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Right now on Drudge’s home page, here is the main headline.

Of course if you go to the article he is linking, you see this:

Hundreds of family members of Sept. 11 victims recited loved ones' names through tears on the ninth anniversary of the attacks Saturday, avoiding direct mention of the political furor over plans for a mosque that later drew thousands of protesters on both sides.

After the ceremony, around 1,000 activists rallied about five blocks from the site of the 2001 attacks to support the proposed Islamic community center. Several hundred others rallied nearby, chanting "USA, USA" and "No mosque here."

This is such a veiled attempt to fuel more animosity towards the Muslim world. The article discusses both sides of the debate, yet Drudge decides to paint it as “Islam” causing it. It’s kind of like blaming the Jews for Hitler.

Oh my!

It all adds up to me, having to admit that I was wrong. Our government is not marching down the road towards communism or socialism. … But now I have to tell you that they’re not marching us that direction. They’re marching us to a non-violent fascism. Or to put it another way, they’re marching us to 1984. Big Brother. … Like it or not, fascism is on the rise.

“Non-violent”, which was evident by Beck’s choice of Nazi films playing in the background. I guess Beck thinks Hitler was “non-violent”.

He also tries to say that fascism has been on the rise in this country since the 1910's.

Exit question – why is this guy allowed to walk around in public unsupervised? The fascism that Beck was playing on his big-screen practiced executing the mentality ill. Does Beck want that? Is he really that suicidal?

Finally! From Juan Cole:

I was told that Warren's friends among the MPAC Muslim community had urged him to call Melissa Etheridge Friday night in the run-up to their being (serially) on the same stage Saturday night, and that he did so and they talked for half an hour. During his address, Warren mentioned also seeing Etheridge backstage on Saturday.

Local television in Los Angeles showed a short clip of Etheridge after the event asking gay leaders to reach out to Warren, just as they wanted him to reach out to them.

This stance was big of her, since she and her partner had planned to marry but were prevented from doing so by the same Proposition 8 that Warren worked for, and she was so upset she suggested she would refuse to pay California taxes since she is obviously not considered a full citizen by her fellow Californians.

All this comparing Obama to Hitler or the Klan and nastiness coming out of the blogosphere is so destructive. Now we finally have someone directly effected by Prop 8 coming out and saying “let’s talk”. Etheridge is definitely the voice of reason in a swamp of ridicule.

That's what Joe Lieberman said last year:

During a banquet at CUFI's 2007 convention, I watched with astonishment as Lieberman strode to the stage, then compared Hagee to Moses (watch Lieberman's remarks at 5:30 of my video) "I want to take to opportunity to describe Pastor Hagee in the terms the Torah used to describe Moses," Lieberman declared. "He is an Ish Elohim. A man of God. And those words really do fit him. And I have something else," the senator continued. "Like Moses, he's become the leader of a mighty multitude. Even greater than the multitude that Moses led from Egypt to the Promised Land."

And we have video (go to about the 5:30 mark):

So does that mean Lieberman also thinks Hitler was doing God's work? If so then it proves Lieberman cares nothing about Israel and only about war.

Good Morning America did a big report about McCain's spiritual adviser, Rod Parsley. Parsley has called for the destruction of the Muslim world, and they know it. Here's the clip:

So we got one of his pastors calling for the destruction of the Muslim world, while his other pastor is praising Hitler as doing "God's work" for killing millions of Jews. This is hatred in the worst form, and John McCain refuses to denounce it. Oh and let's not forget what Hagee has said about Catholics.

Since McCain refuses to denounce this stuff, I guess he embraces these views. Why don't he go ahead and put on the funny white hat and burn some crosses while he's at it?

It looks like people didn't appreciate the ABA naming Gonzales Lawyer of the Year, even if they did try to associate it with Time naming Hitler Person of the Year:

The ABA Journal posted an article titled “Lawyers of the Year 2007 & 2008” on ABA Journal.com, on Dec. 12, 2007.  The article defined that term as the year’s biggest legal newsmaker, identifying former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales as the major newsmaker of 2007.  The Journal regrets that we did not make this theme clear.

We appreciate the feedback we’ve received, and we’re acting on it.  So that there can be no confusion, the term “Lawyers of the Year” has been changed in the headline and story to “Newsmakers of the Year.”  The story is otherwise unchanged from its original version.

By reading the ABA's statement, it appears a lot of attorneys around the country didn't appreciate that title going to Gonzo. I can't say I really blame them for being upset over it - the lawyers I know don't like to even associate Gonzales as being in the same profession as them.

That is is from the Army Times:

Soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center’s Medical Hold Unit say they have been told they will wake up at 6 a.m. every morning and have their rooms ready for inspection at 7 a.m., and that they must not speak to the media.

“Some soldiers believe this is a form of punishment for the trouble soldiers caused by talking to the media,” one Medical Hold Unit soldier said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

So these brave soldiers go to Iraq and get injured. When they return they are put in rat-infested rooms while they are supposed to heal. Some soldiers decide that isn't right and talks to the media about the problems, and for this they get this treatment? This is highly FUCKED UP!

The article goes on to say how the Pentagon is even trying to black out the media from this story:

The Pentagon also clamped down on media coverage of any and all Defense Department medical facilities, to include suspending planned projects by CNN and the Discovery Channel, saying in an e-mail to spokespeople: “It will be in most cases not appropriate to engage the media while this review takes place,” referring to an investigation of the problems at Walter Reed.

The following article in the AP entitled "Bush Marks Anniversary, Never Says 'War' " really had me going. It seems to try and fight back at his claims that the media "exaggerates" what is happening in Iraq he will try and sugar coat it:

President Bush marked the anniversary of the Iraq war Sunday by touting the efforts to build democracy there and avoiding any mention of the daily violence that rages three years after he ordered an invasion.

The president didn't utter the word "war."

"We are implementing a strategy that will lead to victory in Iraq," the president assured a public that is increasingly skeptical that he has a plan to end the fighting after the deaths of more than 2,300 U.S. troops.

Pretty funny how we are implementing a strategy three years after the invasion started. A more correct response would be "we are righting the wrongs we have made to help make Iraq more secure". We keep hearing about this "plan". We even had a publication put out by the White House of their "plan". The problem is this "plan" appears to be the same thing we have been doing.

Something else in this same article that really struck my eye was a statement by Rumsfeld:

"Now is the time for resolve, not retreat," Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld wrote in a column for The Washington Post. "Turning our backs on postwar Iraq today would be the modern equivalent of handing postwar Germany back to the Nazis."

Amazing how they get so defensive when someone compares our military prisons to gulags or Bush to Hitler yet they can easily make Nazi analogies. That's not what really got to me though. What really got the old wheels turning was trying to remember when another nation invaded Germany and opened it up to the Nazis. Suddenly I remembered - that is not the way it went.