The Mahablog Comments http://www.mahablog.com Exposing the ugly truths about the Bush Administration. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:51:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1.3 by: Swami http://www.mahablog.com/2008/07/04/happy-independence-day/#comment-543401 Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:44:54 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2008/07/04/happy-independence-day/#comment-543401 From Bush's speech at today's naturalization ceremony at Monticello.... Where he was heckled.. :) "When you raise your hands and take your oath, you will complete an incredible journey. ... From this day forward, the history of the United States will be part of your heritage." Yeah, even the torture, the illegal and immoral invasion of Iraq, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, and all the nasty slime the Bush administration has smeared on our proud history. I wonder if Bush was giving the new citizens a chance to back out, or just warning them that the stink if his disgrace will be stuck to them once they're sworn in. Happy 4th of July, everybody! From Bush’s speech at today’s naturalization ceremony at Monticello…. Where he was heckled.. :)

“When you raise your hands and take your oath, you will complete an incredible journey. … From this day forward, the history of the United States will be part of your heritage.”

Yeah, even the torture, the illegal and immoral invasion of Iraq, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, and all the nasty slime the Bush administration has smeared on our proud history. I wonder if Bush was giving the new citizens a chance to back out, or just warning them that the stink if his disgrace will be stuck to them once they’re sworn in.

Happy 4th of July, everybody!

]]> by: felicity http://www.mahablog.com/2008/07/04/happy-independence-day/#comment-543397 Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:28:49 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2008/07/04/happy-independence-day/#comment-543397 So today we celebrate the day we declared freedom from Great Britain. We now send our warriors around the world to bring freedom to others: We call them freedom-fighters. The late and much missed George Carlin posed the following. We have crime-fighters who fight crime. We have fire-fighters who fight fires. We have freedom-fighters who??? So today we celebrate the day we declared freedom from Great Britain. We now send our warriors around the world to bring freedom to others: We call them freedom-fighters.

The late and much missed George Carlin posed the following. We have crime-fighters who fight crime. We have fire-fighters who fight fires. We have freedom-fighters who???

]]> by: Pirate's Cove http://www.mahablog.com/2008/07/04/happy-independence-day/#comment-543389 Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:06:18 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2008/07/04/happy-independence-day/#comment-543389 <strong>Happy July 4th Pinup!</strong> Happy July 4th, everyone! When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to wh... Happy July 4th Pinup!

Happy July 4th, everyone!
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to wh…

]]> by: maha http://www.mahablog.com/2008/07/02/destroying-feminism/#comment-543331 Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:25:03 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2008/07/02/destroying-feminism/#comment-543331 Whenever I read comments like #20, by someone who thinks him/herself unutterably clever and righteous but who has completely missed the point, I get very tired. But I suppose I should address this. When an ambitious woman gets trashed for being successful and ambitious I would call it misogyny all the time. The fact remains that the really ugly sexism aimed at Clinton wasn't why she lost the nomination. If anything, the sympathy vote was her biggest asset. And it would be really great if people could just address the sexism issue without wrapping themselves in the gloriously self-indulgent mantle of victimhood. Thanks much. Read the above three times, child. Try to take it in before commenting here again. Whenever I read comments like #20, by someone who thinks him/herself unutterably clever and righteous but who has completely missed the point, I get very tired. But I suppose I should address this.

When an ambitious woman gets trashed for being successful and ambitious I would call it misogyny all the time. The fact remains that the really ugly sexism aimed at Clinton wasn’t why she lost the nomination. If anything, the sympathy vote was her biggest asset. And it would be really great if people could just address the sexism issue without wrapping themselves in the gloriously self-indulgent mantle of victimhood. Thanks much.

Read the above three times, child. Try to take it in before commenting here again.

