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Friday May 30, 2008
Evil twins
Born from the same seed, one overtly
good and
the other overtly evil, the roles of evil twins eventually blur, making
it difficult to be certain where the good one leaves off and the evil
one begins.
"I Wish I Had an Evil Twin" Song Lyrics
Examples in recent news:
Dunkin'
Donuts Pulls Rachael Ray Ad Over 'Terror' Symbolism (FOX)
Malkin, in a posting following up on last week's column,
said
of Dunkin's decision to pull the ad, "It's refreshing to see an
American company show sensitivity to the concerns of Americans opposed
to Islamic jihad and its apologists."
Sensivity,
my great aunt
Fanny's fanny! The Dunky folk were worried about losing
business. If
you think they shouldn't have pulled the ad, then the way to remind
them that expediency is not the same as morality is to write to them at
their head office in the US and tell them you're going to stop
stuffing your face with their aorta cloggers.
The Dunky's evil twin is Tim Hortons, who are so saintly they have set
up shop in Afghanistan, and are known to fire employees
at the drop of a donut hole. These are not typical evil twins
because they both look and smell good on the surface, but they kill
people with fat, they support the killing of people with guns, and they
fire the soft-hearted.
Malkin and FOX are true evil twins. She responds irrationally and
aggressively not only to symbols she perceives to be threatening, but
also to anything she decides resembles those symbols, with the
advantage that she can express her psychosis in a widely-read news
publication and thereby create enough pressure to get that symbol of a
symbol obliterated.
Meanwhile, that same news outlet quietly exploits Malkin's pathology in
order to sell
copy, but tries to appear reasonable and, more importantly, to fend off
criticism of itself by tossing a bone to the historical legitimacy of
the keffiyeh (Wikipedia) - that Ray wasn't even wearing!
Here in the 51st State, Daniel Goldbloom points out the total illogic
of Malkin's bile by comparing the similarities between the Cuban and
American flags:
Malkin
et al. pulled the fashion equivalent of confusing the American flag
with the Cuban one. True, they both have red and white stripes with at
least one blue-ensconced white star, but no one is accusing
hyper-patriotic Americans of supporting the Castro regime. (National
Post)
Goldbloom works
for the
right wing rag that broke the shocking Jewish badge story about Iran,
and then when exposed as liars, deleted the original article and
published one that didn't say sorry we were wrong, but only
that "experts" had said the story wasn't true.
That
second article displayed a photo of a
Nazi yellow star badge
without any accompanying caption to say it was not the proposed Iranian
badge, thereby deliberately creating both a visual reminder of the
holocaust to offset Iran's outrage at Israel's treatment of the
Palestinians, as well as a direct mental image of what Iran might do to
its own Jews - and to Israel if the opportunity arose.
And then we have ex-cabinet minister Maxime Bernier and his
ex-girlfriend Julie Couillard:
Couillard
says she continued to 'play-act' after breaking up with Bernier at
Christmas(Star)
Couillard describes a relationship that was more transactional than
romantic – at one point in the interview she describes it as a
"business deal" – and says she broke it off at Christmas but continued
to appear with Bernier to fulfill her promise to spend a year as his
"official" girlfriend.
So she admits to playacting - but she's not a
mole? I think
she might well be one, and some folks at the RCMP might now have
themselves some leverage with the current federal government.
This is
an extremely serious turn of events, and not just a gossip event.
How does a nice girl end up being everybody's call girl and still say
she's not ashamed of her past? If either of her conflicting
statements: "I fell in love with a dream" and that it was a "business
deal" are true, Couillard has deep psychological problems.
But Bernier is either a closet gay desperately trying to look otherwise
to keep the good will of his "Christian" Reformist pals, or else he's
such a loser that the
only dates he can get are with "business" women. Either way, he
was
ripe for a setup.
He and Harper can go on all they want about how the private parts of
his life are
nobody's business, but when his private parts become part of a
"business
deal" ... well, it becomes a good object lesson in how a government can
be got at from below, and end up controlled by the very forces the
government itself should be controlling.
At the very least, it shows Bernier up as a weak-egoed, amoral sleaze,
which should not surprise anyone since the whole Harper lot has proven
its sleazy amorality by fast-tracking the process begun by the Liberals
of selling Canada into the service of US state terrorism.
Couillard
may try to come off as the good twin in this case, the well-meaning
used and abused, but no good can come of falling "in love with a
dream" slash "business deal".
I wish the Toronto Star would stop being so coy about how Bernier and
Couillard first met. Earlier they said it's "unclear" how they
met,
and now they appear to be quoting Couillard saying they met at a dinner
party. What kind of mutual acquaintance could (should) a Canadian
MP
have with a "business" woman associated with the drug culture? And was
there any food served at this "dinner"?
==================
DVD suggestion: "An Unreasonable Man".
It's the fascinating story of Ralph Nader, one of the very few
Americans who understand what democracy is all about. Even
Michael
Moore showed himself to be very confused on that point. Gawd
knows why
he supported Nader the first time he ran for president; he certainly
came nastily out against him the second time, and slavishly for
Democrat Kerry. Why? Because Nader got accused the first
time of taking votes away from Al Gore and helping Bush get elected.
Does that give you any clue as to for whom Michael Moore really
works? It would appear that he worked with Nader in the beginning
thinking it would take votes away from Bush. But now he wants
Nader not to run so that his voter support base can top up that of the
Democrats'.
And of course, Moore has come out
hopeful in support of Obama.
Okay, now that reminds me of the movie "The Candidate"
starring Robert Redford. A typical story of a presidential
candidate who wasn't meant to win, only to make it look like there was
a contest. Reford's final line, when his character won, was "What
do I do now?"
But Nader had seen through Gore and had been stung by the Democrats'
right turn, and he offered a truly citizen-focused alternative.
Americans are so brainwashed, however, into thinking they can only vote
Democrat
or Republican that they didn't jump at their big opportunity to save
their country.
When you hear ad nauseum how our soldiers died to preserve our
"freedoms" and you see how any of the protections and freedoms that
civil society has ever won were brought about by the singlemindedness
and courage of "unreasonable" people like Ralph Nader, you'll
understand how we've been hoodwinked time and again into wars for
profits and nothing but profits.
Ralph Nader did not lose the election for the Democrats. If the
Democrats cared about the people, and Al Gore and George W. weren't
such evil twins, Ralph Nader wouldn't have felt called upon to
run.
And if the people were awake at all, and if they had any clue about who
brought so many improvements
to their lives. They would have voted en masse for Nader.
Well, they still have a chance to, but will they take it? Draft Nader - 2008
You watch the news and see what the two big parties do to him.
They've
viciously tried to marginalize him by cutting him out of the public
debates before, but if he gains momentum this time, he'd better have
good bodyguards.
Here is wisdom: If you feel you must vote "strategically" rather than
with your gut or your feet - settling for the lesser of two evils -
that alone ought to wake you up to the fact that you are not free and
you
don't live in a democracy!
And you'd better think about throwing your support behind an
independent who, like Ralph Nader, resonates with the citizenry and not
with the military/industrial complex that seeks to control the whole
world right down to the size of its brand name drawers.
yayacanada
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