bye-bye Beck
Posted by Michelle Moquin on April 12th, 2011
On my way to see a client the other morning, I was listening to NPR. The discussion was Glenn Beck. Kudos to those who organized a high successful advertiser boycott of Beck’s program, and are partially if not majorly responsible for Beck leaving.
It May Take 27 Years to Undo the Damage Glenn Beck Caused in 27 Months
It seems like yesterday that Glenn Beck was the king of all right-wing media — maybe because it was yesterday, practically. It was just last summer, after all, that Beck graced — OK, maybe that’s not the right word – the cover of the New York Times Magazine and made national headlines with that big rally on the Lincoln Memorial, a molecule in the giant shadow cast there by Martin Luther King, That was supposed to be the zenith, but I could tell it was the beginning of the end, that Beck was flailing about in search of the next new thing. I saw the vacant stares when Beck proclaimed that his much hyped event had “nothing to do with politics, everything to do with God.”
There were maybe 100,000 of them, lining the woody banks of the Reflecting Pool, arms folded, watching the planes descend into Reagan National as their leader struggled to hold their attention. Beck was already bleeding TV viewers — losing more than a third of his audience — and soon came the stunning news that he was getting yanked from the radio airwaves in Philadelphia and New York.
And now it’s (sort of) over, just like that. Beck’s descent was so steep and so fast that yesterday’s news that his main platform, his nightly show on Fox News Channel, will end this year, probably this summer, wasn’t even that shocking. Beck, whose shtick always remained rooted in his past as a “Morning Zoo” shock jock of the ’80s and ’90s, could never recreate the “shock” of taking on Barack Obama in early 2009 when that backlash was looking for a spiritual guru. Night after night, his rants grew more frenetic –insulting all of Reform Judaism one night, outlining a conspiracy to create a Muslim “caliphate” the next, or calling trains yet another government plot to control your life.
The crazier that Beck got, the more viewers and advertisers he drove away, until eventually it was too much for his beleaguered bosses at FNC, who may have lost as much as $40 million on the whole fiasco. Liberals, especially those who organized a high successful advertiser boycott of Beck’s program, celebrated the news as a victory against political hate speech.
But I think that progressives might want to hold off on that victory lap — unless it’s to get in better shape for the long battle ahead.
Because the truth is that Beck’s ouster isn’t really the end of the nightmare, but just the beginning of the end. Over the last 27 months, Beck — and let’s be clear that he had a lot of help from the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin and Sean Hannity and Rand Paul and all the folks in the Tea Party Movement — managed to do incalculable harm to the American body politic, that Beck was exactly like Tom and Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby who “smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness..”
You’ll probably hear a lot about how Beck coarsened the political debate and how his words may or may not have incited violence, but I think the wreckage is a lot more substantive, to actual policies that affect Americans every day. You see, there was a reason that Beck was so fond of a political theory called the Overton Window — so enamored, in fact, that he made it the title of his (officially) fictional “thriller” novel last summer. The Overton Window is a notion that you can radically move the parameters of political debate by pushing talk to the outer limits, so that ideas that were once deemed as extreme suddenly appeared to be normal.
Ironically, no one mastered the use of the Overton Window better than Beck. With all the focus on the leading edge of Beck’s craziness — the “caliphate” stuff, the flirtation with “the FEMA camps,” or President Obama’s “deep-seated hatred” of white people — it’s easy to forget how he rationalized once out-there ideas to millions of American conservatives, and how those ideas became ingrained in the Republican agenda that has thwarted progressivism from virtually the day Obama took office.
Let’s take the example of climate change. There was a time when mainstream Republicans like John McCain, Lindsey Graham and Tim Pawlenty thought that man-made climate change was a real problem and that government had a role in fixing it. Then Beck and friends on Fox News Channel and talk radio in went to work. Beck’s role in all this is remarkably cynical, as he told USA Today Weekend that he personally believed in climate change — “you’d have to be an idiot not to notice the temperature change,” he said — but said the complete opposite on the air. “Americans know this global warming thing is a scam,” he proclaimed on the radio.
In 2007, 62 percent of Republicans believed in man-made climate change, but by late last year 53 percent of GOP voters said there is no evidence for it. In Delaware, a band of Beck aficionados called the Delaware 9-12 Patriots played a key role in ending the Senate ambitions and political career of moderate Republican Mike Castle, largely because Castle had voted for the anti-global warming plan known as “cap and trade.”
Do you think other Republicans took notice of Castle’s fate? Last month, the House Energy and Commerce Committee was asked to accept an amendment to a bill confirming that man made climate change is real. The vote among the GOP majority was unanimous – 31 votes against global warming.
