Rory, say it isn't so!
Rory, desperate for scratch, but confident of his true colors, signed up to put advertising on this blog. He naively believed that the adverts that would find their way onto this site would have to be left of center or politically neutral. So, at first he was shocked to find that a pro-Bush advertising button made its way from the admasters onto the site. Rapidly, his mental state cycled from shocked to stoked. The pro-Bush ad deposited the following photo right into Rory's lap and he didn't even have to go surching for it. (By the way, the term "surching" [surfing/searching] appeared right there on the web a few words back in this blog for the first time to Rory's knowledge, on this 29th day of January, 2006. Rory believes he may have been the first to use the term, but knowing how many billions of people there are on this spinning rock and the genetic similarity of brains, someone else might have used it already.) Anyhoo, the photo:
(I'm not sure how long the advertising button in question will be available, but in case it is gone when you read this and you are curious from whence the image came or wish to purchase merchandise on which it appears, for whatever demented reason, the buttoned link is/was: www.proGOPgear.com.)
One feels almost compelled to juxtopose the Bush in Santa hat with some sentimental "Childs Christmas in Baghdad" image like the following one said to depict a father carrying his daughter who fell to U.S. "precision" munitions in Basra in the name of liberation, freedom, and democracy:
Yes, both photographs turn my stomach. But let us have the courage to not hide from the reality of what the oligarchs are doing. The second photo makes me cry. The first one makes me angry. While his munitions kill and injure children, the callous clown in the White House laughs and "briefs" his Scottie dogs as a joke, happily displaying his grade-school humor on the offical White House web site, like some insane torture master cracking bad jokes while waterboarding an innocent prisoner:
Check out the larger version of this along with Fly-On-the-Wall's bio at www.roryshock.com (link in sidebar).
And, such advertisements are the price of free speech. I am a free speech purist. Look at the The Nation magazine's advertising policy. They print ads from groups diametrically opposed to their editorial point of view. I admire that.
What a frickin' crazy world.
(I'm not sure how long the advertising button in question will be available, but in case it is gone when you read this and you are curious from whence the image came or wish to purchase merchandise on which it appears, for whatever demented reason, the buttoned link is/was: www.proGOPgear.com.)
One feels almost compelled to juxtopose the Bush in Santa hat with some sentimental "Childs Christmas in Baghdad" image like the following one said to depict a father carrying his daughter who fell to U.S. "precision" munitions in Basra in the name of liberation, freedom, and democracy:
Yes, both photographs turn my stomach. But let us have the courage to not hide from the reality of what the oligarchs are doing. The second photo makes me cry. The first one makes me angry. While his munitions kill and injure children, the callous clown in the White House laughs and "briefs" his Scottie dogs as a joke, happily displaying his grade-school humor on the offical White House web site, like some insane torture master cracking bad jokes while waterboarding an innocent prisoner:
Check out the larger version of this along with Fly-On-the-Wall's bio at www.roryshock.com (link in sidebar).
And, such advertisements are the price of free speech. I am a free speech purist. Look at the The Nation magazine's advertising policy. They print ads from groups diametrically opposed to their editorial point of view. I admire that.
What a frickin' crazy world.
posted by Rory Shock at 1:42 PM
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