Here’s a bit of WWII distortion the History Channel is passing off as, um, history. Did you know that those dirty Krauts leveled the English city of Coventry so completely that they coined a word to celebrate it? Apparently that term was “Coventrated.” Oh, it’s a real verb alright — trouble is, it’s English. The British intelligence office seized upon the conjugated Coventriert to mean: subjected to heavy bombardment, and pretended the Huns were such bastards they commemorated the atrocity by mocking their victims with the Teutonic dictionary.

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It’s not likely, though, that the Fox pundits who take aim at Prius drivers are going to ever change that tactic. Or, perhaps, is it too much to hope for, their rabid screams against the Toyota company in the past few days They put countless Americans at risk, how DARE they? How many people could have been killed IF IT WEREN’T AN EMPTY HIGHWAY AND THE GUY WASN’T RIGHT IN FRONT OF A ChP UNIT? It’s not that the NTSB are a bunch of Goobers, even though they are from time to time. In this case it seems like somebody trying to take advantage of the publicity to scam the court system.

According to the Beck fundamentalists, “The Original intent of the Founding Fathers” trumps all arguments. But, who exactly are they quoting? So here’s a simple how-to on interpreting right wing statements on this. It’s the Original Intent of people who were A very small group of very wealthy White Men. Many of them Slaveholders, all of them property “owners.”

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The Pentagon shooter, and the shooter at a Nevada courthouse, had guns that were auctioned off by the Memphis Police Department.
Stupid Criminals! They can get really high quality guns at the crack-house down the street, and cheaply, because a lot of really stupid citizens believe that having expensive and easily traded stuff like Guns laying around their houses will deter crime rather than invite people who want the expensive goodies and know how to break into houses and are willing to do so.
But the Memphis cops, even after it gets their comrades shot, still insist that it’s a good idea. They say it saves taxpayers money. Read more »

So, leave aside the notion that male bears tend to eat their offspring. It’s a little too graphic for the anthropomorphists
But one of their new themes is Poppa Bear and Little Bear in a rowboat fishing. Little Bear gets impatient. Then has the bright idea to drop a piece of the Overpriced-and-not-any-better-than-any-other-brand of toilet paper into the water.Which is so absorbent that it dries up the whole lake. All the fish are gasping for water to breathe, flopping around in their death throes. Somehow, in the insane popularity contest that passes for “awww, wook at the cute animals” the fish aren’t given fake smiles, humanized eye placement and faces, and the other pond dwellers who are sometimes anthropomorphized, like the frogs, aren’t represented. BUT… That’s not the truly relevant part.

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..ok, not City Council but some of their accomplices in the Great Homeless People Purge are now saying the Homeless People are actually valuable to the city when it comes to getting Federal Block Grants. And they’re now trying to convince all the Campers, the ones who were so roundly and loudly condemned for (in our current instance) since last early fall as being somehow Subhuman and criminals and crazies and Drug Addicts, … they’re telling them it’s their civic duty as Citizens of Colorado Springs to be counted in the Census.

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The conservative majority of the Texas Board of Education thinks school textbooks are “skewed” too much toward education. They want social studies to smile more favorably on Neoclassical Economics, America’s Christian heritage, and the legacy of today’s Neocons. Does it matter if Texas children are being taught dillwad propaganda? Well, the Texas school system is such a quantity buyer, scholastic publishers tailor national texts to conform to Texas know-nothing standards.

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Saying that the reason he lives in wealth is because he “earned” it.
Which is a backward way of saying that those of who live in Poverty never “earned” anything.
Like me, I guess. Working construction labor for 20 years, in a non-Union state, made minimum wage for or sometimes a buck or two extra an hour. Minimum wage which the Reaganite Snobs like my “friend” who of course “earned” every penny of his wealth (and his employees of course did nothing but leech off his generosity, I guess) kept at $3.35 an hour. Can Our Rich Snob “friend” live off a hundred and ten take home a week? No? But we’re supposed to live off that. And support our families, our landlords families, etc…
Until I fell from the roof…
From that Minimum wage I was supposed to be able to build a miniature empire, or at the very least buy (after buying food, clothing, keeping the clothes clean, paying rent, and Rental Property is taxed at a higher rate than owning your own home, so that means I paid a much higher percentage of my wages in taxes than the Rich do, transportation, health care) and somehow in all that I was supposed to squeeze in Health insurance and investing in the Real Estate market like these “self made” millionaires who look down their long noses at me and anybody else who Is Not Rich.

