Malignant Team has Benign Debut

Flash Traffic to all Team America:

The collective genius at The Blue Voice debuted this morning with a fairly benign introduction, ala The Mickey Mouse Club, ears and everything. There were a couple of exceptions to the choreographed nicety though, mostly from Neil and Buddhasgin who are, in the absence of Marcia Ellen, the president and CEO of Hate International respectively.

Gin goes right after our soldiers, intimating that they are filled with death lust. He quotes the always reasonable Chris Hedges, who believes war to be a form of necrophilia.

The young soldiers, trained well enough to be disciplined but encouraged to maintain their naive adolescent belief in invulnerability, have in wartime morepower at their fingertips than they will ever have again. They catapult frombeing minimum wage employees at places like Burger King, facing a life ofdead-end jobs with little hope of health insurance and adequate benefits, tobeing part of, in the words of the Marines, "the greatest fighting force on theface of the earth." The disparity between what they were and what they have become is breathtaking and intoxicating.

Not just soldiers, but all right-wing sheep are intoxicated by death lust. I'd write more, but I must return to my vigil at Fox News, where I salivate in anticipation of the next images of dead people. If the image is a good one, I might even "pet" myself.

Another gem from Gin.

"the current slaughter of Iraqis we are told will not only bring them freedom and democracy but will also maintain our own freedoms."

The only "slaughter" of Iraqi's happening right now is at the hands of sex-crazed losers with explosives strapped to their chests, sent to their deaths by fanatics and the promise of easy, if awkward, sex in Islam heaven. That would be a fact however, and not Gin's stock in trade.

Serving the hate-volley back from the opposite coast, with a message to all the hicks in the middle, is Neil.

I am no fan of George W Bush. In fact, I despise him and his radical religious right-wing base of support. I lament the assault on the separation of church and state under this President, and the way in which the GOP has become an extension of one religious group. I condemn the President's stolen 2000 election, his unwise economic policies, his unfair tax policies, and his unjust Iraq War. I am appalled by the abrogation of the Geneva Convention and the abuse of prisoners in our custody, enabled if not sanctioned by the President, his Attorney General, and the Secretary of Defense.

Religion hater, Geneva Convention expert, not at all turned on by the abuse of prisoners, and a knack for saying many things without including much in the way of reality. That's a quadruple threat guy if there ever was one.

He is also, given the above paragraph, very attuned, and highly suggestable, to the talking points of his leftist masters. If he ever gets around to categorizing the "assault" on church and state, he could be dangerous. Fortunately, that is not likely to happen.

Minus Annette Funicello, still a formidable enemy. Covert they are not however, as the floppy ear-hats gives away their membership in the mouseketeer party. All they need is Howard Mouse to show them the way.