DOES THE FOLLOWING "PROPAGANDA" VIDEO SOUND RATHER FAMILIAR IN MESSAGE--only with homosexuals replacing Jews as the Enemies of the Nation and Our Children?

"As a matter of fact, studies show that no society that has totally embraced homosexuality has lasted more than, you know, a few decades. So it's the death knell for this country. I honestly think it's the biggest threat our nation has, even more so than terrorism or Islam."

This reads like it was lifted straight from the boilerplate rhetoric of the Watchmen on the Walls, an international coalition of anti-gay militants based in Latvia that has a strong presence on the West Coast of the United States. Watchmen leader Alexey Ledyaev has repeatedly claimed that gays are taking over the West in order to prime the culture for an even more radical conquest by Islamic terrorists.

"Did you know that the city council of Eureka Springs [Ark.] is now controlled by gays?"

Earlier this year, the anti-gay American Family Association released "They're Coming To Your Town," a 28-minute DVD that purports to show how the resort town of Eureka Springs, Ark. [pop. 2,350] was taken over in a homosexual coup. "Using deceitfulness and lies, homosexuals maneuvered themselves into positions of power and then used those positions to promote their agenda," reads an AFA press release promoting the DVD.

"They [gays and lesbians] have more suicides, they're more discouraged, there's more illness, their life spans are shorter, you know, it's not a lifestyle that is good for this nation."

"This stuff [homosexuality] is deadly and it is spreading. It will destroy our young people and it will destroy this nation."

Though she doesn't cite specific data, Kern's claims about the deadly lifestyle and shortened life spans of gays and lesbians are probably fueled by the pseudo-scientific reports of crackpot psychologist Paul Cameron, a popular speaker on the anti-gay lecture circuit of the Christian Right who portrays gays and lesbians as dangerous, diseased perverts whose average life span is only 45 years. Cameron's work has been thoroughly discredited by mainstream social researchers. One of his most infamous studies found that "lesbians are 300 times more likely to die in car accidents than heterosexual women."

Which, all in all, begs the question of whether this is essentially a rehashing of the same anti-Semitic canards and platitudes which the Nazi regime pushed as fact, thanks in large measure to Julius Streicher's pornographically lurid tabloid Der Sturmer (as discussed previously in my Open Letter to Bill O'Reilly), with homosexuals replacing Jews as the Enemies of the People (especially so children and Other Vulnerable Elements of Society).

Never mind where the GLBTQ community may be lacking in material similar to the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion as can be cited in "evidence" to such an International Conspiracy (the Protocols, in fact, have been repeatedly discredited as forgery serving crude and debauched anti-Semitic purposes).

(As if to reinforce this notion, John Aravosis of AMERICAblog has this interesting side-by-side comparison so you can judge for yourself.)

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IF YOU THOUGHT L'AFFAIRE SPITZER ENDED WITH THE NEW YORK GOVERNOR'S SHOCK RESIGNATION YESTERDAY, you may probably be wrong: Methinks Your Correspondent is of the belief that the GOP may have set up the whole thing to cast discredit or contempt on the Democratic Party for purely electoral purposes vis-a-vis Indecision 2008.

(Come to think of it, the involvement of the Pseudoreligiopolitical Right in seeking out an "imminent moral collapse" angle to the story ought not be ruled out.)

And it's probably not out of the question for the GOP to start getting paranoid about the likelihood of Democratic "payback" @ the GOP convention in the Twin Cities (as in having @ least one prominent and powerful GOP and/or Religiopolitical Right leader caught in Pantsdown Parade).

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AND YOU THINK IT'S WE "MORALLY SUPERIOR" AMERICANS AS ARE FACING ELECTORAL BEDLAM AND CONFUSION EXCLUSIVELY--welllll--!!!

• Following the collapse of the Serbian government over Kosovo's Unilateral Declaration of Independence last month (aided and abetted by nationalist Prime Minister Voislav Kostunica losing a no-confidence vote in the parliament), the Belgrade government has now been formally dissolved and new elections called for 11 May--which, incidentally, coincides with the 150th anniversary of Minnesota's statehood.
• Ahead of elections in Zimbabwe next month, Prime Minister Robert Mugabe once again called for "meddling foreign observers" to stay away, fearing such was one with "unlawful interference in Zimbabwe's internal affairs and soverignty" (and, inevitably, raising questions that said elections would be neither free nor fair)--but then again, welcoming low-level GOP PsyOps operatives to act in a "stealth" capacity to find ways to further manupulate Indecision 2008, and excuse such as being for G-d and Country.

