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Why settle for the all too obvious oppression of Islam, when you can keep it real with the subtle submission of Christianity? Pandagon reports on Trying to get past the finish line after firing the virginity pledge gun:
“Wow” is also how she describes her first night with Brett after their wedding reception, when they checked in to the Broadmoor Hotel. An explicit promise of the virginity until- marriage movement is that if you wait for the big day to have intercourse, the sex will be mind-blowing. (A popular public-school sex-ed curriculum in Colorado is called “Wait Training: Learn How to Have the Best Sex—By Waiting Until Marriage!”) In their hotel room, the first thing Lauren did was get a basin and water pitcher and wash Brett’s feet.
Why one should never, ever cross Dick Cheney:
A man walked up to Dick Cheney, calmly told him he thought his Iraq policy was reprehensible, and walked away. A few minutes later he was arrested by the Secret Service, in front of his 8-year-old son, for “assault”. When he asked what would happen to his child, the Secret Service said, “He can be sent to Child Services.” Luckily, the boy found his mother and was safe.
Welcome to the Republican version of America:
I’m sorry to announce that even when the likes of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and all the other Republican Chickenhawks are mercifully out of our lives, a whole new breed of big-talk-no-action types are waiting in the wings to proudly proclaim “I love war — but for God’s sake don’t ask me to go!”
In politics, Another Day, Another 17,000 Lies By Condoleezza Rice, President Bush plans to turn over his presidential powers to Dick Cheney
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.”
Roy at Alicublog writes one of the funniest paragraphs in modern bloggery:
RAISING THE LEVEL AND TENOR OF DEBATE. The great minds at National Review’s The Corner agree: gay people are teh gay. On the Democrats’ upcoming GLBT debate, Lisa Schiffren observes that not all of the Party’s constituents are down with the gay agenda, and then, seemingly unable to control herself, female-ejaculates: “How do you keep the coalition together when it gets this personal and icky?” One imagines she does not find, say, conflicts over nuclear energy policy “icky,” unless the protons are having sex with other protons.
In an interesting post, Coming Anarchy poses the question what will be sustainable counter-terrorism? In an interesting context, CA reminds one that in 1973 (when Small Is Beautiful started gaining traction, coincidentally), the idea of environmentalism was one of a zero-sum game against economics. Now, as Chirol notes, “while Americans are beginning to realize that environmentalism isn’t zero-sum, we are polarized in another crucial national security debate: terrorism. You can either fight terrorists and failed states with force and be safe, or you can avoid force and be overrun by jihadis and rogues.”
In other international news, Atlantic Review reminds us
Ugh, I fucking hate Joe Lieberman:
Sen. Joe Lieberman, Connecticut independent, yesterday called for the U.S. to confront Iran — possibly with militarily force — after U.S. military officials reported that Iran was training Iraqi Shi’ite fighters, reports S.A. Miller of The Washington Times.
“These revelations should be a wake-up call to the United States about the threat posed by the Islamic Republic of Iran, as well as a reminder why Iraq is, in fact, the central front of the global war on terror,” said Mr. Lieberman….
Arlen over at the Daily Background poses an interesting question in the lack of ‘progressive’ young bloggers. My comment is as follows:
I don’t think there is an absence of young progressive bloggers, but I think there is probably an absence of young bloggers who specifically concentrate on politics.
I think this is why I have issues on being linked to by progressive blogs is because PBH doesn’t entirely focus on politics (though those are the majority of the articles). Also, there is probably a gap between senses of humor and views on what progressive politics is for young people. I think this is especially apparent with respects to the Democrats: I see the Democrats as equally culpable for the current situation in Iraq as the Republicans. Frankly, I think very little of the Democratic party, but I know other progressives who are keen to work within them.
Over at Publius Pundit, they ask the question Is TV Political Analysis Biased? After a lengthy introduction on how the Sunday morning news options are controlled by Democratic operatives, you get to select whether the left or the right control THE MEDIA with the poll results being pretty obvious. Personally, I’m kind of peeved Jew Zionist Zombies Propagandists weren’t included in the choices, but that’s what you get from a ‘biased’ website.
Over at C&L, they have a video created by Blue Gal and a few others deriding how terrible Glenn Beck is. Trust me, I know
TinyRevolution says it best:
Here’s Mark Twain:
Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.
And here’s George Orwell:
Ut oh, someone’s cracked the class code! In case you were blind to the segregated world around you, it’s finally been analyzed: Facebook is for white suburban kids and MySpace is for dirty brown urban youths. I wonder if we can parade them through the streets like in Iran?
In more good news, Elizabeth Edwards said (in public!) ‘I’m completely comfortable with gay marriage’ along with the best comment on the situation on Pandagon:
Four years of hot XXX American Occupation, and those damn brown people still can’t get it right! Oh jeez louise:
Iraq has emerged as the world’s second most unstable country, behind Sudan, more than four years after President George W. Bush ordered the U.S. invasion to topple Saddam Hussein, according to a survey released on Monday.
The 2007 Failed States Index, produced by Foreign Policy magazine and the Fund for Peace, said Iraq suffered a third straight year of deterioration in 2006 with diminished results across a range of social, economic, political and military indicators. Iraq ranked fourth last year.
Yesterday was not a good day for Rudy Giuliani. Apart from being exposed as part vampire, A report says he was kicked off the Iraq Study Group for poor attendance and his South Carolina finance chair was caught with a pound of cocaine. Now, call me crazy, but when I’m on a coke binge, the last thing I want to do is be around a bunch of uptight white fucks talking about Iraq. Actually, when I’m on a coke binge, I like to be in the darkness of a strip club backroom with the majority of my torso exposed and a pair of sunglasses put on sideways. But that’s just me.
Quote of the day:
We always find it funny that you can use sex to sell jewelry and cars, but you can’t use sex to sell condoms.
And quote of the day, part 2:
A politically connected lawyer — wearing nothing but glasses, socks and a hands-free headset — masturbated in front of two women at a shopping center, police said.
Things worth checking out, internationally speaking: Coming Anarchy has one of their best posts in a while with On Demographics, Part 3: Why the Gap will conquer the Core. To summarize, it is about the convergence of the third world with the first, and how this will be achieved without the world turning into an over-polluted, under-educated, disease ridden planet. My further comments (serious for once!) can be followed on the post itself.
Joerg at the Atlantic Review talks about the
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