But then, Beck has the GOP going off the rails on a crazy train, literally. In other industrialized capitals from Paris and Beijing, high-speed rail is seen as a futuristic way to grow the economy with the kind of a zeal that a very different America once held for its space program. But now the political tide has turned against high-speed rail, with talk radio leading the charge characterized scheduled train service as a form of totalitarianized mind control. Earlier this year, Beck summed up the far-right mantra on trains earlier this year when he said: “The trains run on time and there’s a schedule — and you’ll obey us and go where we want.” It would be laughable — except it came just as newly elected Tea-Party-darling governors Scott Walker in Wisconsin, John Kasich in Ohio and Rick Scott in Florida killed high-speed rail projects that would have brought federal dollars, and more importantly jobs, to residents of their recession-battered states.
You could go on and on – the talk-radio jihad against big government that has put gutless Democrats so on the defensive that they no longer fight to protect vital programs but only over whether to agree to “steep” spending cuts or “draconian” ones, or the fear-mongering on terrorism and Gitmo that made quivering congressmen afraid to house terror suspects in our maximum security prisons. Don’t think that Beck’s nightly burst of insanity didn’t have a lot to do with these things, because they did.
Don’t believe me? Then ask a fellow in South Carolina named Bob Inglis who was a Republican congressman until he told his constituents to “turn off Glenn Beck,” and lost a primary to an upstart who got 71 percent of the vote. Why do you think the Republicans in Washington remain in lock step, even as 90 percent of what they stay in lock step for is bat-guano crazy.
When people look back on this peculiar time in American history and talk about Glenn Beck, and they will, I’m sure there’ll be a lot about all the wacky stuff — the apocalyptic hyping of “God, gold and guns” and the way out conspiracy theories, the leading edge of the buzzsaw and he moved the Overton Window to the far right corner of our national house divided. I’m more worried about the rising temperatures and sea levels, the falling behind other developing nations like China on everything from infrastructure to alternative energy to education, the repeated blows to America’s civil liberties and the destruction of a social safety net it took 75 years to build.
The solutions to these problems are out there, but they are stymied by a two-year explosion of madness, the right-wing backlash, which I reported on my book that is called “The Backlash,” and it was Glenn Beck that lit the fuse. Yes, his reign on the Fox News Channel may last little more than 27 months. But it may take the rest of us 27 years — or more — to undo all of the damage.
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April 12th, 2011 at 7:41 am
Great topic Michelle, it is people like him who Brad#22 was talking about on yesterday’s blog.
Al, listen to Brad. I like your style too, but you are making too much about this white boy thing. When I go to the spanish part of town they call me, and the rest of my race what sounds like – Essay -. It was irritating at first but I got used to it.
It is not as bad as some of the terms I and some of my friends have and do use to refer to them when we are in our element.
Doug
not the TMD
April 12th, 2011 at 7:45 am
BEAUTIFUL poetry Anonymous13(Apr11,0211).
Alien#1(Apr11,2011) its time for you to give the girl a break and come home. The human heart can stand only so much grief.
She loves you, (man??).
Ellen
April 12th, 2011 at 7:54 am
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these. -George Washington Carver, scientist (1864-1943)
April 12th, 2011 at 8:28 am
White americans are so very easy to convince that their minorities are plotting against them. When I hear the secret prejudices they harbor about their minorities, I can understand why.
My relative plays professional basketball. We are from the Baltic’s. Many american whites tell me that they understand why we had to kill the arabs in our country. I am not from that region that attempted to exterminate all their arab citizens. I no longer reveal that. I just nod and listen to the hatred being spewed forth by insane racist logic. Often I have to sit through while they feel the necessity to explain why they feel that way because they “certainly aren’t racists.”
I have met and now enjoy the friendships of many arabs and blacks in your country so I find these “secret” conversations from some white americans so unappreciated. But I don’t feel I can express my dissatisfaction because some of the commenters are or act like such good friends of he blacks when we are socializing with them. They feel so comfortable being double faced that I often wonder what they say about me the foreigner when they are alone.
Miljan
April 12th, 2011 at 8:41 am
Anonymous 18 -11Apr11
We am not aware of any aliens that would be against the discussion of aliens visiting or interacting with humans on this planet. We were contemplating revealing our presence a short while ago. But that changed when the Emperor lost interest in the earth becoming a member of the intergalactic community.
We, too, are interested in the beings of alien and human connections. We are debating allowing our scientist to explore developing human data from the interpersonal aspect. Any information you can contribute would be most appreciated.
