October 31 News Feed Update

My News feed, your virtual afternoon newspaper (easy URL: www.HansMeyer.net/News), has been updated for today.

In honor of today we start with Boo! Chris Matthews Imagines Halloween Costumes for Candidates.

Two follow-up articles to the "Values Voters" conference: Max Blumenthal: Bravest "Mensch" In The Village Marches Into Den Of Theocracy, Returns and Max Blumenthal Goes To The Values Voters Summit (Bravo, Max!).

Kucinich Questions Bush’s Mental Health (along with just about everyone else!).

From the *sigh* category there's My Disappointment of Hillary.

Happy National Candy Apple Day!

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Typical Rightwing Know-it-all

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At the end of the rainbow...

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October 30 News Feed Update

My News feed, your virtual afternoon newspaper (easy URL: www.HansMeyer.net/News), has been updated for today.

Nothing like the delusions of the rightwing: Right-wing blogger: Ari Fleischer is a ‘modern day Moses.’

Questioning 9/11 and to Hell with Caution, which I posted earlier today.

Rush off the deep end with How Long? "You Can't Be a Republican".

And, Tom Tomorrow gets it (again) with The internets just make me tired sometimes.

Finally, in time for Halloween: Happy National Candy Corn Day!

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"There Isn’t Actually Any Such Thing As Islamofascism"

Fearing Fear Itself
By Paul Krugman

In America’s darkest hour, Franklin Delano Roosevelt urged the nation not to succumb to “nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror.” But that was then. Today, many of the men who hope to be the next president — including all of the candidates with a significant chance of receiving the Republican nomination — have made unreasoning, unjustified terror the centerpiece of their campaigns. Consider, for a moment, the implications of the fact that Rudy Giuliani is taking foreign policy advice from Norman Podhoretz, who wants us to start bombing Iran “as soon as it is logistically possible.” Mr. Podhoretz, the editor of Commentary and a founding neoconservative, tells us that Iran is the “main center of the Islamofascist ideology against which we have been fighting since 9/11.” The Islamofascists, he tells us, are well on their way toward creating a world “shaped by their will and tailored to their wishes.” Indeed, “Already, some observers are warning that by the end of the 21st century the whole of Europe will be transformed into a place to which they give the name Eurabia.” Do I have to point out that none of this makes a bit of sense? For one thing, there isn’t actually any such thing as Islamofascism — it’s not an ideology; it’s a figment of the neocon imagination. The term came into vogue only because it was a way for Iraq hawks to gloss over the awkward transition from pursuing Osama bin Laden, who attacked America, to Saddam Hussein, who didn’t. And Iran had nothing whatsoever to do with 9/11 — in fact, the Iranian regime was quite helpful to the United States when it went after Al Qaeda and its Taliban allies in Afghanistan. Beyond that, the claim that Iran is on the path to global domination is beyond ludicrous. Yes, the Iranian regime is a nasty piece of work in many ways, and it would be a bad thing if that regime acquired nuclear weapons. But let’s have some perspective, please: we’re talking about a country with roughly the G.D.P. of Connecticut, and a government whose military budget is roughly the same as Sweden’s. Meanwhile, the idea that bombing will bring the Iranian regime to its knees — and bombing is the only option, since we’ve run out of troops — is pure wishful thinking. Last year Israel tried to cripple Hezbollah with an air campaign, and ended up strengthening it instead. There’s every reason to believe that an attack on Iran would produce the same result, with the added effects of endangering U.S. forces in Iraq and driving oil prices well into triple digits. Mr. Podhoretz, in short, is engaging in what my relatives call crazy talk. Yet he is being treated with respect by the front-runner for the G.O.P. nomination. And Mr. Podhoretz’s rants are, if anything, saner than some of what we’ve been hearing from some of Mr. Giuliani’s rivals. Thus, in a recent campaign ad Mitt Romney asserted that America is in a struggle with people who aim “to unite the world under a single jihadist Caliphate. To do that they must collapse freedom-loving nations. Like us.” He doesn’t say exactly who these jihadists are, but presumably he’s referring to Al Qaeda — an organization that has certainly demonstrated its willingness and ability to kill innocent people, but has no chance of collapsing the United States, let alone taking over the world. And Mike Huckabee, whom reporters like to portray as a nice, reasonable guy, says that if Hillary Clinton is elected, “I’m not sure we’ll have the courage and the will and the resolve to fight the greatest threat this country’s ever faced in Islamofascism.” Yep, a bunch of lightly armed terrorists and a fourth-rate military power — which aren’t even allies — pose a greater danger than Hitler’s panzers or the Soviet nuclear arsenal ever did. All of this would be funny if it weren’t so serious. In the wake of 9/11, the Bush administration adopted fear-mongering as a political strategy. Instead of treating the attack as what it was — an atrocity committed by a fundamentally weak, though ruthless adversary — the administration portrayed America as a nation under threat from every direction. Most Americans have now regained their balance. But the Republican base, which lapped up the administration’s rhetoric about the axis of evil and the war on terror, remains infected by the fear the Bushies stirred up — perhaps because fear of terrorists maps so easily into the base’s older fears, including fear of dark-skinned people in general. And the base is looking for a candidate who shares this fear. Just to be clear, Al Qaeda is a real threat, and so is the Iranian nuclear program. But neither of these threats frightens me as much as fear itself — the unreasoning fear that has taken over one of America’s two great political parties.

