A pushback to "Mayflower MUSLIMS!!!"

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Saturday February 28, 2009 · 3:35 AM PST

2009/02/28 · 03:35

With all the looniness attendant to CPAC so much in the air, I made a rare visit over to Atlas Shrugs to get a good whiff of the odor of wingnut braincells popping and frying (usually I satisfy myself with checking in at Sadly, No to see what the fringers are up to). And sure, it's hilarious to us in the "reality based" community to see the freakazoids all riled up and hoopin' and hollerin' and such, but one item in particular caught my eye and led to a fun evening of Googling to try and see "where the truth lies".

That the Obama Administration's appointment of Charles W. Freeman, Jr. to be Chairman of the National Intelligence Council makes the more slavishly pro-Israel right wing nuts is not news. But some of their unhappiness finds expression in the craziest ways-

His MEPC political action group publishes a Workbook that teaches our children that the Muslims discovered the "New World" and the "Indians" who met he(sic) English Explorers all had Muslim names.

I give you a tale that includes the father of the father of cybernetics and the Islamic conspiracy to wreck our very own American history as abetted by Charles Freeman.

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Thursday January 08, 2009 · 9:38 PM PST

2009/01/08 · 21:38

Idly browsing through the Guardian's music pages (Lady Gaga? Really? Well, Eric Altermann ran a whole press release about Goblin Cock a few weeks ago, just to make the point that we middle-aged types are totally out of it and should just stick to listening to Steve Earle, I guess) tonight I was SHOCKED to see an obituary for Ron Asheton, founding guitarist of the Stooges.

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Monday March 31, 2008 · 10:48 AM PDT

2008/03/31 · 10:48

If you're bored out of your tree this afternoon from 2 to 4 (Central), I'm extending an invitation to listen on-line as I get warmed up for April Fools' Day - practically a high, holy day in my house. Our Local Public Radio station KRUU-LP, people-powered, grass-roots, open-source radio, has foolishly (ha!) allowed me another 2 hours to inflict some jazz on listeners far (you) and wide (me).

JPJ stands for Jolly Playful Jazz today as I unleash some merry, mirthful, musical mayhem.

dilford

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Monday March 24, 2008 · 10:39 AM PDT

2008/03/24 · 10:39

Hi folks. Long story short: today (Monday the 24th) I'll be hosting a show called JPJ (Justified Progressive Jabber? nah, Just Plain Jazz) on KRUU, our totally wack community radio station in Fairfield, IA, from 2 to 4 this afternoon and y'all are invited to listen on-line. In my own small way, it's my contribution to the conversation on race that Sen. Obama invited the nation to participate in. But very specifically it's my reaction to the media-idjits who seem determined to turn Rev. Wright and his comments into The.. Story... of the CENTURY!!! What's it going to sound like? How I like my coffee- strong and black.

Short story long: below the fold. (Ari Berman will have his show from 1 to 1:30, so tune in early!)

Poll

10 votes Show Results

Charlie Christian or Sonny Sharrock?

10 votes Vote Now!

Charlie Christian or Sonny Sharrock?

Charlie Christian

4 votes

Sonny Sharrock

2 votes

Who???

4 votes

Let's make this Hagee/McCain week ALL week

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Monday March 03, 2008 · 1:46 PM PST

2008/03/03 · 13:46

Hey folks, if yr as tired as I am by the media's double standard regarding which candidates must denounce and reject which religious supporters may I suggest a little action? For myself, I've decided to email at least one MSM outlet per day for the rest of this week with the hope that this repulsive little episode doesn't get lost in the bigger coverage of the primaries tomorrow.

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Wednesday October 17, 2007 · 9:55 AM PDT

2007/10/17 · 09:55

Short answer: Do exactly what the Obama campaign is doing.

Yesterday's Mid-day thread had a quick link over to Marc Ambinder's blog at the Atlantic; Ambinder noted that the Obama campaign had raised $431,000 in a matter of hours with a direct appeal to their supporters. "Washington lobbyists have chosen their candidate and are determined to provide her with an advantage. But you can even up this contest." Now, I am an Obama supporter, so I was more than a little interested.

So I used the intertubes to do what this whole bloggysphere is all about.

dilford

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Friday September 14, 2007 · 1:40 PM PDT

2007/09/14 · 13:40

Well, I'm lying from the get-go as far as any bears in this diary, but believe me, there are hobbits and Christians aplenty in the newest entry in the fantasy genre by semi-noted New America Foundation fellow, Fox News contributor, Newsday columnist and former White House (Reagan & Bush Sr.) aide James P. Pinkerton. Published in the September 10, 2007 issue of The American Conservative, Pinky's "The Once & Future Christendom" is a wonderfully bizarre think-piece on using J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy series as a pro-active strategy for "protecting" Europe (or "Europa" when Pinky is soaring on wings of neo-con prose, or "The Shire" when he's hitting the pipe...) against the senses-shattering evil of Sauron, er, scratch that, the Muslimization of what Pinky fondly recalls as the "Imperium Christianum".

Really.

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Saturday August 25, 2007 · 1:01 PM PDT

2007/08/25 · 13:01

Under the header "Stop Making Sense", Our Mister Brooks tackles Drew Westen's new book "THE POLITICAL BRAIN:The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation" in today's NYT here. Now I haven't read Westen's book, so I withhold any judgement on its content, or for that matter Brooks' judgement of the book. What I can judge is Brooks' free-floating assumptions about American politics and his own comments that have little if anything to do with the book under review.

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Tuesday March 13, 2007 · 2:39 PM PDT

2007/03/13 · 14:39

It's a simple story, really. Take one 50 yr. old guy who reads plenty of blogs, but is otherwise not particularly "activist" (more "Don't Turn Off the Power!" than "Fight the Power!"), and let Ann Coulter finally get him off the dime.

While reading Glenn Greenwald yesterday morning, I saw his brief mention of an Ann Coulter column denouncing Dems as a "sleeper cell" in this country...

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Friday November 17, 2006 · 3:16 PM PST

2006/11/17 · 15:16

Well, I'm taking the plunge and it's Charles Krauthammer that provided the push. His column in today's WaPo is so full of straw men that I had to extinguish my cigarette while reading it.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

Starting from the top:
"Americans flatter themselves that they are the root of all planetary evil." We do? Who do? I think I know that he means "liberals", people who realize that our nation's actions sometimes have unintended as well as intended consequences, but he cites nukes in North Korea, poverty in Bolivia and the situation in Iraq as examples of Blame-America-First-ism and I just can't jump through the hoops necessary to make sense of that claim. But we have many stops to make in today's column, so I won't dawdle.

On to Iraq, where our planetary-evil-self-flattery boils down to "Where did we go wrong? Too few troops? Too arrogant an occupation? Or too soft? Take your pick." Umm, my pick isn't there Mr. K. Read More

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