KARL ROVE, A GREAT AMERICAN
I don't know about you, but these memories light the corners of my mind. And also light fuses up certain of my most secret orifices. Now as that great man Gonzo once said, recollections might differ on any particular matter. Like, what really did happen when I visited my friend in the hospital?
But if anyone knows or recollects better about the previous eight years it has to be Karl and I would like to review some of his conclusions here.
1. The former president and his wife thanked each passenger, showing the thoughtfulness and grace so characteristic of this wonderful American family.
How could any of us forget w's thoughtfulness? Those magnificent moments when he put words together to express the hopes and dreams of a nation like no other president before him. And what about his grace? The way he could finish a speech and glide toward locked doors. Or speak to plants in audiences at pretend community forums.
2. Karl talks about "A video tribute produced warm laughter and inevitable tears." One can only guess what they put in that video. Maybe it presented those pictures from Abu Grabi that showed Muslims putting a show on for our troops. Or, perhaps, great moments in presidential speeches.
3. Karl talks about "... a last angry frenzy his critics
again distorted his record, maligned his character and repeated
untruths about his years in the Oval Office. Nothing they wrote or said
changes the essential facts. Distortions have just run rampant. Like when old footage shows w promising that we do not torture and we do not wiretap anyone without court orders. In point of fact, no one at w's WH tortured anyone. That is what we have soldiers and CIA operatives for. And no one at w's WH ever illegally wire tapped anyone. That is why we have telephone companies.
5. Karl points out another important fact: "He was right to take the war on terror abroad instead of
waiting until dangers fully materialize here at home." Fight them over there so that we do not have to fight them here. Oh how that sentiment has warmed my cockles over the last seven years or so. I mean, Americans can be over here and over there at the same time. But terrorists tend to congregate together. They cannot be in two places at once like we can. As some terrorists have actually put it, when the Americans finally leave Iraq, we are taking the first plane straight to Miami and Albany.
6. Karl shows us that "These tough decisions -- which became unpopular in certain quarters
only when memories of 9/11 began to fade -- kept America safe for seven
years." Actually of course, these tough decisions became unpopular in three of four quarters in America, but who is counting? It is that uncertain quarter that really matters because that is the quarter that put w in office in the first place, along with an amenable Supreme Court. As our memories faded, it became harder and harder for good old Karl to keep us afraid enough to keep his disrainbow coalition in power for a thousand years; the dream of Karl's favorite historical figure.
And now that one percent has to grapple with the pain of loss. And the worry of investigations into their finances.
Without great men like Karl Rove and great newspapers like the Wall Street Journal, I might forget the great accomplishments of w's administration.
And forget the scores of felonies committed by the most corrupt administration in the history of this country.
Once again, dd, you've outdone yourself! What a treat to have so many laughs in one post!
Hear! Hear!
At the next inauguration, I propose an inaugural humorist: our own dd!
January 22, 2009 10:14 AM | Reply | Permalink
Thank you TheraP. Say, are you going for a new record of say, 300 comments? I was over there and had to use a fire extinguisher after smoke started coming out of my screen!!!!
January 22, 2009 12:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Took me a bit to recover from all the smoke and fumes. But once I found out that Conyers has been subjected to the same exact attacks, I could see it was nothing but bunch of malarky they're throwing at anyone who stands up for the Rule of Law.
At this point the 300 record remains unmet. Which is ok by me. We have to leave some mountains to climb. And besides today I have other things taking some of my time.
But next time, since Gregor Z is so bent on doing guard duty, I'll just leave it all to Gregor!
How do we reach you when we need you, Gregor?
January 22, 2009 3:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
You're looking at a one term presidency, ala Jimmy Carter. DD's field is mighty large, but I'd suggest him postmarking any applications for the job to the governor's house in Alaska.
January 22, 2009 11:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
dd. I do not like Karl Rove. At. All. You have written the words that I am too bound up in my hatred of the man to say myself. Chi migwetch, my new friend.
January 22, 2009 10:20 AM | Reply | Permalink
Hi Flower. Thanks for the nice words. If you really wish to boil, read Satan's full article at WSJ. And pay close attention to the quotes I have cited because I am already hearing these words coming out of Republican's mouths on cable news.
