HELLO Pennsylvania!

THIS JUST IN: Bill And Hillary took in 109 million dollars since 2000. OINK!

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Broadbent responds:


Friday, April 18, 2008

Broadbent responds:
Broadbent reply

Blogger REALITY uncovered said...

Give it a rest ya great big loon. Your obsession with RU is borderline insane. I did find you amusing at one time, as did many people in fact. Now, you simply come across as a sad old man who's only skill appears to be one of misconstruing the facts on a regular basis.

I thought long and hard before making comment here, but seeing as hardly anyone ever does, I thought it would make your day...

Btw, the PayPal contribution link has been on the site for well over a year now, I guess you must have missed it. Same goes for the adverts, I guess you must have missed those too. As for no one contributing to it, it is thanks to those contributions that we have been able to upgrade the hosting package from a simple shared hosting plan to a dedicated server package. Without the generosity of our members, that would not have been possible.

As for the site stats, we are doing exceptionally well, thank you very much. We broke 50000 visitors for the first time last month and we already have over 40000 for this month and it's only the 17th. You do realise RU is not just a forum, don't you?

(Btw, we've had over 50 visits from this very blog, so thanks for that!)

I thought I'd save the best bit until last. The reason AlanTree was banned was for none of the reasons you cited, he was banned because he is YOU - and you have a lifetime ban.

Cheers,
Steve (with nothing better to do, obviously)

2:08 PM Delete Blogger General Striker said... In total there are 5 users online :: 1 registered, 0 hidden and 4 guests (based on users active over the past 5 minutes) Most users ever online was 182 on Mon Jul 02, 2007 8:21 pm Registered users: Yahoo [Bot]

12:42 PM Delete Blogger General Striker said... 4 lurkers (3, not counting me) and a Yahoo Bot. Great performance there! Cutting edge, might I add... 12:49 PM

General Striker says:

And please note that the main thrust of my original post was never addressed. Here it is: Quote: 1. The site has become abjectly debunkerist in the method and style of the late (and thoroughly discredited) Phil Klass. Imagination and outside-the-box thinking will always get one banned there. For original thinkers access will always be denied. In fact the moderator who performs these intellectual executions even proudly calls himself "Access Denied." Why is that? During the past couple of years various liars have been elevated to the position of 'moderator' on the RU forum by both Broadbent and his butt-boy co-host Ryan Doob. They include: Dr. Dankk, Shawanna Sweet Spot, Max von Schickelgruber, Hidden Googler, and Access Denial. Let's take a look at these scumbags. Dr. Dankk falsely claimed to be a doctor. He was vouched for by Doob and Broadbent and eventually exposed as a fraud. He was then shit-canned by RU management. Shawanna falsely claimed to be a researcher. She was elevated to 'partner' status by Doob and Broadbent and proceeded to post hundreds of scurrilous rants on the forum. She shamelessly defamed Victor Martinez and Bob Collins despite her own amazing history as a bankrupt scoff-law. She eventually, in a fit of depression, erased all of her posts- rendering RU all but unintelligible. Then there was Max the nazi. Elevated to the position of moderator by Doob and Broadbent, he continued the tradition of outrageous dissembling by surreptitiously invading Open Minds Forum for the purpose of recruiting their members to migrate to RU (as Doob and Broadbent had done previously.) When he was exposed by John Hicks as an RU quisling he was shamelessly defended by Doob and Broadbent until the truth could nolonger be denied- at which point he simply disappeared back into the rathole from which he was originally salvaged by the Dooby-Butt-Boyz. And then, of course, there is the current edition of mendacious moderation- Access Denied- whose only qualification as moderator has to do with his banning at ATS by Springer for being a consummate, lying putz and pain in the ass- as well as his ability to use Google as a pretense for research. His main function at RU seems to be a continuing bitchy whine against Springer and an adherence to Klassic, know-nothing debunkery in league with Youcancallmeray- AKA: meme-boy. Good enough qualifications for Doob- despite the support Springer had given to the RU forum over the years. It is well known that Springer's support for the forum was crucial for its early success. Thrown under the bus, however, was he- all in the name of building readership. (...a ploy that has dismally failed. See above site participation.) If all of the foregoing seems disgusting and has you on the verge of puking- I'm sorry. But the truth must out. Posted by General Striker at 12:51 PM

hibits Shit Spewing Troll Joined: Oct 22, 2006 Posts: 552 Location: area 51 Karma: +8 Applaud / Smite

Post subject: What happened to Reality Uncovered? Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 12:15 PM Readers here are intimately acquainted with Reality Uncovered Forum. Many of the members here are also members (or banned members) there: Wyz, Ryan Dube, Chorlton, Murnut. Jake Reason, Zep Tepi, John Hicks, Hibits, Kali, Kiwi, Shawanna and the entire Cartoon Syndicate to name just a few. Considering that they have only 150 members, Wyzwyrlde forum members constitute a sizable minority of their membership. I'm certain that this gaggle of dual members has become aware of the recent decline in interest in that forum. At this moment, for example, there are exactly 3 users accessing the site. Why is this in spite of the recent make-over of the site interface? There are several reasons for this pathetic performance: 1. The site has become abjectly debunkerist in the method and style of the late (and thoroughly discredited) Phil Klass. Imagination and outside-the-box thinking will always get one banned there. For original thinkers access will always be denied. In fact the moderator who performs these intellectual executions even proudly calls himself "Access Denied." The last person who had the temerity to join, Allantree, was hacked to death in a matter of minutes for the great crimes of: A. Criticizing Ray Hudson and B. Using a proxy to sign up in the first place. No-one has joined since. They chase potential members away. They have redesigned their forum to add color, complication, and advertisements. They've also added links to a PayPal contribution site. I would ask them- how many of your 150 members have availed themselves of this opportunity to contribute? My guess would be 'none.' I suppose the main problem with the current incarnation of RU is this: Phil Klass did it better. Good luck to you- and your 3 lurkers. _________________ How can a nation be great if its bread tastes like Kleenex? Julia Child

Blessed Are the Peacemakers

...what would Jesus do?

