette aka ‘HoosierArmyMom’ has decided that her blog needs a fresh infusion of mendacity:
This site is trying to pull people into signing a petition to silence Rush Limbaugh. This inability to allow and opposing viewpoint to be expressed is not what the Founding Fathers had in mind. I guess if they could find a way to debunk facts, they wouldn’t be in such a furor to silence him. Even when I used to have a very negative view of Rush, I never felt he should be silenced, as I considered it amusing to listen to the “other side”.
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http://dccc.org/blog/archives/stand_strong_against_rush_limbaugh/
Hmmmm. Golly, has the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee really posted a petition demanding that Rush Limbaugh be silenced? I guess Judy thought that no one would ever be so “mentally disordered” as to check her claim against the facts. Let’s go look at the link she gave:
Stand Strong Against Rush Limbaugh
WATCH THE OUTRAGEOUS VIDEO AND SIGN THE PETITION >>
DCCC Executive Director Brian Wolff sent the following message to DCCC supporters:
Dear Friend,
Last week, Rush Limbaugh gave us a preview of the outrageous Republican attacks that are on the way against President Obama and every Democrat working for change. Rush actually said that he ‘hopes’ President Obama fails to meet America’s challenges.
Listen to Rush in his own words, saying “I hope he fails.”
Limbaugh’s cheap shot at President Obama might be the first by the Republican attack machine this year but we know that it won’t be the last.
We need every grassroots Democrat to show Rush Limbaugh and all of the Republicans what they’re up against if they start attacking President Obama and Democrats who are working to end the failed GOP policies of the last eight years.
Tell Rush what you think of his attacks on President Obama. We’ll send him your comments.
Jobs, health care, our place in the world — the stakes for our nation are high and every American needs President Obama to succeed. Creating real change requires every American stand strong against Rush Limbaugh’s attacks — and all of the other partisan attacks from desperate Republicans that are on the way.
Let’s start right here and now.
Brian Wolff
Executive Director, DCCC
The final link in Wolff’s message leads to the page where comments are being collected. The text on that page reads:
Last week, Rush Limbaugh actually said that he “hopes” President Obama fails to meet America’s challenges.
Jobs, health care, our place in the world — the stakes for our nation are high and every American needs President Obama to succeed.
Stand strong against Rush Limbaugh’s Attacks — sign our petition, telling Rush what you think of his attacks on President Obama. We’ll send Limbaugh your comments.
Notice anything missing from those pages? Read them again, carefully.
That’s right. Nowhere does the DCCC call for Rush to be ‘silenced’. All that they say is that they “send [Limbaugh] your comments”. That’s it. In the freakishly warped world of far-right whackaloons, disagreeing with them is exactly the same thing as trying to silence them. That’s how fearful of dissent they are.
Judy, do you really believe that your constant distortions and outright lies are helping your cause and your credibility?
UPDATE 01/30/09 7:16 AM EST: Judy has posted a 900-word whinefest, complaining that I have the audacity to point out the facts to her, and that I then fail to trumpet her eventual realization that the universe isn’t reordering itself to conform to her fantasy world. Especially amusing is her plaintive mewling about “intelligent debate”. It is a mystery why anyone should believe that Judy Doucette has any interest at all in “intelligent debate” when, time after time after time, she spews invective first, and only checks her facts later, if at all.
Al Arabiya Television has posted a complete transcript of their interview with President Obama:
[M]y job is to communicate to the American people that the Muslim world is filled with extraordinary people who simply want to live their lives and see their children live better lives. My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy. We sometimes make mistakes. We have not been perfect. But if you look at the track record, as you say, America was not born as a colonial power, and that the same respect and partnership that America had with the Muslim world as recently as 20 or 30 years ago, there's no reason why we can't restore that. And that I think is going to be an important task.
Over at Firedoglake, Attaturk points out that the US held hundreds of thousands of Axis POWs on US soil during WWII. Yet the terror monkeys of the far right are having the mother of all conniption fits at the though of a few hundred detainees (most of whom were not, contrary to the popular myth, captured on the battlefield) being transferred to the mainland from Guantanamo.
