When you have made evil the means of survival,
do not expect men to remain good.
Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for
the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral.
Do not expect them to produce, when
production is punished and looting rewarded.
Do not ask, ‘Who is destroying the world?’ •You are.**
The Hindmost, a cowardly Puppeteer from Larry Niven’s Ringworld series Dickhead Cheney is at it again, criticizing President Obama’s response to the failed terrorist attempt to take down an airliner over the U.S. on Christmas Day. Seems that Darth isn’t happy that Obama is implicitly rejecting the Bush Administration‘s idiotic and counterproductive “war on terrorism” frame for something more rational …
Yes. Yes. America. We got ours. Oh yeah, we got the bucks; the houses; the cars; the yachts; all the stuff; we GOT ours. But I’m not talking about the stuff. No.No. I’m talking about ideas. We got ours; we got the ideology. It’s Pure. It’s Conservative. It’s Obstreperous. It’s Precious, America.
After a rash of mistakes and apologies over the past weeks, Fox News has sent a memo to employees announcing a new “zero tolerance” policy for on-screen errors. FishBowlDC obtained the memo, sent last Friday, which warns mistakes could lead to written warnings, suspensions and termination. USojo, however, has obtained the rough draft of that memo, which we thought was a lot more insightful and entertaining:
Who TF dresses these people every morning? [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKKKgua7wQk&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] How do they manage to remember their way back home? Bread crumbs? There’s a huge difference between good, sound reasons, and reasons that merely sound good. — Burton Hillis
Apocalyptic blowhards Jerry Jenkins and Timmeh LaHaye, co-authors of the hysterically ironic “Left Behind” series, join Sarah Palin’s fave buttboy, Sean Hannity in the latest conservatard craze, “Palin’ It.”
Does anyone in this country know where the line is between free speech and incitement to murder? If you missed Frank Schaeffer on Rachel Maddow Tuesday night, watch the video. Do we just let all the religious maniacs Schaeffer is talking about work themselves into a self-righteous frenzy until one or more of them decide they’ll do the Lord’s dirty …
