The Republicans Must Win This November!

That is correct. This is no joke....the Republicans must retain control of both the House and the Senate this coming fall. A Democratic victory will bring chaos and destruction on an unimaginable scale. The very future of the republic depends on the upcoming elections and the status quo must be defended at all costs. The reason? The reasons are many, but just this morning, I kept thinking about this cute little German word. It wasn't "strudel" or "Volkswagen", but something else...something profoundly dangerous. This word will have you quaking in your shoes and crying for your mama, and not just because it's a pain to pronounce. The word is.... Dolchstosslegende.

Dolchstosslegende!!!

There is a growing anti-war sentiment in the land as things continue to get worse in Iraq. Thousands of Americans have been killed or maimed and the war will have cost taxpayers upwards of one to two trillion dollars. The war in Iraq has turned out to be the disaster that many claimed it would be well before it started. And now, Democrats and Republicans are debating whether the United States should "stay the course" or re-deploy, as the Democrats say. It is agreed by many experts and pundits alike that the war in Iraq will be the defining legacy of the modern Republican party and the Bush administration, just as Vietnam defined that of Lyndon Baines Johnson. I say that the US is clearly not ready to change leadership or to change focus at this point in time. The "War On Terror" is nothing but a fraud and the war in Iraq is but a chapter in that sad tale.

A win by the Democrats in November would mean that the war in Iraq would be their war to lose. There is no honorable way to see this operation through to any conclusion, with the Iraqi nation already in a civil war. Most see our continued presence as bringing nothing but debt and death, but what would happen if the Democrats forced the President into re-deploying?

The Republican hit machine would again become an insurgency, fighting the Democrats through their control of the media. Central to this would be a redux of the old German myth that it was never actually defeated in the First World War, but in fact was "stabbed in the back" by Sparticists, leftists, and most importantly: Jews. This was known as the "Dolchstosslegende" and it was one of the most important weapons in the Nazi propaganda arsenal as they rose to power in the late Twenties.

Unfortunately, most Americans are too self-indulgent, and ignorant to resist Republican propaganda because it feeds so well into myths about American culture and history that have for so long been accepted as gospel. Republicans can pre-empt any reasonable debate about the war with slander and lies which go unchecked by the news media, and Democrats collectively cower in the face of this onslaught; or in the case of Senators Lieberman, Clinton, et al., they simply jump onboard and ride along.

A Republican victory in November keeps that party and all the architects of the war in Iraq, as well as the war on America, on the screen, which is where they need to be as the real consequences of their policies are slowly illuminated. I think America needs to take a good hit on the chin in order for people to change and the country to begin the process of change.

For One Month Every Four Years, a New World Order Leaves America on Touchline

World Cup victories can boost economies and decide elections - but not in the US

Simon Tisdall
Wednesday June 7, 2006
The Guardian


The United States always feels challenged by the World Cup. Unlike the Olympics, where Americans tend to dominate, the US has rarely shone in the tournament, although it famously defeated England in 1950. It is an 80-1 long shot this time and may struggle to overcome group stage opponents Ghana and the Czech Republic, let alone Italy. For Americans used to winning, there is something vaguely shocking about this.

But US soccer-related insecurity is political and cultural, too. For four weeks, the world shows its back to the number one nation. The usual hierarchies of power are turned upside-down; the agenda is no longer Washington's to command. It is not often that old enemies, such as Mexico, or relatively new ones, such as Iran, get the chance to "beat" the US. But either may do so in Germany if their teams progress.

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While football has gained in popularity in the US in recent decades, and "soccer moms" have become a key electoral target group, the land of the Super Bowl and the World Series still finds it hard to accept the "beautiful game's" global supremacy. World Cups usually give rise to a spate of newspaper stories reassuring American readers that their national sports still have international appeal.

"More people play basketball in China than there are people in the US," said Andres Martinez of the Los Angeles Times in a typical morale-boosting dispatch from Beijing this week. "The game was introduced by American missionaries and even thrived during the Cultural Revolution. The NBA [National Basketball Association] is now seen in China as a hip, personality-filled offshoot of US culture."