Consummatum est...

Sunday reading: Britain's best newspaper. Check the links section on the right side of the page for Robert Fisk.

The Independent | News | UK and Worldwide News | Newspaper

This is a mind blower!

A different general, a different take on the surge. Important read.

"Despite all the hot air it generated, testimony on Iraq this week before the Senate Armed Services Committee offered little in the way of real news or useful insight. Hiding behind Army Gen. David Petraeus’s medals and uniform, President Bush sent his proxy to Capitol Hill to repeat the administration’s threadbare mantras yet another time."

Read more...

MORE HERE about the Borgist mob of thugs carrying the torch of death.

This from Der Spiegel this morning:

Olympic Flame Now 'Symbolizes Repressive Regime'

The global Olympic torch run has descended into chaos and China has only itself to blame, write German media commentators. The protests have even created a new sport -- "Flame Extinguishing."

The Torch of Death is but the latest gift from China-Mart (otherwise known as the Neo-Fascist Borg.)

The Borg at work

The call to Boycott is growing hour by hour. For the sake of the People of Tibet add your voice.

Jacques Rogge may give a shit about how high some bearded women can jump but that beautiful Olympian spirit seems to be lost on a Buddhist monk with a jackboot on his neck.

Mr. Rogge looks on as the torches passes by

FREE TIBET/Boycott the Olympics

Might this be the most powerful poem ever created?


So said my Sister, Emily...

I heard a fly buzz when I died;
The stillness round my form
Was like the stillness in the air
Between the heaves of storm.

The eyes beside had wrung them dry,
And breaths were gathering sure
For that last onset, when the king
Be witnessed in his power.

I willed my keepsakes, signed away
What portion of me I
Could make assignable, and then
There interposed a fly,

With blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz,
Between the light and me;
And then the windows failed, and then
I could not see to see.

Petraeus Testimony Will Signal Iran Attack by Paul Craig Roberts

The neocon lackey Petraeus has had his script written for him by Cheney, and Petraeus together with neocon warmonger Ryan Crocker, the US governor of the Green Zone in Baghdad, will present Congress next Tuesday and Wednesday with the lies, for which the road has been well paved by neocon propagandists such as Kimberly Kagan, that "the US must recognize that Iran is engaged in a full-up proxy war against it in Iraq."

BBC NEWS | Europe | Olympic protests spread to Paris

Protests against the torch relay ahead of the Beijing Olympics have spread to France's capital, Paris.

OLYMPIC BOYCOTT GAINS MOMENTUM

The outrage against the Chinese Government's repression of Tibet has gained new momentum with the the latest torch passing nonsense in London.

Police repeatedly scuffled with protesters as Olympians and dignitaries carried the Olympic torch through snowy London during a chaotic relay Sunday.

Demonstrators tried to board a relay bus after five-time Olympic gold medalist rower Steve Redgrave launched procession at Wembley Stadium - presaging a number of clashes with police along the torch's 31-mile journey.

There have been 30 arrests, Metropolitan Police said.

In west London, a protester tried to grab the torch out of the hands of a TV presenter, forcing police to briefly stop the procession as officers detained the man. Another demonstrator tried to snuff out the flame with what appeared to be a fire extinguisher. Others in the crowd threw themselves at torchbearers running past in official Beijing 2010 Olympics tracksuits.

"The Olympic games are very important for all Chinese. In Chinatown, everyone is very anxious to see the torch pass," London Chinese Community Center spokeswoman Annie Wu said before the procession began. "We hope it goes smoothly."

Hey Annie- get a life.

But you ain't seen nothing yet. Wait till these morons bring the torch-of-oppression to San Francisco.

FREE TIBET!

OF ANGELS AND PINHEADS AT RU, cont'd

"Who are you consulting with, JRR Tolkien? I don't really believe that the world would be well served by a return to medieval nonsense. Do you?

Isn't this the very irrational xxxx that RU was established to oppose and correct?"

**Ryan Dube edit - removed rude comment**

From a post by Wetsystems (me), 9/6/07 (The rude word was "crap.")

"What is considered "irrational" is subjective.

For example, I consider it highly irrational to repeat the same offensive remark after receiving an edit and a warning. You clearly do not. It's subjective.

You are suspended for a month.

If you start emailing people, trying to create drama, and attempting to cause hate and discontent as a form of 'retribution', you can consider yourself permanently banned.

-Ry"

From Ryan Dube that same day

And the next day:

"The ban is now permanent. Toon will never again set foot at RU."

-Ry

The foodfight over Chorlton's insistence on Reason continues over at Reality Uncovered- a site from which I've been banned (see above) for expressing the same sentiments. As you may recall, the current incarnation of this pissing contest began with arch skeptic and clear thinker, Chorlton, taking exception to the preachings of that sanctimonious fool, Scarz, concerning the purported 'reality' of an all-controlling realm of invisible evil angels performing the work of El Diablo with the help of space aliens and other assorted demons and banshees. While to any reasonable human-being of the twenty first century such a balderdash brew of medieval superstition might seem laughable at best- for the the board owner, Ryan Dube and a sycophantic gaggle of board activists, it simply constituted an attack on Christian faith. Dube's final position on the subject was to refuse further discussion on the basis of ones inalienable right to an unquestioned 'faith' in all subjects suitably unprovable and arcane. He then took further refuge in a self-pitying appeal to his amen choir- claiming his life is very difficult and that his sister is very ill. In other words he's involved in his own personal battle with the devil at the moment and he'll be back at'cha when the tempest subsides- and presumably after his butt-boyz (Broadbent, Scarz, AD et al...) manage to get Chorlton banned for daring to present a case for enlightenment and Reason. The story can be followed here.

For clarity sake let me paste in full Chorlton's latest response following a repost of my initial rant from April 2nd on the matter.

