tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7657367.post6241751058607365092..comments2024-03-28T02:13:53.054-05:00Comments on <img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v701/Attaturk/fez.png"> Rising Hegemon : They'll never be satisfied until we bomb every brown person on EarthAttaturkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08511961896699190171noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7657367.post-18957884650155702002010-08-13T13:33:57.866-05:002010-08-13T13:33:57.866-05:00andandand war is a stimulus. right georgee?andandand war is a stimulus. right georgee?pansypoohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06164502315120164024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7657367.post-62136839758173977742010-08-13T12:37:21.330-05:002010-08-13T12:37:21.330-05:00...someone with this blatant and thorough of an es...<i>...someone with this blatant and thorough of an estrangement from any concern for truth?</i><br /><br />The problem is in the use of "truth". There is the kind of truth derived from objective and varifiable facts, which I find persuasive*, and there is the TRUTH that represents a larger metaphisical "truth" not necessarily tethered to objective reality - e.g., my strongly held gut feeling tells me ____, therefore, made up facts will do to support my larger TRUTH because TRUTH trumps truth. <br /><br />This is the David Barton, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Brietbartian mode of truthiness (you know, modern movement conservatism).<br /><br />*and which historically has provided a superior mechanism for decission making.<br /><br />So, I'd rephrase, "...someone with this blatant and thorough of an estrangement from any concern for <i><b>objective, fact-based, consistent, most reflective of verifiable reality, most reliable, and least likely to get a bunch of people needlessly killed</b></i> truth?"jimmiraybobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7657367.post-35310314515436695512010-08-13T09:51:39.021-05:002010-08-13T09:51:39.021-05:00Hmmph. I think I'm entitled to piss on this c...Hmmph. I think I'm entitled to piss on this country's right-wing militarists any time I please, if only because, unlike Goldberg, I served in <i>this</i> country's military, rather than Israel's.<br /><br />When these idjits get their priorities and their loyalties--and their facts--straight, I'll listen to them. Until then, they're just, as Greenwald says, rank propagandists, in favor of something for which they themselves will not have to suffer.Montaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03531503205815503135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7657367.post-45138121660588184642010-08-13T06:39:47.796-05:002010-08-13T06:39:47.796-05:00Swarthy brown people, please.<i>Swarthy</i> brown people, please.StonyPillownoreply@blogger.com