MLK, Jr. and the right

There are people who are attempting to lay claim to the King legacy, saying it's an integral thread in the neoconservative fabric.

Dr. King must be rolling over in his grave.

David Neiwert, a freelance writer in Seattle, wrote on his blog an interesting entry concerning the right-as-in-wing wing's attempt to claim Dr. King as one of their own, and how it's just utter bullshit. These neocons are taking a good man and his good legacy and defacing them by trying to glue them to their own radical ideology in order to make it look better than it really is. It's a prime example of the sort of dirty tricks these revisionist historians will use.

This is a necessary trick if you want people to buy your faulty goods: Make it seem much better than it actually is. Salespeople do this expertly. To get you to buy their shit, they will either supplement their efforts with such Orwellian language as "previously owned", or just outright lie to you, or both. It's necessary to bend, revise, rewrite, or ignore reality to be neoconservative and have no qualms about it, which is one reason I dislike it so.

Dr. King was not among the people of faith who made enemies out of love and companionship; rather, he was among the people of faith who loved their fellow human beings. These people took the good aspects of their respective religions to heart in their quest to make sure that liberty, equality, and justice reigned. These people weren't stone-hearted (re)visionaries. They didn't portray people who were different from them as friends of the Devil and bedevil their pursuit of happiness. Rather, they embraced and accepted them as the human beings they were.

Sorry neocons, but Dr. King was a member of the Religious Left, not the Right.

— Athelwulf

Rosie vs. Donald

Child 1: I don't like what you did, and you're fat!
Child 2: You're ugly!
Child 1: Am not!
Child 2: Are too! And you stink! (Giggles in enjoyment)
Child 1: I'm telling the teacher!
Child 3 (to Child 1): You're mean!

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I'm sure that by now you dear readers have been subject to the seemingly relentless debacle known as the Rosie-Donald war, care of our very own much loved mainstream media. Like rabid dogs foaming at the mouth, they attacked the scuffle of egos, and lit the kindling that became the wildfire.

Some believe it all started with Rosie O'Donnell's now infamous criticism of the news conference that Donald Trump gave concerning estranged Miss USA, Tara Conner, and his decision that she would keep her title; O'Donnell called it "a publicity stunt."

Then came the storm — the volleys of bitter words back and forth.

Now they have forced dear ol' Barbara Walters into having to choose sides. Notwithstanding the immature actions by both individuals, Walters has joined O'Donnell's side, and called Trump a "poor, pathetic man." Will there be a Walters-Trump debacle now? (God I hope not.)

Do any others wish to choose sides?

Is it just me, or has the entire feud become pointless? The continuous ego inflation by one, followed by the needle from the other.

I find both to be at fault: Both have fanned the flames with insults, have let their egos take control, didn't know when to shut up, and seemingly were enjoying it all. Seriously, in my opinion, if these two individuals had any ounce of maturity, they would have ceased, and there would have been a good chance that this farce would have ended before it even started.

O'Donnell, Trump, please, for the sake of sanity and the American people as a whole, would you please stop and take a second to do one tiny, miniscule thing that just might (hopefully) solve this fiasco?

Grow up, you two.

Have a good day.

Peace, ~Elindelwolf