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Easy there man, I'm still coming to grips with my personal responsibility for the blowout of the Deepwater Horizon.

Unfortunately, his own statements (be they filtered through his schizophrenic mind) make it clear he is very much of this world. Recognizing that he was informed by and acted within a political context characterized by heightened paranoia doesn't require one to "take sides".

Judging by the slice of Americana on display in the online comments sections of major news outlets, the "let's take step back and take a good look at what's going on in this country" narrative doesn't seem to be taking hold. The genie of division and fear that politicians and some media have unleashed to increase their "market share" will prove quite hard to get back in the bottle.

I'm getting the Project Blackout banner ad on this thread.

Jared Loughner's favorite books include Gulliver's Travels and the Wizard of Oz. He's obviously a centrist.

Man, the libtards are going to have a field day with this.

Please provide a link.

[video:youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zPbJtDgmcA&feature=player_embedded#!

OMG, I'm going back to bed.

As bad as it sounds, after seeing what Obama's done, I don't give a flying fuck if he gets elected. I sure as hell won't be voting for him.

That's a good study. Even setting its issues with sources aside (and that's a huge aside), the news to fluff ratio on NPR has deteriorated considerably and falls in line with the race to capture the lowest common denominator that's happening across the board. It's impossible to take it seriously anymore.

NPR has really gotten awful. It's flagship programs, All Things Considered and Morning Edition, seem to be running about 15% hard news and analysis and 85% fluff. There's more sports, more stories on Dancing With The Stars, etc. more technology (free advertising), more lameass "commentary" than ever before. Their guests are invariably wonks from the usual center-right thinktank suspects rarely, if ever, balanced. It's not really clear if there's any boots on the ground journalism going on at all.

With Obush in their back pocket, look for the GOP to sit out the '12 election (again).

Comrade Chairman Barack "Che" Ilyich Maobama strikes again!!!

One of these days you're going to have to at least make a pretense of understanding the topics that you throw out there as a pretext for going all frothing retarded. Fernand Braudel, Giovanni Arrighi, and Immanuel Wallerstein might be good places to start.

[video:youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7v7uBA6LW8

Is "Cydia" a brand of douche-water?

In addition to the less-interesting, if related news about its new stealth capabilities, China is doing what rising hegemonic powers do. Remember what that was like?

Anybody got a good Navajo fry-bread recipe?

It's not really fair to pick on FW while he's at work and can't respond. [video:youtube]

pretty certain most of the folks on that list just ain't voting period - but you're right, they SHOULD be, and you know who for Some day a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets. A rain of tea.

It's always been apparent that FW's greatest aspiration was to be a Kapo.