W63453e
April 12th, 2011 at 8:42 am
It is about time some white MEN chimed to put this ball swinging contest into perspective. Why are you being so sensitive to “white boy?”’ You appear to be making a point that is not worth it. My brothers and their friends have referred to each others as “boys” all my life. I never new it could be used demeaningly towards a white male until you started making so much about it.
I showed your response to my uncle Mike and he just laughed and said you were being privative or you had other hidden issues you really wanted to address about your relationship with minorities or blacks in particular. Please don’t write me back on this that was my uncle Mikes opinion and he doesn’t read this blog. He only read that one comment from you I copied and pasted to my desk top.
Susan
April 12th, 2011 at 8:43 am
Michelle, I’m from Belgium. Your article about Beck is the kind of thing I hear all the time when I visit your country. I attend Post University in Waterbury, Connecticut. The whites there seem to be always poised to defend the white race. Against what, I often wonder. Everything in the town is owned by whites.
Beck was popular here and on campus. I am never without amusement to write home about the americans. The things they can be convinced to believe is astonishing. Their President is “anti-white?”
It is truly freighting to know that the race that rules the most powerful country on earth is so easily moved towards xenophobia and hates their minorities so much.
Diemer
April 12th, 2011 at 8:48 am
So how about it, Anon14? Shall we call you RA?
April 12th, 2011 at 9:04 am
Robert so me and my boys want to say we are white boys who have never even met any blacks so how can we be accused of being racists?
April 12th, 2011 at 9:08 am
Michelle, Beck was railroaded off Fox because liberals like you went after his truths to shut him up. He was the lone voice speaking up for the white race while the other races in this country have you and every fucking body else defending them.
What’s wrong with the white race having a spokesman telling it like it is?
John
April 12th, 2011 at 10:00 am
W63453e You may not be aware of any aliens that would be against the discussion of aliens visiting or interacting with humans on this planet but I very much am. It has been explained to me that this blog is for the sharing of others’ truth not my work. I have been silenced in that regard. You did mention that “We are debating allowing our scientist to explore developing human data from the interpersonal aspect.” Your group is late to join the party. I point you to a member of your own crew, whose position I will not reveal here, for culling data of alien human relationships. Contact me offline if you wish to explore this aspect in a more intimate manner. If you don’t have the wherewithall because the Emperor has limited your access to me, your crew member may be of assistance in making the connection.
Everyone else, I wish to thank you for feeding my humor and my ego with the Ra comments. Priceless, more than you know.
PS Zen Lill, yes, some are very frustrated with their limitations and others are completely ignorant. Many remain so during their earth cycle.
April 12th, 2011 at 10:05 am
WOW! This blog is HAPPENING!!!!!!!
So will it be RA or Shiva or ???????????? The suspense is killing me. I have a few questions about a one or two friends of mine here on Guam.
But for everyone I want to make this announcement about our Guam Island Fiesta Tour.
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Guam Island fiesta tour begins 2011 in Barrigada
TUMON, Guam. — After its success in 2010 introducing visitors into the homes of local families for village fiesta celebrations, the Guam Island Fiesta Tour (GIFT) kicked off the 2011 calendar with the Barrigada celebration of San Vicente Ferrer at the Bautista family property last April 10.
The program, sponsored by Guam Visitors Bureau (GVB) in partnership with the Mayors Council of Guam and Lam Lam Tours, has been well received by both visitors and residents.
Communities use it as an opportunity to share the Chamorro culture with tour groups who likely would never get the opportunity to experience the hundreds of years old local tradition.
Participants are greeted with shell leis, invited to participate in interactive cultural activities like coconut husking, talaya throwing, and tuba drinking, and are treated to large tables laden with authentic Chamorro cuisine.
“The GIFT really embodies principles the Guam branding initiative was founded on,” said GVB acting general manager Joann Camacho.
“It not only shows local families that they have a stake in the visitor industry, but it displays our Chamorro culture in a way that people have not been able to experience it.
We are not just telling our visitors about Guam’s history, our food, or the way we celebrate with song and dance – we’re showing them and inviting them to participate.”
GVB offers grants up to $5,000 for qualified families nominated by their village mayor in order to help defer the cost of food and activities associated with hosting up to 150 visitors.
To qualify, families must have held an annual fiesta celebration for at least three years, have property that can accommodate the additional guests, arrange interactive cultural activities, and have the event on the Sunday of the village’s fiesta weekend.
“We set the standard high in order to ensure our visitors get an overwhelming experience they should,” said cultural heritage officer Sonja Lujan-Sellers. “Because of that, we have received outstanding feedback from everyone involved.
