And the fight goes on: By Scott Fraser

What happened to the liberal left this time???? Dollar, after dollar, after wasted dollar spent on the bashing, brutalizing, negative press, and attempted demoralization of the, our, Republican representative, our wonderful commander in cheif, the president of these UNITES STATES OF AMERICA George W. Bush. Dosen't it seem rediculous, this rebirth of the 1960's, america hating, anti realist, "ism" loving, freedom hating, non working, tax payer raping, I want everything for free HIPPIE GARBAGE. What was being sold to the rebellious antiwar, peace movement of the 60's was nothing more than a mind altering chemical that led people to believe that reality was able to be reinvented. The fact that these people were able to protest in the streets, use drugs with little reprucussion, create anti american propaganda and still exist with total freedom totally slipped their minds. Oh and by the way, still live in america and walk the streets without having their heads chopped off, without having their children raped and murdured, they were able to burn american flags and scream anti american propaganda and still live the life of freedom, the AMERICAN life of freedom. Where did the freedom to burn an american flag in america come from????? The fact that we fought for freedom is the fact that deems us free. America took on any and every enemy to defend our way of life. We fought and conquered so our children could and can have a life free of tyranny and hate, and we will continue to fight to dismantle any foe who dare disrupt our way of living. Throughout history american opposition has held strong, espically the internal oposition that we have allowed for way to long. The putrid and foul naysayers of this great land that coexist amont us. Using everything that we have fought for so dillegently. Using federal funds to promote groups that disguise themselves as progressive when actually the peogression is to regress back to the dictators and tyrants of the past that so many people fled to america to escape. Refugees gave up familys, wifes, husbands, anything that you and I as free americans would kill for. They gave it up in the hope that they might attain a miniscule fraction of what we take for granted everyday. The freedom we so begrudgingly pass off as a "right". The rights we so freely give away to become felons, enemys of the state, then only to turn around and complain about the justice system. The system that gives us three meals a day, appeal after tax payed appeal, and a roof over your head. No i'm sorry, america won't decapitate you for stealing, or for praying to the God of your choice. We won't dig mass graves and commit genecide because of a peoples choice of religious practices and principles. Freedom of religion is what this country was founded on, yet when a prayer is said at the presidential innauguration the president of the national athiest society raises an uproar and goes to the supreme court to get prayer banned. You my athiest friend are the raper of freedom. The theif of everything beautiful. The God you ignore is the God that is mentioned in our "free nations" pledge of allegiance. Take your Goddless liberal antics to Iraq and tell their leaders that you dont want allah in their prayers, because it offends you. The Gathering of the Gods wouldn't save you in your time of pitiful backlash.Your screaming: horrid, imploring, and desirous saturated outcries, pleading to save your now condemned soul, will be silenced at the time of your ceremonial behedding. In a time of war we need not display disagreeance with out milatarys actions. Ted Kennedy, is the grandiose, immoral, scum sucking, pig liberal that finds it in his best intrests to bash our efforts in Iraq loud and clear for the opposition to hear. The terrorist movement is jumping for joy to know that in america we have a group of anti military activists in our government known as liberals. No more precision bombing!!!! I say bomb their cities, until they release information on every terrorist. I say stop the parties they have when america is under attack, one by one fire bomb their masses until we have what we need. Even if we did this we would still be playing one hundred times more fair than that of the whacko middle east muslim terrorists. I say to the hillary clintons of america, join the NRA because if the left has anything to do with it we will be having peace talks with osama binladen in 2008, trying to sympathise with the downtrodden pour souls in the middle east. I say american patriotism now. A democratic election is scheduled to take place in Iraq on 1-30-05. Thanks to the american military we have brought to its knees one of if not the most powerful dictatorships in the history of the world. We reduced the muslim hitler ( Saddam Hussein) to a spider hole cowering in fear. I would have loved to see the look on that worthless bastard sadam husseins face when american soldiers ordered him to the ground with high powered maching guns pointed at his once powerful but now powerless head. I wish he would have resisted so one of our soldiers could have had the opprutinity to spray that worthless dictators face with 1000 rounds of red, white, and blue ammunition. A historic event is taking place when the once fear driven people of Iraq can now have a voice. 80% of the population is registered to vote, knowing the risks associated with being involved. Their has to be something wrong if a person cannot cast a ballot without having to worry about being shot in the head or blown up by a random car bomb. But the idiot left in america says we have no business in iraq. The left in america wants this election to fail, because if it is successful, the liberation of a once dictator controlled nation will be underway. That will undermind everything the liberal whackjob left has been whining about since the beginning of operation iraqi freedom. People are actually free to vote, not being raped, no more mass graves, no more ordered killings, no more torture chambers, and the IDIOT LIBEREL LEFT still says we have no business in iraq. So I ask the left , you agree with abortion, you agree with mass graves,ordered killings, and child rapings in iraq, but you disagree with the death penalty?????? Like I said "IDIOT WHACKJOB LIBERALS !!!!!

