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Friday, October 31, 2003
I don't care if you're Republican,
Democrat, Green, Independent, Vegan,
Carnivore, Gay, Non-Gay, Black,
or People from Another
Country. I don't care which
Party you're going to. I don't care
what kind of Party animal you are. I
do care that you may have let your party
hat slide down over your eyes.
Hey, this isn't about parties, this is
about the United States of America!
This is about a really bad thing that's
happened and is still happening to our
country. This is about our country
declaring war on another country for false
reasons. Hey that's it! People
have been killed, lots of our people, lots
and lots of theirs. They all
died, but they didn't have to! You
see what I'm saying? Dead people,
little kids, big kids, old people, young
people, men, women, they are all dead
today, and it was because of something
that was done, a decision that
was made, and your name is on
it. I don't think you would want
your name on something like that, but it's
there along side my name. Of course
it had to be forged. Your name and
my name were forged onto a fake check
that bought the deaths of all those
people. Someone in Washington bought
this war, and they forged our names on the
check that they used to pay for it.
Hell, if you don't care about all the
needless deaths, maybe it will bother you
when you get your bank statement and
you see how much you paid. Oh
baby, you paid! You paid, and
you're going to be paying for a long long
time. Yep, no matter what we
think now, we were framed, and as a
result we got war! And that's what
caused all those people to die. I
guess they tried to get other
countries to help buy this war, but just
about all the other countries were pretty
slick, they saw right through the razz-ma-tazz
and they said "nope"in a
lot of different languages.
So we did the war, killed way too many
people, scared the leader of Iraq away,
and now we have a horrible mess.
People are still getting killed. We
tore up their country and now we have to
put it back together again. Right
about now their country is looking very
Humpty Dumpty-ish. It doesn't
matter about the king's horses and
the king's men, it appears what we
will need is a king's ransom!
Right in the middle of this war, just to
make things worse, the President of the
United States issued an invitation to all
our enemies to sort of "Come on
down". I guess he thought that
as long as we had all of our
war-fighting stuff out, hell, let's
just fight everyone who wants to
fight. Well, apparently there were a
lot of positive rsvp's to that invite,
because now we're fighting people and we
don't even know who the hell they are or
where the hell they came
from. They gave a war and it appears
everyone came. As if things weren't
bad enough with one war going
on, they tried to start a zillion
little ones, and they succeeded.
Other countries think we are real jerks
now. At one time they liked us, but
now they don't. No silly party hats
over their eyes, no sireee. They see
us, and they see us as big struttin' lyin' potential
enemies. It's not your fault that
they see us this way, but that's the way
we look to them now. We look really
bad, because in our name some really bad
stuff has been done. And that's what
I want you to see! No matter
your Party or religion or origin, no
matter what, this was all done in your
name and you should be just so mad you
feel like you're going to scream.
You should be maximumly ticked. You
should yank off that silly Party hat and
realize that it's not about a Party, it's
about our freakin' country. While
your Party hat was down over your eyes,
somebody totally screwed our country and
now that you can see clearly, don't you
want to do something to make our country
well again? That will happen a hell
of a sight faster and we can work a
hell of a
sight harder if you and I
don't have to keep fussing with those
damn silly hats. Let's
fix our country and when we're done, then
we can put on our Party hats again.
Then we can have all kinds of Parties with
all kinds of hats!
(These
are the words of an angry
person. So be forewarned! I'm
pissed, and when I'm really pissed I
become unpleasant. You might say
that I have put on my witch/ bitch costume
a day early)
~~~
Trees are arsonists?
Trees
are arsonists!
Well,
at least that's what many in the Senate
determined yesterday. The trees will
be sentenced to death by sawing, and their
skeletons will be given to logging
companies. Logging companies will
make the tree's skeletons into lumber
products. Those lumber products will
be sold to builders. Builders will
use these products to build buildings and
these buildings will stand as a harsh
reminder to future trees to show them
just what happens if they even think about
starting or abetting a wildfire.
If
these folks had been in charge when the
Titanic sunk, they probably would have
wanted to drain the ocean to prevent
future drownings.
Here's
the deal. Some of the most
desirable places to live are places where
nature has provided beautiful
surroundings. People pay big bucks
to build homes in the mountains and
homes on the shore, or as we in Florida
say, on the beach. People want to
live near nature's best, but they must
realize that if you build where nature is
in control, you must expect to live with
the natural hazards that may accompany
that beauty. If you build your home
on the beach you must be aware of beach
erosion and storms accompanied by
floods. If you build your home in
the mountains you must be aware of
landslides and wildfires. These
places are beautiful, because they have
been left to nature's own devices.
But, when people build there, they feel
they must take control and make nature
conform to their own desires. They
like the beach but they don't like the
natural processes that constantly reshape
it. They like the mountains and the
forest, but they don't like the natural
processes that rejuvenate the forest and
keep it healthy. Nature
moves too slow or too fast for them.
When humans take one step toward
controlling nature, it's one step too
many, because once we screw with
something, it is no longer natural.
I'm not making this up! Read
"The Control of Nature" by John
McPhee, and basically what you will learn
is that man can try to take control of
nature, but once he does, he has to fight
forever to keep that control. In
other words, when it comes to nature, if
you "fix" it....you've bought
it.
Personally,
I don't think that trees start fires.
I think that lightening and
people start fires and that trees are
the victims. If this administration
has it's way, I guess trees will be
declared terrorists, and if
you fertilize a tree, if you plant a
tree, then you're as guilty as a
tree. Shame on you John Chapman, aka,
Johnny Appleseed! Shame on you
people who celebrate Arbor Day!
Shame on you people who have ever had the
joy of experiencing a tree swing!
Shame on all of you who have traveled to
see the gorgeous colors of the trees in
the fall! Shame on you Alfred Joyce
Kilmer! Maybe only God can
make a tree, but watch how damned fast man
can destroy them.
The
California wildfires are awful. No
one can dispute that. Not so many
years ago, we had similar fires here in
Florida, one not far from my home. I
saw the black smoke rise like
demons. I smelled it and I felt
it. Homes were burned to the ground
and it was a nightmare. Lessons were
there to be learned. Don't let
leaves and pine needles accumulate, don't
this and don't that. But, the bottom
line on the fire near my house was please
don't toss out burning cigarettes.
Don't do that! Please don't do that
because one man's butt is another man's
disaster.
Amazing
wasn't it? Coincidence to the
max! The fires were raging in
California, people were experiencing one
of the most horrible nightmares, losing
irreplaceable belongings, and some lost
their lives. All this is going on,
and it gives California's futuristic
gov-a-nator. a chance to do a photo/money
op in Washington. The fires were
also fodder for the firestorm in the
Senate to get rid of the damned
trees. Seems they, the Senators,
also feel that the environmentalists are
just real damned close to, just one peace
sign short of, being
declared the terrorists of the
forest. If it's green it's
mean! Okay except at Christmas,
that's the season when owning a tree is
okay, just as long as you killed it first.
Gimme
a break!
~~~
Okay
let's move on. Would you like to be
on the NRA's blacklist with me? Well
you can be! Just go to this
site and sign right up! They
say that guns don't kill people, but I say
they sure make killing people a lot
quicker. It's difficult to shoot
someone without a gun. Guns are
weapons and weapons are made to
kill. I personally feel that guns
are one of man's worst inventions.
I've seen the dangerous end of a loaded
gun and it's not a pretty sight,
especially when you know the person on the
other end of that gun.
~~~
As
long as we're traveling around cyberspace
and signing up, let's make one more
stop.
~~~
Hey
thanks! If you've stuck with me this
far, I sincerely thank you. I know I
have been on a written rant and rave
today, but sometimes things just get so
damned bizarre that it's almost impossible
to believe it's our real world.
The president is denying everything that
has happened, the press is kissing up to
him, our troops are getting picked off
like tin cans on a split rail fence,
people are gushing and gooing over a new
school in Iraq while a child is being
starved to death in the
US. Look around, look
what's happened, we're in a big
handbasket! Jeeezzz if you aren't
mad, you sure as hell ought to be!
Wednesday, October 29, 2003
I
listened to bush give his little press
conference Tuesday. He said, peace,
terror, dangerous, terrorists, freedom,
fear and a secure Iraq, each about a
zillion times. It was like working a
word puzzle. How many sentences can
you make using all the aforementioned
words? His usual. Listening to
him was kind of like listening to a cheap
AM radio when you're far from the
signal. Occasional words,
occasionally no sound and most frequently
no content. Yeah, we sure do have an
intelligence problem and it has nothing to
do with the CIA or the FBI.
~~~
By
his own admission we know that bush
doesn't read the newspapers. The
king has someone read them for him and
screen out all the icky stuff. Oh
the royalty of the throne! Well,
there were a few more things he didn't
do.
A
bunch of us watched the weapons inspectors
reports in Feb. 14, 2003,
but during a press briefing with our
old buddy Ari on that same
day, here's what took place.
"Q Did the President watch the Blix statement? MR. FLEISCHER: No, he was meeting with Turkish officials at the time, or for a portion of when they spoke. He was briefed on it, however. Q By? MR. FLEISCHER: By -- I think Dr. Rice talked to him about it. I think there may well have been a few other people who talked to him about it, too." later in the briefing......... "Q Yes, two questions, Ari. The first one -- following Ivan's line of questions. The President didn't watch Hans Blix. Did he watch Colin Powell? What was the reaction?
Tuesday, October 28,
2003
There's just too much
going on that doesn't make sense to
me. Perhaps I have a limited capacity
to comprehend, or perhaps I have an
unlimited desire for the truth.
Sometimes I put myself
on trial. I try my best to see the
trees and not be blinded by the
forest. I ask myself if my distaste
for bush as a person is clouding my ability
to be sensible and fair regarding his
decisions. Just as I am trying to
sort things out, just as I am putting
myself in the witness chair to answer some
tough questions about my attitude, I hear
the following statements coming from
the courtroom.
I hear bush
saying that the multiple bomb attacks on
Iraq are just proof that we're making
progress.
And I think to myself,
progress at what? What is the
goal if you declare that deaths are a
positive sign?
Bombs bursting in
air and all around Iraq, but bush sees it as
a sign of progress.
Bush bangs the drum
for money to rebuild Iraq but threatens to
veto the request if part of it is given as
loans.
How deep is his desire
and how stubborn is he being?
A woman lies in a
bed here in Florida, she is all but dead,
and yet the religious right deny God's
intent "to bring her home" to
heaven. This poor woman is
only tethered to life, she isn't alive.
Soldiers sent to Iraq
are fighting their hearts out to do
something, but I'm not sure what. It
seems to me they are fighting their hearts
out to stay alive. I haven't
heard the religious right, who defend life
with all their might and fervor, asking to
bring the soldiers back home alive.
Why aren't they as concerned about our
soldiers as they are about fetuses and
helpless humans who no longer have a life of
dignity, such as this woman in Florida?
Is
their compassion only for the unborn
and the dying. Why wouldn't a
soldier's life be just as valuable? Is
it because a soldier's life just isn't on
their heavenly agenda?
On tv a general
asks American people to send toys and
diapers and such to Iraq.
He makes this
request while the children of immigrant
families here in the US would surely
appreciate those same luxuries and
necessities. Why don't children
in Iraq already have toys, did we bomb their
toys too? What did the Iraqi children
play with before we invaded their
country? Are we sure the Iraqi people
want their kids to play with Barbies and
robotic toys? Is it part of the
propaganda to begin to mold Iraqi children
into mini-Americans? The general asked
that no toy guns be donated. Of course
not, those little kids in Iraq already
have enough unexploded ordinance to play
with for years. The last thing we want
those kids to do is play with things that
might suggest killing. Gotta set the
good examples you know.
American soldiers
are building schools in Iraq.
Who built buildings in
Iraq before we invaded that country?
The unemployment
rate in Iraq is around 70%.
Why can't the Iraqis
rebuild their own schools? Iraqi
people are educated, they know how to build
schools. Who built their schools that
we bombed to rubble? It's their
country, let them decide who builds what and
when and how. Let them work, let them
employ themselves.
When Americans
drive through Iraq, the people wave at them
and smile.
Yes, I imagine they do,
especially if the Americans are headed out
of their town. Iraqi people are not
stupid, they know the difference in war and
peace. They know that seeing
their family and neighbors being blown to
bits by strangers is more apt to occur
if Americans are in the vicinity.
Perhaps the Iraqi people see red when
a bomb explodes rather than the rosy hue
that bush seems to see.
Your Honor, I ask you,
how can my attitude toward bush and
his decisions get a fair trial
when I am hearing and being so influenced by
all this coercive evidence? I
object because the statements coming
from the courtroom just are not
substantiated. I object because
the facts have been manipulated to warp the
truth. Your Honor, you can't
hold a fair trial without the truth. I
can't weigh my attitude toward george bush
if all I have to rely upon is simply
propaganda. I object because the facts
are biased and the prosecutor is
biased. And your Honor my most sincere
objection is based on common
sense. If I am convinced that the
statements coming from the courtroom result
in more questions than answers, how can
I come to a reasonable decision.
As long as the courtroom refuses to answer
my questions, I believe my case will have to
be declared a mistrial. If george
bush takes the fifth to protect himself
and doesn't answer my questions then I must
rely on my own conclusions. If
your Honor will allow me, I would like to
delay the verdict in this case for a
few days. Perhaps bush will be willing
to tell the truth at that point. Yes
your Honor, I realize I have been delaying
this case over and over for almost three
years, but I want this case to be legal
and fair, and until george bush
agrees to be honest with me, how can I
decide if I just dislike him intensely or if
he truly is the worst decision
maker to ever reside in the oval office?
~~~
On this day, October
28, 1886, the Statue of Liberty, a gift from
the people of France, or
as Washington now calls that country
"Freedom", was dedicated by
President Cleveland. Is she still
dedicated to liberty, or is she too under
investigation by Ashcroft? She could
be under investigation for coming from a
foreign country and for being in possession
of a torch. Can't be too careful,
can't be too American, can't be too out
there. Funny, she's French and she is
our symbol of liberty. Remember when
to some people that wasn't
ironic? Remember when we were all
rational?
