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A recent wave of blog spamming has come to afflict the mainstream media outlets that decided to catch onto the ‘blog’ epidemic (and yes, it is an epidemic and I know this is ironic coming from just another joe blog like myself).

The first step is to make a blog that displays nothing but advertisements. The second step is to keep your eye on changes on the home pages of such sites like Washington Post or Salon where Technorati automatically keeps track of what ‘bloggers’ are saying. Ping the URL or hide a link to the article in a post, and voila, you have yourself advertisement in the middle of a major online article!

Today’s example: check out the ‘Who’s Blogging’ section of this front page Washington Post article. Yes, it’s free sex movie clips, who I believe ranks in between Michelle Malkin and Common Dreams in terms of relevance.

So give me what I want?

So I think for the sake of giving a frame of reference for my perspective to the few people that are daily perusing this site and for the hopes that someone out there has similar thoughts to me, here is where I think I stand politically:

Abortion – I disagree with it on a personal level — I don’t think I could be involved with one — but I don’t think I have the right to take away that right from someone else

Republicans and Democrats are equally deleterious. Democrats work on ulterior motives, Republicans make their motives known.

My view is the same on the Middle East. I’m no fan of Israel, and I am no fan of the other side either.

I think we went into Iraq for all the wrong reasons, and I think the Administration in conjunction with intelligence agencies manipulated evidence to justify a war on Iraq domestically and abroad. I do think that getting rid of Saddam Hussein was good.

Who seriously cares if gay people get married? It doesn’t affect me and there is no ‘sanctity’ of marriage. The divorce rates in America are nearing 50 percent:

“the proportion of marriages taking place right now that will eventually divorce, which has since been revised downward to roughly 43% by the National Center for Health Statistics but was moved back up to around 50% by the Census Bureau in 2002.”

I think ‘values’ are a smoke-screen that Republicans use to get the poor, ignorant, and white to vote for them. I think ‘economics’ are a smoke-screen that Democrats to make the poor and ignorant think they don’t represent the same wealthy interests the Republicans do.

Afghanistan – good. United Nations — decent, needs reforms. Capitalism bad, Democracy good. European Union, good but flawed. I hate the Yankees and the Lakers, the Washington Times is not a newspaper, nor is Fox News ‘news’. The government is a joke and China is a looming threat.

Else than that, you can assume I make a common sense approach to my thoughts. I’d go more in detail, but this can only go on for so long.

things ive learned about america

things ive learned about america

1. there is abortion on demand

2. there is a war on Christmas

3. there is a war on boys

4. there is a war on terrorism

5. giving tax cuts to the rich helps everyone

6. poor people deserve to be poor

7. there is a war on Christians

8. Christians are anti-women’s rights

9. Christians are anti-gay rights

10. Christians don’t think the environment matters

11. feminists hate men

12. feminists are lesbians

13. feminists believe they should terminate every pregnancy.

14. feminists are ugly

15. women don’t get jobs on merit, they only get them through trickery

16. women whine

17. women nag

18. women don’t play the game right

19. women want a double standard

20. women control sex in relationships

21. women control men

22. feminists are stupid

23. pro-choice people can’t organize

24. human beings do not impact the environment

25. Democrats/progressives/anti-war/greens are unpatriotic

26. Democrats/progressive/anti-war/greens are radical socialists

27. Democrats/progressive/anti-war/greens are immoral

28. The United States is a Christian nation and should be governed as one

29. George Bush is a strong, able, moral man

30. the media has a liberal bias

Your Logical Fallacy de Jour

Laurel, Md.: In many areas of the world, most noteworthy the Middle East, the Cold War created a “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” mentality toward regimes we would otherwise not have approved of (Saddam and the Taliban come to mind).

Under either Clinton or Bush the younger, did most of the world ever come to see U.S. foreign policy as standing for anything right, or just for our nationalisitc interests?

John Lewis Gaddis: That’s sort of a loaded question — “did most of the world ever come to see U.S. foreign policy as standing for anything right” — and of course it’s impossible to answer precisely. But keep in mind one simple standard: how many people in the world would jump at the chance to move to the U.S. and become American citizens, if given the opportunity? Then balance that against the anti-American rhetoric that’s so prevalent, and see where you come out. The answer’s not obvious.

That’s not a simple standard, that’s a stupid way of arriving to a conclusion that not everyone hates America. How many people would jump at the chance of living in America, Canada, or Western Europe? A lot, and it’s not because they want to be ‘American’ or Western, etc., it’s because they want to live COMFORTABLY. Asking if someone from a third or second world country wants to be ‘American’ is like asking an average American if they want to be rich. What do you expect people in a lower position to say?

Last night

I went to the forum at John Hopkins with Bernard-Henri Lévy and William Kristol.

I will write a more thorough report that will be posted on Ablogistan.com and on PBH in the next couple of days. Until then, you can read my letter at Salon.