Wednesday, December 13, 2006

War on drugs is another ill-conceived crusade Gene Lyons 9:58:12 AM    comment []

Saturday, December 09, 2006

A Prius in the passing lane. Workers who are, are to be made humble at their progressive instincts and part with their dignity long enough to allow faster traffic to pass on to the left on the fucking Eisenhower interstate system, like he built it. These are superhighways and no place for week-end interlopers obstructing commerce with their pathetic gestures to balance a bad car choice using counter-cultural values and accept that your hybrid isn't built for these speeds. Blogging is safer, cheaper, and you can order more bogus crap on-line and have it delivered in hand to your very door by professionals who know how to drive our bad to mid-post-modern merkin autoban at high speeds within questionable foreign technology. Particulary those Nippon jobs who still haven't even fathomed the depths of America's particular depravity out there on and under and for their open road, in the cockpit of  his or her own teh shiny deathmobile. On a sunny Saturday like the this, you could get flipped-off, but good. 2:32:19 PM    comment []

Friday, December 08, 2006

How can we go when we don't know why we came? That's the prickly problem with our ongoing debacle in Iraq, we don't have any clear idea why we're fighting there, even though we started it. The cynical might give oil and all that, as the really, real reason. So we're there for oil, we should say so, and then act in an accordingly slippery manner, but nope. Not even that to hang our jingoistic hats on. Now the sophist neo-cons have gone all neo-colonial on us. Surprise! That's our brand new itty-bitty widdle middle east empire there, now. Teach them well, the little brown babys about the White Man and his burdens and hard working. Sysyfus got a better deal than our military on this one, mission accomplished, indeed, this mission, that mission, any old mission at all, accomplished if you please? It's become painflly obvious over this long war, that certian persons who should care about these things don't. It's as if they've lost interest.  Weapons of mass destruction? They hadn't any. Saddam's supposed links to international terrorism? Inconclusive. Any links to the 9/11 plot? None proven. Bringing democracy upon a previously sovereign and intact state who has not asked for our help? Was there ever a real threat? Like the Supreme Court went to Florida, Bush invaded Iraq, and for the very same reason, because they could. It was like; Stop counting the votes, and start torturing the prisoners. It really all went down too fast.  Now, why, why  would we add more troops to this bloody, expensive mess, rather then less? Raising the blood bounty for 2008? An auctioning-off  of each soldier's life for even larger campaigns funding even more brutal killers to the apex of power, where they make war at their whimsy, because, and just because? You're at attention, boy. Nobody knows, da trouble I CIC's, nobody knows my sorrow. Bush doesn't like to admit his mistakes, let alone correct himself, and he doesn't care how many of the troops will die until we learn this dangerous mind of his, and begin to obviate some of the damage he's doing now, and has pledged to continue, there apparently being no power on earth great enough to make him do it, if he doesn't want to. He really is a Commander-in-Chief to die for. He's got those spurs that go jingle, jingle, jingle. With the Great Seal on his boots, and Iraq under his heel, and spurs that like a cowboy, make him feel. And act. What the fuck is wrong with this guy? He wouldn't last a week as a cowboy, that's much harder work that sending kids off to die for his insane ambitions and inability to self -correct. 1:57:16 PM    comment []

Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Lagrange point Our new DoD presumptive Robert Gates sees us at a stasis in Iraq. Stalled. We're not winning, no, but then we're not losing, either. Depends on how you keep score, I guess. We can agree that Bob Gates thinks the score is tied [think football] somehow, as the Bush Administration enters it's Constitutionally mandated fourth quarter and [think snowtires and beer, and a Lazy-Boy,]as the old man finally limps home with an analogy. Q; Will Bob Gates bring any dead American troops back to life? A; No...Raising soldiers from the dead is probably a violation of the Geneva Convention. Since President Bush has planted both feet squarely in Mesopotamian muddy and looks  not like he won't be budged anytime soon, Gates' job will be to run out the clock on the new Democrat Congress. Play to tie at home, and to win on the ground beef, and feed more, and still more troops, into the slaughter slaughter, upping, ever upping the ante for 2008 in blood and treasure, and not just for democracy, anymore, but for some slobbery aphorisms and hopes for peace, and as always, always, more denial, nihilism and death.  So, surrender's not an option? No, if we're not losing (not winning), the war in Iraq, which we're not, we then cannot just lay down our arms, and report to the responsible Iraqi authorities, if any? Who said we could? Nancy Pelosi? That would be too easy, of course, and because real justice is never, never going down at the end of a rifle, it's got to be with something else in combination. Responsibility. Who? What? Why? As in who invaded whom and why? Well, it seems that sadly, we invaded them, not the other way around and not at all because of how badly we indulge our sons in their violent adolescent fantasies in this culture. Hell no, and I'll lick any man who says otherwise. This wasn't a war so much as a primitive gang rape, hot and fresh from Ol' George Bush's diseased mind into your living rooms in high definition in time for X-mas and Boxing Day in the UK. Yes...You were thrilled and titillated, and some of your soul got sucked out of you as you cheered on the Legions of the Supposed Good Guys, the new riding deciders of the purple age, on their gory glory road to Baghdad. A blessed release, a sweet summer shower...A real douche bag. Oh yeah, they have some oil, too. 7:21:25 PM    comment []

Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Butcher, Baker, Candlestickmaker Not the beginning of the end, but the beginning...Of the end? To paraphrase Sir Winnie Churchhill, Conservative Stalwart, braggart, loose cannon and drunk. Spoon of the Bosh and Spenser Eiffel Rife Scion, a mouser with his Mauser. George W. you see, becomes the lamest of all rubbed ducks. Ouch! The Queen in all her Mums could not concieve of an idiot crown prince, and his multifarious blunders across such a sweeping international  canvas, John Ford couldn't have swept it all into his Monument Valley paralaxis. Remember, if you but will, the epic fifty-five day struggle to move George W. (Dubya)unelected to the head of the free world, through, not an act of God so much, as a decision of the Supreme Court, where these things are not often contemplated, except in times of clear and present peace and prosperity as existed in early 2001. The horror of 9/11 which changed his poll number for awhile, and then the mighty Invasion of Iraq which doomed them forever. Or will they try to get him on the good foot at this late date? Rubber Soul? I personally think Bush should be dancing with the stars and pardons next year, or better still, tap dancing his size nines to the Hague, but they don't bother with me, and that's good, and I want to stay that way, but you and I know that the Western must end with a shoot-out and not a rub down, the death of the West and the Cowboy Myth itself. Enter Jim Baker. I'm the butcher, the candlestick maker is you. Remember to give to your favorite blogs out there...Not Atrios, or Kos or me, we don't need it. But I'm sure you can find one who does. It's way better than giving it to some Senator with ambition, or worse. Then sit and enjoy a thrilling read on a fast commentary thread, it's got a back beat, you can't lose it.  Move on towards the light. 11:39:57 AM    comment []

Monday, November 20, 2006

Unprotected speech Screaming; "Fire!" in a crowded theatre is not protected speech. See? Watching the yellow bile drip from Bush's lips is foreign correspondence. See? The chewed over mouthfuls spat at us by the newspapers of record and sort, come under the collective heading of news and information, sports, weather. Your right to know in an open market of ideas. See? Voting is a sort of free speech when you think about it, too. One adult, one vote. Some people however, insist on corrupting that cherished personal choice, using vast rivers of money to outflank it. Millions of small contributors each diluting their own votes to the point until they're never heard from again until it's shakedown time as the cunning modern politician acts in and for the money, but rightly fears the wised-up chumps. It's still our game, they know. So? So we must choose between the right to contribute our money to influence the campaign system and our very right to vote. You cannot have both, it seems too me. What should have been obvious before, is mandated now. Frugality being an asset in a public servant, we need to pay them well, but not in cash, or other amenities, put it on their paychecks and make sure they earn it. As for; "running for office" funds, these should be minimal and Secret Service eats the balance.Which brings us to the bringers of all this uneeded expense, let's call it marketeering in the public place, and industries of division and hate, wrapped in fear and laid out on the table like dinner. Such is the power matrix we have. Is the pain becoming too much? Let me know. 12:46:56 PM    comment []

Thursday, November 09, 2006

The Swinging Sixties Were once thought to have killed-off those pesky Democrats once and for all. But not so it seems, the left-leaning voter reappeared yesterday like Da' Boss' ghost and they went and took the rotten Republican's whole majority away, away, and away...Perhaps, never to be seen again? A real change and that, and fast. Speed up. In order to keep the momentum going, the new majority needs to move quickly to consolidate their position by impeaching Bush now, while his disapproval is at 60%+. History has shown us that impeaching the popular presidents, those with the majority's approval of doesn't work at all, particularly when that president didn't commit any war crimes, or crimes of any sort, for that matter. But for the re-match, we have as likely a bum to convict as we're ever going to get. This guy has made a mockery of the desire for peace and international law the world has dreamed of since VJ day. His thoughts and actions have taken us to a dark place, one that grows only blacker though day does not fail or even come late. One again, let me urge our new majority party to act fast and impeach George W. Bush for making aggressive war, crimes against humanity, and malfeasance in office. Don't waste a single minute to bring this criminal to the bar to answer for his crimes.   12:37:07 PM    comment []

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