Blogwars 5 responds to The Odious Ted Rall, whose skulking presence at the periphery of the Blogosphere is really driving down property values. No Bundt cake welcoming you to the neighborhood, Teddy Boy! Instead, you get a cartoon…
[Ted Rall* responds: “Jokes about penis size are so juvenille. So what if I’m a bit, uh, light on the meatgreet? Lotsa guys are two knuckles short of a pinky. Who cares? Size is overrated. You know what’s big? Texas OIL money, that’s what! Bushy and his corporate buddies WAGING A WAR to get at all that luscious black Caspian Sea OIL (drool). Resident Booosh providing his cronies in the defense industry with FAT CONTRACTS — That’s what’s big!”
[protein wisdom’s rejoinder: What a sad, sad, sad little prick you are, Ted.]
after Rall’s own abomination
[like your Rall spankings in words and not pictures? Try Dr. Anne’s January 2nd screed. *And no, Rall didn’t really respond. ‘t least not here. That we know of that is — lots of pseudonyms in the comments section…]
Hee hee, intrepid lil hegemon, hee hee. (it’s too early to be witty)
Beautiful. You guys have outdone yourselves this time. This has Anne’s fingerprints on it, I am sure….
It’s official. Ted Rall hates America, the war on terrorism, *and* the survivors of people killed on 9/11.
From the AP wire:
MARCH 06, 06:42 ET
Editorial Cartoon Removed From Web
NEW YORK (AP)
<b>very</b> nice!
This is as good as it gets: you’ve made this imperialist happy.
Making fun of Ted Rall’s manhood! That’s brilliant! How did you come up with that? That really showed him!
You could do a series! Anyone you don’t agree with… just say he’s a little girly boy! And you could contrast him (or her?) with a virile member of the Bush administration! Wow! Thanks for giving me so much to think about! And to exclaim about! Yeah!
Wanker. You *and* Rall.
Attack anyone I don’t agree with? Why, that’s a freakin’ GREAT idea, Kai! —though I can’t figure out why you’d want to bring the Prez. into this (given your aversion to all things Bush, heh heh). Ya little prick, ya’.
Now get on your knees and polish my boot with your hairless, little boy nipples… You might feel a stir, but don’t sweat it. You’re attracted to my power is all.
Oh. And use your tongue, and make puppy noises, if you don’t mind. I <i>love</i> it when my bitches make them cute li’l puppy noises…
<a href=”http://members.aol.com/jimtreacher/images/clipartnonsense.htm”>http://members.aol.com/jimtreacher/images/clipartnonsense.htm</a>
WOW! “Now get on your knees and polish my boot with your hairless, little boy nipples… You might feel a stir, but don’t sweat it. You’re attracted to my power is all.
Oh. And use your tongue, and make puppy noises, if you don’t mind. I love it when my bitches make them cute li’l puppy noises… “ LOL – I’m a straight Bush-Lovin’ Rall hating guy and I felt a little squeamish on that!
Wonder if Rall’s even noticed it’d be a lot cheaper to drill in the ANWAR than develop pipelines and an oil field halfway around the world. But hey, why should he bother rubbing two brain cells together? He’s got his preconceptions – he’s not going to abandon them!
Hey J, Teddy doesn’t HAVE 2 brain cells to rub together.
They shouldn’t pull the toon. Leave it up. It should be prefixed to every Rall cartoon, so viewers will know what a worthless piece of dog shit drew whatever droll thingy they’re looking at.
Hey, I hear Rall is gonna do a real gut buster on all the newly born kids and how the mothers should have aborted the little bastards.Oh, it will be so funny!
Coming next week: The humorous side of small animal torture and why Pres. Bush is personally responsible for ted’s little ted.
Oops, Mr. whoever you are, my mistake: I thought blogging was all in good fun, and hey maybe even capable of taking criticism. But apparently in your practice of it it’s just a big “love” fest, with crude insults for dissenters.
I think the point of the cartoon you parodied was to take a jab at the endless righteous glorification of victimhood going on, which can lead to absurd and ugly results.
But if all you’re interested in is going on about how we’re so good and everyone who doesn’t agree with us is so bad, you’re just going to get shriller and uglier by the minute, which by the way is no service to the victims you seem to be so concerned for, nor to their cause.
Kai,
please tell us of a personal tragedy that you’ve suffered so that we can turn it into a cartoon and make fun of it. Remember, we will just be “[taking] a jab at the endless righteous glorification of victimhood” so please don’t ask to have it taken down once you see it. That would be censorship!
