Posted on 07/11/2005 6:22:07 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
There is a really funny scene in the movie, Back To School. The Rodney Dangerfield character, Thornton Mellon, is a student in a history class conducted by the crazed Professor Terguson (Sam Kinison). Professor Terguson lets loose with an incredibly outraged outburst and invites an equally loony response from his student, Thornton Mellon. Well, this DUmmie THREAD titled, “Warning, ROVE RAGE! Enter at your own risk!” reminds me of that scene from Back To School. A DUmmie delivers an OVER THE TOP rant about Karl Rove plus the EVIL Bush Regime and invites his fellow DUmmies to join in with his nuttiness which they happily oblige. As usual, the DUmmie rants which make Professor Terguson look sane are in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, thinking that crazed DUmmies are almost as FUnnie as a Sam Kinison comedy routine, is in the [brackets]:
Warning, ROVE RAGE! Enter at your own risk!
[I’m chuckling already. Continue DUmmie Quixote1818.]
Here are the sober facts! This f*cking Administration has probably committed treason, perjury, made a consorted effort to spread misinformation to the press, defrauded OUR government, obstructed justice, compromised our national security by blowing the cover of a CIA agent involved in monitoring WMD around the world, FIXED INTELLIGENCE to fit their f*cking policy to take us into a BOGUS, Illegal, BLOODY F*CKING WAR. Their lies have left over ten thousand Americans either dead, mutilated or inflicted with the darkest forms of post traumatic stress syndrome one can imagine! Their lies have killed tens of thousands of Iraqi's, destroyed a whole country's infrastructure, spread depleted uranium all over Iraq which will inflict perhaps hundreds of thousands of Iraqi and American people with cancer and extreme pain. They have increased terrorism around the world, turned the world against us, blown 300 Billion of our taxes, ruined our army, not protected our soldiers with armor, tortured human beings, fixed elections, appointed nuts to our federal courts and all the while acting like they were appointed by GOD and could do no wrong!
[I was up to my knees in rice paddies, with guns that didn't work! Going in there, looking for Charlie, slugging it out with him; While pussies like you were back here partying, putting headbands on, doing drugs, and listening to the goddamn Beatle albums! Oh! Oh! Oh!]
I am not only outraged I am F*CKING NUMB and feeling almost lost because it seems like all people care about is Michael Jackson's soap opera!!!!! The GOD DAM F*CKING PRESS WONT DO A thing about this or anything illegal Bush does yet they become infatuated with a blue dress with Bubbas seed on it??? Our lame Democratic leadership with the exception of John Conyers are a bunch of pussies who let Bush get away with EVERYTHING and we have a bunch of scumbags on FR slandering someone as kind and decent and beautiful as Andy who was dying of cancer???? What the hell is our world coming to????
[Continue Professor Terguson, oops, I mean DUmmie Quixote1818.]
We can start something here on DU and we can start it NOW! No more wondering what the next article is going to say about Rove, it's time for us to speak up loud and clear. It's time to call our congress people and SCREAM at them to get off their asses and represent the people who elected them and confront this corrupt administration with some real guts! It's time to start websites, it's time to write every press person on the planet, it's time to march, it's time to RAISE HELL!
[Let me guess. The Karl Rove being frogwalked out of the White House scenario is going NOWHERE. But continue with the comedy act…]
Can I please see some outrage on this thread? The kind the actions of this administration deserves! And better yet what are we going to do with that rage to change this situation?
[“Can you please be as CRAZY as me? Is there no Thornton Mellon out there who can match my crazy Professor Terguson routine?” Well, don’t worry, DUmmie Quixote1818. Your total lack of sanity will be more than matched by your equally crazed fellow DUmmies as we shall see.]
Gladly f*ck those mother f*ckers!!! The press is f*cking guilty! Democrats are a bunch of bought off spineless pieces of shit! Republicans running things are the epitomy of evil! F*ck'um all start to hell!!! Hell is too good!
[Professor Terguson: You remember that thing we had about 30 years ago called the Korean conflict? And how we failed to achieve victory? How come we didn't cross the 38th parallel and push those rice-eaters back to the Great Wall of China? Then take the f*cking wall apart brick by brick and nuke them back into the f*cking stone age forever? Tell me why! How come? Say it! Say it!
Thornton Melon: All right. I'll say it. 'Cause Truman was too much of a *pussy wimp* to let MacArthur go in there and blow out those Commie bastards!]
I'm outraged -but my emails don't seem to force the MSM into printing stories on this. Just a suspician, but I think SOMEONE is actively attempting to cover it up. That's what we're fighting against. Which means we have to scream louder and longer than the opposition. Public apathy doesn't help. Why do I feel like I'm living in the middle of Germany in WWII?
[Perhaps because you are living in the middle of a padded cell.]
mitigating psyops impact on civilian institutions. In order to counteract attempts at "velvet revolutions" or undue influence, governments have often been heavy-handed in the dictation of propaganda to media outlets. Because of the role of propaganda, some incursions on civilian media are unavoidable. The question we should really be asking is how to cooperatively ensure objectivity instead of enforcing dogma. After all, foreign governmental influence on the media is even less welcome than domestic governmental influence. Joint civilian and military review panels, discussions about how to detect psyops and false reports, joint media and military investigations, and objectivity standards would be useful if undertaken sincerely. Unfortunately it would be rather pollyanna-ish to assume such could ever be done.
