To review, everyone looked at the shiny controversy, many conservatives... or rather anti-leftists, played their part in losing their shit, and everyone else responded by paying attention to them. The speech is actually incredibly tame, and the anti-leftists are now suggesting (despite having no evidence) that the speech was changed. Tomorrow the corporate powers will tell Fox News and Drudge to direct the anti-leftists to do something else either truly silly or incredibly intellectually dishonest and everyone's heads will turn.
Actually, I think I can already see the next thing. Apparently
yet another fake Kenyan birth certificate (from the mentally disturbed Orly Taitz) is making the rounds. OMGZ! LOOK AT TEH FAKE BIRTH CERTIFICATE! YOU MEAN CERTIFICATIONZ?! SAME THING!! NUH UH, ITZ CERTIFICATIONZ OF LIVE BIRTH!!
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There have been 320 coalition deaths in 2009 so far, which is already higher than any of the previous 6 years we've been in Afghanistan. No one knows why we're there. I've not heard from jorgelito since he posted that he wanted to join the Navy. If I were religious, I'd be praying that I didn't scan by his real name on the casualty list. It's labor day and unemployment rate is at a 26 year high—that is, this is the worst unemployment in my entire life—, at 9.7% officially. Corporate interests are somehow managing to endanger a public healthcare option even with Democratic control of the White House, House, and Senate; just another reminder that democracy isn't always democratic. The US has 5% of the world's population and 23.6% of its prisoners. We've just suffered
several instances of domestic terrorism, and the hatred that fueled them is growing.
A little perspective.