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Archive for June 2004
Medieval Man
Posted by on 06/30/04 at 9:24 am
Category: Politics
William Buckley is stepping down from the National Review and even the Washington Post is publishing encomiums about this elitist extremist, going so far as to print a quote calling him a “renaissance man.” “Medieval man” might be more apt.
How easily we forget the National Review’s outspoken support of segregation in the 1960s and beyond. Here’s a choice bit of Buckley from the August 24, 1957 issue of NR:
The central question that emerges . . . is whether the White community in the South is entitled to take such measures as are necessary to prevail, politically and culturally, in areas in which it does not prevail numerically? The sobering answer is Yes – the White community is so entitled because, for the time being, it is the advanced race. It is not easy, and it is unpleasant, to adduce statistics evidencing the cultural superiority of White over Negro: but it is a fact that obtrudes, one that cannot be hidden by ever-so-busy egalitarians and anthropologists.
And here is a white supremacist publication bemoaning the retreat of the NR from its segregationist editorial policies — unpleasant, but instructive, reading.
I’ll be digging up more about Buckley so we don’t forget what awful things he has espoused.
Let Freedom Reign (When Convenient)
Posted by on 06/29/04 at 9:23 pm Category: Politics
Except when the U.S. military doesn’t want freedom to reign, as explained here.
Famine Sweeps Canada
Posted by on 06/28/04 at 3:45 pm Category: PoliticsApparently fearing that hungry Canadians may eat their ballots, the Canadian Elections Board has posted a warning that it is illegal to eat ballots. I wonder: is there a way to convince voters in the red states that ballots are both nutritious and delicious?
Maybe He Meant a Cocktail Bar
Posted by on 06/28/04 at 2:17 pm Category: PoliticsKen Mehlman, campaign manager for Bush-Cheney ‘04, seems prone to exaggeration. Bios supplied by Mr. Mehlman, like this one, claim that Mr. Mehlman is a member of the DC Bar. The problem is that, according to DC Bar records, Mr. Mehlman is on inactive status and thus unauthorized to practice law in the District of Columbia. Thus, it is misleading for him to represent himself as a member of the DC bar without disclosing his inactive status.
And why has Ken given to the DC Bar the office number of Ben Klotz as Ken’s own telephone number?
Coalition of Strawmen
Posted by on 06/27/04 at 7:40 am Category: PoliticsThe new ad “Coalition of the Wild-Eyed” from Bush-Cheney tries to suggest that Kerry supports the infamous Hitler ad that was submitted to MoveOn.org but disavowed by them and pulled from their website. In defending this ad, Ken Mehlman, Bush’s campaign manager, posted an idiotic justification on the Bush campaign website. Some choice excerpts:
The Kerry campaign says, “The use of Adolf Hitler by any campaign, politician or party is simply wrong.” We agree.
If Mehlman agrees its wrong, why hasn’t he pulled the ad? Then we get the following gaffe:
Where was John Kerry’s anger when Al Gore in May spoke of “Bush’s Gulag”?
Hey, Ken, you’re getting your history confused. Gulags don’t have anything to do with Hitler. They were Soviet internment camps.
Where was John Kerry’s disgust when he hired Zack Exley - the man responsible for encouraging the production of these ads as part of a MoveOn contest - to run the Kerry campaign’s internet operation?
Now that’s a stretch by any measure. Exley conceived the notion of a competition for ads attacking W. He did not specifically encourage ads comparing W to Hitler. Then Mehlman whines:
Where was John Kerry’s sense of outrage when Al Gore, just Thursday afternoon, compared the Bush Administration to the Nazis saying, “The Administration works closely with a network of ‘rapid response’ digital Brown Shirts who work to pressure reporters and their editors for ‘undermining support for our troops.’”
Well, where was any outrage from Bush-Cheney-Mehlman when Anne Coulter called all people opposing Bush “traitors”? This isn’t justifying Al Gore’s reference as much as it is to point out that you can’t attribute to a campaign everything it doesn’t denounce. Kerry and Bush are the candidates, not Coulter and Gore.
Actually, it seems that the Republicans would rather run against a coaltion of strawmen than against the real candidate. The Inner Frenchman points out that the Bush-Cheney campaign website has 3 images of Kerry and none of Bush.
