Conservatives, such as Karl Rove and Cal Thomas, win arguments by making them up

The good thing about being a conservative commentator is that you can make outrageous statements, attribute them to your opponent, then easily win an argument, because you made it all up in the first place.
We saw George “Frat-boy” Bush’s hatchet man Karl Rove do just that the other day in an address to the Conservative Party of New York City. He said that “liberals” saw the savagery of 9/11 and wanted to indict and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers. Did he offer one example of this? No. He couldn’t because nothing like that was ever said by anyone on the left. Cal Thomas repeated the same lie shortly after that statement was made. As proof Thomson pointed to “liberal organizations” such as MoveOn.org which did appeal for “moderation and restraint in responding to the terrorist attacks.” Where’s the sympathy and understanding part of that statement? Many of us did make that statement and the reasons for that are apparent now.
We didn’t want innocent people tortured or killed. We didn’t want countries invaded that had nothing to do with 9/11. We didn’t want legitimate dissidents, here a home, harassed in the name of “national security.” All of these things have happened. The results are that we are despised abroad by just about everyone. People abroad have forgotten 9/11 and they see Bush as about as moral as Osama bin Lauden. We have created more terrorists and there are people here at home that have completely lost faith in this government.
Just the other night I saw Bush smirking on TV and bragging that we took the war to the terrorists. He has no relatives over there and neither do the people around him. So he has the will for the glory, while we provide our children’s guts to make it safe for old farts to drive gas-guzzling S.U.V.s and oversized pick-up trucks. So if you love your gas-guzzling vehicle, thank a vet.

Sen. Dick Durbin apologizes for telling the truth- Note to Democrats –“Please get a back-bone”

Sen. Dick Durbin partially apologized for remarks he made about our concentration camp in Guantanamo Bay, according to the Chicago Tribune, (printed in The Wichita Eagle, June 18, 2005). Durbin is a Democrat from Illinois. He compared “Gitmo” to camps by the Nazis, Soviets and Pol Pot.
Of course our president was outraged, along with the usual media pundit godheads, such as Rush Limbaugh. We all know how risky it is to offend such great godheads, in the media and government.
Ironically the use of torture was carefully documented in Time magazine, “Exclusive, Detainee 063 Inside The Wire At Gitmo,” June 20, 2005. This article not only demonstrated the inhuman treatment of these prisoners, but it also made it clear there are innocent people there who know nothing of importance.
So what was there to apologize for? We have dehumanized a group of people based on the fact that they come from another country, are another race and have a culture that seems foreign to us. This is the same perception the Germans had of the Jews during World War II. Dehumanizing people is easy to rationalize. One important element is to have god-like figures that can intimidate those who would dare criticize the state. The Nazis had their own godheads. To go against their logic was indeed a risk. Today it is a political risk for a senator to dare question the president and supreme leader of the United States of Amerikkka, even if the criticism is correct.
An open letter to Sen. Dick Durbin;

"Where is your backbone sir? Is there a Democrat in our congress today that has one?"

Memoirs of a Drugged-Up, Sex-Crazed Yippie

Once again I’m plugging Memoirs of a Drugged-Up, Sex-Crazed Yippie. It takes the reader through the life of a 1970s counter-culture drug user. Mark Spies goes from casual pot smoking to habitual use of pharmaceutical narcotics and cocaine. Due to the changing sexual attitudes, Spies has several unconventional sexual encounters. The 1970s brought us the “Woodstock generation.” There was a sense of idealism that developed at the beginning and died at the end of that decade. Many counter-culture books focus on the 1960s, yet there are plenty of events in the 1970s that deserve attention. Nixon’s war in Vietnam and Cambodia dominated the news and affected America’s youth. Nixon’s war on drugs impacted the counter-culture life style. Then there was punk rock, disco, casual cocaine use and revolutions braking out around the world by 1979.With politics in the background, this book gives the reader a look at drug use and the difficult business of drug dealing. The drugs, sexual attitudes, music and politics made the 1970s what they were. Taken as a whole, this book will give some insight into the people and events of the 1970s counter-culture.The Author is a free-lance writer, living in Kansas. He is the author of War on Drugs/ War on People, published by Ide House, 1995, an expose of government corruption connected with the “war on drugs.” Otto has published numerous articles in magazines, journals and newspapers.For More information the book can be seen at Amazon.com or can also be purchased Direct from the publisher.

