Olberman Reams Rumsfeld
Olberman at his best…
Tabletop RPG nostalgia
I freely admit it — I was a roleplaying game geek as a kid through young adulthood. At the age of 37, I still would be, except that I and everyone I used to game with pretty much got to busy with other things. For all of us to manage to get together for even a single game nowadays, it’s almost like the darkly prophesied return of Cthulhu — the stars must be right. For those like myself who continue to look back fondly on that part of their lives, though, I offer this link: 700 things you shouldn’t be allowed to do during an RPG.
BTW, someone who ought to know says my own personal failings are best described by 244, 367, 440, 485, 555, 585 and 682.
The Bagman Analogy Revisited
I’ve been horribly remiss in failing to highlight sooner Matt Jenny’s excellent skeptical analysis of my bagman analogy. I’ll try to have the reply that it deserves up soon, but in the mean time just look over what Matt has had to say.
New Libertarian Manifesto: The 25th Anniversary Edition
Wally Conger has sent me trememndously good news! KoPubCo has just published the 25th Anniversary Edition of Samuel Edward Konkin III’s New Libertarian Manifesto! Check out Wally’s review and order your copy today.
Welfare: The Exterminating Angel
Perhaps the most notable development for left-leaning libertarians over the past several months has been, just as we are beginning to re-assert ourselves as a current within the libertarian movement, a new generation of our old allies have appeared again from out of nowhere to fight imperialism, the emerging police state and the neo-liberal/neo-con elite — the New Left. People, SDS is not only back, but this time the most prevalent influence in that broadly pan-Left coalition is not Maoism but, instead, anarchism!
Check out this “classic Movement for a Democratic Society (MDS) document on the use of Welfare as a means of social control“. Clearly, mutualist ideas of building alternative, non-state social safety-nets have enormous potential within a movement of those who recognize the corrupting influence of ruling elites and have a revolutionary disposition — which in turn brings to mind Per Bylund’s proposed strategy of fusing that with the agorist conception of counter-economics as market anarchist revolutionary praxis.
Libertarians — quit worrying about elections. Get active. Get radical. Get it through your head that we need to transform ourselves from a political movement into a resistance movement — before it’s to late.
The All Nighter Economy
I was reading Aubie Baltin’s well reasoned and dire warning, from an Austrian school of economics perspective, of economic hard times ahead, The Calm Before The Storm. I was struck by the following.
In the course of a business cycle, the economy moves through five phases:
- Falling interest rates, easy credit,
- An Investment boom,
- A Credit crunch & rising interest rates,
- Bad investment Liquidation & recession, and
- Stabilization , the beginning of the recovery phase.
Why, yes…
We have seen that before, haven’t we?
It really IS the five seasons of the Discordian calendar.
- Chaos
- Discord
- Confusion
- Bureaucracy
- Aftermath
Hat tip to Strike the Root.
Freedom Works: “Porn Up, Rape Down” by Anthony D’Amato
Abstract:
The incidence of rape in the United States has declined 85% in the past 25 years while access to pornography has become freely available to teenagers and adults. The Nixon and Reagan Commissions tried to show that exposure to pornographic materials produced social violence. The reverse may be true: that pornography has reduced social violence.
Homosexuals Use Fascist Conservatism as a Closet Door Lock
The following editorial by Stephanie Donald was originally published in The Advocate online edition. Although no longer available there, it is republished here with permission of the author. — Brad
Homosexuals Use Fascist Conservatism as a Closet Door Lock
By Stephanie Donald
October 5, 2005
Sigmund Freud once observed that those who exhibit the most homophobia are usually latent homosexuals themselves. Never in history has this premise been proven truer than it is at the United State’s current period.
Last year, Florida Republican Congressman Mark Foley was outed with some very damaging pictures of men he had sexual encounters with in a local West Palm Beach gay publication. When Congressman Foley called for a press conference, everyone naturally assumed he was either going to come out of the closet, resign his position or issue a rankling of the “liberal press†and state he was framed by liberal conspirators. Instead, he said almost nothing. He didn’t admit or deny his sexuality and continues to vote on decisions concerning public policy and law that impact negatively on millions of homosexuals nationwide.
Also last year, a conservative homosexual was given a full press pass to the White House briefings by someone inside the Bush administration (presumably by either Karl Rove or George W. Bush himself). It was bad enough that Jeff Gannon wasn’t an accredited journalist to begin with, but was a more accredited male prostitute and had spent several nights staying at the White House as a guest of Karl Rove. One has to wonder why an outspoken homosexual (even if he is very conservative) staying in the White House with a very anti-homosexual President and Chief of Staff?