I’m tell you, Kai, I’m sick of adolescent rape victims. I wish Ted Rall would do a cartoon making fun of them, within a few months of their rape, and publish it in a national paper. That would really punctute the “righteous glorification of victimhood.”
<a href=”http://www.speranzastudios.com/freedirtydanny/”>http://www.speranzastudios.com/freedirtydanny/</a>
Seems Mr. Rall knows about “Hitting the Lottery”.
“Within 48 hours of the start of the prank, I received letters from Rall’s lawyers demanding a retraction, and apology, and $20,000 in financial compensation. I immediately complied with Rall’s request for both the apology and retraction,(the apology is also up at my website for public inspection). I felt that Rall’s insistence on financial compensation was both ridiculous and opportunistic, so I initially declined to offer any cash.
Within days, I discovered that Rall had filed a lawsuit against me in the New York State Supreme Court, charging me with Libel, Libel Per Se, Injurious Falsehood Invasion of Privacy, and Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress. The amount of damages asked for in the suit was $1.5 million dollars; a figure that I am sure you will agree is both outrageous and laughable. It was at this point that I offered Rall’s lawyer a $1000 settlement; apparently this was not the figure they’d had in mind.”
So let me get this straight, Kai… You show up on our site, post your drippingly sarcastic takedown of our Anti-Rall, then get offended when we respond in kind?
We <i>know</i> what the point of Rall’s garbage was. But knowing garbage when you see it doesn’t make it smell any less.
You write, “But if all you’re interested in is going on about how we’re so good and everyone who doesn’t agree with us is so bad, you’re just going to get shriller and uglier by the minute…” To which we respond: <i>Huh?</i>
Where does our cartoon say “we’re so good and everyone else is so bad”? Sorry, but the <b>protein wisdom</b> folks are far more specific than that. We suggested Ted Rall has a small prick and he ain’t good at using it. Later, we suggested that you were a hairless, ball-less creep for aiming childish jibes at us. We read your position, disagreed, and “dissented.” We haven’t silenced you, nor have we held a love fest. In fact, your words are still up here, Kai (twice), for all to see.
Unfortunately, everything you say is trite, sophomoric, and part of some larger cliche you live by. You keep arguing, we’ll keep arguing back.
In short, we pay service to the victims we’re concerned for by viciously mocking pseudo-intellectual apologists like you.
Your iconoclastic Chomsky-esque dissentions might get you laid by disaffected hippy chicks living in the dorms, but here, it gets you ridiculed.
Put up or shut up, Kai.
Brilliant cartoon, man!
Everybody Who Jumped On Kai-
I think his original post (the sarcastic one) addresses the point that this above cartoon does not address the actual point of Rall’s cartoon. Rall has taken a standpoint (with which I happen to disagree). You haven’t countered his point by saying, “Oh yeah, well you’ve got a small dick!” And then high fiving each other.
I would argue that the point of Rall’s cartoon isn’t about WTC widows being greedy, rather a commodification of grief that all of America seems to be fascinated with. But bottom line, I don’t think the cartoon was very funny.
Fair enough, Korovyov —
Only, the above cartoon’s refusal to address Rall’s “points” <i>is</i> the point of the above cartoon. Get it? Rall’s original spasmo-drivel was so profoundly odious that we felt no need to dignify its “message” with a response. Instead, we just randomly selected something to say about Rall (he’s flaccid, tiny, and soulless), and we said it.
The problem with Rall is Rall. If you wish to read our cartoon as an allegory, go ahead. If you wish to take it at face value, fine.
It was never our intention to counter his vapid observations about the “commodification of grief.” That would be bestowing dignity on something that every 15-year with a black anarchy tee-shirt could’ve come up with.
Just like any 15-year old in an anarchy tee-shirt can make dick jokes.
…Beginning to get the picture?
Here’s another Rall spoof:
<a href=”http://www.gizmosis.com/teddysues”>http://www.gizmosis.com/teddysues</a>
That strip’s a laff riot, but you Protein Wisdom people know what happens to folks who dare to make fun of Ted Rall, don’t you? Let’s hope that Rall’s too worn out from two and a half years of suing me to ask his lawyers to issue yet another Cease & Desist letter.
Isn’t here a huge difference between being an actual victim–like a widow of a man killed at WTC and someone who’s basicilly making a fuss about nothing or particpating in the “endless righteous glorification of victimhood”? I’m waiting for Ted Rall’s “Reparations for Slavery” cartoon. I don’t care how someone makes fun of Rall, I’m just glad someone did–and so well!
