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The Hypocrisy of College Repukelikans

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:05:57 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "Abortion affects you because if we had those 40 million children killed over the last 30 years, we wouldn't need illegal immigrants to do those jobs. Think about it."

Now here are some real gems of the Human race. Feh...

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Mark Morford on the GOP, Palin

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:47:58 GMT

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clipper's remarks: More of this great column:

To be sure, it's moments like these that make it difficult not to take some delight, not to sit back and feel the ironic righteousness melt over us like hot Cheez-Whiz over an Alaskan mooseburger. After all, Sarah Palin is anti-choice, pro-abstinence, anti sex-ed, religiously fundamentalist, a creationist, about as friendly to feminism and women's reproductive rights as John McCain is to his beloved "gooks."

But here's the saddest part of all: Governor Palin knew. She absolutely had to realize that her daughter's unfortunate condition would come to light when McCain offered her this bizarre gig. To which we can only say: Way to shove your own daughter under the wheels of the GOP Machine, Governor Palin. Ultimate sacrifice indeed.

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This just in: Even the Lord has abandoned the desperate, shameful Right

This just in: Hurricane of delicious irony slams Republican National Convention, flooding the streets of Minneapolis/St. Paul with rivers of savage hypocrisy as levees of evangelical denial and sexual confusion overflow into the streets, leaving stunned party members scrambling in vain for shaky moral high ground.

Meanwhile, clever looters smash windows of opportunity and steal valuable quips about underage sex and teen pregnancy, as everyone gets a very unsettling if not downright weird taste of warped pro-gun anti-choice elk-kabob conservative Alaskan family values. YouTube at 11.

Yes, the rumors are true. The cosmic votes have all been tallied, and I do believe we can now say, with some measure of happy certainty, that God appears to be just as sick-to-death of the Republican Party as the rest of us.

Let us, in other words, imagine that "rains of Biblical proportions" had slammed the DNC to a halt

America in the World: Silenced by Bush

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:35:55 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Such Bushian doublespeak, expressed with total "sincerity," has regrettably defined America's relationship with our fellow human beings in this new century. As a result, even US critics of the administration's policies are reluctant to condemn aggression by other countries because they do not want to be accused of what the Bush regime, worldwide, will perhaps be most remembered for -- hypocrisy.

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"The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity."

--André Gide

One of the legacies of Bush's tragically flawed foreign policy is that it has managed to silence Americans who believe that the United States -- for all its faults -- should condemn aggression in other parts of the world.

If one word describes how Bush has dealt with the rest of our small planet, it is hypocrisy. For the past eight years, the administration's deeds have seldom, if ever, matched its rhetoric. Operation Iraqi Freedom, it now seems clearer than ever, was in fact Operation Iraqi Oil. While the State Department issues human rights reports, the Bush/Cheney regime supports dictators who suppress the innocent. And in Eastern Europe, which the administration proclaims should be a region of peace and stability, it is heightening tensions by installing missile systems against "the Iranian threat."

Our Genocidal track record

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:38:19 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I know, y'all think I hate America...Not so, but I despise what the people of the USA has done in so many instances of genocidal hypocrisy...I cannot celebrate our Independence without seeing all the death and destruction we have brouht to the brown, red and yellow segments of Mankind. I'm thoroughly disgusted with 'Murrika today and especially of the last 8 years. Our collective karma is disastrous and the Empire will fall, just like all Empires do. The "Noble Experiment" in Democracy gets a big FAIL. Despite all the good we have done, the USA is a racist, war-loving, greedy, Earth-polluting, voracious nation. Pretty sad when you think about it, neh?

