God evening, it's gloomy here with a severe thunderstorm warning in effect.
After a good week sunday ends like this dull stillness, greenish cloudiness, and lots of lightning flash to the west of us. Swell.
So in this frame of mind, lets look at some goofiness that could probably piss off the pope. Let's jump.
When it comes to righteous stupidity and over stretch you can't beat the hard line thumpers like Dobson et. al..
Doug Jones at John Cole's place got this chunk of offal from Human Events magazine. It makes me wonder how conservatives can degenerate in thought process to this hysterical level. (Note a header on the H.E. cover sheet...it's Apple Annie asking us to help stop her nightmares. My reply...Annie, you give America nighmares, stop with the over-age Goth act and join a convent.)
Then there is this interesting read from Commander Jeff Huber right here about the farcical state of affairs that underpins the deadly serious game in the Middle East. I seem to recall the story about the house built on sand. There is some wacky nonsense going on in the M.E. and the Commander's line captures this well:
Bush/Cheney foreign policy turned the Middle East into an analog of Cold War Europe, and incredibly, they managed to cast pismire Iran as the second coming of the Soviet Union. That the Obama administration is conducting the same clownish statecraft is a sure sign that the American Empire will end not with a bang or a whimper, but with pie on its face.
Just when you thought that we might be seeing some rapproachmont between Islam and America, Angry Arab shows us once again that we are wishful thinking. Someone here earlier on had commented about this book being strident and neo-connish in tone. Wait until you read the panagyric, err I mean review of this tome in the NYT that As'ad links to. Phew! Mosques, minerets, turbans, oh my!
Did anyone catch Al Giordano's slam of Hillary statecraft? it's a doozy The whole Zelaya affair is crazy as I see it, and Clinton's part in this seems awkward, as if she were distracted in the middle of a converation at a resturant.
Publius writing at Obsidian Wings beats me to the page, or punch, with the point of how pissy it is for Blue dogs to run on health care issues, get elected on health care promises and then act like a pack of wild-eyed Republican corporatists when actual work on health care reform comes around. That pisses me off. What a pack of f*#cking ingrates!
Then there is Sarah Palin...this is far more ironical than off-putting. check out this Newser article about how Sadie Sack is quitting because she loves Alaska so much. it's quite ironical:
I will be able to fight even harder for you, for what is right, and for truth," she said. Some analysts speculate she’ll run for president in 2012 or become a pundit, though Palin has insisted otherwise. Her decision to quit "was made in the vacuum of what was best for Alaska, and now I'm accepting all the options, but there is nothing planned," she has said. After Palin's speech today, Sean Parnell was sworn in as governor.
Umm, earth to Sadie...you had the bully pulpit of the Governorship, you were one of only 50 heads of individual states with all sorts of ways to help Alaska....Why do I see MasterBlaster from Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome saying to Mad Max, "Me big King-You Pedestrian!" when Palin claims to be able to do more for Alaska by giving up the governorship[...Sarah dear, YOU ain't Siddartha, though you may be mad you won't be able to help the corporatists in 2012 either...nor are you Mad Max conspiring with Auntie!
It has to piss you off. The sheer silliness of several of the newsmakers, but sometimes you get a column from a more progressive voice that drips with rage...and this one takes the taco of late. You have to have read Ted's "To Afghanistan and Back" and "The Silk Road to Ruin" to fully understand Ted's position and why he says this.
Here it is
Being an addict for the History Channel, in spite of it's sometimes wierd right wing slanting, and the whacky George Mason University revisionism that would be more befitting Regent or Liberty U, I have to generally applaud the channel.
However, lately one geologist sniffed at the concept of "Trampoline Tectonics," as relates to findings near the southeast of the Grand Canyon of evidence that the land has risen and fallen That's a sniffy dismissal of the idea that subducting crustal plates can cause areas of land the plate is passing under to rise and then fall again if the plate alters it's course back into the Earth's mantle. I hold that "Trampoline Tectonics" is real and related directly to the course of the plate going under another continental plate, which may change its course into the mantle several times over a relatively short period of time in geological terms, and that the subsidence of the land area to the west of the Grand Canyon may be one of the better examples of this phenomenon.
We do have a couple of geologists haunting this site, could you reply please.
Well, that's it for me. What is bugging you of late?