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IF THIS SOUNDS LIKE TRYING TO PREVENT A PLAGUE BY FIRST KILLING OFF THE GERM, USW.: Health officials in Hong Kong have announced that the Easter school break will start a week earlier than usual to help contain a flu outbreak as has led to several deaths among elementary-school students and their schools closed for cleaning and decontamination.   

FOR THOSE AMONG YOU LOOKING FOR EFFECTIVE, YET PEACEFUL, WAYS TO DEAL WITH THE "EDUCATIONAL" PROTESTS from the so-called "Westboro Baptist Church" of Topeka @ the funerals of real or suspected homosexuals and Other Deviant Elements, whose acceptance (or so Rev. Fred Phelps thinks) by the American People and Nation are causing Grave Moral and Spiritual Harm and Calamity, as manifested in the likes of casualties from the ur-RAHOWA Against International Terrorism, one I could think of could be to use a portable tannoy and direct the protesters' attention to Certain Interesting and Worthwhile Poems of Robert Burns (Scots; 1759-1796), delivered all the while in unmistakable Scots brouge as marked Rabbie's poetry.

And is being kept alive by the likes of Oor Wullie and The Broons.

One such I could recommend to arouse the ire of these inbreds as call themselves the "congregation" of "Westboro Baptist" would have to be "Holy Willie's Prayer," as thus:

Argument.

Holy Willie was a rather oldish bachelor elder, in the parish of
Mauchline, and much and justly famed for that polemical chattering, which ends
in tippling orthodoxy, and for that spiritualized bawdry which refines to
liquorish devotion. In a sessional process with a gentleman in Mauchline-a
Mr.Gavin Hamilton-Holy Willie and his priest, Father Auld, after full hearing
in the presbytery of Ayr, came off but second best; owing partly to the
oratorical powers of Mr. Robert Aiken, Mr. Hamilton's counsel; but chiefly to
Mr. Hamilton's being one of the most irreproachable and truly respectable
characters in the county. On losing the process, the muse overheard him
at his devotions, as follows:-

O Thou, who in the heavens does dwell,
Who, as it pleases best Thysel',
Sends ane to heaven an' ten to hell,
A' for Thy glory,
And no for ony gude or ill
They've done afore Thee!

I bless and praise Thy matchless might,
When thousands Thou hast left in night,
That I am here afore Thy sight,
For gifts an' grace
A burning and a shining light
To a' this place.

What was I, or my generation,
That I should get sic exaltation,
I wha deserve most just damnation
For broken laws,
Five thousand years ere my creation,
Thro' Adam's cause?

When frae my mither's womb I fell,
Thou might hae plunged me in hell,
To gnash my gums, to weep and wail,
In burnin lakes,
Where damned devils roar and yell,
Chain'd to their stakes.

Yet I am here a chosen sample,
To show thy grace is great and ample;
I'm here a pillar o' Thy temple,
Strong as a rock,
A guide, a buckler, and example,
To a' Thy flock.

O Lord, Thou kens what zeal I bear,
When drinkers drink, an' swearers swear,
An' singin there, an' dancin here,
Wi' great and sma';
For I am keepit by Thy fear
Free frae them a'.

But yet, O Lord! confess I must,
At times I'm fash'd wi' fleshly lust:
An' sometimes, too, in wardly trust,
Vile self gets in:
But Thou remembers we are dust,
Defil'd wi' sin.

O Lord! yestreen, Thou kens, wi' Meg-
Thy pardon I sincerely beg,
O! may't ne'er be a livin plague
To my dishonour,
An' I'll ne'er lift a lawless leg
Again upon her.

Besides, I farther maun allow,
Wi' Leezie's lass, three times I trow-
But Lord, that Friday I was fou,
When I cam near her;
Or else, Thou kens, Thy servant true
Wad never steer her.

Maybe Thou lets this fleshly thorn
Buffet Thy servant e'en and morn,
Lest he owre proud and high shou'd turn,
That he's sae gifted:
If sae, Thy han' maun e'en be borne,
Until Thou lift it.

Lord, bless Thy chosen in this place,
For here Thou hast a chosen race:
But God confound their stubborn face,
An' blast their name,
Wha bring Thy elders to disgrace
An' public shame.

