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POPSInappropriate, inexcusable and indefensible 
For the last week or so, Bill O'Reilly has been waging a one-man war against the website DailyKos. One thing he's been doing is going through and pointing out comments left in some threads that express ideas that are, quite frankly, inappropriate, inexcusable and indefensible. O'Reilly's one to talk. Not only do comments at his own site contain comments that are just as inappropriate, inexcusable and indefensible, but Bill O'Reilly himself has been known to make comments that are inappropriate, inexcusable and indefensible himself. Below is a quote from November 2005. I've chosen it because while it's not necessarily a recent quote, it is one that is so heinous that O'Reilly should have lost his job over it. This comment should be spread around as much as possible. Not enough was made of it at the time, but now, since O'Reilly's on his "saying hateful things is bad" campaign, he needs to be taught just what happens when hateful things come out of HIS mouth.
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POPSThe Purpose Driven Life Takers (Part 1) Start here at the source and read on. Pretty frightening and illuminating. This series of articles isn't part of the Blog Against Theocracy, but it should be. This is a movement with every intention of taking over this country, and grandiose as it may seem, the world.
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POPSBritain Drops Label "War on Terror" And to think that those of us who suggested that describing this ideological battle as a war only aided fanatics were labeled as unpatriotic traitors. What a deference 6 years makes.
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POPSThe Top Dozen Religions of the World I'm amazed that a large portion of the world is Islam. Obviously, there may be drastic implications of a global, Islamic Jihad, which is why peace must be fostered among ALL religions. Unfortunately, Islamic extremists believe our occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan is a threat/war against Islam. America, on the other hand, can't even agree on what the fuck the meaning behind our occupation is.
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POPSUnder Bush, a New Age of Prepackaged Television News Fow News is the largest news organization in America and it's stories parallel White House ideologies. Scary combo. Most of the American public doesn't even realize news oranizations focus on stories of achievement and success in the Mideast to bolster support for the Bush Admn. policies.
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POPSTucker Carlson: Wiccan lottery winner = government subsidation of Satanism Here's my nominee for Wanker of the Day. A Wiccan wins big in the lottery, says he attributes the win to Wiccan Magic and that he's going to use his winnings to quit his job and teach Wicca full time. Now, if a winner has attributed his winnings to Jesus and said that he was going to use his winnings to quit his job and teach Christianity, everyone would talk about how wonderful what he's doing is - but I can't imagine any pundit or politician claiming that its an example of the government subsidizing Christianity, eh? And, of course, if I understand how lotteries work, the government isn't subsidizing ANYTHING. The whole point of government run lotteries is for the state to be able to raise money - usually to be used in funding education and such. Its all the other lottery players who are "subsidizing" the winners (if you want to put it that way.) Anyway, just had to share that particular crock of crap. What a f*#^!ng donkey!
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POPSTranslation: Give Bush what he wants or we die! Just how stupid is Trent Lott? Seriously! Apparently, there has been recent intelligence indicating that there *may* be an attack planned on DC between now and September 11th. As the former chief of the Capitol Police notes, however, *we're* the one's with the hang up on dates and anniversaries - terrorists don't focus on those nearly as much. But even going beyond that, Lott is telling people that it would be a good idea stay out of town until September 12th - as if the terrorists are going to keep their plan (if there is one) the same even though they know we're aware of the possibility? What makes him think that the terrorists won't just change their plans and attack on, say, the 13th, after everyone who followed Lott's advice and left will have returned? Yeesh! And of course, everyone caved and Bush got the bill he wanted . I wonder if Trent thinks everyone there will be safe now?
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POPSWho cares about the spirit of the law when you can find away around the letter of it? Not surprisingly, the FBI is trying to find away around rules prohibiting it from maintaining records of people's telephone and internet usage (unless its for an ongoing criminal investigation or intelligence operation). Their latest idea? Pay phone companies millions to store their customer's records and allow the FBI immediate access to them "if it asks." How much longer until this administration goes away? ::plaintive sigh::
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POPSThe news media tries to manipulate our thinking and succeeds.
This is unfortunately the truth. The media has different rules on how they present progressives running for office and conservatives running for what they consider their office. I am so tired of watching these so called news outlets MSNBC, CNN and the other local stations CBS, NBC, ABC, that I resort to Jon Stewart, Colbert and Bill Maher's HBO Real Time (which incidentally has taken an hiatus for about 6 months) for some truth and a bit of well needed laughter. Thank goodness, I can turn to Link TV and Democracy Now... http://www.democracynow.org/ Once in awhile to know what really is going on in the world (although, quite depressing at times)... Without that little reality shot-in-the-brain I would be totally in the dark or worse BRAINWASHED with a permanent pair of rose colored glasses stuck to my face. EXAMPLE OF DEMOCRACY NOW HEADLINES FOR JUNE 1, 2007 - Kidnapped BBC Reporter Appears in New Video - U.S. Embassy in Iraq Plans Posted Online - Sadr Rejects Talks With U.S. - Cl
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POPSOk, I'm OFFICIALLY worried SOME (and only some) of what Newt Gingrich is saying actually is making a bit of sense... Don't worry, I still find him to be a rather loathsome fellow, but in addition to calling out the administration on the phony war on terror, he's also promoting the idea of **gasp!** both parties working together to solve some of our problems. If the old boy's not careful, he may find himself kicked out of the GOP for being too reasonable.