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I just watched that excellent documentary, The Revolution, on PBS yesterday to see if they would come close to the truth, and they did. I was especially impressed with the segment on how Gen.George Washington wrote especially virulently racist orders to commit genocide on the Iroqouis nation during the fight vs. the British...The order was to obliterate every man, woman and child, and burn the villages of the Natives--a scorched earth policy that was carried out.
This is how our country began and despite the Constitution and all our high ideals, we have committed genocide all thru the 227 yr. history of the USA and before, from the first colonists all the way until Iraq. In the name of "Freedom", "Christian values" and all the other lies the USA brainwashes us with, the white power structure has hated people of color all along. What a sham. Happy 4th of July, fellow'Murrikans!

Anti-Americanism at record levels worldwide

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:04:45 GMT

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clipper's remarks: geez, what a surprise!

Clip Source: www.japantoday.com

Anti-Americanism is at record levels thanks to U.S. policies such as the war in Iraq, and Washington’s perceived hypocrisy in abiding by its own democratic values, U.S. lawmakers said Wednesday.

A House of Representatives committee report based on expert testimony and polling data reveals U.S. approval ratings have fallen to record lows across the world since 2002, particularly in Muslim countries and Latin America.

It says the problem arises not from a rejection of U.S. culture, values and power but primarily from its policies, such as backing authoritarian regimes while promoting democracy, human rights and the rule of law.

“Our physical strength has come to be seen not as a solace but as a threat, not as a guarantee of stability and order but as a source of intimidation, violence and torture,” said Bill Delahunt, chairman of the subcommittee on international organizations, human rights and oversight.

An eyes-wide-open prayer for peace

Thu, 15 May 2008 12:28:38 GMT

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clipper's remarks: One really good song and video

Clip Source: www.brasschecktv.com

An eyes-wide-open
prayer for peace

[Video]

A song that capture the hypocrisy and injustice of the Iraq War

"Peace" appears on the album "Esther and the Protesters" by New Orleans-based singer-songwriter Esther Sparks. Esthersparks.com. You can contact the artist directly there.

If you are moved by its message, please pass it along. You can count on the fact that the Bush supporters who run Clear Channel will make sure it never appears on any of their radio stations.

Excerpt:

"Oh dear Lord,
Please don't just bless

America or us here in the West.

But dear Lord,
Please bless the earth,
and all her people
in life and death and birth."

Rush Plays the Lee Harvey Oswald Card

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:43:30 GMT

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On Monday, when Rush Limbaugh responded to a caller who brought up the point that Reverend Jeremiah Wright had served in the Marine Corps, Rush dismissed the point by saying: " . . . We've played tapes of Obama talking about him having served in the Marines. Lee Harvey Oswald was in the Marines, too, ahem, in the sharpshooter division. . . ."

Usually when someone who is serving, or has served, in the armed forces appears on a conservative talk show, they are served with a heaping ration of flattery and admiration, but Rush's rebuttal with the reference to Lee Harvey Oswald doesn't convey the usual kowtowing attitude.

What's going on here? Is there some hypocrisy afoot? Conservatives being two-faced? Has that ever happened before? Isn't this inconsistency worthy of some note in the realm of journalism?

(Sorry, Mc Cain is supposed to get a Free Ride and never be criticized. Rush also gets a free pass. Senator Obama doesn't.

Rice, in Baghdad, calls al-Sadr coward

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:16:21 GMT

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clipper's remarks: With further HYPOCRISY, Rice lies on: “Some of the violence is a byproduct of a good decision,” to take on militias and consolidate military power, Rice told reporters following a few hours of meetings and lunch with Iraqi leaders.

“That, I think, is what has given the sense to the Iraqis that they have a new opportunity, a window of opportunity,” Rice said. “I don’t think you would have seen this kind of unity,” before.

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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice mocked anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr as a coward on Sunday, hours after the radical leader threatened to declare war unless U.S. and Iraqi forces end a military crackdown on his followers.

Rice, in the Iraqi capital to tout security gains and what she calls an emerging political consensus, said al-Sadr is content to issue threats and edicts from the safety of Iran, where he is studying. Al-Sadr heads an unruly militia that was the main target of an Iraqi government assault in the oil-rich city of Basra last month, and his future role as a spoiler is an open question.

