November 10, 2008
Cannibalism, Self Mutilation and Consensus Building
Lord...I wanna break from politics. I've got partial posts in the "tube" on Rocket Girls, Haruhi, Space, water purification, energy and curmudgeonism.
Ubu Roi however, has posted a
long and passionate comment on politics that deserves a full response. So...below the fold we go....
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I can usually find a bright side to things and I'm not a righty or a lefty.
The future is unwritten and always full of potential.
Posted by: Marina Anne Lemar at Wed Nov 12 01:40:00 2008 (S2qjO)
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November 05, 2008
Post Election Roundup
No kids...it is not yet the appropriate time to resort to cannibalism...
Seriously guys....
It may surprise some of you that this is almost never an appropriate response to anything...well, at least in politics...
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Got to say, Brick.... I'm in complete disagreement. The cannibalism is already under way... and it's coming from the so-called moderates; the tax-and-spend Republicans that can only be separated from the Democrats by the (very) slightly less rank whiff of corruption.
Stratasphere is just one more of the many voices of the "moderate" right that are out to destroy conservatives. It's not the Jacksonian right that destroyed the Republican party, it's the so-called moderates...
the same ones that are out to destroy Sarah Palin. The last couple of days should have been an eye-opener to you. Why would anyone spend so much time and effort on character assassination of the candidate that drew the biggest crowds and caused the most excitement? When the hell have conservatives (non-evangelical, anyway) ever trashed an extremely popular vote-getter like that? Why are all the "McCain people" doing it now?
Because she threatens moderate control of the party. And the moderates would rather cannibalize the Jacksonian right than let it have control.
I left the Republican party in 2006 because it was no longer my party. Immigaration, tax-and-spend, McCain-Feingold, You name it. The Republicans had become "war hawk democrats" in all but name.
Re: my parenthetical "non-evangelical" qualifier above --. I think there's some conflation going on in many minds. There is not one conservative Republican wing, there are two: Small-l libertarians (as Glen Reynolds calls them), and evangelicals. This confusion is not an accident; there is some overlap and the media does its best to muddy the waters. The moderates pander to both, but while the small-government wing is flexible about supporting evangelicals who believe in small government, the evangelicals will lend
no support to a small-government candidate that isn't a hardline anti-abortionist. In fact, they'll attack rabidly. Ask Rudy Guilini how being pro-life worked out for him.
You want to know the real reason I've gone on hiatus with Bridgebunnies? It's because I've accepted a key position with the American Conservative Party. (Which is a pain, because it's under my real name of course, not my pseudonym and I still have to keep them separated.) I'm not going to have
time to anime blog, and the future of my country sure as hell is more important than
Dokuro-chan..
I told the Republican party goodbye two years ago. Now I intend to help bury it. Not because I believe in cannibalism, but because I
don't.
Posted by: ubu at Sun Nov 9 20:46:18 2008 (qWAin)
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November 04, 2008
Tim Kaine's Home Court Advantage
I voted.
Being pressed for time, and a bit curious, decided to use the lonely, shunned touch-screen machine in the corner of the Palmer Elementary school gym.
The layout was....interesting.
The first screen has one choice in big bold letters
BARAK OBAMA
Now it is not at all clear from the first screen that there are
any other choices, but, if you look closely, there is a "next" button.
In order to see the other presidential candidates. One must click the
little touch button marked "next"...which adjoins the "vote" field. If
you do not fumble finger the vote/next field and vote for Barak Obama
you are taken to the next screen the POTUS wannabe ghetto which
contains the 4 other presidential candidates in smaller type.
The Senatorial and House fields are laid out the same as the mere non-Obama contenders.
As we have a secret ballot (until at least January 20th) I will leave
you guessing ( yeah right) and refrain from disclosing my choices,
except to say I voted for whom I intended.
This touch screen may be as bad as the butterfly butterfly ballots of Boca Raton.
12 hours & this horrid election will be over.
Now go vote...and stay away from the touch screen machines!
UPDATE: Well, I've left E-mails and comments with a couple of A and B list bloggers, and called the McCain-Palin fraud hotline (it was busy...which bodes ill I suppose )
Also called a local news channel (busy) and tried to use the "ureport" function on FOX...but it seems to have crashed. (update..successful )
This is, of course really, really small potatoes compared to the Black Panthers taking over the polls in Philly, but it's just sleazy and passive aggressive enough to have really pissed me off.
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November 03, 2008
Well...Nice of them to Quietly State the Obvious Late on Election Eve!
Governor Palin has been
cleared of ethics charges in the firing of that child abusing, poaching, drunken cop.
No doubt there will be extensive coverage on Wednesday.
(Asshats!)
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November 02, 2008
A Few Quick Closing Points
Day after tomorrow the election will be held. Silly season will be over.
There is very little to cover that hasn't been said already. For those
who still look at me like I've grown a third eye, then point and
screech when they find out who I'm not voting for I suggest looking in
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politix category .
There are a few points of interest concerning recent news.....
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I finally found out where that "voting against their interest" meme originated. It turns out it's Marxist dogma and the term for it is "
False Consciousness".
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Mon Nov 3 00:29:36 2008 (+rSRq)
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Yes, and it still rears its ugly, ignorant, provincial head in books like "What's Wrong With Kansas"...which tells you all you need to know about the authors worldview.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Mon Nov 3 23:14:46 2008 (yJXq1)
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