Lord, mind Gaw'n Hamilton's deserts;
He drinks, an' swears, an' plays at cartes,
Yet has sae mony takin arts,
Wi' great and sma',
Frae God's ain priest the people's hearts
He steals awa.

An' when we chasten'd him therefor,
Thou kens how he bred sic a splore,
An' set the warld in a roar
O' laughing at us;-
Curse Thou his basket and his store,
Kail an' potatoes.

Lord, hear my earnest cry and pray'r,
Against that Presbyt'ry o' Ayr;
Thy strong right hand, Lord, make it bare
Upo' their heads;
Lord visit them, an' dinna spare,
For their misdeeds.

O Lord, my God! that glib-tongu'd Aiken,
My vera heart and flesh are quakin,
To think how we stood sweatin', shakin,
An' p-'d wi' dread,
While he, wi' hingin lip an' snakin,
Held up his head.

Lord, in Thy day o' vengeance try him,
Lord, visit them wha did employ him,
And pass not in Thy mercy by 'em,
Nor hear their pray'r,
But for Thy people's sake, destroy 'em,
An' dinna spare.

But, Lord, remember me an' mine
Wi' mercies temp'ral an' divine,
That I for grace an' gear may shine,
Excell'd by nane,
And a' the glory shall be thine,
Amen, Amen!

And, for the sake of thoroughness, the "Epitaph on Holy Willie:"

Here Holy Willie's sair worn clay
Taks up its last abode;
His saul has ta'en some other way,
I fear, the left-hand road.

Stop! there he is, as sure's a gun,
Poor, silly body, see him;
Nae wonder he's as black's the grun,
Observe wha's standing wi' him.

Your brunstane devilship, I see,
Has got him there before ye;
But haud your nine-tail cat a wee,
Till ance you've heard my story.

Your pity I will not implore,
For pity ye have nane;
Justice, alas! has gi'en him o'er,
And mercy's day is gane.

But hear me, Sir, deil as ye are,
Look something to your credit;
A coof like him wad stain your name,
If it were kent ye did it.

(Could you also imagine "Holy Willie's Prayer" being an effective weapon of disrupting Religiopolitical Right rallies and conclaves tending to cross the line into overzealous fanaticism?)

===TO BE CONTINUED===

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A number of media outlets have picked up on John McCain's embrace of fringe televangelist John Hagee, although (thanks in part to the Catholic League's efforts) the focus has been on Hagee's anti-Catholic sentiment rather than the pastor's far-right political views or his obsession that Israel must be defeated by a Russian-Arab military alliance, perhaps preceded by a U.S. invasion of Iran, in order to usher in Armageddon and the second coming of Jesus.

But few have paid attention to the other far-right televangelist McCain embraced last week, Rod Parsley.

You won't hear Parsley rail against Catholics, but you will hear him rail against gays, abortion, Islam, judges, and People For the American Way. And in Ohio, he has built a political machine of partisan "Patriot Pastors" who will turn their churches into get-out-the-vote campaigns.

Another interesting weapon for to "swift boat" John McCain with, no?

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TELL ME THIS ISN'T EXACTLY DOUBLETHINK:

On the one hand, His Fraudulency's Great Within is still insisting on energy self-sufficency as an article of faith, even if it means wasteful and unproductive exploratory drilling in areas as are unlikely to see major oil and gas production.

But, on the other hand, his misadventures in Iraq otherwise known as the ur-RAHOWA Against International Terrorism have seen the NYMEX price for a 55-gallon barrel of oil rise from $39/bbl. when the ur-RAHOWA got underway in 2003 to a record $110/bbl--a net increase of 282% over five years.

No wonder the Zealots and True Believers of hyperconservatism don't exactly get it on energy policy in the Real World.

Witness these comments from Melanie @ the NewsHounds blog, dedicated to monitoring Fox News, about a rather bombastic prediction so made recently:

Last Friday (March 7, 2008), one of the guests on Fox's "premiere business news" show, Your World w/Neil Cavuto, was Kevin Kerr of Kerr Trading International. Echoing Fox's the-liberal-media-only-reports-the-bad-news theme, Kerr proclaimed that oil is "set to drop $80.00 by mid-May."

Cool, huh? $25.00 for a barrel of oil come May!

I made a note in my calendar. I'll be back with an update. Meanwhile, don't worry. Be happy.

