tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68685882024-02-03T11:01:23.523-08:00When everything seems like the movies<br> Yeah you <u>BLOG</u> bleed just to know you'r alivelawnorderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17026681880649070211noreply@blogger.comBlogger8184125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6868588.post-44007810521764680882008-11-09T16:01:00.000-08:002008-11-09T16:01:27.955-08:00

John Cusak has a brilliant piece on what it means for the lying right. I hope he is correct!PS: This should be the last post on my blog... After 5 years of blogging I'm weary and busy in RL and we finally have our country back, or are on our way to get it. I think we all deserve a break :)Thanks to all readersLawWhat does the sea change mean? How can we help people understand what is happening

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Mahablog expands his “Darmok and Jalad at Tenagra” post on Right wing and their metaphor / myths coded speach to show us how Bush's Vietnam reference is preparing the ground to blame liberals for "losing Iraq" -- lawOnce we have entered the realm of myth, taboos replace rational discourse... When Bush trotted out his highly imaginative version of Vietnam history last week, I realized that the

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"The stab in the back first gained currency in Germany, as a means of explaining the nation's stunning defeat in World War I. It was Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg himself, the leading German hero of the war, who told the National Assembly, “As an English general has very truly said, the German army was ‘stabbed in the back.’” Like everything else associated with the stab-in-the-back myth,

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Mahablog cracks the code for neocon speech: words and names are stories, facts are not invited... -- lawThe key to understanding right-wing rhetoric can be found in an episode of the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation.In “Darmok” (originally aired 1991) the crew of the Enterprise encounters the Tamarians, a people with an incomprehensible language. “We come in peace,” say the

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John Stewart shows how Bush flip flops on the Iraq war. Hillarious! -- lawMagical History Tour

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Did the builders of the Titanic design it in such a way that they aimed to kill the occupants of steerage? Not at all. They did, however, design it so that if anyone was going to die, it would be those in steerage. Their deaths were acceptable for the builders of the Titanic. After all, those in steerage were considered a less-relevant population than the rich on the upper decks. The

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"Why is George Bush suddenly making parallels between Iraq and Vietnam? Because he's preparing to shift the blame for another disaster."For months now, many conservatives have been fundamentally positioning themselves for the post-war era, readying the arguments that will blame the failure of the venture in Iraq on its opponents rather than its architects. That Bush himself has chosen to join

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"As President Bush said today, 'History does remind us that there are lessons applicable to our time. And we can learn something from history.' Let us learn that the men and women who have fought in Iraq, Afghanistan, (and all wars) deserve to be provided for. Not just used as a backdrop for another presidential photo op."Paul Rieckhoff: President Bush to Our Veterans: Iraq is Like Vietnam -

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ROFL! Precisely. -- law"There's no longer any doubt about the master narrative of the Bush Administration. Their purpose is to re-litigate the 1970s. Nixon's downfall, let alone all that followed, clearly has stuck in Cheney's craw. All his New American Centurions were so scarred by the fall of Saigon and the Church Committee reforms that even Morning in the Gipper's America didn't do enough to

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World Without Oil, the latest alternate reality game from Jane McGonigal, my colleague at Institute for the Future, is now in high gear. The idea behind the game is simple: "Play it before you live it." Jane will talk with us about this game and her insatiable appetite for play in an upcoming Boing Boing Boing podcast. Jane says: Wwojane World Without Oil is a month-long collaborative

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Left 'Toon Lane: Drowning the Government

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My Rant at DkosA bridge too closeby lawnorder Fri Aug 03, 2007 at 05:31:26 PM CDTI come from a 3rd World country. A country where countless corrupt politicians have been skimping government funds for infrastructure for nearly a century. Where dictators told us what to think and that we couldn't vote during my lifetime. And where now spending money on popular projects trumps any logic or

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One fallen bridge due to cheap skating federal resources is one bridge too many - lawFor half a dozen years, the motto of state government and particularly that of Gov. Tim Pawlenty has been No New Taxes. It's been popular with a lot of voters and it has mostly prevailed. So much so that Pawlenty vetoed a 5-cent gas tax increase - the first in 20 years - last spring and millions were lost that