Our visitors love it, our families enjoy teaching about our Chamorro culture, and our industry stakeholders have begun packaging GIFT as an optional tour with airlines and hotel stays.”
In 2011, GIFT will participate in fiestas in Barrigada, Inarajan, Merizo, Santa Rita, Agat, Mangilao, and Dededo.
For reservations, visitors may contact their tour agent or Kiyoko/Rex at Lam Lam Tours at (671) 649-5314/5. For $30 per adult or $15 per child, Lam Lam Tours will pick up visitors at several hotels in the morning, transport them to the host family, and return to hotels at 2 p.m.
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Hafa Adai
Anna
April 12th, 2011 at 10:10 am
Howie:
Are you out there? What is your opinion about aliens talking about their relationships with humans. Is it forbidden or not?
Scott
April 12th, 2011 at 10:31 am
Scott and others, please note, I did not said it is forbidden to talk of human alien relationships. That’s what some do here. My comment was it is frowned upon for me to do so.
April 12th, 2011 at 11:10 am
Scott and the rest of the Blog:
I am certainly out there. The reason I haven’t been commenting much lately is because of my personal dislike of the “Mob Mentality” which has been taking place on this blog for a while now. People are being attacked for their opinions. This is what I thought this blog was all about — the exchange of opinions and ideas on an OPEN forum so that we can all learn something from each other, whether you are White, Black, or Green – Whether you agree or disagree.
As far as Aliens go: They have been here visiting and learning about our planet for eons. They have assisted us by giving us laws and religious beliefs to keep us from being savages. Some of them wish to stay and learn more about us. Some have found love here. They are intermingled throughout our society. Some do not even know who they are, but they are all around us.
We are actually not the native species of planet Earth. Aliens were her long before Humans and we have forced many to leave because of the destruction of our environment which is also their environment.
We have been given (I hate this word)Stewardship over this planet and have messed it up so bad that I personally believe the only way out is by Alien or Divine intervention and control. I do not believe that humans have the capacity to govern themselves. We are a greedy, selfish species that thinks so highly of ourselves, yet we have gone way off track. What is life about?
I believe we harbor too much hatred in us to include justice and equality for all of those in our society.
Take that and add the harm we have done to our mother world all for a few more bucks, and you may understand why I believe what I believe.
Animals are kept in cages in zoos so they will not harm other species. We destroy everything we touch and should be kept in our cages so that we do not harm each other any more and do not destroy this planet any more than we already have.
I am disgusted with my own species and feel whether we like it or not, we need to be controlled by something other than ourselves or we have no future to look forward to.
HOWIE
April 12th, 2011 at 11:33 am
Howie I agree with you. I am very concerned for the future of our beloved earth. We humans treat each other and our planet like a child plays with matches. Yes, our sun would burn out eventually but we are greatly accelerating the end result through ignorance, hatred and greed.
April 12th, 2011 at 11:45 am
Isn’t that just the cutest picture of Michelle? Meow!
April 12th, 2011 at 11:53 am
Come on (anon18-11-4-11) this is getting ridiculous. Pick a name. How do we know if you are the same anon that commented a few posts back.
We could lump all into RA and just answer to RA? But it would be better if you just took the name and ran with it.
We want to with some consistency follow your train of thought.
Millie
April 12th, 2011 at 11:57 am
Howie:
you are still the MAN.
You are as succinct as it gets.
April 12th, 2011 at 12:00 pm
I agree with you Howie. But I also like the “Mob Mentality” when it is expressed on a blog. As long as it doesn’t encourage physical violence, it provides a medium for cooler heads like yours to come in and show another point of view.
Marlene
April 12th, 2011 at 12:01 pm
I agree with you too, Howie. Except the part about the aliens taking over. I don’t trust the aliens. I think they are just attempting to lull us to sleep about their true intentions.
Jeff
April 12th, 2011 at 12:09 pm
Jeff, something like the way our politicians are to us already…
Howie, Nice!
