This kid was either defending himself from a dangerous 3-year old or trying to protect his future liberties from a known future islamocommunofascist. Wonder when the Open Carry nutjobs will be lobbying for kids to pack heat to protect themselves from their playmates?
Gingrich has been gradually creeping out from the shadows into the limelight since his fall from grace when leading the impeachment crusade against the very popular Bill Clinton. But the Gingrich of the 90s seems relatively tame compared to the teabaggers and birthers of today – and even compared to Gingrich 2010!
In a recent speech to the reactionary American Enterprise Institute, Gingrich seems to have planted one foot firmly amidst the teabagger camp with his calls to forbid the so-called Ground Zero Mosque (which is neither a Mosque nor at Ground Zero), and the other solidly planted in the Wolfowitz/NeoConArtist era of never-ending war on Radical Islam:
“I believe [Bush] was right but in fact could not operationalize what he said. That is, there was an Axis of Evil, Iran, Iraq, North Korea. Well we’re one out of three. And people ought to think about that. If Bush was right in January of 2002 — and by the way virtually the entire Congress gave him a standing ovation when he said it — then why is it that the other two parts of the Axis of Evil are still visibly, cheerfully making nuclear weapons? And it’s because we’ve stood at brink, looked over and thought, “Too big a problem.”
“If Franklin Roosevelt had done that in ‘41, either the Japanese or the Germans would have won,” Gingrich said. The U.S. has to “over-match the problem,” he said, adding, “That’s what Americans are all about.”
I wonder if he got the memo that various Repug leaders were starting to bail on Shrubya’s Afghanistan Folly? Palin/Gringrich in 2012 – the worst of 3 eras of Repug misleadership! It would be kinda luck the Germans in WWII – invading a bunch of weak countries (Iran, N. Korea), then going crazy and attacking Russia from Palin’s house…I don’t even want to think about the hell they’d create.
Just as BP shuts down the undersea gusher, some drunken redneck smashes his boat into a small wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico. What are the odds that this could happen? Well they have a lot of boat-driving drunken rednecks down there in the Gulf, and a lot of wells and pipelines…
Repug pols can be honest – when the microphones are off! Republican Senate Candidate Ken Buck calls Tea Bagger Birthers dumb-asses:
“Will you tell those dumbasses at the Tea Party to stop asking questions about birth certificates while I’m on the camera,” Buck said to the staffer. “God, what am I supposed to do?”
Now if he’d only speak the truth when he knows he is on camera, America can make some progress going forward!
Tip of the ‘Nose to Film Critic Buddy
War Nerd is back with a weird meandering post that is, as usual, fun to read.
PRC ‘take’ on Sarah Palin:
Wish they would make this into a video game!
The People’s Republic of China has surpassed the U.S. in energy usage. Seems like only yesterday when CMike was berating me for negatively comparing Chinese output of CO2 to that of the U.S. That’s a first-place we really didn’t need 
Here is civil disobedience, Texas-style. Reactionary politics by other means.
*Update 7/21/10* Reactionary ‘humor’ always seems to involve violence. And this nut was stopped by sheer luck from doing a Texas-style gun massacre at the ACLU and the Tides Foundation.
Good office relationships start with breast milk
In perhaps the (unintentionally) funniest bit of silliness out of Islam since Ayatollah Sistani’s FAQ, check out the latest fatwa from Saudi Clerics promoting “adult breast-feeding to establish “maternal relations” and preclude the possibility of sexual contact” to allow men and women who work together to do so without a male relative chaperon.
*Update 7/20/10* In an unrelated Fatwa, it’s okay to drink coffee made from beans pooped out by a civet cat, provided they are first washed. Seriously. I couldn’t make something like that up!
Spy Buddy provides us with this wry commentary:
I am disappointed with the Pakistani government because they have banned the new Bollywood comedy movie, “Tere bin Laden.” This movie is about a Pakistani TV journalist who interviews a fake bin Laden double to secure to promote his career and a U.S. visa to pursue his dream of breaking into American TV.
This is pretty odd, since the government allows Ali Saleem to air his show, Late Night with Begum Nawazish Ali. Here, Ali Saleem is the cross-dressing Pakistani socialite version of John Stewart. Despite being asked provocative questions and being exposed to Begum’s criticism, politicians line up to be on his show.
I always thought the Pakistani government had a sense of humor beyond some Asian version of Benny Hill, not just because they tolerate Late Night with Begum Nawazish Ali but in the way the government pisses all over its close ally, the US. (And this is comedy). For example, Pakistan claims to be an American ally and receives billions of dollars in aide to fight religious extremists in their country while the same Pakistan government generously redistributes that aide to the Taliban, al Qaeda, and other religious zealots who are responsible for terrorist acts in and outside Pakistan (including killing US soldiers in Afghanistan or the 2008 Mumbai Attacks). Just recently, Pakistan has taken US aid to subsidize its recent purchase of two 635 megawatt reactors from Beijing for its plutonium production complex where Pakistan continues build nuclear weapons so they can blow up their arch enemy India or sell on the global black market to another terrorist organization.
I guess some things just aren’t funny – like Tere bin Laden!
Haha a cross-dressing Jon Stewart! I wish I spoke Urdu or they’d subtitle that!