US exceptionalism applies to the politics of football. No US president ever lost his job, or won an election, on the back of a World Cup result. Its political impact is far greater elsewhere. By boosting the national feel-good factor, a winning performance can advance a government's fortunes. Harold Wilson was quick to ride the wave of England's 1966 victory. The exact opposite happened in Italy after it lost to North Korea the same year. It was called "a defeat without honour", an Italian Waterloo, and a shame-faced nation descended into recrimination.

Political fallout

If anything, the World Cup effect has become more intense. Diplomats admit that Dominique de Villepin, France's embattled prime minister, could use a repeat of his national team's 1998 victory - a triumph hailed, prematurely given last autumn's riots, as a product of French racial integration. In Germany, by contrast, officials said yesterday that public expectations were so low that even a moderately good run could bolster Angela Merkel's government. A win, and she could be chancellor for life.

And in Italy, the new prime minister, Romano Prodi, seems determined history will not repeat itself. He called his disparate coalition members to a retreat at the weekend to instil teamwork. "We have to learn that you can score goals if all play as a team," he said. "The ministers must play together for five years and some of them don't know each other well." Mr Prodi will also be hoping for a win in Germany. Some economists say World Cup success boosts a country's economic growth by up to 0.7%.

World Cup officials and aficionados see broader political benefits. They portray it as an all-embracing, unifying event that in its qualifying stages reaches almost everywhere, transcending old rivalries from Israel to Saudi Arabia, Croatia to Bosnia, and Russia to Ukraine. In recent years the competition's evolution has closely reflected the rise of developing countries, with formerly disregarded Cameroon leading Africa's charge, followed by Nigeria and Senegal. Tiny Togo has now picked up the baton along with Ivory Coast. In a potentially enormous fillip for post-apartheid South Africa, the next tournament will be played there in four years.

But the World Cup has a darker side, reflecting international tensions. The possibility that Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, may visit Germany to support his team has elicited a furious reaction there, arising from his threats to Israel and his questioning of the Holocaust. "If he does come, then he will naturally be told with all clarity that what he said is absolutely unacceptable, criminal and far removed from reality," the head of Germany's football association, Theo Zwanziger, said this week.

Racist solidarity

German unease has been heightened by reports that neo-Nazis plan to rally in support of Iran in Nuremberg. Iran has become "a great symbol to racist German groups", an anti-racism campaigner told the Guardian's Donald McRae in Munich this week. "They want to express solidarity with the Iranian president's anti-semitic comments."

The worries have played into broader concerns that ultra-nationalist chauvinism, associated hooliganism, and the racist abuse of footballers commonplace in some European leagues may spill over into World Cup venues. England, France, Italy and some east European countries all share the problem. And Ms Merkel was obliged to defend Germany's reputation this week, saying recent xenophobic attacks were not typical. That is just as well, given the hundreds of thousands of foreign fans who will descend on German cities.

Given the high stakes, some political and cultural clashes are unavoidable in any World Cup. Grudge matches such as England v Germany inevitably acquire a heavy significance. And the official World Cup slogan, "A time to make friends", does resemble a shot off target. Most agree the World Cup is a fantastic international celebration. But it is also a battle of nations that must at all costs be won. "What history remembers is results. Nothing more," says Brazil's veteran coach, Mario Zagallo.

Spare a thought, then, for Serbia and Montenegro, which is fielding a team in the World Cup finals for the first and last time. Last month, Montenegro voted for independence from its larger neighbour. Next time around, the two will presumably field separate teams. But what if Serbia and Montenegro, a 100-1 shot, should win the Cup on July 9 in Berlin? Peaceful separation looks like a tall order when the holder's automatic place in the next World Cup is at stake. The history of the Balkans has turned on less.

Ann Coulter, 666, and American Idol....

