A Christian Nazi

Posted by: Antifa | Sep 1 2008 20:52 utc | 4

Every day feels more and more like the Matrix. Sometimes I wish I never unplugged. I feel like I’m on an airplane and 90% of the passengers are suicide bombers. No Way Out!!

Posted by: with your nose so bright | Sep 1 2008 21:15 utc | 6

@7
Well, it happens to be true that MLK was at one time a Republican to separate himself from the racist Democrats who ran the South, like George Wallace. But I agree the billboard gives the wrong impression that MLK was a Republican throughout his life and espoused Republican values. He did not. Personally, I think both parties suck.

Posted by: Ensley | Sep 1 2008 21:49 utc | 8

“Both parties” Ensley? I think it’s more like two sides of the same coin. Heads, I win; tails you lose. Either way we’re fucked as a nation, one side will just do it with a smile.

Posted by: JimT. | Sep 1 2008 23:39 utc | 10

To the contrary, “both parties do not “suck”, they are extremely good at what they do…
For example:
The Dense Art of Isolationism

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Sep 2 2008 1:31 utc | 12

I too remember the insertion of “under God” into the pledge – I was in first grade (in Framingham, MA, where I received a perfect attendance pin for Sunday School at the First Parish Unitarian Church), but had already learned the pledge the previous year in kindergarten at Fort Leavenworth, KS
My dad, a retired colonel still five years short of the century mark, has noticed that our current Arny is rather dissimilar from the Army he was in (entered in World War II – retired during Vietnam). He goes to Walter Reed Medical Center (the Army hospital in DC) for medical care, and he sees the posters up about “warriors”. He harrumphs – ‘back then we were “soldiers”, fighting because we had to, not because we enjoyed it.’
Yesterday I went to Sunday brunch at the Army retirement community with Dad and Stepmom and met a new couple there – they’re relatively young (i.e. under 80) – the guy’s a retired dentist, spent a year in Vietnam. He wondered why, after the 2006 election, the Congressional Democrats did NOTHING about ending the war. I expressed my theory that there were two main reasons:
a)The Democratic Party, like the Republican Party, is an entirely-owned subsidiary of the War Party
b)Nancy Pelosi and the like are complicit in the crimes of the Bush Gang – they were told ahead of time, “we’re going to torture these guys – you have no objection, of course” – and of course they didn’t
Frank and Beth seemed to find these ideas not implausible, and emboldened by the brunch’s freely-flowing champagne (well, not that free-flowing, but more than one glass) I went on to openly state my desire to live long enough to see the Bush Gang receive fair trials – although my new friends doubted that such a thing will ever come to pass, they seemed not to be offended
Not everyone in earshot of the conversation felt that way, but so it goes

Posted by: mistah charley, ph.d. | Sep 2 2008 2:36 utc | 14

Amy Goodman has been released after her arrest and here’s an interview…

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Sep 2 2008 2:44 utc | 16

Jim T., i think what uncle is saying is don’t underestimate either party’s capacity for conniving, betrayal, and treachery. the “bush is incompetent” meme has been very effective sleight of hand. while it may be true of the president, it’s not true of the administration.
while we’re busy ravaging troopergate, the pledge of allegiance (b, seriously, please resist distraction) and which vagina the retarded baby came out of, foreign babies and other various innocents are being blown apart.

Posted by: Lizard | Sep 2 2008 2:52 utc | 18

Actually, McCain will let her go in order to “protect” the integrity of her family, and blame the whole thing on the liberal press. But, nobody will buy it.

Posted by: anna missed | Sep 2 2008 2:54 utc | 20

In addition to ABC’s Brian Ross, and Amy goodman, an AP photographer Matt Rourke has also been arrested. ..keep you eye on the ball…

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Sep 2 2008 4:40 utc | 22

It’s been 54 years since the pledge was given that “under god”.
Palin was minus 8 years old then — I wonder how many folks that young know that?
Frankly, I think it reflects more on the success of the reconstructionists of Arrogant history who have turned the founding fathers, who were, at most, deists, into something like fundies and the young republic into something more like a nascent theocracy.

Posted by: Chuck Cliff | Sep 2 2008 5:45 utc | 24

chuck: the knowledge of the young folks, or lack thereof, is a direct indictment of their teachers.
or lack thereof.

Posted by: Lizard | Sep 2 2008 7:34 utc | 26

Uncle #16, suspect that at Amy Goodman’s level it’s more intimidating theater than substance. I.e. I don’t think there’s any non-infiltrated opposition, any opposition to Big Brother not run by Big Brother.
My evidence particular to Goodman is only that Democracy Now avoids or treads cautiously on some subjects. Fast example is that searching “Bilderberg” and “Bohemian Grove” on their site net no results, but I’ll have to look more. They do have useful info, but like all surviving (I include Alex Jones et. al.) they have to survive.

Posted by: plushtown | Sep 2 2008 13:58 utc | 28

For instance, I think this is interesting, and I don’t mean the secret aspects. Protected (non-displayed) art movements and locations should be kept secret.

AMY GOODMAN: I also understand that the University of Iowa, which has quite a remarkable museum, was able to get all of its art out secretly before the flood and is now being kept in a secret location in Chicago.
PERRY BEEMAN: You’re wondering if that’s true, you think?
AMY GOODMAN: Well, I assume it’s true.
PERRY BEEMAN: Well, and I guess I don’t have any information on that, although I do—I can say that they evacuated some buildings in Iowa that was—that have never been evacuated for a flood. The Iowa River runs through the middle of Iowa City, and the land to the east of the river rises just pretty dramatically. It’s a river valley, after all. But the amazing thing to me is that they had to evacuate a couple of buildings that are up that hill a ways and had sandbagged those streets. And again, they had water in places that they didn’t have water in ’93.
I do think ’93 was worse, a worse flood in the Des Moines area than it was in Iowa City, but I think the University of Iowa has been pretty aggressive at getting a lot of its valuables out. And, of course, the Old Capitol, I think, is not threatened with water, but it would be kind of ironic if that building had damaged, since they just replaced the dome that had burned a few years ago. That’s the symbol of the university.
AMY GOODMAN: I want to thank you both very much for being with us, Perry Beeman, staff writer for the Des Moines Register, former president of the Society of Environmental Journalists, and Joseph Romm, runs the blog at climateprogress.org.

also has stuff about hog farm manure tanks’ breakage

Posted by: plushtown | Sep 2 2008 15:02 utc | 30

The bubbas over at red state update weigh in on Sarah Palin…;^)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwvPNXYrIyI

Posted by: Cynthia | Sep 2 2008 16:12 utc | 32

And I imagine McCain will have a mighty hard time putting America First when his running mate up until recently belonged to a group that wants Alaska to secede from the Union…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwvPNXYrIyI

Posted by: Cynthia | Sep 2 2008 16:25 utc | 34