Thanks, Senor Wilson, for your thoughts. I too am interested in what might come in response to your question:is there anything about our country's government you wish to change, or is it quite perfect as is? a quick response to the person who asked if i could be called "Frustrated Lefty" i say, yes, that is fine. I don't think i'd be in BLOWBACK if i weren't frustrated. But you might be surprised to know that i was frustrated with the Clinton Administration as well.Funny comment of yours that the "left" had a free ride during the 80's. My recollection is that the 80s and early 90's were the Reagan/Bush years. Also, most of the 70s were the Nixon/Ford years. So i'm not sure what free ride you mean.And while Clinton was certainly not a right-wing nut job, he did champion free trade agreements and the dismantling of welfare, not to mention Plan Colombia.Back to Senor Wilson, I agree. Not sure how this forum could be useful. The original idea was that we would provide a way for people to exchange ideas, provide insights, but instead, what we often find is a barrage of attacks. We are toying with the idea of having the discussion moderated, that is, we would filter what gets in, in order to keep the discussion flowing and to keep the name calling (yes, i'm guilty too) to a minimum.Any thoughts you might have on what would be a useful forum are welcome. (For those who will respond, that the most useful thing we can do is go away, i suggest that there may be other places where they may go spend their time, say like Iraq, since they're so supportive of the war and continuing carnage there.)

Hey hey, Ho ho, this racist war has got to go....Now that is creative. C-Span is an American treasure

the great thing about this left/right blither is that it can go on forever, because it's fed by manufactured opinion programs that are designed to oppose. i rarely feel like i get any value out of this discussion cause its all people expressing unwavering opinion, occasionally bolstered by facts but never analysis that allows for interpretation. i think there must be good reasons why people align strongly with political programs, left or right. but of course they're all a little right, and all a little wrong. otherwise everyone would agree. for example, i think a common conservative refrain is that government should spend less. this practically defines the 'tax-and-spend liberal' characterization that perhaps is central to a lot of the understandably wallet-driven concerns of conservative ideology. i've heard that in fact the bush admin has been increasing spending, even if you factor out the proactive military actions. i saw this link to a spreadsheet that backs that up, contradicting bush claims to the contrary (i'm referencing a slate analysis on bush's meet the press statements).http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2005/sheets/hist08z8.xlsi'm sure this is open to interpretation so i'd be interested in hearing some thoughts.i'll additionally pose a question to the conservative (although i think you might consider re-dubbing yourselves 'aggressives') contingent that seems to enjoy populating the blowback bbs -- is there anything about our country's government you wish to change, or is it quite perfect as is? maybe this could spark some issue-driven debate beyond name-calling. you pigs. ;)

Your cut and paste technique is exquisite Sir or Madam.With such a deft touch you certainly have no need to post original thought.Magnificent!!!

