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Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Rosie O'Donnell and 9/11 Conspiracy Theories
By VictorM: I was talking to a coworker. She asked me what I thought ABC would do to Rosie O'Donnell. I thought she was referring to the Rosie-Trump silliness, but no, she was talking about Rosie saying that America killed those 3,000 people during 9/11.Since I had not read such a thing anywhere I asked where she got that information. She said it was from Bill O'Reilly. I asked: "You listen to that piece of trash?" She was a bit startled by my tone, stuttered a little and tried to imply that she heard it elsewhere too. I just got up and left.
So when I got home I decided to look this up. Yep, Rosie mentioned something in her blog back in mid March about the conspiracy theories we've heard for the longest time and that for the most part have been debunked. I couldn't find any story about it in the mainstream sites. And for good reason. As you can see below, this is a non-story. Only a dimwit like O'Reilly or someone of his ilk would bring it up.
This site has a transcript of what Rosie said in The View and she didn't say our government was involved, she just had questions about how building 7 came falling down. God forbid Rosie dares to question something that doesn't make sense to her. In this entry in her blog (I assume it's her blog, I don't even know for sure), Rosie explains what she finds odd about the collapse of that one building.
OK, so Rosie brought up questions about the collapse of building 7. Even if you consider Rosie's statements dumb, nothing she said is any dumber than these:
- Saddam as weapons of mass destruction.
- Iraq poses an eminent threat to the United States.
- Iraq was involved in the 9/11 plot.
- I want Obama dead or alive / I don't lose any sleep over Obama.
- The insurgency is in its last throes.
- In six months we'll see a vast improvement.
- (Six months later) In six months we'll see a vast improvement.
- The insurgency is in its last throes.
- (Six months later) In six months we'll see a vast improvement.
- The insurgency is in its last throes.
- (Six months later) In six months we'll see a vast improvement.
If you're a conservative you have plenty to worry about; Rosie is the least of your problems.
Labels: conservative
Monday, March 26, 2007
The Greedy, Cheap, Selfish Bastards
By VictorM: Attacking liberals about the Iraq war in a dumb post (see today's Idiot of the Day), Kevin McCullough makes two disconnected points which I'd like to put together. At the top of the post he says:why don't [liberals] have at least some modicum of pride about the greatest nation the world has ever produced?Then, in the conclusion he says:
Personally I believe I work far too many hours, for not nearly enough money, to be paying the exorbitant amount of taxesFor now I'm not going to disagree with either statement but let me ask, would you expect to become a member of the Augusta Country Club for the same fees you pay your local public golf course? If you are a member of the greatest golf course, wouldn't you expect to pay accordingly? So why are conservatives so unwilling to pay their share of living in the greatest nation on Earth? That is, for reasons other than being greedy, cheap, selfish bastards?
Labels: conservative, greatest nation, paying taxes
Monday, March 12, 2007
Successful Demonization of the Liberal Label
By echine, commenting on a poll showing that 21% of Americans consider themselves Liberal, and 41% say they are Conservative: this self-identification does not match the same Americans' views on various public policy issues. Many so-called liberal policies have majority support. The interesting question is why people support liberal policies but reject the liberal label, and one answer is that this is a consequence of the successful demonization project of the Wingnuttia Inc. during the last two decades.Labels: conservative, liberal
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Conservatism: Greed and disregard for human suffering
By VictorM: Talking about the global warming "conspiracy", right-winger Merv says: "It is time to accept that warming is something that we will all have to adapt to. The survivors will prove Darwin's thesis on the survival of the fittest." This logic is dumb and just another another example of the greed and disregard for human suffering that so characterizes the modern day conservative movement in America.
Labels: conservative, conspiracy, global warming
Saturday, February 17, 2007
Time for Libertarians To Wake Up
By Ron Chusid: For years many libertarians have concentrated on economic issues ignoring Republican views on other issues, and failing to recognize that Republican corporate welfare is a perversion of capitalism. Many are finally beginning to realize that modern conservativism is an authoritarian movement which has nothing to offer libertarians.
Labels: capitalism, conservative, libertarians
Friday, February 16, 2007
Oxymoron: Funny Conservatives
VictorM: FoxNews tried comedy with a show called The 1/2 Hour News Hour. Yeah, I know, it has as much chance of success as Rush Limbaugh has of winning the Oscar. Even this right-winger couldn't contain his disdain, saying the show "is SO not funny... Mr. Ailes, I beg you...KILL THIS SHOW". But then, he goes on to say they should have picked other hosts because "There are so many brilliant, funny conservatives." Really? Like who? Seriously, I can't think of any "brilliant funny conservative". Let's face it, if it doesn't include dead baby jokes or bodies floating in New Orleans, they ain't laughing!
