Did We Step In Something?
I started a rant yesterday, but didn't have time to post it. I was expecting yet another fear and greed driven conservative sweep in the elections, though I had a feeling the blatant power grab by arnie wouldn't fare well. The actual result was not what I was expecting, though not as significant as the pundits are claiming.
Of course our supreme war criminal's home state voted for the gay marriage ban. In Maine, the people scared silly by queers didn't fare so well. The related caption sums up my disgust and estrangement from mainstream christianity, which has become nothing more than a well organized self-righteous hate group. "Supporters of Yes on 1, a group in favor a repealing laws that protect gays and lesbians from discrimination, pray at an election gathering Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2005, in Augusta, Maine."
Funny in a disturbing way that churches are now the first in line whenever there are stones to be thrown at the disadvantaged. They are praying from the bottom of their shriveled hate filled black little hearts and fear filled milky white livers to re-institute their kind of discrimination. Maybe they temporarily forgot what Jesus said about casting stones. Oh, let's be honest. If He were alive today they'd have us dropping second generation Napalm and white phosphorous munitions on Him. After all He was a middle-easterner challenging the politically powerful religions of the day. Meanwhile the Romans (Italy) would be telling the world what we were doing, while our leaders tried to simultaneously deny and justify it. The only part not happening right now is Jesus is not again walking the earth, as far as we know.
How about the CIA asking the Justice Department to investigate the leak about the secret prisons report? Stupid is, as stupid does. Oops, did they just admit to the world that they do indeed have a network of prisons for torturing and they are deeply embarrassed? (I guess former interrogators for North Vietnam finally have job prospects.) I hope the blatant red herring is seen for what it is by the mainstream. I was happy to see the following.
The conservatives don't seem to get it. They keep squealing about the nasty partisans who are picking on DeLay for money laundering indictments. Picking on Bush, Rummy, et al for ordering the cooking of intelligence to justify an amoral war. Picking on Frist for documented insider trading. Picking on Rove and Libby for orchestrating personal revenge at the cost of national security. Picking on Cheney for tirelessly promoting torture be allowed under the authority of the United States of America.
Contrition, much less culpability for their very own actions, is not comprehended by the right wingers. Is it a lack of maturity or a surplus of sociopathy? They are simply furious at being caught. While I do like seeing them squirm, my cynical side expects they won't face a meaningful reckoning. Remember, these are the get tough on crime guys who are continually whining in shrill voices about how unfair it is they should be caught for simply doing what they are now defining as standard politics. Standard politics for who? If you support these guys you've a view of our country you should be ashamed of, though you'd fit right into the regime Reagan is (laughingly) credited with doing in when the Cold War sputtered to an end.
The democrats stayed in power long after they slapped down the grassroots support which propelled them into power, and instead catered to moneyed special interest groups. That is where the republicans started when they achieved power, reveling in their sycophantic obedience to corporate money. It makes the fact they have sold our collective morals, courage, and future for a pittance less of an issue. It was their indirectly stated goal. Still, I don't expect the republicans to fall from power much faster than the democrats did. Anyone claiming to be surprised by the predation of our current leaders on the poorest, while pushing great blocks of the middle class into poverty at a phenomenal rate where they can be more easily preyed upon, is either lying or profoundly stupid.
Do the elections indicate we're starting to see the big mess we made on the dining room carpet? That were just the tiniest bit embarrassed? I wouldn't bet on it. Maybe, just maybe, we're closer to being able to admit there is indeed a mess, and that someone needs to roll up their sleeves, and grab the disinfectant and a rolled up newspaper.
Of course our supreme war criminal's home state voted for the gay marriage ban. In Maine, the people scared silly by queers didn't fare so well. The related caption sums up my disgust and estrangement from mainstream christianity, which has become nothing more than a well organized self-righteous hate group. "Supporters of Yes on 1, a group in favor a repealing laws that protect gays and lesbians from discrimination, pray at an election gathering Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2005, in Augusta, Maine."
Funny in a disturbing way that churches are now the first in line whenever there are stones to be thrown at the disadvantaged. They are praying from the bottom of their shriveled hate filled black little hearts and fear filled milky white livers to re-institute their kind of discrimination. Maybe they temporarily forgot what Jesus said about casting stones. Oh, let's be honest. If He were alive today they'd have us dropping second generation Napalm and white phosphorous munitions on Him. After all He was a middle-easterner challenging the politically powerful religions of the day. Meanwhile the Romans (Italy) would be telling the world what we were doing, while our leaders tried to simultaneously deny and justify it. The only part not happening right now is Jesus is not again walking the earth, as far as we know.
How about the CIA asking the Justice Department to investigate the leak about the secret prisons report? Stupid is, as stupid does. Oops, did they just admit to the world that they do indeed have a network of prisons for torturing and they are deeply embarrassed? (I guess former interrogators for North Vietnam finally have job prospects.) I hope the blatant red herring is seen for what it is by the mainstream. I was happy to see the following.
Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, said Republicans "should be focused on the illegality of these prisons, not the revelation of the illegality."
The conservatives don't seem to get it. They keep squealing about the nasty partisans who are picking on DeLay for money laundering indictments. Picking on Bush, Rummy, et al for ordering the cooking of intelligence to justify an amoral war. Picking on Frist for documented insider trading. Picking on Rove and Libby for orchestrating personal revenge at the cost of national security. Picking on Cheney for tirelessly promoting torture be allowed under the authority of the United States of America.
Contrition, much less culpability for their very own actions, is not comprehended by the right wingers. Is it a lack of maturity or a surplus of sociopathy? They are simply furious at being caught. While I do like seeing them squirm, my cynical side expects they won't face a meaningful reckoning. Remember, these are the get tough on crime guys who are continually whining in shrill voices about how unfair it is they should be caught for simply doing what they are now defining as standard politics. Standard politics for who? If you support these guys you've a view of our country you should be ashamed of, though you'd fit right into the regime Reagan is (laughingly) credited with doing in when the Cold War sputtered to an end.
The democrats stayed in power long after they slapped down the grassroots support which propelled them into power, and instead catered to moneyed special interest groups. That is where the republicans started when they achieved power, reveling in their sycophantic obedience to corporate money. It makes the fact they have sold our collective morals, courage, and future for a pittance less of an issue. It was their indirectly stated goal. Still, I don't expect the republicans to fall from power much faster than the democrats did. Anyone claiming to be surprised by the predation of our current leaders on the poorest, while pushing great blocks of the middle class into poverty at a phenomenal rate where they can be more easily preyed upon, is either lying or profoundly stupid.
Do the elections indicate we're starting to see the big mess we made on the dining room carpet? That were just the tiniest bit embarrassed? I wouldn't bet on it. Maybe, just maybe, we're closer to being able to admit there is indeed a mess, and that someone needs to roll up their sleeves, and grab the disinfectant and a rolled up newspaper.
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Quick note on the CIA asking the Justice Department to investigate the leak of secret prisons: Congress was going to take up this issue until it was discovered that the leaker may have actually been a Republican Senator. Now they've dropped it.
Right approach, wrong reason!
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