I give Ted Rall 3 weeks before he’s making fun of the last moments of the people murdered on 9/11. It’s much safer to make fun of people too civilized to actually attack him; that’s why he isn’t cranking on the ridiculous bargain-basement bundists of Osama’s nutball legions.
Actually I did enjoy a lot Rall’s cartoons.
Note that I did not ever know he existed, before the (quite funny) “widow” story (he’s not well known in Europe) but I’ll surely read him in the future.
He’s witty! He hits quite a lot of nails on your squared heads!
In my humble opinion “patriotic zombies” and “propaganda slaves” -i.e. most of the people here – should take the opportunity to understand some crumbs of truth instead of making fool of themselves.
Protein Wisdom-
“…Beginning to get the picture? “ Yeah, I think I got it. Sorry about bringing up a topic that sounded like it was in mild dissent.
I think some of Rall’s cartoons are funny and insightful. Others are just idiotic. This one falls into the latter category. It’s pretty obvious Rall’s just trolling with this one. And in bad taste.
Here’s a question (and it’s not meant to be a jab…it’s a real question) for everybody on this thread. If you were the producer of, say, the Jenny Jones show, would you feel comfortable using 9/11 widows for ratings? Realize that they wouldn’t be on the show if they weren’t making somebody money. Or do you think it’s a part of the healing process for America? It could be. Hell, I don’t know.
Please don’t read the above as a shot at 9/11 widows. It’s not.
Korovyov
Korovyov–
You ask: “If you were the producer of, say, the Jenny Jones show, would you feel comfortable using 9/11 widows for ratings?”
Sure. Were I the producer, that’d be my job, because that’s the kind of show JJ runs. “Get the widow on the set” and all that other Don Henley “Dirty Laundry” stuff.
But I’d surely expect some people to take offense.
Listen: I have no problem whatsoever with Rall’s publishing of his cartoon. I have a problem with the cartoon itself—which I found personally sick. My response was not to censor Rall, but to criticize him.
Of course, the “<i>casual</i> visitor from Belgium” (please, <b>coat and tie</b> next time, dickhead—we ain’t running a soup kitchen here) wouldn’t recognize such distinctions if they came up and pissed on his chocolates. He’s “too busy” honing his “mastery” of the “sneer quote.”
‘Patriotic Zombies’ and ‘Propoganda Slaves?’ Puh-leese! You live in the fucking E.U.! Now shut up and go make me a sandwich…
Protein Wisdom-
I never thought you were trying to censor Rall.
But I think you sidestepped my question a bit by saying that you would have widows on the show because that’s what producers do. That assumes that all producers care about is ratings, which may or may not be true. Let’s suppose it’s not true. It seems we both agree that having them on the show is a bit odious. But still, would you do it because that’s your job?
Is it Rall’s job to sell his work? Is he doing so with this cartoon? If self-promotion equals sales, I’d say yes. I think Rall is practicing no holds barred capitalism. And I don’t agree with it. I don’t think people should do whatever it takes to get their name out there.
Korovyov
I don’t think I side-stepped the question at all. I said were I the producer of “Jenny Jones” I’d have on whatever guests helped the show succeed in its niche market; if that involved booking widows, or transvestite dwarves, or what have you, fine—because that’s the kind of show the “Jenny Jones” show is. But again, I’d have to live with the criticisms that go along with my decisions.
[On the other hand, the point is moot: I personally would never take such a job in the first place]
Rall’s gotten tons of publicity out of this cartoon. To be fair, so has our site. And you’re right—I think Rall <i>was</i> trying to stir things up just for publicity, much to his shame.
People have every right to like Rall’s work; they also have every right to hate it, or to treat it with the kind of indifference it most often deserves. The same goes for anything we produce here. I just get a little peeved at folks who want their egos stroked because they have the “bravery” to “dissent.”
Out site provides a forum for people to air their views. We provide this, because we’re interested in what others have to say, and because we can handle ourselves just fine against criticism. But we bark back. That’s the way it is, and that’s the way it <i>should</i> be, if you ask me…
I wasn’t trying to criticize this site. I’m glad there are forums to discuss this sort of thing. And if I wanted my ego stroked, I’d go to the Peppermint Rhino.
Glad your site has gotten publicity for this.
pw: my attacks were never ad hominem. Yours mostly are.