Good for us. The more these perspectives are voiced, the more people that will move to the Democratic Party.
January 22, 2009 12:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Although I do not keep as close an ear to the tv news as you, I also have been hearing the party line. 'kept America safe for seven years.'
Bulls#^t. What? w should get special recognition for doing his f**king job? Pardon my french, but I did allude to the fact that the man grinds my a$$ and makes me lose my ladylike demeanor. What about the seven years prior to his terms? We were kept safe then, too. We were kept safe for decades and no I'm not forgetting the Oklahoma City bombing...those were home grown terrorists. The notion that w had to go offshore to find something to get his thrill on........grrrrrrrr. I'm gonna stop right here. I'm not saying anything you don't already know.
I did read the WSJ piece. I think that's why I'm in such a pissy mood. Maybe I'd better go drink some lemon balm tea. :o)
January 22, 2009 12:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Do that and then read something happy.
January 22, 2009 1:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
I drank the tea and read through my favorite seed catalog. It helped.
dd. I apologize sincerely for littering your blog with potty mouth words. They were completely uncalled for. Full on frontal Rove always tests my inner calm and today I failed the test. I am failing a lot of tests today so maybe I should go away and come back later.
January 22, 2009 2:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Since no response from dd, I'll say - there's a lot of tolerance here for friendly profanity!
January 22, 2009 3:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ahem,,,, I believe that was KoolAid you've been drinking.
January 22, 2009 11:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
I recommend chamomille! It's very soothing.
January 22, 2009 1:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
I've never read chamomille. Is it a bit like Proust? Oh wait! I bet it's like Umberto Eco meets Harlan Ellison in a dark alley as told by Berthold Brecht.
January 22, 2009 2:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wait. _None_ of that is soothing in the least!
Not individually and certainly not as a group!
*channeling Emily Lutella -> "Nevermind..."
January 22, 2009 2:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
What I ended up doing is reading a gardening catalog and ordering Chamomile seeds. :o) Proust had nothing to do with it. ;o)
January 22, 2009 2:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Can't get much greener then that!
January 22, 2009 11:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
hahahahahhahahah.
January 22, 2009 2:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Nice comment Flowerchild.
Thanks to Bush/Cheney/Rove we had Americans being reduced to DNA samples from IEDs, snipers, VBIEDs, missiles, RPGs; burned and hung from bridges, shot down in helicopters, beheaded in Iraq and Pakistan, doused with gasoline and lit up (recently in Afghanistan) and killed by donkey mounted artillery rockets (that Colonel in the early war years in the hotel in Baghdad). Iraq was made into an urban school for training a generation of terrorists.
To top it off, they made videos while they killed Americans, turned them into DVDs and sold them in Iraq. Killing Americans was turned into entertainment under Bush.
January 22, 2009 8:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Noble, thank you for your comments.
You aren't,by any chance related to Quinn are your?
January 22, 2009 9:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
What loyal and grateful patriots!!!
January 22, 2009 11:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
How exactly does that work, Spric. We are disgusted that those people lost their lives in an unjustified war whose pre-war causes were fabricated by the Bush Administration.
What kind of kool-aid do you drink to find that acceptable? We are not demeaning their sacrifice. We are demanding that., if we call our soldiers to serve and sacrifice, it be for a noble cause. Pay back to Saddam and creating a war time economy to line the pockets of war profiteers is NOT patriotic, you fool.
January 22, 2009 11:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
I thought we weren't feeding the troll.
January 23, 2009 1:12 AM | Reply | Permalink
Let's not forget "bin Laden determined to attack America." Minor point, but it's possible, just possible, that W could have kept America safe all eight years.
January 23, 2009 12:32 AM | Reply | Permalink
I applaud dickday as being one of very few liberals who reads the WSJ. I try to read the NYT myself, but I don't get to it everyday.
Flowerchild - you are forgetting the WTC bombing in 1993 plus the USS Cole plus the US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. I'm sure there's more but I can't remember any others off the top of my head
January 22, 2009 1:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
MCB, I was reading WSJ 30 years ago. I still enjoy Peggy (bewitched) Noonan and several other columnists. WSJ always covered the economy on a consistent basis. Now of course, it is the 'thing' but the economy has a touch of science to it; so to speak. And therefore a number of different perspectives are necessary in order to come to any conclusions.