Not long after the story broke about Karl Rove and his attendance at many homosexual functions in Washington, D.C., a book concerning George W. Bush’s own bisexuality surfaced and its release in the United States was blocked by John Ashcroft and the Justice Department. While many bloggers have picked on George W. Bush’s liberal use of the word “fabulous†in many statements as an indicator of his gate swinging in both directions, no other evidence has been quite as damaging as that made by the Drudge Retort ( about 1/3 of the way down the page) reporting on an interview given to the Dallas Daily News by Anthony Berusca, Bush’s roommate at Yale:
“Why is Bush so hostile to the idea of gay marriage? Perhaps because until 1987, George W. Bush was gay. According to a group of 29 Yale classmates who comprise Gay Ivy Leaguers for Truth, Bush was “known to be at least sexually experimental throughout his time in college.” One of Bush’s alleged former boyfriends, Anthony Berusca (class of ‘70), told The Dallas Morning News that Bush was “deeply conflicted about being gay, even somewhat self-hating.” Berusca is convinced that this conflict led to Bush’s drinking problems, but describes the President as a “gentle, caring lover”. In 1986, the Bush family arranged for George to join Worthy Creations, a church group in El Paso that focuses on converting homosexuals through faith. A year later, Bush claimed to be straight, born again, and engaged to Laura Welch (Kitty Kelly in THE FAMILY wrote that Bush’s twin daughters were not his offspring, but from a donor at a fertility clinic). Bush at all-male Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts was “head” cheerleader. Drama club and cheerleading are where the gay boys hang out. George earned the nickname Lips Bush for his skill at giving blow jobs to his fraternity buddies, according to Kitty Kelley. Bush has gay-style excrement nick names for the people he hangs out with: “Turdblossom” term for Karl Rove Note the classic juxtaposition of the obscene with the feminine to come up with a nickname for a gay man. For example, the late David Lewis went under the name Sally Suckemsilly. “Bulldog” term for both Victor Ashe and Jeff Gannon aka Jim Gluckert “Pooty Poot” term for Vladimir Putin, Russian President. “Mr. Big O” term for lispy treasury secretary Paul O’Neill.”
–Roedy Green; The Wit and Wisdom of George Bush
Of course none of this was carried in the mainstream national press. Of all the confirmed stories regarding Bush, the one about his father and mother sending him to a “homosexual conversion†church in El Paso, Texas called “Worthy Creations†in 1987. He did in fact attend that church for some two years. The most disturbing part of this is that Karl Rove also attended that church, as did Texas Governor Rick Perry and a host of Texas legislators. Even more disturbing is that Bush and Supreme Court nominee Harriet Meirs apparently attended Worthy Creations together in 1987 when Meirs apparently broke from a liberal Democratic political alliance and got into the conservative conga-line with Bush and others of the Texas political scene.
Many gay rights groups have decried these homosexual brainwashing programs as “unhealthy†and even the American Psychiatric Association has called the practice a danger to mental health of homosexual people and endorsed Wayne R. Besen’s book, “Anything But Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay Mythâ€.
Where does this train of thought lead? As a lesbian, I can tell you that the most destructive force in any homosexual’s life is the shame imposed by society for being true to yourself and not to others and their narrow morality. I myself have lost jobs, been evicted from homes and lost many friends over the years simply for being homosexual. My father disowned me and my mother used it as an excuse to drink herself to death at age 68. I was informed by a friend of the family that her last words were about me and she uttered, “What did I do wrong?†These are at best difficult issues to deal with in anyone’s life. It’s not hard to see why someone might turn to self-hatred for being a homosexual, although this is by no means an endorsement or acceptance of the hideous acts committed by elected homosexuals against the homosexual community at large, not to mention the population at large as these officials seek to control all aspects of everyone’s lives including their private sexual fetishes and religious beliefs.
It saddens me to think this all is true because it comes as somewhat of a condemnation of the homosexual community at large on first appearance but is in fact a condemnation of the general public’s ignorance, fear and hatred of things they don’t understand and the internal fear and self hatred inhabiting homosexuals because of that attitude. It’s difficult at best to attribute a definitive fault because of so much self-rationalization on the part of those who are heterosexual and homophobic and those who are homosexual and internally homophobic. No one is right in this situation and everyone is wrong and everyone is unwilling to attack the problem at the level it needs to be addressed at. Instead, it is ignored and, like an ostrich, everyone buries their heads in the sand and hopes it will go away.
It is particularly wrong for the homosexual advocacy groups of the world to not point out this failure of society and use it as a tool to argue for homosexual equal rights. At best they argue the need to for human equality without ever pointing this situation out as an argument for cause and effect of prejudice against homosexuals. Just as much as the favored slogan of “Silence=Deathâ€, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, the Human Rights Campaign, the Gay and Lesbian Anti-Defamation League and the American Civil Liberties Union need to explore this and exploit it as a valid argument for equal civil liberties, marriage rights and education of the general public.
How best should this situation be dealt with? I used to believe that forcibly outing someone was as much a violation of that person’s right to privacy as the Christian Conservative’s attitudes about stamping out homosexuality. Now I’m not so sure anymore. As these politicians and people of power and greed seek to quell a rising tide of voices for gay rights and then run to the local gay bar at night to assuage their own personal sexual urges, I think perhaps it might be the price to pay for their locking their own private closet doors with a stamp of fascist philosophy to cover their own homosexuality.
So it is with a somber note that I would call on all who have read my writings and sought my advice and knowledge, both homosexual and heterosexual, to find out these politicians and public officials, gather documentation about their secretive homosexuality and if you fear retribution about releasing this information directly to the press, send it to me and I will see that it is released to as many of the mainstream and homosexual media outlets as I can find. You can find my email at the end of this editorial.
It’s time we shed some light into the dark places of conservative America.
Stephanie Donald
Stevied6@adelphia.net
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BRAD’S ADDENDUM: Of course, it all started here — but good satire never goes out of style and its believability indicates a very subtle but valid point. That point is that those who would rule us are themselves only human. Authoritarian government doesn’t require “citizens” so much as victims — and those victims could be anybody. This week, it could be gays. Next week, peaceful and productive people who crossed an imaginary line called a “border” without permission. The week after that it could be redheads, or fat people, or people who forget to cover their mouth and nose when they sneeze. In short, innocence is no protection from coercive government. You can and will be persecuted for things our rulers do, or could do, themselves. In that context, Stephanie’s theory is, and will remain, very pertinent.
Powerful Video: I Did Not Speak Up And Now Wish I Had
It’s way past time to get serious, folks.
Hat tip to: Hammer of Truth
