oh, so that's what they meant

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William Saletan:

Thursday morning, President Bush greeted the people of Iraq on their TV screens. "You are a good and gifted people," he told them as Arabic script appeared below his face. I don't know Arabic, but I'm sure the translation didn't convey what Bush means by "gifted." He doesn't mean exceptional. He means ethnic.

What? Go read it.

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[greyaenigma.livejournal.com]

Here is an interesting article about a friend of mine who actually did the effort in debunking a lot of right-wing myths.

I won't argue that a lot of people on the left have said a lot of stupid things and I wish they'd kept their mouth shut, but I'm not at all prepared to accept that the left is anymore crazy than the right. And that's without mentioning trying to impeach a president because he was one of a very long line of infidels and liars of both parties.