More Inane Images?*

This always makes us feel good. A former Borders Books Movies Music & a Cafe being put to better use. We'll outlive the entire corporation.

*Enough w/ the blogging, then. What's on telebision? Oooooh, prime time.

D'Souza Revisionism, Already

Are you ready for some revising? Even rightists can't dance around facts forever; one of them just noticed (besides everything the Pres. typed in his book that D'Souza couldn't be bothered to quote, because it would refute his Unified Bullshit Theory of Mystical Anti-Colonialist Influence) that President Obama really hadn't been around his Luo tribesman father during his formative yrs., so a more plausible malign influence should be found, & surprise, surprise, the demon's been right there all along!

I'm not going to dissect D'Souza's argument. [Oh, we knew that! D.D.'s argument is so fragile we doubt if he'd breathe on it. — M.B.] But I would like to add some important information: If Obama is indeed motivated by anti-colonialism, the source may be Frank Marshall Davis as much as, if not more than, Obama's father.

You know where this is going if you're the sort who's amused enough by these people to be reading this, so we won't bother ourself w/ Googling Frank Marshall Davis for you. And if Jeremiah Wright & the Weather Underground are more familiar to you than Davis is, it's only because he didn't leave us w/ as many documented outrages ("God Damn America!!") as the other Obama-molders. Typist Kengor, however, dug deep into the Communist files, because, more surprises, he's pimping* a new book himself.

I come to this via a different route from D'Souza. My new book -- released the same day as D'Souza's, coincidentally -- examined the communist movement in the 20th century, and specifically how communists duped progressives and liberals. I determined, definitively, that Frank Marshall Davis was not a duped liberal but a duping communist. I show this at length, quoting Davis's weekly columns from the CPUSA organ, the Honolulu Record, and reprinting pages from Congressional investigations and from Davis's declassified FBI file, including a document that lists his Communist Party number: 47544.

And Kengor rests his case. Talk about having a guy's number! Heh indeedy!

Oddly enough, there is classical leftist revisionism in Kengor's McCarthyite (No, reactionaries, that is not a compliment. It's an insult, if insulting if still permitted.) screed. It's quickly dismissed as evil anti-Americanism, natch, but Frank Marshall Davis raises an interesting point or two about colonialism.

Consider a May 19, 1949 column, "How Our Democracy Looks To Oppressed Peoples," where Davis excoriated the Marshall Plan. Yes, the Marshall Plan.

"For a nation that calls itself the champion of democracy, our stupendous stupidity is equaled only by our mountainous ego," Davis complained. "Our actions at home and abroad are making American democracy synonymous with oppression." He added: "I have watched with growing shame for my America as our leaders have used our golden riches to re-enslave the yellow and brown and black peoples of the world."

Davis characterized the Marshall Plan as a "device" to maintain "white imperialism." This nefarious "oppression of non-white peoples everywhere" was purchased via Secretary of State George Marshall's "billions of U.S. dollars … to bolster the tottering empires of England, France, Belgium, Holland and the other western exploiters of teeming millions of humans."

In another column a few weeks later, on August 18, Davis stepped up the communist attack on "the double-talking Truman administration with its program for World War III." "The Truman doctrine in Greece and Turkey and then the Marshall Plan," were, claimed Davis, "based upon the continuation of colonial slavery by the ruling classes of Western Europe."

In his next column, Davis protested: "I shall not help England and France keep millions of my colored brothers in Africa and Asia in colonial slavery. Yet that is what our dividend diplomats ask of you and me when they demand our support of the bi-partisan Marshall plan."

We can't disagree w/ that. And the horror doesn't stop. Brace yourselves (Our emphasis. COMMIES!):

Yet, there's a more sinister element, as suggested by a July 1935 document held in Comintern Archives in Moscow. That document ordered American comrades (like Davis, who, at that point, lived in Chicago), to go to Hawaii to agitate against Hawaii becoming part of the United States. The Soviets wanted the territory as a base of operations. What would be the party line? The document ordered American communists to claim there was a "growing discontent of the masses of the population in the Hawaiian Islands," resulting from "the regime of colonial oppression and the exploitation of American imperialism with its policy of militarisation of the Hawaiian Islands."

So in 1935 Hawai'i was not a Territory of these United Snakes, but a division of the Dole Corporation? Next we'll be told that until statehood was granted, the islands were just floating out there, unanchored, & menaced by sharks & giant octopi.

That was precisely Davis's position when he relocated to Hawaii, whether by orders, by personal beliefs, or both. And it isn't unreasonable to expect he might have shared such thinking with a bright teenager named Barack Obama. Bear in mind, Obama admitted to learning from Davis, including college advice -- his very next step. Obama describes his first days at college as hanging out with "Marxist professors," attending "socialist conferences," and "discuss[ing] neocolonialism."

