The story about Georgia designating April for ‘Confederacy History and Heritage Month’ must have really got under my skin, because I’ve been jousting over at Control Congress exclusively these past few days, with a number of posts and comments that have surely led to signs of life underground in various southern spots, like wherever they buried the bones of Strom Thurman…that said, in the past few years I’ve embraced the fact that online in a political debate, I’m probably the most tenacious prick you’ll ever run into, and it works like a charm since my family has lived in this house for well over a year now and the neighbors never have to deal with that side of me. It’s my own private CSPAN I suppose, and unlike most other venues I’ve stirred up some shit at in the past, it’s been months now and I haven’t been banned. I point this out only because this past week may have inched me closer to just that, but we’ll see.
Those unfamiliar with Control Congress, let me say up front that for me it is a venue that boasts a variety of personalities and beliefs, and therefore constitutes a sort of comfort zone that i s hard to find elsewhere in the political cyber-arena. Too often with most political blogs it’s one way or the other with nothing in between (great for reading, but not writing/debating from), and while the radio show that accompanies the blog is performed by a couple of Republicans, since anyone can post whatever they want, their influence is often tiny. In fact, the top dog over there (John Konop) generally pulls a story out of the newscycle, applies a stupid subject to it and asks a leading question before posting the article’s contents in blockquote below. When the right-wing jitters are fierce and he doesn’t have the stomach for reality, he’ll simply restate old opinions, accuse readers of not caring enough about something as he does…when the war becomes a topic, he cuts and pastes something he wrote six months ago or more, and in general will avoid the meat and potatos, choosing instead to focus on the silverware.
I get on his case sometimes like an attack dog in Guantanamo, but never has it been as fun or good writing practice as these past couple of days. And with that in mind, I’ll link to a couple threads from over there where he basically toes the party line 
and characterizes the House war supplemental passed on Friday as a pork-fest, but unlike the folks at FoxNews, he won’t touch anything pertaining to the actual war with a ten foot pole besides pasting that thing he wrote a while back that every reader on the site has seen 100 times already. Some of these are g reat, but to save space I’ll post the links and if anyone is interested in learning about how to debate a right-winger, here’s a crash course:
- PORK USED TO PASS IRAQ BILL (John’s)
- John Konop Calls This Pork
- Konop Reorders Post Order – Here’s his fuzzy math
School prevents me from doing much more than this, but hopefully someone will find their way over there, because it’s all good for the mind. Like a game of chess I suppose. No lights or cameras, but enough ideas to help anyone looking to bring the fight to some right-wingers elsewhere.