June 2007 Archives

Via Faith No More

(We care a lot)
(We care a lot)

(We care a lot) about disasters, fires, floods and killer bees
about the NASA shuttle falling in the sea
(We care a lot) about starvation and the food that Live Aid bought
(We care a lot) about disease, baby Rock, Hudson, rock, yeah!

Woow
Woah a woah a oh
Oh, its a dirty job but someones gotta do it
Oh, its a dirty job but someones gotta do it
We care a lot
(We care a lot)

(We care a lot) about the gamblers and the pushers and the geeks
(We care a lot) about the smack and crack and whack that hits the street
(We care a lot) about the welfare of all the boys and girls
(We care a lot) about you people cause we're out to save the world

(YEAH)

Woow, Wooow
Oh, its a dirty job but someones gotta do it
Woah a woah a oh
Oh, its a dirty job but someones gotta do it
Said, its a dirty job but someones gotta do it
Oh, its a dirty job but someones gotta do it

Oh, its a dirty job but someones gotta do it
Woah a woah a oh
Oh, its a dirty job but someones gotta do it
Oh, its a dirty job but someones gotta do it
Said, its a dirty job but someones gotta do it

(We care a lot) about the army navy air force and marines
(We care a lot) about the NY, SF and LAPD
(We care a lot) about you people
(We care a lot) about your guns
(We care a lot) about the wars you're fighting gee that looks like fun

(We care a lot) about the Garbage Pail Kids, they never lie
(We care a lot) about Transformers cause there's more than meets the eye
(We care a lot) about the little things, the bigger things we top
(We care a lot) about you people yeah you bet we care a lot

YEAH!

(Woah a woah a oh)

Said, its a dirty job but someones gotta do it
Oh, its a dirty job but someones gotta do it

(Woah a woah a oh)

Said, its a dirty job but someones gotta do it
Oh, its a dirty job but someones gotta do it
Said, its a dirty job but someones gotta do it
Oh, its a dirty job but someones gotta do it
Oh, its a dirty job but someones gotta do it
Oh, its a dirty job but someones gotta do it
Oh, its a dirty song but someons gotta sing it now

In no particular order.

• The large majority of Libertarians have turned out to be simply authoritarians who worship guns and despise taxes. Surprise. What is a surprise is how rabidly authoritarian they all turned out to be when 9/11 made them cower under their couches like frightened children crying out for a strong daddy to protect them. Pathetic.


• Israel - the darling of the right and religious right in this capitalist country - has an incredibly strong Socialist tradition bordering on communism. If it wasn't for the oil over there, I think these guys would be considered to be in the same category as Hugo Chavez.


• Graduates of the ultra religious university, Regent University, seem to have the most serious problem with telling the truth and ethics in general. Seriously. For people who spend a serious amount of time wagging their finger about how they believe in "absolutes", they sure seem to be amazingly willing to chuck our laws under a bus to ensure "political correctness" in the Justice department. I'm sure these graduates will be role models for generations to come.


• The party of responsibility and "bellying up to the bar" blames everything on the incompetence of their leader. Again, what spineless wimps the vaunted right has turned out to be. Can't take responsibility to save their own lives. Sadly pathetic. "We have not loved wrongly, rather we have loved too well"


• The party of small government has overseen the largest bloat of that government in history. A laugh a minute, this one. And the whole "PorkBusters" effort by the cub scouts of the right wing movementarians is simply laughable.


• The party of "stop all this foreign intervention" has simply thrown off the cloak and revealed a pure Imperialist agenda that rivals even the most sordid wet dream of liberal interventionists. Again, hardly a surprise to anyone paying attention, but really, it's funny to see how many people actually vote for these creeps believing that they don't want to be galavanting around the world, playing Empire.


• The Administration which has national security as its centerpiece lashes out as critics by blowing the covert cover of an CIA undercover working on WMDs. It's funny to think how everyone on the right would react to Hillary doing the same thing. I think that even the James Joyners of the world would be marching into the white house and literally demanding her head.


• The religious right as a hard line supporter of torture. I know this is a surprise considering the lavish history of witch burnings and the forced "conversions" in the Inquisition, but one really has to wonder at people who really think Jesus looks fondly upon those who use water boarding and stress positions - and clearly even worse things - to protect God's country. I mean, wasn't the guy nailed to a cross? Didn't see him go all Jack Bauer on the Romans.


• That the formerly gubber'mnt hating, anti authority party believes in nothing short of supreme executive authority with no checks on the President's powers. It's going to be a hoot when Hillary takes office and all the glass in every building around this country simultaneously shatters due to the ultrasonic wail emitted by these bozos. FBI files misused? Hell. Wait until you see a Clinton with the power to declare anyone an enemy combatant and the ability to wiretap at will. Fucking morons.


• That the formerly paranoid and FBI hating party now believes the government should have the unfettered ability to spy on its citizens without warrant and without oversight. Like the previous item, it's really quite bizarre to see the whole "Ruby Ridge" crowd just fall over and expose their belly like some submissive member of a wolf pack. I mean, I knew they were all just authoritarian totalitarians but geebus...