~~~
Speaking of rational,
let's move on to the upcoming movie about
Ronald Reagan. To all the folks who
are all atwitter because the movie may not
depict Reagan exactly as he may have
been. "Gone With the Wind"
was not an actual depiction of the south
during the Civil war, but it was a good
movie. So relax, calm down, fiction
doesn't negate fact. It's a movie
folks, it's only a movie. Mickey
mouse isn't a real mouse either.
~~~
"A
patriot must always be ready to defend his
country against his government."
-Edward Abbey-
Monday, October 27, 2003
After 9-11 bush told us that the terrorists
attacked the US because they hated our
freedom.
So he developed "The Patriot
Act", which limits many freedoms
that we have always enjoyed.
After 9-11 bush told us that the terrorists
attacked the US because they hated our
prosperity.
Bush blames 9-11 for a huge chunk or our
economic problems, including our national debt
and our high unemployment figures.
After 9-11 bush told us that the terrorists
attacked the US because they hated peace.
Bush uses 9-11 as an excuse to declare two
wars.
Seems to me that since 9-11 we have
lost many freedoms, much money, many
jobs, and many soldiers. Seems to me, based on
bush's rationale, that the terrorists
have accomplished their goals. Or, did
bush in his post 9-11 actions, contribute and
accelerate their success?
Bush correctly states that 9-11 was a day
that changed everything, but who made those
changes, why and how?
You have to admit that if the
terrorists' goal was, as Bush
says, to change our country and take
America backward, that seems to be exactly
what has happened.
Did those people who commandeered those
airliners make these changes in our
country or were they just a convenient excuse
for bush to make some desired changes of his
own?
How would the terrorists benefit from our
loss of peace and freedom and prosperity?
How would the administration benefit from our
loss of peace and freedom and prosperity?
According to what bush is telling us, the
terrorists declared war via their
attacks, and his reaction has been
to take away from the US, all
the things he says the terrorists didn't
want us to have. If the terrorists
didn't want us to have freedom, prosperity and
peace, then I say, "mission
accomplished"!
The terrorists didn't like these things about
us, so in order to be safe, we had to give
them up?
Did the terrorists win? Who
lost? It seems that the answers to
those questions are terribly
apparent.
~~~
Friday, October 24, 2003
Ut oh, we've got something else to look
for. Add *money to the list of
"Lost and Found". Well in our
case it's just always "lost" isn't
it? We have lost money, lost jobs, lost
terrorist honchos, lots of losses and no
founds.
I wonder if bush ever found any eggs at the
Easter egg hunts when he was a
little kid? He probably couldn't so
his mom probably hired an egg aide for
him. Hey, maybe that was when Dick
Cheney came into his life. Maybe mom
hired Dick to help little george hunt for
Easter eggs and they've just been hunting
for stuff ever since.
I betcha, as a little
kid, "hide and seek" was
not one of his strong suit games either.
Poor little dude would probably hide and be
unable to even find himself.
Funny he found religion, but that seems
to be about it. I guess he's
just finding-ly challenged.
~~~
*There is a story on the Christian Aid website
that says four billion dollars of Iraqi
oil revenues and other Iraqi funds earmarked
for reconstruction, is sorta missing.
You've got to go there and read the
story.
I sure
hope they made a mistake with this, because
it's kinda difficult to ask other countries
for money when you can't account for a big
chunk of what you already have. In the
vernacular of today, "What's up with
that?".
~~~
Not only does the Senate have no problem
giving our money away to build Iraq, they
don't mind taking a little chunk for
themselves. They voted yesterday to
add three thousand and four hundred
dollars to their wallet. There were some
like Sen. Feingold, who tried to avoid giving
raises, but of course he was voted
down. The vote just proved, not
only are they generous, they're also leaning
toward the greedy side. I don't begrudge
the Senators their raises. Heck, look at
all the good things they have worked so hard
for this year. Look and look and
look! That's going to be just about
as difficult to find as the infamous wmd in
Iraq.
Don't you find it bizarre that we have money
for so many things, but not nearly enough for
the things our country truly
needs. It's the equivalent to donating
all your money to charity and as a result, you
kids are going hungry. Sure you did a
good deed, but your
priorities were so screwed up that
you caused a disaster. It's the
priorities, Stupid!
~~~
This week on C-SPAN, Orrin Hatch
(Sen. from Utah) cited the
following sentence from the Sacramento
Bee, regarding the consideration
of Justice Brown for a seat on the
federal bench.
"Their plans included bombarding the
senators with 150,000 pieces of opposition
mail from abortion rights backers and
intensive lobbying of members of the Senate
Judiciary Committee."
After Hatch read this sentence he commented,
"I call that spam."
We all know the definition of spam is unwanted
and unsolicited email.
So Orrin has told us that our opinions on
national matters are nothing more to
him than unwanted, unsolicited email.
How great is this? There is at
least one Senator in Washington who
freely and publicly admits he doesn't
give a damn about how we feel or what we
think.
I wonder if anyone is going to email him
and congratulate him on his honesty?
On the heels of this little pronouncement by
Sen. Hatch, we hear that the Senate is hot on
the trail of a "No Spam List" which
would follow the leader of the "Do Not
Call List". Okay, would that mean
that the emails that we send through sites
like Moveon.org would be considered, as Sen.
Hatch stated, "spam"? Because
thousands of emails originate from one
website, would they qualify as spam?
Is this the way to get us to shut up and stop
complaining? Are they slamming the cyber
door on us?
Perhaps we could get our messages
to Washington this way. Maybe
we should write our opinions
on little slips of paper
and paperclip those slips of paper
to our dollar bills, because we know for
sure where our money is going.
~~~
Have a great weekend!
Thursday, October 23, 2003
Oh shoot, no matter how I say this, it's
going to sound like a whine. Got
crackers? Got cheese?
Yesterday I received two very diverse emails
with so much in common.
Both were from retired vets, but they came
with such conflicting points of view.
One came from a gentleman who is very ill
and he has been screwed big time by his
government. He encouraged
me to speak out more and louder for the
vets. The other came from a gentleman
who basically told me to lower my voice, I
was too loud.
I know that if you want someone to listen to
you when you speak, it often works if
you whisper. But I'm not sure that
works with the written word. I find it
difficult to whisper about something that I
feel passionately about. If I tell you
that I think the veterans of this country
are not being treated with the dignity they
deserve and do not receive the benefits they
were promised, does it have the same impact
as if I say, "Damn it to hell, why are
we turning our backs on some of the most
wonderful people in our friggin
country. These people put their damned
lives on the line for us and now we're
tossing them out with the
trash!"? I don't know, but I do
know that one vet would say "yes"
and another would say
"no". I also know that, no
matter what each of these two very special
gentlemen say to me, I owe them both a great
debt for what they did for this country and
I hold them in the highest esteem. To
the gentleman who wanted me to speak out
more, "Thanks, you are the damned best
there is (I said that as loud as I
could and with deep
sincerity) And, to the other
gentleman, "Thanks, you are the best
there is" (I said that quietly
but with deep sincerity).
This is difficult to deal with, because I'm
just not sure what to do. Do I yell or
do I whisper?
As I told someone this morning, I'm having
an emotional overflow.
See, once you pop the cork on a
bottled-up "whine",
emotions just spill out. There are
emotions all over my keyboard and all
over the little plastic carpet protector
below my chair. I'm going to end this
now, because I have a bunch of emotional
stuff here that I need to deal with.
Emotions are such slippery devils, once they
get loose, they not only run all over
the gambit, they run all over the
spectrum. They're just all
over the place. Sometimes it's hard to
get a grip on the little rascals.
And, we all know that,
if not taken care of
immediately, whine stains
are almost impossible to remove.
Okay, now we know where george gets his
sincere caring and his masterful speaking
ability. He gets it from his
mommy. Here's what mommy said on
March 18, two days before the US
invasion of Iraq, "Why
should we hear about body bags and deaths
and how many, what day it's going to happen,
and how many this or what do you suppose?
Oh, I mean, it's, not relevant. So why
should I waste my beautiful mind on
something like that?"
One must
wonder, would she have made this same
statement if one of her grandchildren were
going to Iraq? By the way, none of
them did.
Ms. Barbara
Bush, I wish you thought war and dead
American soldiers were
relevant. You really should!
See she's just as sensitive
and compassionate as her silly
son. Recently mommy has
called the Democratic candidates "a
sorry group". Nice going
mommy! Those are surely the words one
might expect from the wife of an past
president and the mother of the
selected president of the United
States. This woman is so diplomatic
isn't she? She, like her son, knows
exactly what to say to just piss people off
to the max. You have to wonder if
there is a true and feeling heart in the
family.
I'll tell you what Babs,
I think you misunderstood the question,
they were asking you what you thought of the
Democratic candidates, not what we
think of your family.
Really, you can just hear
those same words coming from george's mouth
can't you? Both quotes are exactly
what you would expect from him.
Off the cuff, thoughtless, heartless, brash
remarks. No concern for the
consequences of the words, but totally
concerned with the "I'm tough, I say
what I please because no one can do anything
about it" character
portrayal. Everyone knows
someone like that. Someone you
stay as far away from as possible, because
they embarrass you whenever they're
around. Someone who talks louder
than everyone else because they think
everyone is entitled to hear their
bravado.
I guess they fall somewhere
between spoiled brats and idiots.
Yuck! None for me,
thanks.
"The
only thing necessary for the triumph of evil
is for good men to do nothing."
Tuesday, October 21, 2003
There's a whole lot of pissing and moaning
about why you should or should not buy your
prescription drugs from Canada. First of
all, why the hell can't we have affordable
drugs in our very own country? Second, I
don't recall there being a rash of deaths in
Canada due to impure medications. Third,
if someone can't afford to buy their
prescription drugs in the US, I would bet that
in life or death situations they would be
willing to take a chance on Canadian drugs
rather than die. At least with the drugs
from Canada they have hope.
~~~
When it seems that we are all in the
middle of a giant sea of do-do with no hope,
up springs a tiny green leaf that
has the potential to become a giant
oak.
First read this article from the New York
Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/17/politics/17ENVI.html?ex=1067483999&ei=1&en=762bc3320ce582da
Then take a look at the site and smile!!!
Explore the site, it'll make you feel good for a
change!
Share the hope with your friends too!
~~~
Someone wrote to me and suggested that we take the
yellow ribbons and make them a symbol for bring
our troops home now. If you like the idea
and want to correspond with this sweet person,
email me and I will forward your message. It
would be nice if one of the Democratic candidates
would endorse this idea.
~~~
Condi Rice is now the chief honcho
with our checkbook in Iraq. As
National Security Adviser to the President she is
exempted from having to report or answer to
Congress. I think we can just stop
wondering how our money is being spent.
Don't ask cause she probably won't tell. But
you gotta admit, as US citizens it sure would be
nice to know, wouldn't it? If we are
going to give the military sixty plus
billion dollars, will that be enough to buy toilet
tissue for the sick and injured soldiers who are
being warehoused in Fort Stewart? Yep,
that's right, they have to purchase their own with
the money out of their uniform pockets. Do
the patients in Iraqi hospitals have to do that?
~~~
I recently received a nasty email from someone who
instructed me to stop talking about our troops and
to basically suck it up. I believe
this person said that the military wasn't Boy
Scout camp. This person made a few more
remarks that further confirmed my opinion that he
or she had no clue. I would be willing to
bet that same person had not spent any time in the
military, and had no one they cared about serving
in Iraq now.
Here's the deal, I will not stop complaining and I
sure as hell will not knuckle under and become one
of the "hey things are fine with our
troops" sheep. I believe since the
men and women in the military have been ordered to
go to Iraq and live in a suburb of hell, we owe
them big time! Don't we owe it to them to
see that they have what they need to survive and
be as comfortable as possible under those
conditions? Bush said he wanted them to have
the best of everything and if you think he meant
that, go back to sleep.
If we don't standup for our
soldiers, who will? If we aren't going to
bring them back home where they belong, let's at
least give them the care and dignity they
deserve while they're over there.
Many of you wanted to have this war,
you took bush's bait, you said it was a
"must have" war. Okay thanks
to your gullibility, you got your war.
Our troops were snatched up and sent
them over there.
The war was fought and declared over to some
degree. Now the troops are still
there, things are dangerous as hell for
them. No one in Washington has a friggin
clue when they'll be brought home. Would it
be too much trouble for you "must have"
war people to show a little compassion and a
hell of a lot of concern for the bravest
people from the USA?
Monday, October 20, 2003
Over a year later and most of it still
applies!
Go to this site and read what a Republican member
of Congress asked in September of 2002.
Why wasn't someone listening and why didn't
someone answer his questions?
Why? Because it made too much sense and that
wasn't what this war was about.
Friday, October 17, 2003
If you watched C-Span on Thursday, you probably
spent your time cussing and crying, as you came to
realize the truth. It is so blatantly
obvious that the "party" means more to
the Republicans than the conditions for our troops
and the conditions of our country. They
don't seem to give a damn about anything except
defending their holier than thou president.
Lots of things could be learned about lots of bad
things. We learned that there is no
accounting for the money from these supplementals.
Did you know that? Well Senator Byrd knew it
and he shared that information. Senator Byrd
and other Democratic Senators wanted to break the
reconstruction money in half. They wanted to
allow 10 billion now, and see exactly where things
stood in 6 months, before they dispensed anymore
of our money. Republicans said nope!
Every time the Democrats tried to do the right
thing, the right wing said NOPE. It was so
damned frustrating to watch the Republicans use
cute little tricks to tank the Democrats.
I couldn't believe what I heard from Sen. Ted
Stevens mouth. He was like a small watchdog
for the president. Each time a Democrat made
any comment that was in anyway critical of the
war, Stevens snarled and growled. He was at
the very least annoying, and at the most
disgusting. One could only hope he would get
so angry he would just combust...............but
that wasn't to be the case.
