And, there can be no “due process” if you are just making decisions based on allegations.

FTW.

tammanytiger @ 4
wigwam @ 11

also, too.

You are a traitor to your own country. I did not spend 30 years in the military to protect the likes of you.

Gary Wamsley
Colonel, USAF, Retired

Agreed. To really wrap your head around what’s being said here (the sum of it), just ask yourself, when our men and women start coming home from the front, and are sitting at their tables weeping about what life has become (see recent FDL post on same), are you really going to be brazen enough to call them out using the p word?

We all know how insidious is the radical behaviorist/mass media agenda: Skip over the conditions and go directly to the character assassination. Fortunately, thinking people know that making the rounds picking low hanging fruit and going dumpster diving doesn’t preclude someone from being completely out of their depth. The 101st keyboard fraternity would be shown up as hollow men compared to people like Wamsley who served 3 decades defending this country, and who gave more than a few pounds of flesh.

You see what I did there?

cynically dishonest

Agreed. And good on you for calling him out on it.
Silence is what allows the Overton window to creep rightward, even among so-called lefties. Everyone should be calling him out on it. Look at the lives potentially destroyed by this kind of OBVIOUS disingenuous display.

It’s like he’s saying, “Somebody STAAHHP MEH. HEH.”

Inconsistent? Erratic? Or textbook borderline personality?

The Thermomix Last, but oh, not least.

To get the obvious out of the way: it is very, very expensive. It is not a purchase to be undertaken lightly. Not everyone should own one.

Shhhh. Ok Ya’ll (does best Paula Deen)
Doan’ tell McMegan – shhh – hush ya’ll okay?
Doan’ tell McMegan, evryone, ah meen evrbody. hayaz. a Thermoneex.
My neighbor’s dog has a Thermoneex.
The pathetic waif who took mah pitcher shoppin’ the otherday -
ya’ll – she got a Thermoneex. I saw her bah wun. Wail, axshully, she snuk one inta her purse, pawher thang. Eenywai.
You know if she got one, aalll ya’ll got one.
So now, ahm gonna show ya’ll how to make a bacon-less peahnut butter and butter sammich (it’s low fayat). While ahm doin that, ya’ll better resetcher egg tahmers, ya hear?

feh. The real story here is the continued lexical assymetry of sexist perjoratives. The English language has yet to evolve a male-specific perjorative that does something other than impugn his mother.

Perhaps that is why in all things political, we continue to see such thin-skinned reactionary overkill. The whole smiting-10-times-over routine is starting to look a lot less like Narcissism and more like a Borderline disorder. The only identity this particular set has is Other People’s Lives. The exceptionalism proves the rule.

They are accused of wanting attention, glory and profit. They are sometimes even accused of risking national security and aiding the enemy

Quite simply the above is a deflection-projection used by those who are most skilled at gaming the system. As a mental exercise, turn the description around to apply to the gamers. Now it’s far more apt. What are their rewards for gaming the system? Profits, glory and attention. Corruption creates an ongoing security risk, therefore aides our enemies. Correct. So why good people do nothing thereby allowing corruption to persist?

Maybe it’s also this subtle and insidious belief:

Curbing corruption costs money

Clearly, it costs exponentially more, of more people, if we don’t.
Inability to exercise free speech is tantamount to economic lockdown for everyone. Remember that. These days all it takes to be considered a whistleblower is stating one’s opinion on any one of a veritable mountain of falsehoods.

All I can say to my fellow Murkins is hang in there; the facades are falling and the truth is out there:

-Elizabeth Warren got street cred when she truthfully reported how medical bills were a predominant factor in middle class declarations of bankruptcy.

-The rubber also met the road when the real estate fraudsters finally had to deal with the fact that real estate values could not rise indefinitely, (and not even consistently with an eventual terminus) without the requisite tandem traction of parallel gains in middle class wages (when they simultaneously knew that exactly the opposite was happening – inverse wage proportions – worst in several decades). The illusion of commoditizing people’s homes was propped up with the help of the financial fraudsters, (clever packagers/marketers that they are). Nonetheless, the piper has their number and is calling – all over the globe apparently.

-The credit fraudsters got their wish – fueled by the keeping up with the Joneses nonsense – to get as much of their market share as possible.

Empires finding the limit of their reach is a sad thing indeed, it’s happened before and apparently it’s going to happen again. But the biggest illusion of this whole morass, and we see it everyday on the Web, (dog love it, but it’s a double-edged sword) is that every discrete, isolated spreadsheet cell, hypercustomized message is adding to this myth that people need to take personally the demise of this systemic fustercluck of a paradigm.

It probably helps little. But raging against the dying of the light, imho, means not giving them what they want most: Your hearbeat, your life, your soul. F em. They’re not worth it.

Remember: THEIR worth was overrated to begin with.

And if this post gets even one person to step back from the edge, it’s worth it.

It’s not about OUR demise. It’s about THEIRS.
Let that be your Captain America teflon shield in the interim.
When we said “Yes We Can,” little did we know it would mean,
“Ride out the storm together.”

*Shares popcorn*

Prediction: “Interventionism” will become as unpopular as “Corporations are people, my friend.” At least, it will, if the Left wants to differentiate itself in any substantive, campaign-worthy manner in 2012.

Kevin, kudos again. Good use of hypocritics to set the scene.

Do you know if FDL will have a presence at this event?

what has happened “over there”

I’ve long said that Americans would not care about what is happening to ‘furriners’ until they understood that it is happening to Americans.

JK@8::

I don’t know the answer to those questions, but the parameters of what face us are clear. Someday the American people will be up to the task of the mammoth change required. It could be tomorrow. It could be a hundred years from now. I only hope than when it comes, it does not come too late

Parameters may be coming into focus. Specifics not so much. Yet.
The story waiting to happen will bring altmedia into progmedia. And yes, one wonders if the Murkin public has the stomach for it. Numb for some, sociopathy in others. Yet still, it’s eyebrow raising to see “pods and zombies” making more frequent appearances in common language. fwiw, the Canadian press & film media is becoming more open, in no small part due to the successful litigation and uncovered history. They’ve also not become corporate PR wings. Over here, progmedia is our best hope.

The truth is out there.