Doonesbury Say What?

"America was built by people who reject everything Imam Obama stands for, reject everything Imam Obama is doing...Obama's propaganda is the propaganda of failed, dead regimes: the old Soviet Union, Cuba. Obama's railing against capitalism. He's railing against private property...Barack Obama is the antithesis of the founding of this country...Had Obama been around at the founding of this country and had he been known, he would be a joke in American history books today."
-- Rush Limbaugh

Let's see.

1. Obama is not a Muslim, he's a Christian. With the rhetoric being thrown around, some days it's hard to tell the difference.
2. Obama is not an Imam, which is a prayer leader or a mosque leader. I think it's in Shi'ah an Imam is perfect, cannot sin, and must be followed.
3. Railing against capitalism, when unregulated capitalism and greed is one of the major causes of the current recession, doesn't sound like a bad thing to me. Perhaps a little less greed would be good for the country.
4. Railing against private property? He wants to let Bush's tax cuts for the richest of the rich expire to help the rest of the country and these tax cuts are a significant amount of money. That's a bad thing?
5. Using Rush's definition, Rush is the antithesis of reason.
6. And had Rush been around at the founding of this country, Burr or one of the other founders would have probably shot him.

More ACTA fun: the treaty leaks, and the EU Parliament pretty much rejects it!

"Given the history of ACTA leaks, to no one's surprise, the latest version of the draft agreement (PDF) was leaked last night on KEI's website. The new version — which reflects changes made during an intense week of negotiations last month in Washington — shows a draft agreement that is much closer to becoming reality. Perhaps the most important story of the latest draft is how the countries are close to agreement on the Internet enforcement chapter. In the face of opposition, the US has dropped its demands on secondary liability for ISPs but is still holding out hope of establishing a super-DMCA with digital lock rules that go beyond the WIPO Internet treaties and were even rejected by US courts."

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/09/06/148212/ACTA-Text-Leaks-US-Caves-On-ISPs-Seeks-Super-DMCA

"European Parliament today adopted Written Declaration 12/2010 which basically tells the Commission to all but drop the negotiations. From the article: 'Citizens from all around Europe helped to raise awareness about ACTA among Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) by collecting, one by one, more than 369 [of the MEPs'] signatures. With Written Declaration 12/20103, the European Parliament as a whole takes a firm position to oppose the un-democratic process of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), and its content harmful to fundamental freedoms and the Internet ecosystem.'"

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/09/08/1510255/European-Parliament-All-But-Rejects-ACTA