My comment and prediction? Oil will never, ever, in the history of the planet, fall to $25.00 a barrel again.

Which begs the question of whence comes this notion in a 72% drop on the NYMEX crude oil price by the Memorial Day Long Weekend.

As if such an irrational notion wasn't stupid enough, consider this recent editorial from the soon-to-go-online-exclusively Capital Times of Madison, WI:

We've long maintained that George W. Bush doesn't pay attention to the details.

The most obvious example was his swallowing, unquestionably, the intelligence propaganda fed to him by the neocons installed in the Pentagon by Vice President Dick Cheney. They were then leading the country into a war that was based on those falsehoods.

Not paying attention, especially if you're the president of the world's most powerful nation, isn't a good thing.

Now comes the embarrassing revelation that the president of this country doesn't know that prices for gasoline are skyrocketing. He expressed amazement the other day when a reporter asked him what he thought about gas prices nearing $4 per gallon.

"What did you just say?" he asked the questioner. "You're predicting $4-a-gallon gasoline?"

The reporter replied that no, he wasn't predicting $4 gas, but national oil experts were.

"That's interesting," Bush responded. "I hadn't heard that."

Hadn't heard that? His entire constituency is fuming and fulminating over rising gas prices. The economy is getting hit unmercifully. People are canceling vacations because they can't afford to pay for the gas. And their president is oblivious?

What, pray tell, does this man do all day?

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ACKNOWLEDGING SERIOUS LAPSES IN FEDERALLY-MANDATED SAFETY INSPECTIONS BEING CARRIED OUT @ REGULAR INTERVALS, Southwest Airlines has announced where it has grounded 41 of its Boeing 737 aircraft for the time being to carry out safety checks after hairline cracks were discovered that were not detected in previous inspections.

Which, for an airline as has this arrogant repute for cheap fares and frequent flights, should be enough to shame them into recognising our complacent air-mindedness as a "morally superior" society.

And, for once, ought be enough for us to start rethinking this complacent air-mindedness, especially with fuel prices now rather dear (in fact, the NYMEX crude price is @ a new record of $110/bbl--and you can blame it, in large measure, on His Fraudulency's misadventures in the guise of a War on Terrorism based on flimsy evidence.

(Evidence now shown to be all the more flimsy after new evidence confirms lack of His Fraudulency's interconnexion between the Saddam Hussein regime and al-Qaeda.)

Go figure....

Mr. Bill O'Reilly
Fox News Channel
1211 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10036

Dear Mr. O'Reilly:

As but one American, I deem it necessary to take issue with you in the strongest possible terms for the Information Stuporbahn for that dirty little habit you have over recent days of equating what you see as being "dangerous" left-wing websites (in particular The Huffington Post) with Nazi-era propaganda techniques used to attack real or imagined enemies, howbeit without credible proof or substantiation.

(Examples documented by Media Matters for America in this respect can be seen here and here. In other words, "you knew what you were doing.")

Which, for starters, begs the question of whether or not you may be guilty of projection in the psychiatric sense--shifting onto your enemies, real or imagined, the problems you're unwittingly and/or unconsciously bringing on yourself. I call your attention to these very words from your very lips, as transcribed by MediaMatters (emphasis supplied):

First you have to demonize; first you have to create the hatred. Then you can take action. Now the hatred is by left against left. That's what's going on there.

With those words in mind, I would like to bring up @ this time the name of Julius Streicher, a high-ranking Nazi Party majordomo out of Nuremburg who epitomised such an approach by way of the tabloid weekly Der Sturmer ("The Attacker;" motto, "A German Weekly Newspaper in the Fight for Truth"), which Herr Streicher founded in 1923 and continued, practically single-handedly, until just before the Nazi defeat in 1945.

Streicher's forte was anti-Semitism used in interconnexion to sex and/or scandal, with the crudest of pornography incorporated to better appeal to its readers--for the most part, children and the Dregs of Nazi German society (as the Lower Working Classes, for example)--explaining its "written-so-you-can-understand-it" hypersimplicity. Said hypersimplicity reinforced with the cartoons of "Fips" (t/n Philipp Rupprecht) depicting Jews in the most offensive caricatures still used by the Archie Bunker/Alf Garnett crowd to whip up anti-Semitic hate: fat, gross, disgusting-looking, filthy, drooling in their greed, sexually inclined all the more towards pedophilia, usw.

