The Instant Messenger

Crushing the Stones of Mercury: It's as if one can feel a deep resonation in the earth - an old tremor of an older presence - out there, behind and around us, an aging Mercury stirring in suprise and unpreparedness to face attack amid the gathering momentum of yet greater hordes of attackers.

"Tom Brokaw calls this moment in the news media “the second big bang.” “We are creating a new universe, and it has all kinds of new laws and science and physics coming into play as well, in this information world,” he told me. “And you’ve got planets out there colliding with each other, new life forms taking shape; others have drifted too close to the sun, and they’ve burned up. And we don’t know how it’s all going to settle down. And it has, now and forevermore, a radiant effect.”"

The Messenger is dying; long live Instant Mercury...!

Whack a McMole

Democrats pound McCain for Dismissive Crack: "“If it's working Senator, do you now have a better estimate of when American forces can come home from Iraq?”

McCain replied: “No, but that's not too important."

"Some of the unreleased pages in McCain's Navy file may not reflect well upon his qualifications for the presidency. From day one in the Navy, McCain screwed-up again and again, only to be forgiven because his father and grandfather were four-star admirals. McCain's sense of entitlement to privileged treatment bears an eerie resemblance to George W. Bush's.

Despite graduating in the bottom 1 percent of his Annapolis class, McCain was offered the most sought-after Navy assignment -- to become an aircraft carrier pilot. According to military historian John Karaagac, "'the Airdales,' the air wing of the Navy, acted and still do, as if unrivaled atop the naval pyramid. They acted as if they owned, not only the Navy, but the entire swath of blue water on the earth's surface." The most accomplished midshipmen compete furiously for the few carrier pilot openings. After four abysmal academic years at Annapolis distinguished only by his misdeeds and malfeasance, no one with a record resembling McCain's would have been offered such a prized career path. The justification for this and subsequent plum assignments should be documented in McCain's naval file."

Enough is enough !!

Uh uh.

They cleaned John Kerry's files like a fish, so now "they" get a massive two-fisted Politconoscopy Examination in Gitmo.

That might be enough.

Rural Whites Are Bitter - "They're mad!"

Here Come The Scots-Irish Again - Staggering Across Our Foreheads With More Late-Roman Tales Of Blood and Booze and Losing: "'He was right,' Webb tells me of Barack Obama's infamous comment that rural whites are 'bitter.' 'They're mad.'"

On the the white working class: "No other group has been so denigrated, attacked, and even feared by America's ever more interconnected ruling elites. Had I not gone to law school, I never would have fully comprehended ... the ingrained condescension of the nation's elites towards my culture."

They're crazy mother-fuckers to be sure and to be sure they are part of America - deep into it; America wouldn't smell the same or act the same without them.

"There is something wrong with this guy and let me tell you what it is – deceit."

"He has no character. He is a fake": "Ted Sampley, who fought with US Special Forces in Vietnam and is now a leading campaigner for veterans’ rights, said: ‘I have been following John McCain’s career for nearly 20 years. I know him personally. There is something wrong with this guy and let me tell you what it is – deceit.'"...

..."This is a guy who makes such a big deal about his character. He has no character. He is a fake."

Ross Perot... "McCain is the classic opportunist. He’s always reaching for attention and glory. After he came home, Carol [first wife] walked with a limp. So he threw her over for a poster girl with big money from Arizona. And the rest is history."

I don't want this prick anywhere near something of value.

The Guy in the Next Stall...

...Just Made His Dick Move: Oh gad !! It's time to flush and leave, because it's Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and he's in high snit because Democrats won't let Republican clowns stuff more rightie judges into the judicial system.

"The thing is, McConnell's maneuverings didn't really punish the Democrats. The person who ended up getting punished was the poor Senate clerk, who McConnell forced to read 'the entire 500 page global warming bill' out loud. McConnell's actions can thus be rightly considered to be 'a total dick move.'"

Hopefully, some stall-worthy character can help him make his dick stop moving - Larry Craig?

Checking In With Chubby

Tucker Carlson Hasn't Learned The Faberge Balloon Lesson: "So the best thing Tucker said to me, after he said, 'I eat at least one steak a day...I don't eat bread.' He followed that quote with this, 'There are three things I love. Cookies, alcohol, and Marlboro Reds.'"

A Blunderer of Historic Proportions

When Did You Get Your First Clue, General ?: "Ricardo S. Sanchez, the onetime commander of U.S. troops in Iraq, who is scathing in his assessment that the Bush administration 'led America into a strategic blunder of historic proportions.'"

Yes, General, and you followed him. There is a whole universe of thought that tries to understand the moral dimension of your choice. No verdict yet, so you can continue to lead men into battle with some degree of impunity.

"During a videoconference with his national security team and generals, Sanchez writes, Bush launched into what he described as a 'confused' pep talk:

'Kick ass!' he quotes the president as saying. 'If somebody tries to stop the march to democracy, we will seek them out and kill them! We must be tougher than hell! This Vietnam stuff, this is not even close. It is a mind-set. We can't send that message. It's an excuse to prepare us for withdrawal.

