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This is Bob from Customer Support
Yep, we're agreeing. If the bishop names John Kerry, then the bishop has violated Kerry's status within the church. Everyone knows that Kerry is pro-choice, just as everyone knows that Elizabeth Taylor is divorced, but it is not right to name church members who are not eligible for sacraments. Just as an update on my last rant, I'm now on the phone w/ the computer company that lost my warrantied part when it was coming to me. In email sent this morning they claimed not to have received the part that UPS confirmed delivered on July 12. Bob from Customer Support said [when I took a breathless break in typing to you, because once they charge something, I bet it's easier to get a camel through the eye of a needle than to get that charge reversed] that it was an 'automatic email' and gave me a confirmation number that my case was resolved, but Bob did not wish to give me any name besides 'Bob from Customer Support'. His birth name was certainly not Bob, and I would not be surprised if there aren't many Bobs. Perhaps one a shift. I bet they get a lot of panicky calls due to those 'automatic emails', just as I bet the phone gets a lot of angry phone calls when it turns out the telephone people were wrong when they said the 300% surcharge was a 'one time charge'. I will say 'Bob's English was much better than the phone company people, gotta give the computer people that. Geeze, I wish I hadn't quit smoking. Trying to deal with this stuff is gonna kill me much faster. I don't believe - can't believe - that it was only 10% of the population who were against the Iraq war before it began. If 90% of the people I know were against it, does that mean that my friends are genius and a few family members misled? I ask because at least one of the family members tests higher than most MENSA members, and is talented at everything the person has ever tried, from art to music to physics and zoology. Those numbers were just more spin from a dizzy media. Or is this a trick question? This gentleman believes you've been covering the abduction of Madeline McCann, a British child on holiday in Portugal. Her parents left her in their nearby room while they ate in a restaurant with friends. He doesn't understand that the abduction of a European child is not covered widely in the US media, and probably not at all [I didn't search your site] by you. While it is tragic, it is not political.
Million pound shit-hammer vs. the markets
I suppose now is the perfect time for The Revolution... but *by* the Richies to overthrow the democratic Proletariat to restore some of the many trillions they just lost... ANYWAY ... I guess we must expect "The System" to recover, primarily by sticking it to the U.S. taxpayer via a) bail-outs; b) lower interest rates; c) inside information; d) actions by The Plunge Protection Team (PPT); e) government auctions to rich people of assets seized from the poor...; f) tax and legal breaks; and g) loosing the Dogs of War, again (sigh). I mention all of this as a pre-antidote to the steamy bullshit which will undoubtedly spew from government "tools". For example, Larry Kudlow yesterday on the fall of the U.S. dollar: "It has held up well against the Chinese Yuan." Well, yeah, the yuan is pegged to the dollar by the Chinese government, dipshit! (Jim Kramer spent the first half of his show today When the Million Pound Shit-Hammer falls the crisis does not get resolved real quick, if you know what I mean. In six months Kudlow & Company might be looking back at July 26th as The Good Old Days. The market's Million Pound Shit-Hammer is just whispering, giving us a gentle clue. It is trying to get our attention...and after this, who knows, maybe no more "Mr. Nice Guy". Time to break out the chips and dip, my fellow proles! Heh.
What's their job, exactly?
The age of irony
Water which is too pure, has no fish
Fed by the "Burning River" the Cuyahoga. But that river has been remarkably cleaned up also. How ever I believe there is a ZEN saying that applies here as well. "Water which is too pure, has no fish."
And if you don't think this not still a "wet dream" of the right and the elites, your not paying attention.
This of course should come as no surprise. The Saudis would like nothing better than a Sunni run government in Iraq. At best they do not trust the Shia and will do what ever they think needs to be done to counter any Iranian influence in the region.
You can do something ... right NOW!!!
Imagine the total "shock and awe" that would be sent rumbling through the great halls of Washington when word were to leak out that a movement for A GENERAL RECALL was going to be started. Within one week, the force of that movement would crash against DC and the POLITICIANS WOULD BE FORCED TO PAY ATTENTION TO NOTHING ELSE BY THE RECALL FROM THEIR DISTRICTS. IT WOULD BLOW THEM AWAY AND MAKE EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THEM SHOW THEIR TRUE POSITIONS AND ALLIANCES (not to mention catching Bush and Cheney completely off-guard.) A GENERAL RECALL movement would work!!!!!! PLEASE Thanks.
