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Articles with the Tag politics
‘A Liberal’s A Wingnut Who…’ *
Remember the police violence at the Countryside Alliance demo and all those formerly rabid Tories who said they’d never trust authority again? Glenn Greenwald has a great post up about the US version of the phenomenon, at Salon:
The ultimate reaping of what one sows: right-wing edition
(updated below – Update II)
Right-wing polemicists today are shrieking in self-pitying protest over a new report from the Department of Homeland Security sent to local police forces which warns of growing “right-wing extremist activity.” The report (.pdf) identifies attributes of these right-wing extremists, warning that a growing domestic threat of violence and terrorism “may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single-issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration” and “groups that reject federal authority in favor of state or local authority.”
Conservatives have responded to this disclosure as though they’re on the train to FEMA camps.
The Right’s leading political philosopher and intellectual historian, Jonah Goldberg, invokes fellow right-wing giant Ronald Reagan and says: “Here we go Again,” protesting that “this seems so nakedly ideological.” Michelle Malkin, who spent the last eight years cheering on every domestic surveillance and police state program she could find, announces that it’s “Confirmed: The Obama DHS hit job on conservatives is real!” Lead-War-on-Terror-cheerleader Glenn Reynolds warns that DHS — as a result of this report (but not, apparently, anything that happened over the last eight years) — now considers the Constitution to be a “subversive manifesto.” Super Tough Guy Civilization-Warrior Mark Steyn has already concocted an elaborate, detailed martyr fantasy in which his house is surrounded by Obama-dispatched, bomb-wielding federal agents. Malkin’s Hot Air stomps its feet about all “the smears listed in the new DHS warning about ‘right-wing extremism.'”
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I don’t recall Glenn Reynolds or Mark Steyn complaining that the FBI, for virtually the entire Bush administration, was systematically abusing its new National Security Letters authorities under the Patriot Act to collect extremely invasive information, in secret, about Americans who had done nothing wrong.
I see the whiny ass titty baby contingent of the flying buttmonkey brigade are still around, and still whining.
[* “…been arrested“]
Save Us From Dr Evil, Super Wario!
It’s Monday morning. Bleh. Who’s got the energy to bone up on why it is the Americans are having conniption fits re N. Korea, just so’s to be able to look knowledgable to your workmates in the coffee break, or even just to make sense of that burbling on the radio?
To save you the trouble of googling, and because I’m nice like that, here’s a handy 2 minute summation, Super Mario style:
It’s a bit of a quandary for the UN security council when people don’t comply with international treaties, isn’t it? And now Kim the younger’s got space capability too.
Mind you, there is an upside to this ‘immediate threat to the international order’ -a Dr Evil with nukes against whom world leaders can unite to mutual political and economic advantage is the very thing to divert attention from the collapse of a global economy nobody seems able to fix.