There is a series of moments and this is one of them. Our will is being tested, but we are resolute. We have a better way. Stay strong! Stay the course! Kill them! Be confident! Prevail! We are going to wipe them out! We are not blinking!'

A White House spokesman had no comment."

Your president is a mad man! Say it out loud. It's OK.

Evidentally we can accept that horrible fact - just as we accept the reality of 80 year-old blue-haired matrons cruising down the freeway at 70 miles per hour.

From One Miserable Creature To Another

Bob Dole Dumps: "'There are miserable creatures like you in every administration who don’t have the guts to speak up or quit if there are disagreements with the boss or colleagues. No, your type soaks up the benefits of power, revels in the limelight for years, then quits, and spurred on by greed, cashes in with a scathing critique...

...When the money starts rolling in you should donate it to a worthy cause, something like, 'Biting The Hand That Fed Me.' Another thought is to weasel your way back into the White House if a Democrat is elected. That would provide a good set up for a second book deal in a few years...

...You’re a hot ticket now, but don’t you, deep down, feel like a total ingrate?

Bob Dole"

What Kind Of Weave Is This Webb ?

Is Jim Webb World-Wide Ready, Or Too Good For All This Leadership Stuff?: "Webb, an idiosyncratic, free-thinking, independent-minded politician, is being pushed for a position that steamrolls those qualities. Worse, he's being pushed for the position because people love what an idiosyncratic, free-thinking, independent-minded politician he is. It's like celebrating a former alcoholic's sobriety by taking him out for a drink."

You don't take a Scot-Irish brawler out for a drink, period, unless maybe first you take him out to the prairie and make him pound rails before first call.

But Webb may be a polished jewel of a human and we should probably keep our eyes pealed - he may be the real thing: the natural turn of the page.

The Admiral's Son

Some Vietnam POW Activists Called Him ‘Songbird’ McCain and ‘Manchurian Candidate’:

This needs to get clearer, real quick - left alone, it will be a stink machine.

"Dr. JAMES LUCIER, former U.S. Senate Chief of Staff: But We do know that when he was there [in the Vietnamese prison], he cooperated with the communist news services in giving interviews there, ah, not flattering to the United States.

USRY: Information shows that he made over 32 tapes of propaganda for the Vietnamese government. Certainly, you do what you need to do to stay alive. Nobody would fault anybody for that. But there comes a point in time when enough is enough.

TERRIBLE ACTOR AND REPUBLICAN U.S. CONGRESSMAN ROBERT "B-1 BOB" DORNAN: They made those transcriptions, and in the transcriptions, I heard a POW who heard them comin’ into his cell and said, 'Oh, my God, is that Admiral McCain’s son? Is that the admiral’s son? Is that Johnny — telling us that our principal targets are schools, orphanages, hospitals, temples, churches?' That was Jane Fonda’s line. Where are those transcriptions? Believe me — they’re in the archives of the museum, the bragging military phony museum in Hanoi. McCain could not have wanted those [to] turn up in the middle of a presidential race."

"They call McCain 'Songbird,' and say he received special treatment. Some in the POW community even believe he was brainwashed like Raymond Shaw, the character played by Laurence Harvey in 'The Manchurian candidate,' who was used as a tool by the communists to destroy America from within..."

... ... ...

The reek of the leader's son anchor's many stories throughout history - including the vast Bush Soap Opera in which we have all lived as hapless extras.

I'm not in the least interested in going through the blasphemy of Admiral McCain's son.

Farcical Fred - Not Yet A Thetan

Fred Thompson was whacking material for righties - another movie star from the Republican Worship Collection.

Every unscripted word that came out of his mouth was predictable, ordinary, and drenched in adolescent bile.

He should become a star on Hollywood Boulevard - and be stepped on often.

McCain - Master of the Hole

I am sick to death of false pride and dishonorable honor and the mumbo-jumbo of men like McCain. He is anethema, paddling furiously, yet stuck on a sawyer forever.

To value his contribution is to mistake popping corn for the sudden rush of ideas. Sure, it's fun to watch, but so is porn.

I Wonder What My Father Knew

Toni Morrison is a National Treasure: "Song of Solomon should be required reading for all African-American boys. How did you know what is in our heads?" asks Ira Levi from Tulsa, Oklahoma.

"That was a leap for me. I really wanted to do that book, about the education of a middle-class black man, about his ancestry, and I couldn't. And then my father died, and it was earthshaking for me. I remember saying to myself, I wonder what my father knew about these men? And I have to tell you, I felt access. I knew I could get there if I thought about him."

McCain - Welcome To The Charming Years

John McCain - How Far He's Fallen: "'McCain wants to stay in Iraq until no more Americans are getting killed, no matter how long it takes and how many Americans get killed achieving that goal -- that is, the goal of not getting any more Americans killed. And once that goal is achieved, we'll stay.'"

Thanks for keeping this alive. McCain lies as easily as he pisses and I'm glad you aren't letting him get away with it.