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Questioning 9/11 and to Hell with Caution on OpEdNews.com

October 30, 2007

Questioning 9/11 and to Hell with Caution
by Michael Shaw
http://www.opednews.com/

From the article:

As for David Horowitz, here's a guy who is promoting a rash of anti-radical Islamic events on several US College campuses and in his last outing and along with his perpetual sidekick, Ann Coulter; had invited a guest speaker who turned out to be one of Britain's biggest holocaust deniers. Isn't that a kick in the shorts!?! Frankly I see him(and Coulter) in the same light as I see LaRouche, Bollyn, Piper and Carto. (read the entire article)

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Beware! on Cry Freedom

Join host Lisa Litchfield on Cry Freedom tonight, at 7:00pm Central Time (-06:00 GMT), when she warns Beware the Crazy Brown Boogeymen!

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mAnn Colter: On the Gay Circuit

Ann Coulter: On the Gay Circuit in West Hollywood

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October 29 News Feed Update

My News feed, your virtual afternoon newspaper (easy URL: www.HansMeyer.net/News), has been updated for today.

First up, looks like there's a reason why the General is supporting him: Dodd continues to do the right thing, opposes Mukasey.

‘When the President Does it, That Means That it is Not Illegal’ (sounds familiar).

Krugman: No such thing as ‘Islamofascism’ Bravo, Paul Krugman!

And, if it is Monday it is time for another Top 10 Conservative Idiots, No. 312.

Happy National Oatmeal Day!

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In the Spotlight: Exposing the Lies

Welcome to In the Spotlight, a semi-regular feature of this blog, where I highlight one or more of the links on my personal Web site, www.HansMeyer.net.

Yesterday I posted the article, The Right-Wing Smear Forward, which is the motivation for today's In the Spotlight.

I'll be highlighting two sites, on my Information links page, dedicated to either confirming or exposing as lies the seemingly unlimited amount of urban legends and gossip found on Web sites and (even more so) in chain mail e-mail messages* we all receive.

The first site is Snopes (also known as Urban Legends):

The other site is Break the Chain, which specifically targets the chain mail messages* we all receive:

* - I like to refer to some of these chain mail messages as a poor person's computer virus. Instead of spreading themselves automatically they use the recipients of the message to do the spreading for them.

You can spot them easily: They're the ones which have a line reading: Forward this to everyone you know, or Forward this to everyone in your address book. If you see that in an e-mail message check with Snopes or Break the Chain. Chances are it is a fake message.

As an added bonus I am including, from my Humor links page, My Right-Wing Dad, a collection of right-wing'ed forwards:


You'll find quite a collection of right wing nut chain e-mail messages, which some people, believe it or not, actually take as the truth!

(go to www.HansMeyer.net/Links, then click on Information or Humor).

Click here for this and previous In The Spotlight posts.

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October 28 News Feed Update

My News feed, your virtual afternoon newspaper (easy URL: www.HansMeyer.net/News), has been updated for today.

We hear from the administration cheerleaders with FOX News Sunday: Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran and Fox Panel: Dems Are ‘Terribly Weak’ If They Don’t Threaten ‘Devasting Military Strike’ Against Iran.

Bob Schieffer Commentary Slams FEMA For Phony Press Conference (way to go, Bob!).

