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THE HOPELESS BANALITY OF THE BLOGOSPHERE
Excellent post.
What's becoming clear is that this guy was going nuts. The Army had reason to know he was going nuts. They may need to look at their procedures for identifying nuts.
This is awful for the people involved. F@cking awful. The one place a soldier should be safe is on his post. These guys deserve a safe haven. They deserve a place where they can stop flinching every time they hear a loud noise.
I don't think this qualifies as terrorism, but it has that effect anyway, except that those terrified aren't civilians but soldiers and their families.
Comment Posted By michael reynolds On 6.11.2009 @ 23:00
'V' FOR VILLIFICATION: LIBERAL PARADISE, OBAMA NIGHTMARE?
Gayle:
Teabagging is not specifically gay.
As for showing respect for teabaggers, you have to be kidding. I don't show respect for PETA nuts and you guys are about two steps lower on the evolutionary chain than they are. Teabaggers are the political equivalent of Scientologists in the genus Loonis Americanis
Comment Posted By michael reynolds On 6.11.2009 @ 10:01
Oh my God: the AARP and the AMA are also fascist organizations now. Old people and doctors hate America!
Comment Posted By michael reynolds On 5.11.2009 @ 20:46
Yep, universal health care is fascism.
That's what Hitler was all about: making sure that people didn't go bankrupt just because they got sick.
Well, that and establishing a massive secret police presence, assassinating political opponents, designating certain unpopular groups as second-class citizens, then murdering them en masse, building up a huge military force and invading various countries.
But really what matters, the essence of fascism, is health insurance.
Jesus you people are stupid.
Comment Posted By michael reynolds On 5.11.2009 @ 12:59
Haven't seen the show -- I have it on DVR -- but thanks for pointing out an obvious fact that all sorts of ninnies never understand: movies, TV shows, books, they have a long lead time. No one creates, sells, casts, shoots, edits and programs a mini-series in the less than a year Obama's been in office.
Frankly the 2007 timeline sounds pretty quick, so good on 'em if they managed it that fast. At that point any political metaphor was likely aimed at the previous administration. But more to the point: there are certain rules and forms that are followed in all fiction. The plot elements aren't typically there because writers are sending a message, they're typically there because that's how fiction is built.
It's like imagining that your new car has four wheels because the designer was obsessing over the Final Four. Um, no. It just runs better with four wheels.
Comment Posted By michael reynolds On 5.11.2009 @ 10:40
Would we have to go to Streator? There are much nicer bars in Chicgo.
Comment Posted By michael reynolds On 6.11.2009 @ 09:05
MooseH:
I think the best approach for you, since you are obviously terrified of being exposed to differing points of view, is to find a country where only one point of view is permitted. I think there's a place for you in North Korea.
Comment Posted By michael reynolds On 5.11.2009 @ 21:56
MooseH:
You seem terribly afraid of being exposed to different points of view. Why is that?
Comment Posted By michael reynolds On 4.11.2009 @ 18:08
Reason:
That is the lesson. Chances that the Teabaggers will get it? Zero.
Moderate GOP Illinois Senate candidate Mark Kirk has just been caught begging for Palin's endorsement:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/eye-on-2012/il-sen-kirk-seeks-palin-endors.html
Palin will continue to throw her weight around, the crazies will follow her, and the GOP will actually manage to screw up 2010. Moderate GOP candidates will run for cover and the downward spiral will continue.
Comment Posted By michael reynolds On 4.11.2009 @ 16:27
Incidentally, "xenophobia" is a fear of foreigners, or of the outsider. Just FYI.
Comment Posted By michael reynolds On 4.11.2009 @ 16:09