Rather than heralding the American exceptionalism that sought freedom for the people of the USSR and Eastern Europe, Davis would have passed to Obama a very different narrative about America's place in the world, beginning with its alleged imperial-colonial sins.

This was the wrong side of history, but it was the side of Frank Marshall Davis. The remaining question is to what extent this affected Obama, then and still today.

Should those whose idea of history is to stand athwart it yelling "Commie!" at the top of their lungs ever be taken seriously when they decide which side of history is "right?" We think not. But that is quite a question Mr. History poses. 30-plus yrs. ago some guy maybe repeated to Obama something he'd typed 20-plus yrs. before that? Since nobody, nowhere knows nothin', no how, 'bout Obama, except what they think he's thinking, based on any wild delusion (but seldom on anything he's actually said & done) there's just no way that remaining question could be answered, is there?

At least not until the President's Executive Order on Hawai'i is issued. Then we'll know whether he's handing it over to the Hawai'ians, selling it back to Dole, or just turning it into Airstrip One & running all the drone attacks in Pakistan & Afghanistan from Pearl Harbor.

*Referred to a man as pimping something! Can we expect an avalanche of mens rights weasels complaining?

Paging Dr. Freud

As a public dis-service, we advise that Parts I & II of an interview w/ Dinesh D'Souza are available at The Daily Tucker. We'd as soon not type another word (On D.D'S., for sure, other stuff ...) but this unfortunate phrasing caught our attention during a quick scan of Part I:

DD: I think Obama’s vision for America is, well, you could call it, “soft socialism at home, and impotence abroad.”

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Dog Bites Man, Again

You know who else is a lying liar whose pants are on fire?

Shut Up, America!!

We just bet the "Second Edition" was necessary because the first was seized & pulped by Obama's thugs.

Further photos of Values Voter lunacy.

UPDATE: Must be seen also:

(Some of) The Duggars.

Reactionary bitcheswomenladies are hotter!!

Debate Society

Will Bunch pimps his book on the loons while "debating" somebody or another who's pimping his book on the loons, at The Daily Bleat.

Others would tell you a different story. This week here at The Daily Beast, I will be debating Douglas Schoen, co-author with fellow national polling guru Scott Rasmussen of another new book, Mad as Hell: How the Tea Party Movement Is Fundamentally Remaking Our Two-Party System. Their book agrees with mine on one key point: that the decimation of the U.S. middle class, a tragedy that has been decades in the making, marks a powerful tipping point for the anger in America today. But their broader conclusion, that the Tea Party movement is a powerful organic and independent force akin to a third party, flies in the face of evidence that the Obama backlash is largely a new “paranoid style” for a conservative and overwhelming Republican movement that has existed for decades. More important, in their eagerness to ignore the underlying currents of race and what Beck once called “white culture,” they ignore the roots of the conflagrations we now see on the Arizona border and at a proposed mosque site in Lower Manhattan. And they give shockingly short shrift to the critical role of the media and specifically a huckster such as Beck, whose tire treads are all over the Obama backlash, in whipping up fear for fun and profit, with no regard to the consequences.

Why does anyone bother? (Us included.)

Annals Of Home Schooling: "No More Phonies"

We suspected this little bastard was home-schooled. (Yes, we just insulted a 12-yr.-old, although his mother's the real villain of the piece. Bitch.)

Patrick and his mother have been involved in many Tea Party and 9/12 inspired rallies, and Patrick says he enjoys watching Glenn Beck nightly and listening to his radio program. He already has his own opinion about the way the country should be run. When I asked him about the America that he hopes to inherit or to help create, he answered, “I would want to help create an America with as small a government as possible, no deficit spending, no more debts, no more phonies, and more jobs for people.” It’s a tall order, but fortunately, Patrick is getting an early start in helping to make his dream America a reality.

Quite the pre-pubescent Holden Caulfield. What's mom going to do if Patriotic Patrick figures out who the (real) phonies are?

But our concern for Patriot Pat must not stop there. To be brutally honest, & to pick at the scabs of a child already scarred for life, it sounds as if our young Patriot's mother is turning him into a, a (This is a very difficult accusation. We're reallyalmost conflicted about picking on this sad case.) a homosexual. There! (No reference to PP's father in the quick skim we did. And we all know what that means: Skinny jeans!)

PP: We are hoping to do this again in the future. We are working on another coloring book about the Constitution. We are trying to make it easy to for kids to understand. I don’t know what I want to be yet. sorry. I thought I wanted to be a teacher at one time, but I also like video games and might want to help make them or test them. I like to cook too. I might want to be a chef one day and Mom says I am good at it. She says I have lots of time to decide.