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Hunter from Dkos on Libby's pardon : (Bush took)the exact same actions a crime boss would take, if a crime boss were in a position to take them. With each passing day, Bush becomes a little less presidential, and a little more like Al Capone with an Air Force. -- law"This case is, and has been, a touchstone. Scooter Libby was indicted and convicted for obstruction of justice in a criminal

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A very good article in Harper's shows how the GOP perpetual claims of being oppressed by traitors didn't stick this time: What has really robbed the conspiracy theories of their effectiveness is how the war in Iraq has been conducted. Bush's refusal to mobilize the nation for the war in Iraq has severed that immediate identification with our army's fortunes. Bush has finally uncoupled the state

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Bush, a recovering alcoholic is shown drinking a glass of beer right before he professes to be "too sick to attend the G8 meeting of world leaders". Can anyone tell me what an ex AA is doing with a glass of alcohol in his mouth ? The man fell off the wagon! And has our country's destiny in his shaking hands -- lawFri Jun 8, 6:34 AM ETHEILIGENDAMM, Germany - Stricken with a stomach ailment that

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Complete with hands-on training for would be American killers. Great job Bushies! -- law Think of what has happened in only the last week in the Middle East. In northern Lebanon, in the long-established Nahr el-Bared Palestinian refugee camp, out of the blue arose a new al Qaeda-related insurgent group, Fatah al-Islam. Within days and even hours, the recurring hell of the Middle East was loosed,

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More from the speech -- law One of the most painful principles of our age is that scandals are doomed to be revealed -- and to remain stinking there before us, unexcised, unpunished, unfinished.If this Age of Rhetoric has a tragic symbol, then surely this is it: the frozen scandal, doomed to be revealed, and revealed, and revealed, in a never-ending torture familiar to the rock-bound Prometheus

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It sucks that they made so much mess with US. But it is oh so good that they failed so spectacularly! Mark Danner reminds us of their hubris and failures below -- lawHere is my favorite quotation about the Bush administration, a description of a conversation with the proverbial "unnamed administration official" by the fine journalist Ron Suskind in October 2004:"The aide said that guys like me

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4 Years Ago I arrived in Iraq... There was no Al Qaeda.. No foreign fighters.. The Military.. never allowed any unaccompanied Iraqis on their bases. (Yet) They have allowed thousands of third country nationals to come into the bases.. employed by KBR and other lesser contracting companies. [law - thousands of foreigners but no Iraqis ? And people wonder why they hate US!] * Marshall Adame's

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To: U.S. Congress We, the educators, parents, and concerned citizens whose names appear below, reject the misnamed No Child Left Behind Act and call for legislators to vote against its reauthorization. We do so not because we resist accountability, but because the law's simplistic approach to education reform wastes student potential, undermines public education, and threatens the future of

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The 1918 'Spanish flu' influenza pandemic was unusually severe, causing about 50 million deaths. Why was it so destructive? The lack of antibiotics to fight secondary infections, and socioeconomic factors may be relevant. But experimental infection of nonhuman primates with reconstructed 1918 virus suggests that the lethal nature of the virus itself was a big factor. It is in fact the only

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The world tells Condi: F U!!!

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An old drug, not patentable. Hence not interesting to greedy drug companies... -- law Investigators at the University of Alberta have recently reported that a drug previously used in humans for the treatment of rare disorders of metabolism is also able to cause tumor regression in a number of human cancers growing in animals. This drug, dichloroacetate (DCA), appears to suppress the growth of

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By Frameshop's Jeffrey FeldmanMany people ask me the difference between what we do here on Frameshop and what Frank Luntz does--the difference between framing and grifting.Point #1: Honesty (framing) vs. The Shell Game (grifting)Point #2: Bottom Up (framing) vs. Top Down (grifting)Point #3: History (framing) vs. Marketing (grifting)The grift. When it works, it convinces senior citizens to cash

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