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Island to be staffed exclusively by blondes
A travel company has announced plans to open a holiday resort in the Maldives staffed exclusively by young blonde women in an attempt to break the stereotype that "blonde women are less intelligent".(sic)

Nietzsche Would Have Loved Limbaugh

A couple days ago, the globulous fraud Rush Limbaugh, the homophobe who had Elton John sing at his wedding (I expect a divorce within a year), slobbered the following into his microphone (hat tip to John Amato at Crooks and Liars, where he listens to Rush so you don't have to):

"... some people are born lazy. Some people are born victims. Some people are just born to be slaves. Some people are born to put up with somebody else making every decision for them."

Okay. This is, by the way, what Rush truly believes. He's not an entertainer or rodeo clown like Beck, he's not a fame-whore like Coulter, and he's never held a political post like Dead Fetus (p)Rick Santorum. He's sincere in his beliefs, and makes no bones about what he spews out onto the airwaves he's abused since the early days of Clinton.

Now, while Rush was vomiting on his mike, another story surfaced, about Christian missionaries who espouse a somewhat different view of Christ's message. These are Christian warriors, who aren't afraid to break boards or bricks or (dare I say it? Dare, dare!) heads in the Name-o-Jeezus. No more "love thy neighbor" claptrap, no more "turn the other cheek" bullshit. Beat your enemies to death in the name of the God of Love.

We've seen this before, and that caused me furiously to think.

And Freddy Nietzsche popped up and said "Hi."

You see, Nietzsche espoused what he called a Master Morality, a kind of take-no-prisoners, hardheaded approach. Master Morality, according to Freddy, values pride, strength, and nobility. Of course, there's also the inverse of the Master Morality, the Slave Morality - which values things like kindness, humility and sympathy.

Nietzsche believed, as I'm sure Rush does (though he may only realize it subconsciously), that Christianity is Slave Morality, and the concentration of Christianity on the "feminine" values of humility, kindness, charity and love for one's fellow man had actually served to hold Humanity back, depriving people of the morality that their wills yearn to embrace in order to advance.

Not content to stick to his bed (from which he eventually went mad and died), Freddy took aim at the rising tide of democracy in his era, claiming that it was slavish and weak. He saw Christianity and Democracy as essentially emasculating humanity by making everyone equal - in this case, equally slaves.

Interestingly enough, a cult grew up in A Certain Nation in central Europe called "Positive Christianity." It proposed to make Christianity Nietzschean by purging it of the slavish influences (and surprisingly, Positive Christian doctrine said that these influences were Jewish, imagine that) that had "corrupted" it since the year 800 AD. And, equally interestingly, this sect used the Sun Cross as a symbol.

Now, where have we seen that before?

Oh, yeah ...

Here.

Friends Don't Let Friends Listen to Glenn Beck

Because it can do terrible things to susceptible minds.

There's Something Happening Here

And what is, is actually fairly clear.

The picture below is cropped from a recent issue of The Atlantic, and the little red arrow points to Rich Iott, a Republican who's running for US Congress from Ohio's 9th District. One of Mr. Iott's hobbies is historical re-enactments, and he and a bunch of his buddies enjoy dressing up as members of the Waffen SS 'Wiking' Division.


I have nothing against war re-enactors (apart from a desire to have them use live ammunition on each other - let's be real here, folks!) but dressing up and playing as members of the SS? According to the original Nuremberg War Crimes Trials papers, the Schutzstaffeln or SS was declared to be a criminal organization. Wearing the uniform or possessing memorabilia is a crime punishable by prison time in Germany and Austria.

And THIS wants to be a US Congressman?

It should come as no surprise whatever that Iott's also a darling of the Tea Party set.

And, hey! Here's a fun fact or two to kick off Monday!

The symbol of the SS Division Wiking (which was a 'foreign' division, made up of Danes, Norwegians, Belgians as well as Germans) is this:

This is known as a Sun Wheel or Sun Cross.

It's also a symbol of the ultranationalist, white supremacist Christian Identity movement.

Surprised?

From the comments at Cryptogon:

"What Americans need to face is this: As a function of the existing populations of each, we are building new prisons at a faster rate than new schools. I believe this is a message being intentionally sent to Americans. History will show the human rights violations of Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany as minor compared to those of the United State of America."

The quote can be found at ‘Dying Communities See Salvation in New Prisons’.

'Nuff said.

From the comments at Cryptogon:

They haven’t yet been quite blatant enough to state the equation that
(dog+pony)*(smoke+mirrors)= Our Glorious Democracy

It's located in a blog post entitled:
Obama “Town Hall Meeting” Casting Call.

Good Grief!

And they're worried in D.C. about school lunches...

...and our kids getting fat yet they won't do a damn thing about the way business is killing us with what passes for "food" these days.
Maybe a "vegetable" diet of Ketchup ain't so bad after all, eh Ronnie?

From Huffington Post.




The photo has been extensively passed around today, and for good reason: it's a peak into the rarely-seen world of mechanically separated meat, or Advanced Meat Recovery (AMR).

Fooducate writes:

Someone figured out in the 1960s that meat processors can eek out a few more percent of profit from chickens, turkeys, pigs, and cows by scraping the bones 100% clean of meat. This is done by machines, not humans, by passing bones leftover after the initial cutting through a high pressure sieve. The paste you see in the picture above is the result.

