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Molly is the voice crying in the wilderness .

If I have to hear about ONE more person being caught attempting a homosexual act or IN a homosexual act when they’ve spent their whole lives as fundamentalist preachers trying to turn their congregations away from the lesbian-gay lifestyle…I will start my own blog!
Hypocrisy is the biggest word in history right now, we need to realize we’re also actually the biggest pusses, we’re not fighting any of this. There were smaller things that people have thrown up their hands at. We really dont care anymore…It must be all the cocaine i didnt sniff and all the marijuana i didnt inhale…the presidents’ have always been my biggest rolemodels, how can you NOT admire them?! Such power…such incompetence, where can I get away with that?

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I have to wonder how a flag amendment would be codified.

For example, I’ve seen American flags imprinted on golf balls and mud flaps. Would getting them dirty be “desecration” under the law? How about postmarking a stamp with the flag on it?

How about burning a red-white-and-blue representation of the flag with 49 stars or 51 stars on it? Or a flag made in China?

How about all those tattered flags flapping in the breeze on automobile antennas? Don’t those people know you shouldn’t fly the flag in the rain?

And it’s proper protocol to burn a flag that touches the ground. So what if you’re in an anti-war demonstration, drop the flag on to the ground, then burn it? Who decides what your intentions were, or whether you should be incarcerated? The Bureau of Flags?

The result of an amendment to halt this is “epidemic” would be that no one would dare fly the flag ... in the republic for which it stands, no less!

Am I anal, or does no one think this stuff through?

The way I see it, if gays want to marry and pretend that they are like US, so what?

Bush practices the same type of self delusion.  This Chickenhawk draft dodger, AWOL, coward who flatly refused to serve in Viet Nam then lied about it, and ulitimately committed the death-penalty crime of desertion in wartime loses no opportunity to visit military bases, surround himself with military personnel, give rousing speeches about keerage (sic) and sacrifice and get rousing ovations from captive audiences who better smash hands-or else.

So, hopping out of a plane landing on a 6 billion dollar aircraft carrier in his nutsqueezer flight suit makes him look like a real military heroic leader. Thus, he joins those gays he bashes in deludidng himself that he is one of US, the millions who served their country for real. 

Molly is the only woman in thre world I would leave my lovely wife for!

Charles G. Karafotias
35 years U. S. Merchant Marine/MSC
39 months U. S. Army
WW2 Korea V Nam
(P.S. I am not a military junkie)

Reply to Comment #11231 by Daniel Cleveland on 6/06 at 3:04 pm

Ah, dear, dear Daniel:

The rational human being knows that ideas must be discussed in an open forum ... to be viewed from as many different points of view as possible ... and the observations exchanged and examined ... if we are to learn the truth ... to get a picture of the whole elephant, as it were.

It is the dogmatist who seeks to educate from a single point of view ... all students facing forward, looking neither right nor left.

By the way, I voted for Nixon in 1960. I have never voted for a Clinton, and I don’t expect to change that pattern. In any case, I have been reading Molly for years and years and years ... relishing her insights.

One of the joys of truthdig.com is the manner and tone in which we engage each other while fitting the pieces of the elephant together. Bring your arguments out into the open here, into the light of day. Or is that the problem?

I have a small 5” X 7” plastic flag someone gave me at a 4th of July party in 1999. When the Supremes annointed the transplanted faux cowboy from Connecticut to Texas [the one who’s afraid of horses] I put the flag in my window in a flowerpot upside down [distres signal, don’t you know.] and it’s been there ever since.
Oh, and along the staff side it says. “Made in China.”

Reply to Comment #11241 by Karine Beesley on 6/06 at 8:31 pm

Dear Karine:

I am pleased to inform you that I am a great-grandfather of two, a grandfather of four, a father of three ... but have to sadly inform you that I am not a grandmother at all. I understand the confusion (all to well, having been born and raised in the USA) over my name, “Hilding”. However it is a common Swedish male name, and recognized as such throughout Scandinavia ... which fact still casts no aspersions on your analytical abilitites. To the American ear (see, now I am assuming you are an American) it sounds feminine ... which, at my age, is a pleasant connotation, having lived my life—thus far—as a male.

