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What follows is TagYerit's weblog of politico/social commentary. The Latest Rant Friday, March 23rd, 2007 7:34 AM PDT Alternet - alternative news source Think you're up on the news? If you're like me, you wonder where to find the other news ... the real news & opinions that the major news outlets have no interest in disseminating. I mean besides the Daily Show / Colbert Report Alternet is my current favorite http://www.alternet.org As example, here are a few of the headlines posted on their website today. (And if you like, you can have Alternet delivered to your email box.) "Conservatives Cost a Lot of Money" "Building an Embassy Fit for an Empire" The United States is building a massive embassy complex in the heart of Baghdad that is already becoming a symbol of America's imperial ambitions in the Middle East. ... "What Lessons Can Progressives Learn from Evangelicals?" "Family Values Begin at Home, but Who's Home?" "Bush's Shadow Army" "Think the Nation's Debt Doesn't Affect You? Think Again" "Neocons in Cheney's Office Fund al Qaeda-Tied Groups ... and No One Cares?" "According to U.S. Military Theory, We Can't Win in Iraq" War on Iraq: Bush's new top commander in Iraq says he thinks the war in Iraq is winnable, but his recent manual on counterinsurgency suggests otherwise. http://www.alternet.org Be notifiied when this page changes          it's private    by ChangeDetection

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Some people don't understand the difference between irony and plain mean spirited insults. Here's how it works. If you see a picture of the President and Vice President with the term "Asses of Evil", keep in mind that this is a twist on a term that George Bush used to identify non-US-aligned nations that are trying to obtain nuclear weapons, presumably so that they can grow up to be just like us.(Imitation is, after all, the sincerest form of flattery). Countries that he hoped to villify (think "villain") he referred to as the Axis of Evil.

Well turning this phrase on its axis by auditory association converted it to the word "asses". Now, remember that a donkey is a domesticated work animal often villified by the term ass. And since its the turn of a phrase used against its creator that signifies irony, we have simply been the instrument of juvenile word play - ( not unlike Bill Shakespeare used to do). Perhaps its not funny. Still we had fun doing it. We take no credit for the term, only for connecting it to these particular charicatures. By the way, there is nothing inherent in this discussion to imply that we agree with anything to do with the rogue nations referred to as the Axis of Evil. Only that we disagree with the President in his approach to international politics.

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