What is Gonzo journalism?

What is Gonzo journalism?

Open and free news archive could be in Web's future

Open and free news archive could be in Web's future

Renegade gonzo journalism my opinion

Renegade journalism Lets talk about the mainstream rules of journalism. Lets imagine for one second that all is organized into perfect sentences, paragraphs, order. Everything we learn in school is the be all end all of writing. The "Rules of writing". I follow them, but why? Lets get outside of the mainstream journalistic culture. Overlap thoughts with poetry with essays with random ideas flying around the paper like a desert sandstorm. Using words thoughts and emotions that would scare even the most radical thinker. Blinding the eyes of the mainstream with realism not sensationalism, truth not bias intrepretation, emotion not motion. To say what you think and feel not what you are paid to think and feel or what you think you're supposed to think and feel. To muckrake is to search for and expose misconduct in public life. Lets muckrake. Lets search, find, expose.

hunter s thompson said alot

In the late sixties, a young journalist and free-lance novelist named Hunter S. Thompson emerged with his bold and brazen style of writing in the U.S. The time was right for such a crazed and exaggerated brand of reporting. During the late fifties and early sixties, Thompson became disillusioned with newspapers and his writing career. Because of differences in personality, opinion and style, he did not last long at many of the small town dailies he worked for. "they were introducing bowling to Puerto Rico. I had to go out and cover bowling every night in San Juan. Bowling was going big. Bowling alleys were popping up everywhere. What could you say about bowling? Bowlers just wanted to see their names in the paper. That was the essential thing....about half my work was making sure every bowler in San Juan got his name in the magazine...And ever since I've hated the word bowling" (Thompson, 1990, p65). he quit the paper when it refused to run an article about Tom Wolfe's novel, The Kandy-Colored Tangerine Flake Streamline Baby. The review was the last in a series of grudges Thompson had with the paper, stemming from an unpublished tribute to JFK. The death of the charismatic president had a deep impact on Hunter. "I was feeling so good about the country...[b]ut all of a sudden that day the country looked different to me, and I felt very bad about it," (Thompson, 1990, p106) he wrote almost thirty years after the event. Later, in Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 he would roast Hubert Humphrey for using the voices of John and Robert Kennedy to promote his campaign (Thompson, 1973). His first piece to be christened "gonzo" was his infamous account of Louisville's most famous event, "The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved", which is more about white trash than horses.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. Hunter S. ThompsonA word to the wise is infuriating. Hunter S. Thompson America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable. Hunter S. Thompson Call on God, but row away from the rocks. Hunter S. Thompson Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect. Hunter S. Thompson I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. Hunter S. Thompson I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. Hunter S. Thompson I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me. Hunter S. Thompson If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism. Hunter S. Thompson It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top. Hunter S. Thompson No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master. Hunter S. Thompson Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times. Hunter S. Thompson That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation. Hunter S. Thompson The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. Hunter S. Thompson The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side. Hunter S. Thompson The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs Hunter S. Thompson There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge. Hunter S. Thompson When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. Hunter S. Thompson You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye. Hunter S. Thompson