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POPSFormer General Wes Clark, Jr. wants to know if you've HAD ENOUGH! From his blog at the Daily Kos: Enough of seeing the Constitution trashed? Enough of the corruption? Enough of the war? Enough of the gutless response of our elected Democratic representatives? If you're answer is yes, he has a suggestion. Every week, starting this Sunday, he and his friend Cenk Uyger will be going to the corner of Veteran and Wilshire in West LA, and they're asking that people in other cities to hold similar one-hour protests in their local areas to help spread the message. Obviously, I can't go myself, but I'm hoping that by posting this, maybe one or two of you will decide to go or will pass it on to your own friends. A Clark notes in his full post (click the link below to read the whole thing), the government isn't listening to any of us at this point - and the only way to change that is to get large enough groups out making it clear they've had enough that the message can no longer be ignored.
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POPSMultiple Choice Quiz: Our mission in Iraq is ____ ? Think Progress has a great post today going through each of the various explanations the administration has given regarding what our mission is Iraq is. Below, is a teaser of what the various stages of our "mission" have been, all of which Think Progress backs up with quotes. Even though I've been well aware of the shifting excuses, seeing them laid out like this really helps show just how mendacious this administration can be.
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POPSThe Vice Presidency as performance art Bob Harris - a screenwriter for shows such as "CSI," and author of "Prisoner of Trebekistan," a rumination of his run as a 5-time champion on "Jeopardy" and how the experience affected him - posted to his blog recently about the bizarre nature of Vice President Cheney's office and how it seems to have no problem making "insane" or "self-contradictory" claims in order to avoid accountability to, well, much of anyone, really. He notes that it appears that just after having claimed that the Vice President's office is not part of the Executive branch of the government in order to avoid complying with an Executive Order (which apparently even applies to President Bush's office) on reporting requirement for the handling of sensitive material, Cheney is now preparing to claiming "executive privilege" - something that applies only to entities within the Executive branch - to avoid complying with Congressional subpoenas. In my opinion (and I'm not the only one, I'm sure), the Vice Pres
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POPSTalk about obstructing justice The chutzpah of the Bush Admin truly knows no bounds (which I realize isn't much of a revelation, but still can't be pointed out often enough!) Now, in addition to their recent refusal to hand over documents subpoenaed by Congress, the White House is telling former aids not to testify, even though they've been subpoenaed! The notes below refer to Sara Taylor, who is alleged to have potentially valuable information regarding the questionable firings of several US Attorneys, but according to Raw Story , Harriet Miers has also been instructed not to testify. In the letter (referenced in the clip below) from Neil Eggleston, Taylor's attorney, he notes that she is currently caught between the subpoena for her testimony from Congress and orders from the President not to testify. These contrary directions undoubtedly create a monumental clash between the executive and legislative branches of
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POPSNothing But Red Several days ago, I posted some quotes from an essay Joss Whedon had written regarding women and violence , both real and fictional . Whedon wrote the essay after about Dua Khalil Aswad, a Muslim woman who was stoned and who's death had been gleefully recorded by men in the crowd around her on their cell phone cameras and distributed via the web. Today, the Broadsheet at Salon.com featured a post about a group that has begun work on an anthology to be called " Nothing But Red ", with all proceeds going to a human rights organization - most likely Equality Now , a group Joss supports. Please check it out and pass it on if you agree its' a worthwhile project
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POPSWant to download stuff from YouTube and other video services? I know that RealPlayer isn't most people's favourite media player, but I thought this was a rather cool feature that some might be interested in. Starting in RealPlayer 11, you'll be able to record streaming media from the internet and download embedded videos using RealPlayer, though your browser. It won't let you save or download stuff protected by DRM (of course) but it sounds like it should make it a lot easier to save favourite clips. Below is the introduction from their press release, which was issued on May 31st.
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POPSReal Player that records online videos available now I posted the other day about the new Real Player that will be allowing for the download of non-DRM videos. I got the notification today that it's available now, so I thought I'd copy the emal for anyone else who wants to download it. Email is after the jump.
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POPSJoss Whedon on women and violence - real and fictional This was posted at whedonesque.com in May, but I missed it at that time. It's an amazingly hard-hitting and heart-wrenching essay by Joss Whedon (he of "Buffy," "Angel," and "Firefly"/"Serenity" fame) regarding how the world views women, the scourge of misogyny and what we can try to do about it. I would *highly* recommend this essay to anyone.
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POPSThe Imperial Presidency Hat tip to wiccantexan at clipmarks When the Constitution was written, our Founding Fathers were very careful to include provisions that would prevent any one branch of the government from getting too much power and control, and thus becoming something more along the lines of a dictatorship. Robert Sheer writes - in an excellent editorial for "The Nation" magazine (reprinted by CBS, where is where I got the link) - that George W. Bush is exactly the kind of imperial president that the Founding Fathers were trying to avoid. There's a lot more, including how Eisenhower's concerns about a "military-industrial complex" are both part of what the Founding Fathers were trying to prevent (though they wouldn't have necessarily thought of it in those same terms) *and* what Bush's Imperial Presidency is trying to ensure develops - and why this is a bad thing. Go read it - it's not l
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