Posted on 01/08/2006 12:53:39 AM PST by Checkers
The story made every Blue Stater sit up straight and hiss: The mask has dropped. It's begun. A college student at the University of Massachusetts requested a copy of Mao's "Little Red Book" from the Dartmouth library and was subsequently visited by federal agents. A professor vouched for his tale.
The news wires picked up the story. Blogs frothed. Columnists great and small rent their garments. Finally, the true face of Chimpy W. Pretzelchoker's Amerikkka had shown itself. Today, goon-squads bracing innocent Mao scholars; tomorrow, the Reichstag burns. No, that was 9/11. Tomorrow, Kristallnacht! The worst has come true, and things are looking up!
The story turned out to be nonsense, of course. As if federal agents slide down poles, pile into Crown Victorias and hit the sirens because a kid checks out Marxist bromides. "Faster, Agent Smith! If he gets to the part about a single oxen having more power than a thousand flowers, the terrorists have won!"
For heaven's sake, you could teach a comp-lit course on the writings of Osama bin Laden, and the only repercussion would be fast-track tenure. So why did anyone believe the student? Two reasons.
One: It was fake but accurate. That's what they said about the Bush TANG memos, you may recall. Granted, the papers were forged, the dates wrong, the authors dead or retired, and the memos called Bush "Mr. 666 Helliburton Dry-Drunk Oil Shill Poopy Head," but that doesn't mean there aren't serious questions about whether he was 10 minutes late for his physical exam.
Likewise the "Little Red Book" affair: OK, it didn't happen. Granted. But if George W. Bush eavesdrops on people calling al-Qaida cells in Pakistan, you know he has plans to deport The Nation's subscriber base to labor camps in Kansas and make them sew covers...
(Excerpt) Read more at newhousenews.com ...
As if subscribers to The Nation would be of any use at a LABOR camp!
Took me a minute to catch that this wasn't zottable. Usually any reference to "Chimpy" is a call for the Viking Kitties!
Good satire, but it's gotta be read carefully. ;-)
May we YET read hillary's thesis?
Lileks is one of the funniest guys going. Catch him every chance you get. He also appears weekly on Hugh Hewitt's radio show.
Good stuff.
/s/ KB5DZC
A college student at the University of Massachusetts requested a copy of Mao's "Little Red Book" from the Dartmouth library and was subsequently visited by federal agents.
Obviously this "student" (if this were true) is not paying for his own education, and I would think that the poor sucker who is (most likely the Father) would visit him and kick a size 13 shoe up his butt for wasting hard earned money.
:)
All you gotta read is "( BY JAMES LILEKS )"
How's that work?
We cannot send both of them there. There would only be hanky-panky regardless of gender.
Why pick on Kansas? I recall seeing a geology book titled "God Hates Kansas", but why should we?
It's not like they're gonna take up much space, especially since one of them will die in the first day without his macrobiotic diet.
But he did sell critical missile technology to the Chinese in exchange for campaign contributions, did bomb Baghdad for four days as a cynical ploy to delay the impeachment process, did use the IRS to punish his enemies, and committed a host of other REAL crimes.
Lileks should know better.
I looked a a few articles I had "searched", after posting, and found out some other interesting facts about ham radio.
Dibs on this for a future tagline of mine
Ham is not going anywhere.
PC's and cell phones are dependent on the main local power at the server or cell base, (see also: NYC on 9/11; Katrina; Rita)...their centralized nature makes them vulnerable to terror strikes.
Ham can reach ANYWHERE in the world...without a wi-fi network or even a phone line.
CQ, CQ...reach out & touch someone. :-)
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