Comments on: The climate is ripe for irony http://johnbollwitt.com/2006/09/07/the-climate-is-ripe-for-irony/ New media enthusiast in Vancouver, B.C. with many interests and passions. A blogger, podcaster, music lover, Canucks fan, Cubs fan, technology enthusiast, news junkie, Apple user, and general lover of feeding my brain. Tue, 22 May 2012 06:41:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: John http://johnbollwitt.com/2006/09/07/the-climate-is-ripe-for-irony/comment-page-1/#comment-5056 John Fri, 08 Sep 2006 23:46:38 +0000 http://audihertz.net/blog/2006/09/07/the-climate-is-ripe-for-irony/#comment-5056 It's way, way creepy. And Don knows that I'm always one to be open minded to any situation, and we've had our fair amount of political debates, mostly over IM. It's too hard to put this all under pure happenstance. There are some calculated moves going on here, trying here and there to help some one or group of people to achieve a positive outcome of some sort. To use a cliche, it's all about using a political smoke screen. Why should you support secret prison systems and the government's ability to spy on you? The terrorists. They're out there, and you are a target. If you say that enough, then you'll never doubt your government's actions. It’s way, way creepy. And Don knows that I’m always one to be open minded to any situation, and we’ve had our fair amount of political debates, mostly over IM.

It’s too hard to put this all under pure happenstance. There are some calculated moves going on here, trying here and there to help some one or group of people to achieve a positive outcome of some sort. To use a cliche, it’s all about using a political smoke screen.

Why should you support secret prison systems and the government’s ability to spy on you? The terrorists. They’re out there, and you are a target. If you say that enough, then you’ll never doubt your government’s actions.

]]> By: Rev. Don http://johnbollwitt.com/2006/09/07/the-climate-is-ripe-for-irony/comment-page-1/#comment-5055 Rev. Don Fri, 08 Sep 2006 16:39:01 +0000 http://audihertz.net/blog/2006/09/07/the-climate-is-ripe-for-irony/#comment-5055 Oh it gets stranger still. Dig this post at TMW: http://thismodernworld.com/3127 for a rundown of the loopy logic in Bush's bin Laden quotes. Elsewhere on http://thismodernworld.com/ and http://www.xoverboard.com/ you can read up on ABC's right-wing "docudrama" that blames Clinton for 9/11 and airs-commercial-free-on 9/11. Speaking of anniversaries and blame, I just saw the second half of Spike Lee's New Orleans documentary. It's very moving, but considering the subject that's not very surprising. It's also very enlighenting and moves fast despite being 4 hours long. I watched it while sitting on a wet lawn getting eaten alive by bugs. Another good review one-year later is at Democracy Now! from 2006/08/28: http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/28/1342209 It details how government kick-backs to Bush supporters left NOLA without an evacuation plan. It's a pretty good piece, but Palast is generally good. Check out his latest book too-Armed Madhouse. It's really... depressing actually. But thorough. Oh it gets stranger still. Dig this post at TMW: http://thismodernworld.com/3127 for a rundown of the loopy logic in Bush’s bin Laden quotes. Elsewhere on http://thismodernworld.com/ and http://www.xoverboard.com/ you can read up on ABC’s right-wing “docudrama” that blames Clinton for 9/11 and airs-commercial-free-on 9/11.
Speaking of anniversaries and blame, I just saw the second half of Spike Lee’s New Orleans documentary. It’s very moving, but considering the subject that’s not very surprising. It’s also very enlighenting and moves fast despite being 4 hours long. I watched it while sitting on a wet lawn getting eaten alive by bugs.
Another good review one-year later is at Democracy Now! from 2006/08/28: http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/28/1342209 It details how government kick-backs to Bush supporters left NOLA without an evacuation plan. It’s a pretty good piece, but Palast is generally good. Check out his latest book too-Armed Madhouse. It’s really… depressing actually. But thorough.

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