From where it stands now, as I write this on
Thursday afternoon, I guess they are going to
snatch the big $$$ from our present and out
future. We will apparently begin the world
largest habitat for humanity program and it's
going to happen in Iraq.
Sorry, people who are living in poverty right here
at home, we don't have any $$$ for
you.
Sorry, people without sufficient medical
treatment, we don't have any $$$ for you.
Sorry, everyone who have needs that you cannot
meet, we don't have any $$$ for you.
We're sorry you can't have what you need.
But you see, we decided to declare war on a
country that posed no harm to us. We went in
and bombed the hell out of them. It was
shocking and it was awe-ing. We said we only
bombed special places and that we did not destroy
their infrastructure. Apparently
someone else sneaked in and did that, because now
it's all messed up. So now we are going to
build them a shiny new country. They will
have new schools and health care, and they will
even get to legally elect their own leaders.
See, we're giving them everything we don't have
here.
~~~
We have the number of soldiers that have been
killed in battle, we have the number of
injured troops, but where are the numbers for
the soldiers who were injured in battle, and later
died. Does every soldier who is injured
survive? I doubt it.
~~~
Did you know that they fly the badly wounded
soldiers home late at night so the press won't see
them?
Did you know that there are some American
soldiers coming home blind, some coming home as
amputees and some coming home with mental damage
which will ruin their lives?
Did you know that one soldier was wounded,
eventually flown home to his family, but he
had to wear the bloody, stained uniform that
he was wearing when he was injured? Do you
know how that sight effected his little
girls?
Did you know they only have two uniforms?
Did you know that if they need a new uniform
they have to buy it?
Did you know that it's illegal to show a
soldier's casket being flown home?
Did you know that not all of our troops will
get the R&R time to come home, no matter how
long they've been in Iraq?
Pro-war people told us we didn't support our
troops. Where the hell are those damned
pro-war people now, and why aren't they screaming
along with us? Why aren't they demanding
that the government treat our troops with the
dignity and respect they deserve? Why are
they so placid now? Why were they so eager
to send our troops to hell and so unconcerned
about when they can come home?
Maybe it's because they are just as ignorant about
the results of this war as they were about
it's beginning.
Maybe it's not as much fun to wrap yourself in the
flag if that flag has the blood of a soldier
on it.
~~~
Thursday, October 16, 2003
If you think that maybe you have gone a little mad
as you've been pulling your hair out due to
frustration with this administration, take heart
- you're not insane. Take a few minutes
to view this short film. It was made in
1946, and it shows you the signs to determine if
your country is vulnerable to despotism. The
good news is that it confirms much of what you
have been thinking about our country, and you are
not going insane. The bad news is that it
confirms much of what you have been thinking about
our country, and the whole country is going
insane.
~~~
How shall the
Senate handle this 87 billion dollar request for the
troops and rebuilding Iraq and Afghanistan?
Shall we mortgage our future to build a grand Iraq,
or shall we tell them that we will help them help
themselves? Shall we keep letting our troops
be picked off one by one, by a group who seems to
have an endless supply of volunteers with an endless
supply of anger and weapons? Our invasion
and occupation of Iraq has resulted in the loss
of American lives, the loss of innocent Iraqi lives
and now it seems that Iraq has become something
of a breeding ground for hatred and murderers.
We didn't find Saddam, we lost him. We claim
our bombs didn't destroy anything of value, yet we
are going to donate 20 some billion dollars to
rebuild things that we didn't destroy. We are
going to build enough to cover the years of
sanctions. We are generous to a fault.
First of all, I
would like to have a detailed accounting of what
happened to the last emergency supplemental of 79
billion dollars that the Congress approved in April,
2003. According to Rep. Chet Edwards'
(Texas) website, “This is the largest
supplemental appropriations bill ever considered by
Congress, and with thousands of our brave men and
women at risk in Iraq, it was perhaps the most
urgent piece of legislation in decades,”
Well, if Rep.
Edwards was impressed by 79 billion, he must have
been breathless when he saw the figures for the
supplemental that is being requested by bush
today. If the 87 billion is approved and
you add that to the 79 billion, you will come up
with the total of our future financial disaster or
166 billion dollars. That's a whole lot of
money that the USA just doesn't have.
That's a whole lot of money that the USA must
borrow. We could make the reconstruction money
a loan to Iraq, but bush doesn't want to saddle that
country with a huge, long-term debt. He
wants to saddle our country with a
huge, long-term debt.
Our country was the one attacked on 9-11, not
Iraq. The attackers didn't come from
Iraq. Iraq had nothing to do with it.
So why, if we were the original victims, is Iraq
getting all the expensive band-aids, and why are
they being taken from our emergency kit?
I suggest that
if bush is more sympathetic to Iraq than he is to
the US, then he should run for a term as President
of Iraq. He might actually get legally
elected there.
~~~
"To know what
you prefer
instead of
humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you
ought to prefer,
is to have
kept your soul alive."
-Robert Louis
Stevenson-
Wednesday, October 15, 2003
The US won't make the reconstruction money
a loan to Iraq, because if they did the
Iraqis would then own the money and
they could spend it any way they
wished. This would perhaps impair
Halliburton and the other US firms who have
contracts for Iraq. In other words, the
Iraqis might not be willing to suck up to
Cheney's pals.
~~~
Senator Thomas of Wyoming was on C-Span this
morning. He was carrying the bush banner
and speaking of all the wonders we have created
in Iraq. He was quick to tell about the
troops and their dedication, but when a caller
asked about the ceramic body suits that one
quarter of the troops do not have and won't have
until December, he had no clue about the
problem. He said he hadn't heard anything
about it. The next caller asked him about
why some of the troops are reporting
having only two meals a day. Again he
said he had not heard about that and it must
have been just a delayed shipment or something.
This was a United States Senator and he knew
less about the conditions for our troops than we
do. Does that give you a clue to just how
much these guys really know about what in the
hell our troops are dealing with over
there? And also, this was a man who had
just returned from visiting Iraq. Of
course the troops aren't going to complain to
these visiting politicians, because they are
afraid that if they say anything negative it
will get their butts in trouble. Remember
the soldier with his own deck of most
wanted cards?
~~~
__________________________________
Foie Gras?
Arrêter s'il vous plaît!
I'm beginning to feel like those poor geese
must feel as they are being force fed to prepare
them to become foie gras. The poor things have
a tube jammed down their throats and must endure
such great pain as the food is literally stuffed
into them.
With the recent public relations campaign coming out
of the bush administration stuffing us with sunshine
and happiness stories about Iraq, it truly is enough
to make you gag. Stop please!
~~~
Another thought regarding this "things are rosy
in Iraq" public relations campaign that the
administration is ramming down our throats. If
things were going so swimmingly over there, why
would bush decide to delete Rummy and insert
Condi? The administration is blaming the
public's negative attitude on the Democrats and
the media but seems to me the
administration doth protest too much!
When the killing stops, I'll start
listening!
~~~
If, as we are
now being told, our "smart bombs" didn't
hit the power stations of Iraq or destroy the
infrastructure of Iraq, and if the
damage to the infrastructure has been caused by
Saddam's neglect, then why do we have to pay
for and rebuild it? Why do we have
to pay for it if we didn't break
it?
~~~
Bush set a nice
little trap for the Democratic candidates. He
gave his tax cuts and now if anyone wants to rescind
them, it's considered a tax hike. In actuality
if the tax cut was rescinded, we wouldn't be paying
anymore taxes percentage wise than we were
three years ago. Besides, our tax dollars are
going to Iraq one way or the other. It's truly
a pay me now or pay me later situation, because
no matter how it's done, it's you and me who will
foot the bill. We can pay higher taxes or we
can lose services here in the US. You decide.
~~~
Bush starts
dropping a bit in popularity and sightings of Saddam
rise exponentially. What a coincidence!
~~~
Bush says the
media is not showing the sunny side of Iraq so his
administrations yanks the media's reins to the right.
The media obeys, the majority of the viewers take
their prescribed medication, get dumbed down and
life goes on.
~~~
Another soldier
dies in Iraq but an Iraqi school gets a new coat of
paint, so it all evens out?
~~~
Even though you
thought they might do it, you didn't deep down in
your heart, believe they would. Would
they? Well, it's not like it hasn't been
discussed.
"WHILE
NO evidence exists that “planting” WMD in Iraq
has been discussed officially inside the Bush
administration, intelligence sources confirm what
just about anybody could deduce: The idea has come
up in casual conversation."
~~~
"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own
government to save the environment. "
-Ansel Adams- And finally, if you have a heart, if you appreciate the beauty and the intrinsic value of nature, please read this article regarding the bush administration's latest antics. Seems they want to destroy the Endangered Species Act. Like this administration needs something else to hunt for, right? They now want to make it legal to hunt down and kill endangered species all around the world. I have always been afraid they would go after the Endangered Species Act, but I had hoped they would be too busy destroying other things to notice it hiding in the shadows. Apparently I was wrong because there are people out there who want to wear the remnants of dead creatures and people who want to hang the carcasses of dead creatures on their walls. These same people have lots of $$$. This administration will do anything for $$$. By gutting the Endangered Species Act, the administration is once again trading lives for cash. This administration just loves money to death! They don't care how much blood is dripping from a dollar as long as it's their dollar.
The target this
time can't fight back and it can't call for
help. A war in Iraq wasn't enough
bloodshed for them, now they want to go after
rare creatures. Is there a caring heart in
this administration? Is there wisdom in this
administration? Hell NO!
"Saving
Endangered Wildlife by Killing It?"
Monday, October 13, 2003
There seems to be a bit of a
problem here.
I think we have all heard, at one
time or another, the president say, "If you feed
a terrorist, you're just as guilty as the
terrorists".
Well, if you watched the hearings
last week in the House of Representatives regarding
the sales of surplus Department of Defense Biological
Lab Equipment via the internet, you discovered that
the DOD has made available a virtual buffet
of chemical and biological
(CB) equipment available to just about anyone who
is hungry for the production of chemical and
biological weapons. They will even sell
protective clothing to go along with the
equipment. However, by their own admission, some
of the protective clothing may be defective, even the
protective clothing that they sold to first responders
around the country.
"According to GAO, due to
poor controls, there is little assurance excess CB
equipment has not already fallen into the wrong
hands. "Shays said, “The cheap,
virtually unregulated availability of low cost
biological laboratory equipment poses a risk to
national security. The Department of Defense should
not be a discount shopping outlet for would-be
bio-terrorists.”
(Washington, Oct
7 - Congressman Christopher Shays (CT-4),
Chairman of the Subcommittee on National Security,
Emerging Threats and International Relations)
(link
#1 below)
"At the subcommittee’s
request, GAO bought surplus items though a shell
corporation, acquiring operating lab equipment and
other items at less than one-tenth of the original
cost to the Pentagon, the report says.
The GAO also was able to buy protective suits and other items, despite a department policy that prohibits public sale of the items. Some protective suits bought by the GAO had previously been determined defective, yet they were still circulating in the surplus supply chain, with some issued to state and local law enforcement units."
(link
#2 below)
"The Pentagon's sale of the surplus equipment was uncovered by Congress's general accounting office (GAO) which conducted a sting operation, setting up a dummy company to buy laboratory equipment online on a Pentagon website. The GAO found that the defence department did not check the background of its customers. Most of the equipment being sold was available commercially but the Pentagon was selling it at bargain prices. The GAO bought $46,000 (£27,500) worth of equipment for just over $4,000 (£2,400). Defence officials were called in to answer questions before a congressional inquiry about the sale of the army surplus, which included centrifuges, evaporators, bacteriological incubators, and protective suits to unknown customers in other countries, including Egypt and the Philippines, where terrorist groups have been known to operate. The news is particularly embarrassing, coming only days after the CIA-led Iraq Survey Group claimed the discovery of similar equipment in Iraq was evidence that the Saddam Hussein regime had a covert weapons programme. " (link #3 below)
I'll let you draw your own conclusions, based upon that last quote. Link #1 http://reform.house.gov/NSETIR/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=1598
~~~
As I searched for the above
information, I discovered to the best of my knowledge,
there was very little material to be taken from US
sources. This I found very interesting!
Friday, October 10,
2003
If you were
fortunate enough to see the PBS program last night,
"Truth, War and Consequences", you had to have
learned a little more about what is going on in
Iraq. After viewing that program, I came away
believing that one of the most dangerous weapons in
Iraq right now is Ahmed Chalabi.
You've just
got to see this program!
~~~
Yesterday bush was
cruising around the US telling captive audiences that
things are much better in Iraq than we have been told
they are. He seems to think that we have a
misconception of reality based upon a vast left wing,
press conspiracy. He seems to believe that
if our military applies a coat of
whitewash to a school, that should be reported with
violins playing in the background and when a US soldier
is murdered on the street, well that's not a news story,
that's just one of those pesky little realities of
war.
I don't give a damn
if they build a hundred new schools and every damned
light bulb in Iraq is glowing, as long as we
continue to lose members of our American family over
there, then the news is not screwin' good!
Bush says that
things in Iraq are better than they were. Better
than what? Better than the day we dropped all
those bombs on these same people we're now building
schools for? Well hell yes, as soon as death stops
raining down, it sure as hell would be better.
Bush
and all his little cheerleaders can repeat this new
"happy mantra" until they are blue in the face
and most of us will know full well that it's excrement
from a male member of the bovine family. But there's
that other bunch. The one's who believe we found wmd
on every corner in Iraq and that Suddam flew the plane
that hit the first tower on 9-11 and that all our soldiers
in Iraq have been sprayed down with all sorts of toxic
chemical weapons. That goofy bunch will
believe anything they hear from bush's mouth and what they
don't hear, they just make the hell up.
So
bush can march out all his folks, and they tell all their
stories and you can listen if you want to. But as
far as I'm concerned, if things are so rosy in Iraq, why
would they have to try so hard to make us believe
it?