Now Patrick, Mama's Little Man never has to leave home, or grow up, or learn about icky girls. You can just stay here & cook for Mama & draw her your nice little pictures & play your Left Behind game as long as you want, dear.

Hey, we conflated Holden Caulfield & Norman Bates! Just take our advice: Don't stop at the Patriot Motel on the old farm road.

To end on a positive note, & drag another obvious lit ref in, there's always a chance that "PP" will grow up. Oh, &, um, maybe write the 21st century version of A Confederacy of Dunces. A Dunce of Confederates, he could call it.

More Local Nost

Pretty much beyond concern or interest in anything, but what the hell, right?

Being & Funniness

From (Why should we be surprised?) the Internet source for "Interesting Letterhead Designs."

Morbidity Report

Doesn't seem terribly likely we're going to outlive oil.

[W]e're going to have to deal with alternative technologies on that time scale no matter what—many projections indicate we're going to be out of oil within 60 years (usable coal will last a century and a half longer, give or take).

And we wouldn't want to outlive coal.

Were Not Expecting This One

Put this post (W/o the Frum pull. How would that have come out?) into this robot. The result:

Hey, we know we type a little stiltedly, but what the hell?

Further research indicates that H.P. is a common return. What-fucking-ever.

Better News On The Morbidity Front: Anti-Semitic Sci-Fi Author Dies

Although we've enjoyed some of this jerk's books, while noting a certain glibertarian element to some of his typing. we didn't know he was a holocaust- & climate change-denier. (Well, why stop w/ denying just one thing? We could speculate about early on-set Reagan's Disease, too.)

One of those creepy English types who come to the United Snakes for the "free market." Apparently J. P. had one going in bullshit.

Rot in hell, Hogan. We hope your death was long & painful.

Pontius Pilate & His Nail-Poundin' 4

Jesus H. Christ possibly not nailed to a cross:

"This is the heart of the problem. The text of the passion narratives is not that exact and information loaded, as we Christians sometimes want it to be."

Mr Samuelsson said: "If you are looking for texts that depict the act of nailing persons to a cross you will not find any beside the Gospels."

Here's a picture though. And a shorter.

A penitent is nailed to a wooden cross to mark the death of Jesus Christ on Good Friday in the town of Pampanga, Philippines. Photo: EPA

Died for YOUR sins.

Puke Funnel

We neglected to pay close enough attention to the items emitted count to observe an even 5,000; while discarding bio-hazardous waste material (aborted posts & half-forgotten drafts) we noticed that the Dick Cheney report below is the 5,035th item spewn.

What-fucking-ever.

Recycling The Apocalypse

A Huffingtonian book report.

The loose nuke goes off but doesn't do much damage so nobody really blames the Tea Baggers. The beautiful girl escapes. Our hero pretends he's gone over to the evil public relations firm but really he hasn't. To be continued.

(One sort of touching difference between Circumference and Overton? Only the one with Glenn Beck's name on the cover includes a chapter that begins with the single word sentence "Bacon.")

So why - except for the completely inverted politics -- does The Overton Window read so much like Circumference of Darkness? Because they were written by the same guy, a 52-year-old computer programmer named Jack Henderson.

He gets sole credit on Circumference. (And why shouldn't he? He published it himself.) On Overton, he gets thanked by Beck for "pouring his heart and soul into this project."

And, apparently, his leftover plot.

Now warmed over as well.

Annals Of Blowback

At last, Tucker's interns are getting into Newsmax/World Net Daily/Conservative News Service territory.

A foreign enemy is undermining America. An organization founded in Egypt in 1928, sworn to eradicate democracy, is working to raise their black flag over America and every other nation in the world. With plans to destroy our Constitution, it has infiltrated the highest levels of government, defense, and law enforcement. Bearded and robed, it walks the streets of our cities and lurks in hostile ghettos. It is the Muslim Brotherhood. Why does the Obama administration refuse to even name it?

Why so long? Maybe Tucker took a while to convince potential columnists that the venture capital was tied up in something other than payment for columns. Riding lessons, maybe.

So. Compare & contrast.

Is that clear? It was clear to McCarthy and he took it as the title of his book, The Grand Jihad, How Islam and the Left Sabotage America (Encounter Books, 455 pp, $27.95). This book lives on my desk because it answers two questions: Why do Muslims blow up buildings, highjack airplanes, and kill Americans if their real plot is to destroy us from within; and why did President Obama say to the Turkish Parliament, “Let me say this as clearly as I can: The United States is not, and never will be at war with Islam.”

