Sarah Palin - The Stupid Hurts 2

Sarah Palin Criticizes President Barack Obama on Egypt Saying 3 a.m. call Went to Answering Machine - ABC News

I doubt Sarah Palin could have found Egypt on a map a couple of years ago but now she's qualified to comment on Obama's handling of the revolt. How the fuck can that be?

Americans, especially the right-wing evangelical type, just kill me. They scream continually about the constitution, democracy, freedom, the will of the people, etc. but they go freakin' berserk as soon as a country even looks like it could elect a government with a different religion or vision. Hell, they could barely contain themselves with the results of our last election. Effectively throwing a two-year, Fox News/republican led hissy-fit because THEY didn't like the guy MOST people voted for.

tnb

They first came for the Communists

A current take on the "They came first for....." statment of Nazi Germany fame, from the always good GinAndTacos ginandtacos.com - Turntables

Here's a reworking of the original by tnb.

First The Original, found here: First they came ...

"They came first for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up."

Updated for US for today (by tnb, inspired by the GinandTacos link above)....

"They came first for the Welfare Queens because they were destoying the country and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Welfare Queen.

Then they came for the unions members because they were destroying the country and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a union member.

Then they came for the poor and the immigrants because they were destroying the country and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a poor or an immigrant.

Then they came for "Civil servants. Teachers. Middle management and Anyone with a pension or benefits" becasue these things were destroying the country and by that time no one was left to speak up for me."

tnb

U.S. congressmen: free jailed Israeli spy.

Isn't lobbying to get a convicted spy released getting pretty close to teason?

U.S. congressmen urge Obama to free jailed Israeli spy

Are They Serious?

John Malone - Liberty Media

Here New-Doom, here WSJ-Google Cache and here FutureofCapitalism

WSJ: What are you doing to protect against the weak American economy?

Mr. Malone: Well, my wife, who is very concerned about these things, moved all her personal cash to Australia and Canada. She wants to have a place to go if things blow up here.Canada has a lot more fiscal and bank responsibility than most places in the world and lots of natural resources.

We have a retreat that's right on the Quebec border. We own 18 miles on the border, so we can cross. Anytime we want to we can get away.

It would probably be illegal but we could go. Actually our snowmobile trail goes right on the border.

Mr. John Malone of Liberty Media, number 400 on the Forbes 500 list, with a net worth of 2.4 Billion, is worried that he might have to ride his snowmobile across his ranch, which has an 18 mile border with Canada, to escape the collapse of the US economy. His wife has been moving her money to Australia and Canada.

I thought this was an Onion spoof when I first read it.

Mr. Malone is worth about 2.4 billion according to Forbes. That's $2,400,000,000. One-half of all US households have total wealth less than 93,100 (2004 - link). Let’s put those numbers together for comparison.

John Malone's wealth --->    2,400,000,000.
Median US Household --->               93,000. ---> 50% of US is less than this.

Mr. Malone's wealth is equal to 25,778 of these median US families.

Mr. Malone was educated and built his fortune in the US. I'm sure he believes he's earned it and is entitled to every penny but the US system played a huge role is his ability to gather wealth. Our educational system, laws, economic and financial structures all made his career possible. If Mr. Malone had been born in the Sudan it is highly unlikely that he would have amassed his fortune. Like it or not he was lucky. The US helped make him. Now, when he thinks things look bleak for his type, the US-Big-Business-Elite, he's ready to cut and run.

I wonder what he thinks about the US kids that went to Canada rather than be sent to Vietnam?

Propaganda (and lobby money) works.

The US says... Go Israel, Beat Iran.

The Fox Propaganda Corp must be doing a better job than the other US propaganda outlets as the one article notes....

43 percent of U.S. Democrats approve of Israel taking military action against Iran to prevent Iran from building nuclear weapons, while 40 percent disapprove. However, when Republicans were asked the same question, 74 percent voiced approval while 17 percent disapproved

This post, POLLS, has a few polls the propaganda outfits may have missed.

America, We used to be the good guys.

tnb

Gleen Greenwald - Octavia Nasr Firing

Glenn Greenwald, who's been great lately, nails-it again.

Octavia Nasr's firing and what the Liberal Media allows - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com

The liberal media is a myth. Today's media leans to the right on most points and in terms of Israel has only one view,.. if you're not pro-Israel, you are, to quote from the link above, a "quintessentially anti-American, pseudo-pacifist, pro-terrorist, self-hating Jewish liberal". You might as well throw "Anti-Semitic bastard" in there too. Questioning Israel is just not allowed in The US today.

As I said above, I think Greenwald's been great lately but I wonder how long he can keep it up. Will the powers-that-be allow this kind of talk to continue? Salon's got to be getting some heat from the establishment for having him. He's been getting a few TV spots recently, will these continue or will he be blackballed? I wouldn't be suprised if he were taken down a notch by those in charge. Again, questioning Israel is just not allowed in The US today.

I going to help him as best I can. Spreading his message, Subscribing to Salon and boycotting CNN and its advertisers.

"America, We used to be the good guys."

TNB

Those darned deficits...

A county can spend its money and resources on its own people or on blowing the hell out of other people. We chose the latter.

TAPPED Archive | The American Prospect

"America, we used to be the good guys."

God and Patriotism

A nice post at Pharyngula.

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I agree,... the passage could have been written this week. It's a little scary really.

Required....

Every media hack, Fox News junkie, and card carrying Republican should be required to watch and respond to this. Rachel should get the "Most Balls in American Media" award this year.




Daily Kos: Rachel Maddow rips apart Cheney, GOP attack machine

Israel - 51st State and US Capital !?

We should just declare Israel the capital of the US. It seems everything the US government does must have its approval anyway. We might as well make it official and move the whole beltway clan to Jerusalem.

American Jews eye Obama's 'anti-Israel' appointees - Haaretz - Israel News

Uh-Merican

I wonder about the "American" group shown on this map (light yellow). Every American's ancestry, with a couple of exceptions, can be traced back to somewhere else. There should be no "American" group but its there. I wonder why?

Either the people in these areas don't know where their ancestors are from or don't care. I guess either is possible, people have lived in this area for generations and probably do see themselves as "Americans" but this would apply to the many other areas as well so it's not really a good answer. In reality we are all "American", only the people in these areas said their ancestors were "American"?

But,..... this "American" area corresponds roughly with the hard-core Fox-News, Sarah Palin, Red-State voter. could it be that when they "checked" the "ancestory-box" they thought to themselves, "Damn-it, I'm a real UH-Mericon!".