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Subject: Instead, we could set fire to the corpse, just like Bohomian
Grove...(ProgressiveAntidote)
Date: Nov 14, 2009 11:42 AM
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Well, you could always try to get
at the truth about such corruption:
DEFINITION:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/perverted
"to divert to a wrong end or purpose"
One DIVERTS away from the truth like
this:
"The second aspect of Lucifer’s rebellion, Jesus adds, was one of
falsehood. Again, on the lips of Jesus, this word referred not so much
to lying by words, to fibbing, as to what we call 'pretense,'
'deception,' 'false claims.'"
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/vatican/esp_vatican27q.htm#Human%20Spirit%20and%20Lucifer
Now, it would be hard to throw stones
at the Fascist Bushies if one is,
oneself, a pervert, or is one who debases,
or is one who, let's say, screams about
gay rights, without mentioning how TOLERABLE
it is to the rest of us to have to look
at that disgusting queer crap. Or says
things like "Sex Cures All Diseases," or
"Sexual Perversion is Normal, or "911 was
caused by Arabs," or "Lyme is only a knee,"
and "Pam3Cys prevents" Lyme, when in fact,
Pam3Cys is responsible for almost all major
diseases, and certainly Yale's lies about
Pam3Cys inhibited discovery in every major
disease, especially HIV and Tuberculosis for
the last 15 years.
If you want to bleep about the consequences
of BS-ers, you can't be one, yourself.
Gays and The Fascist State, while not
obvious, *do* belong in the same rotten
barrel, because in both instances
the truth is hidden or is masked.
If there was anything left to the
Real America, Real America would
take up arms and take over the Fed
and the Military, burn Washington
to the ground, and drop Dick Cheney's
corpse from Times Square instead of
the ball into a barrel of gasoline on
New Years Day, 2010, and then light
it on fire just to send a message to
the CEOs and their whores, the CIA.
It could be like Bohomian Grove,
burning the corpse of "Care." But this
time a toast to the Almighty Petrodollar.
*Those* queers - *THOSE* perverts - *like*
reversed symbolism, don't they?
Kathleen M. Dickson
http://www.actionlyme.org
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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/14-1
Published on Saturday, November 14, 2009 by CommonDreams.org
Twenty Years From Now, You Will Lie To Your Children
by David Michael Green
Take a look at a video of George W. Bush speaking to the nation five
or six years ago.
Like a pop single from 1962 (or 2002, for that matter), it didn't age
very well.
It's astonishing that this transparently frightened man was the leader
of the free world for eight years, and was given so much license to
commit so much destruction.
But, then, nothing seems to define our era quite so much as license.
We give ourselves license to incur fantastic levels of national debt,
and hand the bill to the next generation.
We give ourselves license to invade other countries on the most
patently bogus of pretexts, bringing disaster upon them and us.
Or at least some of us, that is, because we also give ourselves
license to allow a tiny fraction of the population to carry the entire
national security burden for all the rest of us.
We give ourselves license to spend half again as much as any other
country in the world on healthcare, only to be ranked 37th ‘best' by
the World Health Organization, just so we don't have to do the simple
work of writing corporate predators out of the parasitic cash cow
booty feeding troughs in which they're entrenched.
Meanwhile, a bullet is heading toward the heart of the body politic in
the form of global warming, and we give ourselves license to pretend
that the threat isn't even clearly defined, lest we should have to
relinquish our precious Hummers.
The list goes on and on. I regret to say that history will not judge
us, here and now, a serious people. Nor should it. I certainly don't
either.
Indeed, even when we get serious, we don't. Barack Obama was supposed
to be the antidote to the excesses and negligences of the Bush years.
In fact, nearly a year of his term has now gone by and he has almost
nothing to show for it. Which means that neither do we. When
Saturday Night Live parodies you by having your character claim "jack"
and "squat" as your administration's two greatest achievements - well,
that's never a good sign.