It's just difficult
to watch bush try to get all emotional and use his
"sweet" voice when he talks about kids in Iraq
getting school books, when I know that here in the
US, way too many of our teachers have to open
up their own wallets to be sure that their classes have
all the equipment they need!
Let's visit some of
the kids in Appalachia and see what kind of shape their
schools are in. Let's visit some of the big cities
here in the US and see what kind of shape their schools
are in. When we get all the schools in the US
in good shape, then we'll see what we can do to
improve the schools in Iraq.
Charity begins at
home but our tax money seems to be on holiday in
Iraq!
~~~
Hey, I've got a
question for you. Did anyone hear
anything about the DNA report confirming that, the
two dead guys that we showed all over tv, were Saddam's
sons? Wasn't that supposed to be available in just
a few days after their deaths on July 22 of this
year? Hummm it's been a pretty long time since
that date. Remember how the soldier shot one of
them in the mouth and messed up the guy's face big
time? Remember how the embalmers sort of fixed the
two dead guys up with the wax and they looked more like
they wanted them to? Remember how we
said that we had a sample of their DNA to compare
with that of the two corpses?
I'm just asking
because perhaps that DNA report was made public and I
just missed it.
~~~
Thursday, October 9, 2003
Tonight at 9pm est.
there will be a "Frontline" program on
PBS titled "Truth, War, and
Consequences".
"Truth,
War, and Consequences"
A special intelligence operation began looking for evidence to justify a war with Iraq in the days after September 11, 2001" Thursday, October 9, 9:00pm Truth, War, and Consequences
So we're gonna do a little public
relations campaign to promote the war in Iraq. Well,
that should be one hell of an undertaking. How do
you sell a war that already happened and already looks
like nothing more than a shooting
gallery? The last PR stunt, on May
Day when george hopped aboard the big boat and said,
"whew, it's pretty much over", didn't work out
all that well, so hopefully they will get a new PR firm to
handle this new, and nifty idea of theirs. I mean
what do you do to make it look like no lies were told, no
thousands of Iraqi civilians were killed, no soldiers were
killed, everything is going fine in Iraq, lots of wmd
everywhere and that there is no oil in the spOILs
of this war?
Get ready for the "Red, White
and I'm not Blue just because I haven't Seen My
Daddy Since Last Christmas" war coloring
book", the "I Love My President and God and
Stuff Like That" t-shirts, the "No One Died in
the Iraqi War" lapel pins and maybe even the
"Honk if You Love Jesus and Believe that We
Found WMD in Iraq" bumper stickers.
Another catchy idea might be a "So What If
People Died, If It Makes It Cheaper for Me to Drive My
Sweet Humvee Then Damn It, I'm For It".
t-shirt, which of course would come in large sizes
only. If things get even worse in Iraq they could
always make a sticker that just said, "Iraq?
Never heard of it".
I suppose they will muzzle all
the families who have lost someone in this god awful
war. Can't take a chance on someone telling the
truth right now, when the public is asking
questions.
Tsk Tsk, Mr. and Ms. America, don't
start trying to act like this is a democracy. Don't
start acting like you have freedom of speech and all that
other crap you think you're entitled to, just because a
bunch of guys, bunches of years ago, thought they could
write that, sorta French sounding, Constitution.
That was then and this is now. Those guys probably
would have a problem with telling lies to the American
people and sending their soldiers to invade and occupy a
country, that just happened to have the second largest oil
puddles in the world. What the hell did those guys
know? Hell, they might have been gay! Just
think about that Mr. and Ms. America..............but
don't think about anything else. A true Patriot
never thinks, thinking is akin to terrorism, it will not
be tolerated. To show your support for our
president, his war, and his great leadership, you must
stop thinking!! Just believe what we tell you and no
one gets hurt! And remember, you can be designated
an enemy combatant at the drop of a wire tap.
The problem with the USA, according
to this administration, is that the we won't
just shut the hell up, believe any and every word the
administration says, close our eyes when the bad
stuff happens and apparently they would like us all to get
a real good, serious case of amnesia.
Bottom line, what they're selling, we
aren't buying.............no matter how they package
it. No matter what spin they use, we won't get
sucked in. No matter if they try to sell this damned
war in happy meals, we won't buy it.
Until someone tells us how the
hell we get out of this mess, when our troops are coming
home, and how the hell we are gonna pay for all
this, we aren't buying anything. There is not
a PR firm in the world that can bring dead soldiers back
to life.
Wednesday October 8, 2003
There is no better quote to describe
what happened in California yesterday than this one!
Ladies listen up! The next
scum who gropes you could be your state's next Governor.
~~~
Okay, it's all but official, Arnold in
the new governor of California.
Congratulations Californians, you have
just hired a man who has no experience, no credentials, no
resume, not a clue about what the hell he's doing and,
best of all, you hired him to run your state. Hell you
didn't even call him in for an interview, so you don't
really know a thing about him except that he made
funky, he-man, macho movies, likes to pose for photos
in his birthday suit and he seems to have a track
record of leaving his tracks on the ladies.
What a novel approach to hiring someone
to lead the largest state in the United States and also the
state with a very large financial problem.
Did you guys just say "hasta la
vista" to common sense?
I understand that you were
very unhappy with Davis, but did you have to shoot
yourself in the foot to prove it?
With Iraq, we have been referring to
the UN telling us, in so many words, "You broke it, You
pay for it". Well Californians, by electing
Arnold, I think You bought it broken and now You gotta
keep it.
Good Luck folks cause I think you're
gonna need it.
~~~
Tuesday, October 7, 2003
If there is a god of elections,
pray that he or she allows this California vote today to come
off without a hitch so that we don't have to be tortured with
recounts and more speeches from the robotic looking
Arnold. Is it just me or does the dude look like a monster
to you too?
Hey Arnold, lay off the teeth
whiteners for a bit, you look funky enough dude, then you
open your mouth and you look like you swallowed a used-car lot,
too much glow!
~~~
Please think about this a minute or
two. How will the War on Terror ever end? When will
we be able to say that every single person or group who wants to
harm someone else in some other country is no longer a
threat?
Because bush says that the war on
terror began here in the United States on September 11, 2001,
our country is considered a theater of war. Don't you see
that with this designation, the rules of war can be implemented
here until the war on terror is over. And again, how
and when can it end? Hey folks we're in a forever war and
that's not good!
~~~
Am I the only person who has no
idea who J Lo and Ben are? I know they are movie stars but
why do I hear so much about them? I wouldn't recognize
either of them. Am I missing something? Why should I
give a tinker's damn about them?
~~~
Does anyone really truly believe
that finding the whitehouse "leaker" is a priority for
george bush? It's just one more thing for this
administration to look for. And god knows they have a
hunting list a mile long.
~~~
Note to Iraqi people, watch out for a Wal-Mart to move into your
neighborhood real soon.
Another note to Iraqi people, don't let them change the name of
your country to "America's Mini Me".
~~~
Note to Republicans, when may we expect you to get real?
~~~
Senator Ted Stevens from Alaska is in desperate need of an
emergency burr-ectomy.
He seriously needs to have that burr removed from his
ass and hopefully that will calm him down a
bit.
~~~
And finally a note to all Californians. If you do elect
Arnold as your next governor today, thanks from all of us
in Florida, because you will be replacing us as the
"Goof Ball State". Congratulations, with
Arnold as your governor, you will certainly deserve the
title.
What the hell were you people thinking?????
Monday, October 6,2003
Wow, Arnold is going to fit in with
the bush administration like rush at a clan meeting.
Arnold gropes women and then denies
it and everyone says, "Hey that's okay".
Arnold says he kinda thought Hitler
was cool and then denies it and everyone says, "Hey, that's
okay".
Arnold lies and everyone says,
"Hey you're guy we want to lead our state, we'll elect
you!"
Bush lies about the reasons for war
and then denies it and everyone says, "Hey, that's
okay".
Bush lies about everything in the
world and then denies it and everyone says, "Hey you're a
great Prez. We'll re-elect you for four more years".
Come on Democrats, get with the
Republican times!
Stop whining just because President
Clinton lied and got his ass kicked by some big elephants.
This is a new time, a new way of
doing things. In this Republican time, you can lie your ass
off, deny it or give a surface apology and you get to become one
of the big elephants.
Hey times have changed!
It's different now!
In these Republican times,
lying is not a call for an ass kicking,
lying is
rewarded with assets!
Try to get it straight!
Jeeezzz, why can't you Democrats keep
up?
Saturday, October 4, 2003
I'm still reeling from
this experience.
Friday, October 3, 2003
Hunting Season is Officially
Open
It is legal to hunt for Osama.
It is legal to hunt for the anthrax
killer.
It is legal to hunt for Saddam.
It is legal to hunt for wmd.
The date for the official opening of
Finding Season has yet to be
announced .
~~~
David Kay made his report yesterday
regarding his search for wmd in Iraq.
Mr. Kay outlined what he had found
to date. He reported that he and his crew had found the
word "bomb" in many Iraqi dictionaries. He said
the word had been cleverly hidden between pages 55 and 57.
Mr. Kay stated they had also found several hundred
kits for making small 6 inch balsa glider airplanes. These kits
were located near a large supply of airplane glue. Mr. Kay
reminded those in attendance that this very same glue, when inhaled,
could result in hallucinatory sensations.
Mr. Kay continued to point out that,
although he had found no chemical weapons, he did find a large supply
of spit balls stashed in, of all places, a child's backpack.
When analyzed, the spit balls were shown to contain large amounts of
human spit. Mr. Kay reminded the Congressional members that when
human spit from one person is applied to the human body of
another, it may induce gagging and retching on the part of the
receiver. There was an audible gasp from the audience.
Mr. Kay reported finding many
unexploded munitions scattered over the entire country of Iraq.
He said someone had stenciled the words "made in the USA" on
the munitions. Mr.Kay pointed out that this was just
another example of Saddam's cunning, deceptive plan.
Mr. Kay brought his report to a close by
asking for another 8 million dollars to continue his work. He
told the Congress that he believed if he were granted this money
he was quite sure that he could find even more weapons. He
said that he had it on very good authority that within just a few
weeks, a large shipment of weapons would be found at the Iraqi airport
about 8pm if all incoming flights were not cancelled due to bad
weather.
Mr. Kay summed up his report with this
clear and precise statement,
"We have not
found yet, and I'm sure you know this, otherwise you would know it
earlier, we have not found at this point, actual weapons. It does not
mean we've concluded there are no actual weapons, it means at this
point in time, and it's a huge country with a lot to do, that we have
not yet found weapons.". http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2003/s959159.htm
After the members of congress took a
moment to digest Mr. Kay's final remark, they shouted in unison,
"Say What?"
Later it was reported that Mr.
Kay was spotted at the local Wal-Mart purchasing
several chemistry sets and a copy of "Finding wmd for
Dummies". However
this last report could not be confirmed.
~~~
It is rumored that, after the apology
yesterday by Arnold regarding his incessant groping of women, one
staunch Republican Senator said that any man who does these
sorts of things should always be excused if he just says the two
little magic words, " I'm sorry". He also
said he is considering offering up a bill that would make it
legally mandatory to forgive and forget about any sexual
indiscretions committed by any Republican man. This bill would
require the accused to say,"I'm sorry", and all charges
would be dropped.
~~~
It is said that yesterday, President
Clinton publicly apologized for his past sexual
indiscretions. The response from the Republicans was, No
you aren't. Rumor now has it that the Republicans are going
to look into impeaching Mr. Clinton again, based upon the
arrogant gall of his thinking that just by simply saying ,
"I'm sorry", that could make up for all the pain and
embarrassment he had caused the women.
~~~
Rush Limbaugh, after being accused of
buying illegal pain killers, not only denied the purchases, he also
denied feeling pain. He said his job was to inflict pain, not to
kill it.
~~~
President bush's economic plans appears
to be successful, as far as creating new jobs. The
unemployment office announced today that they will be required
to hire a record number of new employees in order to process the
record number of unemployment applications they are receiving.
Also, the major newspapers report they
too will be hiring more employees to work in the Classified Department
of their papers due to the increase in the number
of "employment wanted" ads they are
receiving.
When notified of this information,
President Bush responded, "I told you so, I told you so, Na Na Na
Na Na-na".
Chill
down my martini glass honey, I'm coming home*
Oct 2, 2003 The Face of the Enemy, The Face of my Friend by Patricia Ernest "I knew that recently CBS had been accompanying some of our Florida National Guard who are serving in Iraq as they taped this segment and I also knew there was a slim possibility that I might get to see, within the program, my friend who has been away and serving in Iraq since January".
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Bush isn't having the greatest week
of his life. First he has to watch his egotistical enemy
kiss Laura's hand while she's far away in the dreamy,
romantic, sweet ambiance of France. If a Frenchman
kisses your hand, does that mean you have been French kissed?
I bet old george wasn't smirking after seeing
that.
Then he has to deal with the
fact that there's someone in the Whitehouse or the
Administration or somewhere who has given out information that
could be dangerous to a CIA employee. Bush was Johnny on the
Spot with this wasn't he? The article by Novak came out in
mid July and the last day of September, when the
feces finally hit the fan, bush jumps right on it
and asks for someone to volunteer to take responsibility
for the commission of a felony. We all know how we can rely
on felons to do the honest thing and just step up
and admit to their crimes. Bush tried his best not to
smirk when he talked with reporters about this, but eventually
that smirk appeared just as it always does when he appears to be
amused. But don't fret, they'll figure out some way to
erase this disaster just like all the rest. Think back
to when the news came out that the landing on the USS Abraham
Lincoln was nothing more than a photo op fraud. They just
dismissed the facts and continued with the fallacy. Why
get all involved with the truth when lies are so much more
convenient and enabling to your cause?
Also now, over two months after
the Novak article came out, the whitehouse has instructed everyone
to save all emails, phone records etc. for the
investigation. Don't you think that the persons
who did this would have already destroyed anything that would
be damaging and that would connect them to the deed?
And don't you think these people who made the phone calls
would have known that all whitehouse phone calls leave a
trail? Hey, maybe they just called from a phone
booth. Duh!
