Recently I was talking to a friend about the Dem primaries.  I expressed my concern about the apparent animosity between Obama and Clinton supporters in the blogosphere and my suspicion that some of the worst offenders might actually be Republicans in disguise.  He got sort of quiet as I mentioned this, seemed like he wanted to say something and then steered the conversation in another direction.  My friend used to be a Republican, but the Bush years shoved him to independent status.  I assumed he found my suspicion a little bit insulting, and I thought no more about it until a couple of days later when I got an interesting email.  Details over the flip.

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So the Bush administration had a do it yourself nuclear bomb construction site up on the internet.  Well the Bush administration has lot's of things up on the internet, media, the what and how to think network though tells up which ones are important.
I'm down to scanning the morning "news" half paying attention and half not, even sifting out blatant falsehoods and misdirects deliberately aimed at a mostly comatose populace.
Another contaminated food "news bulletin".  Get used to this by the way.
www.spp.gov  In the interest of "trade" they have been watering down our food safety regulations to match those of Mexico.
Funny over on the right side of the page we all know about Harris, what Kerry said, Kim Jong, the Supreme Kangaroo Court and of course Michael J Fox.
But the dissolution of the United States is certainly not a household word.  Sooner or later Alex Jones I will build that web site.

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Bullies have but one tactic which gives them false justification to inflict the harm that they deny while imposing that harm. Bullies accuse one of doing something they did not do, in order to justify their bullying. However, their one tactic requires two parts. Part one is they lie to themselves first, and then they lie to their victim. The lie to their victim is so out of bounds with reality that it causes immense confusion to the victim. This confusion buys the bully time to engage in whichever predictable action that will hence follow (stealing lunch money, more verbal abuse, physical harm). The technical term for such irrationality is ironic; it's called offending from the victim position. Here are global large-scale examples of bullying:

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