Jokes about penis size and stamina. What a witty, intelligent and insightful rebuttal of Mr. Rall’s accurate satire of the “professional victim” status of some WTC survivors who seem to relish appearing in the media to air their complaints. Boy, I’m glad I stumbled upon the “Protein Stupidity” website. But what should one expect from people who are too pedestrian or shallow to bother thinking about the comic’s message? Rall was not mocking all of the 9/11 survivors, only the ones who are whoring themselves on Larry King and the like with their complaints about not getting enough money fast enough, being offended by reconstruction proposals or thinking CBS’s planned TV show Sunday is airing “too soon.” Enough is enough! I’m sick of hearing from unthankful, whiney widows who are being made millionaires with my tax dollars. Yes, what happened to them is a tragedy. But it could be a lot worse, like it was for the widows of the FDNY firemen killed last year on Father’s Day and who didn’t become millionaires as a result.
The only panel in Rall’s comic that is out of line was the one mocking Daniel Pearl’s widow. The others were composite “survivors” who were not identifiable, while Pearl’s widow was. But more importantly, she has not made a media whore out of herself as some survivors have, and she likely will not receive any 9/11 compensation from the federal government. So his comments about her were entirely offbase and unfair. Mrs. Pearl deserves an apology, but the rest of the comic was dead-on.
Believe it or not, there are doubtless many people who share Mr. Rall’s views.
I can only assume that the vitriolic reaction shown on this page (and others on this site) is a reflection of past gripes with Rall, who most of the righteously indignant people here seem to view as being akin to the devil incarnate.
And the rocket scientist who commented about drilling in ANWR—not “ANWAR” as cited above—obviously knows little about the economics of oil exploration and production. First: developing ANWR’s fields would be much more expensive than similar projects almost anywhere else in the world because of their isolated location, lack of pipelines and harsh climate. Second: The oil from ANWR would do little to address high prices or the US’ energy security, despite what oil-millionaire Dick Cheney says. But, given the general tenor of the “discourse” at this site, I shouldn’t be surprised by this person’s ill-informed comments about oil exploration. It fits right in.
God bless you all.
What can we say, Kai? —
You left us very little other than yourself to attack. You points seemed aimed at some general target that involved elitism and Bush and had very little at all to do with our cartoon (“all you’re interested in is going on about how we’re so good and everyone who doesn’t agree with us is so bad,” and “You could do a series! Anyone you don’t agree with… just say he’s a little girly boy! And you could contrast him (or her?) with a virile member of the Bush administration!”). Whaddya expect?
You also wrote, “ Wow! Thanks for giving me so much to think about!” Well, Kai, no offense buddy—but the world don’t revolve around you. If our toon didn’t float yer boat, cool. But you picked the wrong forum to express your disdain in the tone you did.
Not ‘cause we disapprove, mind you. Rather, ‘cause we’re just better at it than you…
Kai, Kai, Kai…. you silly person.
Don’t use fancy words like “ad hominen.”
Just say PW has a tiny weewee that doesn’t last long. (Or is PW a she with tiny boobies?) That seems to be the type of commentary he and his buddies like the best.
Great. Now we have A. Mann chiming in. “A. Mann,” get it? Clever. “Protein Stupidity,” he calls us. Very trenchant. Why not just “Doo doo face”?
Let’s see…What’s this genius’s complaint…? Oh yes, that “penis size and stamina” jokes are not insightful rebuttals of Mr. Rall’s original comic, and that we’re “too pedestrian or shallow to bother thinking about the comic’s message.”
Of course, had A.Jerkoff read the comments in this thread, he’d have discovered that we’ve already <i>covered</i> these points. Our refusal to “rebut” the sophomoric “insights” Rall offers (“People, like, <i>like</i> money, dudes. And they like, <i>like</i> attention, too. That’s pathetic. Isn’t that pathetic? Quick, where’re my crayons. I’m gonna say it’s pathetic”) was precisely the point of OUR comic. We <i>know</i> Rall thought he was being deep and provocative, and that his “art” has some larger “message” to offer the entrenched booooogeoiseee so blind to their own commodification, blah blah blah. So what? He failed.
It’s ironic that A.Dolt—who presumed to lecture us on how to interpret (if you only knew how much of a joke <i>that</i> is) —couldn’t be bothered to read the previous posts to find out that we’ve already discussed everything he brings up. But he was never interested in a discussion. He just wanted to launch into his practiced invective. Allows him to use “pedestrian” in a sentence that doesn’t involve crossing the street. Yawn.
