Quickies

• When Newt Gingrich-- this week's GOP version of "Not Romney"-- says people should be drug tested before they are allowed to "receive any kind of federal aid," he's not referring to the fat cat bankers that received over $7 trillion of federal aid; or to the rich corporate bosses whose companies receive billions in tax breaks every year, or to the farmers who receive millions in subsidies to not work.  No Gingrich wouldn't dare suggest those people be held to higher standards.  He's only referring to poor people and those who don't vote Republican.

• Fox News' latest fear mongering race baiting lies?  President Obama Plans To Abandon White Working Class.  The president himself is half-white.  His daughters are 1/4 white.  He was raised by an entirely white family, attended the elitist of white schools, was a member of an entirely white U.S. Senate and now occupies the position previously held by 43 all white men.  He's more white than me.  Why in the world this stupid meme entirely created by Fox News is still going around is proof of just how corrupt that network is.

• Glenn Greenwald highlights an interesting point from Gen. Wesley Clark.  It was the intent of the neocons during the Bush administration to attack and destroy 7 Middle Eastern countries: "...we’re going to start with Iraq, and then we’re going to move to Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Iran."  Iraq? Check.  Syria? In the process or regime change.  Lebanon?  Not yet.  Libya?  Check.  Somalia?  In the process of regime change.  Iran?  Proxy fighting is always good.

• Meanwhile in Iraq, that beacon of Bush's Liberation Policy of Freedom, 19 people were blown to smithereens in the street today.

• Remember when it was okay for the president to sell arms to Iran in exchange for hostages?  Oh yeah, it's all down the memory hole now.  Well, except this week marks 25 years since President Reagan openly admitted to selling some weapons to Iran but only to arm good mullahs.  Could you imagine if Bill Clinton had secretly sold weapons to Iran?  Or if he had openly funded, aided and armed bin Laden's holy war in Afghanistan?  Or if he had openly supported, funded and sold weapons to Saddam Hussein the field day the right wing would be having.  Could you imagine it?  Reagan did all three things.  But we are never to mention any of it again.  If we do, we are only to mention it in the context that Reagan did all those things because he loved America and did it to make us stronger.