If and when John Kerry wins the election, a great terrorist threat that has cast its pall over America will grow and strike. And it will not be Arab. It will not be foreign. It will come from Peoria and from Corpus Christi. It will come from a few of the guys I serve at the bar, the ones who are absolute fonts of wisdom when it comes to sand-niggers and God in the White House.
Fueled by the vitriol of Ann Coulter, Zell Miller, and various and sundry other right-wingers, the reactionary, anti-choice, anti-democratic, anti-minority, anti-1st Amendment, misogynistic, homophobic factions of America which found such a catalyst for their hatred and violence in Clinton will rise up again.
Make no mistake. Bush's current occupancy of the White House has placated these people for the last four years -- barely. Once conservatives fall out of favor with the electorate, expect more Oklahoma Cities, more James Byrds and Matthew Shepards, more Operation Rescue pipe bombs, more burnt synagogues, more murdered Muslim Americans. Stay vigilant. Act in the now, but with an eye to the future.
GRAB BAG: Have at it, kids!
DailyWingnut: "This year's Ingrate of the Year Award goes to...The Iraqi Olympic Soccer Team" - Dennis Prager, echoing the talking points of a certain bulbous, splotchy cranium attached to a tiny, tiny penis.
DailySense: "I can't explain the feelings I had towards her. I pitied her because, apparently, she knew very little about what she was sending her kids into. I was angry with her because she really didn't want to know what she was sending her children to do. In the end, all of those feelings crumbled away as she read the last letter from her deceased son. I began feeling a sympathy I really didn't want to feel, and as she was walking in the streets of Washington, looking at the protestors and crying, it struck me that the Americans around her would never understand her anguish. The irony of the situation is that the one place in the world she would ever find empathy was Iraq. We understand. We know what it's like to lose family and friends to war - to know that their final moments weren't peaceful ones that they probably died thirsty and in pain that they weren't surrounded by loved ones while taking their final breath." - River, on an American mother, featured in Fahrenheit 9/11, whose son served in Iraq.
DailyFlick: Death in Gaza. "Abdul's favorite game is 'Jews and Arabs.' To win this game, you have to die."
DailySite: The always snarky, always sassy, almost always right James Wolcott.
DailyLitter: The preserved head of Kitty Kelly still has claws.
DailyKongrats: To Maha. Make us proud, buttercup!
DailyKwote: "...conservatism is the fear of reality. Liberalism is the fear of conservatives." - BlindWino's Driver.
DailyKrush: Pete M., but of course.
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The Bartender