Don't Support The Troops

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Monday January 22, 2007 · 4:52 PM PST

2007/01/22 · 16:52

http://www.dontsupportthetroops.com/

In response to a widely-circulated "support the troops" posting on many blogs, which posting was "pro-troops" by being hatefully anti-civilian (and otherwise bigoted, sexist, etc.), I began replying to these postings with a link to my article, "Don't Support The Troops", which I wrote a few weeks after news concerning Abu Ghraib came to light.

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Saturday December 23, 2006 · 9:00 AM PST

2006/12/23 · 09:00

The Washington Post tells us about Monica Beltran, who it says "was a party girl in Woodbridge [Virgina]."

It describes what was allegedly her rudderless, immature human existence as an American teenager as "always another club, another party, another pack of cigarettes."

Then George Bush, that very embodiment of human maturity, decided upon an intervention, and sent Monica Beltran off to learn respect, discipline and service in his maturity bootcamp in Iraq.

More at:

http://mortduroi.blogspot.com/...

(jk)

Brina Blue Blog

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Thursday August 17, 2006 · 6:44 PM PDT

2006/08/17 · 18:44

I have thought quite substantively about the 300 characters. I think they should be proud to stand here substantiating this post. I think in all the history of posting, no characters have been asked to do more with less and have yet come forward to fulfill their duty with more vigor and an unadulterated can-do spirit. I am proud to lead them in our noble mission.

Otherwise, I don't have three substantive comments to make this evening.

I do have three cartoons:

http://brinablue.blogspot.com/

Happy Flag Day

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Wednesday June 14, 2006 · 6:22 AM PDT

2006/06/14 · 06:22

I would like to make a suggestion for a small amendment. Let's change the holiday to Flag Burning Day. Or, let's adopt a tradition that on Flag Day, the appropriate way to celebrate is to inflammatorily consecrate the allegedly sacred relic.

"And so, on this Flag Day, given that the flag 'is no longer a fitting emblem for display', we should provide the recommended remedy. And maybe not just to a piece of fading, threadbare cloth."

http://mortduroi.blogspot.com/...

Dead Meat and Doughnuts

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Monday May 01, 2006 · 11:28 AM PDT

2006/05/01 · 11:28

Former US Secretary of State (those fake WMD labtrucks are pretty scary, huh?) Colin Powell:

"The Iranians are prepared to accept any sanctions coming their way."

Translation: they're doing the nukes, no matter how many Iranian kids the United States starves to death.

Current US Secretary of Stalinist State Condoleeza Rice:

"The international community's credibility is at stake here."

Translation: well, the last time the Regimists were blathering about the credibility of the international community, or the UN to be exact, they meant "we're attacking Iraq, so shut up." Read More

"Deciders" and Transparencies

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Tuesday April 25, 2006 · 12:01 PM PDT

2006/04/25 · 12:01

Note the progression of ideas.

Bush on the link between deciders and transparency:

"It almost doesn't matter if we have transparency if consumers, however, are not in a position to make decisions. In other words, if somebody is making the decision for you, transparency only matters to the decider."

Bush's recent admission of absolute decidership:

"I hear the voices, and I read the front page, and I know the speculation. But I'm the decider, and I decide what is best. And what's best is for Don Rumsfeld to remain as the Secretary of Defense."

It follows from these two statements that if Bush is the decider, he is the only person for whom transparency should matter. And, conveniently, he is the person in charge of deciding what gets transparent and what gets classified. Convenient, huh? Read More

Blood Brothers

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Tuesday February 28, 2006 · 8:31 AM PST

2006/02/28 · 08:31

Some thoughts regarding blood-simple similarities between Bush and Saddam:

http://mortduroi.blogspot.com/...

"Even when, and maybe especially when, Bush was making life and death decisions, he never cared to waste time in contemplation over the justness of killing people."

Aside: George Bush as governor of Texas wasn't much different than George Bush as President of the United States, with the obvious exception that the presidency provides Bush so many more tools with which to promote sociopathic incuriosity as a governing virtue.

(jk)

General "Craddy" Craddock Calls Torture "Humane"

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Wednesday February 22, 2006 · 7:21 AM PST

2006/02/22 · 07:21

Red Fatherland general sez they are just helping detainees stay alive.

When the Chinese do it, it is torture.

When the United States does it, magically it becomes "humane". Read More

Bush Used NASA to Support 2004 Re-election Bid

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Thursday February 16, 2006 · 11:37 AM PST

2006/02/16 · 11:37

In addition to forcing NASA to bowdlerize unsettling scientific basics, like the Sun and Earth are doomed, Bush appointees pressured NASA to spin reporting of data to bolster Bush's "re-election" in 2004.

"Top political appointees in the NASA press office exerted strong pressure during the 2004 presidential campaign to cut the flow of news releases on glaciers, climate, pollution and other earth sciences, public affairs officers at the agency say."

The enlistment of a government agency, one which claims on its website "Every NASA mission embodies the spirit of discovery", to misrepresent the truth to the public, or to delay reporting of it to provide a political advantage, is characteristic of the systemic dishonesty and anti-scientific cynicism of the Bush Regime. Read More

FLASH!! Science Sez Earth, Sun Doomed

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Tuesday February 14, 2006 · 2:10 PM PST

2006/02/14 · 14:10

In a review of recent attempts at NASA to de-gloomify all that science stuff they allegedly do there, the New York Times notes "In a different example of spinning science news last month, NASA headquarters removed a reference to the future death of the sun from a press release about the discovery of comet dust around a distant star known as a white dwarf".

Why was this reference removed? Because "it probably reflects the grim but very distant future of our own planets and solar system." And the official position: "NASA is not in the habit of frightening the public with doom and gloom scenarios."

Maybe they should check the body count on that space shuttle scenario. Read More

"Dickbo" Cheney's Herd Management Rationale

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Monday February 13, 2006 · 1:30 PM PST

2006/02/13 · 13:30

"If we don't hunt, then these lawyers will grow too big in number and they won't have enough food. So you see, we have to kill lawyers, or else they'll die"
--"Dickbo" Cheney's herd management rationale, adapted from the philosophy of Jim Kern of South Park, Colorado.

Update on the recent Cheney "Huntin' and Killin" incident is that Dickbo was REALLY attempting to "kill lawyers to, quote, thin out their numbers." Of course, what with the Stalinist-Liberal Media (SLM) always trying to find something to whine about, the Veep had to claim he was confused and was shooting at little birds or something. But the evidence seems clear. The lawyer herds in Texas are severely threatened by over-population, and may all starve to death for lack of fodder. It just goes to show how the wildlife-hating anti-gun nuts will take even an act of plain, honest compassion, like Mr. Cheney trying to save the lawyer herds, and will try to turn it into an object of public derision and an opportunity to score political brownie points. I'm sure the NRA and the RNC would just like to say--Good work, Mr. Vice President, & keep culling.

"Bad Apples" or Heroes?

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Sunday February 12, 2006 · 9:25 AM PST

2006/02/12 · 09:25

Question: When do the endless "bad apples" finally get recognized as being the very same people as the alleged "heroes"?

OR, what the hell do you think a soldier's job entails? "That's what the bullets are for, you twit!"

It is cowardice and madness to employ thousands of professional killers to invade and occupy somebody else's country and then to act like Captain Renault when those barbarous proxies are repeatedly caught torturing and murdering.

Or, to put it in Biblical terms: "For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit".

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