Re: [silk] The Jade Helm "conspiracy"

[Thaths]

On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 11:30 AM Charles Haynes 
wrote:

> If you liked that, you owe it to yourself to read Molly Ivins.
>
>
Or Hunter S. Thompson.

Thaths

Re: [silk] The Jade Helm "conspiracy"

[Charles Haynes]

If you liked that, you owe it to yourself to read Molly Ivins.

Here are a few choice quotes:

“As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their
whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway,
you don't belong in office.”
― Molly Ivins 

“I am not anti-gun. I'm pro-knife. Consider the merits of the knife. In the
first place, you have to catch up with someone in order to stab him. A
general substitution of knives for guns would promote physical fitness.
We'd turn into a whole nation of great runners. Plus, knives don't
ricochet. And people are seldom killed while cleaning their knives.”
― Molly Ivins 

“There are two kinds of humor. One kind that makes us chuckle about our
foibles and our shared humanity -- like what Garrison Keillor does. The
other kind holds people up to public contempt and ridicule -- that's what I
do. Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the
powerful. I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the
powerless, it is not only cruel -- it's vulgar. ”
― Molly Ivins 

On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 1:46 PM, Udhay Shankar N  wrote:

> Because a truly incandescent rant is a thing of beauty. I wish someone
> would write like this about the many, many idiot politicians we have in
> India.
>
> Udhay
>
> http://m.dailykos.com/stories/1382733
>
> Meet the Jade Helm conspiracy theory: The federal government's plot to
> invade Texas
> May 06, 2015 8:10am PDT by Hunter
>
>
> The supposed Jade Helm 15 conspiracy may be the single stupidest thing to
> come out of Texas in 20 years, and for a state that has reliably given us
> such treasures as Louie Gohmert, Steve Stockman, Ted Cruz, Rick Perry, and
> George W. Bush himself that is saying something.
>
> It may not even be possible to adequately convey how stupid this story is.
> There may not be words in the English language—there may in fact be no
> words in any language, simply because no civilization has yet existed that
> ever needed to convey a stupidity as deep or as empty-headed as would apply
> here. It is a stupidity so stupid that we may be able to use it as future
> measure of the viability of nation-states; if a majority of any definable
> population is stupid enough to believe this thing, it is evidence that that
> population has lost the intellectual ability to maintain a government.
>
> Texas Governor Greg Abbott has ordered members of the Texas Military to
> monitor federal troops in an upcoming two-month training exercise planned
> for the Lone Star State.
>
> Let us explain. Below the fold we go, not because we want to but because we
> have to.
>
> Let us explain. Jade Helm 15 is the latest in a very long series of
> whimsically titled training exercises conducted by the U.S. military in
> order to maintain troop readiness, test combat strategies, and otherwise
> work out the kinks in America's reliably top-notch ability to blow the holy
> hell out of any nation on Earth with a single presidential phone call. This
> particular one will be a two-month-long affair meant to simulate special
> operations in a the brutally harsh environment of a third-world desert
> hellhole—hence the choice of Texas—and will feature some of the nation's
> most skilled special operations experts, including the Rangers, the Green
> Berets, and the Navy SEALs. Like all similar operations, it is likely to
> funnel serious cash into local coffers, but otherwise is not likely to have
> any noticeable impact on state residents aside from the inconvenience of
> having to pass lines of camo-painted Humvees on local freeways as troops
> make their way to and from the training grounds.
>
> None of this would merit more than a few stories in the local papers, had
> not some of America's singularly stupidest patriots(TM) decided that it was
> all a cunning ruse. Because Obama. And Muslims. And FEMA.
>
> The announcement follows weeks of growing public outcry over the training
> event. Super right-wing news websites first circulated an Army document
> describing the planned exercise in March, and since then a broad theory of
> military plans to subdue Texans and institute martial law has emerged.
> Indeed. There are internet websites devoted to claiming everything from
> childhood vaccinations to Burrito Night at your local community center are
> in preparation for instituting martial law. We call the purveyors of those
> sites lunatics and morons, and we generally try to avoid paying attention
> to them. Town meetings do admittedly tend to attract these people, because
> lunatics and morons tend to have considerably more free time on their hands
> than you or I, but yelling your internet-sourced, deeply stupid,
> in-all-probablilty-drug-fueled theory into a microphone does not make it
> more intelligent. It just makes it louder.
>
> At t