Joe's always good, I found this interesting because he touches on some of the stuff we've been talking about:

America has a long record of stifling dissent exactly when dissent is most needed. Democracy American-style means we get free speech for trivial matters, but not for life-and-death issues. When an election is stolen, the very party from whom it was stolen refuses to protest the theft because well, “Nobody likes sour grapes, do they?” thereby assuring future electoral thefts. When America supplies Israel with cluster bombs to kill Palestinian children and grandmothers, you don’t see rallies against Israel or American arms cartels. You see yet another exercise of free speech on behalf those things the politicians and corporations could care less about, and thus grant us permission to “dissent” upon. Issues such as gender and identity, or just about anything related to sexual freedom: “Go ahead, parade and rant about your own penises and vulvas. Just don’t challenge the banks, the war machine or the fraudulent democratic process by which we manage the people. Remember, fucking with these things is called terrorism. So stick to your own narrow “issues” like sexual freedom and nobody will get hurt. Got it punk?”

and this,

But we have never won against a war until it is too damned late and the Pentagon and the Halliburtons of this country have wrung every blood-stained buck from it and moved on toward setting up the next one. Yet the left, perhaps sensing the futility of protesting the latest war from inside their free speech cages -- which seem only to be reserved for war dissenters -- dissipates its energies further by charging at the sly Republican matador’s array of fluttering capes, one of which is labeled sexual privacy. No cage required. You can usually parade that one right down the street, further proof the fatherland is a free land, and that the powers that be could care less about that issue.

and this,

After 40 years of having their natural base absorbed by the amorphous middle class that isn’t, the meat of politics has been removed from the table, leaving Spider plant liberals left to find sustenance in the most minuscule nourishment. There are just enough tiny differences in the two parties to sustain ever-hopeful liberal voters, who have long accepted the thin gruel served by the Democratic political elite as the prelude to a promised feast. Of course the feast never comes because no Democrat is ever going to do more than “address” a problem, rather than solve it. In fact, for one of the Democratic elites to even acknowledge the existence of the most glaring sort of inequity sends good liberals into political insulin shock, so accustomed have their systems become to calorie-free ideas and “reality lite.” Al Gore makes a film about global warming, but dares not name the corporations that not only refuse to seek remedy, but insist on escalating the problem, and who just happen to fund both parties. Instead he tells the audience that they are personally to blame and must start sacrificing, hanging their clothes on lines and so forth. Movies being reality in this country, liberal America hails the documentary as a turning point in our ravenous energy consumption, drives the six blocks home from the Cineplex wondering where the hell one buys wooden clothespins, having never seen one in the entirety of suburbia in their lives. Al Gore gets an Academy Award at the annual swarming of very rich swans living in a paradise wherein they never even see their own laundry from the moment it drops from their gilded bodies.

http://www.worldnewstrust.com/index.php ... emid=10204 (http://www.worldnewstrust.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1446&Itemid=10204)

Good stuff all, and hot off the presses.

Edit: Whoops, probably the wrong forum for this. If whoever's minding the store wants to move this to somewhere more appropriate I'm fine with it.