Due to the cancellation of the Inaugural Ball for Senator Kerry, there will be a small Soiree (pity party) for those who have already bought their attire. Dan Rather will be printing the invitations (so you better independently confirm the date) Ashton Kutcher will be signing his latest book..."I open my mouth and stupid falls out." Unfortunately, P Diddy will not be in attendance; he’s still trying to get the vote out – and cleaning up the dead from his “vote or die” campaign. Barbra Streisand is preparing for her next role and will not be there; she will be starring as Teresa Heinz Kerry in the sad story of "Shove It, Scumbag – the biography of THK" Ted Kennedy will be tending the bar (of course), so you might want to bring your own booze. Larry Flynt will be taking the "official" photos. A private shoot will be held for Hillary Clinton and Barbara Boxer (if she can stop crying), and another for Bill and Monica, or Bill and Paula, or Bill and Gennifer – oh, whoever. Terry McAuliffe will be making an appearance – but only at the window - on the outside looking in. George Soros will arrive in a gilded chariot pulled by eight white horses. Teresa Heinz Kerry will be stunning in a jeweled hospital gown. She is coming directly from "election" surgery – she had her lips stapled shut! Susan Estrich, being picky about her diet, will be bringing her own crow. John Kerry will be flippin’ the burgers...flipping is something he has proven to be very good at. Sandy Berger is responsible for providing utensils and flatware – if you don’t find it on your table, you might want to check his socks and shorts. Senator Biden will be signing pictures of him hugging Yasser Arafat – it’s a touching photo taken just before they frolicked with the sheep. Senator Edwards (whoops, ex-senator that is) will be signing his new book “Chasing Ambulances and Other Fun Ways to Make Lots of Money”. Attention all actors: Norman Lear is casting for his new show "Fahrenheit 11-3-04 – What The Hell Happened?!" After counseling guests on moral issues, the Reverend Jesse Jackson will be impregnating young woman. The nights' whining (oh, I mean entertainment) will be provided by the Dixie Chicks & Bruce Springsteen. Howard Dean will announce the night’s events (it’ll be a good idea to bring earplugs – WooooooHaaaa!!!)An unlimited supply of tissues for excessive self pity will be furnished by Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins (they are sooo generous). And for those who would like to make a $50,000 donation – you can have a private moment watching Michael Moore count his millions while he chants “ooo, what should my next infomercial be about” and “who took my devil dogs”. And at the end of the evening, Kofi Annan will be giving all of those in attendance a 50 gallon drum of Iraqi oil (he had some left over), and a calendar with 31 days in June. Hope to see you there!!! P.S. UPDATE - Ted Kennedy did get the bartenders unionized – the contract says that bartenders can drink two drinks for every one they serve. P.P.S. Dress in light clothing, even though it’s winter, Al Gore (not the inventor of the Internet, the weatherman), predicts that global warming will have things really hot that day!!!

All the fat cats will be in Washington this week to celebrate their hoodwinking of Middle America. They'll be laughing over lines of blow at how easy it was to herd their sheep, who follow blindly and accept all lies they're told without question. The sheep let their masters get away with lying, cheating and stealing the very tax dollars they worked so hard to earn, all to feed the troughs of CEOs at DynCorp, Halliburton, GE, etc. etc.The search for Weapons of Mass Destruction is officially over, number of WMDs found, ZERO. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2129-2005Jan11.htmlHere's a little exerpt: "Four months after Charles A. Duelfer, who led the weapons hunt in 2004, submitted an interim report to Congress that contradicted nearly every prewar assertion about Iraq made by top Bush administration officials, a senior intelligence official said the findings will stand as the ISG's final conclusions and will be published this spring."Anyone who voted for Bush and doesn't admit that they were lied to, that countless taxpayer dollars have been wasted, that innocent lives have been wasted, that America's credibility has been wasted, is wasted. So why not join in the Innauguration parties (aka coke binge), G.O.Party!!! The blood of American Soldiers and Weapons Inspectors is on your hands and you still support the war and believe Iraq has WMDs. You poor, lost, blind little sheep. Tell me some more about how this is justified.

Radical Leftwing HATE will again reach a fever pitch as the Bush inaugural approaches.Rebels without brains on the wrong side of history. Busloads of sick, twisted, graying, and balding Communists, Anarchists, Feminist crackpots, Clintonoids, sexual perverts, Deaniacs, and mentally-deficient Kerry buttlickers will converge on the nation's capital city to attempt to wreak havoc by whatever means. This may well be the last great hurrah for the Radic-Lib Hippie generation. Many of them, arguably the best of them, are long lost to drugs, and the survivors are aging quickly, with large, spreading bald patches gleaming over their graying ponytails and sagging faces and bodies ravaged by decades of hard living. They really NEED those grannyglasses now, and many of them, if not most of them, are popping preskrip drugs from WAL MART in lieu of the street Acid, hashish, and Acapulco Gold of happier times. They're really a sad, angry lot, all things considered. Their 40-year old movement is an utter failure, and Communism, its guiding principle, is dying quickly all over the world. Che and the other young lions of Communism are long dust, and Communism's remaining champions are aging system politicians like Hillary Clinton and Pete Stark and one or two decrepit old killers with the blood of decades of murder on their hands, like Fidel Castro.

