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Wonkette : What If Fox News Had Covered D-Day?

Sun, 8 Jun 2014 11:45:44 +0000

You're welcome. Whenever I see a mockingbird in flight, it looks to me like it has D-Day invasion stripes on its wings. >cough<whatageek>cough<

Wonkette : What If Fox News Had Covered D-Day?

Fri, 6 Jun 2014 19:01:06 +0000

The history of 20th Century Europe is my academic specialty. World War Two in Europe is my specialization. Being an irreverent smartass is my avocation. But I couldn't think of a thing to improve upon this post. Well done, Doctor.

Wonkette : Maureen Dowd Just Wants To Get Hiiiiiiigh

Wed, 4 Jun 2014 15:48:27 +0000

The first time we smoked hash (piece of cardboard, pin and glass for a pipe, we're old school) after my wife and I had moved overseas, I got real paranoid. "Hey, we're in a foreign country breaking the law (Ireland, so not like we'd be whipped for it), what if somebody walks by our door and smells it?" (We lived on the top floor of a three story building by ourselves.) My getting paranoid made my wife get paranoid, too. All the windows got opened. Ceiling fan turned on. Also the vent fan over the oven. Not good enough. So we piled as much furniture as we could against the door and retreated to the bathroom. Good times.

Wonkette : Open Carry Gun Humpers Prevail Over NRA, Are Gunniest Nuttiest Humpiest Of All

Wed, 4 Jun 2014 15:13:53 +0000

Texas has a "Stand Your Ground" law and a law that effectively says if you're in fear for your life, you have the right to shoot the person(s) scaring you. I'm no lawyer, but it seems to me those laws collectively mean that if you see a parade of heavily-armed microcephalics knuckle-dragging their way into your place of business, you are legally justified to start blasting away without further ado. Considering the actual skill in handling firearms these birds usually possess, they'll probably respond by shooting each other.

Wonkette : Sundays With The Christianists: American History Textbooks Where Mistakes Were Made

Sun, 1 Jun 2014 19:05:50 +0000

Reagan was basically paying back the Soviets for Vietnam. He did it mostly by supplying the Mujahedin with one weapon - handheld surface-to-air missiles. These nullified Soviet air superiority, leaving their ground forces at the mercy of suicidal fighters who knew every nook and cranny of the terrain. Sound familiar? The real problems began after Reagan left office, when his political heir, George H. W. Bush, decided that the Soviet exit from Afghanistan marked the end of having to pay attention to it. Afghanistan was left a smoldering ruin, the deep concerns expressed by the Americans and others for the Afghan people exposed as lies. As the Afghanis, impoverished and left to starve, realized they'd been used by the West as proxies to fight the Soviets, bitterness sunk in. Polygonal civil war and chaos ensued, until the Osama Bin Laden-funded Taliban took over most of the country, and imposed a horrific sort of order. Their treatment by Bush the Elder in the 1990's guaranteed how the Afghans would react to Bush the Younger twenty years later - cynically, interested only in exploiting 9/11 and its aftermath, just as they had been exploited as pawns in the conflict between the West and the USSR. Afghanis aren't people you can fool more than once. "When the dust of dispute had settled, however, North’s indictments were overturned on appeal in 1990. The court ruling signaled that the Iran-Contra affair was essentially another chapter in the long-running political dispute between the president and Congress over control of foreign policy, rather than a criminal conspiracy." Actually, because Democrats in Congress had foolishly called North to testify before them, his subsequent convictions were overturned because the prosecution was unable to show they weren't at least in part due to evidence derived from his mandated Congressional testimony. Even scoundrels have the right not to be coerced to self-incriminate.

Wonkette : Sundays With The Christianists: An American History Textbook Tells Children About Southern Hero Stro

Sun, 25 May 2014 17:29:51 +0000

To this day in the South, whites are taught and believe that the Civil War (AKA The War Between the States, The War of Northern Aggression, etc.) was fundamentally about States Rights and resistance to Unconstitutional Federal actions. I normally have to quote a half dozen Secession proclamations, the Confederate Constitution, the Confederate president, etc. all saying that this is all about slavery before my students/colleagues/neighbors concede that it might have also been about slavery, a little. My wife went to law school with a black woman who'd graduated from a Robert E. Lee High School in North Carolina, and she thought the Civil War was about States Rights. My white, sixth generation Texan wife had to work hard to set her straight.

Wonkette : Nifty Kid, 8, Raises Money For School Lunch For Everyone (Hey, Michigan: He Shouldn't Have To!)

Tue, 20 May 2014 22:15:00 +0000

I'm an old, too-often disappointed, embittered liberal. When I suffer and despair in the future, I'll recall Cayden and know that being part of the movement which gave him to the world makes it worthwhile.

Wonkette : Sundays With The Christianists: U.S. History Books That Begin Bombing In Five Minutes

Sun, 18 May 2014 19:17:21 +0000

I don't respond to strawmanners. I'll defend what I posted, not your distortion of it. Cuban troops, acting in the same capacity as American troops in Vietnam prior to 1963, were supporting the government in Nicaragua after the 1979 revolution there, and in El Salvador on the rebel side during its civil war, also after 1979. Liberals who deny the threat posed by the Soviet Union and its client states from the 1940s to the 1980s make our side look either ignorant or mendacious to critics who know better.

