Author: Thomas More

It’s somewhat comical to me when I see these right-wingers tripping all over themselves to say how Condoleezza Rice would make a great President of the United States.

Here was a woman who was epically unqualified for her original job in the Bush II White House – a Sovietologist in the era of Islamic terrorism. As National Security Advisor, she presided over the greatest attack on U.S. national security in history – a massive failure on every level. (Out of 100 national security meetings the administration held before 9/11, only two were about terrorism.)

After 9/11, she became a major player in selling the Iraq War. “We don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud,” she said about the Iraqi nuclear program, which at the time existed as doodles on a cocktail napkin.

She has never held any elective office whatsoever.

Hey! Sounds like a great candidate for Leader of the Free World!

It’s been a joke going around liberal circles that the way this administration awards failure, Karl Rove is going to be the next Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. With Condi, that concept becomes reality.

UPDATE: While I was writing this post, Dean Esmay was writing this.

February 24, 2001: “Saddam Hussein has not developed any significant capacity with respect to weapons of mass destruction,” says Secretary of State Colin Powell. “He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors.”

July 29, 2001: “We are able to keep [Saddam’s] arms from him,” NSC advisor Rice tells the media. “His military forces have not been rebuilt.”

Yeah.

Unlike Stewart’s earlier (well-deserved) dismantling of Bernard “100 People I Hate! Nyah!” Goldberg, Stewart was so sweet to Rick “Man on Dog” Santorum, I thought the two of them were going to go on a date after the taping. As others have said, Santorum is vulnerable in his district in 2006, and he got better than a free ride from Stewart. That’s damaging.

Stewart has shown that he can take the most intractable crapweasels and turn them inside out without raising his voice. Why he didn’t do it with Santorum, who spreads some of the most hateful rhetoric in the U.S. Senate, is a mystery.

I always chuckle when I hear Christian right and other anti-gay types start in with the “They’re trying to redefine marriage!” yelling, often while clutching a dictionary to their heaving breasts.

Because gay people like me can’t exactly redefine something that hasn’t been defined in the first place – at least, not the way they think it is.

The plain fact is, two people with opposite sex organs can saunter into a Justice of the Peace and create a legal civil marriage in this country with blood tests and signatures. That’s it. Nothing – nothing – else is required.

Not love. Not a promise to procreate. Not shared living quarters. Not shared philosophies, about child-rearing or anything else. Not fidelity, of any kind. They don’t even have to know each other. One penis and one vagina? You’re in.

So I would suggest that if all these things are so important, if all these things are so crucial to the survival of the society, these people should start requiring them of their straight brethren. Physician, heal thyself, as they say. Because right now, straight people are disrespecting their favorite institution much worse than any gay person is able to.

Great stuff from insane old man Paul Harvey:

“Once upon a time, we elbowed our way onto and into this continent by giving smallpox infected blankets to Native Americans. Yes, that was biological warfare! And we used every other weapon we could get our hands on to grab this land from whomever. And we grew prosperous. And, yes, we greased the skids with the sweat of slaves. And so it goes with most nation-states, which, feeling guilty about their savage pasts, eventually civilize themselves out of business and wind up invaded, and ultimately dominated by the lean, hungry and up-and-coming who are not made of sugar candy.”

No surprise that the Freepers are lining up to celebrate Harvey’s ode to nukes, slavery and genocide. LaShawn Barber, Kim du Toit and Dean Esmay will no doubt be close behind.

America – FUCK YEAH!

Interesting little graphic (near the bottom of the link) showing the terrorism rates from 1995-2004. Hint: the low point was the year 2000. Interesting.

http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/1002

Maybe this is just my instantaneous mental and emotional state. But it occurs to me that talking about politics in American society today has become both meaningless and pointless. There’s just nothing left to say. Everyone’s shouting and no one’s listening, and the train rolls on. There’s no middle ground, no understanding, no point. Everything that’s worth saying has been shouted so many times we’re hoarse. Any concept of “society” is dead, shouted down as Commie Fascist Terror-Loving Socialism.

I’m just tired of pissing into the wind.

Why did we invade Iraq again? I just can’t remember.

And think about it – isn’t it just a bit upsetting that we still can’t agree why we started a war? Isn’t it a tiny bit discomfiting that if you ask 10 people my initial question, you’ll probably get 10 different answers?

No? You’re fine? OK. Forget I mentioned it. Happy Fourth of July.

RWC:

“9/11 changed everything.”

Reality-based-community translation:

“We can use 9/11 any time, in any context, to allow us to change the rules of government and society on a dime. Everything means what we say it means, nothing more or less, until we change our minds and it means something else, and has always meant that forever.”

“That’s so true. You never hear about all the cars that *don’t* blow up.”

-Stewart on “The Daily Show” tonight, lampooning the Pentagon spokesman’s blaming of public opinion turning on the Iraq war on too much coverage of the incessant car bombings over there.