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The curious case of “National Socialists”…

Here’s a quote from a comment in a liberal blog:

“The rabid right has useful idiots that call Obama a socialist and a fascist in the same sentence, obviously not realizing that the two are diametrically opposing!”

Forgetting the grammatical errors, I wish I could agree with that statement. In fact I used to believe it was [...]

It’s official – he’s a war criminal…

Well, he finally admitted to it:

“Yeah, we water-boarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.”

- George W. Bush, ex-President and War Criminal

Of course, he’s a little late to the show, his V.P. admitted to it two years ago:

“I was aware of the program, certainly, and involved in helping get the process cleared, as the agency in effect came [...]

C.S. Lewis sounds like a weenie…

“War is a dreadful thing, and I can respect an honest pacifist, though I think he is entirely mistaken, What I cannot understand is this sort of semi-pacifism you get nowadays which gives people the idea that though you have to fight, you ought to do it with a long face and [...]

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction…

Sometimes truth truly is stranger than fiction. That is, you hit a document, web site, video, audio recording, opinion, whatever where you just can’t believe what you’re reading. Did they really say that? Did they really admit to that? Are they really willing to show so much of the sausage making?

You’d think [...]

Holocaust deniers…

From “My Father’s Keeper” by Stephan and Norbert Lebert, a book of interviews with children of Nazi leaders:

Himmler’s name and home have a particular – a particularly grisly – significance for Martin Bormann [Junior, son of Martin Borman Senior, famous Nazi]. About a year before the end of the war he and his sisters were [...]

Profoundly sad…

I sent a note to a co-worker/friend about the fact that hackers were using Facebook to infiltrate financial companies:

http://lastwatchdog.com/facebook-phishers-breached-corporate-network/

He had a great reply, and frankly a sad one when you think about it:

I wish they would work on world hunger – the problem would be solved simply and cleverly in about a weeks [...]

At last…

They got Mr. Polanski…

Polanski – Wiki Commons

I admit at one time I thought that Polanski should probably be left alone – I mean it had been over 30 years since his crime hadn’t it? It was just sex right? He’s a famous and fantastic director, non?

Except:

She was 13 years old damnit!
He drugged her up [...]

Bad Massachusetts, bad…

With friends like these, who needs enemies?

So today Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick named fellow Democrat Paul Kirk to serve out the remainder of Edward Kennedy’s term. The unseamly factor in this that hasn’t been well publicized, which Republicans have good reason to be angry at, is the Democratically controlled MA legislature removed the option from [...]

While I’m here – the answer to immorality…

While I’m on the subject of morality, what really is the answer to all the immorality in the world?

No I’m not talking watching “Real Sex” on HBO, nor for that matter mass murder, single murder, rape, or any of really horrible crimes that happen. Clearly the people who do those (excluding “Real Sex” watchers of [...]

Corporate “amoralism”…

A long, long time ago, but not so far away, I went to a “Howard Dean” rally when he was running for President. At the time, and unfortunately I don’t remember the exacts (so paraphrasing), he said:

Corporations are not good or evil, they’re “amoral”.

It was the first time I had heard it put that way [...]