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Dear Frustrated Lefty: (may I call you Frustrated Lefty?) You are confusing your denial and perception of truth with reality again. Just because 78 million Americans who were eligible to vote chose not to do so, does not mean that their “would be” votes would have gone for Kerry. Seeing that you like to deal in hypotheticals, Bush’s win margin, a clear mandate, would be several million more based on the laws of averages. Bottom line, your side lost again and you are rationalizing. Let go of the pain man. It was a fun ride all through the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s for your side. You guys had lots of chances to get it right but you just couldn’t do it. America is on to you now. You’re swirling in your own juices!Have a fun time at the inauguration. Hope to see you on camera Thursday! Peace.

It's official!http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10492-2005Jan14.htmlto see the results that Bush's "mandate" is a little under 31% of eligible voters.According to the Committee for the Study of the American Electorate (reported by the Washington Post today, whose parent company is among the $100,000+ contributors to the inauguration next week),122 million or 60.7 percent of eligible voters voted in this past election.Now (and we won't even touch the irregularities/fraud in Ohio and other states),Bush votes are 62,028,719 or 50.8 perecent of the ballots.That, my dear friends, translates into 30.8 percent of total eligible voters.Some mandate, huh? Which isn't to say that there weren't record turnouts, but 30.8 percent a mandate does not make!

for those in DC and surrounding areas...NOT MY PRESIDENT!Punk Rock Counter-Inaugural BallANTI-FLAGQ and Not U19o5Del CieloSpeakers and/or Tables from Iraq Veterans Against the War, Empower DC, Positive Force DC, Brian MacKenzie Infoshop and more to come...Thursday, January 20thDoors at 6pm$5 to benefit Empower DC and Jan. 20th Protest efforts against the 2005 Presidential InaugurationAt: Sanctuary Theater in Casa del Pueblo of Calvary Methodist Church1459 Columbia Rd. NW (btw 14th and 15th near the Columbia Heights Metro)Presented by Positive Force DC in conjunction with the Rorschach TheaterMore Info: http://www.positiveforcedc.org

gee, "trout," more original thoughts from The Washington Dispatch.really, try putting your own thoughts down instead of those of others. surely you have some original thoughts - or even your own words for the thoughts of others you happen to agree with. and then provide the url link for the essay or article that inspired those thoughts.like the way Craig rebutted them.

"Here is how they do it," Lamm said: "Turn America into a bilingual or multi-lingual and bicultural country. History shows that no nation can survive the tension, conflict, and antagonism of two or more competing languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an individual to be bilingual; however, it is a curse for a society to be bilingual.Canada and Belgium come to mind as bilingual countries that have high living standards. And Switzerland, which is multilingual.Barbaric cultures that practice female genital mutilation are growing as we celebrate 'diversity.' FGM is illegal in the US; it is prosecuted. Similarly, possession of khat is illegal. The suggestion that immigrant cultural customs are automatically woven into the fabric of multicultural American society simply is not true.