January 22, 2009 1:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Peggy (bewitched) Noonan
Like Wagner, Dirty Harry Movies, and Snickers, guilty pleasures...
I'm looking for one of those pundit cruises with her on board...
January 22, 2009 1:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Curiously, the WSJ was sending itself to us for free for a few months leading up to the war on Iraq. And it was the strangest experience. Over and over I had the sense their reporting on events on Iraq was much better than the NY Times. (remember Judy, friend of Chalabi?) It helped me maintain a sense that the war was a big mistake! I was already convinced of that at the time, but it sure confirmed it for me!
January 22, 2009 1:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
There has been a definite change with regard to certain editorials and comments in WSJ since Murdoch has taken over. Some essays (like the one I cite and the ones I have cited in the past) are pure garbage. But they become gems because they are almost parodies of themselves.
He has not chosen, however to fire everybody and we need to get a business perspective during all these deliberations if not just to see what the enemy is thinking.
Sometimes, it is like republican talking points are being communicated by WSJ.
January 22, 2009 2:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh come now! You can't be serious. How could you think such a thing!
January 22, 2009 2:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
The WSJ is (or was...) a pretty amazing publication. It still manages to have in-depth articles on VERY interesting subjects that you wouldn't expect to find in what I always assumed was a business publication.
I'm hoping Murdoch isn't going to flush it down the toilet.
Great post...I'm actually getting pretty sick of saying that...could you throw in an occasional loser so I don't start to think you actually DO walk on water? :-)
January 22, 2009 2:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh I have thrown in some sub par performances Stilli. Once Miguel, I think, told me to erase and start over.
Thank you for dropping by. It is 21 plus out here in the tundra--45 degrees warmer than last week.
How is our prettiest state today?
January 22, 2009 2:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Do you really want to know?
January 22, 2009 3:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
what did you think of the WSJ's "Jack Bauer" editorial today?
January 23, 2009 10:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
MCB: First:
The Army Field Manual is already the operating guide for military interrogations. The crux of the "torture" debate has been that the Bush Administration permitted more coercive techniques in rare cases -- fewer than 100 detainees, according to CIA Director Michael Hayden. Yesterday Mr. Obama revoked the 2007 Presidential carve-out that protected this CIA flexibility.
I do not believe this statement. That is the assertion that fewer than 100 detainees were tortured. But I think I can say this because it all started with an assertion that one person was tortured, then three, now the rep points are saying less than 100.
We need an investigation a to how many were tortured and a full statement of how they were tortured.
But WSJ is now discussing an issue that we have not discussed in the open since Nuremberg with the exception of a few discussions during Vietnam.
That fellow claiming to be the Brigadir General made a good post followed up by good comments.
But the truth is that 'torture' has so many definitions and connotations that it almost means nothing--except in terms of the pain of the interviewee, so to speak.
Obama has 'left the door' open to some 'amendments' to the AFM. Until a good investigation has ensued, how could anyone include he come to a conclusion.
Torture is such an important piece of our film culture that the average citizen probably sees fifty acts of torture in any given day on television.
Again, WSJ is taking the opportunity to criticize Obama, which is fine. It is their job. But Bush for 6 years simply denied the undeniable and looks like an idiot to the mainstream press.
There is no denying it. At any rate the WSJ discussion is good and it is only the beginning.
I would not say that I am totally against all forms of torture until there is a definition of it and examples.
But we have a PR problem in this country enhanced by Bush's inability to communicate and its actions which have been less than transparent.
January 23, 2009 11:25 AM | Reply | Permalink
My mother actually subscribed me to the WSJ, back when I was 8. Kept the subscription all the way to my freshman year of college.
It was great for learning about the markets. However, my honors Poli Sci 102 professor, Dr. Greg Diamond, had me read "Democracy for the Few" by Michael Parenti. Canceled the subscription on my Thanksgiving break. :)
I do still try to read the editorials - but they invariably drive me crazy. I actually blogged about their Biden "fact-check" after the VP "debate". My doctor proscribed further reading of said rag after that. :)
January 22, 2009 6:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ah Boyd, we gotta keep tabs on what the enemy is thinking.