AND, special high-fives for cross-referencing that little rodent Mark Salter with the very startling presentation by student Jean Rohe at a New School commencement ceremony some time ago. His written reply to her remarks - and to the entire graduating class, was the height of small - and wrong as only the right can be, including his assholian zinger that "Very Unlikely Any Of You Will Ever Possess...One Small Fraction Of The Character Of John McCain".

It comes down to this for me: McCain's a mean little man that killed for country A. He killed for no decent reason. He killed against the teachings of his religion. He went to another land and killed people he didn't know. He killed people who were not trying to do anything but stop him from being in their country and killing them.

Nothing worth anything can come from this man.

Let's Do Something Subversive

Cusack aims to offend: "'There's hopefully an exuberance to the movie because I think being subversive should feel good,' Cusack said. 'It should be fun to throw a brick.'"

"'I think the movie should be kind of offensive,' Cusack told Reuters about the film, which will be released in New York and Los Angeles theaters on May 23."

"John Cusack is outraged over the Iraq war, so the U.S. actor channeled his anger into a low-budget political satire -- complete with a chorus line of scantily clad female amputees -- that he hopes will offend."

Ben Stein is Way Out of Shelf-life.

Yet here he is again - one of the gargoyles of the Reagan years, promising to deliver a way out of our confusion, but merely delivering another new dizziness.

This time he's celebrating and selling an erosion of professionalism that usually signals a culture losing it's clarity of being.

What exactly are the standards when News Programs are staffed by upscale gypsies and carni workers selling glimpses of sideshow freaks - and how could it be otherwise when the ironclad goal is delivering audiences to advertisers - not information to audiences?

Staying rational is hard work. Expelling Ben Stein's ideas is easy as pi.

A Banging, Rocking Washer

...Perpetually Stuck On Spin Cycle: Camille Paglia chimes in, "If I were to hazard a guess, I'd say Hillary is reconstituting the toxic hierarchy of her childhood household, with her on top instead of her drill-sergeant father. All those seething beta males are versions of her sad-sack brothers, who got the short end of the Rodham DNA stick."

"The White House should not be a banging, rocking washer perpetually stuck on spin cycle."

"The men you always see under her are to a person passive-aggressive, sadistic, mean, little, petty beta-male pieces of work who would not naturally succeed in a common male-type hierarchy. By that I mean an environment that values straightforward achievement rather than the darker political arts." - Chris Richard, Agoura Hills, Calif.

"You Cunt"

New Book: McCain Once Physically Attacked Fellow Congressman:
"Do you know why Chelsea Clinton is so ugly? Because Janet Reno is her father," joked the future Republican Party's Presidential nominee

Sure, he's just a boy toy for Cindy, but as he says, "At least I don't plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you cunt."

Here Come The Tarmac !

Hillarious Sniper Fire: Reaganette Peggy Noonan writes that what struck her as "the best commentary on the Bosnia story came from a poster called GI Joe who wrote in to a news blog:

'Actually Mrs. Clinton was too modest. I was there and saw it all. When Mrs. Clinton got off the plane the tarmac came under mortar and machine gun fire. I was blown off my tank and exposed to enemy fire. Mrs. Clinton without regard to her own safety dragged me to safety, jumped on the tank and opened fire, killing 50 of the enemy.' Soon a suicide bomber appeared, but Mrs. Clinton stopped the guards from opening fire. 'She talked to the man in his own language and got him [to] surrender. She found that he had suffered terribly as a result of the policies of George Bush. She defused the bomb vest herself.' Then she turned to his wounds. 'She stopped my bleeding and saved my life. Chelsea donated the blood.'

Made me laugh. It was like the voice of the people answering back. This guy knows that what Mrs. Clinton said is sort of crazy. He seems to know her reputation for untruths. He seemed to be saying, 'I get it.'..."

"...That's what the Bosnia story was about. Her fictions about dodging bullets on the tarmac either confirmed what you already knew or revealed in an unforgettable way what you feared..."

Yes, and I don't relish a revelation this disconcerting.

Bama Go Boom, God Damnit

"I Coulda Been A Contender"
Speaking about Reverend Wright on Olbermann's program:

"He's an African-American man, who, because of his life experience continues to have a lot of anger and frustration, and will express that in ways that are very different from me and my generation, partly because I benefited from the struggles of that early generation. And so, part of what we're seeing here is a transition from the past to the future. And I hope that our politics represents the future.

...and on CNN:

And part of what I think I see in Reverend Wright is somebody who grew up in the '60s, had very different life experiences than I had, has continued to harbor a lot of anger and frustration about discrimination that he may have experienced. And, so, his life experiences have been very different than mine. And part of what is going on within the African-American community is a transition, in which some of the rhetoric and statements and -- and frustrations of the past have given way to opportunities that I have experienced, and -- which is part of the reason why I speak in very different terms. And that's part of what our campaign has been about, is to surface some of these issues and to be able to move forward and get beyond them."

Obama will escape the mincemeat machine if he can make those words sing. But he is up against the negative, narcotic forces of the media, aligned against anyone or anything that might threaten it's control of the culture.