HenleyWatch
Posted by TFG on July 2nd, 2007
Isn’t It Enough to Know I Ruined a Pony Making a Gift for You?
By far the oddest behaviour from the Official Left-Libertarian Blogger is his semi-regular campaign to have us believe that Laura Bush has left Chimpy. His link is two months old, and it goes to highly-respected journalistic outfit, E!. You’re telling me that Perez Hilton or some other big wheel or random schmoe can’t get a picture of her sucking down martinis with a cigarette in her mouth in two months? I surely believe it’s possible that such a thing has happened or could happen, but I doubt that it has, for mere lack of evidence. Maybe this is one of those Beltway things that’s common knowledge to the Maryland and Auld Virginny denizens, and they’ve chosen to take the path of…what? Respectably keeping it under wraps, like no pix of FDR in a wheelchair or somesuch? E!nquiring minds want to know.
Other Official Left-Libertarian Blogger Henley Theories I’m interested in hearing addressed: if Iraq is Jihad U., a common-enough complaint and one easy enough for even a dumb hick like me to understand and potentially even buy into, wouldn’t there be whole lot more death-dealing being done in England and Scotland with this spasm of car-bombs? Are they saving the really bright Jihad U. graduates for something or someplace else? Or is it possible that the whole Iraq=Jihad U. idea is a bunch of dovish puffery, designed to cause bedwetting somewhere because this is a real reason to wet the bed? The good news for Jim is that there’s no time-frame for an Iraq=Jihad U. confirmation, which means it can still come true, and so keep wetting the bed if you’re of a bent to do so because this one says you should, vs. that one. Me, I know no one wetting the bed over anything, but it’s a meme of Left-Libertarians, who can see thru such things as amateurish car-bombs a whole ocean away and understand it’s a great way to impose thought-crime legislation via a Presidential signing statement we don’t even know about.
This HenleyWatch was brought to you by Shiner Light, a desire to post something, and my sincere belief that the guy is about as sharp as you’re gonna get on the Fortress America front.
July 3rd, 2007 at 1:37 am
Don’t you just love thought crimes? What a concept, that you don’t actually have to DO anything to get in trouble. All you have to do is exist for someone who doesn’t like you, and who has the stroke, to lock you you for being you.
I’m gay and if someone doesn’t like that, fine. He’s got the right, and he can shout it from the rooftops as long as he wants, as long as he’s not disturbing the peace in my neighborhood. But if he starts to try to beat up on me, that’s a different thing. If he incites someone else to beat up on me, or to kill me, that’s a different thing.
The very idea of a thought crime places people into categories, and the categories are a class system. It’s no worse to kill me than to kill a straight, white, homophobic male football player for there is no pride of place under the embalmer’s touch.
Anyone who talks about thought crimes or hate crimes–the same thing–is holding some life as being worth less than other life.
Hm. I think I’ll expand on this.
July 3rd, 2007 at 7:45 am
To be fair & clear, Jim’s not a though-crime guy. I reckon he thinks a caveman like me and other Bushies are all for it, but I don’t have any evidence of that to hand.
July 5th, 2007 at 1:46 pm
You gotta wonder what they’re waiting for, if they’ve been training these past (almost) six years to come get us. But, then, you see these highly-trained medicos who can’t set off a car bomb properly.