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Updated Version of Noam Chomsky’s “9/11” Book Takes On Bin Laden’s Death, Imperial Mentality
Chomsky argues that the US government has done exactly what Osama bin Laden wanted it to do: Dig into a series of expensive and bloody wars in Muslim countries, draining the American economy and causing many civilian casualties. . . 9-11 is a crash course in America’s terrorism against inconvenient regimes, and a primer in the ways that those in power have misled the American public by suggesting that September 11 happened in a vacuum. . . He explains the hypocrisy of the US government’s definition of terrorism – the use of violence for political or psychological goals rather than monetary gain – in light of the fact that US government agencies have been using exactly those methods for decades, directly and indirectly.
Poem: Tree Incarnation
By Grant Meaby (10.07.2010)
Copyright Grant Meaby 1996
I don’t want to be cremated
Because burning creates pollution
A green burial on the other hand
Appeals as a solution
I want to pass back into the earth
The earth from which I came
Organic decomposition
And be reborn again
I’d feed the many insects
The microbe and the worm
Provide nutrients for the flora
And in the longer term
My body would then be dispersed
Throughout the biosphere
And the plaque upon my tree would read
‘Reincarnated here’
Obama Being Pushed To Be More “Patriotic” By The GOP
The nut-pack running for the Republican nomination for president are nutty for America. And anyone who isn’t as nutty as they are, why they must be Kenyan crypto-socialists. So in response to the continued criticism by these wackos, the President is having to defend his belief in American exceptionalism.
Which is sad. These dim-wits are still living in the era of “manifest destiny” and thinking that the USA is God’s favorite country of all. I expect that Rick Perry further believes that Texas is God;s favoritest state of the 50. They seriously can’t stand the idea that America should be seen as “just another country.
Why not? What is so awful about the idea that America might be less than perfect, that we might experience failure as well as success, that we might have to answer to the rest of the world when we fv<k up, the way we expect all other countries to do? We CAN’T see ourselves as “exceptional” without being in danger of sliding onto the path of the Roman Empire and the 3rd Reich. I’d prefer that we start to feel a little humility, and deport ourselves with a little courtesy toward everything in the wide world that ISN’T “America.”
Seriously… we ought to consider growing up.
by SouthernFriedInfidel | Published on December 4th, 2011, 11:33 am
Six Well-Kept Secrets about America in One Graphic
Found on MoveOn.org on 12.01.2011
Quote: Sacha Guitry
You can pretend to be serious; you can’t pretend to be witty.
Overdue Notice: Defend Our Libraries
. . . [T]oday, in the wake of an inexhaustible economic crisis and the reactionary assault on everything public, the public library is under attack. Local governments across the United States—from New York City to Detroit, and from Denver to Seattle—are slashing library budgets and closing libraries. . . These cuts will disproportionately punish poor and working class people.
Another key aspect of the public library mission is to defend free speech and intellectual freedom. With programs like “Banned Books Week,” libraries are on the front lines of defending the rights of people to examine unpopular points of view so they can make their own informed decisions.
Camp Pendleton Cross Privileges Christianity; Marginalizes non-Christians
In a case where federal officials allow to stand a prominent Christian cross as a representation of military service, atheists, humanists, and all non-Christians who have fought and died for our country are relegated to second-class citizenship.
The comments in response to this article bespeak volumes to the intolerance, ignorance, and bigotry expressed by Christians toward non-Christians in the military. It is absolutely astonishing! [MSH]
Aphorism: On the Unsolicited “Have a Blessed Day” Complimentary Closing
By Madison S. Hughes (11.22.2011)
I take offense to it for three reasons:
1. It implies that I deign the same irrational superstitious belief.
2. The audacity of it being so freely used reminds one of how it has been allowed to become a meme of the Christian White Privilege that so permeates our culture.
3. The passivity of those that recognize such, but somehow feel it is not worthy of a stance for their convictions.
I always respond with:
Don’t assume I share your delusions.
Have a Reasoned Day,
MadisonThe rhetorical question is, why, to some, would my response come-off as sounding bombastic, yet somehow it is considered taboo to criticize the sender’s complimentary closing? The answer may be found in number two above.
Quote: Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961)
American Author, Journalist, 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Always Question Authority 