Ventilating
How about Connecticut? The whitehouse is of course saying 'sold out Joe' was defeated by the far left, and one quick glance at Lamont shows this to be wrong. He leans right on at least as many issues as Joe. The whitehouse is also saying it means the democrats want to wave a white flag. Maybe we're tired of waiting for the checkered flag that was promised to come no later than late June of '03 when the whitehouse unilaterally initiated the undeclared war on Iraq.
Let's turn around the whitehouse whinings. Let's see, they are wrongly giving credit to the far left. Probably because they only understand extremes, black and white, and they are undoubtedly the far right, and it was enabling the far right depredations which cost 'sold out Joe' the election. In their arrogance they can't imagine anyone aside from nut-jobs on the left side of the spectrum attacking them, the penultimate nut-jobs on the right side of the spectrum. Using the far right they have handily defeated things like integrity, liberty and courage, which were once attributed to this country. As a country we may not yet see through most of their lies, but the rest of the world is not so afflicted. Probably because most of the rest of the world is non-white and/or non-christian and they have very good reason to feel that our country and especially our corporate entities through whom they experience us, do not value them as human beings.
This morning's news when I heard it was so predictable. The U.S. was caught by surprise with England's foiling of a terrorist bombing plot. The moment I heard it I guessed three things were going to happen. One that Bush and crew would be saying "9/11, 9/11, 9/11..." Second, they'd be stirring up the cowardly spirit of their base with dire statements about how we are still at danger and they have to be given carte blanche to do their secret stuff. Third, that they'd soon recover from their surprise, and boast of how they worked with England in foiling the terrorists. In less than an hour all three came true, like starving sharks going into a feeding frenzy in freshly chummed water. Funny, that they are at once the sharks and the chummers.
Make no mistake, we are still in danger from terrorist attacks, and this administration has done everything they could get away with to make it worse. They have set new levels of arrogance in the international community to build walls of non-cooperation. They refuse to consider anything which might reduce the resentment against us in third world and other subjugated populations. "It's bad for business. It's none of our business. It's the responsibility of the leadership corrupted by our corporate wealth to protect their own citizens." I of course don't buy any of these arguments, which are solely for the benefit of big business interests. Business in this country whines to slake their sense of entitlement and nearly always get it. Whether it be for toys like their sport stadiums or for increasing already obscene profit margins and ceo salaries with unwarranted tax breaks.
Bush, the illiterate wimp, calls the enemy Islamic fascists. More or less his new call to bring it on. They are terrorists first, Islamic second. If his goal is to alienate the rest of the Islamic world, he's doing quite well. Fascists? It is a nicely loaded word to help motivate terrorists and create more from those who might have been inclined to support the U.S. The sad irony is it refers to a governmental system where big business is in partnership with the politicians to rule the country. In the forties big business was called industry, today corporations.
This system of governance has had many names over the centuries, but like Italy in the forties, has consistently led to an environment of totalitarianism, violent racism, and blind nationalism and jingoism. Not a healthy form of government, and generally it is rather short lived. We call it privatization today, but that doesn't make the peril of sinking into that type of government any less. So, we'd best be careful about calling others fascists. Calling someone else names for the sake of calling them names is not the best approach, especially when the name is more appropriate for yourself. Of course, that is one of the hallmark strategies of the neocons, to accuse others doing the amoral things they are already doing. I keep waiting for one of the evil clowns in the whitehouse to brag how the trains are on time.
Let's turn around the whitehouse whinings. Let's see, they are wrongly giving credit to the far left. Probably because they only understand extremes, black and white, and they are undoubtedly the far right, and it was enabling the far right depredations which cost 'sold out Joe' the election. In their arrogance they can't imagine anyone aside from nut-jobs on the left side of the spectrum attacking them, the penultimate nut-jobs on the right side of the spectrum. Using the far right they have handily defeated things like integrity, liberty and courage, which were once attributed to this country. As a country we may not yet see through most of their lies, but the rest of the world is not so afflicted. Probably because most of the rest of the world is non-white and/or non-christian and they have very good reason to feel that our country and especially our corporate entities through whom they experience us, do not value them as human beings.
This morning's news when I heard it was so predictable. The U.S. was caught by surprise with England's foiling of a terrorist bombing plot. The moment I heard it I guessed three things were going to happen. One that Bush and crew would be saying "9/11, 9/11, 9/11..." Second, they'd be stirring up the cowardly spirit of their base with dire statements about how we are still at danger and they have to be given carte blanche to do their secret stuff. Third, that they'd soon recover from their surprise, and boast of how they worked with England in foiling the terrorists. In less than an hour all three came true, like starving sharks going into a feeding frenzy in freshly chummed water. Funny, that they are at once the sharks and the chummers.
Make no mistake, we are still in danger from terrorist attacks, and this administration has done everything they could get away with to make it worse. They have set new levels of arrogance in the international community to build walls of non-cooperation. They refuse to consider anything which might reduce the resentment against us in third world and other subjugated populations. "It's bad for business. It's none of our business. It's the responsibility of the leadership corrupted by our corporate wealth to protect their own citizens." I of course don't buy any of these arguments, which are solely for the benefit of big business interests. Business in this country whines to slake their sense of entitlement and nearly always get it. Whether it be for toys like their sport stadiums or for increasing already obscene profit margins and ceo salaries with unwarranted tax breaks.
Bush, the illiterate wimp, calls the enemy Islamic fascists. More or less his new call to bring it on. They are terrorists first, Islamic second. If his goal is to alienate the rest of the Islamic world, he's doing quite well. Fascists? It is a nicely loaded word to help motivate terrorists and create more from those who might have been inclined to support the U.S. The sad irony is it refers to a governmental system where big business is in partnership with the politicians to rule the country. In the forties big business was called industry, today corporations.
This system of governance has had many names over the centuries, but like Italy in the forties, has consistently led to an environment of totalitarianism, violent racism, and blind nationalism and jingoism. Not a healthy form of government, and generally it is rather short lived. We call it privatization today, but that doesn't make the peril of sinking into that type of government any less. So, we'd best be careful about calling others fascists. Calling someone else names for the sake of calling them names is not the best approach, especially when the name is more appropriate for yourself. Of course, that is one of the hallmark strategies of the neocons, to accuse others doing the amoral things they are already doing. I keep waiting for one of the evil clowns in the whitehouse to brag how the trains are on time.
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