Fell for it
Sorry, but as a former catholic who argues this out with cafeteria Catholics frequently, I gotta speak up [but only partially] for Dominic. I agree that if the politicians go against church doctrine However, they are breaking the privacy of these politicians if they name the ones who are not able to receive the sacraments, which is akin to breaking the seal of the confessional. If it's a broad statement, I don't have a problem with it. Most cafeteria Catholics What the pope says and what Jesus would say don't seem to have much in common, so I take it that was a rhetorical question. An orthodox catholic would be completely outraged by it, but I doubt you care. I don't. Damn it! I fell for it! Clicked on it expecting to see a bizarre story like The Weekly World News [may it rest in peace] or a series of typos.
Response to Soldier's Mother
Spying on innocent people yields POWER
But old reliable, WRH had it still! FBI to recruit thousands of covert informants Now here is one interesting thing, besides the obvious irony that the Bush Regime refuses to even provide legally required information to Congress... is that... The Bush Regime has been relentless in spying on innocent Americans. They had their own ROOM at AT&T to tap into the internet backbone and vacuum up *everything* that went through there. And they illegally sent out phone "NSL" letters to obtain information about thousand (or ?millions) of American in violation of the PATRIOT Act. And they continue data-mining everyone, overtly So what is the purpose of all of this spying on innocent Americans at the very same time that they actually refuse to enforce existing laws to secure the borders, and to inspect imports, etc.??? Well, how does one recruit "informants"? With "Help Wanted" ads? Negative. You find dirt on someone, maybe a person who has broken some law or cheated on his wife, or who is in some way vulnerable to extortion. And then you tell him he can go to Federal Prison or be exposed to his church as an adulterer, or that he can expect to be fired from his job and never work again and go bankrupt +95% of people will join the program. If not more... Spying on innocent people yields POWER, not to mention $$$ (as "investments" can be made on the basis of non-public information scooped up by the Feebs, etc.) It does not make anyone safer, but the reverse Remember this. You have been warned.
Swimming pools, movie stars
My friend ranger suggested that if we could get ten million people to just sent one or two dollars each we could do that. So I then said... People are too busy standing in line with people they wouldn't even give ten cents to if they asked towards well-needed meal giving five bucks a day to Lottery. this has become the way of life these days. Dog eat dog. Besides you have to remember most are living paycheck to paycheck, and are getting reamed by high prices and taxes. WTF should any actor or actress get 25 million per movie anyway, all they do is live high and use the most of the money to get more nips and tucks (not a Lon Chaney in the bunch!) Elitism should shut up!
Threefer
Bush in free fall by Robert Scheer, TruthDig
People may regard Bush as "irrelevant", not because of the media, or as posited in the paragraph after the excerpt below, because of "the changing nature of society". The best explanation is that most people believe Bush is not actually *doing* the work He is simply not *there*. There is no /there/ there. He has the beady eyed intelligence of a Pomeranian, at best... He claims to be "the Decider" but if any shit happens he shovels blame to the nearest dipshit... and smirks. A blind monkey could do Bush's actual "work" (really, we could round up all of the monkeys in all of America's zoos and replace everyone in Washington with no measurable deterioration in the quality of our "governance"...) Disfavor for Bush hits rare heights by Peter Baker, Washington Post
The Flintstones paradigm by Rude Pundit
An extreme scenario
How does this administration get by with this? Since when does the President write law? I thought that was the job of Congress? And while this executive order is so vaguely written that even donating to organizations that are anti-war could leave someone open to having their assets seized, it gets even worse... If you offer help or assistance to someone who has had their assets blocked or seized, then you could have yours blocked as well (see section [1][B][iii])! Here's an extreme (but legal under this executive order) scenario Furthermore, while I'm not really a fan of Hillary Clinton, it can't be a coincidence that just two days after this executive order was released, the Pentagon announced that Clinton's questions regarding our withdrawal from Iraq "reinforces enemy propaganda". Could they use this new executive order to block her funds and impede her campaign? What about the campaign funds of any other candidates who question or are critical of this invasion and occupation of Iraq? What about citizens who donate to the campaign of any candidates that don't spew Bush's talking points When I first read about this Executive Order I forwarded it to everyone I know, urging them to write their Senators and Representatives about it, sadly, I doubt that it will do any good.
Bumper sticker
Just a theory
This was not that big of a problem 10 or 20 years ago. Wildfires, except in the southwest and California mountains, were not that common and almost rare in the north central and north west. But now with the drought and summer temperatures getting up to the 100s even in the Dakotas, it is happening more and more often. Of course we all know that global warming is just a theory, right ?
