.........which is studded with facts and documenting links. I don't understand the fourth paragraph from the top, about "wingnuts", but the rest of it is superb -- because it ignores so many of the usual boundaries of discussion:
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2013/01/31/hagel-hearing-the-war-partys-waterloo/
Hagel Hearing: The War Party’s Waterloo
I didn't of course see the hearing myself -- I watch no TV unless visiting friends or in a Subway shop, where it usually can't be heard anyway.
The Hagel hearings were clearly a disgusting affair, putrid with distinctly Republican corruption. Most notable and gloatable from our perspective is a sudden surprise that columnist Raimondo (above) handles as only he can: the "reverse" McCarthyism of one of former Sen. Chuck Hagel's inquisitors, Sen. Ted Cruz from Texas.
Younger folks may have no idea what we're talking about. In the mid-1950s, you see, Senator Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin took it upon himself to very dramatically purge communists from American society. He presided over televised fedgov hearings on it in Washington and shook up a lot of people, most or (more likely) all of whom were in fact guilty of supporting or furthering communism, an ideology that was in the process of killing nine figures worth of humanity and still reigns in hellholes like China and Cuba.
Leftists, or "liberals" if you insist, hate truth and decency and love the genocidal tyranny of communism. They screamed foul during the McCarthy era and have been howling about it ever since. McCarthyism is their word for any kind of modern inquisition against innocent, admirable people.... never mind that McCarthy was right and his targets were subversives, degenerates, psychopaths of one kind or another.
Even my schoolteachers as I grew up in Zew Jersey mocked McCarthy as a supposed pompous fraud. They aped leftist media darlings of the time whose favorite line was "McCarthy used to hold up a stack of papers and declare 'I hold here in my hand the names of secret communists' -- but he would never show them. There were none -- it was pure grandstanding."
Read at least half of the above-linked article and you'll see in your mind's eye this exact scene revived -- but please remember that while McCarthy was a truth warrior and right about it all, Cruz is a 100% true blue gold-plated phony.
Is Cruz consciously imitating McCarthy, a 1950s icon of everything he (Cruz) hates today? No, I suspect he is merely ignorant, like most people under about 50 years of age, of the McCarthy era and merely trying to pull a cheap trick. Or maybe he knows all the above and is doing it as an in joke or means of rubbing our noses in something. Either way, he stinks.
...........I found a copy of the 1955 musical movie Oklahoma and am viewing it over meals. Near the end there's a delightful trial scene that's subtly about states' rights. Yum!
...........My ISP Charter.net force-feeds entertainment decadence into ameriKan homes via cable and even its homepage news, but it too did something strangely wonderful today: via the latter it posted a serialized article that provided not only fascinating and farcical pop cultural history in every section, but a bit of great financial advice for beginners:
http://www.bankrate.com/lite/celebrity-money/financial-mistakes-the-beatles.aspx
7 financial mistakes made by The Beatles
...........Our beloved Dr. Clarkson was a national expert in Freedom of Information Act and Privacy Act, which he called the two greatest things government ever passed. How about this UK show of people power:
The
governing Council of Brentwood, England, professes a "reputation as one
of the most transparent" in the country, but in November, responding to
a Freedom of Information request for documents on a government
contract, it merely released 425 totally-blackened ("redacted") pages.
The official explanation was that all of the papers concerning
construction of a movie theater were deemed "commercially sensitive" and
"not in the public interest." (Following an outcry, the Council
re-thought the FOI request and disclosed "considerably more
information," according to the Daily Telegraph.) [Daily Telegraph,
11-29-2012]
http://newsoftheweird.com/archive/nw121223.html
I'm none too impressed with the mostly Zionist hosts of the "new" 94.5 FM talk radio station in Greenville, but one - Mark Levin -- impressed me tonight by reporting at length on some great, dogged-sounding FOIA work they're doing on HSUS (or some other appropriate federal body) for stamping Obamacare as sound and telling Washington to go ahead with it.
You probably heard this:
http://www.infowars.com/obamacare-to-soon-cost-the-average-american-family-20000-a-year-announces-irs/
/\/.\/\/. torpenow@charter.net
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