In “Revelations” (live from the Dominion Theatre in London – 1992) Bill Hicks points out – and remember he died in 1994 – that America is the bully of the world; much like Jack Palance in the movie Shane throwing a shotgun at the shepherd's feet. “Pick it up, “ Jack wheezes. “No Mister, I don’t wanna pick it up,” pleads the Shepherd. “Pick it up,” Jack repeats, squinting. As the terrified Shepherd reaches slowly for the shotgun, Palance fills him full o’ lead and tells the crowd gathered around them, “You saw him. He reached for his gun.” Bill points out how we sell arms to these countries and then invade them because they are armed. Same as it ever was. And now that we’ve bombed the shit out of Iraq, murdering countless innocent civilians, they have every reason to be pissed. Who wouldn’t be? Of course Preznit Warmonkey and his minions are screaming “We either deal with terrorism abroad, or we deal with it when it comes to us." Yes, the terrorism that YOU created by unilaterally invading Iraq. Please explain how you and your posse have made us all safer from terrorism, you monumentally incompetent gasbag. Those of us in the reality based community have been fully aware of the lies, the incompetence, the right-wing corporate agenda since the run up to this illegal war. Finally, it appears the tide is turning. Watch your back, Georgie Boy. The wheels of justice may turn slowly, but they be a-turnin’. You soulless, heartless, immoral, cowardly little Punk.
How to Get Mad Without Sounding Bonkers: A Primer. So who isn’t pissed at the same old lies spewing forth from G.Dub, Rove, Cheney and Rummy? Enough to make you spit nails, idn’t it? Check in with Adam McKay over at The Huffington Post. Great sense of humor, a lot of good ole common sense. Read his bio. You’ve laughed at his stuff before and probably don’t even know it!
What I Did On My Summer Vacation. It’s easy! Join the “Summer of Truth.” Share your thoughts with “25,000 of your closest friends.” Not sure what you want to say? Start here. We must never, never forget. We must continue to remind ourselves and our fellow citizens. This is reality without the spin.
Add to Your Summer Reading List
Your Call Is Important to us: The Truth About Bullshit by Laura Penny
All these users and creators of the “cozy no-think of simple bullshit” are dumbing and wearing us down to the point where we no longer see the distinction between BS about dish soap and lies about WMD. Penny arrives at the sad conclusion that we’ve moved on from being mad as hell and not going to take it anymore. We aren’t mad, or even surprised, anymore. We’re taking it and asking the “fair and balanced” news team to deliver us more.
World War 3 Illustrated ("War is Hell" by Penny Allen) – look for it in August. Get the hard-copy July/August issue of MotherJones to see the photos. Yes, you’ll want to look away. But don't.
On an airplane over the Atlantic, the Paris-based filmmaker and novelist met a soldier going home on leave, listened to his tales, and, at his insistence—I can’t look at that! You have to look!—viewed the movie he played on his laptop of his daily routine in Iraq. The two kept in touch, and Allen compiled the images he sent her into a foto-roman with dialogue gleaned from their conversations, a cartoon rendering starker in its reality than anything allowed on the evening news. Her construction, “War Is Hell,” has since been exhibited in art galleries in the United States. Its very awkwardness—atrocity as comic strip—summons up the inadequacy of our equipment for coming to terms with what is being done in our names, with our money.Posted by lulu at June 30, 2005 01:32 PM | TrackBack