January 22, 2009 7:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
Agree. The WSJ still, despite Murdoch, does some of the best investigative reporting anywhere, especially on business issues. I read, am informed, sometimes even enjoy.
I just stay away from the editorial page. Toxic conservative sludge that dulls the inquiring mind and instills nausea and vomiting.
January 23, 2009 12:37 AM | Reply | Permalink
None of which led to thousands of dead soldiers in countries unrelated to those attacks, and only one of which was on American soil. MCB, I see your point, Flowerchild could have been more accurate, but the scale and relevancy of response is incomparable. Clinto took a shot at Bin Laden and he also named him as one of our biggst threats on his way out the door.
Oh, to have been a fly on the wall and read what w left in envelope 44!
January 22, 2009 1:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
I don't understand your "unrelated" point. There was a well documented connection between Iraq and al Qaeda during the 1990's. You could have read about it in Newsweek, watched it on ABC News or listened to it on NPR.
January 22, 2009 8:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
I was ranting, Bill. Who stops to check facts when they're ranting? Gimme a break, dewd.
January 22, 2009 2:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well if only I was granted such leniency by the Left on this site when I rant and stray from the facts.
January 22, 2009 8:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why would he write something as stupid at that? Now? Everyone knows that after Gulf War I - and 12 years of sanctions that had reduced Iraq to a primitive, pastoral state armed with worn-out popguns and cursed with a skyrocketing child mortality rate - Saddam was as dangerous as a Hannah Montana doll. We all know we were lied into a pointless bloodbath that had nothing to do with 9/11, and that Rove is deep in the ugly brainstorm up to his doubledy-chin-chin. Why this gob-smack provocation? Does this corrupt little fat-ass want treason charges filed?
January 22, 2009 1:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
You know Curt, I thought if I just put Rove in the title, I could get you to drop by.
It is almost like when Pat Buchanan starts arguing that we fought on the wrong side in WWII. MSNBC usually attempts to change the subject or goes to commercial break.
But this son of a bitch, who should be behind bars, sits and prognosticates on Fox and writes silly essays in his boss's new paper.
January 22, 2009 1:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Saddam was as dangerous as a Hannah Montana doll...." That has to be the quote of the day. Thanks for a laugh! (PS: Great blog, dick. I am glad the Internet is here to help us deal with our chronic memory loss.)
January 22, 2009 2:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
Jason, you already know this because you have stated it so many times. But there is a battle out there for the hearts and minds of the electorate and all of humanity.
It is a battle and will continue forever.
I really get a kick out of the fact that I can read all the different takes on the 'reality' out there and then, in this small group, voice an opinion. And I get to do this for almost nothing.
January 22, 2009 2:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
You are correct, sir. We have about forty years of deprogramming to do in the space of four short years. Actually, probably quicker than that. I would say the next four months is critical. That requires a level of skill that our side has found lacking until we elected Obama. I hope we can all get on the same page ASAP, so we can really start the project of perfecting our union.
January 22, 2009 2:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Karl Rove is one of those golden calves we never fully exploited. I have suggested we could and should win the hearts and minds of Christians. Not that I am proposing the conjugation of church and state. I am totally against that, especially since we have thousands of denominations. Whose Church?!? And don't tell me we are all Christian and worship the same God. If we do, he's a schizophrenic MF and I quit! Unless he's a she, in which case, I still quit! The God they describe is nothing like the One I am trying to know, unless there are several. ANYHOO!!! Back to Rove!
Rove is an atheist, a devout atheist. Nothing wrong with that at all. So is my wife. The point is that when the Reich supported the painfully pious acting w, the Christians Fascists{CF} [Disclaimer: Not all Christians are fascists, IMHO, but some definitely are], put their trust in a man who is by definition, and according to the ostracizing tendencies of these CF, a toxic threat to their faith. [We could now talk about Cheney's lesbian daughter, but I'll keep this a Rovian rant!]
Typical FOX. They warm up to Rove the same as they did Oliver North and G. Gordon Libby. Where's Scooter, for Chissakes and Gonzo??!!?? Give me more of that! NOT!
