The Council had spoken on October 27, 2006 and once again there was a tie. But this time between only two entries among the Council Post. This time the Watcher cast his tie breaking vote to A Liberal Manifesto and Other Halloween Frights by Right Wing …

The winning entries in the Watcher’s Council vote for this week are A Liberal Manifesto and Other Halloween Frights by Right Wing Nut House, and Archaeological Temple Artifacts Drive PalArabs Crazy by Elder of Ziyon.  Here are the full results…

Unless they sieze power first, of course.

This week’s winning Council post was A LIBERAL MANIFESTO AND OTHER HALLOWEEN FRIGHTS by Rich Moran. He does his usual thorough job deconstructing a type of Liberal ideology that is best described as sanctimonious and narcissistic. Second place was taken

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Though I haven’t posted last week’s winners yet, here are this weeks nominations from the Watcher’s Council. AbbaGav considers the options we have in dealing with Iran and North Korea. No option is particularly satisfying leading him to conclude At …

Were it not for the fact that the stakes are so high the failed attempts of Conservatives trying to think would be amusing. The fact that a number of important issues have taken a decided turn for the worst since this President has taken office is not a coincidence. It directly relates to the abilities of the party in power and its mechanisms for choosing its leaders. More on that later. It is time to dissect either a portrait in deceit or an article written from immense ignorance. Unfortunately either way this deconstruction will be insulting to the author I am responding to but I can only critique the essay as it exists before me.
The referred to “unnecessary enemies” are all of the individuals around the world that now look at America with disdain. The first WTC bombing was born not from a Country but from individuals who hated our actions in the Middle East and elsewhere. Prior to that attack Republican Administrations backed a coup in Iran, Backed the murderer Saddam, shot down an Iranian civilian airliner, attacked Saddam after all but telling him that we were not interested in what he planned for Kuwait and then we put G.I. boots on Saudi soil. All through this James Baker has repeatedly and openly told the Saudis (our eternal friends) that we will protect our oil interests over and above their sovereignty. I know of no Arab who appreciated all of this and more. They hate us because of our support for Israel but they hate us mostly because of Republican blunders in foreign policy. It just warms my heart’s cackles to learn from you that your Right Wing buds were behind Clinton all the way from Bosnia to Kosovo even as they were trying to impeach the “sitting President”. Please take note of the number of American deaths that resulted from those wars and tell me if you were pleased with the results? After Bush’s blatant assault on the Constitution I won’t even comment on what you said while using the word “legerdemain” (This former “C” student had to look that one up in the dictionary).

On the subject of fair wages I suppose you also buy the Right Wing garbage regarding the redistribution of wealth that Conservatives accuses liberals of being in favor of. Republicans never talk about the actual redistribution that saw a ten fold plus, inflation adjusted increase in pay that CEO received from the sixties to present as most of the companies that they ran (excluding Oil Profiteers) and the common worker’s compensation saw decreases. These Corporate goons seem to gain greater benefits as they ruin American Companies at faster and faster rates. When you consider the fact that they are the only ones that had huge after inflation pay raises its no wonder that the actual taxes they paid increased slightly over the same period. I should feel such pain! Really!
Republicans are always accusing people of hating Bush. They constantly claim that those who say truthful things about George are Bush Bashers or media bias practitioners. For the record, I don’t hate Bush. I don’t hate idiots. I just don’t want them running (ruining) my country! Now when it comes to voter I.D. requirements I am all for them, especially if absentee voting is included in an eyes on verifying way. I know too many Republicans who vote multiple times by ordering absentee ballots for themselves, their invalid parents, their non-voting family members and/or acquaintances.

The thing that everyone must understand is the Republican mind is a simple mind that is most at ease when it can rely on tradition. New problems tend to befuddle them. Global warming is just such a problem. It’s complicated so they do what they always do when they don’t understand something. They blame it on some sort of natural cycle (the business cycle or the refinery shortage cycle). Who can understand natural cycles? We are mere leaves blowing in the wind with just as much wisdom. In the case of Global Warming it is “cyclical solar activity”. So when Republicans write about complicated issues they tend to get it all wrong. I don’t think anyone has claimed that CO2 levels in the lower atmosphere are not rising as fast as the models predicted. They do claim that we have seen lower levels of warming than what the models predicted. An interesting thing happened following the days after 911 when America grounded all of its airliners. There were no contrails in the air over North America and light meters registered higher levels of sunrays hitting the ground, which increased temperatures to the levels that the scientist predicted. When the planes returned to the air so to did the light and temperature levels, unrelated to “cyclical solar activity”. Could this be proof or should we stick our heads in the sand? Don’t even expect to here anything from Conservatives about the Deep Oceanic Conveyor Belts and what would happen to the millions of metric tons of natural methane hydrate deposits if the belts are shut down- Global Warming on steroids! Right Wingers are famous for being penny wise and billions foolish. The Bible speaks unfavorably of those who are ruinous of this earth. All of those liars and CEOs that Republicans worship don’t come off well either. Just remember these same Conservatives fought the clean air laws using the same cost arguments (They also all believed in WMDs).

Republican support of George Bush borders on religious zeal, science be darned, which brings us back to how Republicans get elected. They control the media. If it wasn’t clear before the firing of Dan Rather, the advent of FOX Views, Charlie Gibson, Tim Russert’s bias and the ABC movie it has to be clear now. When Republicans allow the radio jocks of Talk Radio to choose its leaders it should come as no surprise that chaos ensues. The fact that George W. Bush is president of the United States is proof that the Republican Party is broken. Merit did not put him there. Propaganda did! Don’t take my word for it, ask Bush why he invited the top radio jocks in for a little chitchat? He knows whose buttering his bread. Our public airways have been hijacked by lying Right-Wingers. Whenever I would bring this up as a caller to talk radio programs the host would lie and claim that Americans are too smart to be effected by talk radio babble and then they would hang up on me. Advertising is propaganda. If it didn’t work then Corporate America would not spend billions pushing their product and I wouldn’t be banned by several talk show hosts for telling the truth. There is not a single talk show host that can stand toe to toe with this former “C” student. Whenever the Republicans leave the realm of tradition they botch things up. That’s why they are always asking Democrats for their plan to fix things. When Clinton was in power he just got the job done. If a democrat had done the damage that Bush has done to this country Rick and I would be standing side by side saying the same things.

Banned but not out