So it's a theme post, favorite soul song from the eighties or nineties.
But one that always sticks in my head for days after I hear it is by Diana Ross.
I could easily have gone with "Not Over You Yet," "Chain Reaction" or "Sugarfree" or "Not Over You Yet" or "Swept Away."
But, when it comes on the car stereo, it's "Take Me Higher" that makes me step on the pedal and drive a little faster or smile a little broader.
Friday, September 9, 2016. Chaos and violence continue, lying and
spinning continue, where does it all end? Not with the current
government in Iraq -- according to CIA Director John Brennan.
Silicone party barbies
To the left and
Joan of Arcs to the right
No one feeling insecure
We were all gorge and famous in our last lives
In the glories of the 80's
You said 'the end is nothing to fear'
I said: blow the end now baby
Who do I gotta shag to get out of here
-- "
Glory of the 80s," written by Tori Amos, first appears on her TO VENUS AND BACK
Welcome to the never ending election, where nothing is ever proposed and
Trump and Clinton supporters spin and lie in the ongoing campaign of
"Yes, my candidate lies but not as much as the other!"
That's what Democratic and Republican politics have come to, "Vote for the liar who lies a little less often than the other."
The madness never ends as FOIA requests are something to ignore -- a
long with the destruction of evidence subpeoned by Congress.
Everything can be justified by lying to yourself.
Hiram Lee (WSWS), while reviewing JASON BOURNE --Matt Damon's desperate attempt to extend his flat acting career -- observes this behavior:
The name of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is mentioned at various times throughout Jason Bourne. Damon, for his part, came out publicly in Snowden’s defense
in a 2013 interview with the BBC, saying, “I think it’s a great thing
that he did.” Around the same time, Damon told Black Entertainment
Television that Obama “broke up with him” and that he questioned “the
legality of the drone strikes and these NSA revelations.”
By 2015, Damon and Obama
had patched things up. Now Damon described the individual at the head
of the government responsible for those drone strikes and NSA programs
as “a remarkable human being” who was “shockingly easy to be around.”
“I don’t ever question that it’s coming from the right place with him,” Damon reassured the press.
The problems and pressures revealed in that turnabout, as much as anything else, explain why Jason Bourne is ultimately such a poor film.
"I don't ever question that it's coming from the right place with him"?
Maybe you have to picture him saying that with a cock in his mouth to truly appreciate it?
Calm down, Matt. You're getting uglier and fatter, people will stop
wondering if you're gay shortly. And then when no one cares about you
and even TV won't take you, you'll miss the days when you went around
teasing the media that you might be gay -- only two decades later to
blame others for the rumors.
Equally disgusting is Daniel Ketchum.
At the website INQUISITR, he apparently believes he can just lie:
As proof of his stellar foreign policy
experience, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has
frequently claimed that he did not support the Iraq War. However – as
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton pointed out at the NBC
Commander-in-Chief forum yesterday – Trump did in fact support the war
in the beginning and there is clear audio and video evidence backing
this up.
Oh, great, I thought, I don't have to be fair anymore. There's multiple interviews of Donald Trump supporting the Iraq War.
I don't like Trump.
I've never liked him.
And so this was great news. I didn't have to sit here and be fair anymore.
He'd dug his own grave.
So I read Ketchum eagerly only to discover that he has nothing.
There is no "clear audio and video evidence."
There's the Howard Stern September 11, 2002 interview where all Donald says is "I guess so."
The media does need to push back.
It needs to push back against this wave of lies.
For those who don't know or don't remember, Matthew Yglesias cheerleaded the Iraq War.
I guess that explains why he's a liar today.
Because "I guess so" is not support for the Iraq War.
It's a month before Congress is even voting.
It's six months before Colin Powell's 'blot.'
And the words are "I guess so."
Now if you're an idiot, a newborn, a hack or a liar, that's support for the Iraq War.
If you're someone who spoke out against the Iraq War, that's not support for it.
People who spoke out against the Iraq War were targeted.
Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, Janeane Garofalo, Harry Belafonte, the list is long.
People who supported the Iraq War felt they could lie and publicly attack anyone and everyone.
