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Thursday, November 24, 2005

At Last a 'Publican with Smarts!

"We thought we'd keep the high-end jobs, and others would take the low-end jobs. We're now on track to a second-rate economy and a second-rate country."Senator Pete Domenici, Republican of New Mexico



Wednesday, November 23, 2005

News Flash!

Tricky Dick Cheney denies neither he nor the bumbling Prez lied about the causes for America's invasion of Iraq. In Monday's news conference stated before hand-picked 'Publican die hards, Tricky Dick explained that simply because something wasn't true doesn't make it a lie. "You have to know something's a lie for it to be a lie." Tricky Dick said. "And we made sure that no one knew the truth so that our lies couldn't possibly be lies."

TD further stipulated, "Our CIA boys understand their jobs. They know what information to provide us with. Good information. Knowledge that can be used to justify our honorable intentions to prove to the world that we can and will win the Vietnam War in the Middle-East."

One of the 'Publican die-hards, who had been examining something he'd extracted from his nose, asked TD what the pointy things coming out of TD's head were all about. TD responded with some obscure reference to his good buddy, Meph (?), who, some correspondents have noticed, has been shadowing him for some years now.

Sunday, November 06, 2005

Have Faith in Your Gov't—They Always Do the Right Thang!

Ever read The Count of Monte Christo? It's a big book even in the condenced version, but it might be time to start. In Dumas' classic novel, secret government letters allow agents to sneak around and lock perfectly innocent people up without the accused having any recourse whatsoever.

Of course the story is fiction. Certainly in America nothing like this would ever happen, would it?

If you haven't read
"The FBI's Secret Scrutiny" On the Washinton Post site, maybe you should now. Sure, you're telling yourself, they'll only go after terrorists. Right. The government has only ever gone after "evil doers." And I've got a bridge in Brooklyn I'd love to talk to you about as investment property.

By the way, the FBI now has the right to know if you're reading The Count of Monte Christo, and they could construe this as seditious activity. The really neat thing is that they never have to prove it.

Welcome to 1984. (Isn't that a seditious novel too?)

Where Words Fail:

I stumbled across a blog this morning with a Flash presentation of the jets flying into the Twin Towers on 9/11, which the blogger claimed had been emailed to her. "How can you look at this," she said, "and not know why we are in Iraq?"

By now everyone knows of the lies and cover-ups that have come out of the Bush/Cheney administration. This blogger, according to the site, has a relative fighting in Iraq, and she has devoted her site to creating a world so blatantly fictional that, in order to convince herself of its authenticity, she must resort to staring at photographs because words simply can no longer be bent to make the lie.

Unfortunately for some, when either they or their loved ones are sent into harms way, they cannot face the harsh questions about the justness of such acts. As someone once said, "You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time …" Which category are you comfortable with?

Friday, November 04, 2005

Morality in Public:

In the early 1950s American conservatives were adamantly opposed to the teaching of morality in the public schools.

Thus we have neo-cons trying to con us in a new way, by placing morality back into the schools. That'll show the liberals!

Ah, the Golden Age!

Thursday, November 03, 2005

Big Oil and Big Spenders: At last some in Congress are beginning to ask the question, "Wouldn't there be a little justice in having the big oil companies spend just a little of their monumental profits in helping the nation that has made them so rich in rebuilding after the damage the hurricanes did?"

It's about time someone had the guts to speak up.

In the meantime, those that have continue to get, while the rest of us do the getting for them.

Carry on, troops.