Douchebag of the Day

Sure… that is, if you believe that Israel is our only ally. In fact, the reverse is much closer to the truth. The US is about the only ally that Israel has in the world, and right now the Israeli Far Right is taking special pleasure from spitting in our faces.

@Serolf Divad: The Kagans long for the good ol’ days, when America was exceptional and “[e]very 10 years or so, [needed] to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business.”

@Serolf Divad:
The Likudniks remind me of my late cousin’s bitch of a wife. Sell US weapons tech to China? Sure no problem. Take US money and not worry about US sanctions? No problem. Do whatever they want and run to the US when they over do it? No problem.

When the US actually gets offended and says a few mild critical words? Throw a major temper tantrum.

@blogenfreude: US America is still exceptional. Make no mistake. Because the rest of the world is convinced of it (perhaps not for long).

Are you, sir, somehow implying that Tom Friedman and Kagan are in cahoots? Be careful brother, because if you link two opinion-makers who happen to share views about how US America should DOMINATE THE WORLD (on behalf of Israel?), just by chance advancing Israeli geopolitical interests, and they happen to be Jewish, you, sir, will be accused of Antisemitism. Not to mention conspiracy theory.

(And please, people, I’m not one to care about someone’s religious tribal affiliation [to me it’s equivalent to rabid fandom for a Sport team]. I believe everyone on earth is entitled to as much or little as anyone else, and the fact that I feel the need to write this disclaimer is an indicator of how much AIPAC has strangled the US American “discourse” about anything relating to Israel.)

@Pedonator: speaking of tribal and religious affiliation on this 17th of March, I want to tell all of my Mexican-American brethren that as a person who has a plurality of Irish blood (and a maternal line of the most hilariously stereotypical Irish names), I feel their Cinco de Mayo exploitation by beer companies and Marina chicks pain.

@SanFranLefty: Yeah, isn’t this “holiday” supposed to celebrate the get-ridding of snakes or something? I mean, who would want to get rid of snakes?

But the Irish in me (perhaps 30%+) views this hallowed day as just another excuse to get drunk, so I’m good with that.

The only green I wore today was in my socks, hidden from view of every co-worker I’d like to have had a pinch from. So this holiday = no fun.