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SO MUCH FOR THE TERRIBLE-TEMPERED MR. BANG, A/K/A JOHN McCAIN, making clear his desire to "completely and finally" reverse Roe v. Wade, and excuse such as being for G-d and Country.

How do we know his "real" desire in wanting abortion proscribed outright isn't one of wanting to maintain a socioeconomic model and paradigm in decline--as in the labour-intensive, unskilled Luddite model?

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IS IT JUST MOI, OR IS IT REACHING A POINT WHERE THE ZEALOTS AND TRUE BELIEVERS of hyperconservatism, aided and abetted by their preferred propaganda medium of Fox Prolefeed, would love to see poverty, fecundity and stupidity held up as virtuous?

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SPEAKING OF HOLDING UP STUPIDITY AS VIRTUOUS, I can relate where the likes of mental-health clinic psychiatrists and caseworkers with sheltered workshops and Vocational Rehabilitation wanted our kind to assume we had no opinions on especially "controversial subjects or topics," that we should accept the status quo without question or reservation lest we face the prospect of insanity hearings in the session court.

Or, worse yet, face the prospect of losing eligibility for welfare or Social Security benefits for "disloyalty" or "outspoken tendencies."

Looking back, the notions still haunt me from the recesses of my memory from time to time.

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IN EXPECTING THE FREE MARKET TO BE THE GREAT WHITE FATHER OF THE LOWER CLASSES IN PARTICULAR, methinks the Zealots and True Believers therefor, in the stylee of Fascist Italy, would like to have certain companies deemed "essential" or otherwise "strategic."

Such designed only for the sake of requiring consumer complaints against same to be handled through administrative channels before referring such to the Better Business Bureau or other consumer-protection channels--but only after showing "exhaustion of administrative powers" all the while, onus being arbitrarily placed on the consumer all the more.

Who's expected to play into nothing short of a crass parody of the Japanese kabuki drama, what with its stylised and carefully-scripted traditions and conventions, by having to approach companies so "protected" by an ur-Soverign Immunity in a particular manner and stylee which borders on the overly prissy, complete with "guidance" on how complaints should be phrased and (even more so) nuanced.

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TELL ME THE FOLLOWING DOESN'T TAKE THE CAKE FOR TAKING PATRIOTIC ZEAL TO A NEW LOW, AND THEN SOME, by way of Rush Limbaugh and, ultimately, Think Progress (emphasis supplied): 

But now we read that Michael Phelps is burning and using 12,000 calories a day, while the Democrats are trying to alert everybody to the dangers posed by energy. The Democrats and left are now demonizing oil, they're demonizing our own ability to be energy independent. They don't want us to be able to get our own independent sources of oil or natural gas. Yet, look at Michael Phelps. […]

American consumption for the greatest production and the greatest rewards, why, that is fine if we do this in sports. However, if we consume and produce exceptionalism in goods and services for others, including ourselves, then somehow we are committing a sin.

Which, in effect, ranks up there in the pathetitude sweepstakes with apartheid South Africa's "Make Babies for Botha" campaign in the mid-1980's aimed @ increasing white birth rates in the name of "patriotic and racial duty."

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THE RELIGIOPOLITICAL RIGHT'S UNEASE WITH JOHN McCAIN'S LIKELY VICE-PRESIDENTIAL OPTIONS to the point of "values voters" perhaps boycotting the Presidential elections may actually be a back-door "blessing in disguise" for the Barak Obama camp, if Right Wing Watch articles here and here are any indication.

But then again, remember that "bad leaders are elected by good people who don't vote." Especially because some are of the view that Indecision 2008 may be all the more important for the future of our antient and pecuilar soverignty and soverign identity, and whether the "New World Order" will "undermine" same.

For more information on voter registry, see what Project Vote Smart has in store in this respect. And to avoid the prospect of "caging" come November, you may want to inspect the Electoral Register in your precinct and check same for outdated or inaccurate information, and correct any such.

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A CLASSIC EXAMPLE OF AN AUTHENTIC "BLOOPER" FROM THE COLLECTIONS OF THE LATE KERMIT SCHAEFER, who made a career out of collecting, and putting to gramophone popdisks, such specimens of broadcast lapses linguć until it emerged that several of his "blooper" album collections actually contained reconstructions or outright fakes (the fact of which wasn't clearly disclosed to purchasers), was the overzealous announcer (Metropolitan Opera radio host Milton Cross being frequently named) who urged his listeners "and now, stay stewed for the nudes" when he meant "...stay tuned for the news."

How much longer before we hear, heading into the late local news bulletin, "and now, stay stewed for your local nudes"?

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NO WONDER THE CONWEB'S SO-CALLED "NEWS PORTALS" CAN'T QUITE BE TRUSTED AS CREDIBLE SOURCES OF NEWS AND INFORMATION, let alone prolefeed, and in more ways than one.

Let Right Wing Watch explain it all for you:

The AP's Nedra Pickler caught the right-wing website WorldNetDaily in particularly fine form yesterday while researching a story about Jerome Corsi, a serial liar and 9/11 conspiracy theorist who writes for the site:

"Corsi writes for World Net Daily, a conservative Web site whose lead headline Thursday was "Astonishing photo claims: Dead Bigfoot stored on ice."

[Right Wing Watch was first to report the Corsi/Bigfoot nexus yesterday]

Pickler also quoted an Obama spokesman, whose review of Corsi's new book–if it even counts as a book–was less than positive:

"Jerome Corsi is a discredited liar who is peddling another piece of garbage to continue the Bush-Cheney politics he helped perpetuate four years ago," said Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor. "His is just one of what will likely be many more lie-filled books rushed to print this election cycle, which are cobbled together from debunked Internet sources to make money and advance a partisan agenda. We will respond to these smears forcefully with all means at our disposal."

If WorldNetDaily is any indication, there is apparently money to be made in running a debunked Internet source, especially when you run fabulous ads like these:

Ours is not the sort of blog as would accept questionable or otherwise disreputable affiliate programmes of the ilk above illustrated; the better to protect you, dear reader. On the other hand, though, Your Correspondent invites you to avoid bedlam and confusion for the sake of going environmental, for starters:

(For other online-shopping opportunities--and I mean such of the kind as are worth your time, money and bandwidth--just see the left-hand side of the screen. And your purchases will, in reasonable measure, help support Some Good Causes.)

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"Money is the root of all evil."
Why not invest yours in United States Savings Bonds?

(Or, for that matter, contribute towards reduction of the National Debt, just one of the Good Causes which this weblog is committed to supporting from the proceeds of online shopping.)