Rall’s not the Devil incarnate. He’s hardly that important. In fact, he’s just some guy who makes dumb cartoons. A.Dump writes, “I’m sick of hearing from unthankful, whiney widows who are being made millionaires with my tax dollars.” Fine. That’s your right. And I’m sick of reading meanspirited attacks that pass for “brave political cartooning.” Face it: Your emperor’s naked.
We just described what he looks like (tiny, flaccid, &tc.) with no clothes on…
I was amused to see the amino acid unit live down to my expectations in his/her/its reply to my post. Gee, you sure taught me a thing or two by calling me “A. Dolt” etc. Please, stop! No more! You’re hurting my feelings and I might cry. You bully, you!
Kai’s right, you’re a pitiful wretch who is overly prone to ad hominem attacks upon anyone who dare disagree with your blather. Sure, you can give abuse/criticism. But God/Allah/Ted Rall forbid someone actually give a little bit of it back—protein “wisdom” will get pissy and call you names. (Grow up, loser.)
And who the hell ever declared Ted Rall my “emperor”? Puh-lease! I’m not even addressing Rall and his broader record, only your dumb-ass attempt at a response to his “terror widows” comic. (I’d call your response sophomoric, but that’s unfair to sophomores.)
But, hey, protein, pile on the personal attacks on we alleged intellectual lightweights who can’t “interpret” as well as you and your artsy-fartsy dweeb friends. Bet it makes you feel like you have a big dick and instead of simply being one (since it seems you’re fixated on phallus size).
’Not a Protein’ / ‘A.Mann’ writes:<blockquote>Sure, you can give abuse/criticism. But God/Allah/Ted Rall forbid someone actually give a little bit of it back—protein ‘wisdom’ will get pissy and call you names. (Grow up, loser.)</blockquote>
Where even to begin…? Okay: 1) <i>”…you can give abuse/criticism. But…Rall forbid someone acutally give a little of it back.”</i>
Hey genius. The “comments” box you keep typing your twaddle into? It’s on our site. See the irony in this? The “comments” option is there precisely so that people like you <i>can</i> criticize. We’d prefer it if you had the guts to choose a name and stick with it—but that would involve making difficult and principled choices, and you’re just interested in being “political” for the sake of hearing yourself ramble. It’s kind of cute, really. Like a li’l political puppy dog…
2) <i>”protein ‘wisdom’ will get pissy and call you names,”</i> he wrote. Followed immediately by <i>”(Grow up, loser.)”</i>
“Loser”? Doesn’t that count as name calling? Maybe you should draft an outline before you respond…
3) <i>”pile on the personal attacks on we alleged intellectual lightweights who can’t ‘interpret’ as well as you and your artsy-fartsy dweeb friends.”</i>
So which are we, Mr…Whatever-the-fuck-you-want-to-be-called? Are we “artsy-fartsy dweebs,” or are we fascist Bushies, or are we Big-dicked bullies…? C’mon. Focus. You can <i>do</i> this!
Listen, tool (We’re just going to call you “tool,” if that’s okay?): You can call our response to Rall’s scribbling anything you’d like. Just don’t be upset when we point out to you that your “criticism” never rises much above the level of any student’s in 10th-grade Honor’s English. Phrases like <i>” I’m not even addressing Rall and his broader record”</i> aren’t all that impressive sounding to us. This ain’t <i>Z</i> or Common Dreams…
Now, shouldn’t you be out somewhere protesting something or other with a puppet on your head? This has gotten tedious…
A. Mann:
Sorry, didn’t have time to post at you earlier – regarding ANWR (I used how I’ve heard it pronounced, sorry I offended you so deeply) – for some reason I just don’t see it being economically viable to run pipelines across Afghanistan and Pakistan (or Iran) and also develop new oilfields in the ‘Stans. (I figure the old ones are probably tapped out, and we’ll need to drill deeper in a lot of places. That means a lot of new rigs, and the existing platforms may not be sufficient for new development.) The cost of securing the land the pipeline passes through may be low in Afghanistan and Pakistan – but the cost of continuing security for the pipeline would be high, considering the history of that area.
Uzbekistan has (according to Google) about 600 million barrels reserve. The entire Caspian Sea area could have up to 235 billion, but with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the emergence of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Azerbaijan as independent states, ownership and development rights in the Sea have been called into question. Currently, there is no agreed-upon convention that delineates the states’ ownership of the Sea’s resources or their development rights, with the environmental risks and potential oil and gas wealth raising the stakes for each country. The lawyers will be fighting things out for decades to come.