INITIAL RANT:

Well it seems as if our old friend and member, Chillibum, has finally taken the religious zealots to task over at RU. His initial thrust was in demanding that Thumper (Savonarola) Scarz provide a modicum of proof for his angelic meanderings. Good work, old man. But it seems our Chipdink has pissed off the intrepid Reverend Dubious and his choir of butt-boyz who continue to maintain that the 'teachings' (read: superstitions) of the good book require no proof for their proposition that we are indeed controlled by a coterie of invisible demons.

I think Chimpbutton's point is well taken: how can a forum which purports to consist of rational skeptics not question the ludicrous claims of the religious nutters in their midst? I guess that in the last analysis when the heavy stone that covers clarity is lifted by that ridiculous icky-feelings-pool of Reality-Uncoverists what they expose is a viscous cluster of dissembling, evil creepy-crawlies... Oh my!! Put the stone back and run like hell to jeezizzz!!

Follow this discussion here: www.realityuncovered.c...6937#16937

Said Savonarola Scarz to Chumpchange:

Quote:

" You have a right to your opinion Chorlton as I have a right to mine. If you think of me as a lunatic for valuing scripture you aren't the first and certainly will not be the last. If I'm wrong on my belief in God and the scriptures then when it's all said and done,I will have lost nothing. Nothing from nothing leaves nothing."

To which I would add:

As your fellow lunatic and intellectual superior, Dan Quayle, so famously admonished: "A mind is a terrible thing to lose."

ASM (American Society of Morons) leadership committee

CHORLTON'S RESPONSE TODAY:

Zep tepi said:

"That's not very respectful, is it? More so in light of the fact that I have pm'ed you with a clarification of what you can and cannot do in the Spirituality forum. If anyone else had mentioned the "deafening silence", then fair enough - they haven't yet received an answer to Access Denied's excellent question. You, however, already have. What's more, I also shared private details of some of the things that are going on in Ryan's life at the moment, the tip of the iceberg being the life-threatening illness of his sister. Ryan has not yet experienced the awful reality of what it means to lose someone very close to you, and as a result is having a very hard time dealing with it. In addition to that he is also working most of the hours in the day and night just so he can get through the financial mess he finds himself in at the moment. I know he shares that particular predicament with an unhealthy amount of people right now throughout the world, but that and the situation with his sister means his priorities lie elsewhere at this particular moment in time. "

Strange then that he took time yesterday to reply to several other threads and it also didnt stop him making his original posts?

I'M having a bad time at present too, I would say a lot more so that than Ry, as you well know. But I dont let that cloud for one moment my grasp or reality.

Reality to me is being able to question everything. I have a right to do that. You may say, "not here", thats your prerogative.

But the self same person who is demanding proof of evidence from one person is giving someone else laissez faire to duck the question.
One could say that John Lear has a deep belief in what he says. Should he be asked for proof OF COURSE HE SHOULD.
One could say the Pope has a deep beleif in what he does, but are you saying he shouldne tbe questioned if given a chance and asking for proof? NO
Scarz has made many references to UFO's and ET's in his posts that to me makes it open season to demand proof on his God. If his posts had been nothing more than quoting scriptures and psalms fair enough I would have backed off. But he didnt. HE chose to bring in UFO's and 'spirits' and 'Angels'
linking them in with God.
Well Im sorry I want proof, If it cant be provided then he shoud treated like Lear or Serpo or the like.
Maybe I seem too hard?.Ive probably been on this earth a bit longer than most and in all that time Ive seen no proof of God, spirits Angels or the like. So will I question the existence of them YOU BETCHA
As I told you, I have a very dear friend of mine laying dying at the moment, a compassionate god would have taken him in the blink of an eye, but no, my friend is left to rot in bed as he lives, watching bits of his body dropping off him
A compassionate GOD ? don't make me laugh.
My mother died very recently, well her body did, but her mind died years ago from Alzheimers and I watched as she slowly became someone else, watched as her brains slowly turned into a lump of lard.
My brother in law laid in agony for months before he died of mesothelioma, and someone out there says we have a compassionate God, a God of love, and denies me the right to demand proof. THAT WONT WORK WITH ME.
Ive seen people in some countries who should have been put down at birth, we do it to animals, why do we let Humans suffer in pain and agony for years? because of a God, don't make me laugh.
The religious people have an answer for every question thrown at them, but the one thing they cant do is show one little piece of evidence for the existence of their evil pain giving god.

Ive got to go out to visit my friend in Hospital now, to do things for him the nurses wont but I repeat, Ill be back in about 4 hours

I repeat:
Reality to me is being able to question everything. I have a right to do that. You may say, "not here", that's your prerogative. Ban me if you wish. I'll still be out there questioning though. I think the last word out of my mouth will be "Why"?

I'm sorry if this post comes across as hard, Ive had to be hard in my life for reasons people, not even my sisters , will ever know.

As a final. Ry I feel for you, I know where you are at and where your mind is. Ive been there, I'm there now. I'm also there with you, behind you.
Remember people as they were, the good times, the fun times, nothing, not even death can take those things from you.

Dumbya and the zombies

BE SPORTS EXCLUSIVE!!

Denver 4/4/08 BE NEWS
The Denver Broncos have announced the signing of a new kicker to replace the departed Jason Elam.

New Kicker proudly wearing Bronco orange

Said coach Shanahan today, "This fucking guy has dynamite in his boot."

Developing...

BE News Special Report




This just in...

SHAME!!!
Alex Rodriguez viciously mugged at Fenway Park.

Said be recovering from wounds. Full story, HERE

The rant that got Randi fired.

This from Politico
Traversing the country this week on a tour of places that have shaped his life and informed his values, John McCain spoke in strikingly personal language to introduce himself to the American public.

But missing so far is any significant mention of religious faith.

So there's hope for American polity. John McCain, to his credit, refuses to wallow in the religious pigshit that brought us, among other things, the Iraq war. Might it yet be the case that the McCain- Obama contest will be about issues- free of this sort of irrational crap? One can only hope.

My hat is off to McCain for resisting the thumpers.

That being said- I can envision myself actually voting for this guy if the evil bitch somehow manages to steal the nomination. Nahhhh- I'd vote for Nader.

