{"id":314,"date":"2006-08-18T20:01:55","date_gmt":"2006-08-19T01:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/314"},"modified":"2006-08-18T20:10:14","modified_gmt":"2006-08-19T01:10:14","slug":"take-that-you-bunch-of-hair-shirt-tyrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/314","title":{"rendered":"Take That You Bunch Of Hair Shirt Tyrants"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This Tom Tomorrow cartoon<\/a> has been my favorite, ever since he put it up right after 9-11 (click on the link to see the whole thing).  In it, Uncle Sam exhorts Americans to hold firm in their basic American values in the face of the threat from Osama bin Laden and his Taliban backers. <\/div>\n
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Of course, the creator of This Modern World sees those basic American values a tad differently then the president and the congress we unfortunately happened to have on 9-11.  Uncle Sam brings forward a political dissenter who says he still thinks Bush is a dufus ("That’s the spirit son!"), a feminist who says women make their own choices in this democracy ("Yow!  Take that Osama!"), some gays, and an atheist to step up to the podium and flaunt themselves in the enemy’s face for America.  Finally Sam says "The only way to beat these terrorists is to stand up for tolerance and diversity and everything else they hate about our free society!  Are you with me Americans?<\/strong>"<\/em>  It was irony of course, but I think with tongue only partially in cheek; and I found myself thinking wistfully "If only I lived in that America…"<\/em><\/div>\n
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Well…we all know how things have gone since.  Some days it seems like the religious wackos here at home are a grim mirror of the ones throwing bombs abroad, their views on social justice, women, gays, human sexuality and liberal secular democracy are so much alike.  So it was with pleasure that while I was scanning the news today and I came across this<\/a>…<\/div>\n

Israel’s military campaign against Hizbullah in Lebanon was a "failure" and demonstrated to Palestinian groups the Jewish state is weak and can ultimately be defeated, a senior terror leader told WorldNetDaily in an interview.
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\nThe leader, Abu Oudai, chief rocket coordinator for the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in the West Bank, said Hizbullah’s "tremendous victory" has emboldened his group and other Palestinian terror organizations to immediately coordinate violence against Israel and to focus their "resistance" on rocket attacks.
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\n"I think the most important achievement this war in Lebanon demonstrated is that Israel – with all its power, its air force, its tanks, its navy and its unlimited budget – can be defeated," said Abu Oudai.
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\n"If we do (what Hizbullah accomplished), this Israeli army full of gay soldiers<\/strong> and full of corruption and with old-fashioned war methods can be defeated also in Palestine."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I almost immediately came across this<\/a>…<\/p>\n

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Star of gay adult films to entertain Israeli troops<\/strong><\/p>\n

A star of gay pornographic films is traveling to Israel to entertain the troops and shoot two films, PageOneQ has learned.<\/p>\n

Michael Lucas (picture, right), head of Lucas Entertainment, is planning to give troops free admission to a live sex show in Tel Aviv. It will be his third appearance there.<\/p>\n

"I toured Israel before with Rob Ramos in 2004 (Haifa and Tel-Aviv) and with Wilfried Knight in 2005 (Tel-Aviv)," he wrotes in the announcement on his blog. "I haven’t decided yet who will be my partner for the live sex show I’m doing there (Israel has no problem with that type of entertainment)."\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Taaaake thAT you miserable bunch of gutter crawling flea bitten human hating religious wackos…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  This Tom Tomorrow cartoon has been my favorite, ever since he put it up right after 9-11 (click on the link to see the whole thing).  In it, Uncle Sam exhorts Americans to hold firm in their basic American values in the face of the threat from Osama bin Laden and his Taliban backers.  […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fighting-back"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}