Comments on: Ah, Bill Kristol, is there nothing you can’t spew?

By: 1watt

1watt — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:54:34 +0000

A diarist @ the orange satan nailed it:

He’s high on Kristol Myth.

By: vat6948

vat6948 — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:15:17 +0000

How this man “Kristol” can hold his head-up, day after day, year after year is puzzling? He’s been so wrong about the war, politics, and our society. JUST GO AWAY—-BILL.

By: Unrepentantliberal

Unrepentantliberal — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:34:40 +0000

His ‘neighbors’ are undoubtedly in the top 5% of incomes. Bleak? Not for them. For the rest of us, hell yes!

By: TAGG

TAGG — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:06:42 +0000

There’s a few more of Kristol the Klown’s new whines here. http://www.tagg-lines.com/2008.....tions.html

By: Elliott

Elliott — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:30:36 +0000

cspan junkie has the interview up all ready
Chris Hedges ‘Collateral Damage’

By: Elliott

Elliott — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:26:32 +0000

Scarecrow’s upstairs

By: eCAHNomics

eCAHNomics — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:19:35 +0000

Off to paint more of the garage before it gets hot.

By: SouthernDragon

SouthernDragon — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:19:25 +0000

Thanks. That was a pretty good summary in a couple sentences. *g* I’ll have to get a copy and read it. Unlike many vets I never felt the need to continue relationships once I got out of the service. That particular bond wasn’t the bond I sought.

Thanks to you as well, selise. Between the two of you I’m convinced I need to read this book.

By: Frank33

Frank33 — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:13:41 +0000

Neo-con Lobbyist Kristol is so sad that people think their lives are bleak. But Kristol and his Daddy Neo-con Kristol have given us the New World Order agenda-War and Globalization. That is bleak stuff. But, the “NWO” always steals what it cannot destroy. The Neo-cons slogan come from, appropriately, an anti-depressant medication. “Got War!”

“The Change You Deserve.”

What the GOP doesn’t seem to realize, because they are idiots, is that “the change you deserve” is the registered advertising slogan of Effexor XR, a drug that many of you might have started taking as a result of all the…you know — terrorism. (Hat tip to Bluestem for catching this gem.)

Effexor, also known as Venlafaxine, is approved for the treatment “of depression, generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, and panic disorder in adults.” Its common side effects are very much in keeping with the world the House Republicans have striven to build: nausea, apathy, constipation, fatigue, vertigo, sexual dysfunction, sweating, memory loss, and - and I swear I am not making this up - “electric shock-like sensations also called ‘brain zaps.’”

By: eCAHNomics

eCAHNomics — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:13:39 +0000

Very funny. You want me to summarize a whole book in a couple of sentences.

Hedges goes thru the history of warfare, at least the western part. He’s incredibly well read, so he starts with the myths. It’s basically a way to separate us from them, an (the?) important way of creating group identity. Warriors are almost always heroes. It’s been a couple of years since I read the book, so I don’t have it on the tip of my brain anymore.

Since I hate war and have no need to feel like a member of a group, I found the book very enlightening. I need to understand intellectually how the majority feels since I have nothing in myself that would allow me to “get” it intuitively.