And thank you for the information on Madarin Chinese. I want to help my progeny prepare for the future ... as Molly has clearly identified what’s going on around here ... now.

It’s funny: Molly lists all the things that Republicans are stupid about, and then all the things that Democrats are stupid about—and then BRAGS that the Democrat list is LONGER??!? Ha!

What is wrong with you people? My marriage was attacked by the gay sex monster burning flags just last week. I think it came in through the bathroom window, protected by a silver spoon…

Mendelson once replied to someone who had asked him to explain his piano pieces ‘Songs Without Words’: “What a piece of music which I love expresses for me are not ideas which are too vague to be put into words, but ideas which are too clear.”

Molly Ivins goes one significant step further: She creates something akin to music, but with words. I don’t mean its cadence, or the sound of her words if read aloud.  I do mean that words are inadequate to express what it is that’s so wonderful about Molly’s pieces.  Listing the attributes doesn’t do it, doesn’t begin to describe the momentary, soaring euphoria so many of us experience when reading her stuff.

Of course, it may just be the words she chooses, and the sequence in which she lays them down

This paragraph ought to be bronzed, then put on display (even if she did have great material):

Budget out of control, shipwreck ahead? Never mind—Bush doesn’t.  Worst class divisions since the Gilded Age, rich so much more enormously richer than everybody else, country starting to get creepy? Don’t worry, be happy. Torture, massacre, extraordinary rendition, hidden gulag of prisons in foreign countries, Guantanamo and massive violations of international law, American law and the Constitution? Well, you can see why gay marriage is a far greater menace.

We are truly doomed that the American people are this stupid. There is no hope…..that why I live in So.California where I can remain shallow and indifferent.

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I pledge allegiance to the flag and to the republic for which it stands.…  Ooooops!  How can I pledge allegiance to a wannabe empire that stands for torture, lies, pollution of land, air and water, corruption of public officers, ever lasting war, etc. etc. etc..  My flag and the republic for which it stands are in a holding pattern until we regain control of our country from the neo-cons and fundamentalists. In the meantime, if displayed it will be upside down and next to the bottom of the mast.

I love to read the Molley Ivins columns. She tells it like it is. She has a gret sense of humor with it.
Keep up the good work Molley!

Anyone who can truthfully say that they defend this administration has to be in some state of fear-induced delirium.  Now, in no way am I un American, but for goodness’ sake have I had enough!  I love America, but I’m just embarrassed.  Whatever the right passes off as anything (news, facts, statistics, wars, plans, etc.) I take with a grain of salt large enough to crush a car.  I can’t trust a word that comes from the right, it is all just incomprehensible to me how anyone could believe that they are helping society.  We need major changes.  Fewer corporations, more individual thought, better educations, and more to do with nature and the entire planet (people included).  It is time to wake up to the fact that the politicians are definitely in the pockets of big business and are very tied up in special interests.  Get out there and vote!  Be the change you want to see in the world.

Kudos to Molly and her insight! I have to note, however, that it doesn’t take a huge amount of insight to figure out the Republican agenda. This has been going on since Reagan entered office in ‘80. Why would the ride be any different today?

Go Molly; don’t know why the dems don’t let you lead the party…could even cause my personal return to the G.O.T.(grand ol tent.) Kudos & keep it up.

I thank god each and every day for Republicans. If they weren’t there to protect me from myself, who the hell would?

Isn’t it interesting that our president insists on the rule of law being applied to everyone else who is in trouble due to the war he started but is not accountable for his own mistakes and is above the law he imposes on others.

I wonder what will happen when a 100,000 protesters in the Rose Bowl, burn paper facimille flags with 51 stars… will they be arrested and put in jail? Where do you draw the line?

I see countless American flags flown over restaurants, car dealerships, gun stores, etc., etc.—all flown to faded tatters.  Nice show of respect, guys.