Add in the cost of getting drilling equipment in, and drilling platforms in the sea itself – not to mention buying leases on areas already held by other countries and companies who’ll be wanting the oil for themselves – it’ll cost.
Contrast that with the ANWR. It’s got up to 16 billion barrels, on US soil, with no existing leases to worry about and no need to worry about the type of security for the pipeline that one in Afghanistan would need…
Don’t know about you – but I’d say the ANWR’s the better bet.
BTW, it took all of about ten minutes to find out the relative capacities of the two oil fields, and a couple minutes extra to find maps showing the exisiting leases in the Caspian area. I may be, to your thoughts, ill-informed – but I can correct that quickly enough when need arises.
Thanks – I know more about it now.
J.
A. Mann – forgot to mention – as far as harsh climate goes – <a href=”http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/viewrecord?10988″>http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/viewrecord?10988</a> shows plenty of ice in the Caspian sea. It doesn’t look all that hospitable, either. Ice in Alaska, or Ice in the ‘Stans….
Personally, I still think Rall stinks both as an artist and a political cartoonist. But “your mileage may vary” as they used to say, and if you like him, more power to ya… I don’t have to.
J.
J:
Thank you for your thoughtful reply, I
Christ. Power to the People, A. Mann!
Hear that, J.? A. Mann applauds your efforts to try to learn more. But don’t be fooled by the <i>visible</i> facts. Those’re for people in bowling leagues who drive Chevy trucks with flag decals and drink beer outta cans.
And don’t let the politicians simplify things for you, either, man. Fight the powers! Most certainly the world is run by a cabal of evil capitalists involved in an all encompassing oil conspiracy.
The U.S. has a “rapacious” demand for gas, doncha know! Why, we make up 4% of the world’s population and use 25% of its oil! Heavens! Greedy bourgeois capitalists!
Hey, A. Mann—what’s your point, exactly? That drilling in ANWR won’t lessen the U.S.’s dependence on foreign oil? Of <i>course</i> it won’t. Nor will it destroy some pristine wilderness.
Are you against oil exploration on <i>principle</i>? I don’t get it.
Damnation, what
Sure. It’s pure political whoring—no more, no less. ANWR exploration isn’t “necessary.” But justified? What, you mean empirically? Morally? What?
The idea that drilling in ANWR will destroy pristine wilderness and endanger the ecosystem is so much MORE political whoring—no better or worse a politically charged proposition than the ones put forth by those who want to drill. The ANWR situation boils down to this: it’s a battle between a conservationist/Puritan mindset and a mindset more attuned to commerce and profit. It’s a battle of dueling ideologies. Neither holds the moral highground. If the people of Alaska are for the drilling, I say drill.
The “visible” facts I refer to are the same ones you refer to—though you intimate that people (other than you, natch) treat the energy sector as if it were invisible.
And I put words in your mouth because they seem to match the underlying sentiment of you posts. Everything’s a giant Oil Co. conspiracy. It’s tiresome.
My God, this is a stupid site.
You people probably vote, too.
Yup, we vote. Ebbody’s doing it!
(but hey, what’s with the “My God” thing? What, you’re not the sharing type, Steve?)
A. Mann:
I focused on the Caspian Sea basin because that seemed what most of the rants against Cheney/Big Oil on CommonDreams.Org were focused on – how we’re evilly grabbin’ Afganistan so Cheney can build better pipeline access to the ‘stans (of which Uzbekistan is one) (and the numbers I got for the ANWR came up under a google search for ANWR reserves so if they’re wrong, they’re wrong…) – so I took the stupidest conspiracy theory I could find and followed it. It went nowhere, by my thinking.
As is this. I’m gonna go see who I can sell my vote to.
Ciao.
J.
I support this satirical cartoon. It had to be harsh because Rall’s original was so appalling.
As a friend of a woman whose husband had the same name and was on the same floor mentioned by Rall (and I hope she never sees his ugly cartoon), I would like him to spend a day with her and her children and see how funny 9/11 widowhood is after that. Especially on 3/11/02 when the awful nature of his death hit home yet again.
The untruths in his cartoon were many, but the implication that huge sums are being collected from any source is quite untrue.
Ted Rall deserves to be publicly executed. He is at the top of the list of useless wastes of blood and tissue* that put the “justifiable” in “justifiable homicide.”
*I would say “people” here but that would be in unneccessary deference to actual human beings.