Mr.Lamm is the former Governor of Colorado. In that context his thoughts are particularly poignant. Last week there was an immigration-overpopulation conference in Washington, DC, filled to capacity by many of American's finest minds and leaders. A brilliant college professor named Victor Hansen Davis talked about his latest book, "Mexifornia," explaining how immigration - both legal and illegal - was destroying the entire state of California. He said it would march across the country until it destroyed all vestiges of The American Dream. Moments later, former Colorado Governor Richard D. Lamm stood up and gave a stunning speech on how to destroy America. The audience sat spellbound as he described eight methods for the destruction of the United States. He said, "If you believe that America is too smug, too self-satisfied, too rich, then let's destroy America. It is not that hard to do. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time. Arnold Toynbee observed that all great civilizations rise and fall and that 'An autopsy of history would show that all great nations commit suicide.'" "Here is how they do it," Lamm said: "Turn America into a bilingual or multi-lingual and bicultural country. History shows that no nation can survive the tension, conflict, and antagonism of two or more competing languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an individual to be bilingual; however, it is a curse for a society to be bilingual. "The historical scholar Seymour Lipset put it this way: 'The histories of bilingual and bi-cultural societies that do not assimilate are histories of turmoil, tension, and tragedy.' Canada, Belgium, Malaysia, Lebanon all face crises of national existence in which minorities press for autonomy, if not independence. Pakistan and Cyprus have divided. Nigeria suppressed an ethnic rebellion. France faces difficulties with Basques, Bretons, and Corsicans." Lamm went on: "Invent 'multiculturalism' and encourage immigrants to maintain their culture. I would make it an article of belief that all cultures are equal. That there are no cultural differences. I would make it an article of faith that the Black and Hispanic dropout rates are due to prejudice and discrimination by the majority. Every other explanation is out of bounds. "We could make the United States an 'Hispanic Quebec' without much effort. The key is to celebrate diversity rather than unity. As Benjamin Schwarz said in the Atlantic Monthly recently: 'The apparent success of our own multiethnic and multicultural experiment might have been achieved not by tolerance but by hegemony. Without the dominance that once dictated ethnocentrically and what it meant to be an American, we are left with only tolerance and pluralism to hold us together.'" Lamm said, "I would encourage all immigrants to keep their own language and culture. I would replace the melting pot metaphor with the salad bowl metaphor. It is important to ensure that we have various cultural subgroups living in America reinforcing their differences rather than as Americans, emphasizing their similarities." "Fourth, I would make our fastest growing demographic group the least educated. I would add a second underclass, unassimilated, undereducated, and antagonistic to our population. I would have this second underclass have a 50% dropout rate from high school." "My fifth point for destroying America would be to get big foundations and business to give these efforts lots of money. I would invest in ethnic identity, and I would establish the cult of 'Victimology.' I would get all minorities to think their lack of success was the fault of the majority. I would start a grievance industry blaming all minority failure on the majority population." "My sixth plan for America's downfall would include dual citizenship and promote divided loyalties. I would celebrate diversity over unity. I would stress differences rather than similarities. Diverse people worldwide are mostly engaged in hating each other - that is, when they are not killing each other." "A diverse, peaceful, or stable society is against most historical precedent. People undervalue the unity it takes to keep a nation together. Look at the ancient Greeks. The Greeks believed that they belonged to the same race; they possessed a common language and literature; and they worshipped the same gods. All Greece took part in the Olympic games. A common enemy Persia threatened their liberty. Yet all these bonds were not strong enough to over come two factors: local patriotism and geographical conditions that nurtured political divisions. Greece fell. "E. Pluribus Unum" -- From many, one. In that historical reality, if we put the emphasis on the 'pluribus' instead of the 'unum,' we can balkanize America as surely as Kosovo." "Next to last, I would place all subjects off limits ~ make it taboo to talk about anything against the cult of 'diversity.' I would find a word similar to 'heretic' in the 16th century - that stopped discussion and paralyzed thinking. Words like 'racist' or 'xenophobe' halt discussion and debate." "Having made America a bilingual/bicultural country, having established multi-culturism, having the large foundations fund the doctrine of 'Victimology,' I would next make it impossible to enforce our immigration laws. I would develop a mantra: That because immigration has been good for America, it must always be good. I would make every individual immigrant symmetric and ignore the cumulative impact of millions of them." In the last minute of his speech, Governor Lamm wiped his brow. Profound silence followed. Finally he said, "Lastly, I would censor Victor Hanson Davis's book Mexifornia. His book is dangerous. It exposes the plan to destroy America. If you feel America deserves to be destroyed, don't read that book." There was no applause. A chilling fear quietly rose like an ominous cloud above every attendee at the conference. Every American in that room knew that everything Lamm enumerated was proceeding methodically, quietly, darkly, yet pervasively across the United States today. Every discussion is being suppressed. Over 100 languages are ripping the foundation of our educational system and national cohesiveness. Barbaric cultures that practice female genital mutilation are growing as we celebrate 'diversity.' American jobs are vanishing into the Third World as corporations create a Third World in America - take note of California and other states - to date, ten million illegal aliens and growing fast. It is reminiscent of George Orwell's book "1984." In that story, three slogans are engraved in the Ministry of Truth building: "War is peace," "Freedom is slavery," and "Ignorance is strength." Governor Lamm, walked back to his seat. It dawned on everyone at the conference that our nation and the future of this great democracy is deeply in trouble and worsening fast. If we don't get this immigration monster stopped within three years, it will rage like a California wildfire and destroy everything in its path, especially The American Dream.

Susan Sontag is dead. This cunt is now in hell with Che keeping a spot warm for Mumia