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While I have never burned a flag except as a Cub Scout who was taught that burning was proper to destroy a flag, I was in a number of crowds where they were burned to protest the Vietnam war. One cannot burn THE flag but rather A flag and as long as it belongs to the burner it should continue to represent free speech, however unpopular.

If it looks like this stupid constitutional ammendment is going to pass I suggest we all begin burning flags with green rather than blue fields, or with 12 or 14 stripes or painted on some plywood. This should tie up the courts for years with the question of what is an American flag and what are those poor Cub Scouts to do with their old flags?

Meanwhile this gay marriage debate goes on and on. It’s such a cliché “re-arranging deck chairs on the Titanic” yet I cannot think of a better analogy.

On flag burning. Aside from the “burning” issue. Just look at the many other ways people desecrate - flags being made into all sorts of clothing including underwear, household items etc etc. and also our flag being manufactured in other countries (China, Japan you name it) But you don’t see these idiots saying anything about that -

I’ve called both my senators asking them to vote against the gay marriage amendment and added that it is a BIG waste of time to even discuss it - there far too many important things like the war, environment, health care, education to name a few.

We all know why they’re brining about these issues - to DIVERT attention from the real ones.

On a national holiday, during the Watergate era, I proudly placed my flag in its holder at the front of my home…I came inside to listen to the morning news and to hear the president, in a trembling voice say “fly your flag today, in support of me”....I was appalled and angry…I went outside, took down my flag and packed it away….I value its symbolism and my country far too much to allow it to be descrated for the benefit and ego of any political cutworm who assumes my intellect to be so low as to subscribe to his mewling, foolish, false patriotic palaver…

right

It’s revolution time sheeple!

The GOP is completely corrupted by fascist traitors to the Constitution and to the rule of law.

They must all be voted out of office and/or impeached.

Many need to be handed over to the international courts to face war crimes.

The rest should spend the rest of their lives flipping burgers while being bullied by minority bosses.

According to my Boy Scout Handbook (1962 edition) the proper way to dispose of a used American flag is to burn it.  So the flag burning amendment is not about the actual act of burning the flag—it’s about your state of mind when you lit the match.

To the dear grandmother (Hilding?),
Everyone in China, in Hong Kong and Taiwan speak Mandarin, in addition to their local dialects.  I have yet to meet any Chinese person who cannot communicate with another, although hailing from a very different region of the country.  Now, whether the Mainland Chinese will speak to the Hong Kong Chinese or the Taiwanese Chinese will speak to the Mainland Chinese, well, there’s the dilemna, as explained to me by a lovely woman from Hong Kong sitting next to another lovely woman from Taiwan.  Yes, it was a little tense.

And by the way, luv ya Molly.  I’m going to vote for you as president next time the choice isn’t so great…..

I don’t see how you sheep read something like this and not laugh. After reading through it, going over its child like satire and bad use of grammar, I knew right away a democrat had to write this. The point this person made was that republicans shouldn’t tell you how to feel, yet the whole time the author is trying to use sarcasm to imply that if you’re a republican, you’re stupid. Fantastic. Now, I’ve decided that responding to all these points in my comment would take too long, so I decided I will write my own response to this, and if anyone decides they wish to know the truth, email me at (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), and I will email you what I’ve come up with. Just don’t let my response upset you too much, I am as far right as they come. So please, please, please, come armed with your liberal talking points and make sure you have a whole lot of bullshit to back it up cuz you’ll need it
-daniel

I’m listening and I understand…and so are and do lots of other people re all the comments…but that means absolutely SQUAT! if the people on capitol hill are not listening!...and if the major media outlets continue to remain silent or chase such issues as flag burning and gay marriage.

I went to our Flag Day parade Saturday and they gave out those little flags on sticks and I stuck a couple in my hair.  Then I went to a tree sit/farm sit in Los Angeles, 350 little family plots on 14 mitigated acres in the middle of a downtown warehouse district.  You have to see it to believe it, 14 acres of solid garden right there in the middle of south central LA, corn and beans and cactus and herbs and berries and sunflowers, no kidding.  A sign on the chain-link fence said “Welcome to Eden.”  It was magical and the Hispanic farmers and their families were poor and wonderful.  Now the mayor wants to evict them so a rich developer can bulldoze the 14 acres for a Walmart warehouse.  Julia Butterfly Hill and John Quigley are treesitting in the walnut tree there trying to save it.  There were people gathering from all over to try to help stop the eviction.  I had been proud of those flags that morning, but then they felt silly, and after a while my face began to burn.  So when I got home I burned the flags.  Felt better afterwards.