Rove going to WSJ is simply the attempt of the Reich to create the illusionary legacy of a great President when everyone knows they failed. It's hilarious, yet very disturbing, to watch them continue their charade after it has been made perfectly clear to the rest of the country that w stands for Worst. The world realized this years ago. Yet the Reich still puts a lot of energy into reviving this cold corpse of an Administration.
It is important to challenge this every step of the way. Let's not think Rove is a troll and ignore him. We need to face him, and for that matter, we need to confront the trolls, IMHO. I'm not suggesting we devote a lot of time to them. I'm just saying leave no remark unanswered. Eventually, as I suspect w has moments of clarity, they will realize just how stupid they have been. They may never fully come around, but I will cherish the moments when they can't keep up the facade and truth permeates their mask.
It would suck to be them and realize how much scorn they have nurtured. To have moments to realize the evil results of their good intentions [Yes, I'm going generous with the benefit of the doubt]. Ignorance is bliss, but not lasting, even for them. So be it! They do have my unrelenting disgust at their atrocious performance in the White House.
January 22, 2009 2:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh and thus my inspiration for the post. We have to stand up every day and confront those who speak lies as easily as pious and educated priests pray openly for guidance.
Butthead Hume is gone, but there are hundreds ready to take his place. Rush is actually hoping that the New Administration fails. Which means to me that Rush is actually hoping for 20% unemployment, the complete failure of the banks, and the fast march to Armageddon.
Thank you Gregor. You always get me to thinking.
January 22, 2009 2:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey DD! I loved #3. It kind of reminds me of the old Inspector Clousseau bit.
Insp. C.: "Does your dog bite?"
Clerk: "No"
(Clousseau bends down to pet the dog and it almost takes his hand off.)
Insp. C.: "I thought you said your dog does not bite?"
Clerk: "That is not my dog."
January 22, 2009 2:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, Mage hahahahahahhahahahahahahahaha
Except I think he said something like DUUUUHHHG
January 22, 2009 2:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Does your duga bite?"
"No, my dug does not bite."
"Yeouch! I szaught you zed your duga does not bite?"
"Zat.... Iss _NOT_ my dog!"
January 22, 2009 2:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
I just love Clouseau fans, three of those films leave me on the floor laughing every time. And I swear I have memorized every scene. Poor Martin cannot emulate the genius of those original films.
Do you have a lizance for yer minkey?
January 22, 2009 3:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
I've been thinking about what my father said at some conference or another about Kant's ideas being transformative:
(See I usually throw lighthearted and goofy comments into the stream of serious conversation so this time I thought I'd throw some heavy s^@#t into a completely fun and light thread.)
January 22, 2009 3:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
I propose you do a blog on this very quote from your dad. Put up the quote. And then break it down into ways we might say it in English (as opposed to German) - and for our day or how you'd view it from within yourself. So... kind of translating Kant for TPMers. Because it seems to me that buried in all those big words is great wisdom. I can glean it. But I'd kind of like to see it threshed and ground into nice flour and kneaded into a nice, warm loaf for the community.
This is your task, should you choose to accept it. (I think you'd really have a lovely blog.)
You don't have to apologize, you know, if have a serious thought! Even in a fun blog. :)
(or the reverse!)
January 22, 2009 4:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
I may well take you up on that! After sitting at the dinner table being immersed in Hegel, Kant and Kierkegaard, I came to understand that even old dead white guys who speak funny languages have relevant things to say hundreds of years after their dessicated husks turn to dust.
January 22, 2009 5:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Definitely! How about Kierkegaard some time? He should come in handy!
January 22, 2009 5:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
That's because nothing is new under the Sun. When humanity emerged from the cave, instead of moving on to explore the possibilities of intellectual enlightenment, we've been standing at the mouth of the cave immatating the canines--chasing our tails round and round in circles, and the faster we run in pursuit of our misplaced goals, the more elusive those goals become.
But with a little luck, and a lot of hardship, eventually we're realize that all we have to do is sit down and reach between our legs.
January 22, 2009 7:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
I like that you're commenting more here, Eric! We need all hands on deck. :)
January 22, 2009 7:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Brilliant!
Rove's essay reads like a transcript taken from some Mad Hatter's Tea Party.
And I love the humor and satire with which you so nicely dismantle it, piece by piece.
January 22, 2009 2:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thank you Sleepin. With God's help (only because he is an atheist) in a few years we may be able to laugh at ole Karl while he rots in prison.