On a different subject- what do you suppose would happen in Denver if the lipsticked pig steals the nomination? Denver, Colorado is Obama country- This I know because I'm a Denver guy and a Denver alternate delegate to the state Convention. When the evil-one's name was placed in nomination at the Denver Convention Center a chant erupted from among the 5000 delegates in attendance: "NO MONSTER!," they shouted in unison- echoing Sam Powers' assessment of that evil bitch from hell. She's a monster.

The streets of Denver will erupt in indignation- and more- if the evil-one steals the nomination. Guaranteed.

Crocodile tears from the Moonies at The Washington Times:

(Read the whole schtick here.)

Blog bickering called poison to Democrats

By Jennifer Harper
April 3, 2008

Some say acrimony is rampant among liberal and progressive bloggers who debate the merits of the Democratic presidential candidates almost nonstop — the divisiveness potentially exacting a toll on the party itself.

Fox News host Bill O'Reilly yesterday cited both "venom" and "liberals brutalizing liberals" on Web sites partial to either Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton or Sen. Barack Obama.

Vitriol is brewing among Democrats, Mr. O'Reilly said, singling out the Daily Kos in particular as a "hateful left-wing Web site" that slammed Mrs. Clinton as a "coward" and "degenerative liar," among other things.

Markos Moulitsas, who founded the site six years ago, denies there's a political breach among his online brethren.

"While I'm touched by Bill O'Reilly's concern for our party, tell him not to worry. Unlike his show, where critics have their mics cut off and escorted out by Fox security, us progressive bloggers have no problem debating and disagreeing with each other," Mr. Moulitsas said yesterday.

Hibits' latest post at WyzWyrlde:

Well it seems as if our old friend and member, Chillibum, has finally taken the religious zealots to task over at RU. His initial thrust was in demanding that Thumper (Savonarola) Scarz provide a modicum of proof for his angelic meanderings. Good work, old man. But it seems our Chipdink has pissed off the intrepid Reverend Dubious and his choir of butt-boyz who continue to maintain that the 'teachings' (read: superstitions) of the good book require no proof for their proposition that we are indeed controlled by a coterie of invisible demons.

I think Chimpbutton's point is well taken: how can a forum which purports to consist of rational skeptics not question the ludicrous claims of the religious nutters in their midst? I guess that in the last analysis when the heavy stone that covers clarity is lifted by that ridiculous icky-feelings-pool of Reality-Uncoverists what they expose is a viscous cluster of dissembling, evil creepy-crawlies... Oh my!! Put the stone back and run like hell to jeezizzz!!

Follow this discussion here: www.realityuncovered.c...6937#16937

Said Savonarola Scarz to Chumpchange:

Quote:

" You have a right to your opinion Chorlton as I have a right to mine. If you think of me as a lunatic for valuing scripture you aren't the first and certainly will not be the last. If I'm wrong on my belief in God and the scriptures then when it's all said and done,I will have lost nothing. Nothing from nothing leaves nothing."

To which I would add:

As your fellow lunatic and intellectual superior, Dan Quayle, so famously admonished: "A mind is a terrible thing to lose."

ASM (American Society of Morons) leadership committee

Evil- 2008

The van of death

China is taking high tech to a whole new level. Could this be coming soon to a Wal-mart near you?

VAN SPECS

Cost: $37,500 to $75,000, depending on vehicle's size Length: 20 to 26 feet Top speed: 65 to 80 mph THREE SECTIONS Execution chamber: in the back, with blacked-out windows; seats beside the stretcher for a court doctor and guards; sterilizer for injection equipment; wash basin Observation area: in the middle, with a glass window separating it from execution area; can accommodate six people; official-in-charge oversees the execution through monitors connected to the prisoner and gives instruction via walkie-talkie. Driver area Production to date: at least 40 vehicles, made by Jinguan and two other companies in Jiangsu and Shandong provinces

CONSERVATIVES FOR OBAMA

A conservative backs Obama.

This essay by Colonel Andrew Bacevich appears in the current issue of The American Conservative magazine. I would guess that Becevich’s position will ultimately become the position of the editors of that wonderful publication.

But who is Andrew Bacevich? He’s a graduate of West Point, a veteran of Viet Nam with a PHD from Princeton. He describes himself as a Catholic conservative. But this conservative is no armchair neocon warrior. You may recall that his only son was recently killed in Bush’s war in Iraq. Unlike the current crop of hypocrites that has usurped the Republican Party, Andrew Bacevich is a brilliant student of history and the very definition of an American Patriot.

So-called Republicans who would exhort our children to die in the killing fields of Mesopotamia, who haven’t the courage to volunteer to fight that war themselves, who wallow in decadent luxury- dumping their wives on a whim for the latest version while pontificating about ’values’ in their blogs- would do well to consider the wise words of this Catholic Conservative.

Kim

March 24, 2008 Issue
Copyright © 2007 The American Conservative

The Right Choice?

The conservative case for Barack Obama

by Andrew J. Bacevich

Barack Obama is no conservative. Yet if he wins the Democratic nomination, come November principled conservatives may well find themselves voting for the senator from Illinois. Given the alternatives—and the state of the conservative movement—they could do worse.

Granted, when it comes to defining exactly what authentic conservatism entails, considerable disagreement exists even (or especially) among conservatives themselves. My own definition emphasizes the following:

• a commitment to individual liberty, tempered by the conviction that genuine freedom entails more than simply an absence of restraint;
• a belief in limited government, fiscal responsibility, and the rule of law;
• veneration for our cultural inheritance combined with a sense of stewardship for Creation;
• a reluctance to discard or tamper with traditional social arrangements;
• respect for the market as the generator of wealth combined with a wariness of the market’s corrosive impact on humane values;
• a deep suspicion of utopian promises, rooted in an appreciation of the sinfulness of man and the recalcitrance of history.