a thought I just penned:
A Still Life, A Life Still
I’ve got a sinking feeling of the truth
We’re told to see and believe what we are fed
busy streets with people staring straight and walking by
as kids we hide we seek eachother to find
like oil and water it doesn’t mix
where are we going to when there is nowhere to go
as the dust falls we mop the mess and push it under the rug
people put their heads into the sand castles as they wash out to sea
exposing their fears and truths while they lie dying at the waters edge
who dare we ask was here first was it us, was it them
pleasures last only moments and the moments are gone
a still life, a life still
trembling and shivering from the fear and the cold of us
mother, you told me it would be alright
father, you said I would take care of you
sweet dreams come out of your mouth as you watch my dreams fade away
hold on as I let you go, I’ve got somewhere else I must roam
it’s up to you to make sense of the nonsense
hold this stone as you swim upstream is this really happening
the tears fall down your face
the tears fall down my face
it’s all for the best are the words we hear
the truth is blinded by the lies behind the fear of what we wish we weren’t
mending the dreams of the hopes that never appear
take me with you please, I hear
I’m done here
I find peace in the abyss
April 12th, 2011 at 12:10 pm
Anon 11 from this am, I’m calling you Miles, just bc I dig the name…anyway, Miles, if some of the aliens do not know of their status as an alien while living life down here, when do they find out? The ones that do know, are they males and females and if so, are they having cute little humalien babies together? How does the alien who is aware of his/her status keep it from the family or do they disclose? Thanks, Miles…hope you like your new moniker or you can call yourself RA or Shiva, or whatever you like.
Misch, Glenn Beck has always been a Rush Limbaugh on steroids to me, cannot listen, tried, cannot.
Howie, yep I agree, on point and succinct about it, I do hear you re: mob mentality, it’s the highlight and the low light here. It’s bothersome in that, outside of here, would a George really run his mouth like that, think not, would a (name em’) really scream their shit at your face, think not…so maybe it is best to just hear it here where you really can take it or leave it – at will. I do hope all the hoopla does not deter Al from showing up again, he is such a dear white boy to me ; )
Caio, Luv, Zen Lill
April 12th, 2011 at 12:18 pm
I’m with you Ethel. Michelle when you lecture like a woman who knows what she wants in or our of bed, you get me wet.
I have all three of your portraits prominently displayed in my home. You are definitely HOTTTT! I’m a SF girl who works for the Ritz-Carlton Hotels. We have an Easter Brunch special I would like to invite you to.
Afterwards we could retire to one of the special suites up stairs and you could meet some to your other female admirers and just let us girls be girls with some of the finest champagnes, chocolates and caviar money can buy to encourage a bit on naughtiness.
Is it on?
Liz
April 12th, 2011 at 12:22 pm
I agree Zen Lill. I hope Al comes back. He can be my white boy anytime.
April 12th, 2011 at 12:29 pm
Cool Doug!
April 12th, 2011 at 12:32 pm
Exercise to Heal Tennis Elbow
Timothy Tyler, PT, ATC
Buy a ribbed, pliable, eight-inch-long rubber bar, such as Thera-Band FlexBar — commonly sold for general physical therapy for less than $20 online (www.Thera-Band.com).
Hold the bar upright at your side, using the hand on the same side as your sore elbow. Grasp the bar near the top with your hand on the uninjured side.
Twist the top hand while bringing the bar in front of your body to hold it parallel to the ground. Then use the hand on the sore side to untwist the bar slowly by flexing your wrist.
Start with three sets of five repetitions per day, adding more as the exercise gets easier, up to three sets of 15 repetitions daily.
Personal interviewed Timothy Tyler, PT, ATC, clinical research associate, Nicholas Institute of Sports Medicine and Athletic Trauma, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York City, and coauthor of a study of elbow pain.
April 12th, 2011 at 12:38 pm
Michelle: I like the way you swagger. Only a complete man can handle your action. In America they call me “The Wolf.”
Should you ever need a change of pace. My call to be wild is ever present.
Luk
April 12th, 2011 at 5:17 pm
We are in 1865. I am posting two different papers that published accounts of the hanging of three “assassins” of President Abraham Lincoln. You decide which version you believe to be closer to the truth.
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LINCOLN ASSASSINATED, DIES IN THE HOUR OF VICTORY
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Five days after General Lee’s surrender confirmed the Union victory in the American Civil War, President Lincoln has been assassinated.
Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln went to Ford’s Theatre in Washington to see “Our American Cousin on April 13. During the play, the Washington policeman who was acting as the President’s bodyguard went out to a tavern, leaving his post at the door of the Presidential box.
At 10:00 pm the 26-year-old English-born actor John Wilkes Booth made his way into the box. He was pale and drunk. He pulled a pistol and shot the President directly behind the ear. Then with a cry of “Sic sem per tyrannis!” (thus ever to tyrants), he hurled himself over the rail, in what was intended to be a swashbuckling leap on the stage.
But his spur caught in the flag in front of the box and he fell heavily, breaking his leg. Though he escaped at that point, his injury prevented him from evading capture permanently among the demobilizing soldiers of Lee’s army. He was traced within 12 days to a tobacco shed near Port Royal, Virginia, and there in a brief exchange of shot with Union soldiers, the assassin fell.
