Michael J. Fox on Limbaugh and stem cells

Like pretty well everyone who went to high school in the 1980s, I liked Michael J. Fox. Not in a screamy, crushy, posters-all-over-my-wall, die-for-him way (uh, that would have been the guys in Duran Duran), but in a he’s-cute, he’s-funny, I’m-proud-he’s-Canadian way. This was a star who deserved his success. He packed a huge comic talent in a compact frame, with so much energy bristling off him that you could almost see it, the way people’s hair stands out around their heads like a halo when they’re full of static electricity. He’s the little guy with a big personality, who often gets in over his head but, with sheer moxie, manages to haul his cute butt out of every scrape. There is simply no way you could overlook him, and that’s what carried him on to success beyond the usual teen-idol crap. On Spin City, he was the manic glue that held City Hall together. As Marty McFly, he went Back to the Future not once, but three times–each movie eagerly anticipated almost before the previous one was out–thus proving to be a real-life time-traveller. On Family Ties, he humanized Alex P. Keaton–a character who was so arch-Republican that he would have been a complete and insufferable snotball, like Tucker Carlson, if anyone else had played him. No one else could play him! Fox’s Alex could take a serious pratfall and actually learn from it. It was that rare ability to make and keep Alex real that kept me watching what would otherwise have been just another forgettable ’80s sitcom.

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Festive Left Friday Blogging: Redemption for the cowboy hat

Hugo Chavez, lord of the llano!

And this head is entitled to the gear. Chavecito is, unlike Dubya, actually from a state where real cowboys ride the range. In fact, his own grandfather, Jorge Rafael Saavedra, was a rodeo worker, a coleador.

The spirit of the great plains lives!

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Experimenting with YouTubes…

One more illicit Colombian export…

shared by, of all places, North Korea:

Colombia and North Korea are the largest producers of fake US banknotes, a report suggests.

The study by the US Treasury Department, Federal Reserve and Secret Service said that one in every 10,000 greenbacks was a fake.

It said more affordable equipment meant counterfeiting was getting easier.

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The anti-woman, pro-death movement wins one in Nicaragua

This is absolutely disgusting. Not to mention unenforceable, unless the state becomes a willingly complicit murderer of women:

Nicaragua has approved a sweeping new law banning abortions, even in cases where the mother’s life is at risk.

The national assembly approved the bill by 52 votes to none, and the bill is now likely to be signed into law.

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A tortured silence

Two items on something we’re not supposed to talk about. Shhhhh…shhh, the word of the day is TORTURE.

First, from the UK Guardian:

According to a secret intelligence report, the CIA offered to let Germany have access to one of its citizens, an al-Qaida suspect being held in a Moroccan cell. But the US secret agents demanded that in return, Berlin should cooperate and “avert pressure from EU” over human rights abuses in the north African country. The report describes Morocco as a “valuable partner in the fight against terrorism”.

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It’s even more disgusting than I thought…

Crooks and Liars has a video of Keith Olbermann and Sam Seder discussing the Rush Limbaugh’s nasty, crass, baseless attack on Michael J. Fox. Man, is it something. Olbermann and Seder are their usual awe-inspiring, bang-on selves. But the Pigman? He really takes the bagel. They have footage of him waving his arms and shaking his blubber all over the place as he mocks Fox’s involuntary, medication-related movements.

It’s gross, I warn you, but you had better see it so you know just how low the enemy will go.

Minutemen make monkeys of themselves

A couple of days ago I blogged on a certain noteworthy Zapatista demonstrating just how easy it is to get past a Minuteman (pronounced “myNOOTman”, as in very small and not well endowed) patrol.

Well, today, Raw Story has revealed confirmation as to just what fools these myNOOTmen be–and how foolish they want you and me to be:


The Minuteman Project sent out a press release late Tuesday evening hyping their Web site, which is showcasing 1,000 documents allegedly obtained in a Freedom of Information Act request to the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) by World Net Daily columnist Jerome Corsi. Most widely known for his longtime attacks on Democratic Senator John Kerry’s military record, Corsi also co-authored a book about the Minuteman “battle” to secure America’s borders.

SPP was launched in March of 2005 as a trilateral effort by the United States, Canada and Mexico to increase the security and improve the quality of life of North Americans through greater cooperation and information sharing. Many conservative critics view the trilateral initiative as a threat to U.S. sovereignty.

“The documents give clear evidence that the Bush administration has created a ‘shadow government,’” Corsi said in the press release.

Corsi claims to have “hundreds of pages of e-mails from U.S. executive branch administrators who are copying the e-mail to somewhere between 25 to 100 people, a third of whom are in the U.S. bureaucracy, a third of whom are in the Mexican bureaucracy and a third of whom are in the Canadian bureaucracy.”

“They are sharing their laws and regulations so we can ‘harmonize’ and ‘integrate’ our laws into a North American structure, not a USA structure,” Corsi said.

In plain English, I believe that translates to BOOGAboogabooga! Evil Canadians! Evil Mexicans! We should be dominating them, but instead, they are dominating us! And they do it by pretending to be collaborating with us!

Raw Story continues:


The documents can be viewed on the Minuteman Project’s Stop the Security and Prosperity Project page, but there’s no mention of any particular “smoking gun” which could proves the contention that the White House has created a shadow government. The anti-immigration group appears to consider the mere existence of communications among bureaucrats from the three countries as proof of their assertions.

One series of letters show U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez writing to North American Steel Association leaders in all three countries thanking them for their “suggestions on enhancing the competitiveness of the steel industry” in North America ….

“The North American industries’ recommendations for launching a North American steel strategy were well received and formed the basis for the Committee’s discussions on a program of work going forward,” Gutierrez wrote to assorted Steel Association chairmen and presidents.

A RAW STORY examination of documents related to the “steel strategy” as presented at the Minuteman Web site did not turn up anything untoward.

But Corsi maintains that the “documentation he received is missing key pieces.”

“We received very few actual agreements, though many are referenced,” Corsi said. “Many of the work plans described lack the work products which the groups say they produced.”

Translation: We got nuttin’, but we’re still soiling ourselves with fear.

Yes, folks, things is mighty desperate in Wingnuttia right now. They are soiling themselves with stuff they pulled out of their own asses.

(Not that they hadn’t always, but they’re really reaching for it this time.)

One sick Pigman

This bit of blather is exactly what we’d expect of the drug-addled Rush Limbaugh.

The Pigman went over the top again, attacking Michael J. Fox, who has Parkinson’s Disease rather severely, as “either off [his] medication or acting” when he appeared in an ad supporting a Democratic candidate in Missouri for her stand on stem-cell research. In the video (available at the link), Fox can be seen wobbling back and forth in spasms characteristic of someone with Parkinson’s who isn’t OFF his meds, but rather on them so constantly that he now manifests another condition in addition to the Parkinson’s–namely, chorea.

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Making monkeys of the Minutemen

Not that they needed much help, since they are all flying monkeys already. But the ever obliging Zapatista, Subcomandante Marcos, recently demonstrated just how stupid they are…and how futile it is to try to fence off the US/Mexico border:

Subcomandante Marcos crosses the border without permission

Narco News has some insight into what he’s really up to.