Of ocurse I am going to take the opportunity to talk about the Hamas attack on Israel. First, I'd like to talk about my background, or baggage, regarding the country. I have lived in Israel, some years ago. This was not for religious reasons; I spent several months there working on a movie. During pre-production, weeks of location scouting and shooting the movie, I was all over the country, and spent a fair amount of time in the West Bank, where we also shot. This included a lot of places that normal tourists would not see, including predominantly Arab areas such as East Jerusalem, the Arab quarter of the old city, Ramla and the southern part of Jaffa, which is predominantly Arab. It also included heavily Orthodox areas like Mea Shearim. I dealt with Israeli Arabs, Palestinians and Bedouins. Here are a few things I believe I learned there: First of all, the Palestinians I knew were perfectly normal people with the same interest in living a safe, secure
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The hillbillies are alive with the sound of music.
Is there an effort afoot to discredit The Quitter even before she launches her presidential bid?
Apparently her newest "book" is as awful as her reality teevee show.
And more Republicans are feeling bolder about dissing the ex-beauty queen.
I believe you have not read this blog for all that long. I have, I think I may fairly say, considerable knowledge about Germany and Italy in the period 1900-1945, and over the last couple of years I have laid out exactly why I believe that the American right, with its short and very shallow memory of history, is absolutely recreating, as far as it is capable, the economic conditions which made the rise of Nazism possible. Furthermore, though the rank and file teabaggers are utterly incapable of facing this fact, the leaders of the right are working as fast as they can to complete the missing details, by deliberately triggering the sort of massive economic collapse that coerced the German people to give up their freedom.
I have dealt with right wingers for decades, and I know that you will never face this malignant truth, but it is true nevertheless.
Bush and Cheney WERE involved in an attempt- remember the "unitary executive?" -remember torture? -remember detentions without trial? -remember armed aggressions against innocent countries? -to institute a dictatorship in this country, and thus when we look to past dictators to understand their behavior, we are engaging in historical analysis, not a well financed smear campaign.