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This is certainly ongoing and

A Guy Called LULU — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 23:02:50 +0000

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This is certainly ongoing and it pisses me off. In regards to the Trayvon Martin case, very shortly into the video you can see what a person looks like after being hit in the face.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31083.htm

It pisses me off that so much

A Guy Called LULU — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 03:21:58 +0000

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It pisses me off that so much of this is true. I may go to Guadalajara and buy this guy a beer.

http://www.fredoneverything.net/RecedingTide.shtml

Mohammad Wazir can barely

A Guy Called LULU — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 01:25:20 +0000

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Mohammad Wazir can barely take a sip of water because it reminds him of his 7-year-old daughter, who brought him a glass three days before she was killed with 10 other loved ones in a shooting spree allegedly carried out by a U.S. soldier in southern Afghanistan.

Wazir said he had asked his wife for a drink but his daughter Masooma brought it instead.

"She said: 'Ask me, daddy. I can bring you water, too,' " Wazir recalled. "She was the beauty of my house. She had black magical eyes."

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/text/2017834210.html

In a history of the 70s, the

A Guy Called LULU — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 02:26:12 +0000

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In a history of the 70s, the conservative commentator David Frum, referring to the conviction of Lt. William Calley for the murder of Vietnamese civilians, notes:

Congressional liberals like Senator Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut joined with conservatives like Georgia’s Herman Talmadge to condemn the verdict … The governor of Indiana ordered all state flags to be flown at half staff for Calley. The governor of Utah criticised the verdict as ‘inappropriate’ and the sentence as ‘excessive’. Governor Jimmy Carter of Georgia proclaimed ‘American Fighting Man’s Day’, and urged Georgia motorists to drive all week with headlights on. The Arkansas legislature approved a resolution asking for clemency. The lower house of the Kansas legislature demanded Calley’s release from prison. So did the Texas Senate and the state legislatures of New Jersey and South Carolina. … Alabama Governor George Wallace visited Calley in the Fort Benning stockade and called on President Nixon to pardon him. Wallace then spoke at a rally in Calley’s defence at Columbus, Georgia, alongside Governor John Bell Williams of Mississippi.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/03/21/from-my-lai-to-kandahar/

Here is an essay about

A Guy Called LULU — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:45:20 +0000

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Here is an essay about something that pisses me off followed by a Charlie Chaplin video that I like.

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/richard-eskow/40951/death-of-an-ordi...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsgaFKwUA6g&feature=player_embedded

I have never criticized

A Guy Called LULU — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 20:58:48 +0000

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I have never criticized anyone who avoided the Vietnam draft, whether their methods were strictly kosher or not, with one exception. I consider those who dodged and then became big war advocates to be chickenhawks. I despise chickenhawks.
Today I learned a few things about Romney. While he was in college and had a deferment he demonstrated against anti-war demonstrators. That pisses me off. After three years of college deferment he got an additional 30 months deferment for being on a Mormon mission. I didn't know before today that such an exemption existed back then. It pisses me off. Now, his stated positions on Middle East policy, like those of all the repugnant Republican candidates, pisses me off even more than it already did.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2083002/Mitt-Romney-19-demonstra...

Arrrgh is right! From the

A Guy Called LULU — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 23:21:11 +0000

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Arrrgh is right! From the article with my emphasis added.

The simple fact is that progressives are supporting a candidate for President who has done all of that — things liberalism has long held to be pernicious. I know it’s annoying and miserable to hear. Progressives like to think of themselves as the faction that stands for peace, opposes wars, believes in due process and civil liberties, distrusts the military-industrial complex, supports candidates who are devoted to individual rights, transparency and economic equality. All of these facts — like the history laid out by Stoller in that essay — negate that desired self-perception. These facts demonstrate that the leader progressives have empowered and will empower again has worked in direct opposition to those values and engaged in conduct that is nothing short of horrific. So there is an eagerness to avoid hearing about them, to pretend they don’t exist. And there’s a corresponding hostility toward those who point them out, who insist that they not be ignored.

I think it's more correctly

kgb999 — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 18:33:01 +0000

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I think it's more correctly spelled "Arrrgh!"

Today's item does not piss me

A Guy Called LULU — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 18:03:31 +0000

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Today's item does not piss me off. I think it should be seen as an absolute pisser, but instead I see it in a sort of darkly humorous way.
That guy who is seldom mentioned as we all hold our breath waiting for the big take-down analysis of his writing, but whom I suspect every single person here reads, says well what I am referring to. For any that don't, or haven't yet today, here is a prod.

http://www.salon.com/writer/glenn_greenwald/

I really should learn to copy

Jeni Decker — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:42:11 +0000

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I really should learn to copy my comments to the clipboard before I click save... I keep losing them to the abyss... fool me once, shame on you - fool me twice, I'm an idiot!

How about, "I hear ya..."

Also, I could probably live happily never hearing, "That's why we can't have nice things..." ever again. It was funny once upon a time, but you really have to work your creative muscle to make it fresh at this point.

BTW, love the idea of this thread. I'll try not to make a nuisance of myself, but I'm sure I could think of something every day to add to it.