Ted Rall for October 17, 2009

Scott writes a continual flow of buzzwords like “feminized” like a satire of a right-wing rhetoric which certainly makes my eyes roll ceilingward…

I am beginning to think Scott is trying to do a parody of someone like the character Rorschach from Alan Moore’s “Watchmen”. Quoting from page 1 of “Watchmen”:

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The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown.

The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout “Save us!”…

…and I’ll look down, and whisper “No.”

They had a choice, all of them. They could have followed in the footsteps of good men like my father, or President Truman.

Decent men, who believed in a day’s work for a day’s pay.

Instead they followed the droppings of lechers and communists and didn’t realize that the trail led over a precipice until it was too late.

Don’t tell me they didn’t have a choice.

Now the whole world stands on the brink, staring down into bloody hell, all those liberals and intellectuals and smooth-talkers…

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Asking questions is treasonous. Besides, we have always been at war with Asiatica. Or something.

Hell, it beats flipping burgers and watching reality TV.

And there’s no need to worry about funeral expenses.

For those of you bitching about the military and those of us who follow orders as we are told……… if you do not want to enlist don’t, if you do then do not complain when your sent to a war zone. I did my time and if you did not then why, that silver spoon stuck up your a$$ cause you to not pass the medical?

New times are coming up Scott. Either we cooperate with other nations or we go extinct. Please realize there was once the perception of an all powerful, invincible military, brought about temporarily–in the context of history–through the “mastery” of the nuclear option, so well illustrated with the “Little Boy” and the “Fat Man” in 1945; but now it’s only the reckoning we have to work together with other nations.

And soldiers, though enlisted, should not lose their self-determination to serve or not. If it is a voluntary army, then going to war should be voluntary also, for voluntarily giving away your self-will strikes me as absurd. These men and women are putting their lives in danger, they should at least be given a vote and a voice.

There once was a jingo named scott Who fantasized a whole, whole lot About killing and torture, rapine and lies He promised to kill everyone in the world Just as soon as he finished his Big Mac and fries

And yet Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them; for it is to those who are childlike that the Kingdom of the Heavens belongs.”

: ) woohooo!

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…but by the way, going it alone is not “cooperating”, Scott.

And now let me go back to my XBOX 360.

Scooter, the word is “caste” not “chaste”. As to U.S. “cooperation”, ask Grenada, Panama, Nicaragua, Libya, Lebanon, Venezuela, Chile, or a few other countries about how much we’ve “cooperated” in destroying their governments, economies, and societies. Yep, throw in Iraq and Afghanistan while you’re at it.

Glad to see that Scott is still ranting and raving in his own little world–and not in ours.

Beautiful little ditty, Harvin. Loved it.

You know it is our duty to ask why we sent him – it seems it has become a “Don’t Ask - Don’t Tell” situation.

If we don’t ask they wont have to tell why we are there and why we need to stay there.

“Because Bush started it” is no longer good enough, if he we stay it will become Obama’s Vietnam, with probably the same results.

“edmondd said, about 5 hours ago

New times are coming up Scott. Either we cooperate with other nations or we go extinct. …”

I would say “we” have to cooperate with other people. “Nation” usually means “state”, and the fundamental purpose of the state is war. Naturally, when we read of the history of the state, we find endless wars. That was all very well when “we” were just advanced monkeys running around the jungle banging each over the head with clubs, but since those days “our” technology has advanced to the point where we can probably destroy one another completely. We urgently need to stop adding to the power of the state and to find or cultivate a non-coercive social order. It seems pretty obvious that a continued struggle for power will end in catastrophe.

Harvin, nice one.

I guess I could write this on every leftist comic that ridicules our efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan: we are in Iraq and Afghanistan because those are the battlefields we chose to engage in our War on Worldwide Islamic Jihad (which Bush erroneously called a War on “terror”). Al-Qaida was and is operating out of Afghanistan/Pakistan, and Iraq was run by a terroristic despot who occupied a strategic territory next to Iran (and who had been refusing to cooperate with International (!) efforts to investigate his activities since the middle of the Clinton era). Our presence in those two countries has focused the efforts of the jihadists to those areas. Pretty simple to understand.

it takes a left wing and a right wing to fly this bloated demoralized turkey of a nation, manipulated by Big Money, and too apathetic to lift the latest electronic gizmo long enough to make the small changes in civility, grit and conscience that will redeem us from the war profiteering tomorrow the world mentality of what has passed for presidential puppetry these last many years.

holy cow. so much to do, so little time. so little kindness.

All of the 9/11 terrorist came from Saudi Arabia, except one, he was United Arab Republic – Bin Laden is from Saudi Arabia, most of his financial support comes from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Republic – why didn’t we invade them?

Ask the plastic/fuel industries …

“Do you deny War is as old as fallen Man? Can you show me where in the History books Man has ever lived together WITHOUT fighting his neighbors? Even if a few groupings or nations got along for a while, eventually foreign invaders showed up and ruined everything…”

That’s really sad. We are as we always were is a negative and defeatist mindset which makes conflict inevitable. C’mon dude. Get that one foot out of the cave and into the 21st century. A lot of us have, you probably can too.

For a long period of history we use to eat each other, we seem to have been able to out grow that.

This cartoon is one of the best condemnations of foreign wars of aggression that I’ve yet seen. Kudos to Ted !…

Henri