It'll be interesting to see how they
try to blame this on the Clinton administration, and you know they
will.
~~~
Okay Californians I gotta say
this. What in the hell are you guys thinking?
According to the news you're about to elect a weight lifting,
mediocre actor to run your state when, according to the news
again, you guys are in a deep pile of financial do-do.
Remember, HE'S AN ACTOR! Just because he plays parts in
movies and gets the girl or wins the fight doesn't mean he
actually has super powers. That's just pretend. The running
of a state is real, it requires actual big time intelligence
to do it right. Again, HE'S AN ACTOR! he can't
actually terminate problems with some sort of cinematic
super power, not in the real world. He plays parts
and reads scripts. Being a good governor requires
dealing with real world, real life situations that come with
real world, real life consequences. Arnold
is acting the part of a candidate and right now he has
someone to write the script, but what will happen when your state
faces a crisis and the script writers have
all gone home?
Are you guys actually going to brag
that your governor is a guy who ends almost every sentence
with, "and all that stuff"? Yep, to Arnold it's
all just stuff.
And just one last word, when a
chameleon sits on a green leaf he can turn green, but that doesn't
mean that he can become a green leaf, it just means that he
can camouflage himself to look like one so that he may
hide and protect his true self.
Good Luck Californians, and all that
stuff!
~~~
Chill
down my martini glass honey, I'm coming home*
Tuesday: Sept 30, 2003 Rabbits and Resolutions Monday, September 29, 2003
Okay, let's talk about
Joe Wilson and, as Arnold would say, "all that stuff".
Do you think that if,
during the Clinton days, this matter about treason had reared it's
ugly head it would have been referred to as only a matter for the
Justice Dept.? Don't you think that Bill Clinton would already
be swinging from the old oak tree? Christ, the bush boys are
acting as though no one in the administration could or
would ever out a CIA agent, so for the most part, case closed.
They're gonna let Ashcroft, the man from hell, tinker around with
this. Yeah, whew, I feel better, because if anyone in this
screwin' administration is going to be fair, it sure as hell will be
the man who is whittling away our Constitutional rights just as fast
as his pocket knife will allow. Investigate? How
about filing this in his round file and getting back to his
routine of trying to figure out how he can jail all of us who open
our mouths and demand some semblance of the truth.
And where are the true
American Patriotic Republicans and why aren't they demanding an
investigation into this just as some of the Democrats are? Why
aren't they eager to protect the identity of our CIA agents.
Why are they mewing in the corner and not out there raising hell
too? It's time for a couple of those guys to get into the
swing of things. Is this a democracy or not? It's
time for everyone, war lovers and war haters, Democrats and
Republicans, Christians and sinners, the left and the right, to get
our acts together and stop the damned fighting amongst ourselves and
start getting this damned country back to something we all can take
pride in once again. It's time to write and call and call some
more. Tell Washington that it's pretty damned important that
we don't and we won't stand for treason in this country. Tell
them to have the guts to speak up and speak out, no matter what
party they represent. Tell them it's high time for them to be
real men and real women and do their damned job.
This is not just a
Democrat rant, this is an American demand. Remind them that
oral sex truly does not have the same effect on national security as
out-ing a CIA agent. You might also remind them that we are
the one's who hire them and, during the next election, we will be
the one's who just might fire them. Just as a kicker, you also
might mention that treason is a freakin' felony.
~~~
Isn't it funny how oral
sex in the whitehouse causes a storm, but treason is just blown
off!
I guess it depends on
what tense of the word "blow" you use.
~~~
Bob Novak, the reporter
who wrote the story that out-ed the CIA agent, was on Crossfire on
CNN. When asked about the story about Joe Wilson's wife, he
spun the story like a child's top and then with a dreadful little
smirky face he said, "I know who the they are.", referring
to whomever in the Whitehouse out-ed Joe's wife. God, what
does this administration do to people to make them so smirky?
I, one hundred percent, believe that a reporter should never have to
reveal his sources but I also, one hundred percent, believe a
reporter should have an actual brain and should use it when it comes
to writing stories that might place someone in danger. Hey
call me old fashioned!
~~~
I wonder what would
happen if, in Iraq, someone out-ed one of the new Iraqi police
people and put that person's life in jeopardy? I'm guessing
the bush administration would go ballistic and make a giant damned
deal of it and call the outers terrorists and treat it very
seriously. Too bad they won't treat the USA as well as they
do their new adopted country.
~~~
Why doesn't anyone call
for the laundry list of how the money is being spent that is
supposed to be going to support our military? Are the troops
actually getting what they need? What are they getting and why
does my neighbor have to send things to her husband in Iraq, things
like deodorant and lip balm and food? Where's the list and how
much of the 50 plus billion is being spent on true needs? How
much of that money is going to supply the new Iraqi military?
Chill
down my martini glass honey, I'm coming home*
Mon-Sun, September 22-28, 2003
Below are a few of the items and ideas
that cruised around in my head this past week or so.
Sunday on Meet the Press, Tim Russert was
speaking with Condi Rice. They were discussing
bush's State of the Union Speech and the reference to the
yellow cake uranium fable. Seems that Condi and pals
have a very bad problem with their memories.
DR. RICE:
First of all, the CIA did clear the speech in its entirety and
George Tenet has said that. He’s also said that he believes
that it should not have been cleared. And we apparently, with
the—in October for the Cincinnati speech, not for the State
of the Union, but the Cincinnati speech, George Tenet asked
that this be taken out of the Cincinnati speech, the reference
to yellow cake. It was taken out of the Cincinnati speech
because whenever the director of Central Intelligence wants
something out, it’s gone.
MR. RUSSERT: How’d it get back in? DR. RICE: It’s not a matter of getting back in. It’s a matter, Tim, that three-plus months later, people didn’t remember that George Tenet had asked that it be taken out of the Cincinnati speech and then it was cleared by the agency. I didn’t remember. Steve Hadley didn’t remember. We are trying to put now in place methods so you don’t have to be dependent on people’s memories for something like that. MR. RUSSERT: Did you ever read the memo that I referenced? DR. RICE: I don’t remember the memo. It came after it had been taken out of the speech, and so it’s quite possible that I didn’t. But let me be very clear: This shouldn’t happen to the president of the United States, and we will do everything that we can to make sure that it doesn’t happen again. http://www.msnbc.com/news/973028.asp?cp1=1
SHE FORGOT? THEY FORGOT?????
Well that was a pretty important thing to
"forget" don't ya think Condi? Especially
since it was the big arrow that you guys used to point to
war. Holy smokes, we got a memory problem here, big
time!
If what she said is true, I would suggest
that they seek medical attention or resign because her remarks
made me wonder what the hell else did they forget? Like
maybe they forgot that Saddam had truly destroyed his
weapons. Maybe they forgot that the UN was an
organization that was kinda relevant?
Maybe they forgot the weapons inspectors reported that they
had found no nasty stuff during their inspections earlier this
year? Hey, maybe they forgot that Saddam was not
responsible for 9-11? Maybe they forgot to tell the
truth?
~~~
Hey, next time you feel you should be
punished for something that you've done, just turn on C-Span
and listen to anything that Sen. Pete Domenici has to
say. If his yelling and screaming doesn't get you, his
extreme tirades will. If you think that you still need
to suffer a bit more, wait for Sen. Ted Stevens to pop
up. These have to be two of the most obnoxious
speakers ever to echo through the Senate chambers.
~~~
Anyone who was fortunate enough to hear
Sen. Bill Nelson, who I am very proud to say is from Fla., as
he spoke to the Senate regarding deployment times for the
Guard and Reservists, was able to hear a speech that came from
his heart. He has spent much time talking to families in
Fla. and also talking to the men and women in Iraq and he's
been listening too! He wasn't speaking with the attitude
of a typical politician, he was speaking to and from the
hearts of a lot of Florida citizens.
~~~
So bush feels that if Saddam had a
wmd instruction sheet, then he could make wmd.
Well I have a gourmet cookbook, but my
friends can attest to the fact that I cannot make
a gourmet meal.
~~~
Bush is having the last laugh. He
says the wmd never stood for weapons of mass
destruction.
He says wmd has always stood for Wells of
Mass Dollars. And we sure found that, he said
gleefully, as he wiped an oil smudge off his wallet.
~~~
It seems this rebuilding Iraq is
equivalent to you being sick and then someone brings a
sick stranger into your house and you have to
mortgage your home to cover the stranger's medical
bills. Suddenly you realize, by the time this
stranger gets well, you'll still be sick but you can no
longer afford to go to the doctor.
~~~
Bush invited Vladimir Putin for a
sleepover and he asked Putin to help him pay for a war that
Putin was against from the get go. How's that for
goofiness?
~~~
By now, everyone has read the grocery
list for Iraq. We've heard about the costly garbage
trucks, area codes etc. But what about spas and golf
courses? Won't the Halliburton fellows want some rest
and relaxation after a hard day at the "front
lines"?
~~~
Okay, everyone is all excited because bush said that Saddam
and 9-11 share no common genes. I mean really think
about it, he said that was one of his major causes for the
war and now he says it wasn't and everyone says........Gee,
look how honest he is!
Give me a break!
~~~
Sen. Ted Kennedy calls bush's war a "fraud"
and the republicans say that his comment is an
example of democrats being soft on defense. So are
they saying that even a fraudulent war is worth fighting and
dying for?
Give me another break!
~~~
Bush and his buddies tell us we have this grand
military. Well obviously we don't have
enough full time military personal, because if we
did, why would so many of our Reservists
and National Guard have been called to go to
Iraq. Please think about that for a while. Why
would bush create a war knowing full well that he did not
have enough full time military to do the job? Support
the troops indeed, he's not supporting the troops,
he's exhausting and extinguishing the troops. I
hope he has nightmares every night and I hope the ghosts
ruin his rest and never give him a break.
Chill down my martini glass
honey, I'm coming home*
Friday, Sept. 18, 2003
Soft on Defense My Ass!
Someone said that Sen. Ted Kennedy's
comment about the war in Iraq being a "fraud" was just
another example of democrats being soft on defense. What
does that mean? Does it mean that Democrats aren't willing
to fight for their country, or does it mean that democrats
aren't willing to fight for their big companies?
Hell no, democrats are not soft on
defense. Democrats are intelligent on defense.
Democrats don't use the shotgun approach to defense.
Democrats determine if there is a clear and present danger and
then they weigh their options. Democrats don't make up shit,
they deal with shit. Democrats will wage war, they just
won't wage war for the sake of war. Democrats realize that
there is more to war than bragging about victory. Democrats
realize that war is an expensive endeavor in both lives and
money. Democrats know that war is not the first answer but
the last. Democrats are aware that war is an admission of
failure in every other attempt to bring about peace.
No, democrats do not have blood
covered fangs nor do they enjoy the pleasure of blood money.
Most democrats are peaceful people and they aren't
fools.
In a land of, I got a gun, you got a
gun, all god's children got guns, it's not surprising
that war is popular. Guns are, in this country, a sort
of "hey, don't you friggin mess with me cause I gotta
gun and I can blow your brains out!" symbol.
And with that comes the "let's do war and show the
bastards how screwin tough we are" mentality.
That attitude is nothing more than an admission of weakness
cloaked in bravado. Weakness personified! It says, I
don't have to know anything, I don't have to do anything, cause I
have a gun and you don't want to die so that makes me tough.
Anyone who thinks that a gun and a war makes you a tough
American patriot is just plain pathetically
stupid. The only thing a gun and a war makes you is
dangerous. Any idiot can pull the trigger of a gun,
but it takes a wise man to convince that idiot not to do
it. Who was the last American hero to shoot first and ask
questions later? Maybe in the old west that was the motto,
but this isn't the old west. This is the new
democracy.
In the old west, everyone had a gun,
so everyone had to be on defense all the time. Shoot or be
shot. That's what equal gun ownership does. It causes
paranoia, and paranoia breeds a defensive attitude. Paranoia
can cause people to take irrational actions due to their obsession
with fear. The same holds true with war. Now that the
US declares war at the drop of a hat, not the drop of a bomb, all
other countries have become paranoid and as a result they feel
they must play defense. They don't trust the US to be
logical any more. If someone goes around brandishing their
six shooter, that doesn't result in admiration, it results in
alienation. and fear. Well, the US is not only brandishing
their six shooter, they're firing indiscriminately into the
crowd and that has caused a major problem. This
indiscriminate firing makes us look like dangerous lunatics
with a dangerous weapon. We look like the crazed gunman who
loses it and, because of some strange illusion or some deep
paranoia, believes that all strangers are out to get him so he
just shoots everyone he sees. Anyone with even
two brain cells is going to run like hell when this guy is on
the street. This is not a person you want to befriend
and support, this is a guy who scares the hell out of you and
someone who should be contained for the good of
society. Due to our paranoia after 9-11, we have
become that crazed gunman. We have become the country
who believes that everyone is out to get us, the county
that scares the hell out of other countries as we fire
indiscriminately into the crowd, and if we aren't careful, we
may become the country that other countries feel should be
contained for the good of society. Anyone or any
political party who favors placing the United States in a position
like this should not be described as being firm on defense, they
should more aptly be described as
being dangerous to peace.
pissed off patricia
Thursday, September 17, 2003
A Predictable Press
Conference with the President
Press
question (PQ)
President
answer (PA)
PQ Mr.
President, we understand that you want to chop down the national
forests to prevent forest
fires. Is that true?
PA Well,
as you know 9-11 changed everything. Yes indeed, we're
hunting these trees down and killing them one by one. This
administration has determined that trees are evil doers because
they feed forest fires. As I have said before, if
you even feed an evil doer, then you are an evil doer.
The logging companies have put a bounty on the leafy heads of
these evil trees and we'll pursue them wherever
they live.
PQ Mr.
President, we also understand that you are waiving some
restrictions which in turn will allow our rivers and streams to
become polluted with industrial waste. Is that true?
