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May. 30th, 2007 01:28 pmThe most comprehensive rebuttal to global warming skeptics I've ever seen, check out How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic
May. 30th, 2007
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May. 30th, 2007 02:09 pmWell it certainly took him long enough, but Andrew Sullivan finally states the blindingly obvious:
Critics will no doubt say I am accusing the Bush administration of being Hitler. I'm not. There is no comparison between the political system in Germany in 1937 and the U.S. in 2007. What I am reporting is a simple empirical fact: the interrogation methods approved and defended by this president are not new. Many have been used in the past. The very phrase used by the president to describe torture-that-isn't-somehow-torture - "enhanced interrogation techniques" - is a term originally coined by the Nazis. The techniques are indistinguishable. The methods were clearly understood in 1948 as war-crimes. The punishment for them was death.
But let's not welcome Mr. Sullivan to the ranks of the rational without a fond reminder of what role he once played as propagandist to this very same administration:
"The decadent Left in its enclaves on the coasts is not dead - and may well mount what amounts to a fifth column. " -- Andrew Sullivan
A bit Nazi-esque himself, wouldn't you say? I'm glad he's once again using that gray matter between his ears but not terribly enthusiastic about his conversion. As far as I'm concerned he's still a rat, just one that knew when to jump off the ship. Then again I am a member of the decadent Left living in a rather nice enclave on the coast, so what do I know?
Critics will no doubt say I am accusing the Bush administration of being Hitler. I'm not. There is no comparison between the political system in Germany in 1937 and the U.S. in 2007. What I am reporting is a simple empirical fact: the interrogation methods approved and defended by this president are not new. Many have been used in the past. The very phrase used by the president to describe torture-that-isn't-somehow-torture - "enhanced interrogation techniques" - is a term originally coined by the Nazis. The techniques are indistinguishable. The methods were clearly understood in 1948 as war-crimes. The punishment for them was death.
But let's not welcome Mr. Sullivan to the ranks of the rational without a fond reminder of what role he once played as propagandist to this very same administration:
"The decadent Left in its enclaves on the coasts is not dead - and may well mount what amounts to a fifth column. " -- Andrew Sullivan
A bit Nazi-esque himself, wouldn't you say? I'm glad he's once again using that gray matter between his ears but not terribly enthusiastic about his conversion. As far as I'm concerned he's still a rat, just one that knew when to jump off the ship. Then again I am a member of the decadent Left living in a rather nice enclave on the coast, so what do I know?
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May. 30th, 2007 04:01 pmThis post is making me giggle in a day filled with annoyances and frustrations:
The Rude Pundit could've gotten a brain-damaged monkey and sat it in front of a giant board filled with squares, each predicting what might happen if the United States invaded Iraq. That brain-damaged monkey could've thrown its shit at the board, and someone could've announced on what square the shit landed, and even if the shit had missed the board entirely, there's a good chance that that brain-damaged, shit-tossing monkey would've been right more often about the war in Iraq than William Kristol or Frederick Kagan.
Yeah, that about sums it up, though I'd add the following names to that list:
Wolfowitz
Lieberman
Rumsfeld
Rice
Cheney
Bush
...and the list goes on...
The Rude Pundit could've gotten a brain-damaged monkey and sat it in front of a giant board filled with squares, each predicting what might happen if the United States invaded Iraq. That brain-damaged monkey could've thrown its shit at the board, and someone could've announced on what square the shit landed, and even if the shit had missed the board entirely, there's a good chance that that brain-damaged, shit-tossing monkey would've been right more often about the war in Iraq than William Kristol or Frederick Kagan.
Yeah, that about sums it up, though I'd add the following names to that list:
Wolfowitz
Lieberman
Rumsfeld
Rice
Cheney
Bush
...and the list goes on...