Green Eagle

So, the White House revealed that Barack Obama has been spending some of his time at Camp David learning how to shoot skeet.  Of course, many right wingers dismissed this story as utter nonsense, because Democrats melt like the wicked witch of the west if they touch a gun.  Well, here's where this irrelevant story takes a familiar turn. The next step was the release today of this photo: Well, anyone want to guess how long it will be before we hear that this is a cheap photoshop forgery, and who will be first out of the gate- Jim Hoft?  Jerome Corsi over at World Net Daily?  Or will a new challenger emerge to trumpet long and loud that this is just the latest malicious distortion from Obama, like the birth certificate thing, and the ongoing denials that he is the Antichrist?  It's bound to happen, you know. ___________________________________________________ LATE BREAKING NEWS!   Oh, how could Green Eagle ever have been so gullible!  They b...

This interesting news from a back page bit at the Los Angeles Times: "A Milan appeals court vacated acquittals for a former CIA station chief and two other Americans, and instead convicted them in the 2003 abduction of an Egyptian terrorism suspect from a Milan street as part of the CIA's extraordinary rendition program. The decision means that all 26 Americans tried in absentia for the abduction now have been found guilty. The ongoing trials...brought the first convictions anywhere in the world against CIA agents involved in a practice alleged to have led to torture." Stunning!  Who knew that there is a country anywhere on Earth that actually thinks that kidnapping and torture are crimes?  They certainly don't appear to be in the United States, at least when carried out by our government.  And thanks, Barack, for letting your predecessors set the precedent that such things are just fine.  And you know what?  I guess they are, or the President would have...

A good friend sent me a link to this preposterous article from something ludicrously named "Reason.com."  As I've been pretty fed up with the regurgitated crap that is all I'm seeing from the right wing blogosphere these days, I though a "Sadly No" style exegesis might provide a good substitute.  So, Here goes: "Progressive Failure Is On Full Display in California Don’t follow the disastrous example set by the Golden State." By Steven Greenhut It's a disaster out here under the palm trees, what with our balanced budget and all, achieved without making the middle class and the poor pay for every cent of damage caused by the rich, yes sir.  This is so convincing as I sit here in our study and look out over the canyon we live in, I just had to read further. We live in misery out here. "California’s modern-day progressive Democrats keep crowing about the huge success they’ve had in taming the state’s budget deficit thanks to Pr...

Wolf Blitzer, at the beginning of his show today, comments (reproduced by memory, may not be word for word:) "The Dow closed above 14,000 today-twice what it was at the beginning of Obama's first term.  A banner day for Wall Street and the White House, but DOES OBAMA DESERVE ANY CREDIT?" Well, as it turns out, of course not.  Blitzer was on TV minutes after the markets closed, doing everything he could to see to it that no one gives Obama a shred of credit for saving the economy from the Republican depression. Of course Obama doesn't deserve any credit.  Obama, or for that matter any Democrat, is not responsible for a God damned thing that goes right.  They are only responsible when things go wrong.  Even things that are obviously caused by Republicans, like our recent near depression, are really the fault of Democrats, if you look at things properly (or better yet, if you don't look at them at all, and only believe what your betters tell you to.)  An...

I'm sure most of you have heard the above phrase.  It has arisen, in the last few years, as a battle cry among evangelical Christians and their enablers, after it became clear that they were never going to be able to convince sane people to replace the established scientific facts of evolution with a pack of infantile myths crammed down the throats of school children.  So, they fell back on their "compromise" position, which involves battering us into treating their patent nonsense on an equal footing with scientific fact.  This would be the "centrist" thing to do, and therefore, it would be fair to everyone, right? Well, I am sure most of you are familiar with this idiocy, but what I have been noticing lately is that it is a paradigm of the entire Republican approach to reality- the fabrication of a wholly specious (and in the end utterly ridiculous) alternate reality, and then immense pressure being applied to force people to grant this mytholo...

Remember the tea party?  Remember when they were the force that was going to change the country, the people who were going to send the Socialist Communist Muslim back to Kenya and run the country the way the founding fathers wanted it run, with no black people in charge, and with businessmen entitled to do anything they damned felt like, where everyone could carry an automatic weapon anywhere, and where government kept its hands off of Medicare, and all of the other good things that government created?  Where did they go? Green Eagle was all over the teabaggers, right from the beginning.  He even went to numerous tea party events, and followed many more closely.  So, who could be better than Green Eagle to explain what happened?  Here's my take: The tea party people, as distinguished from ordinary Republican drones, never existed.  At the end of the Bush Administration, Republican leaders had to face a dreadful prospect:  They had just cheere...

From a Connecticut newspaper , we learn this: "Father of Newtown victim heckled at hearing" There might be some hope for this country if we were just dealing with flaming assholes.  But the other side are animals who are not capable of human decency. Sorry, that's my takeaway from all the years I've been watching this sort of thing.