Green Zone, my ass
Of course, "the surge has just begun" Bushies say.
Likes his McCanns grilled, not pan-fried
It's about time somebody 'grilled' Mc Cann, why the UK media, yourselves included, bent over and took it in without a murmur is beyond belief. He is now saying it was only 50 yards from the place where they were boozing to the apartment. He is still saying that they 'checked regularly' on the babies. He said on US TV that 'the authorities' have condoned their behavior and that what they did 'fell within the bounds of good parenting'. You are supposed to be journalists!! Do you check these statements? Has anyone measured the distance from where they were sitting to the front door of the apartment? Is there security video footage to check whether they even left their table once during the evening to check on their babies? Have you asked for and interviewed the source of this 'good parenting' statement? Let's get this out in the open and see which idiot in the UK said this (if at all). There was a statement yesterday that the 'People of Portugal' were initially critical of the McCanns but are now sympathizing and backing them! Where is the evidence for this? They have now got a campaign manager working full time for them. Is he doing the spinning? Why don't you try asking THE PEOPLE of this fair country what they think of the McCanns behavior. Why don't you do you job as journalists properly? The McCanns are now millionaires and celebrities, flying around the world, meeting all and sundry, all paid for ... all on the backs of leaving three babies home alone whilst they went out boozing. Two professional highly paid people who were too stingy to pay 50 Euros for a baby sitter. Has anyone checked whether this was a routine action for them and that they left their babies home alone in the UK? It's time for JOURNALISM, not spin!
War
Bush cannot prepare for Peace and War at the same time.
Gibsonion
Earthquake sets Japan back to 2147
People are getting out of line
You can't make these people think. It's impossible... Let me tell you what happened to me Sunday at the local Quick Check where we like to get a fresh coffee. This store always has no less then ten people in line and most of the time they have two cash registers at work (thus the name Quick Check!) but not this time. As I got in place on line to pay for two coffees I took note of who was in front of me and who was in back. I did not go to the far left and form any long line as to not be in anyone's way. I knew who was next! Apparently others did not. I saw a girl and her friend come in while I was on line but she paid no attention and started forming a new line to the left as another two people did after her. A man was in front of me paying for things. As it came my turn the clerk saw nothing, didn't even pick her head up. The girl in line said loudly, "The line's over here ma'am, I'm next, two packs of Marlboro Lights please." I should have shut my mouth but as she was paying I said "'I guess I'm invisible." She said "You tried to make a new line and I was next, not you," and she left, but the clerk took me by then and another man got upset with that and said "Why don't you get on the end of the line lady where you belong?" Can you believe this? I paid for my coffees and started to walk out and that same man said you should learn to not cut in line, lady." I said. "You should learn when to not speak and mind your own business." And he said, "Meet me outside and I'll beat your ass." I couldn't believe what I was hearing. That's never happened before in that store, and the management or should I say lack of management was nowhere to be found, so got out as fast as I could. My husband was waiting in the car for my daughter and myself to come out. I stood there telling him what had just occurred because he saw the look on my face. The man was not going to let it rest. He came out of the store still venting, but this time he saw there was a husband getting out of a car. At that point the idiot yells to my husband ''What are you getting out of the car for, skinny man." Naturally my husband said, "That's my wife you're threatening, what would you expect me to do?" and a few other choice words. That's when we got close enough to the guy to smell his breath, and yeah, he was drunk. We we all got back in the car and left him to himself. He yelled a little more and I said, "That's what you want, someone to hit you so you can lay down and call a lawyer. You are not getting it here, buddy." He got in his car and off he went. I took his license plate number down. Some people have asked why I didn't call the cops. Well I didn't really want to call the police state on any of us, because they overreact, and someone could really get hurt these days. And lately with the cops everybody is wrong except them. So instead I learned Sunday just what kind of revolution we'd have when the time comes. A war with each other, not against the criminals in Washington. Nope, just good ole fashioned RAGE! I really could not believe that no-one gave a rat's ass that a women was being threatened in plain sight of them. Not one of all those people in the line nor the two store clerks bothered to say a word. I was a frequent customer, but I will never go back there again.
