I'll be taking a break a few days. For some excellent reading, this is always a great bet:
My Kos diary is HERE.
My latest on Kos:
Zell Miller Haiku
Zell Miller helps Bush
Gives John Kerry big black eye
Smell Elephant dung?
Talk to you soon.
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Daring, bold, never sold.
My daily weblog of politics, humor, philosophy...and a constant and nagging reminder of the existence of universal love....
Saturday, May 15, 2004
Good reading
Good reading
I'll be taking a break a few days. For some excellent reading, this is always a great bet:
My Kos diary is HERE.
My latest on Kos:
Zell Miller Haiku
Zell Miller helps Bush
Gives John Kerry big black eye
Smell Elephant dung?
Talk to you soon.
I'll be taking a break a few days. For some excellent reading, this is always a great bet:
My Kos diary is HERE.
My latest on Kos:
Zell Miller Haiku
Zell Miller helps Bush
Gives John Kerry big black eye
Smell Elephant dung?
Talk to you soon.
Michael Savage-Loose Cannon
Michael Savage-Loose Cannon
Savage: Arabs are "non-humans" and "racist, fascist bigots"
At Intl News (May 15th archive), there are excerpts from Michael Savage's May 11 and May 12 radio show, Savage Nation highlighting his views of Arabs, immigrants, etc. In the course of the shows, Savage called Arabs "non-humans" and "racist, fascist bigots"; asserted that Americans would like to "drop a nuclear weapon" on any Arab country; and that "these people" in the Middle East "need to be forcibly converted to Christianity" in order to "turn them into human beings." Savage also claimed that, in the United States, "You can never hear about the bad things they [minorities] do"...and more.
Here, my dear readers, is one ignorant human being. We only have to thank the fates that a man like him never reaches the handle of real power.....
Then again...is control of the airwaves of AM radio/mainstream media NOT representative of power?
Perhaps the sane amongst you should write a letter to your local radio station currently airing Mr. Savage's spewfest...unless you agree with him.
Look at what he's getting away with at your apathetic expense:
Savage on Arabs:
From the May 12 Savage Nation:
Right now, even people sitting on the fence would like George Bush to drop a nuclear weapon on an Arab country. They don't even care which one it would be. I can guarantee you -- I don't need to go to Mr. Schmuck [pollster John] Zogby and ask him his opinion. I don't need anyone's opinion. I'll give you my opinion, because I got a better stethoscope than those fools. It's one man's opinion based upon my own analysis. The most -- I tell you right now -- the largest percentage of Americans would like to see a nuclear weapon dropped on a major Arab capital. They don't even care which one. They'd like an indiscriminate use of a nuclear weapon. They want this over with. One thing people cannot live with, which is an undefined, limitless conflict, which is what we have now. They can't take it. They want this war over with, and they want it ended like the war against Japan. They'd like Big Boy dropped on one of the little cities over there. They don't care where. They don't care any more. The American people have had it up to here with this garbage.
In fact, Christianity has been one of the great salvations on planet Earth. It's what's necessary in the Middle East. Others have written about it, I think these people need to be forcibly converted to Christianity but I'll get here a little later, I'll move up to that. It's the only thing that can probably turn them into human beings.
I'm going to give you one further example from my background as an anthropologist just so that you -- I'm trying to put context on this because you can go crazy if you don't have the context on this, because I'm going to lead up to something of what we must do to these primitives. Because these primitives can only be treated in one way, and I don't think smallpox and a blanket is good enough incidentally. Just before -- I'm going to give you a little precursor to where I'm going. Smallpox in a blanket, which the U.S. Army gave to the Cherokee Indians on their long march to the West, was nothing compared to what I'd like to see done to these people, just so you understand that I'm not going to be too intellectual about my analysis here in terms of what I would recommend, what Doc Savage recommends as an antidote to this kind of poison coming out of the Middle East from these non-humans.
Savage on minorities:
From the May 12 Savage Nation:
And as the churches have been emptying out, the mosques have been filling up, in France and Germany. We all know that but we're all looking other way. And now street gangs of young Muslims are beating up and killing people in France and of course you don't read about that either. Because during a revolutionary period you've got to understand that there's a story line and the storyline is they're the oppressed minority and therefore they can do no wrong. . You can never hear about the bad things they do. It's hush-hush but if a Timothy McVeigh should come along, then it gets front page coverage. Because the story line goes that white male, Christian, heterosexuals are evil and all of the others are -- are -- are victims and only getting their just rewards by fighting back.
It's very much like the American minorities here in this country
Savage: Arabs are "non-humans" and "racist, fascist bigots"
At Intl News (May 15th archive), there are excerpts from Michael Savage's May 11 and May 12 radio show, Savage Nation highlighting his views of Arabs, immigrants, etc. In the course of the shows, Savage called Arabs "non-humans" and "racist, fascist bigots"; asserted that Americans would like to "drop a nuclear weapon" on any Arab country; and that "these people" in the Middle East "need to be forcibly converted to Christianity" in order to "turn them into human beings." Savage also claimed that, in the United States, "You can never hear about the bad things they [minorities] do"...and more.
Here, my dear readers, is one ignorant human being. We only have to thank the fates that a man like him never reaches the handle of real power.....
Then again...is control of the airwaves of AM radio/mainstream media NOT representative of power?
Perhaps the sane amongst you should write a letter to your local radio station currently airing Mr. Savage's spewfest...unless you agree with him.
