Except…for the guy you call “the Garybot.� Proof that they walk among us. And that eternal vigilance, or Slayers, will always be required. Jeebus? He’s okay, but…I, myself, I will continue to light my candles to Saint Buffy.

I gotta say, such incandescent ignorance. wrong damn near every time, in every line in every post. I disagree with an earlier post accusing him of not trying. you have to be trying really hard to be that stupid, and that wrong, that often.

most notably, friend, you’re wrong that we are in a world war. the US is not AT WAR. we are UNDER ATTACK (that is a huge legal, moral, philosophical, constitutional AND military distinction, one which the far right has deliberately obscured continuously); and we have been under attack more or less continuously, and survived, since about 1930 without bringing on Gotterdammerung.

here’s a suggestion, Bunkie: try putting Fox Spews on mute, and read some american political philosophy. (and no, Ann Coulter and shoot-it-up junkie “Rush” Limbaugh don’t qualify as…well, hell, they barely qualify as human.)

I meant real political philosophy–Madison, Jefferson, Monroe, de Chardin, Paine etc. the kind that educated and thinking people read and refer back to. and all of whose names they can pronounce correctly.

those objections of yours to democrats taking over, creating a responsive people’s assembly? and that Congress might just act as though it actually is constituted of the people, by the people, and for the people? but you seem the old-fashioned type–the kind that would be much more comfortable in say 1930′s Germany? and I’m sure Herr Doktor Rove could make you feel welcome by having a few Nuremberg rallies out on the DC Mall this summer or burning the Reichstag again this fall when he and his cronies get in serious political trouble (cool! just like old times!).

are you capable of living in this world without an enemies list? can you live without someone to hate?

and this, you call Americanism. Well, sieg heil, y’all.

we already know where THAT went. and your way will again end in tears.

Take this, for example: “World War II was an exception, since the leftist fifth column aligned with America after the invasion of their beloved Soviet Union.”

If World War II was an exception to the ‘fact’ that Democrats cannot be trusted to win World Wars, then what world war is being excepted? It could only be World War I. But a Democrat presided over all of that war (1914-1919) and all of America’s participation (1917-1919): Woodrow Wilson.

Gary, Gary, Gary, what can we say about such pathetic attempts at trolling?

I have nothing further to say. La la la di da.

U.S. Speeds Up Bomb Delivery for the Israelis
By DAVID S. CLOUD and HELENE COOPER
The Bush administration is rushing a delivery of precision-guided bombs to Israel, which some military officers see as a sign of a longer campaign ahead….
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/22/world/middleeast/22military.html

Sadly, no!

Yeha, I mean, neither Syria nor Israel have chariot riders and war elephants in their militaries.

And I think, though I’m not sure, that Israel has advanced past the Merrimack-stage of amphibious vehicles.

Sadly, no!

Lol!

What’s funnier than moving your triremes around and Mohandas Ghandi appears on your screen and says “your decadent society is an affront to us; hand over your treasury or we will kill you all!”

That said, it’s pretty much inevitable that any unregulated free-market system will produce monopolies or oligopolies due to the economy-of-scale effect. When these monopolies start colluding in an organized fashion, you get a de facto emergence of state corporatism; this was the argument I alluded to earlier, that Nazism is the ultimate evolution of capitalism. A similar view, with a more leftist bent, existed under Italian Fascism.

One of the tricky parts of this discussion is that, in some senses, “fascism” was never really a coherent ideology but rather a collection of statist/nationalist/corporatist movements that appeared around the same time in reaction to similar political and economic pressures; indeed, you could say that the nationalist streak in fascism implied the idea of separate fascisms for separate countries, with each state taking on a politicoeconomic character to match its own culture. Thus, British Oswald Moseley-style fascism wass quite a bit less militaristic and, you might argue, more liberal in character than Italian Fascism. Meanwhile, you have ultra-religious fascistic movements like the Iron Guard in Romania and the Grey Wolves in Lithuania existing in the same overall mixed bag as the cynically secular/quasi-Teutonic Nazism and the explicitly pan-religious (and pan-ethnist!) Brazilian style of Integralism.

And they’re all still assholes.

I had no idea
Prescott Bush was a leftst.

I really feel sorry for you, Gary. You’re SO scared. I bet you cry yourself to sleep every night. “Oh, mommy, the terrorists are gonna GET us tonight, I just KNOW it!” Gary. In a few years, you’ll be old enough to buy a gun. You can protect yourself now with a decent baseball bat. Hell, boy, they sell machetes down at the OSH! (They do) If those nasty terrorists, with the brown skin and the beards and the weird religion that isn’t yours, if they come to get you tonight, you and your mom and dad can fight them. Make a plan. It’s the best way to fight the fear. Oh, and look around. Do you know anyone who’s been hurt by a terrorist? Is there a smoking crater where a building used to by in your little town? No? I think you can relax a little, don’t be so scared, we’re a strong nation and a strong people and it’s going to be ok. Go to sleep now…

mikey

On the other hand, a lot of Nazis saw the British and American capitalists of natural allies of Germany against the threat of Communism.

On the other other hand, the appeal of fascism as a “sensible alternative” to socialism did have strongly populist underpinnings; there was always the assumption that, ultimately, the fascist state was being made “for the people”.

So basically, fascists are assholes.