[Psyops and Liphops and Mihops, Oh My! Psyops and Liphops and Mihops, Oh My!]
Sure wish I could verbally rage like that.
[A good start would be a reading of King Lear.]
MediaWhores abound; Democracy weeps; we're f*cking pissed-off! Excellent. There are all sorts of people who are extremely angry. They include nearly everyone I talk to outside of my work setting (which is not political) and even people I talk to there will spontaneously comment on what a POS the administration is. Here's the good news, with NO F*CKING PRESS COVERAGE over 50% (and you know they lie about this) of the population thinks the war is a big f'ing mistake; 42% in Zogby (he got his revenge didn't he) said that * should be impeached...4 2 %...if he lied about WMD (well a majority think he lied so the next time they ask it, the question will be, Should the pResident be impeached? The numbers will continue to push up,up. I'm in contact with my congressman and senators and they're hearing it loud and clear. No more holding back; time to tell the truth; it's AMF time for *!
[I am lacking an Asylum Dictionary so could you tell us what “AMF” means, DUmmie autorank?
I'm way beyond outrage...For me, outrage is SO 2003. I've moved beyond that to acceptance, and now I'm just waiting for them to self-destruct. It's happening as we speak, and it's ugly. It'll take a bit more time, but they will destroy themselves.
[Speaking of self-destructing… Hee! Hee!]
The cabal in charge are well aware of what is coming. Shit - they do all they can to "bring it on". Meanwhile - we should all keep hollering. The train wreck is coming - but there is still time to pull the brakes or jump off...
[I recommend the “jump off” option for you DUmmie pengu1n.]
That was Howard Dean. ;o)
I thought we were told perjury wasn't an impreachable offense.
Sure there are, but most of them support winning teams, with the exception Charles who is a Cubs fan.
Oh, I know. I'm just teasing. Maybe you should say "KC Royals" instead of just "Royals" ping list, though. Wouldn't want any confusion amongst this international community, donchaknow.
That's cold.
And to any New Yorkers: we swept the Yankees.
Thank God!! I thought it was just me! I considered going back and re-reading it to see if I could make heads or tails of it, but I have this theory about reading insanity: If you read it enough to understand it, it becomes a part of you. Before too long you're a raving lunatic. It's what I call the DUmmie Syndrome.
Well, I saw all of those threats, sir--it's hard to ignore one's own name when it shows up in DUmmieland--but I am greatly mystified.
If the DUmmie "William Pitt" shows up here, what am I do to with him?
Take him out to lunch? Take him out to show him the magnificent bison on the prairie? Take him horseback riding through the Nebraska Sandhills? Take him canoeing down the Niobrara River?
What am I to do with him, when he shows up?
Show him the post by benburch threatening to murder you.
Did Andy die? It sounds that way over on those threads.
I highly doubt Pitt will ever show up at the freerepublic. He'd just get banned on the spot, wouldn't he?
Yes, there has only been like two or three threads on the subject here at freerepublic. Just go to search and type in "andy."
Thanks. I read the 3rd thread that said that Andy died. From a post-operative infection? I thought Johns Hopkins was supposed to be the best? Do you think he got a staph infection from the hospital?
Keyboard, meet coffee.
I consider myself a huge 'Stros fan, and they have been tearing up the competition lately. They have fought back to over .500 after being down, what, 14 games just a month ago. But I will say this: Kaufmann Stadium is one of the most beautiful in baseball (love those fountains).
No. But what is new, and what we need to address, are the reports that Andy died, the hate-filled accusations that we deliberately intended to harm Andy and are to blame for his death, and the actual threats now directed toward us.
When it became apparent several days ago that Andy was not in fact getting better and had taken a dramatic turn for the worse and now was gravely ill, I said that we should "lay off." And I was willing to let the matter rest. But since then, DU, led by Pitt, has gone wild with hatred, with almost a mob mentality. To some extent I can understand and even excuse a confused, irrational, emotional outburst immediately after the death of a friend. That is natural. Yet I also think we could relieve them of some of this burden of hate they are carrying right now.
Frankly, if/when Pitt calms down a bit, I would like to invite him over here to a thread where we could talk this out--no satire, no invective--and he could see that to raise the same sort of questions he himself raised does not make one a "graveyard rat" or "ghoul" who deliberately tried to kill Andy. For all the poking fun I've done with Pitt over the months, I do recognize that he can think and he can analyze and he can write, in a fashion, although I disagree with his political presuppositions. Perhaps, though, he wants to hold on to his hate and is not willing to engage in a sane dialogue with a FReeper.
BTW, I should add that there are many DUers who have been calmer voices of reason in this and who rightly do not blame us for Andy's death.
Since we were so active in discussing the Andy situation for more than two months, I think we now need to bring some closure to that discussion and respond to these concerns.
The smart money's on this outcome. Besides, Pitt doesn't have the cojones to engage in a dialogue here, on this topic.
I know, just couldn't resist it.
And to any New Yorkers: we swept the Yankees.
And I cheered when it happened. Always glad to see the 'best team money can buy' get swept by a second tier team.
PS, I'm a lifelong Cardinals fan. Win or lose, and they have had some bad seasons, so I feel for you. Keep up your loyality to the Royals, thats what makes baseball great, the fans, not the players.
Well, you know that there will be a lawsuit against Johns Hopkins for the infection. Does a gay partner in Maryland or Washington state get to partake of the settlement proceeds?
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