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We’ve seen the ads, “Join the Military and get job training that employers want”.. yeah right. One of my friends in El Paso was at the time a Scout for the Third Herd, 3rd Armored Cavalry. Stationed at Ft Bliss but spent most of his time (between the constant wars in which America has been engaged, unofficially) in this patch of Hell called MacGregor Range sandwiched between the limits of Ft Bliss, Biggs Army Air Field, White Sands Missile Range and Holloman AFB. His take on it was the job opportunities using his training would be either working as a cop or a hitman. (Personal aside, I don’t make any distinction at all between the two jobs.)
A double-digit percentage of the unemployed in Colorado are veterans. That’s about twice the percentage of the population who are veterans. The TeeVee college ads, trade schools actually, because the Wealthiest don’t want to spring for a real academic education, they want to keep us firmly planted in the Servant Class, make promises to recently discharged Veterans that strongly echo the lies of the Military Recruiters. “get training the employers are looking for”.
You know, it would be a Hell of a lot easier for you to Skip The Army Bullshit and just go to college or trade school without their help.
That way you don’t have to Kill and possibly Die for the benefit of the very richest. Let them send their own sons and daughters into the fight. Like Bush, Cheney, Romney, the entire Limbaugh Family, all of them DIDN’T serve “our country” and they don’t send THEIR nasty little piglets into the fray either.

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Fuck Markos Moulitsas and the Miniature Lipizzaner he rode in on. KOS calls for deposing Democratic Representative Dennis Kucinich because he won’t hang with the corporatist Dems on the health insurance mandate reform/bailout. The Daily KOS plays centrist whip, but this pronouncement is beyond tinpottiness. Hopefully Markos will be shown what a Public Option can mean on a blog.

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This one is more dangerous because she’s backed by former and even obviously some current Federal Officials. She moved to our Village a couple of years ago. Her latest actual murder was that of Briseña ( fixed the spelling) Flores, age 9 of Arivaca AZ. Murdered for being Hispanic. She was an accessory before and after the fact of the murder of young Briseña and her father, inciting such violence with her hate speech, subsidized by Fox News and other Republican propaganda outlets.

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NPR ran a report praising the Afghan National Army, hoping I suppose to allay US public anticipation that Afghanistan should be conducting its own slaughters and incurring a greater share of soldier casualties. As if not enough ANA are getting caught in the friendly fire of US air strikes. They’re skilled fighters, we’re assured, especially when they have combat experience in other parts of the country, meaning, they are now being deployed outside their tribal regions, meaning, against other tribes. For every accusation of ANA soldiers mistreating civilians, there are reports apparently of them “eagerly taking up the fight.” Those don’t sound like contradictory motivations to me. Where their PR for the unpopular ANA means to ameliorate Afghan outcry, the US military trainers seem to be taking credit for inherent tribal hatred.

Seven of them in the Military Industrial Complex/Police State enclaves surrounding Washington DC. Daddy WarBucks Strikes Again. Organized Murder is apparently a very highly paid profession.

In 2005 Cindy Sheehan staked her tent in Crawford TX until President Bush would deign to meet with her; she didn’t pack it up until she had launched an antiwar movement. From there Sheehan met with world leaders, challenged Nancy Pelosi at the polls, and made herself ubiquitous wherever antiwar was raged. This time Sheehan is laying siege to the White House and she’s not going to let up until Obama calls off his dogs of war. Will it work? It should.

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Nefertiti may have been a renowned beauty, but recent DNA tests have found that husband Akhenaten, son of Pharaoh Amenhotep III, fathered Tutankhamun with his sister. On a possibly unrelated note, Akhenaten is recognized as Egypt’s first ruler to promote monotheism.

Maybe our “friends” who insist they’re being victimized by our opposition to their Pogrom against the Homeless PEOPLE will be allowed to lick the blood off the jackboots of the CSPD officers who are going to do the violence on behalf of their Rich Masters.

