THIS TROLL FOR HIRE
Sometimes, as the bills roll in, I reflect bitterly on how fascism is so much better paid than fighting the Good Fight for the Tenth Internationale. Most of the time we think in terms of the big ticket pond scum – celebrity fanatics like Ann Coulter, loathsomely calculated turncoats like Christopher Hitchens, or megalomaniacal opportunists like Bill O’Reilly. But even down on the entry level, the sell-out thrives. I’ve had enough bits and pieces reprinted on those political blogs that are followed with endless witty or abusive comments to wonder how right-wing trolls find the time to be all over the map hollering "Yay, George! Yay Jesus! Yay, war! You’re all fucking traitors!" But all is now revealed by an ad on Craig’s List...

"A Christian based marketing firm is looking for 2 writers to blog and participate in a wide variety of blogs and online forums. Ideal candidates are fast typers, with excellent communication skills, and are fast learners. $11 per hour - 25 hours per week."

So now we know. The falange-trolls are low-rent cyber scabs whoring for a little over minium wage, which would seem to go hand in hand with all the bought-and-paid-for-talk show hosts, the planted shrills in the White House Press Corps, and the latest revelation that the US Army is writing the Iraqis’ newspapers for them, (and that has to be such a fun read).

(The clip was lifted from LA Observed – http://www.laobserved.com/ )

And if that wasn’t enough we also have a religious neocon rock band called Junkyard Prophet touring schools and being paid $1500.00 a gig by...wait for it...a Department of Education anti-drug program to spout some dumbed-down cocktail of Herman Goering, Ayn Rand, and Slayer – as in "The death sentence on you/Due to your sins/The very evidence of your sin/Will be your death!" I note from the story, though, that attendance was mandatory, maybe indicating JP suck transcendentally. Nixon really should have coming up with something like JP – the anti-Doors – returning the youth to patriotism, back when we commie-subversive, rama-lama cowboys were getting our cheques signed directly by Chairman Mao. Who knows? The war in Vietnam might still be going strong today, setting proud records for pointlessly sustained combat.
http://thinkprogress.org/2005/11/30/right-wing-rock/

The secret word is Nincompoop

CRYPTIQUE – Like the Rolling Stones.

AND THE GULFSTREAM SHRUGGED
It really doesn’t look so good around the Greenland Pump.
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8398