Hrm hrm hrm… this Newsweek Poll is missing something:

It’s not September 11th…. it’s not Brown people… it’s the USA!

The Article: Leave the Muslim world alone by Gary Kamiya in Salon.

The Text: It is long past time for America to grasp that Bush’s decision to pound the Muslim world into submission — not just in Iraq, but in Lebanon and in Palestine — is not the solution, it is the problem. We have turned an entire region, and the adherents of one of the three largest religions in the world, against America and everything that it represents, including democracy. As if in a nightmare, our actions have multiplied the demons of apocalyptic religious terrorism they were intended to destroy.

Bill O’Reilly is at it again. This time, he sends a Fox News flunkie to ambush JetBlue CEO David Barger for agreeing to sponsor Yearly Kos (convention for Daily Kos).

Play this until your eyes bleed:

From Jason Nelson at Secret Technology

“The proper role of the government is to prevent other people from harming an individual. Government never has any right to interfere with an individual for that individual’s own good. The case for prohibiting drugs is exactly as strong and as weak as the case for prohibiting people from over eating. We all know that over-eating causes more deaths than drugs do.”

Milton Friedman on the Drug War

LATENT HOMOSEXUAL FRAT BOYS WITH FRAT TOY

WHITE PEOPLE DRESS LIKE THIS INTENTIONALLY

A BROWN PERSON WAS THE TICKET ADMISSION

MINI-HONKY

CELEBRATING THE DEATH OF JESUS

JEW CRACKER DANCE OFF

BOUGIE PRETENDER

For God And Country:

I want to live for God and country
I want to give for God and country

It’s too late for some
It’s too late for what you’ve done
I can’t help what I divide in you

For God and country I’ll fight
For God and country I’ll die
For God and country

My soul is so alive
My soul is so alive
Lay down your arms to me
Lay down your arms for God and country

I want to live where no one’s watching my way home
I want to give until I’m bursting with unknown

How a little foray into the flesh trade changes your perspective:

This was a very serious sin in my past for which I am, of course, completely responsible. Several years ago, I asked for and received forgiveness from God and my wife in confession and marriage counseling. Out of respect for my family, I will keep my discussion of the matter there-with God and them. But I certainly offer my deep and sincere apologies to all I have disappointed and let down in any way.

Sen. David Vitter (R-LA), speaking out publicly for the first time about appearing on the D.C. Madam’s list versus:

kin me like beef jerky and call me an Iraqi civilian:

Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly promised his audience “the truth about Iraq” on Thursday, saying that most Americans now feel the war has not been worth the costs, while “the president’s argument for sustaining the war is largely theoretical.”

O’Reilly turned on his special guest during the segment, White House press secretary Tony Snow, saying, “You can’t win … unless the Iraqi people turn on all the terrorists. And they’re not.”

Oh the blood and the treasure
And then losing it all
The time that we wasted
And the place where we fall
Will we wake in the morning
And know what it was for
Up in our bedroom
After the war

Rick James once said “Pussy’s pussy.” I include this maxim, not because it has any relevance this essay, but rather because it illustrates the fatalistically induced nihilism that so often befalls my concluding sentiments when I consider the way of the world.

Gandhi and Martin Luther King demonstrated the power of non-violence in combating imperialistic exploitation. They showed how empathy from the ruling political class of people could lead to change in an unjust policy. The tactic is still powerful, and, in fact, it may be the most powerful means of radical change left in the world.

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