Chaos, Inc.

What, me worry?

Only his second frickin' veto. Amazing. And his justification is that a timetable would cause chaos. So, what would Bush call what's been going on in Iraq so far? Order???

CPU

From today's NYT about the Communist Party USA donating a ton of old records to a library...

stern commands about how good party members should behave (no charity work, for instance, to distract them from their revolutionary duties).

That line is very revealing, showing the inversion of radical values for ideological gains.

As he leaves the Kremlin, Minor notices two men drive up in limousines. “A few months ago they were ‘bloodthirsty minions of predatory capital,’ ” he writes, “But now they are ‘people’s commissaries’ and ride in the fine automobiles as before, live in the fine mansions.” They rule “under red silk flags to protect them from all disorders. They have learned the rose smells as sweetly under another name.”

And the above should have been more apparent to more people. Hell, I realized that as a teenager, how the "classless" society actually had a political class and the workers -- just as supposedly democratic America is similarly deceived; we're no more democratic than the USSR was classless.

Anarchists wrote about this in the 20s, but nobody paid them attention. Hopefully this record dumping will reveal the hypocrisy of the Communists.

Enlist, already

All those GOPeons who are still bullish on the War on Terror and/or the War in Iraq (and Afghanistan) should enlist in the armed forces, already. If they don't, then they clearly don't have the courage of their convictions, and are a bunch of fucking hypocrites. I recommend the Army or the Marines, preferably -- front-line stuff.

But they aren't enlisting in droves, now are they? Given the Pentagon's ongoing enlistment woes, the gung-ho warmongers and their spawn just aren't walking their talk (which isn't surprising, given that the current GOP leadership almost completely avoided service during the Vietnam War).

C'mon, chickenhawks! Enlist, already! Go fight the War on Terror for real, instead of hanging back on the sidelines, playing cheerleader.

If you're a liberal (or even further to the left) and some wingding impugns your patriotism for opposing the war, ask them if they enlisted in the military. When they say that they didn't, tell them to shut the fuck up about patriotism, already.