Perhaps Thom can tell us more about these anti-government militias in Michigan, which according to a NY Times story are so commonplace that most people there don’t regard their existence as a “big deal.” One might recall last spring when a DHS report on the potential for domestic terrorism was derided by the right, and Janet Napolitano felt obliged to downplay it (you always have to be aware of the tender sensitivities of right-wing terrorists). The arrest of nine members of a Michigan militia calling themselves the “Hutaree” apparently stopped a plot to kill a police officer, and then bomb the subsequent police funeral procession in the hopes of starting an anti-government “war.” One wonders if this had been successful who the initial “suspects” would have been, but with federal involvement the right people were caught in time.

On the Hutaree website, there are blogs entitled “Evil Jew Forum” and “Weapons—the things you kill with.” You have to admit people who belong to groups like this are either really dumb or really “courageous,” because they make no attempt to hide their intentions and are still able to walk the streets unmolested; the Weather Underground people themselves were never caught, they just got tired of outwitting the FBI and turned themselves in. The “surprising” thing is that groups like the Hutaree exist in a climate where they are not only tolerated but often supported and even given unsubtle encouragement by public figures like Sarah Palin..

@Wendy: I think it was the "Funky Chicken."

I was listening to Ed Schultz yesterday when a caller began talking about the hate-filled rhetoric on the radio, and she was waiting for the Arbitron ratings to come out on the station she called the worst offender, and her hope that a low-rating would force this hate-filled filth off the air. She identified the station as AM1090, which coincidentally happens be the local progressive talk radio station in Seattle. Schultz cut her off, because he was afraid that he was about to tell her where she could put her observations. It never ceases to amaze me how haters like this caller hate being called haters.

Schultz does have his weaknesses, however. Like Stephanie Miller, who refers to Pat Buchanan as her “daddy,” Schultz has more than a passing fondness for this “friend.” Why is it that so many white people on the left regard this xenophobe and racial bigot a “friend?” This man literally shakes with suppressed rage and hatred on air whenever he defends bigotry or attacks all forms of “multiculturalism.” Is it because he’s “affable” to other white people? Or he is simply stating things that they secretly believe? Last year I wrote a long post detailing just a fraction of Buchanan’s sins, which he habitually spews forth with little push-back. Schultz talked to him yesterday concerning the tea party “movement,” and allowed him to deny, despite all empirical evidence, that social, cultural and racial paranoia motivated in large part this almost wholly white, fringe-right enterprise.

Schultz didn’t ask Buchanan why he defended the tea baggers who acted indecently toward Bob Letcher, a disabled man (Buchanan thought he was deliberately “dragged” there by lefties to cause an embarrassing video bite), nor did he ask him if tea partiers felt they were “marginalized,” why they didn’t come out during the Bush years when there was a net growth of 2 million jobs, while their predecessors came out in force during the Clinton administration, when 22 million jobs were created. Perhaps because Bush gave then objects to channel their hate, like Muslims and Mexicans? Because now they see a black man trying to take over “their” country? Buchanan himself has written whole books on how America’s Anglo-Saxon-Arian-Nordic “heritage” is under threat by dark-skinned “barbarians.” I found it interesting that when a steel union representative mentioned yesterday that a solar panel manufacturing plant had been moved to China, it barely registered with Schultz; yet a few months ago when a caller fulminated about jobs going to Mexico, Schultz enunciated “Mexico” as if it was a word almost too filthy to speak. No doubt his “friend” Pat Buchanan helps him along with this attitude, which does Schultz no credit—or anyone else who engages in it. Buchanan’s race hatred (as well as that of his sister Bay’s) unlike that of clowns like Beck and Hannity is real and palpable.

Socialism vs Privatization
To the folks who think the private sector can always do it better; isn't the Bank bailout, and the need for Health Care reform, examples that the private sector can really mess things up as well. The main difference with the private sector is that a CEO can get really rich screwing things up!

So, I thought I would do a search on Don Siegelman and clicked on the news icon...

Is Rahm Emanuel Providing Cover for Karl Rove and GOP Thugs?
Roger Shuler
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Is-Rahm-Emanuel-Providing-by-Roger-Shul...

hmm.

There is an article in WSJ (link below) that tries to defend the Tea party by going deeper into a recent poll to show how the media distorts these people. I think it only shows how discombobulated they are. LOL

The part I like best.....