"Kill one man, terrorize a thousand"
American Sniper A poem by Darryl Mason
Fighting for our freedoms in Iraq
In accord with Catholic doctrine
I suppose I could go into more details, but my general thought on arguments like those presented in your article, is that the pope, and indeed the Catholic Church, is making a stand on certain issues, and as well they should. Discouraging communion to politicians in favor of abortion is in accord with Catholic doctrine. Politicians who support a moral sin, have a great sin on their hearts and are not yet prepared to receive communion, and therefore it should not be administered to them. Sincerely,
Talk loudly waving a nerf stick
I believe that demonstrates that the Dems' strategy of "Talk Loudly Waving A Nerf Stick" resulted in what might have been expected: the people that voted for them hate them and the people that voted "R" despise them. Only 70 Representatives are ready to cut off funding for the Iraq War. And since funding the war is the only thing keeping the war going that Congress has control over, that means the war will continue. Probably for another decade. Not even Nancy Pelosi, famed "liberal" of San Francisco is willing to cut of the war funding. And she strategically (not!) ruled out even considering impeachment as an option (though to be fair, if the Dems cannot get a veto-proof victory on Iraq then how could they get enough R-defectors for impeachment?) It is as if the Dems plan to make Bush continue to lose the Iraq and Afghanistan and GWOT wars all the way until 2009. Then they plan to put tire necklaces on Republicans and light matches. But that will not fly because everyone
GuineaPig and Bee
Someone has done a novel about this
Fallen trees and gauging gas
The clover's back and so are the lovely Dandelions. Some people actually woke up. The rest are simply cutting every other week, making sure to mulch when needed. I am happy to report this week and today more and more honey bees as well as 25 gorgeous plump Bumbles were very busy out there on my flowers and clover. Many hornets and yellow jackets, and my friends the Monarch butterflies. I know some of you hate those horny little Japanese beetles, but I assure you they don't bite. I handle them quite often and yes even pet the bumble bees. Now some thing sad to report: The three 80-year-old maple trees by one of our oldest primary grade school were chopped down last week. I was outraged. They provided shade for the school and homes for the birds and squirrels. They did however leave the 65-year-old trees alone that are in front of our Avenel library, which was turned into a Day Care center three years ago... I noticed the stupidity when I saw that they decided to do a much needed makeover on the school, which include placing several air conditioners in the classroom windows (which I might add looks like crap!). Somehow the idiots did not think about how the trees would save them/us much-needed money, considering they were keeping the hot afternoon sun from beating down on those AC's compressors. What fools! Now you can see exactly what all those beautiful trees hid, like the ugly lumber store across the street from the school and the train platform up on the hill and the closed down General Dynamics plant soon to fall to the wrecking ball and be replaced by a huge apt building or condos next year. Yeeeuuck!! I'm watching and waiting to see what it does on Labor Day weekend. Are they trying to keep people's tempers calm before the False Flag event and the push to war with Iran?
Enough already
As long as the meat heads in the Catholic Church insist on taking their 16th century approach to birth control and forbid contraception, the birth rate in those countries that are predominantly Catholic will continue to rise. Coincidentally, these are nearly always the poorest countries and the ones that will be contributing to CO2 emissions the most.
This is absolutely true and most of what is attributed to JFK would never have happened it not for the insistence of Bobby Kennedy. Now you have a party of intellectual snots that are a turn off to the rank and file.
A Middle East filter
I really agreed with the main point of the article on the 9/11 filter-if someone presents the Official 9/11 Conspiracy Theory as fact, strike off that source. Well, I think I’ve found a Middle East filter or the characteristics of one. Turkey just had an important election. The results came in fast and the TV news channels had excellent graphics to explain it all. A lot of commentators and analysts offered their views. I enjoyed several hours of gripping TV. Then, I went to the Internet to see what the press elsewhere had to say. Some articles stuck with the numbers, but others went for quotes to personalize the stories. So I picked 2 of those types of articles. Actually, the first is not from the outside of Turkey, but it was so far ahead of the others I’ve linked to it. The second is not one of the better articles (its author is AP’s Bureau Chief in Turkey), but it has the characteristics of a good filter. There is over-emphasis of religion and security/terrorism, loaded terminology, and little analysis. As for the election results, it was a landslide win for the AK Party after 5 years in government. They won by a higher percentage (46.6%) than the first time--an event that hasn’t happened for 52 years. SOME OF THE MAIN POINTS FROM EACH (summarized): Th e reasons why AK Party won the elections The good one: Why did the AK Party win? The opposition’s attempt to portray recent events as a “nation in peril” and their confrontational approach didn’t ring true. The voters didn’t buy the idea that Turkey will drift uncontrollably into becoming an Islamic