Sickening Analogy of the Week

Cons try hard to come up with the most extreme examples they can think of to compare liberal policies and organizations to.  In the wake of the ACORN scandal, a Con “entrepreneur” has come up with what I think is the most sickening analogy of the week:

“When I saw these videos, I couldn’t help thinking, this is the Abu Ghraib of the Great Society,” said Breitbart, who put the videos on BigGovernment.com. “Everybody that is a conservative news junkie thinks that ACORN is the most important institution for us to uncover to the American public.”

Are you kidding me?  And the corporatist-media just stenographers this crap without calling him on it?

So in this sickos mind, two people dressing up like a prostitute and a pimp who go into an ACORN office and get unethical advice on how to lie on a mortgage application is somehow equivalent to over-paid mercenaries torturing foreigners in order to extract shitty intelligence and not being held accountable for their actions?  The two aren’t even remotely close.  But the ACORN “scandal” is what passes for important news in the Con mind.

Random Pieces 4/9/08

Will the Internet become obsolete starting this fall? Leave it to the good folks in Britain to actually report on scientific news:

At speeds about 10,000 times faster than a typical broadband connection, “the grid” will be able to send the entire Rolling Stones back catalogue from Britain to Japan in less than two seconds.

The latest spin-off from Cern, the particle physics centre that created the web, the grid could also provide the kind of power needed to transmit holographic images; allow instant online gaming with hundreds of thousands of players; and offer high-definition video telephony for the price of a local call.

Just don’t tell the telecommunication companies here in the United States. They’ll find a way to slow everybody down and charge ridiculous amounts of money for the privilege of using their “services”.

Didn’t Dick Cheney make enough money off the Iraq war and occupation to afford his own security detail once he leaves office? Then why is he going to stick the tab to taxpayers instead? Because Republicans love them some government waste – as long as they’re the ones wasting it.

The Secret Service is preparing to provide Vice President Cheney with agents, transportation, advance work and other security-related trappings of executive power for six months after the Bush administration packs up and moves out in January, the agency’s director, Mark Sullivan, told Congress last week. The expected cost: $4 million.

More proof that Republicans are not fiscally conservative, as if we needed another example.