Labels: conservative
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Conservative Movement: Another Flash in the Pan
By VictorM: When I see the amazing collapse of the conservative movement, and to a lesser extent, of the Republican brand, I feel a sense of déjà vu: Theory Z, New Kids on the Block, Zager and Evans (“In the Year 2525”), eight-track players, the Beta (Betamax) video format, leisure suits, the pet rock, etc. Well, you get the idea.
Labels: conservative, deja vu, republicans
Idiot of the Day: Sister Toldjah
By VictorM: There is no way of knowing how old Sister Toldjah is, but from the actual writing and lack of understanding about global warming my guess is that this right-winger is a pre-teen: "LOL! If I’m not mistaken, this has also happened to Al Gore in the last couple of years. He gave a gw speech in the middle of a really bad snow storm. Delish. This was also posted at Drudge: SAVE IT FOR A SUNNY DAY: Maryville Univ. in St. Louis area cancelling screening of Al Gore’s ‘Inconvenient Truth’ because of a snowstorm. Heh." Hey, you want to buy into ExxonMobil's talking points, fine, but even they understand that global warming produces imbalances that will result in some places getting colder and experiencing more storms. Is this person too stupid to understand that? The answer is, Yes!
Labels: conservative, exxonmobil, global warming, idiot, right-wing
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Conservatives Have No Credibility on Iraq
By VictorM: Conservatives are beating the drum that debating the Iraq war will cause us to lose and that the Democrats' plan is certain to bring us defeat. I have a simple question: What credibility should we give to people who are predicting that a certain action is doomed to fail when every action they've taken has already failed? No credibility. That's the right answer.
Labels: conservative, Iraq war, right-wing
Friday, February 09, 2007
They see it as not bad news
By VictorM: John Edwards hired two bloggers who have said things in the past that right-wingers and religious fanatics aren't happy about. Some of those things were stupid and, if they were aiming for humor, not funny. But this remark by a conservative nut puts things in perspective: Edwards keeps bloggers? Sounds like it... It appears that Edwards has caved to his Nutrootian base, which isn’t bad news for us. See, things are so bad in right-winger land that this is about the only not bad news they've seen in a while. Maybe, just maybe, their 15 minutes of "fame" is up because they're so goddamn petty.
Labels: conservative, john edwards, right-wing
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
Another Mission Accomplished?
By VictorM: While some of us see this as a problem, I wonder if conservatives are preparing the next "Mission Accomplished" banner: "Currently, 38 million Americans live below the poverty line, which the federal government defines as an annual income of $20,000 or less for a family of four. But for the first time in history, more of America's poor are living in the suburbs than the cities—1.2 million more, according to a 2005 survey."
Labels: conservative, mission accomplished, poverty
Monday, February 05, 2007
Conservative Thinking and Global Warming
By VictorM: This is another example of conservative thinking: It's 14 degrees F (-10C) in the Washington, DC area -- this proves Global Warming is a hoax. Think I'm exaggerating? Read this.
Labels: climate change, conservative, global warming
Thursday, February 01, 2007
Reflection on the future
By Mad Kossack: The truth about the deceit that led to the war in Iraq, the attempts to dismantle the Constitution, the attempts to normalize torture and kidnapping and imprisonment without trial--- all of this must be displayed for the world to see, and for children studying the history of their country to pore over in their history books.The people who did this to our country must be shown to be the shameful bastards that they are. They should be beyond 'rehabilitating' themselves into future Republican administrations. That has been allowed in the past and led to the travesties we witness now.
