Showing posts with label Democracy Now. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Democracy Now. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Israel Is Committing War Crimes


They're up to 6,500 dead, including 2,700 children, in exchange for Israel's 1,500 "party people"

Thursday, February 20, 2014

Traces Of The Trade: A Story From The Deep North


"I hear so many black Americans say, you know, 'We're not trying to guilt trip you - quit taking it so personally. We just want you white folks to show up for the work, together, with us,..." 


Friday, July 26, 2013

I'm Eagle Eye'd

 

I rented this movie last night, above, thinking it was a fiction. But, instead, it was a "documentary" - and a brochure for Democracy Now! Once I knew I'd been tricked - and was not going to get my night of thought-provoking entertainment - I was stuck on-guard for two hours, absorbing a sad but too-manipulative bit of agitprop for two young "activists" who, to my eyes, discovered the perils of oikaphobia in wartime.

   

They almost had me there for a little while (Hey, I'm a sensitive guy) but the ending made it clear I needn't worry because - right after you see one of these losers get out of prison for his former protest activities - there he is, right back on the picket line, allowing himself to be used again for leftist propaganda purposes. Including this movie's leftist propaganda purpose. 

I turned off the TV, shook my head, and thought of only one word:

 

"Chowderheads,..."
 

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

You Betcha

I don't like Noam Chomsky, and I find it sad that it could take a linguist four years to figure out what was obviously true at the time (six if you count Obama's campaign) but I'm not going to let any of that take away from his statement:

The Emperor has no clothes - and out of all the so-called smart people on the political stage, it was that idiot, Sarah Palin, who first got it.

 Except for we atheists, anyone out there not sure if Satan is searching for his parka right now doesn't believe in shit,...