They got so much things to say.
Eh! But I’ll never forget no way: they crucified Je-sus Christ.

From Bob Marley’s So Much Things to Say, a song that’s always haunted me. Mostly because I thought Marley was singing I’ll never forget Norway….

I try hard not to listen to closely to the lyrics of reggae songs as they’re not just about love and happiness, sorrow and sadness. Rastafarianism is a real religion and one with some noxious adherents no more culturally advanced than a Taliban goatherd/scout.

And so I simply pass this story along as is. Res ipsa loquitur. Loudly.

One thing is not another but there’s a whole lot of fluidic bullshit in play right now and I’m having trouble with even-handedness that doesn’t bother to take note of the fact that one side is for the most part disengaged from facts or common sense.

Glenn W. Smith dug up a quote from Davy Crockett that speaks directly to the nature of American frontier times hands-on conservatism:

Be cautious all, abroad, mind where you tread
Be not deceived, be sure you’re right, then go ahead.

There are conservatives, and then there are Republicans. With each new outburst from Palin, Bachmann, or Pawlenty, there’s less overlap. If you’re old enough to remember segregation, you’re old enough to remember the kind of nyah-nyah “conservatives” we’re dealing with.

Ironically, it’s the righties and their pundits who insist most loudly they’re the real party who seem to be the first to bolt, go third party, and in general act like segregationists. Making up the rules as they go justifying whatever hair they’ve got up their ass. Personalities over issues, low road first and foremost.

A movement in control of a party, a movement that colors outside the lines. A movement filled with carpetbaggers preying on suckers while corrupt law enforcement looks elsewhere.

Suckers fronting for the plantation owners.

Establishment whores covering up for whoever threatened them last. Media assassins smearing the next foe because these folks always need an enemy. Misdirecting our best and brightest into the lowest and basest.

Punishing the powerless because they can. Getting the vapors over each and every little thing.

Maybe it’s time we recognize Dixie’s Republican party for what it is: some bad ass OFs — Original Fascists.

What’s more fascist than owning people? Using the police to ride herd on the citizenry. Which political movement is historically most congruent with Gingrich-BushCheney-Palin Republicanism?

This okrafied Republican party is inspiring resistance like nothing I’ve ever seen. Part of me wants to start pissing on Obama for missions not accomplished, but most of me wants to publicly keep supporting Obama-Biden-Reid-Pelosi if only because they drive the Villagers nuts.

But that doesn’t change the fact that our business sector is still way way out of control. Copyright and patents alone are warping and deforming our economy. Allies in Congress have punked out on us and I’m not entirely sure I trust all our new champions. [otoh]

Our culture is cult-ridden, our media craven and subservient. [notable exceptions] Our foreign policy is inverted to the point where who knows what things mean? We hug up to what is worst about ourselves while trashing those who seek to achieve the values we pretend to aspire to.

And yeah, I said I wasn’t going to do this kind of post again.

Oops.

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etC.:

Good article on whatever happened to Mario Savio?

DFL endorsement chart that reminds us just how much fun the DFL endorsement process is, and another link to remind us how convenient their rationales are

My Yellow Pages picture is famous!

Bush economic adviser: “Jobs…meaningless”

Scott Horton v The eXiled’s Mark Ames

Total body transplants

Ralph update

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And remember, Maine makes a difference. There’s damn little we can be proud about in this country right now, but as a native Iowan believe you me when I say that if Maine does this, we’ll all feel much, much better about ourselves.