Anyhow, since blogging seems to be the latest means for sharing ideas, I thought that since I have been dilligently fertilizing my attitude with the acidic juices of outrage, scorn, despair, incredulity, and hatred, I might as well lay upon my iota of the world a bit of my yawp - it's cheaper than psychoanalysis! You’ll find below a current quote from a Frank Rich, a Glenn Greenwald, a Katrina Vanden Heuvel, or a you-name-the-person. Also, the various links below will transport you to some websites you might want to visit. (If you have a computer and are internet-connected, there is no excuse for not knowing quite thoroughly what our pro-death DRECKS are up to.) Especially now that one must approach for news such sources as our sainted New York Times and the once proud Washington Post with an advanced degree of skepticism applied to even more than the obvious neocons of The Times like Brooks and their stealth neocon, the pompous Friedman, so enamoured of the Iraq invasion before we failed to do what he thought we should for a successful occupation, who once opined that France should be booted from the UN for opposing the Iraq War. And what do you know? Their little drummer girl, Judith Miller, who helped get us into Iraq, has now joined that right-wing think tank, the Manhattan Institute. But not to worry, their Michael Gordon seems to be trying real hard to replace her by working on war with Iran.

Also, other links will lead you to some of my effusions in the form of brief plays dealing with what's what. You know, the old bit about the oyster and that irritating grain of sand it heroically converts into a pearl for want of something better to do. Pearls I'm not so sure, but still maybe it's worth a shot on your part, and so...voilà! Have a happy read or two.

                                                                                                                                                                                 Norman Weinstein/NYC

As of January 19, 2008

I think that Rudy Giuliani tops the list of the most dangerous of all the presidential candidates. The certifiably weird Mike Huckabee is too fringey, outside of places like South Carolina, to worry us too much even though the laughter he provokes might sometimes sound a bit forced. The thing is that with Giuliani when people designate him as “fascist”, they are using that term less pejoratively than quite accurately. Writing in the January 14th issue of no less than right-wing Pat Buchanan’s The American Conservative, the liberal columnist of Salon, Glenn Greenwald, nicely summarizes for us Mr. Giuliani’s résumé in an article titled “Authoritarian Temptation”, which you might want to check out - simply click on the title to do so. Here, though, for your delectation are some of parts of the concluding paragraphs:

“Exactly as one would expect, Giuliani has enthusiastically endorsed virtually every one of the most controversial Bush/Cheney assertions of presidential power. He wants to keep Guantanamo open and mocks concerns over the use of torture, even derisively comparing sleep deprivation to the strain of his own campaign. He not only defends Bush’s warrantless surveillance, but does not recognize the legitimacy of any concerns relating to unchecked government power.

“At a campaign event in New Hampshire a week later, Giuliani suggested that the president would even have what he called ‘inherent authority’ to disregard a Congressional vote to defund the war in Iraq and could continue to prosecute it unilaterally. Not even the most radical of the Bush theorists of presidential omnipotence would endorse such an idea....

“Giuliani, when he was merely in charge of New York’s garbage collection, zoning rules, and a municipal police force, developed a reputation as a power-hungry, dissent-intolerant authoritarian, obsessed with secrecy and expanding his own power....”

HOMER SHOULD ONLY KNOW.

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