12/18/2007
Accumulation Creep, Pt. 4
I'm trying to keep most of the negative, cynical stuff from overwhelming the normally sunny character of my posts (cough), so I'm continuing with the lumping of this material in a single post unless it's something huge or important.
With that in mind, funtime is over.
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For those readers outside of the US - whose fascination with the antics of American electoral politics may be less intense than mine - allow me to introduce the latest Republican front-runner for the presidential nomination, Mike Huckabee. He's like George W. Bush, but slimier. A short perusal of his loony beliefs and religious extremism will show why he's the current Republican darling, steadily gaining on fellow schmucks like Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani.
As usual when dealing with a hypocritical moralizer like this, one discovers a dramatic distance between his foul words and even fouler deeds.
Daring to commit his religious insanity to paper, Huckabee wrote a book (link above) called "Kids Who Kill", with the requisite moaning about the cesspool of modern culture, and why don't we just follow the bible word for word and act like Christians?
Well. Allow me to introduce one of Huckabee's own kids, a gun-toting psychopath named David.
David was a Boy Scout - an Eagle Scout, no less - going, apparently, for a merit badge in Insane Cruelty To Animals. David and a fellow Eagle Scout were counselors at a Boy Scout camp. While leading a troop of youngsters in their care, David captured a stray dog. He hung it up by its neck, slit its throat, and stoned it to death.
And his father's reaction? Prayer? Hell no, prayer's for suckers when you're the take-charge Governor of Arkansas; he shut down any investigation of the incident, and when he fired the guy who would have done the investigating, he told him bluntly it was because he wouldn't help the cover-up.
Corrente has an interesting analysis of the Newsweek story cited above, regarding sources, claims, and the willingness to pursue the story.
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The troops in Iraq are so convinced of the rightness of Bush's cause and how they're being made to pursue it that they're mutinying.
Odd, there's no mention of this in the Times, the Washington Post, the AP, CNN, Fox, or anywhere except the Army Times. I am sorely puzzled by this.
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The "flawed" voting machines in Ohio that extended Bush's coup from 2004 to 2008 are still in operation, poised to do their part for the Republican regime in 2008.
And no matter what the companies that make the software and the machines say, the apparatus isn't as secure as the average pinball machine.
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That noise you hear n the background is the shredder, eating the Constitution and the Bill Of Rights. That old paper stuff is so 1776. And besides, who needs that junk when we'll soon have The Violent Radicalization And Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act?
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Oh my, what a genius idea this is. What Would Jesus Buy?
Big props to Rev. Billy and the The Church Of Stop Shopping. .
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A few random posts about America's new worldwide public-relations effort: capturing and torturing brown people.
Salon gets the actual inside story.
Is it really just a few "rotten apples?" Let's examine how the system works.
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Blackwater contractors get the Bush regime's full support; combat veterans get treated like scrap.
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Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans?
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The Onion gets it right, as usual:
Poll: Bullshit Is Most Important Issue For 2008 Voters