]]> by: Kaleberg http://www.mahablog.com/2008/07/02/shame-2/#comment-543330 Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:31:53 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2008/07/02/shame-2/#comment-543330 Shorter John McCain on Guantanamo and Abu Grahib: "This time, WE'RE running the Hanoi Hilton." Is this an example of Stockholm syndrome? Shorter John McCain on Guantanamo and Abu Grahib:

“This time, WE’RE running the Hanoi Hilton.”

Is this an example of Stockholm syndrome?

]]> by: Jesurgislac http://www.mahablog.com/2008/07/02/destroying-feminism/#comment-543326 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:29:12 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2008/07/02/destroying-feminism/#comment-543326 <i>Yes, Hillary Clinton got hit by a lot of really ugly sexism, but it wasn’t why she lost the nomination. If anything, the sympathy vote was her biggest asset. And it would be really great if people could just address the sexism issue without wrapping themselves in the gloriously self-indulgent mantle of victimhood. </i> "Yes, normally when an ambitious woman gets trashed for being successful and ambitious I would call it misogyny, <a href="http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2008/07/03/this-time-syndrome" rel="nofollow">but not this time</a>." Yes, Hillary Clinton got hit by a lot of really ugly sexism, but it wasn’t why she lost the nomination. If anything, the sympathy vote was her biggest asset. And it would be really great if people could just address the sexism issue without wrapping themselves in the gloriously self-indulgent mantle of victimhood.

“Yes, normally when an ambitious woman gets trashed for being successful and ambitious I would call it misogyny, but not this time.”

]]> by: joanr16 http://www.mahablog.com/2008/07/03/for-the-monks-of-tassajara/#comment-543273 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:17:12 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2008/07/03/for-the-monks-of-tassajara/#comment-543273 Goodness me, I had no idea old Smokey was so spiritual. I particularly loved: <i>The twisting strata of the great mountains and the pulsings of volcanoes are my love burning deep in the earth....</i> If only we humans had the sense not to build our civilization so close to the places where that love boils to the surface. Thanks for sharing the wonderful sutra. I'll send all my best thoughts and hopes to the monks in the Carmel valley. Goodness me, I had no idea old Smokey was so spiritual.

I particularly loved:

The twisting strata of the great mountains and the pulsings of volcanoes are my love burning deep in the earth….

If only we humans had the sense not to build our civilization so close to the places where that love boils to the surface.

Thanks for sharing the wonderful sutra. I’ll send all my best thoughts and hopes to the monks in the Carmel valley.

]]> by: Chief http://www.mahablog.com/2008/07/02/shame-2/#comment-543267 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:44:54 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2008/07/02/shame-2/#comment-543267 I do not know where Scott Shane got his info, but in Philippe Sands "Torture Team" there is nary a mention of where the 15 or 18 techniques came from, except several mentions of the U.S. Navy's SERE training as a possible source. Mr. Sands appears to have been very thorough. I do not know where Scott Shane got his info, but in Philippe Sands “Torture Team” there is nary a mention of where the 15 or 18 techniques came from, except several mentions of the U.S. Navy’s SERE training as a possible source.

Mr. Sands appears to have been very thorough.

]]> by: Shredder http://www.mahablog.com/2008/07/03/for-the-monks-of-tassajara/#comment-543265 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:28:33 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2008/07/03/for-the-monks-of-tassajara/#comment-543265 "A vajra shovel"! Love it. “A vajra shovel”! Love it.

]]> by: felicity http://www.mahablog.com/2008/07/02/destroying-feminism/#comment-543264 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:24:02 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2008/07/02/destroying-feminism/#comment-543264 maha, Very interesting comments but your 'point' - and mine I might add - is finally "If we begin to define 'sexism' as 'everything negative...we lose" is right on. We as women do not ask for special treatment, we ask for equal treatment. maha, Very interesting comments but your ‘point’ - and mine I might add - is finally “If we begin to define ’sexism’ as ‘everything negative…we lose” is right on. We as women do not ask for special treatment, we ask for equal treatment.

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