Austin Cline (via the General) on the California fires: Fighting Fire with Flames: Only Compassionate Conservatives Can Exacerbate Forrest Fires.

Happy National Chocolate Day!

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Ritual Defamation and Humiliation

The Art Of The Hissy Fit
By Digby on October 23, 2007 - 10:53pm.
From the article:

The political cost to progressives and liberals for their inability to properly deal with this tactic is greater than they realize. Just as Newt Gingrich was not truly offended by Bill Clinton's behavior (which mirrored his own) neither were conservative congressmen and Rush Limbaugh truly upset by the Move On ad --- and everyone knew it, which was the point. It is a potent demonstration of pure power to force others to insincerely condemn or apologize for something, particularly when the person who is forcing it is also insincerely outraged. For a political party that suffers from a reputation for weakness, it is extremely damaging to be so publicly cowed over and over again. It separates them from their most ardent supporters and makes them appear guilty and unprincipled to the public at large. (read the entire article)

My thanks to Michael Silliman for alerting me to this excellent and highly recommended article. Liberals and progressives everywhere should read this!

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Sunday! Time for Shakedown Street

Join Blog Talk Radio Featured Host Brian Wolf as he discusses News and Commentary... with a hint of music.

That's today on Shakedown Street at 4:00pm Pacific Time (-08:00 GMT) on Blog Talk Radio.

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October 27 News Feed Update

My News feed, your virtual afternoon newspaper (easy URL: www.HansMeyer.net/News), has been updated for today.

I have always been a fan of Robert Redford, ever since 1972's The Candidate. But this cinches it: Robert Redford Added to Bill O'Reilly's Anti-American Watch List.

Not news, but it certainly fits in with The Free World Pub: IM IN UR PUB.

I posted this earlier: The Right-Wing Smear Forward, and cannot recommend it highly enough.

Fox Blames the San Diego Fire on an Immigrant from Guatemala (of course they do!).

And for my good friend and Blog Talk Radio Featured Host Brian Wolf:

Happy American Beer Day!

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The Right-Wing Smear Forward

The New Right-Wing Smear Machine
Christopher Hayes
On February 27, 2001, two members of the American Gold Star Mothers, an organization of women who've lost sons or daughters in combat, dropped by the temporary basement offices of the new junior senator from New York, Hillary Clinton. They didn't have an appointment, and the office, which had been up and running for barely a month, was a bit discombobulated. The two women wanted to talk to the senator about a bill pending in the Senate that would provide annuities for the parents of those killed, but they were told that Clinton wasn't in the office and that the relevant staff members were otherwise engaged. The organization later submitted a formal request in writing for a meeting, which Clinton granted, meeting and posing for pictures with four members of the group.

But the story doesn't end there. In May of that year, the right-wing website NewsMax, a clearinghouse for innuendo and rumor, ran a short item with the headline "Hillary Snubs Gold Star Mothers." Reporting via hearsay--a comment relayed to someone who then recounted it to the column's author--the article claimed that Clinton and her staff "simply refused" to meet with the Gold Star Mothers, making hers the "only office" in the Senate that snubbed the group.

At first the item didn't attract much attention, but it quickly morphed into an e-mail that started ricocheting across the Internet. "Bet this never hits the TV news!" began one version. "According to NewsMax.com there was only one politician in DC who refused to meet with these ladies. Can you guess which politician that might be?... None other than the Queen herself--the Hildebeast, Hillary Clinton."

Before long, the Gold Star Mothers and the Clinton office found themselves inundated by inquiries about the "snub," prompting the Gold Star Mothers to post a small item debunking the claim on their website. When that didn't stem the tide, they posted a lengthier notice. "These allegations were not initiated by the Gold Star Mothers.... This is a fabricated report picked up by an individual using the Gold Star Mothers as an instrument to discredit Senator Clinton.... We do not need mischeivous gossip and unfounded lies to promote our organization. Please help stop it now."

That plea notwithstanding, the e-mail continues to circulate to this day. Anyone who's been following politics for the past fifteen years won't be surprised to find Hillary Clinton the subject of a false and damning right-wing smear. We've all become familiar with the ways the Republican noise machine transmits lurid bits of misinformation and tendentious attacks from the conservative fringe into the heart of American political discourse, the process by which a slightly misdelivered joke by John Kerry attracts the ire of Rush Limbaugh and ends up on the front page of the New York Times.