“I know he’s sitting in Iran,” Rice said dismissively, when asked about al-Sadr’s latest threat to lift a self-imposed cease-fire with government and U.S. forces. “I guess it’s all-out war for anybody but him,” Rice said. “I guess that’s the message; his followers can go to their deaths and he’s in Iran.”

Afghanistan-- The "Good Good War" Is A Bad War

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 05:09:22 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I had suggested to Marina that we meet in the safety of the Intercontinental Hotel, where foreigners stay in Kabul, but she said no. She had been there once and government agents, suspecting she was Rawa, had arrested her. We met instead at a safe house, reached through contours of bombed rubble that was once streets, where people live like earthquake victims awaiting rescue.
The reason the United States gave for invading Afghanistan in October 2001 was "to destroy the infrastructure of al-Qaeda, the perpetrators of 9/11". The women of Rawa say this is false. In a rare statement on 4 December that went unreported in Britain, they said: "By experience, [we have found] that the US does not want to defeat the Taliban and al-Qaeda, because then they will have no excuse to stay in Afghanistan and work towards the realisation of their economic, political and strategic interests in the region."

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Rawa is the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, which since 1977 has alerted the world to the suffering of women and girls in that country. There is no organisation on earth like it. It is the high bar of feminism, home of the bravest of the brave. Year after year, Rawa agents have travelled secretly through Afghanistan, teaching at clandestine girls' schools, ministering to isolated and brutalised women, recording outrages on cameras concealed beneath their burqas. They were the Taliban regime's implacable foes when the word Taliban was barely heard in the west: when the Clinton administration was secretly courting the mullahs so that the oil company Unocal could build a pipeline across Afghanistan from the Caspian.

Indeed, Rawa's understanding of the designs and hypocrisy of western governments informs a truth about Afghanistan excluded from news, now reduced to a drama of British squaddies besieged by a demonic enemy in a "good war".

Yes, There IS Something Wrong With That!

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:14:36 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I have some gay friends who are Not hypocrites, and they think this is just a SICK guy, repressed and in denial

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More Men Come Forward With Allegations About Sex With Larry Craig

Pam Spaulding: In the face of five new accounts of homosexual behavior, GOP Sen. Craig still insists he's not gay.

"The Idaho Stateman's Dan Popkey, who has been on the receiving end of serious ire from Larry Craig for daring to follow up with Mike Rogers' stories about the senator's long history of homosex trolling, calls the senator's bluff by getting -- on audio -- descriptions on the record of their dailliances with Craig, including another airport bathroom cruising story, this time in Denver. Guess they'll have to have a Craig Memorial Stall there too.

Four gay men, willing to put their names in print and whose allegations can't be disproved, have come forward since news of U.S. Sen. Larry Craig's guilty plea. They say they had sex with Craig or that he made a sexual advance or that he paid them unusual attention.

Craig: I’m still not gay.

Tags: craig, gay, new, disclosures, partners, hypocrisy

I am Not Thankful for Amerika

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:16:50 GMT

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clipper's remarks: i know it sounds like a lot of sour grapes but it's still true...Thanksgiving is a myth perpetuated by a delusional public.

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Thanksgiving Hypocrisy

As it's now celebrated, Thanksgiving is already shameful. While barely giving thanks, if at all, we forget millions of poor, deprived and oppressed peoples everywhere and our government's role in their condition. We also ignore the systematic dismantling of our constitutional rights and denial of essential social services to growing millions without them. And we're too distracted by bread, circuses and overindulgence to oppose injustice and support the rights and needs of people everywhere.

Along with war, militarism, expansionism and free market fundamentalism, we're a nation addicted to privilege. It's always been this way despite our prevailing fiction of an egalitarian country respecting everyone's rights. That's nonsense in a nation glorifying wealth and power and those with it claiming a divine right for more.