PA Well,
as you know 9-11 changed everything. Yes indeed, we're
polluting the waters with deadly chemicals before the
terrorists get a chance to do it themselves. You see if we
do it first, it will allow us not to worry about the terrorists
doing this evil deed in the future. We're sort of beating
them to the punch, if you know what I mean. (audible
chuckle)
PQ Mr.
President, we have heard that you have eased restrictions on
power plants and factories and now these industries may spew all
sorts of pollutants into the air we breathe. Is that true?
PA Well,
as you know 9-11 changed everything. Yes indeed we are
easing those restrictions. We feel that it is every
patriotic American's duty to sacrifice for the cause of the war on
terrorism and we don't believe that asking Americans to breathe in
a few particles of cancer causing agents is too much to ask.
PQ Mr. President,
we have heard that you may be considering doing away with the
endangered species act. Is that true?
PA Well,
as you know 9-11 changed everything. Yes indeed, we are
seriously considering doing away with the endangered
species act because we have good reason to believe that those
plants on that list have harbored terrorists in their
evil bushes and that those animals on that list have
been the food for terrorists. If you harbor or feed a
terrorist then you are a terrorist and we will get you one by
one.
PQ Mr.
President, we have heard from the American people that they are
concerned about the very large financial deficit this country is
facing. What can you say to them?
PA Well,
as you know 9-11 changed everything. If the American people
are concerned about the deficit they should remember that
terrorist need money to do their evil deeds. By giving all
the American money to other countries and to big business we are
protecting the American people and preventing them from becoming
the victims of terrorists robberies.
PQ Mr.
President we have heard that, as a result of your spending and tax
cuts, our educational system is in a decline. Is that true?
PA Well,
as you know 9-11 changed everything. Terrorists want to
learn how we work and what makes us tick, so if our
schools are substandard we know for sure they won't be able to
sneak in and learn anything there.
PQ Mr.
President thank you for your time. Is there anything else
you would like to say to the American people?
PA Well
as you know 9-11 changed everything. I would just like the
American people to know that I have good reason to believe that
smart children, healthy elderly people, employed people
and financially comfortable retirees are a threat to our
country. My administration is doing everything possible to
do away with this danger and to see to it that we never have to
worry about their existence in the future. If you know one
of these people, if you harbor one of these people, if you even
feed one of these people then you are aiding the enemy and we will
hunt you down. See, that's what this administration does, we
hunt. We like to hunt for things. We hunt for Osama,
we hunt for WMD, we hunt for Anthrax killers, we hunt for Saddam,
we hunt for evil doers, we just hunt, hunt, hunt. I guess
that would be my message to the American people. You may
rest assured that your government is hunting for you.
May God
bless me and may God bless America.
~~~
Chill
down my martini glass honey, I'm coming home*
Wednesday, September 17, 2003
Who better to try to convince Israel and Palestine to stop seeking
revenge for the killing they have done to one another than the dandy
duo of Bush and Blair. Just look at the example that the
dandy duo set when they invaded a country that had not presented a
clear and present danger to either of them.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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When you Need War
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These are folks who can always lie with a straight face. They
can take money from your grandmother and your children and give it to
big corporations without even a wince of guilt. They are the
best in their field. These folks can send your sons and
daughters, fathers and mothers off to war for no honest cause and
never feel a pang of guilt.
Yes Mr. and Ms World, when you need the
financial and egotistical benefits of war but you just can't find a
good reason for a declaration of war, don't sweat the details.
Instead call PEACE BUSTERS for all your bloody war time needs.
As we say here at PEACE BUSTERS,
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AND
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Chill
down my martini glass honey, I'm coming home*
Tuesday, September 16, 2003
Pretty ironic huh? The republicans in California may
lose their right to a speedy recall election based
on the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court decision.
This is the same decision that caused the
democrats to lose their rightfully elected
President in 2000 . How's that for a bit of yen
and yang?
But now the republicans think that Supreme Court decision is
just plain wrong. They think the courts are political
and that all courts should stay out of politics.
Finally, the left and the right have something they may
agree on!
Chill down my martini glass honey, I'm coming home*
Monday, September 15, 2003
Hey great news, the plane
carrying the American Media has finally landed. After
circling the airport for about two years they are now
back on the ground. No one seems to know why they
have been unable to land for all this time. But we do
know that their absence has resulted in a whale of a
void of impartial news. There was some mention that
perhaps their plane's "guts to tell it as it truly
is" device may have not been functioning properly due to
a problem with the right wing.
Now that they are back
down to earth, it seems their first order of business is
to begin to give the public details on the horrendous job
George Bush has done during his time of trying to impersonate
a President of the United States. They are talking about
the US deficit that has grown into a money
sucking monster while they were away and they are
talking about the lies that were told to convince the American
people to back a US military invasion of Iraq. There is
even some coverage of the "after war"
sordid conditions that our military personal, who remain
in Iraq, must contend with everyday. This
comes months after bush declared the mission
accomplished. Some even went so far as to say
that there will be a Presidential election next year and that
a democrat might actually have a chance to win.
I'm sure you will all
join me when I say welcome back American media, Welcome back
to reality. We have sorely missed your coverage.
While you were away the only news we received were the press
releases from the Whitehouse and they tended to be a tad
biased.
Chill down my martini
glass honey, I'm coming home*
Saturday, September 13, 2003
Since it seems that
this administration is much more concerned with the welfare of the
Iraqi people than with that of the US citizens, perhaps they, the
administration, could just relocate to Iraq. Bush could be
the "selected" president of that country just as he was
here. Meanwhile, we could call up Al Gore and tell him to
show up at the Whitehouse and take the position he was elected to
take in 2000.
Bush could run Iraq
farther into the ground and President Gore could begin fixing the
mess bush has made here. I mean come on, is this not the
best solution yet?
~~~
Powell is at the UN
begging for cash but unwilling to bend. What exactly is it
in Iraq that we are unwilling to bend about? Why is bush
holding on so tight to that disaster over there? Which part
of the aforementioned disaster does he find so dear that he can't
let go? Is it the daily deaths of our troops, the bombings
of the buildings, the lack of electricity, the lack of water, or
the general chaos? I guess that it could be the
forever, giant bazillion dollar contract for Halliburton and the
oil. Nah, it wouldn't be that would it?
After god told bush
to slay Saddam and Osama, did god tell bush to hang on
tight to Iraq for contracts and oil? If indeed god talks to
bush, he better tell him to straighten his ass out, stop lying and
get right if he wants to visit the pearly
gates someday. From what I remember about the lessons
in Sunday School, lying and cheating are frowned upon by the god
that my church was promoting. But hey, maybe things have
changed, hell everything else has changed hasn't it? Maybe
the bush administration rewrote the Bible too. Maybe for
national security reasons they felt a little revamping
was necessary. Maybe after 9-11 they decided to make a
couple of biblical deletions of biblical
proportions. With Ashcroft and his mighty sword in
Washington, hell who needs the bible anyway? I'm sure they
find it good to use occasionally as a reference, but some of
what it says can surely get in the way of big business
and especially big dirty monkey business.
Chill down my martini glass honey, I'm coming home* Friday, September 12, 2003
With all the memories of sadness
these past days, I can't help but think about my good friend as he
labors through a year of his life over in Iraq. If you've
read some of my writing you may recall that I frequently mention
him, because he's always
on my mind.
He was my inspiration for the first
letter I ever emailed to a site on the internet. I wrote
that letter the morning after my friend told me he had to go to
Iraq. I cried most of that night and the entire time I wrote
the letter. You see, I had never said goodbye to anyone as
they went off to war. I had protested vigorously the war in
Viet Nam, but I didn't know anyone who was involved in that war, I
just knew it was a war that no one should die for.
That night, I hugged my friend and I
tried to take a mental picture of him, which by the way I
did. I can still see the sad expression on his face and I
can still remember the sound of his voice and what we didn't
say. What I feared, I could not say to him,
and what he was dreading, he could not say to me. I just
remember that it all seemed so unreal and so unnecessary. I
knew that he and I felt the same way about this war but it was out
of our control. He was going to leave.
I have to tell you something about
him, I'm so sure you would like him too. He's a fifty year
old National Guardsman and a grandfather of two. He is
the most gentle man I've ever met. He has a little green
pickup truck that he drove to work,
and he lives almost directly across the street from me. Many
many afternoons I would be out walking my dog when he would come
home from work. He would drive into his driveway and his
three cats would come to greet him. The two younger cats
came running from the yard, but the third, the old
cat, would take a little longer,
as his days of running had passed. Each day they would all
come to greet my friend as he returned home at the end of the
day. He would always put down his lunch cooler and bend down
to give each of the cats a welcomed scratch on their backs and
heads and speak and coo to each of them. He never stopped
until the old cat finally arrived and received it's equal share of
the love and attention. He always waited for the
slow old cat to amble to his side. Then he would get
the rest of his stuff from the truck and walk up to his front door
with his group of feline fans following so close behind.
That one old cat of his is
really very old and mostly just lays under a palm tree in his
front yard all day. This old cat kind of has a tough
time walking because he has arthritis in his legs. Due
to age and perhaps experiences, his fur is no longer
a shiny ebony but more a dusty black. He's an old cat
and perhaps a tired old cat but he hasn't given up. He was
forced to began his vigil of waiting about the middle of January,
and he's still waiting. I
imagine he's wondering when that little green truck will pull into
the driveway again. Maybe he even wonders why things have
changed. Maybe he wonders why time drags by so slowly and so
sadly.
Don't feel alone old cat, I wonder
the same things that you do,
and I wait just like you do. I miss our friend with his
wonderful smile and his always cheerful greeting. It's been
much much too long a time since we've seen that
little green truck drive up in the driveway hasn't it old
cat. I know you don't feel well old cat but please
please don't give up.
Just try to hang on until we see him again. We need
each other right now, maybe we need each other more than we both
realize. When I see you there, napping under your tree,
you remind me that we have to believe and never give up.
Perhaps when you see me, you sense that I'm thinking about
you and admiring your patient devotion. Just hang in there
and keep in mind old cat, he's just as eager to see you as you are
to see him, so you have to hang on. If it becomes difficult
and you feel just too tired to keep going, please remember,
he always had time to wait for you.
Chill down my martini glass honey, I'm coming home* Thursday, September 11, 2003
Well, it's been two
years. Two years since we thought a pilot had misjudged his
flight path or something. Then we heard it had happened
again. Then we heard something had happened at the
Pentagon. Then we heard a plane had crashed in
Pennsylvania. We sort of knew what was happening but our minds
just couldn't connect it all based on our experiences in life.
We had heard the word terrorist and terrorism but we always
associated it with some other country far far away. This wasn't
something that could or would happen here in the US. We had
heard of bombers and we had heard of bombs but we had never heard of a
group of people taking over airplanes and just flying them head first
into buildings. No wonder we were all stunned. No wonder
we were all frightened. The world had changed big time and we
were in a state of shock. Then the towers started to fall in a
giant dust and glass storm. We couldn't think as fast as things
were happening. We thought that the people should have been out
of the towers by the time they collapsed. That's the way it
should have been we thought. Then we began to wonder, what
next? Our minds spun in disbelief. We wanted someone to
tell us this just wasn't real and someone could fix it and fix it
fast. We cried because we knew it was real. We just
stared in disbelief at our television sets and everything else
paled and disappeared. We called one another and spoke of
the all the events and then hung up the phone because whomever we had
spoken with couldn't make it all okay again. We hugged our
kids and lots of us prayed. But with all the hugs and all the
prayers, it was still there and the events had really happened.
People were dying in New York, in Washington and in Pennsylvania and
we knew how but the why was just beyond our
understanding. Our minds continued to try to make something
rational out of irrational events. We were more confused and
perhaps more afraid than we had ever been. This day wasn't like
any other any of us had ever experienced in our lifetime.
That day was two years
ago today and we still can't grasp what happened. We still ask
why. We still have trouble believing it all. We still morn
for the dead of that day. It is still one of the worst days of
our lives and one of the worst days of our deaths.
Chill down my martini glass honey, I'm coming home*
Wednesday, September 10, 2003
Seems, according to spooky old bush, that
Colin Powell will be going out trick or treating a bit
early this year. I suppose Colin will be wearing a costume
that makes him look like a peaceful man who has Iraq's future at
heart. He will be trick or treating at the door of
countries around the world with his out stretched hand asking
for money and troops to go to Iraq and help the US get the hell
out of the mess bush has gotten that country and ours into this
year. Colin will be trying to trick these countries into
believing they are in some eerie way responsible for the
disaster this war has become. He will be trying to crave
out a solution to this scary problem.
Good luck Colin, you'll need it when a door
opens and you here someone say "bonsoir".
Chill down my martini glass honey,
I'm coming home*
Tuesday, September 9, 2003
Bush is like the drunk brother-in-law who
drops in to visit you unexpectedly. He
then proceeds to call up all his mean spirited, wild
drinking buddies, invites them to your house and then they party
and destroy your place. The next morning, when
they all sober up enough, everyone leaves and you are left with
the stench, the mess and the all the expenses of the
repairs. Your drunk brother-in-law leaves you with all the
bad stuff and he moves on with no remorse.
This is how bush has handled everything
he's touched. He fooled around with our economy and
left it a mess. He fooled around with our education
system and left it a mess. He fooled around with a war in
Afghanistan and left it a mess. He fooled some into going
to war with Iraq and when things became a mess he turned to
someone else to clean it up and pay for the repairs. Seems
everything this drunken brother-in-law gets into, he makes a
mess and we will be left to clean it up for years and years to
come.
And just like with a drunk
brother-in -law, we are saddled with him even though we had no
say in the union that brought him into our lives.
~~~
"The awarding of the contract in March prompted some lawmakers, including Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., to question whether the administration's deep ties with Halliburton helped secure the contract -- charges the White House has adamantly denied. Vice President Dick Cheney formerly ran the company. "
"Waxman had written Flowers
seeking answers as to why the contract has "no set time
limit and no dollar limit and is apparently structured in such a
way as to encourage the contractor to increase its costs and,
consequently, the costs to the taxpayer." Waxman has said
the contract to Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) could be worth up
to $7 billion over two years. "
In regards to this contract that was given
to Halliburton for the reconstruction of the oil wells in
Iraq and a bunch of other stuff. When does that contract
expire or is it open ended? Is it automatically renewed or
will it have to eventually go out for bids? Will that
contract run forever or is there a requirement to be met?
