Enemy Combatant
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
"It is but a small humble act for us to defend it."
Frister, please!
It is but a vile, overbearing and undemocratic act, exhibiting a disappointing, woeful misunderstanding of the First Amendment, for you to shamelessly grandstand about the flag, with the country (and the Constitution!) crumbling around you.
Saturday, June 24, 2006
PUNK LIVES!
"The Press Corpse," by Anti-Flag
The [Downing Street] memo says . . .
. . . We gotta work to make the facts fit the false charges
Pull the wool over the eyes of the filthy masses
Stab the people in the back for the corporate choice
Roll the propaganda out using The People's Voice
We don't want to talk about it . . .
The press scribble scribble every half-truth spoke
Then shoot it round the country like an April Fools joke
Hype the nation for a Desert Storm love affair
Wave the stars and stripes like you just don't care!
They talk it up all day, talk it up all night
Talk until their face turns blue - Red white and blue!
But when the truth escapes the night and crawls into the day
We find the picture still askew
They don't want to . . . talk talk talk talk talk about it
They want tiptoe, walk around it
Wave the flag and mindlessly salute (Whoa-oh, Whoa-oh)
They don't want to talk about it
They want tiptoe, walk around it
Wave the flag and cowardly salute (Ooooooohhh)
And on the TV screen . . .
. . . Diversion and aversion is the flavor of the day
Was it WMDs? Or Democracy?
Blame it on MI-6 or the CIA
The White House Press Corpse only has one thing to say . . .
"We don't want to talk about it!"
The White House boils over, "Al Jazeera got it wrong!"
The Press Corpse jumps onboard singing the White House song
While over in Iraq thousands are dead because of lies
The spineless war drumming-press corpse have taken lives
They talk it up all day, talk it up all night
Talk until their face turns blue - Red white and blue!
But when the truth escapes the night and crawls into the day
We find the picture still askew
They don't want to . . . talk talk talk talk talk about it
They want tiptoe, walk around it
Wave the flag and mindlessly salute (Whoa-oh, Whoa-oh)
They don't want to talk about it
They want tiptoe, walk around it
Wave the flag and cowardly salute (Ooooooohhh)
(1,2,3,4!)
(1,2,3,4!)
Fires fueled on endless lies
Black shrouds coat desert skies
A nation's viewpoint blurred and led
As embeds report what they're fed
We don't want to talk about it,
We don't want to talk about it,
We don't want to talk about it,
We don't want to talk about it,
We don't want to talk about it,
(We dont, don't want to, We dont' want to talk about it)
We don't want to talk about it,
(We dont, don't want to, We dont' want to talk)
They don't want to . . . talk talk talk talk talk about it
They want tiptoe, walk around it
Wave the flag and cowardly salute (Whoa-oh, Whoa-oh)
They don't want to talk about it
They want tiptoe, walk around it
Wave the flag and cowardly salute (Ooooooohhh)
Friday, June 23, 2006
Sometimes, You Just Have To Say, "WTF??!"
Here's a current headline and brief story running on Yahoo! News:
Business as usual at Sears Tower despite plot
CHICAGO - Tourists lined up to take in the view atop America's tallest office building on Friday and workers went to their desks inside as usual despite news that the Sears Tower was the target of a foiled terrorist plot. "The possibility (of an attack) will always exists, you can't stop living," said Terrie Coles, 52, office manager for an engineering firm, as she headed inside the 110-story building. "I just hope and pray that people are doing their jobs to keep us safe," she added, but "I'm skeptical the plot even existed."
"Terror hype much?" These clowns in Liberty City: (a) had no weapons; (b) had no means of using weapons; and (c) were a helluva long ways from Chicago. Can we expect more hysterical-yet-nonsensical headlines like this in the immediate future? Something along the lines of:
Business As Usual At Mental Health Facilities, Despite Plethora Of Napoleons
Skies Remain Clear, Despite "Wrath Of God" Directives From Televangelists
Iraq Remains Anarchic Hellhole, Despite "Happy Horseshit" Talk From Washington
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
FoxNews Grants ACLU Entire 3-Second Response To 147-Count Wife-Beating Allegations
"Some will say" that this proves Fox News hates the ACLU, and will bring one of the group's members on their shows just to ridicule him. I think it just proves that Fox News tries to populate its programming with too many wingnut airhead Ken and Barbie dolls, trained seals who read their lines dutifully, but can't improvise -- or even effectively rephrase talking points read off their laptops, apparently -- for shit, particularly in the midst of a dressing down by an ACLU (semi-, former)spokesman.
Pathetic, puerile, and partisan -- that's Fox News for you!
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Bush's New Secret Nickname For Peter Wallsten:
Ray Charles.
Watch the video:
Then find out what the idiot fratboy found worth snickering about.
Sunday, June 11, 2006
Straight Outta Kafka
Ask A Question, Go To Jail:Like most travel writers, I avoid identifying myself as such. The Heisenberg uncertainty principle of journalism is that people tell different stories when they know that that what they say or do may appear in print.
Normally, that's not a problem. If people don't like what I'm doing, they say so by words or gestures, and I stop. I smile apologetically. They smile (usually), and in any case I go on about my business and my journey.
I've been asked to leave places where I didn't see the "off limits" signs (if there were any), or they weren't in any language I could understand. And I've been asked to stop taking photos.
But never, anywhere in the world -- including a fairly wide variety of police states -- have I been threatened with arrrest while travelling, merely for asking questions about what was happening.
Until last month, at Dulles Airport outside Washington, DC, USA.