Tags: thanksgiving, amrika

VALERIE PLAME CALLS HER OUTING TREASON

Sat, 03 Nov 2007 22:14:07 GMT

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clipper's remarks: i love her answer to Maher's question, " But the penalty for treason is death, isn't it?"

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Bill Maher Interviews Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson: "Cheney, Rove, Libby...Are Guilty of Treason" [VIDEO]

Maher talks to The Wilsons about her new book Fair Game and both of them are not shy about calling out the Bush administration for their crimes.

Bill Maher gets to heart of the hypocrisy and absurdity in this country when it comes to the lack of outrage over the Plame leak. If it had been James Carville outing a CIA officer, Maher says, "Ann Coulter's head would have exploded." In the video to your right, Maher conducts a much more respectful interview than Katie Couric did on 60 Minutes, with Valerie Plame Wilson and Joe Wilson where they discuss her new book Fair Game. They also talk about the seriousness and deepness of her covert activities, their disgust with the Bush Administration and their civil suit against Cheney and others. Check out the video to your right for more.

Tags: plame, wilson, maher, rove, cheney, rumsfeld

VALERIE PLAME CALLS HER OUTING TREASON

Sat, 03 Nov 2007 20:47:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I love her respomse to Maher's question: "But the penalty for treason is death, isn't it?" great video!

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Bill Maher Interviews Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson: "Cheney, Rove, Libby...Are Guilty of Treason" [VIDEO]

Maher talks to The Wilsons about her new book Fair Game and both of them are not shy about calling out the Bush administration for their crimes.

Tags: tagged as: treason, bush administration, rove, maher, wilson, plame, cia leak

Are YOU a Danger to "National Security"?

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 07:56:23 GMT

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clipper's remarks: As the 'Murrikan sheeple continue to blithely follow the Bushies down the path to fascism, ask yourself: Am I a danger to my nation by speaking the truth about the war? about anything. Apparently Our Fuhrer and his cohorts think so.
But where does the real danger lie and how do we deal with it? Speak out.

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The Stupidest People On Earth

By Angie Riedel

It looks increasingly hypocritical when the government insists that it must break the law in order to save us. It's become the government's mantra that it cannot protect us unless it breaks the law at will, without oversight, and without our knowledge or consent. It's been openly stated that unless our basic rights are fully yielded to the government, further terrorist attacks will come, and because of our failure to yield what literally defines us, those attacks will be our own fault.

Several of the amendments to the constitution, our basic inalienable rights, have been thoroughly and systematically undermined due to government urging and incessant claims that they need our rights in order to do their jobs.

It's time to ask for clarification of the term 'national security'. Exactly what do they mean when they say those words? Because we as a nation have never felt less secure, in fact we have never been less secure than we are right now.

Tags: constitution, national secutity, hypocrisy

The Fetid Swamp of Hypocrisy--Repub style

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:15:01 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Morford's prose is rich in condemnation but right on the "Mark"

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Really, just how many closeted, self-hating, violently repressed "I-am-not-gay" totally gay hypocrites are there in the Republican Party? Or for that matter, in your average born-again Christian megachurch? Or in the U.S. military? Or in (your morally righteous group's name here)? Ten percent of them? Fifty? A hundred and four?

Not exactly a revelation, I admit. As you already know and as any D.C. therapist or male prostitute or honest historian will happily remind you, this is the way it's always been; incidents like Idaho Sen. Larry Craig's toe-tapping in the tearoom merely reinforce the great Rule of Conservative Hypocrisy -- the louder and more self-righteous the indignation over a given "moral" issue, the more sure you can be that the screamer in question is simply oozing with repressed fantasy/lust regarding that very issue -- and what's more, is very likely acting on it, right now, in a fetish dungeon, brothel or bathroom stall near you.

Tags: hypocrisy, repubs, chritian right