Perhaps if this

lived on Cuckoo Chet's desk, instead of McCarthy's delusional pants-pissing, Chet might have some idea of what's actually transpired in the real world in the last 60-odd yrs.

One of these days the United Snakes will not just shoot off a toe, or crease its thigh when the hog-leg in the sweat pants goes off. No, current trends continuing or worsening (as they always do) soon the U.S. of A., on a hunting trip in some far-flung but oddly oil-rich part of the world, will have its head blown completely off by the shotgun (safety off, natch) it carelessly & precariously propped against the fence it was trying to climb over.

Norwegian Beck

Choice extractions from

The Book Glenn Beck Loved So Much

he wanted to marry it.

A question:

Ask yourself if in recent years sex, pacifistic, atheistic, and socialistic propaganda has increased in America and why.

If author Elizabeth Dilling could only see today's sex propaganda. Some people have almost been convinced sex is not instantly fatal.

Even more stupid fucking crap from the '30s. How has America survived the last 80 yrs. in a recognizable form, w/ every sex-crazed commie pacifist at her throat?

You Think You're So Smart

Every jerk on this planet (were there non-jerks they'd think they were exceptional, just for not bring jerks) thinks he or she is special; many extend specialness & exceptionalism to a tribe w/ which they have some connection. Well, you aren't special, & neither are those who accept the same conventional wisdom you do. You're a piece of dirt like six billion other cretins taking up space & oxygen on this spinning rock who are supposed to have rights & stuff, just like you are, but probably don't, so get over it.

Reading this may wise a few of you up. Chabon may be a bit culturally specific, but we extend the pointy finger & explaining voice at every one of you not reading this.

Hitler's Daughter Tells A Lie

WHEN REPUBLICANS LIE ABOUT RELATIVES' SERVICE RECORDS.... When people compare Arizona's "let me see your papers" immigration law to 1930s Germany, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) takes it personally. "Knowing that my father died fighting the Nazi regime in Germany, that I lost him when I was 11 because of that ... and then to have them call me Hitler's daughter. It hurts," she said the other day. "It's ugliness beyond anything I've ever experienced."

The problem, as Kos noted, is that Brewer's father didn't die fighting the Nazi regime in Germany.

Not really a problem for these people, who will lie like a rug at the drop of a hat.

For crying out loud.

OK, so Brewer misled the public about her father's service record. She'll apologize and move on, right? Wrong.

Officials with the governor's administration said her statement should not be taken to mean that she was claiming her father was a soldier in Germany during the Nazi regime.

I'm confused. When Brewer said her "father died fighting the Nazi regime in Germany," that wasn't intended to mean that her father was an American soldier in Germany during the Nazi regime?

Well, it's not "intended" to mean anything at all. It's just something one says, y'know?

Roosevelt & The End Of Prohibition: The Beginning Of American Cultural Decline & The Rise Of Secularism

More crap we didn't know that is not entirely uninteresting. This time the crap concerns the connection between Prohibition & suffrage. As well as the economic interests involved.

You call Wayne Bidwell Wheeler "the genius behind the Prohibition movement." Who was he?
Wheeler helped found the Anti-Saloon League, in 1893. And their first effort was to go state by state. We'll get a law here. We'll get a law there. He was an extremely effective, absolutely sincere, somewhat ruthless, and indefatigable political manipulator who realized that if you control the margins, you could create a majority. So if you had 10 percent of the people in a given district, if you could deliver those 10 percent to one candidate or another based on their position on Prohibition, you could win elections, and in fact take over Congress, which he did in the 1916 election.

You write that another Constitutional amendment—the 16th Amendment, which passed in 1913 and provided for an income tax—helped spur Prohibition.
In 1913, when the income tax amendment is passed, things suddenly change. The federal government up until that point got as much as 40 percent of its annual revenue from the excise tax on alcohol. After the income tax was passed, reformers realized there was a replacement for the revenue that came from taxing alcohol, and they started to push for a Constitutional amendment.

At the time, beer was becoming a major industry. Didn't the beer and spirits industry fight back?
They shot themselves in the foot. What they really fought more than anything else was suffrage, because they knew that women would vote against the saloon. And the more public they were about fighting suffrage, the more it guaranteed that women would vote against the saloon because it was very clear what the brewers were up to. In World War I the Anti-Saloon League was able to paint the brewers as the tools of the kaiser, because they had names like Pabst, Blatz, and Anheuser-Busch. And that almost guaranteed the ratification of the prohibition amendment. It was ratified in 1919, to go into effect one year later on Jan. 16, 1920.

Fucking Krauts! And the Kaiser!