Nor does Obama appear to have a lot of intent at accomplishing much,
either. At least anything that requires the ruffling of a feather or
two - which of course includes just about anything that matters. For
any given question put before this president, it seems that his
position can safely be estimated to fall square in the middle of the
road, right there alongside Jim Hightower's proverbial yellow stripes
and dead armadillos. In reality, though, that's actually an
unfortunately generous estimate. Obama's politics, if you actually
look at them - rather than at most people's false impression of them -
turn out to be remarkably similar to George Bush's on everything from
the fiscal stimulus to big corporate healthcare initiatives to
escalating war policies to eroded civil liberties to unequal treatment
for gays.
And yet this milquestoastiest of presidents generates the most
outrageous volumes of the most egregious vitriol in our public
discourse, as if he were wrecking the country through disastrous wars
based on lies, unprecedented constitutional shredding, or massive
fiscal hemorrhaging. Oh, wait - that was the last guy. Never mind.
Somehow those travesties didn't precipitate much noise from the cave-
dwelling set - unless you count deafness-inducing cheers of approval,
or enough slurpy mass salivation to befuddle and alarm Dr. Pavlov.
One of the most astonishing things about the right in America is the
degree and frequency with which they turn out to be precisely the
opposite of what they claim to be. It's quite Orwellian, actually, in
a charming sort of war-equals-peace kinda way. They adore dressing up
like they're the big military tough guys, but they all had to go to
Woodstock or something during Vietnam. They like to lecture us
incessantly about the virtues of their particular brand of sexual
morality, and then it always turns out that they're the ones who love
to dress up in leather and Vaseline and gang-bang packs of small furry
rodents. They can't wait to pontificate on the virtues of itsy-bitsy,
low taxing, low spending government, but then whenever they get their
hands on the damn thing they drive up the national debt like Yahweh
himself told them it was their personal holy crusader's mission to
party hearty at the public's expense ("I command you to choose a
hockey mom from amongst your number, and cause her to buildeth a
bridge to nowhere!").
I could keep going forever, and it would actually be pretty
entertaining, if only the real world effects weren't so bloody
destructive. One of my favorites, though, I have to say, is the riff
on responsibility. You know, as in, they're the ones who have it.
Remember when the Bush crew came to power, literally saying "The grown-
ups are back in charge"? I can think of a lot of things I would call
George W. Bush, but "grown-up" is more or less last on my list, right
there after "brave", "articulate", "compassionate" and "thoughtful".
In any case, these guys always fancy themselves the mature, reliable,
responsible stewards of American government. That's more than a
little scary, isn't it - to think that these are the nation's best and
the brightest? To imagine that Bush and Cheney and Rove represent the
crowning achievement of six or ten millennia of civilizational
development, topping off millions of years of genetic refinement?
Wuuuuhhhh. That lurching twitch you just felt was a serious shudder
going down your spine, your body's involuntary reaction to perceptions
of sheer horror. But, meanwhile, did I mention that the real story of
responsibility is slightly different than the regressive version?
Start with global warming. I'm not a climatologist and I don't even
play one on Fox TV. Which is why I rely on the people with the PhDs
in the field and their masses of data, elaborate models and giant
supercomputers to tell me what is happening on that question. Like
most people, I wouldn't even have the foggiest sense of whether the
Earth is spherical, flat, or shaped like a bicycle-built-for-two, were
it not for the geographers and explorers who figured it out. There's
almost no way to get there on your own from daily experience. Hence,
I take their word for it, just like I take the word of astronomers
that our little planet is not, after all, at the center of the
universe (which is good news indeed for the universe).
Our happy regressive friends do the same thing, of course. Except
when they don't. They reject evolution in favor of a 6,000 year-old
Earth. Though I notice that they're quite content to queue up for
radiation therapy when they're sick with cancer, even while rejecting
the veracity of radio-carbon dating of ancient fossils. Hmmm. Go
figure. They mostly have reconciled themselves nowadays to a
heliocentric solar system, though they did imprison Galileo for
telling a but too much truth on that one. Given the recent tenor of
the religious right in America, I'm waiting for even this bit to get
tossed out with evolution, any day now. You heard it here first,
ladies and gentlemen. Mark my words. The Earth will return to the
center of the universe, just like the good book says.
