Utopia 2025“Clearly the Iraqi people are not embracing freedom, so imposing order through a military strongman might be the only way.”
-Bill O’Reilly tonight, channeling Bill Maher in his call for installing a new military dictatorship in Iraq
“As much as I love the president and what he stands for, this “saving face” stubbornness is really not representative of conservative values. He must own up, change the tune, and come up with a new plan. It’s a civil war, and it’s all because we tried to give them democracy too quickly. A pro-USA dictator would have done the job and kept them from fighting.”
-FreeRepublic commenter aristotleman, on Bush’s inability to say the phrase “civil war” when talking about Iraq
It’s official: no one has a sense of humor anymore.
It’s a fucking funny movie, people. Get. over. yourselves.
One of my first posts on my old site dealt with the (then) new phenomenon of right-wingers calling them “government schools” instead of “public schools.” I believe this was to evoke “government cheese” and the idea that people aren’t too thrilled with government, even though they like things that are public.
These days I’ve been struck by how the crapweasels refer to it as the “Democrat Party” instead of the “Democratic Party.” Is this because “democratic” is too positive a word? Is it because the word “democrat” ends in “rat”? I honestly don’t know. But even the New York Times Manual of Style and Usage has noticed:
Democrat (n.), Democratic (adj.), for the party and its members. Do not use Democrat as a modifier (the Democrat Party), that construction is used by opponents to disparage the party.
Now that the right-wingers don’t control every aspect of American society, expect this sort of crap to ramp up, along with fake outrage at everything even remotely liberal. Remember when Bill Clinton’s haircut was a giant scandal? Multiply that by 1,000, and you might get close to how it’s going to be for the next two years.
Be careful what you wish for, as they say – you might just get it.
Well Dean Esmay, who has tried to masquerade as being pro-gay despite being an HIV denialist and never speaking of gay people without simultaneously crowing about “backlash” now reveals his true feelings: being gay is either a result of trauma or biological error.
Thanks, Dean. Love you too, man. I’ve wanted to compare you to one of the creatures from “The Island of Dr. Moreau” for a long time, but I’ve managed to hold off.
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For reasons that are too embarrassing to recount here, I was going over my archives at my old site, and came upon this sample text for wimpy Democrats to use back in late 2003 when talking about marriage rights for gay people. Well now it’s election time again, and I think I hit the nail on the head back then.
I think what’s important here is to understand the difference between civil and religious marriage. Religious marriage is a sacrament, and I don’t believe the government has any business telling any religion who they can and cannot marry. But civil marriage is a legal contract that’s enforced by the state, and that confers rights on the citizens that enter into that contract. I believe Americans are a fundamentally fair people. And this is about fairness – allowing people who want to enter into committed relationships, relationships that strengthen the society, to get the rights conferred by civil marriage.
There’s a lot of talk about civil unions these days – trying to create a system alongside civil marriage that would involve the same rights. But why create a new system, a new bureaucracy, to try to simulate something already in place? Is that fair? I don’t think it is. “Separate but equal” didn’t work in the civil rights era, and it doesn’t work here. I know there are a lot of Americans who are uncomfortable with homosexuality. But that unease shouldn’t be enough reason to deny basic rights to citizens of the United States of America.
See? That wasn’t so difficult, now was it?
Michael J. Fox and Rush Limbaugh.
That’s why I’m a liberal.
“There’s only one party in America today, with two wings: the conservative wing, known as Democrats, and the reactionary wing, known as Republicans.”
-Gore Vidal
John Cole of Balloon Juice sums up the conservative crapweasel attitude about homosexuality:
“Homosexuality is wrong and the root of all evil and homosexual marriage will be the downfall of Western Society so we must amend the Constitution to ban it and we will use homosexuals as campaign props every two years, but oh, by the way, we hate the sin and not the sinner, and even then the sin doesn’t bother us that much as long as you stay in the closet and do whatever you want as long as we don’ know about it and we are fine with that but recognize we will still call you out in public as evil and scream about gay adoptions so we can get elected but if any of us are gay we should be allowed to keep that private and oh, by the way, you are not normal because the bible says so.”
Yup. That’s about right.
Unfortunately, when I hear “Christians” like those on FreeRepublic talk about the evils of homosexuality, I can’t help thinking of Kissing Hank’s Ass.
If we are forced to abandon this democracy project, the failure isn’t ours — it’s the Iraqi’s, especially the Sunnis and Shiites. To some extent, it’s also Europe’s fault (including the UK’s) by forcing together people who clearly don’t belong in the same country.
The Iraqi country Sunnis are Deliverance cretins times 5.
The Democrats and what passes today as the establishment U.S. news media have gone to great lengths to sabotage our efforts in Iraq, blunt the domestic war on terrorism and encourage every anti-American faction in the world. This has been done partly for partisan politics and partly in behalf of a delusional ideology that believes lice-infested savages and psychopathic dictators will respond to reason.
Modern Christians are civilized. We are trying to coax these people into the family of civilized man. If we were old school Christians they’re men and boys would be dead and their women undergoing a seed change. As they would like very much to do to us if they could.
It may have worked better if the Dims/Pinkos/MSM/Jew-Haters/Iranians/Syrians hadn’t been throwing wrenches in the works at every f%#king turn. Then again, it’s possible they’re not ready for democracy. Churchill suggested WWII might have been averted had a constitutional monarchy been established in Germany after WWI instead of a liberal democracy. The same may hold true in the Arab world.
Kill ’em all and let their god (if they have any) sort them out!
I’m getting tired of this shit! Why should we be allowed to be kicked around?
Bonus quote, about Barack Obama at a book signing:
There is one other aspect to Osama Obama that will preclude him from being elected POTUS. Call it crass, but the guy’s picture could fit right in with the 9/11 hijackers photo’s. A good portion of the electorate is going to take one look at this guy in the primary and say “he ain’t from around here”….
On the recent outings of closeted gay Republicans:
“I am really disgusted by this.
An individual’s private sexual preferences is not a matter for the public arena and not something we should be discussing about anyone. What the hell ever happened to the concept of “in private”? We’re not even talking behavior – this is just the preferences we’re talking about. That is private, unless an individual wants to make it public him/herself.
I blame Bill Clinton for dragging this subject into the public arena.”
-random commenter at Little Green Footballs
The mind bobbles.