Fools

When he's not out to destroy the practice of good governance here in North Carolina, John Hood, stage manager at the Art Pope Puppetshow, likes to spread his right-wing lunacy farther and wider than the Old North State. For example, he wrote a comment earlier this month in the National Review:

Basically, anti-war Democrats think that their statements and policy proposals are a response to an impossible situation in Iraq. They have it backward. Their statements and policy proposals are a main reason why the situation in Iraq is so dire. Like it or not, the enemy is counting on them — it is trying to manipulate American public opinion, because it can't win on the battlefield. Their goal is an ignominious American retreat. It cannot be in our interest to comply.

If You haven't yet read the following perhaps you should just to see how silly labels and labeling can get. BB
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History in a nutshell.....

Humans originally existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunters/gatherers.

They lived on deer in the mountains during the summer and would go to the coast and live on fish and lobster in the winter.

The two most important events in all of history were the invention of beer and the invention of the wheel.

The wheel was invented to get man to the beer.

These were the foundation of modern civilization and together were the catalyst for the splitting of humanity into two distinct subgroups:

1. Conservatives
2. Liberals

Once beer was discovered, it required grain and that was the beginning of agriculture.

(This is usually Anglico's territory, so I apologize in advance if I step on any toes.)

In today's issue of the Pilot, our hometown newspaper, The Hood has an opinion piece titled, "N.C. Democrats Win Broad, Not Deep, Victory". I can just imagine him writing this surrounded by used tissues tossed willy nilly waiting for someone to clean up after him.

He starts in his usual biased manner saying that the voter will get what they deserve by voting in Democrats. He continues with what at first looks like sugar, but ends up tasting like vinegar.

Democrats won an impressively broad victory in state races this year. They outmaneuvered, outraised, outrecruited, and outorganized state Republicans in virtually every competitive district, and indeed in some GOP-leaning districts available in this uniquely Democratic year. Their broad victory, however, was not a deep victory. It was not an earth-shattering, ideological transformation of the political landscape.

Had an email from our county Dem chair and he sent me this article from PeoplePC:

WASHINGTON - Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman, whose party lost both chambers of Congress in the midterm elections, will step down from his post when his two-year term ends in January, GOP officials said Thursday.

Wonder if anyone saw Larry King the other night? Bill Maher was on there talking about the hypocritical Republicans and their agenda of hate and fear. He said he didn't understand why they were so against gays when there are so many in their "club", particularly in high places. Well King wanted names and Maher said "Melhman"....I was stunned, Larry King was stunned, probably a lot of Republicans were stunned too. Now I'm wondering about Rove!

Just read an interesting artilce over at 'Culture Blog', about the "Jesus Camps", they've been temporarily shut down until the climate is right to open them up again. You know, when it's again popular to be a cult leader and brainwash children....

"I'm a little relieved, a little saddened," said Jesus, sipping a giant soy mocha and flipping through the recent New Yorker fashion issue on the veranda of an enormous, beautiful cumulous cloudbank somewhere over Brazil. "I mean, that place was way crazy. I did love the speaking-in-tongues part, though. So old school! But those kids, oh man, I can only hope they make it through their teens before self-imploding. Maybe I should introduce them to rock n' roll? The new My Chemical Romance is really good. Sorta like Queen meets Green Day by way of Bowie. They'd love it!"