If the worst any of us had to fear was an Iraq War supporter saying "I guess so," the number speaking out would have been much greater.
I started speaking out in February of 2003.
The fact that I didn't do it in January of 2003, does that mane I supported the Iraq War?
No, I never said "I guess so" but I don't see "I guess so" as support.
I see "I guess so" as let's move the interview along.
And I'd wonder if Howard Stern supported the Iraq War?
That would even more explain why one friend speaking to another on radio would answer "I guess so."
(I don't know Howard Stern's opinions. I don't like him. Unlike THE NATION magazine, I've never hailed him -- or Bill Maher -- as examples of the great left. They're sexist pigs and I have no tolerance for either.)
But "I guess so" in September 2002 is not support for the Iraq War.
If you think it is?
(A) You weren't old enough to remember the start of 2003, (B) You've chosen to forget or (C -- most likely) you went along with the mob attacking those of us who spoke out.
I hate Donald Trump but I'm not going to let a lot of little whores rewrite that period.
You were attacked if you spoke out.
There's the pot head columnist who fancies himself a hippie who has repeatedly apologized to me -- I wasn't attacked by him, I just blew him off because of the column -- who floated in a column in February 2003 that those peacefully protesting against the Iraq War were committing "treason" -- he used the term.
So don't come to me now and start your b.s.
Sheryl Crowe was attacked in the press for where she stood on the Iraq War.
The orders came down from editiors -- and I have a list of ten editors -- that in their Grammy pieces, they had to attack Sheryl.
Three years later,
Jane Fonda returned to film with MONSTER-IN-LAW which was a funny comedy. And yet you still had editors giving orders to trash the film.
Don't come to me now with "I guess so" is support of the Iraq War.
Because it isn't.
And you're not going to lie for your War Hawk Hillary and get away with it.
So as you read Ketchum's awful article in search of these pre-war interviews -- this evidence he has! -- you find he has nothing but the 2002 interview.
The lying needs to be called out by the press.
But, of course, that would be depending on the same press that sold the Iraq War.
And we all know they don't do their job.
Alan Greenspan would eventually admit the Iraq War was about oil -- he would do that on live radio and TV (DEMOCRACY NOW!). He would have to retract it under pressure.
But the Chair of the Fed knew it.
So why we are giving Andrea Mitchell a pass?
Why isn't she being Judy Miller-ed?
She's been married to Greenspan for decades.
So she knew what was what.
Didn't stop her from filing pro-war pieces in the lead up to the Iraq War, did it?
Liars clearly can't call out other liars.
I hate Donald Trump.
I find him offensive on every level and have for years and years.
But that doesn't give me the right to lie about him.
And if I do lie about him to score some political points, then I'm far worse than he is.
I'll never rank as the greatest person in the world -- or in the country -- or in the state -- or even just in the room.
But I do have ethics and I will not turn myself into trash by ignoring my ethics.
I really fear for this crowd today, these whores and liars who sell themselves for politicians.
Where does the whoring end?
What's his name?
They used to say Mary Matalin was him in a dress.
Lee Atwater.
Is that how this whoring ends?
You go through life smearing others and lying and then, on your deathbed, you try to apologize for it?
Like that makes any difference?
Because it doesn't.
You've already done the damage and you just look pathetic -- someone frightened of dying and judgment rushing to be absolved.
As for changing stories, there's always Hillary.
Well Iraq's certainly not governed fairly today. We'll give Brennan credit for telling the truth there.
It's hard to tell who isn't persecuted in Iraq because it's pretty much everyone and has been that way since the start of the Iraq War.
Years and years of persecution in Iraq ignored by the White House until the right wing p.r. campaign to promote war via the Yazidis came into place and finally, as sop, the word genocide got applied to the systematic eradication of Christians in Iraq.
For those who've forgotten, the Iraqi Christians who were not forced to leave (or killed) began relocation to northern Iraq.
President Barzani may be a little optimistic.
And out of the rubble grows -- as Hillary Clinton would put it -- business opportunities.
Good for GE -- bringing good things to life -- as anyone who's seen the Hudson River can attest. (That was sarcasm.)
Matthew Yglesias
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