state. They preferred the stability of a government that’s done a satisfactory job to the unknown of a coalition. The opposition didn’t offer a viable alternative. The military’s e-memorandum in April was viewed as an authoritarian “blow” by AK Party supporters. The recent “secularist” demonstrations were more about class politics than secularism. The AK Party has expanded it’s base given its “liberal deregulation of the economy.” The AK Party’s election campaign was well-run, well-funded, and well-organized. They also did their homework-they addressed the needs of individual families and the handicapped. They did positive things-they listened to people’s real concerns. Some of the new AK Party parliamentary MP’s are people with genuinely liberal backgrounds-this could bring the party more to the center. (NOTE: You are left with the impression of real people living in Turkey, which is true, of course.) Erdogan cements power in Turkey The filter example: The AK Party took 340 (the final count, the other two parties had 112 and 71) of the 550 seats despite warnings from the secular opposition that it was a threat to secular traditions. There was much celebrating by AK Party supporters. The failed parliamentary election of a new President, Foreign Minister Gul (from the AK Party), will have to be dealt with again. At that time opponents said his election would remove the last obstacle to an Islamic takeover, and the military threatened to intervene. Some polling stations had long lines and police officers standing guard. The country has an emboldened class of devout Muslims led by the AK Party who want Western-style reform in order to strengthen the economy and join the EU. Prime Minister Erdogan has presided over strong economic results. One company owner spoke of wanting to maintain economic stability. Many of the opponents constitute a traditional elite and have roots in the state institutions that guard the secular legacy. They argue that personal freedoms are in peril. The new government also faces Kurdish rebels. (NOTE: 24 independent Kurdish candidates won seats after some years of not being represented and the number of women winning seats doubled). A civil servant said that his biggest concern was security. The new government will also have to decide on whether to stage an incursion into Iraq. The Iraqi government has said that its Prime Minister has been invited for talks, but no date has been set. The election process went smoothly with just a few reports of scattered violence, no fatalities. (NOTE: The post of a President that has veto powers over legislation and government appointments is not “largely ceremonial.”) For me, keeping those characteristics in mind works, and I do doubt such a source if I notice them.
Let kids be kids
Teens facing sex charges for butt slaps
A thingy up his shoot
G. Bush got a thingy jammed up his shoot. Gosh, isn't that what G. Bush and Congress have been doing to the American people for sometime now? The metaphor isn't lost on the totally incredulous. Just mostly incredulous. So the Navy doctor guys took some polyps from old G. Bush's rectum. Five or was it six? Hmmm, with those Navy doctor guys it's sort of hard to tell if they can count. The Navy doctor guys can't count so good when it comes to that Iraq quagmire turned civil war turned war of naked aggression or is that all turned around? The Navy doctor guys are all turned around. Golly, the Navy doctor guys MUST be all turned around. The Navy doctor guys forgot the one polyp that counts. You know, the colossally large polyp that's been growing between G. Bush's shoulders for quite a while now. Those pesky Navy doctor guys can harvest organs from critically wounded American soldiers in Iraq and that Afghanistan business but, they can't harvest the polyp growing atop G. Bush's shoulders. Just figures you know what I mean? Don' t they always make those Navy doctor guys America's Surgeon General? I think that is the situation. No wonder medicine and health care in America is so freaking screwed. It's Navy doctor guys that can't even harvest the one polyp that might well save us all. Stupid hacks. Get it? Hacks and surgery? Hacking surgery? Navy doctor guys hacking away at surgery? Yeah, America is simply screwed!
A few wise-ass comments on the news
This is the danger of accepting Bush's nonsense arguments about anything. The mainstream press and lawmakers have accepted Bush's premise that they can't do anything to change Iraq policy until this magic report comes out in September. So the next step for the White House? Make sure that report is delayed until November, or January, or whenever. Who wants to lay odds right now that the magic report never comes out at all?
Ron Paul, the only Republican to sign on to this measure, leads all presidential candidates in fundraising among members of the military. So much for the claim that Bush is just listening to what the military is telling him to do ... or that cutting off war funding is too radical for mainstream America.
Even if it didn't work, it's good that the Dems forced the GOP to actually stay up all night filibustering, instead of letting them use a stealth, on-paper filibuster. The mainstream press has been treating the GOP filibusters on Iraq up to this point as commonplace procedural maneuvers, and mostly refused to use the word "filibuster" at all. They would report that the GOP "blocked" or "defeated" the bill without mentioning that they are actually filibustering a policy that is approved. Reid and the Senate Dems should continue to force the GOP's hand on this, so that Republicans who continue to support the war have to pay a political price with their constituents back home.