Accept that definition and it quickly becomes apparent that the Republican Party does not represent conservative principles. The conservative ascendancy that began with the election of Ronald Reagan has been largely an illusion. During the period since 1980, certain faux conservatives—especially those in the service of Big Business and Big Empire—have prospered. But conservatism as such has not.

The presidency of George W. Bush illustrates the point. In 2001, President Bush took command of a massive, inefficient federal bureaucracy. Since then, he has substantially increased the size of that apparatus, which during his tenure has displayed breathtaking ineptitude both at home and abroad. Over the course of Bush’s two terms in office, federal spending has increased 50 percent to $3 trillion per year. Disregarding any obligation to balance the budget, Bush has allowed the national debt to balloon from $5.7 to $9.4 trillion. Worse, under the guise of keeping Americans "safe," he has arrogated to the executive branch unprecedented powers, thereby subverting the Constitution. Whatever else may be said about this record of achievement, it does not accord with conservative principles.

As with every Republican leader since Reagan, President Bush has routinely expressed his support for traditional values. He portrays himself as pro-life and pro-family. He offers testimonials to old-fashioned civic virtues. Yet apart from sporting an American flag lapel-pin, he has done little to promote these values. If anything, the reverse is true. In the defining moment of his presidency, rather than summoning Americans to rally to their country, he validated conspicuous consumption as the core function of 21st-century citizenship.

Should conservatives hold President Bush accountable for the nation’s cultural crisis? Of course not. The pursuit of instant gratification, the compulsion to accumulate, and the exaltation of celebrity that have become central to the American way of life predate this administration and derive from forces that lie far beyond the control of any president. Yet conservatives should fault the president and his party for pretending that they are seriously committed to curbing or reversing such tendencies. They might also blame themselves for failing to see the GOP’s cultural agenda as contrived and cynical.

Finally, there is President Bush’s misguided approach to foreign policy, based on expectations of deploying American military might to eliminate tyranny, transform the Greater Middle East, and expunge evil from the face of the earth. The result has been the very inverse of conservatism. For Bush, in the wake of 9/11, ideology supplanted statecraft. As a result, his administration has squandered American lives and treasure in the pursuit of objectives that make little strategic sense.

For conservatives to hope the election of yet another Republican will set things right is surely in vain. To believe that President John McCain will reduce the scope and intrusiveness of federal authority, cut the imperial presidency down to size, and put the government on a pay-as-you-go basis is to succumb to a great delusion. The Republican establishment may maintain the pretense of opposing Big Government, but pretense it is.

Social conservatives counting on McCain to return the nation to the path of righteousness are kidding themselves. Within this camp, abortion has long been the flagship issue. Yet only a naïf would believe that today’s Republican Party has any real interest in overturning Roe v. Wade or that doing so now would contribute in any meaningful way to the restoration of "family values." GOP support for such values is akin to the Democratic Party’s professed devotion to the "working poor": each is a ploy to get votes, trotted out seasonally, quickly forgotten once the polls close.

Above all, conservatives who think that a McCain presidency would restore a sense of realism and prudence to U.S. foreign policy are setting themselves up for disappointment. On this score, we should take the senator at his word: his commitment to continuing the most disastrous of President Bush’s misadventures is irrevocable. McCain is determined to remain in Iraq as long as it takes. He is the candidate of the War Party. The election of John McCain would provide a new lease on life to American militarism, while perpetuating the U.S. penchant for global interventionism marketed under the guise of liberation.

The essential point is this: conservatives intent on voting in November for a candidate who shares their views might as well plan on spending Election Day at home. The Republican Party of Bush, Cheney, and McCain no longer accommodates such a candidate.

So why consider Obama? For one reason only: because this liberal Democrat has promised to end the U.S. combat role in Iraq. Contained within that promise, if fulfilled, lies some modest prospect of a conservative revival.

To appreciate that possibility requires seeing the Iraq War in perspective. As an episode in modern military history, Iraq qualifies at best as a very small war. Yet the ripples from this small war will extend far into the future, with remembrance of the event likely to have greater significance than the event itself. How Americans choose to incorporate Iraq into the nation’s historical narrative will either affirm our post-Cold War trajectory toward empire or create opportunities to set a saner course.

The neoconservatives understand this. If history renders a negative verdict on Iraq, that judgment will discredit the doctrine of preventive war. The "freedom agenda" will command as much authority as the domino theory. Advocates of "World War IV" will be treated with the derision they deserve. The claim that open-ended "global war" offers the proper antidote to Islamic radicalism will become subject to long overdue reconsideration.

Give the neocons this much: they appreciate the stakes. This explains the intensity with which they proclaim that, even with the fighting in Iraq entering its sixth year, we are now "winning"—as if war were an athletic contest in which nothing matters except the final score. The neoconservatives brazenly ignore or minimize all that we have flung away in lives, dollars, political influence, moral standing, and lost opportunities. They have to: once acknowledged, those costs make the folly of the entire neoconservative project apparent. All those confident manifestos calling for the United States to liberate the world’s oppressed, exercise benign global hegemony, and extend forever the "unipolar moment" end up getting filed under dumb ideas.

Yet history’s judgment of the Iraq War will affect matters well beyond the realm of foreign policy. As was true over 40 years ago when the issue was Vietnam, how we remember Iraq will have large political and even cultural implications.

As part of the larger global war on terrorism, Iraq has provided a pretext for expanding further the already bloated prerogatives of the presidency. To see the Iraq War as anything but misguided, unnecessary, and an abject failure is to play into the hands of the fear-mongers who insist that when it comes to national security all Americans (members of Congress included) should defer to the judgment of the executive branch. Only the president, we are told, can "keep us safe." Seeing the war as the debacle it has become refutes that notion and provides a first step toward restoring a semblance of balance among the three branches of government.

Above all, there is this: the Iraq War represents the ultimate manifestation of the American expectation that the exercise of power abroad offers a corrective to whatever ailments afflict us at home. Rather than setting our own house in order, we insist on the world accommodating itself to our requirements. The problem is not that we are profligate or self-absorbed; it is that others are obstinate and bigoted. Therefore, they must change so that our own habits will remain beyond scrutiny.