His Body has been returned to England for burial – the home of his illustrious connections, John Wilkes the 18th century radical MP and Lord Mayor of London, and the great Booth family of Shakespearean actors.
About a dozen men conspired with Booth to kidnap Lincoln before the war ended and drag him in chains to the Confederate capital of Richmond. When that plot collapsed with Lee’s surrender, the scheme changed. Booth was intended to kill Lincoln wile others killed the Vice-President and various cabinet members. But in the end Booth acted alone. Still, his co-conspirators have been arrested, and three of them have paid the penalty with their lives, alongside Mrs. Mary Surratt in whose lodging-house they were taken.
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DUBIOUS LEGALITY OF ASSASSINS’ EXECUTIONS
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Since men should be convicted for crimes the have committed, and not ones they intened but did not carry out, Messrs Paine, Herold and Atzerodt probably should not have hanged as John Wilkes Booth’s co-conspirators, because their intention was forestalled y Booth’s drunken solo performance.
As for Mrs. Surratt, she knew nothing whatsoever a out her lodger’s felonious plans, and has bee wickedly killed for the crime of keeping a boarding-house!
The whole trial of the “assassins” was marred by the pretence that the killing took place in time of war and so could be conducted y military rather than civil authorities. At times it seemed the prosecution was taking revenge on the Confederacy rather than presenting the illegal actions of three men and an innocent woman.
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AH
April 12th, 2011 at 5:20 pm
Vuk, I think the Main Dude might have a little something to say about that.
April 12th, 2011 at 5:31 pm
Michelle:
If you have any way of checking, would you check this out. We are hearing that Sar-e Pol was picked up and delivered to the secret police in Syria. They interrogated her and then buried her alive.
Please help if you can.
Zhen-ni
April 12th, 2011 at 5:51 pm
I don’t think so Natalie. I think the Main Dude knows when a dog is just howling to the moon.
Bly
April 12th, 2011 at 6:19 pm
AH: Who cares, you fucking fake.
April 12th, 2011 at 6:36 pm
The way out of Misurata is blocked because Gaddafi has surrounded us with his tanks. The place is littered with decomposing bodies. The stench is gagging. And these sick men insist that we stay covered from head to toe.
There are only 3 working ibooks among us so this may be my only words out.
Layla
April 12th, 2011 at 6:49 pm
Miles, RA, Ra. Shiva;
Zen Lill asked an interesting question, when do the aliens find out about their status and how is that done?
Can I be impregnated by an alien? How do I meet one. How would I know if I have already met one? Are they good lovers? How do they learn about sex?
Patricia
April 12th, 2011 at 6:51 pm
Ra,
Why would the aliens be upset with you for revealing this stuff to us?
Lydia
April 12th, 2011 at 6:59 pm
Howie, I just finished reading your post. Artfully, and insightfully done.
I agree we need someone other than humans to steer this ship. The stewards have gone way off course.
Beverly
April 12th, 2011 at 7:00 pm
Zen Lill, you asked everything I wanted to ask about the aliens. Now if only “Miles” will answer.
April 12th, 2011 at 7:02 pm
So are there any Gay aliens?
April 12th, 2011 at 7:16 pm
Anon18-11-4-11
I personally like Ra.
Ra,then leave out “your work,” and share with us some of the truths you know to be true about the aliens you have met. We are not asking for names or locations or even dates, just a tidbit of information on the mingling. Interested minds really want to know.
Brittany
April 12th, 2011 at 7:41 pm
Anon18-11-4-11
Although we can imagine a logical set of circumstances in which you would reveal anything that jeopardize the safety of any alien you were discussing, we would be extremely pleased to explore this in a more intimate manner.
We re-enter earth field 26Apr11. If this date is okay, we will beam in on data received from the Navigator’s lock. We are receiving non parallel data. On the exact location, there appears to be more than a 3,000 earth mile distance between the two points. Unless this distance narrows upon our approach, it would indicate that the two coordinates are not coming form the same entity. We can re-calibrate from the West to locate a target in the West. The other coordinate fixes a target in the South.
We can re-calibrate from the South if our final distention will be in the South. The immediate implication is that there are two separate entities with cooperating beams but located in two distinct points about 3,000 miles apart. We can locate and arrive at one or the other. Do we start in the West or the South? Or are we mistaken about the separation and hence we should expect the coordinates to narrow to one point as we approach earth’s field?
W63453e
April 12th, 2011 at 8:16 pm
Michelle, I would say definitely a oxymoron and a deadly one at that. Whites in this town are as rough and mean as they ever were. It is mostly black folks and white folks in this town.
We blacks have a better mix than most of the country we are told so we need to be kept in our place more. The mix is about 2 whites for every one black. Most of the whites own homes and most of the blacks rent from whites.