Labels: conservative, republicans
Idiot of the Day: Mark Noonan
By VictorM: The few still fighting global warming aren't going down easy. This idiot had this to say: As I've been saying for about ten years now - if the world is warming and if human agency is the cause, then the proposed solutions won't fix the problem. You see, even if we grant that global warming is caused directly by greedy Americans - on purpose because Haliburton has a plan to sell us all gas-guzzling air conditioners - no one is actually proposing a solution to the problem. There are proposals to gut America's economy. Labels: conservative, global warming
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Idiot of the Day: Mike Gallagher
By VictorM: This right-wing nut prefers another terrorist attack on America rather than allow its citizens to exercise their first amendment right: Unless we speak out against the Jane Fondas and Tim Robbins and Sean "Spiccoli" Penn of the world, we will deserve them... Seeing Jane Fonda Saturday was enough to make me wish the unthinkable: it will take another terror attack on American soil in order to render these left-leaning crazies irrelevant again. What a pathetic, hateful idiot.Labels: conservative, jane fonda, right-wing
Monday, January 29, 2007
Idiot of the Day: Republicanpundit
By VictorM: Republicanpundit has his own take on the recently reported attack by American troops. The report this bozo quotes says: U.S. and Iraqi forces killed some 250 gunmen from an apocalyptic Muslim cult on Sunday in a battle involving U.S. tanks and aircraft near the Shi’ite holy city of Najaf.... yet, he twice refers to the gunmen as "terrorists" and adds: If this is a sign that we are finally taking off the gloves and killing the terrorists by the minute, then I am officially signing on for the “Surge”. Well, the gunmen might have been terrorists, but they might have been insurgents wanting to liberate their country from an invasion. It takes the mind of an idiot to make the leap from "gunmen" to "terrorists". It takes an even bigger idiot to believe the number killed without further corroboration.Labels: conservative, Iraq war
Friday, January 26, 2007
Your Laugh for the Day
By VictorM: Conservative blogger Gina Cobb provides the laughs as she writes about president Bush's State of the Union speech. I kid you not, she is serious: What we have here -- and we will miss it when it is gone -- is a president whose kindness is not rationed out in proportion to the decency of his rivals. In his prepared speeches, he makes a conscious choice to speak as kindly of his rivals as is humanly possible. His graciousness is more noticeable when the vitriol from his rivals reaches its apex -- or at a time when his approval rating seems to be in free fall. What we have here is a decent man who takes the dignity and responsibility of the presidency seriously. HAHAHA... you crack me up, Gina!Labels: conservative, George Bush
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Simple Question, Simple Answer
By VictorM: On his right-wing blog, Jules Crittenden, asks: Psychopaths are out there trying to kill Americans. That’s the Number One issue. What is the Democratic Congress going to do about it? Um... they might do what Bush hasn't: hunt them down and kill them without killing thousands of innocent Iraqis and diverting billions of our dollars to their friends!Labels: conservative, democrats, Iraq war, liberal
Sunday, January 21, 2007
Idiot of the Day: Dinesh D’Souza
By Alan Wolfe, commenting on Dinesh D’Souza's book The Enemy at Home: Like his hero Joe McCarthy, he has no sense of shame. He is a childish thinker and writer tackling subjects about which he knows little to make arguments that reek of political extremism. His book is a national disgrace, a sorry example of a publishing culture more concerned with the sensational than the sensible. People on the left, especially those who have been subjects of D’Souza’s previous books, will shrug their shoulders at his latest screed. I look forward to the reaction from decent conservatives and Republicans who will, if they have any sense of honor, distance themselves, quickly and cleanly, from the Rishwain research scholar at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.Labels: conservative
Friday, January 05, 2007
Minimum Wage Should be Zero
By Kevin Drum, commenting on conservative columnist George Will's statement that "The minimum wage should be the same everywhere: $0. Labor is a commodity; governments make messes when they decree commodities' prices.": the core problem with conservative economics: it views workers as commodities. Naturally it follows from this that we should be free to treat workers like commodities, rather than as human beings. (See here for a recent example.) Most conservatives are careful not to state this belief quite so baldly, but Will must have slipped up this morning. But don't blame him. He's just saying out loud what all the rest of them usually say only under their breaths.Labels: conservative, george will, minimum wage, republicans
Idiot of the Day: Emperor Misha I
By VictorM: Since we apparently haven't killed enough of "them" yet, Emperor Misha I thinks it's about time we start killing some Americans too: "now that the notoriously anti-American Dhimmicrats have taken over Congress... just as we’re involved in another war that they desperately want us to lose, they’re back in power. That is bad news for us, and it is seriously bad news for millions of Iraqis. Deja vu all over again. And that is why this world will never be a better place until every last socialist on the surface of it has been exterminated."Labels: conservative, emperor misha, idiot
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
I Don't Want To Take Away People's Guns
By Rhonda, discussing the fear that liberals are out to get people's guns: I wonder if the fear that because someone who doesn't own a gun will take their gun away is somehow related to the right wing's frequent attempts to ban things that they disagree with. They don't like abortion, they want to outlaw it. They don't like gay marriage, they want to outlaw it. Do they think that because I personally don't have a gun I must want to outlaw them? I don't like some shellfish but I don't advocate outlawing them -- even though the Bible says they are an abomination.Labels: conservative, gun control, liberal