When the troops all come home will the execs of Halliburton
follow? When and if Iraq takes over the running of their
country, does that end Halliburton's involvement? Does
anyone have a copy of this contract that the public may
see? After all, it's our money that's paying the bill,
shouldn't we see what we signed up for?
~~~
Just in case sometimes you feel as though
you're "losing it", because you doubt every fun-king
thing you hear from the bush administration, don't
worry, you aren't "losing it", they stole your
confidence in them from you. You haven't gone bananas,
you've just recognized monkey business when you've seen it.
~~~
Seems we keep getting these tapes and such
from al Qaeda telling us what they are planning to do. I
wonder, was there such a warning tape before 9-11? Is this
a new thing they do now? Seems funny to me that if they
are going to do something awful to us, they would give us a
heads up so we could be prepared.
~~~
Friday, while no one was watching the
administration quietly announced that all the National Guard and
Reservists would serve in Iraq for a year from the time they
arrived there. Well that means my friend will be over
there until sometime next year. And don't even attempt to
try to tell me that my friend knew what he was getting into when
he signed up for the National Guard. That's just more
bullshit than can be tolerated. He signed up to be
available for emergencies, he did not sign up to be a target in
bush's war of lies. If my friend had wanted to be in the
army and do army combat he would have done that. If any of
you men who are reading this are 50 years old, have seen and
heard about the conditions in Iraq, have a family and
grandchildren and are not in the best of health and feel it
would be swell and your patriotic duty to be stationed in
Iraq for a year..............then go down and volunteer your ass
to go there!
~~~
Bush better try his damnedest to stay in
the oval office for four more years because once he gets out and
has to fly on commercial planes, I don't think his background is
going to pass muster to qualify as a "no risk
passenger". When they look at his background
and all the American deaths he has been responsible for, the
lies he has told, his military record and his association with
Saudis he may be blacklisted from flying on airplanes in
America.
~~~
If you haven't been mad or cussed a
blue streak or just plain cried about what has happened to our
sweet country since bush walked into the Whitehouse, you are
brain dead and really need to wake the hell up! The true
patriots of this country love their country more than they love
george bush. If you support bush simply because he is the
selected president, then you're just a presidential fan,
not an American Patriot!
Chill down my martini glass honey, I'm coming home* Monday, September 8, 2003
Hey, I'm back!
I had a wonderful week with nothing to do but
enjoy life in a sort of fantasy world. I kept up with the
news but I guess I was trying to pretend, for just a bit, that it
wasn't my sweet country that was responsible for making all the
bad news.
I thought I could keep up the fantasy until
bedtime last night but I was wrong. There was bush's damned
face looking at me from my tv as he lied some more. He said
he wants you and me to be a financial slave to Iraq's
freedom. He said the UN should be involved. He said
stuff and I fumed. I hate that look he has on his face when
he's telling us bullshit. It's that look that my dad used to
get when he was laying down the law to me. It's that,
"it's my way and don't you damned question a word of
it", look. It's that look that's supposed to make you
feel subservient. It's the look of a man who has the
authority but not the intellect to back up what he says.
It's the look of a bully!
Bush is trying to handle the UN the same way
as he is handling the 70% of Americans who still believe that
Saddam was somehow responsible for the attacks of 9-11. He
thinks if he says it, it makes it so. Well, the people of
the UN aren't zombies. Unlike the 70% of Americans who just
follow, arms stretched out in front of them, eyes blinded, brains
dead, the folks at the UN have mental intelligence and they
aren't afraid to use it. They see what the hell is going on
here and most of them want no part of it. They know bullshit
when they hear it. Bush may be the selected president of the
US but he's not god to the folks at the UN. Bush says
it's the responsibility of the members of the UN to help him clean
up the blood and guts that he's spilled in Iraq. He says
they owe him. He ignores the fact that those same folks told
him this war was a damned bad idea and refused to hop on his
killing bandwagon. He ignores the fact that the weapons
inspectors were just inspecting away and finding nothing. He
ignores the fact that he and Powell lied to UN before the
war. Now he is sending Powell back to the UN with a new
message. Well why the hell would he expect them to
believe him this time?
Bush simply ignores anything
that doesn't fit his cause. According to bush,
the bush cause should trump reality every
time. The facts should be ignored when they don't fit
the cause.
If you agree with him on that, then you may
now officially consider yourself a certifiable zombie. Walk
on zombies, just follow the trail of the bullshit!
Chill down my martini glass honey, I'm coming home*
Saturday, August 30, 2003
Friday morning, just after the news
broke about the mosque bombing in Iraq, the Fox Holes on Fox news were
showing the tape of the destruction and the crowds of angry men shaking
their fists to the heavens. One of the Fox Holes said, "They
see a camera and they just play to the camera". As usual
the Holes didn't have a damn clue what the hell they were talking
about. These Iraqi men had just lost their most
sacred leader along with at least 74 more people. They had just
witnessed people being literally blown apart. How the hell
would you expect them to feel? What else would you expect them to
feel but pain and anger? I doubt they were concentrating on the
screwin' tv cameras. They were probably wondering what the hell
was going on in their lives and in their world since the US arrived
.
Later in the morning I clicked over to
C-span to see who the guest of the morning might be. Zowie, I got
lucky. The guest was a semi moron from the EPA.
Obviously not their wisest representative. because he answered about 80%
of the call-in questions with, " I'm not familiar with
that". These weren't rocket science questions either.
One person, for example, asked about the Whitehouse dictating
the EPA report regarding the air pollutants at the twin towers
after 9-11. To which the guest answered, " I'm not
familiar with that". Excuse me, he was not familiar
with that?..........Well he sure as hell should be!
~~~
Remember, Bush and Blair were
nominated for the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize. It would have been such
a big mistake if they had won. How embarrassing would that have
been? I doubt they'll be on the short list this year. Maybe
they can come up with a new prize, The Not so Nobel War Prize.
They'd be a shoo-in for that one, don't cha think?
~~~
Sooooo Arnold did a little partying back in
his younger days did he? Arnold says he wasn't living his life,
back in the good old days, to become Governor of California. Well
Arnold, when did you start living your life to become Governor of
California? Was it about one day after you knew that the recall
was going on the ballot? You had your wild child days and now they
have come baaaaack to haunt you.
~~~
Seems this has been a trying week for
religion.
First we had the Judge in Alabama who was
trying to make a religious statement. He had, what to me appeared
to be an unhealthy if not abnormal, relationship with an en-graven-ed
image on a giant chunk of granite. I don't
know if the Judge thinks he discovered the original 10 commandments or
what? He was behaving as though his might be the only copy.
The Judge is a funky fellow.
Then we had the religious group in
Milwaukee. These folks, with what to me seemed a
somewhat unique approach to healing, wrapped up a sick
little boy in cloth and a church elder sat on the little
boy's chest until the child "inexplicably stopped
breathing". Another way to describe this might be, the
child died because a grown man was sitting on his chest and
the kid probably couldn't breathe.
I wonder if this, apply large man to
chest of small boy, remedy has been successful in the past?
This may call for a new medical alert
bracelet, "In case of illness do not allow large person
to sit on chest of small person as this excessive weight may
prevent some pretty damned vital organs from functioning
properly"
Neither of the aforementioned events
is much of an endorsement for religion is it?
Emergency! emergency! Deity damage
control needed PDQ! In the meantime a little common sense and
rational should be applied liberally.
~~~
You had to wince yesterday when Bremmer
released his statement regarding the mosque bombing. He
placed such emphasis on the fact that innocent Iraqi
civilians had been killed. I still find it strange
that when US bombs killed innocent Iraqis, that was liberation but when
the bombs belong to any other group it's murder. I guess it all
depends on who the bomber or bomb dropper is.... huh? I
wonder if it makes any difference to the victims?
~~~
I won't be ranting and raving for the
next few days because my husband is taking his WMD ( Woman of Mass
Dissatisfaction) on a little get-away. I will be lazing on the
beach, doing a little shopping, dining and cocktailing. It's not
because I want to do this you understand, but because as a good
American, I feel it is my duty to contribute to this failing economy....lol
Yeah right!
So until I return, please take care of
yourselves, be sweet, smile often and I will see you on or about
September 8.
Chill down my martini glass honey, I'm coming home*
Friday, August 29, 2003
"The Little White Rooster" http://www.opednews.com/Patricia_little_white_rooster.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Just a quick note to John
Ashcroft.
Dear John,
I have examined the Constitution of
the United States. and no where can I find the amendment
that states that during tough times all freedoms may be
revoked to suit the extreme beliefs of the presiding
Attorney General. Now I do not claim to be a scholar
of the Constitution but I'm not an idiot either.
Please let me know where it says that all rights are
guaranteed as long as things are going swimmingly in the
US but they are totally at the discretion of the Federal
government when the leaders of the country become
paranoid as hell and decide they may use any excuse to
curtail all freedoms and rights previously granted.
Thanks for your attention to this
matter John,
A United States Citizen
~~~
It is surely understandable that the
US administration wouldn't want to give up any of it's
control over the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq,
heck their plan has worked so well so far, it would be a
shame to mess it up!
~~~
Wouldn't it cut out a lot of hassle
if we, next April, just made our income tax checks
directly payable to Halliburton?
~~~
Are electrical blackouts
coincidental or a contagion among the coalition?
~~~
Smoke may get in the eyes of the
folks in Oregon, but they still seem to see things
clearly:
"Can it be pure coincidence,
locals are asking, that two wildfires sprang up in view of
the spot where President Bush planned to promote his plan
to thin forests for wildfire prevention? And
that they both appeared just as his plans emerged? "
Chill down my martini glass honey, I'm coming home* Thursday, August 27. 2003
Maybe this is the deal, maybe bush just
hates us. What other possible reason could he
have for treating us so bad? Maybe he's mad
because we didn't re-elect his dad or
something. Maybe he hates President
Clinton so much that he's going to just destroy our
country. I mean it has to be something like
that. He's just done so many terrible things to us
that he must just hate us. If anyone else had done the
horrible things to this country that he's done, the whole
country would be fuming.
He made no effort to prevent the events
of 9-11 even though his administration had hints that
something very similar to what happened, was going to
happen. He just seems to do everything that would ruin
us. He has wrecked everything here, the economy, our
educational system, , our jobs, our wilderness and as
of yesterday, he has made a mucky mess of the air we
breathe. He has put us in debt way up to and much
higher than our grandchildren's eyeballs and he's sent
our military into a war based on nothing but lies.
Oh, he's made promises for funding, but
name one good thing he has actually followed up on.
Just try to name one positive thing he
has done for our country since he took the oath of
office. Name just one! Take as long as you
like. I'll wait. I'm a patient person.
Chill down my martini glass honey, I'm coming home*
Wednesday, August 27,
2003
Where the hell does bush get off? He said in his
speech today that we will fight terrorists before they
come to fight here in the US. Well, I wonder what
the Iraqi people would have to say about that, He
made the damn "bring em' on" comment and invited
all the screwin' terrorist to fight our troops in the
Iraqi people's front yard. Okay, maybe a few hundred
or thousand innocent Iraqis will die and maybe a few more
hundred of our troops will die............but hell, we
kept our front yard nice and tidy.
Is he basically saying we went to Iraq so that we could
invite all the terrorists to come there too for a friggin
fight? Nice compassion bush! Real damn nice
plan coming from a real damn nice Christian.
I also noticed as bush spoke, he is sounding more like a
preacher than a president. I don't mean the words
that he uses, but more the body language and the tenor of
his voice. He gets louder as he gets to his points
he wants to make. I was just waiting for him to bang
his fist or a bible on the podium. The
faces he makes as he speaks are not only strange,
they're disturbing. Sometimes he smirks and
sometimes he curls his upper lip and sometimes he
just sort of does funky things with his mouth. The
rhythm of his speech was very much like an old fashion
preacher with the "amen" being replaced by
applause.
I tell you, that guy is just getting creepier and creepier
and the more he gets boxed in by this nightmare war, the
more ridiculous he looks and sounds as he stands
before the hand picked audience and keeps saying the same
things over and over. It's unsettling to see the
President of the United States stand before an audience
and smile as he speaks of death..........very unsettling
indeed.
Chill down my martini glass honey, I'm coming home*
Tuesday, August 26, 2003
Hey Hey Hey, who's running the show?
Powell is at the UN asking for
countries to donate troops to the war that we started but
can't seem to figure out how to end.
Rumsfeld and crew are saying we don't
need more troops.
Bush and Co. are saying bring on all
the terrorists in the world and we'll fight them in Iraq.
Powell is asking for countries to send
their own troops so our guys can come home, and this just
after our invitation to all terrorists to attend a
free-for-all in Iraq.
Bush is on the golf course or in the
gym or taking a nap or at the money/barbeque trough or at
the local diner swilling with some good old boys.
Meanwhile, seems the rest of the gang must have let their
cell phone batteries run down because there doesn't seem to
be any communication.
So again, who's running the damn show?
~~~
I would say, judging
from the results, that the "roadmap to peace" in
the middle east must have been drawn up by the same
cartographer who drew up the roadmap to peace in Iraq.
That guy better be looking for a new job cause he isn't
very good at what he does now.
~~~
Does anyone really
truly think that bush would have preformed that touch
of drama onboard the USS Abraham Lincoln if there
were really and truly still some wmd to be found
in Iraq? I mean, come on, if the US had good
intelligence on wmd in Iraq, it wouldn't have made sense
for bush to declare major operations over before they had
found the hot stuff!
~~~
If you've screwed
something up and you need to cast blame somewhere
else, just do what bush does. Blame it on
President Clinton, or you can blame it on the
"terrorists" or you can blame it on
"9-11".