We try to get along by not making them feel that we are trying to take anything away from them. I’ve told all my boys to stay away from any mixed happenings as few as they are there are some. I don’t want them getting the reputation that they favor white girls. That is a death sentence for finding work here and if they get caught with a white girl that will be the end of that. We make a little more than minimum wage any how and no way can they make it if the white folks here decide to make it hard for them.
They don’t go around chasing white girls but some of the white girls here have gone and come back with a taste for black. We are a country town as such there is a lot of space between groups of people. Word about interracial mixing travels fast around here. It just will not be tolerated. A mixed couple form Canada came down here once and they were sent packing in short order.
The confederacy didn’t surrender here the stars and bars fly over every government building and city doings. Whites and blacks don’t discuss politics. We know who we are for and they will never be the same.
There’s a saying here by the white folks. “Niggers get liberty here when they die.” Recently when the water main broke, we knew that we would be the last to get help, we were lucky to learn that we should be boiling our water until the main was fixed.
The thing I tell my kids is that white folks are funny. I have worked for them for 43 years. Some are God fearing Christians who would give the shirt off their back to a needy white person, but they wouldn’t sit down to eat a meal with a black person.
Elaine
April 12th, 2011 at 8:33 pm
60 minutes just did a smear piece on Liberty,Mississippi. The vast majority of victims of interracial crime are White. Why not examine those trends? murders of Whites by Negroes happened yesterday and will happen today and tomorrow. They are of far more significance.
It reminds of those discovery channel specials on so called Nazi war criminals who the Jews are trying to bring to trial.
For gods sake, these men are in their 90s. There is no way they could ever get a fair trial, even with the judicial bias taken out of account, how can you prove something happened 65 years ago?
Of course Jewish Communists are not brought to justice. Lazar Kaganovich died of natural causes in 1991 at the ripe old age of 97.
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Ideas in a void have never appealed to me, action must follow thought or political life is meaningless.
- Sir Oswald Mosley
I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.
- John Enoch Powell
Freedom for the blacks is freedom to steal and to maim and to rape, and I’m not a racist when I say that. What can we tell them? Just that you have to look after yourself. We cannot look after you.
- Eugene Terre’Blanche
April 12th, 2011 at 8:39 pm
Michelle, don’t fix something if it ain’t broke. I loved that picture your removed. The one you replaced it with is nice, but damn that other one was in color and sooooo hooooooooooooot.
Bring it back.
Clay
April 12th, 2011 at 8:44 pm
W63453e
You are correct with two different points. Recalibrate west.
26-4-11 it is
April 12th, 2011 at 9:10 pm
I’m from Baton Rouge Louisiana. I drive to Liberty about once a week. It is less than an hour’s drive for me. The town may have 700 people. It aint two to one. I’d say 400 white to 300 black. And the income seems about even to me.
It aint that bad racially either. Me and my friends have gone there and split black oak on several occasions.
There are a helluva lot of old people down there but also a lot of single people most of them live in studios or one bed rentals. They got to drive to get to work so everybody has a vehicle of some kind. My point is it is small but not dull.
The party goers like to party in Baton Rouge or New Orleans which is about a two hour drive. So we get the majority in Baton Rouge. Get yourself a deep black breeder from ole Liberty and you got yourself something to ride all night. She’s most likely living alone so you follow her back home ride her all night and make it back in less than an hour.
It’s a poor place so don’t expect any real good accommodations if you are forced to stay over another day.
Maury
April 12th, 2011 at 10:29 pm
Anonymous 43, April 12:
You apparently are not very enlightened on the topic you are commenting on. You must quote others out of context to try and make some kind of point. What your point is, I can not understand.
As far as the Murder of Millions by Nazis: Murder is a capital crime which has no statute of limitation and is dealt with by capital punishment. Even old age does not excuse mass murderers from their premeditated actions in the ‘Final Solution.”
How can we prove something that happened 65 years ago? Easily. It was all documented by the efficient Nazis, who kept records and documents of everything they did. There is also history which was had many eye witnesses to their crimes against humanity.
Next time, comment on something you know something about. I too, would blog in anonymously if I were you.
HOWIE
April 12th, 2011 at 11:28 pm
wd40: come from the north and head east till you reach the coast, then continue south till you come all the way around. you will be back where you started from. Then go west till you reach the end.
April 13th, 2011 at 6:55 am
Consider a Commuter Savings Account
Barbara Weltman, Esq.