The F-word (cont’d)
Posted by on 06/26/04 at 11:01 am Category: PoliticsOne last thought on Cheney and the F-word. When Kerry said to the Rolling Stone that he hadn’t expected W to “fuck up” Iraq “as badly as he did, the White House was beside itself and quick to rebuke Kerry and to say that the word was “beneath him.”
So, umm, why is the White House so mum on Cheney’s use of the word? Oh I see: it’s because it’s not beneath Cheney.
Barnyard Epithet
Posted by on 06/26/04 at 10:07 am Category: Politics(Note: the link below to the Moonie Times requires a free subscription. If you are not inclined to give your personal data to the Rev. Moon, remember that you can always register as a single, unemployed mother of eight from Bulgaria or you can get the login info for a previously registered account at www.BugMeNot.com).
The Moonie Times, unwilling to print the word “fuck,” came up with an unintentionally hilarious and frankly perverse euphemism of its own:
According to the aide, Mr. Cheney then responded with a barnyard epithet, urging Mr. Leahy to perform an anatomical sexual impossibility.
Now, some of you may know that “barnyard epithet” was a euphemism for “bullshit” coined by J. Anthony Lukas.
The reason the euphemism works is that bullshit is something that one might normally associate with a barnyard. On the other hand, most people wouldn’t naturally associate the F-word and a barnyard. This Moonie reporter is either one sick puppy or he has been spending too much time hanging out with Rick Santorum.
A Vote That Counts
Posted by on 06/23/04 at 10:43 am Category: PoliticsOn the front page of the Bush-Cheney campaign site they have a “Bush-Cheney Quick Vote” which isn’t a vote at all. Here’s the “quick vote”
President Bush’s defense budget will fulfill which of these goals?
Increase pay for our servicemen and women Continue to eliminate inadequate military housing Provide the next generation of weapons to assist our troops in the field All of the above
Problem is, unless you “vote” for “all of the above,” you’re chastized by the website. “Sorry, that’s not correct. The President’s defense budget meets all these urgent priorities.” Um, I thought this was a vote, not a test. But it’s a test, since votes aren’t tallied, but rather evaluated for politcal accuracy. (Rather like an election in North Korea).
And of course even W could pass this test. It’s not like one of the options was “Give RPGs to Taliban Mullahs.” Although maybe that might stump George.
So in honor of the “Bush-Cheny Quick Vote,” I’m rolling out my own “Quick Vote”. It’s the Poll on the left. The questions may be loaded, but at least your vote is counted. Counting votes, of course, isn’t a big Bush-Cheney priority. So vote now. Vote often. The poll will change every few days.
Bring Back Bill
Posted by on 06/23/04 at 9:29 am Category: PoliticsFrom the BBC interview:
One of the reasons he [Ken Starr] got away with it is because people like you only ask people like me the questions. You gave him a complete free ride. Any abuse they wanted to do, they indicted all these little people from Arkansas, what did you care about them, they’re not famous, who cares that their lives were trampled. Who cares if their children were humiliated?
Can we have Bill back? Please?
Chicken S**t
Posted by on 06/22/04 at 11:14 am Category: PoliticsHow could I have missed this article in the Los Angeles Times on the shamefully pathetic intelligence failures prior to our invasion of Iraq? Here’s the best bit:
U.S. analysts also erred in their analysis of high-altitude satellite photos, repeatedly confusing Scud missile storage places with the short, half-cylindrical sheds typically used to house poultry in Iraq. As a result, as the war neared, two teams of U.N. weapons experts acting on U.S. intelligence scrambled to search chicken coops for missiles that were not there.“We inspected a lot of chicken farms,” said a former inspector who asked not to be identified because he now works with U.S. intelligence. His U.N. team printed “Ballistic Chicken Farm Inspection Team” on 20 gray T-shirts to mark the futile hunt.
I wonder if I can find any of those T-shirts on eBay?
And When Republicanists Do Tell the Truth . . .
Posted by on 06/21/04 at 9:22 am Category: Politics. . . it’s not pretty, as in this assertion by Hastert’s office that the GOP controls “all three branches of government.” Including, of course, the Supreme Court, which I always thought was supposed to be independent. My bad.