Or, for a change of pace, depicting Jews as the lowest forms of vermin threatening "Aryan Racial Honour" (snakes, rats and monkeys were particular favourites for such anti-Semitic allegory in cartoon form).

Not to mention an arrogant pride being taken in news that Der Sturmer was especially popular among school-aged boys attracted to its crudely pornographic descriptions of homosexuality and prostitution, and their interconnexions (or so alleged) to Jews and Jewry.

All in all, enough to attract readers galore: From an average of 14,000 copies/week in Weimar-era 1927, Der Sturmer's circulation, thanks to impressive marketing techniques including strong-arm tactics involving various Nazi-affiliated organisations, would climb to a peak of 486,000 copies/week by 1935, not counting the many untold millions who glanced @ the latest editions in display cases installed practically everywhere across the Third Reich groups of people would naturally gather (factory lunchrooms, tram and bus stops, railway stations, even local parks were favourite locales therefor).

As if that weren't enough, no less than Adolf Hitler "himself" was so impressed by Der Sturmer's "written-so-you-can-understand-it" approach to exploiting anti-Semitic feelings, it was said that Der Fuerher read every edition throughout every week. And some of the more influential leaders in the regime endorsed Der Sturmer as essential to the cause of "patriotic" anti-Semitism in fawning terms such as these from Gauleiter of Danzig Albert Forster:

With pleasure I say that the Stürmer, more than any other daily or weekly newspaper, has made clear to the people in simple ways the danger of Jewry.

Without Julius Streicher and his Stürmer, the importance of a solution to the Jewish question would not be seen to be as critical as it actually is by many citizens.

It is therefore to be hoped that those who want to learn the unvarnished truth about the Jewish question will read the Stürmer. 

As if that weren't enough, Ernst Heimer, editor of Der Sturmer, thus defended its hypersimplified approach to anti-Semitism in an essay thus published in 1935:

The Stürmer is the paper of the people. Its language is simple, its sentences clear. Its words have one meaning. Its tone is rough. It has to be! The Stürmer is not a Sunday paper. The Stürmer fights for truth. A fight is not fought with kid gloves. And the truth is not smooth and slippery. It is rough and hard.

And make no mistake about it: Der Sturmer's crudity of anti-Semitism was enough to translate into the wholesale genocide of an estimated six million Jews by the Nazi regime in Germany or areas under its control by means including, but not necessarily limited to:

• "delousing" showers as were really gas chambers, followed by cremation;
• firing squads arranged so that the corpses would fall into freshly-dug mass graves;
• overwork on forced-labour gangs (in some extreme cases, reinforced by sadistic abuse from supervisors); and
• use as "guinea pigs" in "medical experiments" of dubious or otherwise questionable merit.

And it was because of Der Sturmer's power in influencing such depravity of anti-Semitic opinion, and its inevitable result, that Herr Streicher was among those high-level leaders of the Nazi regime brought before the Nuremburg War Crimes Tribunal in 1945-46 to answer charges of Crimes Against Humanity and Peace brought by the Four Allied Powers (the United States, Great Britain, France and the then-Soviet Union).

And, in the end, Herr Streicher was sentenced by the tribunal to death by hanging alongside Hermann Goering (who bit into a cyanide capsule before sentence was carried out), Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Fritz Sauckel, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Alfred Rosenberg, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frink, Alfred Jodl, Ernst Kaltenbrunner and Wilhelm Keitel. (As the gallows trap was sprung, Herr Streicher shouted "Purimfest!", contending all the while that the proceedings were a Jewish plot.)

With that in mind, then, what sense of Decency have you, Mr. "No-Spin Zone," to equate those exercising their right to free expression and speech online to the Nazi regime and its depraved excesses and travesties of power and authority when it's really you as should be guilty of these same charges?

Or what prevents your recognising any sense of Decency, let alone Morals and Common Sense, in that which I have just discussed?

"Actions have consequences." Think about it.

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MEMO TO READERS: You are strongly urged to share this with all your friends, especially such as are so hard-wired into their blind acceptance of Fox News Channel as Holy Writ, so to speak.

Especially so to Mr. "No-Spin Zone" "himself," who deserves this message all the more. Especially because of its citing historical facts as are well-documented, and which should serve as warning to future generations.

Especially in this instance. Remember, "silence=acceptance."