Of all the obstacles to a revival of genuine conservatism, this absence of self-awareness constitutes the greatest. As long as we refuse to see ourselves as we really are, the status quo will persist, and conservative values will continue to be marginalized. Here, too, recognition that the Iraq War has been a fool’s errand—that cheap oil, the essential lubricant of the American way of life, is gone for good—may have a salutary effect. Acknowledging failure just might open the door to self-reflection.

None of these concerns number among those that inspired Barack Obama’s run for the White House. When it comes to foreign policy, Obama’s habit of spouting internationalist bromides suggests little affinity for serious realism. His views are those of a conventional liberal. Nor has Obama expressed any interest in shrinking the presidency to its pre-imperial proportions. He does not cite Calvin Coolidge among his role models. And however inspiring, Obama’s speeches are unlikely to make much of a dent in the culture. The next generation will continue to take its cues from Hollywood rather than from the Oval Office.

Yet if Obama does become the nation’s 44th president, his election will constitute something approaching a definitive judgment of the Iraq War. As such, his ascent to the presidency will implicitly call into question the habits and expectations that propelled the United States into that war in the first place. Matters hitherto consigned to the political margin will become subject to close examination. Here, rather than in Obama’s age or race, lies the possibility of his being a truly transformative presidency.

Whether conservatives will be able to seize the opportunities created by his ascent remains to be seen. Theirs will not be the only ideas on offer. A repudiation of the Iraq War and all that it signifies will rejuvenate the far Left as well. In the ensuing clash of visions, there is no guaranteeing that the conservative critique will prevail.

But this much we can say for certain: electing John McCain guarantees the perpetuation of war. The nation’s heedless march toward empire will continue. So, too, inevitably, will its embrace of Leviathan. Whether snoozing in front of their TVs or cheering on the troops, the American people will remain oblivious to the fate that awaits them.

For conservatives, Obama represents a sliver of hope. McCain represents none at all. The choice turns out to be an easy one.
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Andrew J. Bacevich is professor of history and international relations at Boston University. His next book, The Limits of Power, will be published in August.

Hillary's Fire Wall

This just in from David Sirota:

As ugly as it is, the Clinton firewall strategy is stunning in its ruthlessness. It has been half a century since the major triumphs of the civil rights and party reform movements, yet a major Democratic candidate is attempting to secure a presidential nomination by exploiting racial divides and negotiating backroom superdelegate deals.

Read the whole story here.

THE WAR VOTE

The war began with this infamous Senate vote in 2002, entitled:

A joint resolution to authorize the use of United States Armed Forces against Iraq.

Remember how they voted. The 'yeas' condemned a million to death on that day- among them was Hillary Clinton, the heroine of Bosnia.

YEAs ---77
Allard (R-CO) Allen (R-VA) Baucus (D-MT) Bayh (D-IN) Bennett (R-UT) Biden (D-DE) Bond (R-MO) Breaux (D-LA) Brownback (R-KS) Bunning (R-KY) Burns (R-MT) Campbell (R-CO) Cantwell (D-WA) Carnahan (D-MO) Carper (D-DE) Cleland (D-GA) Clinton (D-NY) Cochran (R-MS) Collins (R-ME) Craig (R-ID) Crapo (R-ID) Daschle (D-SD) DeWine (R-OH) Dodd (D-CT) Domenici (R-NM) Dorgan (D-ND)	Edwards (D-NC) Ensign (R-NV) Enzi (R-WY) Feinstein (D-CA) Fitzgerald (R-IL) Frist (R-TN) Gramm (R-TX) Grassley (R-IA) Gregg (R-NH) Hagel (R-NE) Harkin (D-IA) Hatch (R-UT) Helms (R-NC) Hollings (D-SC) Hutchinson (R-AR) Hutchison (R-TX) Inhofe (R-OK) Johnson (D-SD) Kerry (D-MA) Kohl (D-WI) Kyl (R-AZ) Landrieu (D-LA) Lieberman (D-CT) Lincoln (D-AR) Lott (R-MS) Lugar (R-IN)	McCain (R-AZ) McConnell (R-KY) Miller (D-GA) Murkowski (R-AK) Nelson (D-FL) Nelson (D-NE) Nickles (R-OK) Reid (D-NV) Roberts (R-KS) Rockefeller (D-WV) Santorum (R-PA) Schumer (D-NY) Sessions (R-AL) Shelby (R-AL) Smith (R-NH) Smith (R-OR) Snowe (R-ME) Specter (R-PA) Stevens (R-AK) Thomas (R-WY) Thompson (R-TN) Thurmond (R-SC) Torricelli (D-NJ) Voinovich (R-OH) Warner (R-VA)

NAYs ---23
Akaka (D-HI) Bingaman (D-NM) Boxer (D-CA) Byrd (D-WV) Chafee (R-RI) Conrad (D-ND) Corzine (D-NJ) Dayton (D-MN)	Durbin (D-IL) Feingold (D-WI) Graham (D-FL) Inouye (D-HI) Jeffords (I-VT) Kennedy (D-MA) Leahy (D-VT) Levin (D-MI)

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This from Barack Obama in 2002. Note: this is no fairy tale. Before you cast a vote for Strangelove McCain or the lipsticked pig consider this.

"What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war. What I am opposed to is the cynical attempt by Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz and other armchair, weekend warriors in this administration to shove their own ideological agendas down our throats, irrespective of the costs in lives lost and in hardships borne....

"I suffer no illusions about Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal man. A ruthless man. A man who butchers his own people to secure his own power. He has repeatedly defied UN resolutions, thwarted UN inspection teams, developed chemical and biological weapons, and coveted nuclear capacity. He's a bad guy. The world, and the Iraqi people, would be better off without him.