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The rich sell houses, the poor go homeless

Need a house? Hope you don’t live near the new housing boom. Trading stocks, gold coins, or other investments, have been common over the years, but now it’s real estate, in particular, real big houses.
Time magazine came out with a special on the new trend, “Home $weet Home,” June 13, 2005. The cover offered plenty of kickers: “Will your house make you rich?”, “Super-Hot markets,” “Is it time to buy-or sell?”
Apparently the trend is to buy small medium or low-income houses on big lots, tear them down and build large two story five or more room mansions that will sell for close to a million dollars. Unlike other types of investing, this is driving many middle-class and working-class families out of the housing market. Middle to low income people who already own homes may make hundreds of thousands of dollars on their humble homes. Yet where do they live when they move out? According to Time, many of these people simply rent. In the long run, that leaves people with no retirement plan, as rent may easily eat up a social security paycheck.
Apparently there is quick money to be made “flipping homes over,” according to Time. House prices just keep going up. But if no one lives in them, will the market bottom out? Let’s hope so. People need homes for a place to live and the security of having someplace where they can’t be evicted. Those trying to make a quick buck are just being vultures that have inflated the market and profited off the losses of other people. They are low rent scum-bags who deserve to loose their shirts, and if the experts are right and the bubble burst, we could see the kinds of losses that took place in the stock market crash of 1929.

Evolution embarrasses Kansans once again

The whole country, by now, is aware of the controversy of evolution in the state of Kansas. For those who aren’t up on the situation, the Kansas State School Board will probably either drop evolution from required science or insist on Intelligent Design (ID).
Intelligent design sounds innocent enough, at first. The process of creation is too complex to be random. That doesn’t sound controversial since evolution could be argued to have a pattern and intent. But the ID people are creationists. Their view of creation is that a big invisible man in the heavens did a magic show, said a few magic words and the universe was created 6,000 years ago.
These people, with totally ridiculous arguments, ridicule studying fossils, carbon dating and all manor of physical science.
*They argue that the universe was created 6,000 years ago, even though we can see the light from galaxies millions of light years away.
*Living cells are simply too complex to have evolved from chemicals. This is like arguing that the Keebler Elves made the Empire State Building in the trees because it is simply too complex for the human mind.
*There is no evidence that one species evolved to another. They ignore all the new evidence that now proves conclusively that birds evolved from dinosaurs. Tyrannosaurus Rex is related to the common sparrow and we now know that.
These arguments might seem funny or amusing if the ID proponents weren’t bombarding The Wichita Eagle with letters complaining that “evolution has so many hole in it, that most scientists are now questioning it all together.” These people want to teach our youngsters that the universe was created during a magic show rather than teach them science.
Kansas’ folly is getting noticed all across the country. The newspaper Revolution, May 15, 2005, reported:

“To get a sense of the sweeping anti-science agenda at work here, one has only to note that the first Kansas board of education decision, back in 1998, did not stop at removing important aspects of biological evolution from their science standards. That same 1998 Board decision also eliminated statements mandating that Kansas students study the evidence that the earth is much older than 10,000 years, the theory of plate tectonics (the motion of the earth’s crust) and the Big Bang. The 1998 decision led to such outrage that those Board members were voted out, and their rules overturned; but now the "Flat Earthers" are back in charge and poised to attack evolution again.”

As for the Kansas School Board: ‘And now for our next magic trick’

Our new empire must squash dissent

Two people now realize that it is illegal to hate America. FBI agents, posing as al-Qaida members, tricked a doctor and jazz musician into singing a pledge to support of al-Qaida, according to The Wichita Eagle, May 31, 2005. The two prospective members had admitted they wanted to join a training camp in Afghanistan.
In the past The FBI has tricked some of these people in to doing stupid things, such as making bombs for them. But this goes beyond that. This is an example of arresting people for supporting or backing movements that the Bush administration has declared to be "terrorists." This is in clear violation against the constitution that has always held that a person has a right to voice support for revolution or revolutionary groups. It has never been legal to arrest someone for his or her beliefs.
Those of us who have seen the new Star Wars Movie: “Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith”, have noticed the subtle similarities between the Emperor in the film and President George Bush.
“You are either with me or you are my enemy.”
Many of us are already enemies of the system. The two people arrested were Tarik ibn Osman Shah and Rafiq Sabir. By now we should all be aware that the new U.S. empire plans to squash all dissent as if we were all insects.
The Bush Regime also has such allies as David Horowitz, who viscously attacks liberal college professors under the guise of “protecting student’s rights” --that is the rights of snot-nosed Republicans who want to go to college and never have their beliefs questioned.
According to the newspaper Revolution, May 15, 2005:

“Horowitz rants that those who dare deviate from the government’s propaganda are themselves "terrorists" and "terrorist supporters." The left in the antiwar movement and on the campuses is portrayed as having " alliances with the Islamic radicals." "Treason" is a legally lethal label slapped on those who dare to critique U.S. designs of empire. Horowitz’s treatment of Noam Chomsky is a perfect example. Described by The New Yorker magazine as "one of the greatest minds of the 20 th century," Chomsky is also one of the most outspoken critics of U.S. foreign policy. Horowitz vilifies Chomsky’s work as "demonic and seditious" and declares that "its purpose is to incite believers to provide aid and comfort to the enemies of the U.S." (Horowitz, The Unholy Alliance, Radical Islam and the American Left, 2004).

And now the FBI is actually going after such “treason.”