January 22, 2009 3:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
From your keyboard to Atheist God's ears, DD.
Speaking of, tell me if you heard this really old joke:
Did you hear about the guy who was an insomniac, agnostic, dyslexic?
He stayed up all night wondering if there was a dog. - ba da dum tish!
(I'll be here all week folks!)
January 22, 2009 3:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA
No I have not. But Egam, thanks so much for the tour.
January 22, 2009 3:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Few presidents had as many challenges arise during their eight years, had as many tough calls to make in such a partisan-charged environment, or had to act in the face of such hostile media and elite opinion."
Karl ought to know a little something about "partican charged environments" afterall, he's the "architect" of said environment
January 22, 2009 4:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
Lefte, There is an old adage that comes to mind as I ponder your words that apply to Karl Rove:
WHO IN THE F%*K DOES HE THINK HE IS FOOLING
These words somehow clarify the entire matter--so to speak, at least for me.
January 22, 2009 4:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, that was about w? I thought they were talking about Clinton, especially that partisan reference. Maybe it was Carter. Could it have been Reagan? Except for 9/11, all the rest of his term was not much more doifficult then any other, and in his first term, no President ever had it easier then w with this Red Congress.
Regarding that partisan reference, again, if Karl undestood karma, he would unbderstand that what goes around, comes around. Move on! [dot org?!?]
January 22, 2009 5:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Great write, D.
For seven years GW kept us safe from everyone but himself. Why should Osama waste perfectly good terrorists when Bush was terrorizing us for him? The neocons are worried about the terrorists following us home--I'm worried about Blackwater.
BTW, I had my first wet dream last night--I dreamed they arrested Cheney after locating a billion dollar off-shore account. I've been feeling great all day. Just think about it, Cheney and Madoff flipping a coin to see whose turn it is to pickup the soap.
January 22, 2009 6:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
For seven years GW kept us safe from everyone but himself.
Eric, this has me laughing and it is hard to type.
Boyd just made a comment that started: How could I ever ascribe altruistic motives to Dick Cheney?
I suggest you have a tie with Boyd for my Dayly quip of the day. Given to you from all of me.
January 22, 2009 6:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hilarious!
Yes, we need to get some eyes on Blackwater. Shipping guns to Iraq to sell on the street. Why is that not treason and why is the Black Prince not in jail?
January 22, 2009 11:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
A DD tour de force on the neocon tour de farce.
Rarely have so few, being so simple, been so wrong, and so malevolent.
January 22, 2009 6:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Too kind. But tweaking Churchill a little is pretty good under the circumstances.
January 22, 2009 7:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
I agree with Turd Blossom. W was a great leader of religious wackos whose numbers and power have shrunk to the point of being banned to live out their sorry-assed pathetically ignorant existences para-military style in backwoods of Montana.
January 22, 2009 8:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
Maybe we can just ignore them now!!!
January 22, 2009 9:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, I'll miss W. So fucking much, in fact, that I'm going to try to just push every memory of the man out of my mind, because it's just too freaking painful to think about.
January 22, 2009 9:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Nathan. Repeat after me
HE IS GONE
HE IS GONE
HE IS GONE
January 22, 2009 9:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, I do. Every. Single. Day. =)
January 22, 2009 9:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
That won't work. You know the thing where you TRY not to think of something?
I am not going to think about it.
I am not going to think about it.
Whatever I do; I am not going to think about it!
...help!
January 22, 2009 11:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks for a great post, dd. As a resident of that quarter of the country, I salute you. Turd Blossom couldn't have said it better himself. In fact, he didn't.
Rock on, brother.
January 23, 2009 12:44 AM | Reply | Permalink
Kant is over my head. Emerson is not:
"Wherever the truth is injured, defend it. You are there on that spot, within hearing of that word, within sight of that action, as a Witness, to the end that you should speak for it."
and this is something else a little less opaque than Kant, Hegel, & co:
". . . they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more."
Thanks dick day for bearing witness . . . so wittily.
January 23, 2009 12:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
Thank you Cheesehead. Very, very kind words.
If a lie is published and not confronted, it lives.
Very fine words.
January 23, 2009 7:48 AM | Reply | Permalink