I voted today. Yes, this morning I voted for Peter Camejo, a few other state office seekers, two propositions, and a few city initiatives. I then climbed into my car and sputtered on to work like I always do. Turning on the radio, I had a choice of listening to another KPFA report on Hurricane Katrina or checking out corporate America's favorite whore: National Public Radio. On "Morning Edition", correspondants were discussing today's elections, noting that the voter turnout in California was expected to be the lowest since 1946. Among other reasons, the most salient given was the voter burnout among Californians due to the special election held last year and the recount election before that.

Hmmm....

Sixty-four million people voted in the final episode of "American Idol." That number is higher than the voter turnout in the 2004 presidential election. But more people voted for "American Idol" than for the last presidential election. In fact, that show is so popular that the Today Show on NBC was regularly discussing the events on American Idol as they unfolded, along with the rest of the day's news. A rival network pimping Fox's programming! Speaking of whores, today, Matt Lauer interviewed the Queen Robo-Slut of Buchenwald Anne Coulter (whoever said 666 had no meaning or that NBC execs don't have a sense of humor?) Maybe it's me, but I thought Coulter looked stoned. Quite stoned...as in: "Matt! Watch out! There's a giant pink Eleanor Roosevelt Ham Sandwich standing in back of you!"

Of course, I think I give the Fox Network a little too much credit. Americans are idiots. I repeat: we Americans are a bunch of over entertained, self-indulgent, ignorant fools, which is why we have an Alpha Fool in the White House....the Prime Fool...the little fools' Golden Calf. I'm not saying that we voted for the him, but somehow he ended up there and that is all that matters. He belongs there; we earned it. Furthermore, Republican clowns surround him in what is a national three-ring circus. Outside of the big tent, there can be found a troop of sad-looking folks carrying buckets and shovels. They will need these buckets and shovels to pick up the remains of our government, economy, and national moral fiber after the clowns have all left town.

How did this happen?

However young I was back in the day, it still seems that the Reagan years were different, perhaps kinder, even when they appeared most of the time to be the absolute zenith of the absurd. Until W left Texas in 2000, the Reagan administration was the most scandal-ridden administration in history and nuclear war always seemed like it was always around the next corner. We carried on proxy wars in Central America, Afghanistan, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Lebanon, and the Mesopotamia. And we invaded Granada, lest that rogue state of armed Granadianskies rampage across the heartland. ...MX missles, Jeanne Kirkpatrick, Ollie North, crack cocaine, the Chicago Bears, Wall Street, Brian Wilson, supply side economics, Madonna, Alberto V05, Cabbage Patch Kids, junk bonds, S & Ls, CIA, Ewoks... Someone forgot to tell the Silent Majority that the Republicans were here to stay, and they wanted to suck their blood and eat their children. They called it Morning in America and when they finished, they stuck a guy named Mike into a tank and a guy named George into the White House before the decade ended. And then got off cheap when weary Democrats failed to bring any reasonable sense of closure to it all...otherwise known as "convictions."

Stop.....forward....play....

I shan't segue into a listing of all the pitfalls, tribulations, and numerous
reasons for this....just take my word that the Bush administration is already being called the worst in American history by many of the nation's leading historians. I wasn't sure that James Buchanan or Warren Harding could possibly be topped, but they were not only surpassed, but we would be better off if we had a glass of bourbon conducting our foreign policy. Things are so bad that the inevitable has happened: Bush is actually gaining a sympathy vote from many in the Democratic Party, such as Hillary Clinton and Joe Lieberman. Ain't nothin' like Democrats to step in and keep the Bush administration on track when even William F. Buckley Jr. is jumping ship.

So....get out there and vote. By the way, Sputnik says to vote for Phil Angelides, unless of course you are a Green like me. I have to say that Peter Camejo is one of the most charasmatic and inspiring people I've ever heard. he was amazing when I heard him speak next to that big box of rocks, Ralph Nader.

[note: if you haven't voted yet, you lost because the polls have just closed. I wrote most of this earlier when i was at work.]