Look at what he's getting away with at your apathetic expense:
Savage on Arabs:
From the May 12 Savage Nation:
Right now, even people sitting on the fence would like George Bush to drop a nuclear weapon on an Arab country. They don't even care which one it would be. I can guarantee you -- I don't need to go to Mr. Schmuck [pollster John] Zogby and ask him his opinion. I don't need anyone's opinion. I'll give you my opinion, because I got a better stethoscope than those fools. It's one man's opinion based upon my own analysis. The most -- I tell you right now -- the largest percentage of Americans would like to see a nuclear weapon dropped on a major Arab capital. They don't even care which one. They'd like an indiscriminate use of a nuclear weapon. They want this over with. One thing people cannot live with, which is an undefined, limitless conflict, which is what we have now. They can't take it. They want this war over with, and they want it ended like the war against Japan. They'd like Big Boy dropped on one of the little cities over there. They don't care where. They don't care any more. The American people have had it up to here with this garbage.
In fact, Christianity has been one of the great salvations on planet Earth. It's what's necessary in the Middle East. Others have written about it, I think these people need to be forcibly converted to Christianity but I'll get here a little later, I'll move up to that. It's the only thing that can probably turn them into human beings.
I'm going to give you one further example from my background as an anthropologist just so that you -- I'm trying to put context on this because you can go crazy if you don't have the context on this, because I'm going to lead up to something of what we must do to these primitives. Because these primitives can only be treated in one way, and I don't think smallpox and a blanket is good enough incidentally. Just before -- I'm going to give you a little precursor to where I'm going. Smallpox in a blanket, which the U.S. Army gave to the Cherokee Indians on their long march to the West, was nothing compared to what I'd like to see done to these people, just so you understand that I'm not going to be too intellectual about my analysis here in terms of what I would recommend, what Doc Savage recommends as an antidote to this kind of poison coming out of the Middle East from these non-humans.
Savage on minorities:
From the May 12 Savage Nation:
And as the churches have been emptying out, the mosques have been filling up, in France and Germany. We all know that but we're all looking other way. And now street gangs of young Muslims are beating up and killing people in France and of course you don't read about that either. Because during a revolutionary period you've got to understand that there's a story line and the storyline is they're the oppressed minority and therefore they can do no wrong. . You can never hear about the bad things they do. It's hush-hush but if a Timothy McVeigh should come along, then it gets front page coverage. Because the story line goes that white male, Christian, heterosexuals are evil and all of the others are -- are -- are victims and only getting their just rewards by fighting back.
It's very much like the American minorities here in this country
Zell Miller attacks Kerry at Bush fundraiser
Zell Miller attacks Kerry at Bush fundraiser
Let's face it, people. Zell Miller is campaigning for George Bush and he ought to take off the cloak of the Democratic party because he's staining it with grassroots elephant-dung.
Miller, the lone Democratic senator publicly backing Bush, commented in remarks prepared for a Bush-Cheney grassroots event, held in conjunction with the state Republican convention.
[LINK]
Let's face it, people. Zell Miller is campaigning for George Bush and he ought to take off the cloak of the Democratic party because he's staining it with grassroots elephant-dung.
Miller, the lone Democratic senator publicly backing Bush, commented in remarks prepared for a Bush-Cheney grassroots event, held in conjunction with the state Republican convention.
[LINK]
Bush tax cut losing charm with fuel price hikes
Bush tax cut losing charm with fuel price hikes
"Each $10 per barrel increase in crude prices is like a $70 billion tax
increase on American consumers, levied through inflation."
From Paul Krugman N.Y. Times
[LINK]
Oil prices soared to a record Thursday on the New York Mercantile Exchange, crossing $41 a barrel and settling at the highest point in the 21-year-history of crude futures trading in New York.
[LINK]
"Each $10 per barrel increase in crude prices is like a $70 billion tax
increase on American consumers, levied through inflation."
From Paul Krugman N.Y. Times
[LINK]
Oil prices soared to a record Thursday on the New York Mercantile Exchange, crossing $41 a barrel and settling at the highest point in the 21-year-history of crude futures trading in New York.
[LINK]
Iraq: Fred Kaplan Finds Reasons Bush is Culpable
Iraq: Fred Kaplan Finds Reasons Bush is Culpable
The Buck Stops … Where?
Stop blaming your henchmen, Mr. President.
By Fred Kaplan / Slate
My main argument was that Bush has placed too much trust, for far too long, in the judgment of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, despite his ceaseless string of bad judgments.
However, two news stories that have since come to my attention—one that appeared on the same day, the other more than two months ago—suggest not merely that Bush is guilty of "failing to recognize failure" (as my headline put it) but that he is directly culpable for the sins in question, no less so than his properly beleaguered defense chief...
[LINK]
The Buck Stops … Where?
Stop blaming your henchmen, Mr. President.
By Fred Kaplan / Slate
My main argument was that Bush has placed too much trust, for far too long, in the judgment of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, despite his ceaseless string of bad judgments.
However, two news stories that have since come to my attention—one that appeared on the same day, the other more than two months ago—suggest not merely that Bush is guilty of "failing to recognize failure" (as my headline put it) but that he is directly culpable for the sins in question, no less so than his properly beleaguered defense chief...
[LINK]
The facts on Medicare-A Bad Bill
The facts on Medicare:
Bernie Sanders shows us how a bad bill becomes law
In step-by-step fashion, Bernie Sanders shows us how "George W. Bush and Republican Leadership in Congress redefined lawmaking when they forced their Medicare law through Congress". Let the facts speak for themselves.
Bernie Sanders shows us how a bad bill becomes law
In step-by-step fashion, Bernie Sanders shows us how "George W. Bush and Republican Leadership in Congress redefined lawmaking when they forced their Medicare law through Congress". Let the facts speak for themselves.
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