Michael Kindt continues:

There's more: because it's crawling with bacteria, it will be washed with ammonia, soaked in it, actually. Then, because it tastes gross, it will be reflavored artificially. Then, because it is weirdly pink, it will be dyed with artificial color.

But, hey, at least it tastes good, right?

High five, America!

The resulting paste goes on to become the main ingredient in many of America's favorite mass-produced and processed meat-like foods and snacks: bologna, hot dogs, salami, pepperoni, Slim Jim-like jerkys, and of course the ever-polarizing Chicken McNugget, where the paste from the photo above was likely destined.

What goes around...

Do any of you remember the Willie Horton ad from the Bush-the-First campaign in 1988? Do any of you remember the question Bernard Shaw asked Michael Dukakis during the September 1988 debate? Let me refresh your memory.

Shaw is widely known for the question he posed to Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Michael Dukakis at his second Presidential debate with George H. W. Bush during the 1988 election, which Shaw was moderating. Knowing that Dukakis opposed the death penalty, Shaw asked Dukakis if he would support an irrevocable death penalty for a man who hypothetically raped and murdered Dukakis's wife.

However, Shaw seems to have different views more recently ( Former CNN anchor Bernard Shaw is upset with what he sees in broadcast journalism, particularly what he’s viewing on CNN and Fox News Channel). Nevertheless, damage was done and one simple, however nasty, pointed question by a moderator might just have made a huge difference in an election.

Fast Forwarding to today:

Maybe you've heard some of these radical Tea Bigots, Angle, Rand, Miller etc. and even Evangelical quite Right of Center Republicans like Graham and Robertson stating their opposition to abortion for ANY reason, including rape and incest. They claim there's no reason a woman raped by anyone including her father or brother can have an abortion.

With the racist, stupefyingly unrelenting hatred of these Tea Bigots and Evangelical Republicans toward almost any Democrat and especially Obama, perhaps the next time you are confronted by one, they could answer a question sort of in the vein of that of Bernard Shaw's:


"If your daughter were raped by Reverend Wright, Louis Farrakhan, Keith Olbermann, Jon Stewart, Markos Moulitsas, George Soros, Hugo Chaves, Vladimir Putin, bin Laden or especially your mortal enemy, Barack Obama, would you let your daughter carry the baby to term or would you let her have an abortion?"

Post your answer here, Tea Bigots.

Lee Atwater would be so proud!

Jon Stewart Interviews George Carlin

This interview was from George Carlin: 40 Years of Comedy (1997)

I'm sure you all miss Carlin as much as I do.

Oh Noes! What WILL we do, what will we do?

Thank the Coal and Atomic Power Gods that GE is looking out for us. Never mind rates are going up here in Pa. by 35% across the board in 2011; never mind that possession of an incandescent light bulb after January 1, 2011 will get you renditioned to Lower Slobovia and tortured until you love Big Brother.
We ran out of wood to burn...well, it wasn't as efficient as coal but more importantly, those in power at the time (the late 1800s) realized if ALL the trees went away, how would they wipe their asses? So they switched to coal.
In the 50s when we could see through the coal dust and air pollution, we tried to tell the SAPs (Stupid American Public) A-tomic Power was the {radiation} wave of the future, that is until Three Mile Island and Chernobyl. Now, most of the SAPs forgot about that and the power companies are taking a page from the Republican Fear Mongering Guide, (2004, 2010 ed. copyright in perpetuity) - and trying to scare the proles stupid (stupider?)with new ads aimed at the less informed, you know, those who watch Fox and the MSM.
So how do we answer GE's frightening question posed in an ad on various blogs (this one was on Americablog.com)? Maybe with a question or two of our own.
Our Questions (in no particular order) to their ad:

Dear G.E.,
What happens when storms knock down power lines for days and weeks at a time?

What happens when hurricanes destroy entire city grids?
When ice storms topple power poles, how long do customers need to freeze before you can save them?

Should an earthquake happen in Kaly-for-nee-a, will the power lines all stay up?

And when you raise your rates so high that seniors and low income families can't pay their monthly tithe, what then? Do you shut their power off...even on sunny days?




Well, if the sun don't shine, or the wind don't blow and the streams dry up for a while, those who have invested in wind, hydro, solar or other alternative energy solutions will probably not go out to get a Boehner Tan. But we'll think about you, the money we're saving and the profits you're collecting from those you've scared literally to death's door.


Maybe a better question should be:
What if the sun shines and wind blows and water flows enough to make G.E. and power companies obsolete? Scary thought, eh, hosers?


Imagination! Where excessive profits begin!

Hold on tight...

Hey Brooke...
It's all we got!

Hold on tight to your dream
Hold on tight to your dream
When you see your ship go sailing
When you feel your heart is breaking
Hold on tight to your dream.

It's a long time to be gone
Time just rolls on and on
When you need a shoulder to cry on
When you get so sick of trying
Just hold on tight to your dream


When you get so down that you can't get up
And you want so much but you're all out of luck
When you're so downhearted and misunderstood
Just over & over & over you could

Accroches-toi à ton rêve
Accroches-toi à ton rêve
Quand tu vois ton bateau partir
Quand tu sents -- ton coeur se briser
Accroches-toi à ton rêve.



Hold on tight to your dream
Hold on tight to your dream

When you see the shadows falling
When you hear that cold wind calling
Hold on tight to your dream.

Oh, yeah
Hold on tight to your dream
Yeah, hold on tight...
To your dream.