But in some senses, the kind of under-the-radar attack embodied in the Gold Star e-mail--which never made the jump to Fox or Drudge--is even harder to deal with. "It's a Pandora's box," says Jim Kennedy, who served as Clinton's communications director during her first Senate term. "Once [the charges] are out in the ether, they are very hard to combat. It's very unlike a traditional media, newspaper or TV show, or even a blog, which at least has a fixed point of reference. You know they're traveling far and wide, but there's no way to rebut them with all the people that have seen them."

Such is the power of the right-wing smear forward, a vehicle for the dissemination of character assassination that has escaped the scrutiny directed at the Limbaughs and Coulters and O'Reillys but one that is as potent as it is invisible. ...

(read the entire article)

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Today on the Free World Radio Network

This morning on Situation Awareness my topic will be The War on Halloween (be sure to check-out yesterday's post, The War on Halloween-A report from the front). Starting today at 10:00am Eastern Time (-05:00 GMT).

Then, at 11:00am Eastern Time (-05:00 GMT), tune in to The Free World Pub.

Tune in today on Blog Talk Radio.

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Nelson Rockefeller versus Barry Goldwater

This was on WorldNutDaily. If they say it, well, it must be true. Right?

Conservatism is a Tower of Babel by: Patrick J. Buchanan "I was conservative yesterday, I'm a conservative today, and I will be a conservative tomorrow," declared Fred Thompson to the Conservative Party of New York, billing himself as the "consistent conservative" in the GOP race – in contrast to ex-mayor Rudy Giuliani. In his defense, Rudy cites George Will as calling his eight years in office in the Big Apple the most conservative city government in 50 years. And, truth be told, Thompson was reliably conservative in his Senate years. But so, too, has John McCain been, and Ron Paul, Duncan Hunter and Tom Tancredo. Hunter, however, splits with Thompson and McCain on trade. Paul disagrees with all six of them on the war. And Tancredo assails McCain for backing Bush's amnesty for 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens. Will the real conservative please stand up? Or perhaps we should recall John 14:2, "In my father's house there are many mansions." What does it mean to be a conservative – in 2007? Sixty years ago, Robert A. Taft was the gold standard. Forty years ago, it was Barry Goldwater, who backed Bob Taft against Ike at the 1952 convention. Twenty years ago, it was Ronald Reagan, who backed Barry in 1964. Reagan remains the paragon – for the consistency of his convictions, the success of his presidency and the character he exhibited to the end of his life. About Reagan the cliché was true: The greatness of the office found out the greatness in the man. Reagan defined conservatism for his time. And the issues upon which we agreed were anti-communism, a national defense second to none, lower tax rates to unleash the engines of economic progress, fiscal responsibility, a strict-constructionist Supreme Court, law and order, the right-to-life from conception on and a resolute defense of family values under assault from the cultural revolution that hit America with hurricane force in the 1960s. With the collapse of the Soviet Empire and the breakup of the Soviet Union, anti-communism as the defining and unifying issue of the right was gone. The conservative crack-up commenced. With George H.W. Bush came the advent of what Fred Barnes of the New Republic hailed as Big Government Conservatism. Some thought the phrase oxymoronic. But when Bush stood at the rostrum of the U.N. General Assembly in October 1991 to declare that America's cause was the creation of a New World Order, the old right reached reflexively for their revolvers. In 1992, with foreign policy off the table, the Bush economic record a perceived failure and Ross Perot running on protectionism and populism, Bush refused to play his trump card with the Clintons: the social and moral issues he and Lee Atwater had use to beat Michael Dukakis senseless in 1988. And so, George H.W. Bush lost the presidency. Now, 15 years later, what does it mean to be a conservative? There is no pope who speaks ex cathedra. There is no bible to consult, like Goldwater's "The Conscience of a Conservative" or Reagan's "no-pale-pastels" platform of 1980. At San Diego in 1996, Bob Dole told his convention he had not bothered to read the platform. Many who heard him did not bother to vote for Bob Dole. And so, today, the once-great house of conservatism is a Tower of Babel. We are big government and small government, traditionalist and libertarian, tax-cutter and budget hawk, free trader and economic nationalist. Bush and McCain support amnesty and a "path to citizenship" for illegals. The country wants the laws enforced and a fence on the border. And Rudy? A McGovernite in 1972, he boasted in the campaign of 1993 that he would "rekindle the Rockefeller, Javits, Lefkowitz tradition" of New York's GOP and "produce the kind of change New York City saw with ... John Lindsay." He ran on the Liberal Party line and supported Mario Cuomo in 1994. Pro-abortion, anti-gun, again and again he strutted up Fifth Avenue in the June Gay Pride parade and turned the Big Apple into a sanctuary city for illegal aliens. While Ward Connerly goes state to state to end reverse discrimination, Rudy is an affirmative-action man. Gravitating now to Rudy's camp are those inveterate opportunists, the neocons, who see in Giuliani their last hope of redemption for their cakewalk war and their best hope for a "Long War" against "Islamo-fascism." I will, Rudy promises, nominate Scalias. Only one more may be needed to overturn Roe. And I will keep Hillary out of the White House. A Giuliani presidency would represent the return and final triumph of the Republicanism that conservatives went into politics to purge from power. A Giuliani presidency would represent repudiation by the party of the moral, social and cultural content that, with anti-communism, once separated it from liberal Democrats and defined it as an institution. Rudy offers the right the ultimate Faustian bargain: retention of power at the price of one's soul.