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Public Education? We don need no steenkeeng public Education!
Hitler said that Universal Public Education was the most corrosive poison that Liberalism could inflict on itself, that the youth need only be “sufficiently educated to be efficient coolies in our industries” and that the Military Service should be the primary focus of Education.
While looking up the precise quote (from a book written by one of Hitler’s spiritual advisers, never spoken publicly but a private conversation with him) I ran into Google Page after Google Page of Right Wing Freaks who want to dismantle access to Education for the poor, just like their Confederate ancestors hanged people for teaching Black people to read and write, and even had Slave Code laws forbidding Blacks from learning to read.

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“until all these heah Outside Agitators started makin’ trouble”
Recurring Right Wing Theme. Everything from the Retards who passed the Homeless Persons Eradication Act at our City Hall recently, like S- Patch, erstwhile spammer and probably Cop, saying “some of the homeless I talked to are perfectly happy having their citizenship revoked” (did you ever stop to think that the only people willing to talk to your Badge would be the type of Conformist Sucks who would make that kind of statement?)
To the British statement that “Arabs love the invasion of Iraq” (except of course for those who object, who don’t count because we’ve already declared them to be Non-Persons whose lives are forfeit any time we have them outnumbered and outgunned)

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To point out what was written shortly after the election, why did McCain choose Palin? Simple. The right wing know and knew that they personally would have no way to make an economic recovery happen, so they threw the election.

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Poor wolf man, he’s the bastard of the horror big three. Dracula and Frankenstein have antecedents in folklore but bloomed on the quills of novelists. The werewolf traces back to the Greek, yet no one will pull him from the doghouse, not that Hollywood doesn’t keep trying. Whenever I see the cinematic transformation of man to beast, from An American Werewolf in London to the latest Wolfman offering, I can’t help but recall the terrifying hairification of Jerry Lewis in the Nutty Professor, itself a spoof of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, regarded as the most literary of inferences to lycanthropy. But Robert Louis Stevenson wrote another short story seldom cited as a werewolf tale. Curious, because I think it holds the key to the man- wolf allure, when it’s not gay teen cheese. In his 1887 Olalla, RLS described the entrancing menace and tormented fate of the lupine-afflicted without mentioning the word.

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COLORADO SPRINGS- The Colorado College chapter of the SDS staged a die-in on March 8 to mark the 1,000 US death in Afghanistan. Students wore names and brief bios of both soldier and civilian casualties of the continuing war.

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If we’re not supposed to “judge” the cops who taze somebody or shoot them in the back, doesn’t that mean that we’re supposed to “judge” the victims of these violent actions as being Guilty without trial? Likewise, those of us who “judge” the Pigs who run this city (uniformed or not) over an ordinance to punish people for being poor to the point of Homelessness, are we then to “Judge” the Homeless people as being the truly demonized caricatures these “Christians” who tell us we’re not to judge THEM paint the Homeless People to be?

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Jeep. Their newest SUV, designed to guzzle gasoline thus driving up the demand for more Americans being sent to Kill People in other lands so the Oil companies, who are business partners with the makers of Jeep… can have lots of oil money, tax free of course, and of course the CEOs of these corporations can have the videos of children and other people being killed and tortured so they can masturbate. That’s just a bonus for them.
Jeep “patriot”. Even my sister the Fascist Air Force Sergeant sees these things for what they are. I can’t possibly match her verb-noun-adjective-conjunction for verb-noun-adjective-conjunction to describe these things and the creepazoid chickenhawks who drive them.

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I didn’t see this one coming. The Oscar for best animated short goes to the culture jam LOGORAMA whose clip featured a villainous Ronald McDonald tearing through a logoed metropolis on a grease-cycle. The French producer gave his thanks and assured all the unwitting sponsors that no corporate logos were harmed in the making of Logorama. Who is he kidding? He did what Adbusters still cannot, lambaste McDonalds on prime time television.

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This is a detail from a gruesome photograph taken of a 1919 lynch mob posing around their burning victim, African-American Will Brown. 10,000 Nebraskan grandfathers and great-grandfathers recorded the moment for posterity at the intersection of 17th and Dodge in Omaha.