James Lileks pushes back against the looney left blame America first crowd suffering from terminal Bush Derangement Syndrome:
You're an enlightened world citizen. Your T-shirt says "9/11 was an inside job." You're pretty sure we're living in a fascist state, that President Bush taps the Dixie Chicks' phones, Christian abortion clinic bombers outnumber jihadis, and the war on "terror" is a distraction from the real threats: carbon emissions and Pat Robertson. Then you learn that 17 people were arrested in a terrorist bomb plot. How do you process the information? Let's take it step by step.
Gosh, that's horrible, you think. But no -- that's what they WANT you to feel. Recall the prime directive: Question Authority (unless he's a college professor). The plotters must have been impoverished olive farmers radicalized by the removal of Saddam Hussein. Why, if someone came in and toppled your president, you'd go to their country and ... well, you'd thank them. Unless they did it for the wrong reasons! Then you'd blow something up. Like an SUV dealership. At night. Anyway, you understand; you care a lot about Iraqis these days. You think about Iraq more than China, to be honest, but it's not as if you'll scrape off your "Free Tibet" bumper sticker -- unless it's to make room for "Free Darfur." Or "Hands Off Darfur," depending.
Wait a minute: The "terrorists" were Canadian? You can understand someone blowing up trains in Spain and London. They sent troops to an illegal war cooked up by neocons who want to kill brown people for Exxon and Jesus, or something. You can understand, reluctantly, blowing up teens in an Israeli pizza parlor, because the Jews took the West Bank from the sovereign, ancient nation of Palestine. (How can a liberal socialist country behave so poorly? The world is full of mysteries.) But Canada? Isn't Michael Moore from Canada? You can get medical marijuana from married gay doctors in Canada, and no one has guns. You console yourself: Maybe they were really planning to attack the U.S.
You realize the suspects were all Muslim, and you dread the inevitable pogroms. Haven't been any yet, but any day now. You read that a mosque was vandalized in Toronto after the arrest, and you feel a certain grim relief. Finally, racism! Banners. If you're going to have a march, you'll need banners.
There is more, read the whole thing. Those who inspired Lileks's essay wear the same hateful blinders as those moodbats who deny the Holocaust and disseminate drivel such as this.
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Whats the current definition of moodbat? It's not in the OED.
If GW Bush and this administration are actually concerned about terrorism, and about security, "believe in" the possibility that we may well be attacked again by terrorists -- and are not merely using this as a scare tactic to keep the population in line and as a means to smear "liberals" -- then please explain to me:
How come both our borders, north and south, are completely open so that anyone so inclined can get into this country?
Why aren't cargo containers shipped into this country routinely inspected, as they are in major ports in other countries? And while we're on that subject, why are other countries the owners of our piers? And starting to buy out our airlines?
Why don't we have adequate security at nuclear facilities, oil refineries, and chemical plants?
Why don't we do something sensible about protecting social security numbers, like those stolen from 26 million veterans, so that identity theft isn't so remarkably easy and fake documents with real SS numbers aren't so easy and cheap to obtain? It would certainly be possible to issue new SS numbers to those whose numbers have been stolen. That would both protect those whose numbers are stolen and would mean that those who use those numbers could be caught, too. My health insurance company, realizing they were putting its millions of customers in danger by using their SS numbers as ID, managed to do that without much difficulty or expense.
read that article on the terrorist killed recently by a Moslem extremists and i do think you should be concerned about that too..
the terrorists are certainly not idle and am on the move, and i don't think that is paranoia, having lived not far from gaza and near terrorist attacks, my work place was shut down during the gulf war as a rocket from saddam landed near by, i would say i think you should worry, the world is not such a large place and rockets reach everywhere
So now we know what this abscure term means - sortof. A person with an extreame view. Since left and right are meaningless terms - a person that sacrifices reason in favor of knee-jerk reactions just like this brain-dead syncophant James Lilleks.
Is someone protesting too much, perhaps?
Sometimes moonbats go off the deep end, as in my latest post, Railing Against Chris Leavitt. Go check THAT out! (shameless self-promotion warning!)
Best regards, Ben
One simply has to understand how weird life in the Minneapolis is.........allow me to illustrate: our lesbian Fire-Chief has been suspended for using the power of her position to extort sex from four women.
See A HUNK OF BURNING LOVE
This latest scandal is just another in a long line of bizarre incidents. A decade ago, a black female police officer was fired for salting the mine of racism by sending vile racist letters to all black officers on the force. She sued to reclaim her job and won $400,000 as a reward for being so poorly treated. Re-hired, she then sued for "harassment" and won another $300,000.
The irony and humor of Mr. Lileks is a product of the absurdity of our progressive community; the only thing of value these moonbats have given us.