Then it was Nelson Rockefeller versus Barry Goldwater.

Today it is cross-dressing, adulterous, thrice-married Rudy Giuliani versus Pat Buchanan.

Let the games begin!

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October 26 News Feed Update

My News feed, your virtual afternoon newspaper (easy URL: www.HansMeyer.net/News), has been updated for today.

Oh, now doesn't this sound familiar: Right Wing Enraged: Laura Bush Is A ‘Butt-Kisser’ For Wearing Headscarf In Mideast.

As does this: Wingnut Candidate: California Fires are "God's Judgment"

As I already posted, and just in time for my broadcast tomorrow, there's The War on Halloween.

There's a good follow-up to a previous The Dark Side broadcast with Restoring Constitutional government and shoving the Overton Window left.

Today is Pumpkin Day!

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The War on Halloween-A report from the front

Just in time for Situation Awareness tomorrow Jesus' General (well, actually, Miss Poppy Dixon on Jesus' General) weighs in with...

The War on Halloween

Look for these amazing reports:

• Halloween Fun Family Prayer Adventures


• For every light brown M & M you chose, pray for Christians in other countries.


• I wonder where we toss the unbaptized beanie babies.


• Trunk or Treat

But the greatest has to be:


The Jesus Costume!From the article:

This is all marvelous progress, especially after last year's debacle. Donna Brewer, the Christian mother of a fourth grader, didn't want her son to feel isolated by not wearing a costume to the school's Halloween party, so she dressed him up like Jesus on the Via Dolorosa, complete with crown of thorns (though it looks more like he's getting highlights). The school objected to the crown of thorns, so the mother sued through James Dobson's Alliance Defense Fund. It seems the case has been dropped as there are no more mentions about it on the ADF website.

Whew! I sure am glad the "troops" are out there, fighting the War on Halloween!

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Freedom of Speech Is Not Free

‘Dixie Chicking’: Post-9/11 Blacklisting in the Entertainment Industry
Posted on Oct 25, 2007

Ed Rampell

The HUAC/McCarthy era and Hollywood blacklist may be over, but the not-so-grand inquisitors are still among us. On March 31, 2007, activist/actor Mike Farrell, who co-starred in TV’s “M*A*S*H” and co-founded Artists United to Win Without War, told Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting’s “CounterSpin” radio program, “There’s a price to be paid for speaking out, and some have paid a fairly serious price.” Around that same time, at a March 24, 2007, anti-war Oakland town meeting called by Congresswoman Barbara Lee, actor Sean Penn stated: “we are encouraged to self-censor any words that might be perceived as inflammatory—if our belief is that this war should stop today. We cower as you point fingers telling us to ‘support our troops.’ ” There are other examples of creative people suffering the consequences of their outspokenness since 9/11, but none are as compelling as the saga of the Dixie Chicks, the top-selling “girl group” of all time. Indeed, the red, white and bluegrass band’s name became a verb meaning censoring and punishing dissenters: “Dixie Chicking.” The Chicks’ story was turned into a documentary by two-time Academy Award winner Barbara Kopple (1976’s “Harlan County USA” and 1990’s “American Dream") and Cecilia Peck. Cecilia’s father, Gregory Peck, won the Oscar for portraying the screen’s archetypal fighting liberal, Atticus Finch, in 1962’s anti-racist “To Kill a Mockingbird,” and produced the 1972 anti-Vietnam-War film “The Trial of the Catonsville Nine,” about the Berrigan brothers’ anti-draft activities. (In August 2007, Tim Robbins’ L.A.-based Actors Gang troupe presented a reading of the “Catonsville Nine” drama as a fundraiser.) (read the entire article)

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The Political Atlas Debuts!

