Not at all. I condemn terrorist, the tactic and terrorism, the objective. It can be both.

For example, while I totally support the objective of Zionism, I oppose the tactic of terrorism to fight for that goal. That's why you don't see me celebrating Baruch Goldstein (was that his name) like my dear opponents celebrate that Lebanese family murderer who was released from prison recently.

I am assuming you say "hotel" because the building was built as one and enjoy the fact that this makes the attack sound like terrorism. In fact the "hotel" was a British military base at the time.

Attacking a British military base is wrong and the British were not actual "oppressors" (although they did a lot to arm and train the Transjordanian army that would later make Jerusalem and the West-Bank judenrein, plus they made Hitler's friend the "Grand Mufti" chief of the Jerusalem holy sites).

But attacking a military base is not terrorism.

Not even if done by Jews.

There goes the last thing I thought I liked about the Nazis.

Come on now, they still had pretty sharp uniforms.

Besides the US liked the WWII German helmets so much they adopted a variation of it. All kidding aside, a lot of testing went into it, I recall reading about it back in the 80's.

No, by "meanness" I am not talking about muzzling of opposition or anything else of the sort. I am talking about the fact that America has become a very mean place, much more so at the end of this decade than in the 90's.

There is evidence of this everywhere- the vitriol spewed by popular talk show hosts, the lack of dignity or respect in national discussions and most distressingly the lack of compassion for those that are on hard times. In short, your once great nation is in the sad process of imploding, and rather than wake up and realize what the real problems are folks are turning to scapegoats, blaming the disadvantaged and marginalized as the problem when the reality couldn't be further to the truth.

Let's look at this little humdinger;

-Public education and social programs are getting their budget slashed everywhere (those kids don't need to learn and granny can eat cat food, right!)

-national infrastructure overall is decaying

-economy is still in the gutter, real unemployment is creeping up on 20% but yet massive multi-billion bailouts went to the banks while joe blow got peanuts

-60% of your energy is imported, U.S hit it's peak oil production almost 40 years ago and has been declining ever since. Even if you turn up all the offshore oil rigs you can, there is no way in hell you could ever hit the production peak in 1970/71, but only temporarily delay the inevitable.

-In spite of record deficits and budget-slashery, the U.S defense budget this year is a record whopping 838 billion (over a trillion if you count in things like the budget for nukes, military aid to other countries which are covered by other departments like DOE, state, etc)

And yet, for having the highest defense budget in the world the U.S is not officially at war with anyone.

So there are all these huge problems facing the U.S. And the tea partyers are one hundred percent correct to be mad as hell, at least they've clued in to the fact that things are going down shit creek without a paddle.

Saddly, while they are right to be angry, and have correctly deduced that something is indeed rotten in the state of denmark, that anger is being very skillfully channeled away from the real perpetrators.

Let's see the tea-partyers demand that BP have all it's assets in the U.S stripped (monetary and otherwise) for it's crime that has now closed off more than 30% of U.S waters in the gulf.

Let's see the tea-partyers demand a real energy solution, instead of the "drill baby, drill!" mantra that will only delay the inevitable

Let's see the tea-partyers call a spade a spade and denounce both the democrat and republican party as the complete sham they are and form a third party not beholden to the special interests like the defense lobby, healthcare and big banks which are slowly bleeding your country dry.

If that happens, I'll open up a chapter myself!

So you are saying it was not "mean" during the early part of the decade?  What is your definition of "mean"?  Making movies of assassinating the president?  Oh, wait, that was just Bush.  Calling The president a nazi and comparing him to Hitler?  Oh, wait that was Bush as well.  Calling the president stupid and a fool?  Oh, wait, that was Bush as well.

It seems that your definition of mean is "anything said derogatory of the left".  Which just goes to prove the point you are weakly trying to deny.

Hell's Angels.

US Army.

Come on Anthony, don't let BusyBee's weak mind down.

i didn't ask about a hidden meaning for the same reason you can't provide one.

there's nothing hidden. (wc fields famous exclaimation:  "there's an ethiopian in the fuel supply!" qualifies by comparison where as it might otherwise be most liberally categorized as "thinly veiled." 

what i'm asking of you is simple enough: what is its actual meaning or what do you intend it to mean?

goodnite shirley  ellis wherever you are.

Hmm, the 101st or 1001st hits from goolge?  Great research.  I am sure you can find anything if you sift through the google hits long enough.

By god, you have struck Searchdirt!

Yeah, that's it. Don't even wait until he's out of office.