"But I also know that Saddam poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States, or to his neighbors, that the Iraqi economy is in shambles, that the Iraqi military a fraction of its former strength, and that in concert with the international community he can be contained until, in the way of all petty dictators, he falls away into the dustbin of history. I know that even a successful war against Iraq will require a US occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences. I know that an invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East, and encourage the worst, rather than best, impulses of the Arab world, and strengthen the recruitment arm of al-Qaeda. I am not opposed to all wars. I'm opposed to dumb wars."

The URD- compliments of the Wyz:

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Said Hibits:

Our problem is not 'death' per se, but rather our inability to die forever. Might there be no escape from the sordid constructs of our minds? That is the question that gnaws at the souls of men.

And the Wyz replied:

hibits wrote:

Our problem is not 'death' per se, but rather our inability to die forever. Might there be no escape from the sordid constructs of our minds? That is the question that gnaws at the souls of men.

I worry about this often.

So far, I don't think I want the endless death, unless the much vaunted eternal life that we are told we enjoy comes with condescending beings who address me as "Beloved," or "Dear One."

In that case, the endless death becomes attractive.

Another problem with eternal life are the vague murmurings I hear about becoming One with the Universe, or God/dess, or the Prime Creator.

This smacks of assimilation, which means that God is Borg.

Although I like tattoo's, and I eat habenero peppers, I am currently unwilling to get that mechanical eye stuck into my head along with the half-a-brain cybergenetic micro's that go along with it.

If I wanted half a brain, I'd reincarnate as a woman, notably one who has mistaken her portfolio for her identity.

Not that all women operate on half-a-brain, on the contrary; only the women with whom I form a relationship seem to operate with that limited capacity.

While I hope for an integrated relationship, I have, in the past, found myself in co- and counter-dependent relationships, with myself as the puppy-eyed slavish co-dependent, and the female as a demanding, soul-sucking psychic vampire.

I have noted that the only constant in my dysfunctional relationships seems to be myself, and am taking steps to rectify this matter.

I desire an Inter-dependent relationship. Much like the ubiquitous bigfoot/yeti/sasquatch sightings, I have heard tales and seen blurry photographs of those who have inter-dependent relationships. Many of these photographs are sepia or black-and-white and can be found on pianos and walls in the homes of senior citizens, or crumpled in the drawers of nursing homes.

While technology aims for the stars, the nuclear and extended family has spiraled into the shitter. I'd like to find a balance between ambition and technology without losing the familial bond that keeps us sane.

Or I could just get another puppy.

And replied Hibits:

Quote:

...without losing the familial bond that keeps us sane.

Or at least keeps us occupied. Perhaps that's what sanity consists of- being busy. Puppies are good but they shit in the yard. I've been working on the invention of a shitless dog (SD) for almost 40 years now with meager success- until a recent break-through. Currently my research revolves about the concept of a dog as the ultimate recycling device (URD). URD research has led me inevitably into the study of possible beneficial uses of dogshit (BUD). My research team is now investigating the weaponization potential of BUD. We have concluded that the utilization of the dogshit bomb (DSB) would have resulted in far fewer casualties and faster capitulation had it been used in the attack on Iraq instead of our out-dated reliance on the use of conventional explosives. Talk about shock and awe! So, yes- puppies are good.

As usual, I await Dr. Stupid's analysis before drawing any final conclusions.

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How can a nation be great if its bread tastes like Kleenex? Julia Child

More from General Striker here. Enjoy!

Angela Merkel hears the call- will boycott the crypto-fascist olympics. The movement is spreading!

BOYCOTT THE OLYMPICS!!

Why Barack?

For the last 45 years the Democratic Party has been engaged in just one pursuit: the resurrection of Jack Kennedy. Every presidential election since the murder of JFK has revolved about not issues, but rather the intangible qualities that imbedded this man at the very quick of our souls. We don’t remember the specifics along his road to ascendancy but rather the qualities- his Beatitudes. No-one remembers his ‘missile gap’ meanderings but rather his purely spiritual calls to sacrifice, to hope, to the commitment to equality, to our obligation to the poor and the meek. It was his words that inspired the world as much as his courage. Students of the Synoptics term this quality, charisma. And for this murky quality the Party is forever searching.

There, of course, is that long list of pretenders since 1963. Every four years we trot out the usual suspects and every four years they are weighed in the balance and found wanting- not for the lack of policy but for lack of the impalpable set of principles that stir our souls and with a holy adherence to the Jeffersonian vision upon which the Party was founded.

But this year we may have finally found the successor to JFK. The truth is that it’s not ‘about the economy, stupid’ but about inspiration and hope.

The contest for the heart and soul of the Democratic Party now comes down to this: Barack versus Hillary- the new and the inspirational versus the old and the corrupt. Can anyone among us with even the vaguest knowledge of history support the continuation of the Clinton years on the basis of a crypto-fascist Peronist ploy to rig the election in favor of a new Eva Peron? Sam Powers rightly viewed such usurpation as a monstrous act- and the actress ‘a monster’ for playing this nihilistic role. In the long and sordid history of political power grabs- from Eva to Lurleen Wallace- this one stands alone in its mendacity. And in the words of Jeremy Wright, if such a despoliation of American polity is allowed to stand, then “God damn America” for allowing it to happen.

BARACK! ‘08

Kim

Reality is a four dimensioned continuum subsumed by the Dialectical Process. By Abstraction it is possible to establish intersecting points of coincident relationship among any and every actual entity. Such intersections are necessarily unmeaning unless and until a theory demonstrating the significance of any particular nexus can be established. The method of constructing such a theory is what we call ‘reason,’ or more properly ‘dialectic.’ And of course it is also always possible to abstract any order of description to justify any reality based upon any category that conscious observer may wish to infer: that, for example, George Bush and John Kerry are distant cousins. But until the significance of this observation is established it remains merely a curious outgrowth of coincident relationship.

So what exactly is the theory that subsumes the dialectic of coincidental relationships among the multiplicity of Actual Occasions? Einstein called it the Ether- the matrix (Universe) in which all AO (Actual Occasions/Entities)* are ineluctably conjoined and entangled.