Wonkette : Sundays With The Christianists: U.S. History Books That Begin Bombing In Five Minutes

Sun, 18 May 2014 18:54:16 +0000

Totally different? I'd say more or less the same. Hook up with squalid, murderous dictatorships to fight more dangerous, squalid, murderous dictatorships. Sometimes there's nothing but bad guys and worse guys.

Wonkette : Sundays With The Christianists: U.S. History Books That Begin Bombing In Five Minutes

Sun, 18 May 2014 18:52:00 +0000

Cuban troops, acting as proxies for the Soviets.

Wonkette : Sundays With The Christianists: U.S. History Books That Begin Bombing In Five Minutes

Sun, 18 May 2014 17:21:02 +0000

Try not to hate me for this: Cuba was a forward Soviet base in the Caribbean. Cuban troops were used as proxies for the Soviets in Grenada, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Angola. Their goals had nothing to do with liberating anybody, they were about spreading communism and especially Soviet power. FDR made the US allies with the Soviets under Stalin in World War 2. Stalin's regime was as bad as Hitler's in the "kill people for political reasons" category. Arguably, it was worse. Hitler's multiple mistakes and raving psychopathy put an end to his loathsome regime in twelve years. Stalin ruled for thirty and died of old age. The latter had much more time to enslave and kill people than Hitler, and made full use of it. If you think FDR was right to ally us with Stalin, then don't be so quick to say Reagan was wrong to ally us with assorted scumbag dictators. You have to play the hand you're dealt.

Wonkette : Sundays With The Christianists: Ineffectual American History Textbooks That Meant Well

Sun, 27 Apr 2014 18:24:13 +0000

Polk was one of the most successful presidents. He wanted to be president in order to pursue an imperialist policy against Britain and Mexico. Against the former, he was able to get the original American demands regarding the division of the Oregon Territory recognized by Britain without a shot fired. Against the latter, he provoked the Mexicans into committing acts Polk could cite as justification for war. As a result of that war, America obtained 1.2 million square miles of land - California, Nevada, Utah and parts of other states, land that in the coming decades would produce more gold than what had previously been mined in all of human history. Having accomplished his goals, Polk retired after the end of one term. You'd think right wingers would know this stuff.

Wonkette : Help Stop Gay Marriage: Don't Stuff Your Face So Much

Sat, 26 Apr 2014 15:55:52 +0000

"...have all combined to turn this great land into a country that our forefathers could not even begin to recognize." I hope they wouldn't recognize it, what with all the free black people, women owning property and voting, Indians not being run off, paved roads, electricity, cars and stuff.

Wonkette : Faith-Healing Parents Of Un-Faith-Healed Dead Child Would Like Jury To Ignore All That Faith-Healing

Thu, 24 Apr 2014 16:44:01 +0000

I think people so brainwashed they prefer letting their kids die rather than giving them some pills probably aren't going to be fazed by the prospect of prison. They probably even like it, it fits in with their sick S&M religious beliefs - makes them martyrs. Christianity is big on martyrs.

Wonkette : Cardinal Dolan Explains Contraceptive Coverage No Big Deal Since Sluts Can Just Buy Rubbers At 7-11

Mon, 21 Apr 2014 16:34:50 +0000

Conscience doesn't stop the owners of Hobby Lobby from getting most of the schlock they peddle from China - where birth control is mandatory and not controlling it enough leads to forced abortions.

Wonkette : Stupidest Man On Internet Pretty Mad That Bamz Spent Easter Making Sweet Love To Muslims

Mon, 21 Apr 2014 16:31:53 +0000

I'll see your 9/11 and raise you Srebrenica. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srebrenica_massacre What it lacked in relative material destruction it made up for in body count.

Wonkette : Business Insider Finds Your Futurist Sci-Fi Tech Dreams Hilarious, You Silly American People

Sat, 19 Apr 2014 16:31:29 +0000

Grog: Hey, Og, guy from other side of hill says we can make something called "spears" to hunt big game. Og: Throwing rocks good enough for Og's father, good enough for Og.

Wonkette : South Carolina Mayor Fires Police Chief As Part Of Perfectly Ordinary Vendetta, Not Because She's Ga

Fri, 18 Apr 2014 20:45:15 +0000

Close to where I live, an approved substitute teacher for a semi-rural school district, who also is a "transgendered" woman, was outed and became the subject of parental invective. To my surprise, she became the subject of even more parental support, her complicated gender notwithstanding. It's unclear what happens next, but the fact it is unclear makes me proud to count the people involved as my neighbors.

Wonkette : Los Angeles Science Teacher Suspended After Students Design Doomsday Weapons

Wed, 16 Apr 2014 16:39:50 +0000

Big deal. English kids are building nuclear reactors in their garages: http://www.cnet.com/news/13-year-old-builds-worki... Once again, America is falling behind in the "tomorrow's mad scientists today" contest.

Wonkette : Three Dead In Kansas Shooting; Wingnuts Heroically Scramble To Prove Suspected Shooter Not A Republi

Mon, 14 Apr 2014 13:58:13 +0000

How do you know a Republican is lying online? He's typing.