Meanwhile, the same people who would happily burst through the doors
of the National Archives, yank the Constitution out of its case and
run it through a $19.99 shredder they just picked up on sale at Office
Depot - all in the name of fighting terrorism - are simultaneously
working frantically to make sure we don't do anything at all about the
very real threat of global warming. Udickuitous Cheney once said that
we have to pull out all stops in case there was even a one-percent
chance of a terrorist attack that might kill thousands. But a survey
of the experts on climate change suggests that there is a more than
ninety-nine percent probability that whole countries will be drowned
and entire groups of species eradicated in the coming decades. And
that's just the easy part. Still, the regressive prescription for
this looming nightmare is to continue to do nothing at all, lest we
anger the supreme goddess Commerce.
I've always been a little weird this way, but where I come from, that
ain't exactly the most responsible choice. Neither was invading
Iraq. More than 4000 dead Americans later, and George Bush is still
looking under his desk for the missing WMD (heh-heh, wasn't that a
hilarious little comedy routine he did on that?). As if that would
have been a valid excuse to invade a country that was neither
attacking us nor threatening us, anyhow. As if dozens of countries
don't have WMD. As if the Republican government of the United States
didn't cover for Saddam at home and at the UN at the time he was
actually using chemical weapons on his own people.
So perhaps a million Iraqis are dead now, American finances are in the
toilet, the country's global reputation is too skanky to qualify for
horizontal employment in a makeshift basement brothel in Tijuana, and
our national security - supposedly the purpose of the whole exercise -
has been radically diminished by the decimation of an army that even
Colin Powell described as "broken". This is what you get from the
"responsible" ideology, ladies and gentlemen.
But wait! There's more! How about a crushing national debt. Hey,
why not borrow money recklessly to pay for these fun wars based on
lies? And how about those super-rich folks out there? Don't they
deserve additional tax cuts? I'm sure our children won't mind paying
for the loans to finance those giveaways, plus interest, in the
future. Why would those crazy kids want to actually bring home the
fruits of their labor in a paycheck anyhow? They won't mind working
long hours to finance the ‘responsibility' of unparalleled deficit
spending by regressives, will they?
Well, actually, that question is likely to be a moot issue now
anyhow. That's because the upshot from the ‘responsible' economic
policy provided by our nice regressive friends increasingly means that
the youngins won't have any jobs at all. That certainly solves the
problem of spending a lifetime paying taxes to finance their parents'
spending sprees, doesn't it? Pretty clever, is it not? No
regulation, no economy; no economy, no jobs; no jobs, no income; no
income, no taxes; no taxes, no worries! Damn! I wonder if the good
folks on the right had this all figured out from the beginning!
Ho-ho, eh? Not so funny, though, if you're on the butt end of the
joke. Which we all are, not least the younger generation. There is
an era of bad feeling in America, long in the making, but hardly at
its nadir. The United States has been on a southward glide path for
three decades now, an act of political physics as natural and
inevitable as gravity itself, but also deeply exacerbated by the
predatory political movement pioneered by Reagan and Thatcher, and
continued by Bushes, Blairs, Clintons and Obamas alike.
It was bad enough that we lived for as long as we did at a greedy and
unsustainable level, stealing from other peoples, from our
environment, from brown and female workers, and even from our own
children. But now it's getting much, much worse.
In twenty years those children are all too likely to be living poor,
on a hostile planet, working long hours to pay down the sins of their
fathers.
And they might well be enraged, too, as they should be.
A decade or two from now, if they confront their right-wing elders -
gazing in anger and astonishment at the bottomless capacity of their
parents' selfishness - you can safely bet that their questions will be
met with dissembling deception.
Twenty years from now, regressives will lie to their children.
We know this because those regressives are already lying today,
covering their execrable crimes the only way possible.
With deceit.
David Michael Green is a professor of political science at Hofstra
University in New York. He is delighted to receive readers' reactions
to his articles (mailto:d...@regressiveantidote.net), but regrets that
time constraints do not always allow him to respond. More of his work
can be found at his website, www.regressiveantidote.net.
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