March On

REMEMBERING WFB
I'm not sure for most of my life I could be so different from someone politically. A cold warrior from a well to do background compared to a social misfit from a working class background. As a younger progressive I always assumed that people like Buckley would be my political foil for the rest of my days.

Alas, we never knew the route that politics and life would take us. The Republican party of Buckley has vanished, gone is the intellect of the party, the fiscal conservatives that you could argue policy with, now the party exists of the fear purveyors, long distance diagnosers, anti-science advocates, single syllable articulators and warmongers. Buckley feared foreign entanglements, likely believing in the case of Iraq that 12 skulls and bonesman could easily do the job of 150,000 regular people in toppling Saddam, as in the case of Iran in 1953, Guatemala in 1954, Chile in 1973 ad infinitum.

I always hated his arrogance, and his adopted accent but what made him different from the monosyllabic perpetrators who co-opted his party was his amazing use of language and the way he could insult people without people even realizing it. His magazine while sometimes repugnant politically to me, always had the best writing in it. The policies well articulated beyond words like "evil doers", "freedom" and "they hate America".

A bit of me has passed with WFB. Now the one's to argue with are armed with a couple of internet articles, the disciples of Rush and Ann fueled by gossip and innuendo. Surely a sad day.

THE STUPID GETS STUPIDER

Yup, he's here to overthrow the government. Which Manchurian Candidate do you want, the Muslim extremists or the one that was prepped in Vietnamese prison camps to bring Communism to the United States. (ed. note Sinatra's the Manchurian Candidate is the best political movie ever made)

I'm not sure who Barack's handlers were in this shot. There's nothing wrong with it, there's probably a picture of me somewhere in leiderhosen after one of my uncles or grandfather came back from the service, doesn't necessarily make me a nazi but seriously if you're ever thinking of running for President, even if you're being polite, leave the Somali gear for the Somali's. for a guy who looks like he wakes up in a suit and tie, he doesn't even look comfortable as a Somali elder.

Again, this is the bullsh!t that passes for news nowadays. Fueling the fire that Barack Hussein Obama is a tool of Islamic extremism. It's a stupid fire, but relevant in what passes for discourse nowadays. Barack is about as Muslim as I am a cobbler, if you go back to my grandmother's father's profession back in Puerto Rico.


DRUDGE IS A TRAITOR
If there is a king of bloggers, that is the person that has the most effect in the "blogosphere" or the semi-news Internet is Matt Drudge. Drudge cut his teeth on Clinton and has continued with his gossiping, occasionally making the big score but existing on Washington Times and British tabloid articles that feed the right wing ahole public. There have been lefty attempts at the throne, but things like the Daily Kos are not checked daily by the mainstream media looking for scoops.

When does gossip become irresponsible? Certainly Prince Harry is soon going to come under some type of weird right wing chicken hawk spin. But this crap is inexcusable. Support the troops? Just an enigma, a passing fad. Is this war or just confusion?