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underdog's underblog: February 2006
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Sunday, February 26, 2006. Look, an Arab! Xenophobia is not my thing, though I can appreciate it whenever it gives embarrassment to the Xenophobia President, as in the Dubai Ports controversy. There's some sort of irony in that somewhere. But bitter irony isn't my thing either, or at least I wish it weren't. The President promulgated a policy of torturing prisoners. And why is Bush so cosy with oil-rich Arab kingdoms? Is it just daddy and Dicky's petro-dollars or is there more to it? I long to believe th...
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underdog's underblog: December 2006
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Sunday, December 03, 2006. The Chaos You Have, Not the Chaos You Might Want or Wish to Have at a Later Time. Now that's a plan. It may be ruthless imperialism, but at least it might have worked. Posted by Plastic Pig. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). The Chaos You Have, Not the Chaos You Might Want o. View my complete profile.
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underdog's underblog: August 2006
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Monday, August 14, 2006. When Bush talks about terrorists and the alleged things they have done or may be doing, he typically uses the definite article. Whenever possible, he says "the terrorists," and not "Shiite terrorists," or "Irish terrorists," or "those 19 terrorists who helped get me reelected," or just plain "terrorists.". Posted by Plastic Pig. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile.
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underdog's underblog: July 2006
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Sunday, July 23, 2006. William Rivers Pitt of Truthout wrote a piece the other day mocking the president as a drunk and a dummy. Pitt is usually an insightful writer, but this seems to me to be an unfortunate take. Bush may have his occasional binges (beer goes good with pretzels), but he is far from stupid. For god's sake, have they duped you too? Do you really need to add to the 2 myths that put the Repubs in power, 1) that Bush is jes' folks, and 2) that Liberals are snooty elitists? And on Iran, they...
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underdog's underblog: January 2007
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Monday, January 22, 2007. I'm going to be the first person to be crude enough to tell the truth. Iraq needs to have a civil war. (I admit I've heard that some right-wing nuts have said this, but I think they're kidding, and I'm being perfectly serious.). It's just that somebody needs to rule this country, and it sure as hell isn't going to be some hand-picked U.S. toady trying to stay alive by playing both ends against the middle. The answer to each question is the same- they had a war. It might have...
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underdog's underblog: Pigs Is Pigs
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Monday, March 19, 2007. I recently heard an environmentalist speak the following sentence, referring to human effects on the natural environment:. Let's assume everything we do is bad.". She was speaking in a forum staged by the (rather lame) public radio show In the Loop, and to be fair, I should say that her larger point was that we should acknowledge that all our actions have environmental consequences, and that we should assign monetary values to those costs, and bring those costs into the marketplace.
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underdog's underblog: September 2007
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Monday, September 10, 2007. JustTell Me Some Better Fucking Lies. It just keeps getting creepier. I'm having trouble calibrating my governmental-wrongdoing meter. Osama Bin Laden has to be one of the deadest people that ever died. And somehow he issues a statement whenever the U.S. is about to have a big election or a vote on the war or the like. Http:/ www.boomantribune.com/story/2007/9/9/61032/95401. And here's a transcript from the English video caption. But wait, he still has a tape recorder! Alterna...
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underdog's underblog: October 2006
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Sunday, October 15, 2006. I've been wasting my time talking about the Iraq endgame. And that's not just because nobody knows or cares what I say. Everyone talking about this particular issue is wasting his time, because Iraq is not Vietnam. Iraq is Vietnam plus oil. No president, no matter of what party, is going to abandon this resource to the fate of an imploding country that we just happen to have raped and pillaged to the tune of half a million or so dead civilians. Posted by Plastic Pig. Show me jus...
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underdog's underblog: April 2007
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Sunday, April 22, 2007. America is starting to remind me of a landlord I used to have back when I just got married. Let's call her Ana. She was near 70, and wore go-go boots, miniskirts, and plunging necklines. Her breasts had the shape of a pair of leaky water balloons stuffed into lumpy socks (which is basically what they were, of course), and her facial skin was stretched tight as a snare drum. Pretty soon, however, we found out that Ana was pretty hard to reach when there were clogged drains or broke...
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underdog's underblog: June 2006
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Friday, June 30, 2006. The right-wing message meat grinder has been pretty impressive on the Hamdan decision. Swatted down by the Supreme Court, they somehow managed to make it seem like a victory, with a phalanx of media messengers across the globe perfectly executing plan Z. That is, when you really, really have lost, just figure out some way to pretend you won. There can't be enough Paxil in the world to make even Rush Limbaugh believe that. The ruling imposes selected strictures of the Geneva Con...