"A government-run health care plan"--described as socialism by 72%

However....And this is where their minds must completely blow up...

Fewer than 10 percent say the Veterans Administration is definitely socialist, 12 percent identify management of national parks and museums, and 36 percent say expanding Medicare for the elderly, Medicaid for the poor and Social Security amount to socialism.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230437030457515176065847261...

Boehner eats 80 - 90 carrots a day. :D "Bugs" Boehner"

Whenever Boehner takes a leak, all Syracuse graduates salute!

Woman tries to make citizen's arrest of Karl Rove at book signing
By WIRE SERVICES
Story Published: Mar 30, 2010 at 1:03 AM PDT

BEVERLY HILLS -- Former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove left a book signing in Beverly Hills early Monday night because of disruptions by opponents of U.S. involvement in the Iraq War.

Jodie Evans, a co-founder of Code Pink, tried to make a citizen's arrest of Rove, and advanced toward him with a pair of handcuffs at the Saban Theatre.

@Zero G. At least Rove left the Tonight Show to go to a more wholesome place..

@Zero G. At least Rove left the Tonight Show to go to a more wholesome place..

Oh, the horrors of war: " Eighth Army Push Bottles Up Germans" - headline from leftwingwacko.com

On Language (with a bow to the author of natering nabobs...)

The Hutaree do appear to be alleged terrorists, however improvised explosive devices, even shaped charges are not WMD...

Term: Weapons of Mass Destruction

Definition:
Weapons of mass destruction are weapons capable of inflicting massive destruction to property and/or population, using chemical, biological or radioactive material. Weapons of Mass Destruction are also known by the abbreviation WMD.
http://www.army-technology.com/glossary/weapons-of-mass-destruction.html

Never agreed with Mr. Safire, but I learned alot about the use of language from him.

Head start on April 1st?
Sad part is it will become Fox-Gospel..

http://www.thefoxnation.com/global-warming/2010/03/29/global-warming-act...

Check Snopes; it was crap three years ago..
Feh,
Rick
(Hear about the climate change denier posing for a picture, crushed by a calving glacier? Irony.. thayats whut a blacksmith does, right?)

@Rick..hear the one about the misguided protester who laid down in front of a think tank?

Me neither.

"Abraham Lincoln went to school for less than a year. He taught himself to read and write. " -that'swierd.net

@Rick. i don't understand the blacksmith reference?

@Rick, sorry, missed that one. Wrought steam iron for sale.

A Journalist's Gamble with Indonesia's Special Forces
by Damien Kingsbury
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/03/30-2

American journalist Allan Nairn's game of cat and mouse with the Indonesian military is a brave attempt to show that it continues to represent the greatest challenge to Indonesia's process of reform and democratisation. It is also one that could well see him spending time - potentially up to six years - in an Indonesian prison.

Nairn recently detailed how the Indonesian military's special forces, Kopassus, continued to be involved in illegal activities, including murdering civilians. His report comes at a time when the US is considering renewing direct support for Kopassus, after having banned working with it more than 10 years ago.

US President Barak Obama says that the US military should resume full military to military co-operation with the Indonesian armed forces, the TNI, as a result of their reform. Military contact was broken off in 1996, following the 1991 Dili Massacre in which 300 or more people were murdered by the Indonesian military. Nairn was in Dili during the massacre and was himself seriously beaten by TNI members.

@KMH, going in as a covert Palinista. That's funny, keep sowing discord among them.

@Nels- help me out bro -- al we need to do is lure them over here.... Thom'll take care of them then :) 'Give me your yoke'

@KMH and Nels: I doubt the efficacy of that tactic 'cause you would have to lure people out of the warm dark waters of denial.

http://stopMYbenefits.com

@Nels...urine the right neighborhood!

I don't get the groucho reference either-

@Nels- get on Facebook!

@Mark K -Buchannan often gets a pass for his overt racism because he does lean towards progressive economics, and he publicly voiced opposition for GWB's Iraq war policies. If you ever watch The McLaughlin Group on Sunday mornings, it is absolutely AMAZING how often Buchannan seems to be "the voice of reason".

@KMH, I don't even think I can from behind my firewall. Those type of sites are blocked (heck I have a hard time getting simple images to download from different sites)