The ability of some Americans to have no problem with sweeping folks up and holding them without charges or trial in perpetuity while simultaneously not wanting them to be held at a nearby maximum security prison is, as always, astounding. Why take the smallest modicum of responsibility when you can shit your pants instead?
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‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard, and shamelessly pilfered from Sadly, No.
So much of what drives the far right’s rhetoric regarding the terrible, awful threat that Islam allegedly presents to the world is driven by fear — and fear is, almost invariably, driven by ignorance. The Internet has the potential to be an effective tool for education; can it be used to dispel the ignorance about Islam that pervades so much of the West?
Joshua S. Fouts and Rita J. King, Senior Fellows at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, have attempted to address this question. Their year-long project, entitled Understanding Islam through Virtual Worlds, set out “to see what they could learn about Islam — not by inviting particular people with particular perspectives into Second Life, but rather to follow the trail of what was already happening culturally in the space that might yield new insight about Islam.”
In an interview regarding the project, Fouts says:
Our work was a bona fide listening effort. We went into communities in Second Life that either self-identified as Muslim or were self-declared efforts to better understand Islam, and we asked people about their stories. In the end, this project was about storytelling. What people are doing is building new narratives to find ways to coexist. That said, we are not Pollyannas, and Second Life is not a utopia. We encountered numerous situations where tense, impassioned dialogue occurred. But the virtual nature of the space provided an opportunity for people to find new ways to work through differences.
Fouts and King will release their report on January 29th in New York, and will host a Second Life event to discuss their work on January 30th. Second Life accounts are free, so if you don’t have one, I urge you to join up and attend the online discussion.
The wingnut morons like to pretend that the election of Barack Obama means that racism is dead. Um, not so much…
A shocked customer tells My Fox NY that Ted Kefalinos, proprietor of Lafayette French Pastry, asked her, “Would you like some drunken negro heads to go with your coffee? They’re in honor of our new president. He’s following in the same path of Abraham Lincoln; he will get his.”
Later, her friend stopped by the bakery and said Kefalinos corrected her about the name of the cookies—they’re actually drunken “N-word” cookies. She says the backwards baker then repeated the dark suggestion that, like Lincoln, President Obama “will get what’s coming to him.”
Racism is still alive and rampant in this country, folks. Those who pretend otherwise are either deluded or dishonest — and frequently both.
(hat tip: Think Progress)
I’ve noted in the past that the wingnut weenie calling himself “Ogre” is a habitual liar. That’s not a surprise — wingnuts have little, if any, regard for the truth.
What is a surprise is this: Ogre today admitted that he is, in fact, a liar. Bragged about it, in fact.
I’d make a comment here about Ogre having lost all credibility with this admission, but of course, he never had any to begin with.
The whining pisswads of the wingnut right have their knickers in a twist because President Obama has ordered a halt to the military commission “trials” of suspected terrorists and the closure of the prison at Guantanamo Bay. They’ll tell you that we have to keep doing what Bushco was doing because it’s the only way to Keep Us Safe.
What the numbnuts won’t tell you outright is the real reasoning they go through to reach their asinine “conclusions”. Happily, we have Glenn Greenwald to us exactly what the wingnuts really want:
In the name of due process, we should give Guantanamo detainees a trial in our normal civilian courts, using our normal rules of justice—but only if we’re certain ahead of time that we can win and convict them. For those we’re not certain we can convict using our normal standards of due process (because the evidence against them is “tainted”), we should re-write the rules of justice and create a whole new tribunal (similar to the Guantanamo military commissions that Hiatt pretends to decry, which its advocates, in Orwellian fashion, typically call “national security courts”) in order to make it easier for us to win against them and keep them incarcerated. And then, for those who we can’t convict even in the new, “looser” tribunals, we’ll just create a wholly separate, new, presumably secret tribunal that has the power to keep people detained indefinitely without having to prove that they violated any laws at all.
Doing what the far right demands means abandoning any pretense that the United States is a country of laws, not men. That is why it is so important to oppose the wingnut agenda.
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