Please join me in tuning in to the broadcast premier of The Political Atlas with your host, Charlie Kensil, tonight at 7:00pm Eastern Time (-05:00 GMT).

Charlie's topic for tonight will be Human Shield.

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Condi a Waste of Time on OpEdNews.com

October 24, 2007

Condi a Waste of Time
by Brian Wolf
http://www.opednews.com/


It’s past time to ask the question; of what use is Condoleeza Rice? She was appointed NSA in 2001 by George Bush because she was an expert in, wait for it, Soviet history. It was as if the RNC had been preserved in amber until released in 2001, confused, out of sorts, and looking for an enemy that no longer existed.The new administration stumbled around, searching for their new boogeyman.

In the meantime, newly appointed President George W Bush decided that after 8 months of hard work, it was time for a 5 week vacation at his ranch in Crawford, TX. Meanwhile, the NSA director held down the fort, ignoring, and passing over, increasingly frantic memos from intelligence operatives in the field that Al-Qaeda was planning something big. On 9/11, George, Condoleeza, and the rest of us found out what it was. Although to be fair, George and Condoleeza had, in their possession in July, memo’s that pretty much outline exactly what Al Qaeda had in mind. NSA Director Rice didn’t think they were important enough to bother George while he was clearing brush in Crawford.

Since then she has been upgraded to Secretary of State. Exactly what has she done while in this position? She’s defended the ever increasingly ridiculous, and bizzare, mandates and reports coming from the White House. Mostly, however, she seems to be held in some kind of incommunicado status until they need a sound bite, and then they throw the power switch, download the text and out she spits it, with all the emotion of an automaton.

Yes, she’s gone to the Middle East, but instead of this showing that we know what we’re doing, it only serves to highlight the incompetence and absurdity of the Bush administration. When she stopped by during the bombing of Lebanon, I saw her in a room full of Arab men, all dressed in suits, she was in a pantsuit with her sunglasses pushed back up on her head like she had just breezed in from shopping in The Hampton’s. What? Peace in the Middle East isn’t even important enough to take your sunglasses off and stay awhile?

And where in the tiny, dust addled brain of George W Bush did he think that Arab men, Muslim men, are going to even listen to a woman much less work with one? Women are second class citizens over there and sending a woman to negotiate must be seen as either world class ignorance or just simply disrespect.

Dr. Rice needs to resign and accept a position at a University where she can live out her days teaching Soviet history, where at least she won’t be wasting everyone’s time.

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October 25 News Feed Update

My News feed, your virtual afternoon newspaper (easy URL: www.HansMeyer.net/News), has been updated for today.

We start with a real Alert the media story: CAUTION — Cheney going hunting this weekend.

Next, the latest from the cross-dressing, adulterous, thrice-married Republican: Rudy Jokes About Torture: ‘On That Theory, I’m Getting Tortured Running For President’.

And speaking of Rudy, here's something which just might give his followers a chill: Baptist leader to GOP: ‘This is not a bluff’

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Wake-up Cat!

Cat owners can certainly appreciate this...



...just don't let your cat watch it!

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October 24 News Feed Update

My News feed, your virtual afternoon newspaper (easy URL: www.HansMeyer.net/News), has been updated for today.

Let the "games" begin: Rudy Giuliani flips on the Yankees and roots for the Boston Red Sox to win the series!

Another great one from the General with Are there no poorhouses (Part II) (which I covered in an earlier post today).

The "Hitler Comparison" (from the article: " If it struts like a Nazi, talks like Nazi, tortures like a Nazi and wages aggressive and illegal war like a Nazi... it's not a duck.").

Happy National Bologna Day!