The use of government for the betterment and security of the ruling class while ignoring the wishes and needs of the majority of people is nothing new. The morals of the government rarely reflect the will (morals) of the majority. This is not a Republican quality only, nor a quality only of this administration.  Sure the current administration needs to go, as they are perhaps the most corrupt and brazen to come along in a long time as far as pursuing the agenda of the rich and powerful, however, an entire system needs to change for the majority to ever see the changes in our society they so desire.

Don’t be fooled, we are in a religious war and the right wing is winning. When appeasing far right leaders is more important then addressing the real problems of this country we are already lost. What we really need is an amendment to keep religion out of the public square and away from out tax dollars. Somebody help me here

The Big 3 Republican “Problems”: Maybe all would be “made nice” by soaking in oil, instead. Oops, forgot, the barons are already soaking in it!

GEE I THOUGHT FASCISM IN AMERICA WAS SOMETHING TO PONDER ABOUT, HOW STUPID OF ME.

I’ve beem an avid reader of yours now for going on 8 years and if anyone knows George Bush it’s you Molly. I can remember reading an article you wrote just before the 2000 presidential elections warning us that if Bush wins what would happen. I wish I had saved that article because everything you wrote has come true and I would have never thought in my wildest dreams that would happen. Well my hat’s off to you Molly, keep up the great writing.

Just for a minute consider this: What if the Republican wish list gets granted?

I mean it’s not all that far fetched to begin with, in so far as our “elected officials” are in fact the indentured goons of the ultra-rich (to the man and woman!) ...  but what if in the next oh, 6-8 months the following happened?

Tax breaks to the rich are made permanent.
Estate Tax is repealed.
The Rich-Poor Gap widens historically.
Constitution is changed to prohibit gay marriage.
Women lose the right to an abortion under any circumstances.
Condoms are prohibited and abstinence is the only option in Federally and State funded programs in education and family planning.
We drill the Arctic Reserve dry.
Oil companies get record profits.
Religious fundamentalists take control of the national policy dialogue.
The number of medically uninsured rises to above 50%
Global Warming increases, Kilimanjaro has no more snow.
We dig in deeper in Iraq. We hit the 3,000 dead mark.
We rattle our sabers at Iran and over-ruling the UN start plans for invasion.

... and a few more of your worst nightmares. Like the draft?

What do you think will happen? Will it be the end of America, as we know it?

Really. Think about it? First of all none of these “issues” reflect the will of the majority. Nothing this government has done for years meets that definition.

These are policies put in place by politicians that are “embedded” in our government by special interests.

So if this Doomsday scenario comes to pass, will America really cease to exist?

Or will the next revolution now have a reason to blossom forth?

Americans have been accused of complacency by the left for years now, when all they are is merely comfortable and trusting in their government to do the right thing.

But if the Bush Administration is allowed to implement its agenda (and obviously I think it should be allowed to) - this “sleeping giant” will once again, awaken.

If you are over 40 you remember what happened the last time a nation fully behind its Republican President and his war finally and rapidly turned against him. So fast it was almost giggle inducing. Overnight. The nightmare ended.

We are on the brink of this again and in this case, it is even larger and more profound.

So I may be among the minority that wishes Bush and Rove and all their cynical strategists the very best of luck in implementing their agenda. I wish them God Speed. I wish them success.

That’s the only way we will regain this country. We have slept too long to stop it now with politics and policy. It’s now time for another of our glorious and frequent American Revolutions. And as before, perhaps the world will again, follow our example.

It does get increasingly exasperating and alarming what these fear mongers are getting away with and where it is leading to. They will not win in the end, but things are going to get pretty bad before they are caught and rendered. Hang on.

