Small-Minded Idiots

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“If Democrats win in '06, Bin Laden can claim victory.”

-- Some GOP numbskull, presumably - Scheuer?

I just got that line on Fox News. It is perhaps known that I appreciate the argument that there are significant elements in the West that seem to believe the jihadists and terrorists have the moral high ground, and if such voices are empowered, it might be said that the West has lost the will to fight and survive. Some of those elements may even be in the Democratic party. Neverthemore, to lay that charge upon the party as a whole is just another one of those provocations that lead one to pick up things and smash them against the wall. It is that kind of silly argument that convinces me that the Republicans also are not up to the conflict. We have too many small-minded idiots, too few real leaders.

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Small-Minded Idiots

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“If Democrats win in '06, Bin Laden can claim victory.”

-- Some GOP numbskull, presumably - Scheuer?

I just got that line on Fox News. It is perhaps known that I appreciate the argument that there are significant elements in the West that seem to believe the jihadists and terrorists have the moral high ground, and if such voices are empowered, it might be said that the West has lost the will to fight and survive. Some of those elements may even be in the Democratic party. Neverthemore, to lay that charge upon the party as a whole is just another one of those provocations that lead one to pick up things and smash them against the wall. It is that kind of silly argument that convinces me that the Republicans also are not up to the conflict. We have too many small-minded idiots, too few real leaders.

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Keeping the Disabled in their Place

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As all Americans cannot help knowing, the political ad campaigns have been especially nasty during these last weeks of what looks to be shaping up as something of a quasi-historic election. One of the nastier ones is that concerning Michael J. Fox and the little feud that Rush Limbaugh has started with him, over whether Fox is exaggerating his Parkinson's symptoms when doing an ad supporting a Democratic candidate who favors embryonic stem-cell research. Jon Swift has done the best with that material as far as I have seen so far:

Rush Limbaugh has always had the courage to fight enemies no one else would dare to take on, but this week he launched his bravest attack yet against a group of people whose power has long gone unchecked: The Disabled. You would think handicapped people would be satisfied when we gave them all of the good parking spaces. You would think they would be a little appreciative for all the wheelchair ramps and the Braille elevator numbers (which I have yet to see anyone use) which have cost businesses a lot of money. You would think that after passing the Americans for Disabilities Act they would just say thank you and shut up. But they just keep wanting more.

It is compassionate conservatism, not fuck-us-blue conservatism. We need to stand up more to special interests and cute celebrities. And we must keep science in its place!

Sometimes it's best just to let go and have some fun with these things, like Mardi Gras.

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Keeping the Disabled in their Place

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As all Americans cannot help knowing, the political ad campaigns have been especially nasty during these last weeks of what looks to be shaping up as something of a quasi-historic election. One of the nastier ones is that concerning Michael J. Fox and the little feud that Rush Limbaugh has started with him, over whether Fox is exaggerating his Parkinson's symptoms when doing an ad supporting a Democratic candidate who favors embryonic stem-cell research. Jon Swift has done the best with that material as far as I have seen so far:

Rush Limbaugh has always had the courage to fight enemies no one else would dare to take on, but this week he launched his bravest attack yet against a group of people whose power has long gone unchecked: The Disabled. You would think handicapped people would be satisfied when we gave them all of the good parking spaces. You would think they would be a little appreciative for all the wheelchair ramps and the Braille elevator numbers (which I have yet to see anyone use) which have cost businesses a lot of money. You would think that after passing the Americans for Disabilities Act they would just say thank you and shut up. But they just keep wanting more.

It is compassionate conservatism, not fuck-us-blue conservatism. We need to stand up more to special interests and cute celebrities. And we must keep science in its place!

Sometimes it's best just to let go and have some fun with these things, like Mardi Gras.

xXx