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Priorities

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The General and the YAF

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

A Yellow Elephant's War Against The Jews

Kyle Bristow Chairman MSU Young Americans for Freedom Dear Chairman Bristow, I have a lot of respect for Young Americans for Freedom. YAF never backs down from controversy. Whether it's whites only scholarships, defending Coca-Cola from communism, holding "Support the Troops rallies" here so you don't have to fight with them over there, or funding Ann Coulter through speaking engagements so she can continue battling liberals, brown people, and Jews, YAF has always been there, standing up for white Christian conservative principles. I salute you for continuing this YAF tradition by inviting Nick Griffin to speak. Your bound to get a lot of criticism for it. The politically correct will no doubt rail against Griffin for referring to the Holocaust as the "Holohoax." And there will be others who will condemn him for writing The Mindbenders, his seminal work on Jewish control of the British media. You know it's going to happen. I think you should prepare for it by attacking them first. Call an emergency meeting of your YAF chapter and put your members to work identifying the Jews at MSU and in the local media. Then you can put out an East Lansing edition of The Mindbenders, so everyone knows who to persecute. It'll be worth the investment, especially as we approach the War on Christmas season. Heterosexually yours, Gen. JC Christian, patriot

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October 23 News Feed Update

My News feed, your virtual afternoon newspaper (easy URL: www.HansMeyer.net/News), has been updated for today.

The lastest from the cross-dressing, adulterous, thrice-married Republican: Giuliani’s “Values” Include Defending And Hiring An Accused Molester.

And speaking of values there's Scenes from the Bewildered Right.

Next up: House Flunks Boehner’s Attempt to Censure Stark; Stark Apologizes Anyway (my friend Sinfonian, over at Blast Off! Intertubes home of America's Wang & Glans), has a great article on this).

The General weighs in with A Yellow Elephant's War Against The Jews

Happy Boston Cream Pie Day!

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Perspective

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Antares is the 15th brightest star in the sky.
It is more than 1000 light years away.

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Happy Indiscretion Day

Tune in today as host Lisa Litchfield discusses Bill Clinton, cigars and humidors.

That's on Cry Freedom, today at 7:00pm Central Time on Blog Talk Radio.

The Free World Radio Network: Broadcasting from California, Florida, New Jersey, Tennessee, Texas and Washington State

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October 22 News Feed Update

My News feed, your virtual afternoon newspaper (easy URL: www.HansMeyer.net/News), has been updated for today.

First up: We can only keep America safe by coercing tons of false confessions and then lying about it (too bad those on the right aren't honest enough to say that!).

Also, GOP Debate: Appealing to the 24%ers.

For your humor there's Is The Government Spying On Paranoid Schizophrenics Enough?

And, if it is Monday it is time for another Top 10 Conservative Idiots, No. 311.

Happy National Nut Day!

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An early Halloween gift for you ...

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October 21 News Feed Update

My News feed, your virtual afternoon newspaper (easy URL: www.HansMeyer.net/News), has been updated for today.

Hey! They got everything wrong about Iraq, so why not Fox News Sunday: William “The Bloody” Kristol’s Bloodlust for War with Iran and Kristol: Iran Is ‘The Only Real Threat’ To Success In Iraq

The Time Has Come to Face Reality: Al Gore Will Not Run (True, sadly true).

Finally, there's Poll: Americans increasingly concerned about warming.

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Today on Shakedown Street

Join Blog Talk Radio Featured Host Brian Wolf as he discusses News and Commentary... with a hint of music.

That's today on Shakedown Street at 4:00pm Pacific Time (-08:00 GMT) on Blog Talk Radio.

The Free World Radio Network: Broadcasting from California, Florida, New Jersey, Tennessee, Texas and Washington State

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mAnn Colter "Perfected"

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The War on Christmas x3

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October 20 News Feed Update

My News feed, your virtual afternoon newspaper (easy URL: www.HansMeyer.net/News), has been updated for today.

First up there's Bizzy Bodies (from the article: "The papal smoke from his ass must be clouding his mind.").

Bush uses photo-ops to ‘angle for conservation stature.’ (the owl is saying: "No mission accomplished for you. Come back, one year!")

The War On Christmas x3 - Starring Bill O'Grinchly (earlier and earlier each year... of course!)

And, from the "I am not surprised category," there's Limbaugh At It Again - Mocks Voice Of 12 Year Old Graeme Frost and The naked soul of Stalkin' Malkin

Happy Birthday, Saint Lisa!

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