• That those who were pissed off about so called liberal "political correctness" have their own repressive political correctness based on unquestioning support for George Bush. My god, it's truly funny to see that what ever the imagined oppression of the "Mommy" state had, the brutal reality of the authoritarian "Daddy" state is far, far worse. Congratulations, you frickin' morons.


• Google's "do no evil" has become a joke as we watch our privacy swirl down their black hole. It's absurd to think that "trust me" is a valid way to ensure your privacy. Secrecy is in fundamental conflict with the transparency required to protect one's privacy. Google is supposed to be filled with smart people - I guess it's true what they say about smart people in groups.


• Iraq is best buds with our arch enemy Iran. This one still cracks me up. I mean, like you couldn't see this one coming a mile away.


• Iraq is a theocracy. Now I'm rolling on the floor laughing my ass off. I mean, what was the whole purpose of the Iraq war. Okay, which one of the 10 post facto rationales does this fit into? Morons.


• That our "most solid ally in the war on terror" - i.e. Pakistan - has a) a millitary dictator and b) a millitary dictator who's days are numbered and c) an Islamic theocracy waiting to see if they can take over when he "leaves" office. Man, it's going to be so fucking cool to see an Islamic theocracy with a nuclear bomb. Again, you guys who are in charge of this fuckin' rock!


• Calling out the left wing blogosphere as uncivil and uncouth with attacks that can only be characterized as uncivil and uncouth. Proving yet again that "civility" is simple a cudgel to be used against people you think don't "belong". I just got to say that it's a laugh a minute watching this psycho drama unfold. Every day is like watching a really cheesy soap opera. Keep it up guys!


• All those calling for leniency against Scooter Libby because his crime was "just" perjury. Like a moral compass in the ethical Bermuda Triangle. Pathetic


• Strict "Constitutional Constructionists" proudly cheering indefinite detentions without recourse to council, the unitary executive and - of course - Bush v. Gore. Again, no surprise given that they're authoritarians to the bone. But geebus. Even I thought they'd have more shame than this.


• Vociferous and quite rabid anti-tort proponent Robert Bork suing the Yale Club of New York City for $1 million plus punitive damages for failing to provide adequate staging for the dais he had to mount to give a speech at the club. There may not be justice in this world, but man o man. Sometimes the universe has a good sense of humor.


• The Administration "with the most MBAs" - including the first President with an MBA runs a government like Ken Lay ran Enron. Again, no surprise to anyone with brain one. But quite fascinating to see who was swayed by a whiny rich kid with a pathetic track record of failing businesses that had to be bailed out by daddy's friends - simply because he had an MBA and went to the right schools. Proof positive that what impresses most people are icons and not reality.


• That uber-techno-libertarians are finding themselves on the forefront of the great outsourcing experiment and facing the unemployment line - outsourcing that isn't even apparently doing what it advertised. My god, if they could have only organized and formed a union back when they had power... I guess we'll all have to figure out what kind of job is available even though you're highly educated and intelligent. I guess it'll be easier to learn out how to say "do you want fries with that" with a masters and doctorate.

Go read it.

Sorry. Just couldn't resist.

Proving that there simply is no such thing as justice in the world, Treviño is not only back at blogging but writing articles that are more akin to self mutilation than anything else I can imagine.

He really, really likes this shtick.

One of the more entertaining aspects of our descent into the gaping maw of hell has been to see not just who the conservatives are that have bailed on this Administration, but when they decided to bail and why. I mean, if everything is well along the swirling path down the drain of destruction, you mine as well find some interesting tidbits along the way to keep you occupied while you're waiting for the inevitable.

One such conservative that I find a quiet pleasure in reading is the proprietor of the Cunning Realist (wink, wink. nudge, nudge). Although I'm sure I have many disagreements with him on many issues, we seem to find ourselves sharing the same bed - along with pretty much everyone else on the planet at this point, except for the scary 30% of the US population which forms the Republican base at this point - with respect to this Administration and the wasteland they have created out of the American body politic. He has three posts up which I find quite good and exhibit the kind of thought and perspective that I really miss about the paleocons, when such dinosaurs roamed the earth.

The first, The Furthest Thing From Their Minds? looks at the recent JFK keystone cops terrorist plot that was recent foiled and asks some rather obvious questions about how this piece of data fits with the storyline that is being spun by the architects and supporters of the disaster formerly known as the Iraq war. Well worth the read and a real pity that such questions aren't picked up by the Fourth Estate^tm and battered against the impenetrable wall represented by Tony Snow and his merry band of obfuscators.

But another one of his posts regarding Mark Steyn, Promises Kept, Apparently, is the one I'd like to focus on. Not for the well deserved snark at Steyn's expense, but for the other interesting tidbit that often spills out in the medium of blogging.

I voted for Bush in 2000 based mainly on three broad promises he made, each of which I believed: to restore honor and decency to the White House; to build a highly competent administration marked by a rigorous, corporate style of management; and to have a restrained, non-interventionist foreign policy. Other issues important to me at the time were tax reform and social security reform.

Now, I certainly don't expect to get an answer from the C.R., but it really is quite stunning to me to read this paragraph from a self described "New York City resident in my early forties, an executive in the financial industry, a lifelong conservative [who has] an M.B.A. in International Business from Columbia University."

The question I have for the C.R. is, of course, what were you smoking in 2000 and is there any possibility that stuff has made it into the food chain?