Driving The Handbasket To Hell

[liadnan]

You WHAT? -Journal entry leads to FBI/CIA investigation. At least, so the author says: I know nothing about her but it seems an unlikely story to make up and from the rest of her journal she seems sane... (Link from Quixotic Kitten)

Some other links, that in my painkiller fuelled world seem to connect in some way to paint a picture of a seriously fucked-up world:

Bush website blocked outside North America (and see also Crooked Timber)

The fallout from what I continue to think was a rather twattish idea of the Grauniad's.

And on a rather different note, Queen of the Sky suspended by Delta for "inappropriate" photographs on her blog (no one seems entirely sure what was so inappropriate about them).

ETA that it is now time for episode 2 of The Power of Nightmares

Edited to further add, because they seem to belong here, two other bits from Crooked Timber:

The ridiculous row about Charlie Brooker's throwaway comment in the Guardian listings mag;

and On bombing Fallujah because they "won't hand over Zarquawi".

"I am, as a result haunted by a nightmare in which I am flying in a helicopter gunship above the town of Fallujah, looking down on the wrecked buildings and bodies below. I find myself having a conversation, through a megaphone, with one of the residents:

Me: Just hand over Zarqawi and we’ll let you live!
Resident: OK! OK! We’re having a bit of trouble finding him!
Me: A likely story! Bomb them again, Lurch!
Resident: Could you just give us a hand? Like maybe tell us where in Fallujah he’s staying?
Me: I don’t know. But we have excellent intelligence that tells us that you’re harbouring him! Bomb that coffee shop, Lurch, it looks like an ammo dump!
Resident: Well, what does he look like?
Me: Everyone knows what Zarqawi looks like! You’re just playing for time! Bomb him again!
Resident: Well, how many legs does he have? Give us something to work with here!

And at that point I wake up, screaming."

Comments

[ex-quixotick955.livejournal.com]

I just found out what comment lead to Annie being investigated as a threat to the President: The original post was a mock-prayer to God in response to Bush's comment that he could feel it every time Americans prayed for him. I jokingly prayed for an aneurysm, and invited the "prayers" of others. I can see how it was misconstrued as a threat, and I took the post down because, well, others DID share their prayers and I don't want the FBI investigating them, too. If it were just my words, I'd be more than happy to let the thing stand as a good example of what NOT to say on the Internet. ;)

Prayer is now a threat?? WTF?!

[liadnan]

Oh for heaven's sake. I was considering editing the post (again) to concede that if the FBI were told that she'd written something like "oh I'm planning to shoot him" one couldn't blame them for looking into it, but really...

[rparvaaz.livejournal.com]

*giggle*

She *prayed* for an aneurysm. Can you imagine how serious that is in Bush's faith-based world?

About Guardian's meddlings, I liked what Paul Woodward said - It might prove to be instructive and salutary, if it helps the Americans realise that this how others feel when the US govt. try to tell them how to live/act. I hope nobody at Gaurdian is surprised by the reactions though....

[hano.livejournal.com]

But if Bush had an aneurysm would anyone notice?

[rparvaaz.livejournal.com]

Well, he ought to topple over or something....

[liadnan]

http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:1axmjyHF8G4J:www.livejournal.com/users/anniesj/

[liadnan]

http://www.livejournal.com/users/kobold/276910.html puts the alternative point of view rather well, to be fair.