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April 13th, 2011 at 7:15 am
We are still in 1865==========Kate King mistress of bandit William Quantrill who passed himself off as a “Confederate Guerilla” has become beneficiary of a will the fallen villain penned when he was captured by Union soldiers shortly before the Civil War ended.
Madame King has gone to St Louis where she has invested the money in opening a fashionable house-of-ill-fame. She has had business cards printed which she proposes to distribute at reunions of “Quantrill’s Raiders,” where she will be a regular guest of honour.
Visitors are warned not to speak ill of Quantrill on her premises, as she is ready with her pistol if she hears her former lover described as the vicious butcher he was!
April 13th, 2011 at 8:15 am
On this day in 1865, in the midst of his ‘March to the Sea’ during the Civil War, General William T. Sherman and Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton met with 20 Black community leaders of Savannah, Georgia. Based in part to their input, Gen. Sherman issued Special Field Order #15 on January 16, 1865, setting aside the Sea Islands and a 30 mile inland tract of land along the southern coast of Charleston for the exclusive settlement of Blacks. Each family would receive 40 acres of land and an army mule to work the land, thus “forty acres and a mule.” Gen. Rufus Saxton was assigned by Sherman to implement the Order. On a national level, this and other land, confiscated and abandoned, became the jurisdiction of the Freedman’s Bureau, which was headed by Gen. Oliver Otis Howard (Howard University).
In his words he wanted to “…give the freedmen protection, land and schools as far and as fast as he can.” However, during the summer and fall of 1865, President Johnson issued special pardons, returning the property to the ex-Confederates. Howard issued Circular 13, giving 40 acres as quickly as possible. Upon his knowledge, Johnson ordered Howard to issue Circular 15, returning the land to the ex-Confederates.
April 13th, 2011 at 9:26 am
AH
Any comments on the book Larry Flynt is publishing, One Nation Under Sex?
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There was more to the Founding Fathers and past presidents like Abraham Lincoln than we were ever taught in history class or were able to read in a book.But now, thanks to porn king Larry Flynt, we can read all the sordid details because according to him, the lives of the nation’s past presidents were governed by sex.
In his new book One Nation under Sex, he takes an up-close-and-personal look at the sex lives of the Founding Fathers and beyond.
While historians are marking the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, Flynt is pushing his expose of the seamier side of United States presidents and first ladies.
He told The Daily Beast: ‘There’s been a lot left out of history books, and we wanted to be more inclusive. For 35 years I’ve been exposing corrupt politicians, and I wanted to know if our Founding Fathers had the same follies or not.’
Some of the things Flynt reveals in his book are how Ben Franklin helped save the American Revolution by seducing French women, that Dolley Madison slept around, and James Buchanan’s gay love affair with a slave owner was a boon for secessionists.
He also claims that Abe Lincoln liked to share beds with men and Eleanor Roosevelt’s lesbian affairs helped her become a crusader for equal rights. He also talks about the sexual prowess of Bill Clinton and JFK.
Speaking of his book, Flynt said: ‘Don’t get me wrong – I’m the first person to defend a philandering president if he can still balance the budget. But I think discretion should play a part in it.’
Flynt teamed up with Columbia University lecturer David Eisenbach to write his book, in order to give it some credibility.
He said: ‘I knew no one would read a historical book by a pornographer so I brought him in for the credibility.’
Eisenbach said that many academics scorn books written for public consumption and certainly those dealing with sex lives, ‘so I knew this wouldn’t help my career,’ he admits. ‘But there’s more to life than tenure.’
Some of the things that Flynt unearthed particularly irritated him.
He said: ‘I think Jefferson was like the Energizer Bunny with more than just Sally Hemmings if you know what I mean. Historians have stayed clear of anything that might be unsavoury about the guy who drafted the Constitution.’
According to the Daily Beast, Flynt was also surprised to discover that Buchanan had a gay lover yet supported slavery.
He said: ‘You’d think he’d identify with oppressed people but he was a staunch segregationist.’
Eisenbach said that 2012 presidential candidates should not rest easy in the hope that the book has taken over all of Flynt’s spare time.
He said: ‘He has kind of held back a bit, but as we get closer to the election there will be more revelations forthcoming.
‘Let’s just say, for example, that if you are making a big stand against gays in the military or gays marrying, you’d better have a clean bill of health on your own marriage vows.’
Flynt will begin the book tour this month but said he has his eye very much on the next election cycle: ‘For more than 30 years, we’ve established ourselves as people who pay for information, and we are constantly looking for and getting it.
‘There’s some people I’ve had my eye on for a long time in the Senate and Congress and eventually things will materialize.
‘We focus on all of them, but the conservative Republicans make it so easy, they’ve got so much baggage.’
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