MEMO TO TEACHERS WHO MIGHT FIND TEMPTING the offer of $10,000 just to quit your job, only to wind up becoming nothing less than a windup toy for Rick Berman, longtime shill for "the Four Hundred" who still see labour unions as some class of a "Communist front organisation," thanks to Brave New Films' blog:

What anti-union creep Rick Berman is up to today is appalling, and I say that not just because I'm the proud son of an AFT member.  Berman just launched a campaign to weed out the "worst unionized teachers in America."  Berman and the Center for Union Politics will ask parents, students, and other teachers to nominate these "bad" educators and then he plans to offer the ten worst $10,000 each to quit.  His group will be running ads in USA Today, The New York Times, and on TV. 

Perhaps Berman should have paid a little more attention in school to realize his reasoning is spurious and his methods are wholly unscientific.  Why does our country insist on blaming teachers for our awful education system?  It couldn't be No Child Left Behind, lack of funds, or overcrowded classrooms.

Berman has long been a foe of teachers unions, but this latest ploy is a new low for the corporate hack.  American Rights at Work has more analysis.

Which, no doubt, is sure to prove especially attractive to the likes of elements weird and unwholesome such as:

• the Religiopolitical Right and their friends in the Christian Homeschooling Movement, the latter's syllabus based on apartheid South Africa's National Christian Education such;
• school districts seeking back-door ways to get rid of poor-performing teachers without "undue and unnecessary union interference" or "interference and harrassment from those meddling bloggers," and haste posthaste more than anything;
• supporters of "school choice" based on tuition vouchers for blackmailing "chronic and habitual" welfare cases seen (as per conservative stereotypes) to be "lacking healthy and proper moral compass" because of "welfare dependency***promoting Socialist, Communist or otherwise un-American beliefs;"
• other religiopolitical conservatives seeking to use court action to challenge the legality as much as constitutionality of free public education based on rather frivolous arguments as would prompt the courts to dismiss their suits outright (e.g., "unconstitutional promotion of Secular-Humanism" in the school curriculum); and
• such seeking "complete and final" devolution of educational policy to local school districts "based on local customs and experience," the whole financed through "block grants" for which transparency is to be strongly discouraged. 

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STAYING WITH THE RELIGIOPOLITICAL RIGHT FOR A MOMENT, they're no doubt drooling(!!!) in sick and depraved envy @ the results of a study which suggests that 25% of high-school girls have been diagnosed with some class of a Loathsome Social Disease.

The which, inevitably, will be excused on the "unwitting promotion of sexual promiscuity" in the public-school syllabus, howbeit, as per usual with that ilk, lacking any credible substantiation to prove the interconnexion.

Which, ironically, is the same sort of crowd who sees homeschooling as the "last and only hope" to "save our children from themselves," unaware of such being all too likely avenue for incestuous LeTourneauism as an agency of coercion and control--let alone finding excuses to avoid attracting "unwelcome attention" and suspicions of child sexual abuse.

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L'AFFAIRE ELLIOT SPITZER MAY HAVE SEEN CLOSURE, IN A WAY, WITH HIS RESIGNATION JUST THIS MORNING to avoid further scandal after new developments emerged of his regularly patronising women of loose morals to the tune of $80,000 over recent months.

But then again, a writer for Harper's recently told RawStory.com that l'affaire Spitzer may really be a cheap back-door political stunt by the GOP, in particular using the Mann Act (proscribing interstate transport of women for Immoral Purposes) as a ruse for More Serious Charges.

Not to mention there being the potential for a number of prominent Religiopolitical Right figures being caught in flagrante delicto @ the GOP Convention in the Twin Cities this fall--which the GOP will surely claim is nothing less than "Democrat payback," among other bromides.

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IT'S NO WONDER CHINA SEEMS TO BECOME ALL THE MORE PARANOID AS THE BEIJING OLYMPIC GAMES APPROACH, and especially so after Human Rights Watch came out with a blistering report citing abuses in the treatment of migrant "guest workers" China brought in to assist with construction of Olympics venues, among them holding back pay for as much as a year and lack of access to proper health and social welfare services.

Seconded by a number of prominent Hollywood figures and other entertainers, taking issue with China's interference with Tibetans' right to self-determination and unhealthy air pollution levels in Beijing during the Olympic Games.

The which are dismissed by Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jichei as "anti-China forces" seen to be "tarnishing the image of China," only to wind up tarnishing their own.

So much for the Fox News crowd challenging those who criticise the conservative agenda as "anti-America forces," or terms to that effect....