21
Jan
2010: The US Supreme Court endorses political corruption. Olbermann's
scenario part
1, part
2
Why do computer monitors burn out quickly? Our regular TVs are more
than 25 years old, and one is watched several hours per day. But
several monitors have died in under 5 years, including a Dell
flatscreen in about 1 year.
CD drives in computers and boom-boxes also
die quickly, usually with very, very light use -- we have lost several.
Media Monkey works much better than iTunes to organize and play our
music files.
Leftist ideas on Haitian history are as stupid, insane and unrealistic
as the righties'.
What you see is news, what you know is background, what you feel is
opinion. -- Lester Markel (1894-1977)
Jan
2010
Scott Brown trounced Martha Coakley, to become our new Senator. The
Democrats and "moderate" chattering class are wailing that now now
nothing progressive will get done. Somehow it doesn't matter that the
Dems still have 58 members in the Senate, and that Dim Bush pushed
through his agenda with a slim majority just a few years ago.
Why did Coakley lose? Obama hasn't overcome the Bush disaster. Coakely
assumed she'd win handily, then campaigned badly. Coakley was the
leader in the Fells Acres daycare travesty of justice. The reichwing
hate machine lied, lied, lied. Brown is handsome and articulate (even
though nearly everything he says is ridiculous.)
So the minority party, strong supporters of torture, militarism and
unjustified war, suppression of civil rights, bad education, income
disparity, superstition and government handouts to their base, prevents
any action by
the majority party, strong supporters of superstition and handouts to
its base, and
tacit supporters of torture, militarism and unjustified war,
suppression of civil rights, bad education and income disparity.
Rackjite
on
Brown, and
again,
"Oh, one more thing. He was not only a Birther, but even worse. Brown
was one of the main whack-jobs to push the theory that...."Obama was
born out of wedlock!""
24 Oct 2009 The
Worcester Telegram ran
a puff
piece on the treasonous wing-nuts who call themselves Oath Keepers.
Followup:
Crooks and Liars
Thursday January 21, 2010 06:00 am
'Oath
Keepers'
Leader
Arrested
for
Child
Rape;
Cops
Find
Stolen
Grenade
Launcher
In
His
House
By Susie Madrak
We first noticed
Marine Sgt.
Charles Dyer, aka "July4Patriot," back in
March, when we ran one of the first reports on the "Oath Keepers" bloc
of the Tea Party movement -- an organization devoted to recruiting
military and police-force veterans into a Patriot-movement belief
system predicated on a series of paranoid conspiracy theories,
especially the notion that the federal government intends to begin
rounding up citizens and putting them in concentration camps.
Dyer played a prominent role in connecting the Oath Keepers to the Tea
Party movement, speaking at a July 4 Tea Party rally in Broken Arrow,
Oklahoma. And he's been involved in organizing militia "maneuvers" in
Oklahoma.
Dyer cropped up again in the news -- this time in the police blotter
for allegedly raping a 7-year-old girl:
An ex-military man has been
arrested on charges of rape of a child and forcible sodomy.
Charles Alan Dyer, 29, of Marlow, was
arrested Tuesday afternoon by Stephens County Sheriff’s deputies, said
Sheriff
Wayne McKinney. Dyer served in the United States Marines in Iraq.
Oh, and guess
what police found when they searched his home:
During the search the sheriff’s
deputies noted several firearms and a device believed to be a Colt
M-203,
40-millimeter grenade launcher, a complaint filed in the United States
District Court of Western Oklahoma by Alcohol, Firearms and Tobacco
Special Agent Brett Williams said.
As
the story from KAUZ-TV
notes, Dyer had a history of making bizarre
claims in his videos -- as well as violent fears of being arrested.
“We come home
and those bastards
want to talk about how we’re domestic terrorists and a threat to this
country.
It makes me so angry,” said Charles Dyer, who has been accused of
committing rape.
... More incriminating evidence against Dyer
has surfaced in a YouTube video. The video shows Dyer, a former U.S.
Marine, talking proudly about domestic terrorism. “Join the military?”,
said Dyer. “Depends on what you want to do with it. Me? I'm going to
use my training and become one of those domestic terrorists that you’re
so afraid of from the DHS reports.”
... “I’m certainly not going to be hiding
from my command anymore. I’m not hiding from ATF. Not hiding from FBI.
Any
organization. If they want to come get me I’m not going to be afraid,”
Dyer said.
“Patriots, we are not overpowered. If we
united under one banner and fight for our children’s liberity and the
constitution,
our resolve is invincible to any standing army,” Dyer said.
GossipBoy is
reporting that
the rape victim was a close family member. They also report that Dyer
had been in touch with a fellow militiaman
linked to explosives dealing, and that when bomb-sniffing dogs searched
Dyer's home, they indicated explosives had been stored there recently.
Meanwhile, unsurprisingly, the folks at American Resistance Movement --
a group Dyer was also prominently involved in -- are claiming that Dyer
was set up, and the girl who accused him was "programmed" to do so.
Accordingly, they've set up a "Free July4Patriot" fund, with a little
button on their front page so you can donate.
Also, Dyer's YouTube page remains active.
Every movement attracts its freaks. But the Patriot movement attracts
an inordinate number of them -- and particularly people with a
pedophilia problem. (I can list at least 10 different prominent figures
in the Northwest's Patriot movement in the 1990s who had a history of
being charged with abusing and abducting children.) Evidently, being a
pedophile leads to resentment of the government -- probably for its
desire to lock you away. |
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