Showing posts with label paranoia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label paranoia. Show all posts

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Rudy Being Rudy: A Noun, A Verb And 9/11.



Or, as live action Rudy puts it:



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Tuesday, November 17, 2009

J. Edgar Hoover Liked Studs, Just Not Those Named "Terkel."


The late, great Studs Terkel scared the beejeesus out of J. Edgar Hoover's FBI--and for another 18 years after Hoover's paranoid reign--as did a bunch of other writers, musicians and their fellow artists. Just what the hell was the big, bad Bureau so scared of, anyway?

From an item in the Los Angeles Times:
Studs Terkel, the American storyteller, author, radio host, actor and activist, sought a job at the FBI, according to recently released documents.
Terkel, who died last year, applied for a job in the FBI's fingerprints division in the 1930s. "It's a non-agent position," FBI spokesman Bill Carter said. "You would have to go through a background investigation, the same as you would for an agent, but you don't have arrest powers."
Instead of hiring Terkel, the agency ended up amassing a file on him. The FBI spent 45 years tracking him as a suspected communist, according to the 147 pages released from his 269-page dossier. The file was obtained by the City University of New York's NYCity News Service under an act that requires the FBI to release certain documents to the public after an individual has died.
Terkel's paper trail started in 1945. It references Terkel speaking at a Paul Robeson rally at Chicago's Civic Opera House and quotes a source who questioned Terkel's "loyalty to the United States" because he worked with a
BBC on a piece about the "sordid side of life in Chicago."
His file ends in 1990, when agents cut and pasted a Wall Street Journal article quoting his reaction to financier Michael Milken's junk-bond scandal.
"We live in a corrupt, amoral moment," Terkel said. "There are a million Milkens. He's reflective of our society at this time. People have lost their sense of outrage."
Studs wasn't disloyal to his country, of course. And because of Hoover's many abuses of power over parts of five decades, FBI directors are now limited to 10-year terms.

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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

"Sic Semper Tyrannis?"


That's an item from Page Six in yet another of Rupert's rags, the New York Post.
Who the fuck does this delusional, paranoiac Murdoch minion think he is? Lincoln at the Ford Theater?
Glenn Beck has much more in common with John Wilkes Booth.

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Sunday, September 6, 2009

Saturday, July 4, 2009

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Glenn Beck Is A Domestic Terrorist.


This is the kind of reckless bullshit that Beck and his cronies on the fringe-right traffic in every day--nodding in tacit agreement with like-minded maniacs (including, it seems, Dick Cheney) who think what the U.S. needs is another 9/11 to wake us the f#&$ up.
The topic that caused ex-CIA hack Michael Scheuer to veer off into this insanity? The drug war along the Mexican border and President Obama's non-existent attack on the Second Amendment.

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Friday, June 26, 2009

Census Nonsense From The Senseless.


I missed the circus freaks again this year, but this video is a reasonable facsimile.
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Monday, April 27, 2009