Sure it’s absurd - that’s the nature of the Republican machine:  2+2=5, etc.  But they know it works!  And it will again in November, trust me.  Dems will be lucky to pick up 5 seats in the House, maybe one in the Senate.  The “silent majority,” as the last crook-in-chief called them, still believes the Republicans will protect them from gays and Mexicans, and that’s not likely to change anytime soon.  Just remember:  People get the government they deserve.  Too bad the rest of us have to get it with them.

While no one is in charge, people are starting to slip across our borders, on the way OUT.  It used to be unthinkable to relocate to another country, but I now know seven Americans who have done just that, saying the damage done by the Bush administration is unfixable.  Living offshore used to be a hip tax-evasion plan, now it’s done by people who have no health care, don’t want to be part of a country that bullies the world, have seen the truth about “every vote counts,” and want to live “private” lives again.  Gay marriage indeed.  Who cares?

This is to be expected…when the news gets bad, change the subject. It is an especially good tactic when you have some ‘red meat’ issues to throw to your wingnut base, who’ve become restless over W’s true believer, conservative credentials. He’s got to prove he’s with ‘em. Expect more of the same through election time. They never ‘misunderestimate’ the stupidity of the American electorate.

While the next three weeks are taken up with gay marriage and flag burning, what are the nasty ones going to be up to in the back rooms?

Perhaps manufacturing a case for war in Iran, eliminating taxes on the wealthy altogether, building walls around any community that isn’t white, Anglo and evangelical Christian, or arranging protective funding for SUV’s as an endangered species.

They’re up to something - I’m sure of it.

I have never seen anyone burn a flag. And if they did, people would beat them up and that would be the end of that.

Instead of being concerned with fabric, congressmen should be more concerned with the ideas behind the fabric (and the people behind it).

Besides, according to the American Legion burning a flag is the proper way of disposing—which is ironic since they back anti-flag burning legislation.

Who is going to determine what your motives are?? You can always say you were properly disposing of the item per the American Legion brochure.

All that bad stuff isn’t bad for some.

Molly is the voice crying in the wilderness.  She and I are the only ones listening!

Are any republicans embarrassed yet?  No way, they base their moral values on the book of Mammon.

Love you, Molly.

Speaking truth to self-righteous hypocrites is a thankless job, but someone has to do it, and none do it as well as Molly.

Put this way ... in your list ... we’ve already tipped over.

By the way, my grandchildren asked me the other day which Chinese dialect is predominate in China’s mainland business circles. I didn’t know. Can you help me out here?

Funny you should be writing about this. That was the first
thought that came to mind when Bush brought up the gay
marriage issue: he’s changing the subject…again.

Eugene Robinson also brought up this issue in today’s Washington Post entitled: “The Distracter in Chief.” GW is
so totally transparent.

A study by the Hoover Vacuum Institute has shown that burning flags leads to gay marriage.

http://hooversucksthetruth.com

Empirical evidence gathered by professor Stuffedpockets has clearly proven that burning flags leads to gay marriage.

Hoover Vacuum Institute

Study on Gay Flag Burners

Professor Stuffedpockets, April 37, 2006

Researchers, My astrologer and dentist:

“In our empirical study I asked two hundred thousand potential flag burners (from local kindergartens who are among the chief perpetrators of flag burning) what they wanted to be when they grew up. In almost all cases the answer was ‘I want to be a married gay flag burner’ and so having studied this data I asked my astrologer what did the data indicate, clearly it indicates that kindergarteners who are forced to pledge allegiance to the flag are far more likely to grow up to be gay married flag burners then non gay non burning flag saluters, or so says my dentist.”

“ In conclusion the threat of gay married flag burners far outweighs the negative affects of 4 billion job loses, babies born with two heads from mercury poisoning, that the entire world thinks Americans are insane or idiots or both, the pentagon and Alberto Gonzales thinks torture is okay, and the unconstitutional practice of people who put ketchup on hotdogs and mustard on hamburgers.”

Great review of this administration’s work.  When listed this way in the article, it puts things into perspective.  Is it 2008 yet?