Okay, guys, we'll go through this slowly so even a U.S. Senator can understand. The Iraq war was a mistake, right? Right. Now think back a whole five years. Why did you all in Congress authorize the worst foreign policy blunder in our nation's history? Because you believed the lies floating around about Iraq. And if you try really hard, can you remember where those lies came from? Yes, from the Bush administration. Excellent. Now. What is the one and only source of the theory that Iran is playing a significant role in Iraq? Are soldiers on the ground saying this? No, it's not from them. Is it based on any hard evidence you've seen? No, of course not. Wait a minute. All of the statements about Iran attacking U.S. troops in Iraq comes from the exact same gang of idiots who lied us into the last war! The press, THE PRESS has even sort of caught on this time around, treating the Iran lies with a little more skepticism than they did the Iraq lies. Is it too much to ask that you members of the United States Senate notice that you're getting played by the same people in the exact same way as five years ago? Your constituents aren't even done dying over the LAST set of lies the administration told you. And here you all are ... every single one of you ... heartily endorsing the fictions that are designed to get this country into yet another lie-based war.
If the White House's ultimate goal is to PREVENT Congress from proving that the Bush administration has transformed the Department of Justice from a functioning judicial system into a purely partisan organization, they're really not doing themselves any favors here.
Wild horses
I take the opportunity to include my opinion of the real life local corruption which has always plagued my hometown during my lifetime, in the excerpt below: "That'd be bad even if the local offices were fully manned. But a lot of the regular firemen are out sick right now, and practically half the police force is tied up in Nashville, with the Calhoun case." Marco informed us. The Calhoun case was just the latest scandal to hit our local authorities. The government corruption in our little wild but impoverished east Tennessee county never seemed to end.
Not as good as being there
It's very disconcerting to talk to a customer 'service' rep in Bangalore. With American representatives, I'm comforted by the idea, even if highly improbable, that I could get in my car and drive somewhere to wring someone's neck if I had to.
Welcome to Heaven, Tammy Faye
Just wanted to tell you guys I really like this LADY. No, I was not a fan of her TV show, but I learned to like and respect her much later. She had guts, tenacity, and I believe she truly loved God! More faith when needed than (I'm ashamed to say) I would have. Sorry but sometimes I question the higher power, guess I'm not alone for reasons I won't get into. (I'm still an agnostic.) But if there's a heaven I would ask God to open it up to this beautiful soul, but send Jim to purgatory. I know there will be people saying all sorts of things about this woman, to them I say, save it for another time. One thing I did right this morning... I skipped breakfast.
Hold the LIHOP
Future shock: A deadly harbinger of post-surge Iraq by Chris Floyd, Empire Burlesque
Not only would nuking SF or LA cause a terrible economic crisis that would inevitably bring about the long-foretold debt and derivatives crisis, crushing both stocks and the U.S. dollar but it would reduce the likelihood the Bush & Co. would succeed in controlling Iraq's oil in the long run. Same with a major Iran attack, which would most likely trigger something very close to a World War, with the potential for escalation everywhere people use oil. The high probability outcome involves the mere threat of these things being brandished about by crazed Bushites, with their foam-specked jowls and bloody hands. In this poker game their bluff is good. Who can afford to call them on it? Certainly not the Democrats. Their agenda is guided by self-protection and self-promotion, and they hedge their bets by continuing to support Bush and the military in every way, with more money than actually requested. If or when some bad stuff happens you won't catch the Demos leaning the wrong way exposed to criticism as being unpatriotic during a newly invigorated GWOT. Nosirreeeee. I think we must also, personally, hedge against the worst possible outcomes. Stocking up on food, buying gas cans to keep filled for emergencies, being *prepared* for internet access to completely cease for weeks or months. Shit like that. Not that anything will for sure happen, but preparation is the key. Mental preparation too ... Fleeing civilization may be a good plan for some folks. I actually have commitments and don't plan to cut-and-run (this year) leaving everyone in my hometown to face the radioactive fall-out, should that occur. I'll be the guy with food and water feeding the hungry neighbors and spreading calm (that'll be a nice change for me!) Ha. In conclusion, what we have now is Bush-Cheney looking merely to consolidate their gains and to keep their stolen loot. They don't want givebacks, and part of their plan is almost certainly *not* totally destroying America, its economy and financial markets. Their masters would be displeased, to say the least. So look for a status quo outcome: more Iraq War, more heinous shit, and a nice safe pre-police state at home. God bless everyone.
Who and what if?
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