That, of course, is the macro sense of the theory. Ether is analogous to ‘blood’ when considering the theory’s application to the human mind- or any mind. All possible points within the brain are connected in an all dimensioned continuum to all other points via immersion in this liquid medium- a Wet System. The ‘speed of light’ does not apply to Wet Systems. Within any Wet System communication among all immersed AE/AO is instantaneous. Quantum Mechanics is not the underlying theory, but rather simply an abstraction from Wet Systems reality.

“Wetsystems: It’s not your father’s Oldsmobile”

*Science in the Modern World, Alfred North Whitehead

Got this insipid letter from Bill Clinton:



Dear Kim,

It happened after Iowa. It happened again in February. People counted Hillary out. They tried to say the race was over.

But you knew better. You sustained her with your support. You kept the campaign going with your contributions. You made more than a million phone calls. You believed in Hillary when she needed you the most. And in Texas and Ohio, she proved you right.

Thanks to you, this race is neck-and-neck despite the Obama campaign outraising us by $20 million in February. Now we have six weeks to make our case in Pennsylvania.

We know it's a fight. We know our opponent will outspend us. But we cannot let him have a head start in Pennsylvania, the critical next state. Hillary needs your support now -- today -- to make sure we're fighting on a level playing field.

You and I know Hillary can win. We have a strategy in place and a clear path to the nomination. All she needs is for you to keep standing up for her every single day.

The road ahead is long, but your dedication will see us through. Back in February, you accomplished something truly amazing for Hillary, with 300,000 of you raising $35 million to fund her campaign.

You kept us competitive even as the Obama campaign outraised us by $20 million -- an advantage they will use as they best can in Pennsylvania.

Now we all face a few weeks before Pennsylvania and all the states that follow. Hillary has to build on her victories in Texas, Ohio and Rhode Island. Can you help us sustain that energy over the next six weeks?

Hillary needs your help more than ever. As she proved in Ohio and Texas, where she was outspent by millions but won anyway, you can put her over the top.

There's no way Hillary would be in the position she is in today without your enthusiastic and dedicated support. I know it, she knows it, and we both tell everyone we know about everything you are doing to help her win.

Sincerely,


To which I replied:

I used to be a huge Bill Clinton supporter. But...

This ain't Argentina, and Hill ain't Eva Peron. (Maybe Lurleen Wallace...)

Fuck you and the horse you rode in on.

Best regards,

LK Walker

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Spies, Lies, and Polygraph Tape: Victor Martinez: "What would be gained by outing" sources? -- Maybe outing a couple of foreign spies?

Spies, Lies, and Polygraph Tape: Victor Martinez: "What would be gained by outing" sources? -- Maybe outing a couple of foreign spies?

What is most striking about the Baker report is not it’s content but rather the context in which it was issued. It must be remembered that Baker is one of Senior Bush’s best friends and closest confidants. The report is essentially a clear and harsh rebuke of Jr.’s conduct of this ill-advised Iraq adventure and, one must assume, that Herbert Walker is in basic agreement with its conclusions: that W. Bush is an abject failure as Commander and Chief.

Even as Commander and Chief Bush is about to be rebuked by his father’s good ol’ boyz he maintains his ridiculous denial towards the ‘war.’ He seems to have morphed into Baghdad Bob in his protestations of imminent victory in the face of certain defeat. His unprovoked and illegal invasion of a formerly sovereign nation is now disavowed even by his old man. Dumbya has stated that he’ll continue this failed and bloody occupation even if Laura and Barney are his last remaining supporters. It seems to have come to exactly that (and I’m not real sure about Laura.) How does ‘Barney Bush, Secretary of War’ sound to you?

But wait! There’s also erstwhile maverick, i.e. ‘loose cannon,’ Johnny McCain to consider. McCain, in positioning himself to become Secretary Barney’s new boss, is advocating doubling the US military commitment to this lost cause- this even after being famously slandered, dirty-tricked and screwed over by his buddy Bush in the republican primaries 6 years ago. Can you say: Stockholm Syndrome?

The Baker Commission will not have the balls to propose the obvious solution to this quagmire: springing Saddam and allowing him to reassume the presidency of this shit-hole of a nation- that, coupled with a Hague prosecution of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Pearl and the rest of these war criminals.

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Today, while hundreds of people died miserable deaths in Dumbya's civil war in Iraq we have MSN leading the news with the story about millions of fat Americans rushing off to shopping malls like hungry pigs at a trough.

What kind of nation is this?

Rice seeks ‘urgent’ Mideast peace - Mideast/N. Africa - MSNBC.com

Twat surgery unsucessful.

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Twat surgery unsuccessful. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/11/15/politics/main655685.shtml

Israel resumes strikes on Beirut - Mideast/N. Africa - MSNBC.com: "'The truth is — let me say this clearly — we didn't even expect (this) response.... that (Israel) would exploit this operation for this big war against us,' said Komati."

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Bottled water futures just rose bigtime

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bonus round

easy for him to say...

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so the e.i. (evil idiot) trots out his old man an a tired bill clinton to determine how much aid to give to his tsunami enemies. the cheap prick has been shamed into donating.

e.i.= a.c. evil idiot is the anti christ.

Whitley Strieber's Unknown Country

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FSCR Stock Rises 20% on Merger News



December 22, 2004
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The common stock of Fetabits Stemcell Research, LLC (FETA, NASDQ) has risen more than 20% in the last 3 trading
days leading up to Christmas on news of merger talks with widely held Ralston Purina Companies Breakfast of
Champions Division, which is further in Joint Venture talks with the Burger King chain of family fast-food
restaurants which recently acquired Planned Parenthood Corporation in a 12 billion dollar buyout.
The new company will be called Yummi Mad Cow and will be listed on the NYSE index as YUMMC and plans locate processing plants in the kitchens of all new Burger King locations worldwide.
The extensive remodel of the Burger King physical plants will be carried out by a joint venture of Haliburton Inc. Subsidiary Brown and Root in a joint venture arrangement with Eagle Commercial Construction, LLC of Denver, Colorado according to a spokesman for the Denver company.

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