If you've really
really screwed something up, blame it on all three.
~~~
The militant group
Ansar al-Islam denies attacking the UN offices last
week in Iraq. When was the last time a group
like that, made a successful attack and didn't want to
take credit for it? So if not Ansar al-Islam, then
who?
~~~
Under the
heading of "Please tell me I did not hear
that", comes the following:
If things don't get
better, the US might consider sending troops into
the Israeli/Palestinian battle.
The military may be
covertly recruiting ex-Saddam intelligence agents to
help them identify the enemy.
There are full
frontal nudity pictures of Arnold on the internet.
One half of our
(Florida's) National Guard is in Iraq, thanks to Jeb
Bush's generosity to his brother's pre-emptive
war and we are about two weeks away from the height
of hurricane season down here in the land of mostly
sunshine. Hopefully the hurricane gods will
spare our state this year because if we should have
another horrible storm like Andrew, back in
1992, we'll be in the big state of trouble!
Chill down my martini glass honey, I'm coming home*
Monday, August 25, 2003
I hope you held on to that money you
received from bush's tax cut, because today your local gas
station would like to have it back.
~~~
Bush says that the terrorists hate
freedom and peace. Would someone please tell me what
the hell that means. Do the terrorists, at their
weekly terrorist meeting, just sit around and talk
about who is free and who is at peace and how they hate the
concept or what? Do they chat and say, "Let's
see, the US is free, god I hate that." It just
doesn't make sense to me.
~~~
The Fox Holes said this morning on Fox
News said that just because bush is at his ranch for a whole
month, that doesn't mean that he's not working. Give
me a break, we all saw him at the golf course last week,
we've all seen him at the local diner in his cowboy suit
with the macho belt buckle and we've all seen him at
the money grabbing barbeques. Didn't look much like
work to me.
~~~
The next time one of your
conservative, war supporting, republican friends starts
telling you how wonderful this damn war in Iraq has been,
please tell them to go down and enlist and volunteer to go
to Iraq because our troops could sure as hell use some help
over there.
~~~
I'm betting that if bush is elected in
2004, there will be a call to reinstate the
draft. You sure won't hear a word about it now, but
once he is safely in office again it will happen. You
have to know that they would love to do it right now but it
would obviously be political suicide.
~~~
If we are spending a billion dollars
a week on the war, why can't we give our troops
enough food and water? Seems to me that we could
afford it on a budget like that. In fact, I want
to see a detailed list of just what the hell we are
spending and where it's going and to whom. It's our
money that's being spent so why don't we demand to see where
it's going?
Chill down my martini glass honey, I'm coming home*
Friday, August 23, 2003
"50
Ways to Blow your Cover" http://www.opednews.com/patricia_50_ways_to_blow_your_cover.htm **************** Things
that are difficult to deal with and maybe harder to
understand. During
an intro to the news story about thousands of deaths in France
as a result of the heat wave, Fox News used the
sentence: "Thousands of French Fry". George
bush gives $2000 dollar a plate fund raising barbeques, but he
won't go back to the UN and eat a little crow in order to get
troop help from other nations. When
the US dropped tons of bombs on Iraq, if a few thousand
civilians were killed, it was for the purpose of regime change
so it was okay, but when planes flew into
buildings here in the US and thousands of civilians were
killed, that was a terrorist attack. When
Saddam killed thousands of his people he was a tyrant but when
we killed thousands of his people we were liberators. When
the Iraqi people are without electricity that is just part of
reconstruction but when the US is without electricity that is
a disaster. Everyone
with knowledge knows that the troops need some help in Iraq,
but Rumsfeld says things are just fine. After the
last two events, the blackout in the northeast and the bombing
of the UN offices in Iraq, bush spoke to the nation via video
tape. Why? Why
do some people spend so very much time thumping the bible
and so little time extending a helping hand to one another? Why
it's so important for Judge Moore to keep
the "10 commandments" in the giant
granite slab, when he could just keep them in his bible
and in his heart. Usually if you sincerely live by the
dictates of your religion, you don't need to have a giant copy
of them at hand to remind you of what they say. **** Bush
stands in front of a forest and he thinks that makes him an
environmentalist, so
if I stand in front of a firehouse, does that make me a
fireman? I
don't think so.
Chill
down my martini glass honey, I'm coming home*
Thursday, August 20, 2003
Regarding Judge Moore in Alabama and his
10 commandments:
"Moore first drew national
attention after posting a wooden, hand-carved plaque of the
Ten Commandments in his courtroom while a state court judge in
Gadsden, Ala."
and
"Judge Roy Moore is a man of his word. He promised that if elected chief justice to the Alabama Supreme Court, he would take the Ten Commandments with him to Montgomery. Last month, he kept that promise big time. A one ton, granite replica of the traditional "stone tablets" now sits prominently in the rotunda of the Alabama Supreme Court building." http://www.interfaithalliance.org/Issues/Issues.cfm?ID=4639&c=43
The second commandment states:
"Thou shalt not
make unto thee any graven image....
The American Heritage Dictionary defines
"graven" as follows:
So what's up with this Judge Moore?
In his determination to forever unite church and state,
is he breaking the second commandment? Can I get an
Amen?
Chill down my martini glass honey, I'm coming home*
Wednesday, August 20, 2003
"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government."
Chill down my martini glass honey, I'm coming home*
Tuesday, August 19, 2003
Does the word environmentalist equal
eco-terrorist?
No, of course it doesn't but watch and
wait and see, the two words will become one if the bush
administration has it's way. And it always seems to
doesn't it?
Soon you will hear that the
environmentalists are a terrorist threat to the new
energy policy. You'll hear that they are the cause of
the blackout because they wanted to preserve the Artic for
wildlife and wild lands. You'll hear that they are
standing in the way of all future energy progress.
This will probably be the time when bush
declares all environmentalists as evil-doers and enemies of
freedom or some such. Will we
environmentalist have to wear a green leaf on our shirt
just as Hester Prynne had to wear her scarlet
"A"?
******
Get up in the morning. Get the coffee going.
Find the color wheel of terrorists threats. Find
the road map to peace. Find the deck of most wanted
cards. Find the g. bush action figure. Put on
blinders.
Begin the your day
the Republican conservative way!
******
Did george bush have an up to date pilot's license when he
took the stick of the jet as he flew to be aboard the USS
Abraham Lincoln that merry day in May? And
if bush did indeed truly fly the jet, as the pilot
said, but bush didn't have a pilot's license, wouldn't
he have been doing something illegal? I'm just
curious, that's all. Seems a bit odd to me to let
unlicensed guys fly our jets..........that usually only
happens during hijacking and stuff like that doesn't
it?
******
Do you realize that, according to what we were hearing from
bush in December of last year, if Saddam had had
lots of wmd and if he had spread them all out for bush to
see and to take away , there would have been no
war and the Iraqis would still be living under the rule
of Saddam? Think about it, note the quote below and
the reference to the "path to peace".
Where was the part about helping the Iraqi people have
democracy and freedom and all the rest? Sure, I
know bush was going to have his war no matter
what Saddam did or said but it just strikes me as very
telling, that bush now says the war was all about the
good of the Iraqi people. That's not what he said last
December.
(2002-12-03) WASHINGTON/BAGHDAD (Reuters) - As a U.N. deadline approaches for Iraq to come clean on whether it has weapons of mass destruction, President Bush warned Saddam Hussein against trying to deceive U.N. arms inspectors and said he was not encouraged by Baghdad's attitude. "Any act of delay, deception or defiance will prove that (Iraqi President) Saddam Hussein has not adopted the path of compliance and has rejected the path of peace," Bush told military leaders on Monday at the Pentagon." http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wbur/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=425624 Chill down my martini glass honey, I'm coming home*
Monday, August 18, 2003
Listen. Listen closely
and you can still hear the soft echo of those
voices. They're the voices of the people who opposed the
invasion of Iraq. They're the voices of
the people who were ridiculed and declared un-American because
they yelled and they pleaded,"No War".
They're the voices of the people who were told that
if they did not support the war, then they did
not support the troops.
As of May 1, when the war was
supposed to be over, we began to hear those same voices
again but this time their message is different.
Now the voices are angry and
they're shouting because our troops are still being killed in
Iraq. They're angry because our troops are not receiving
sufficient food and water. They're angry
because our troops aren't getting enough help from other
countries. They're angry because no one is listening and
no one is caring about our troops.
The voices today are screaming and
pleading, "Bring them home!".
Listen. Listen closely, have
you heard the voices of the pro-war people lately?
Where are the pro-war people now?
Where are the people who told us that we didn't support
our troops? Where are the people who professed
themselves to be the only Americans who cared about our
troops? Why aren't they concerned about
what's going on in that god forsaken country and why aren't
they mad?
Where the hell are they and why aren't
they supporting our troops now?
Listen. Why don't we hear them too?
Chill down my martini glass honey, I'm coming home* Sunday, August 17, 2003
This administration
is a sham and what it's doing is a shame!
Watch out!! Duck!! You don't want to get smacked in
the face by the giant fingers of blame that are being
pointed in every direction since minute one of the great
blackout in the northeast. I'm betting President
Clinton is looking over to the right and also pointing
a finger at the bush administration but I bet it isn't his index
finger. He's probably just smiling and saying, "See,
you bunch of jerks, you wouldn't listen to a single thing we
warned you nazi-isk bozos about and as a result things
are not going so well are they you Halliburton loving
cowboys?"
Wait and see, bush and company are going to
shamelessly use this blackout to shove, what precious few
environmental regulations are left, into the closet so
that they can build a zillion shiny new power plants and
drill the earth until it looks like Swiss cheese, all
in the name of homeland security, evil doers. freedom
lovers and peace and all the other bs he says when he wants
to scare us into doing something his way.
The prince of darkness and secrecy is gonna light up the
world for freedom lovers everywhere! It's gonna be so damn
bright that hopefully you won't notice that the atmosphere is
poison, the water is poison and wild woodlands are no longer
wooded and no longer wild. Bush will tame the
darkness and unleash a murderous pile of garbage right
into your life and into your world.
If your kids somehow miss seeing the scenic wilderness, if they
can't swim in the gravy of polluted water, if they have
perpetual trouble breathing in the air that's heavy with grime,
don't complain, just keep in mind that we may have to
sacrifice a bit here and there in order to fight the evil doers
and to cast a heavenly, holy nuclear glow all over
george bush's America.
Bush has never met a disaster that he couldn't use to his
advantage, as an excuse, to screw up just a little more of
our beautiful America and our precious lives. If bush had
been in charge when the Titanic sank, he would have
insisted upon melting all existing icebergs and then would
have given Halliburton the contract to build a giant air
conditioner for the entire Artic region.......all in the
name of homeland security, patriotism, freedom, peace
lovers and the fight against evil doers in general because
george bush just loves "A-meer-i-ka".
What a sham!
Chill down my martini glass honey, I'm coming home*
Saturday, August 16, 2003
How absolutely, purely, oh my godly,
coincidental that the bush administration decided to
announce the capture of a "major al Qaeda leader"
just as Bush is dandily decked out in one of his military
costumes and just happens to be in the state of the most
controversial Democratic governor recall. He just has
the damnedest luck doesn't he? He just goes to
California to raise a few million dollars for his "
first election" and lo and behold, out of nowhere,
purely dumb luck, this capture announcement is finally made
public. Let's don't talk about the fact that the
capture actually occurred earlier this week.
Let's not talk about any facts or details, let's just listen
and obey and believe and don't even damned think about
asking any questions. At all cost, you must not notice
words and phrases like could, might, may have,
etc.
Just when things weren't looking all
that good in Iraq, and the things weren't looking all that
pretty in California, and things weren't looking all that
pretty on the economic front or the unemployment
front, the administration says, " hey, don't look
at all that stuff, look at what we
captured!". So the media and the people,
with their short little spans of attention, turn,
look and follow their instructions.
This administration says, "don't
cry over spilled milk, don't even bother to clean it up,
just step over it, forget about it and look over
here"!
Doesn't anyone ask questions anymore?
"One who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; one who does not ask a question remains a fool forever." -Chinese Proverb-
Chill down my martini glass honey, I'm coming home*
Friday, August 15, 2003
You go Dan Rather!
Last night on the CBS News, Dan Rather was
conversing with a correspondent about the
blackout. Rather asked the correspondent if there was
any word from the Whitehouse regarding the blackout and he
was told that as yet there was no word from the president but that
Andrew Card was the designated spokesperson. Rather replied
that Card wasn't even an elected official. Dan asked
if the president was going to interrupt his fund raising events in
California to address the fact that millions of people were
in the dark in the northeast. The correspondent said that at
that time there were no plans for such an address. Then
Rather asked, "Where is the Vice President?". The
correspondent answered that Cheney was on vacation in
Wyoming. Rather made it very clear that he thought that, in
a situation like the huge blackout, it would be unacceptable
for the country to have to depend on a
non-elected, designated hitter to step up as the
point man for Whitehouse.
Hey Dan, someone was listening
because, within about an hour or so after the news
broadcast, there was an announcement that bush would address
the nation via video tape regarding the blackout.
I guess bush's handlers couldn't trust
bush to just step in front of a live camera and speak honestly,
intelligently and from the heart, they had to prepare his
speech and then video tape it so they could edit out all the goof
ball comments that he would undoubtedly make.
Too damn bad that it took a pissed off
newsman to get bush to stop grabbing fistfuls of corporate
campaign money and pay the hell attention to what was happening in
the country.
Last night, during a very confusing time,
with a major blackout in New York and surrounding states, we
were dealt just one losing Card, where were the other
51?
***
I thought it was interesting, yesterday
afternoon when Mayor Bloomberg was on TV telling the people of the
New York area to turn off their air conditioners to prevent
overloads when the power returned. Then he had a message for
the throngs of folks walking home in New York, he told them to
drink lots of water and to stop and rest when they became
tired. This was all interesting because, well duh, the
people he was addressing had no electric to power their TV's, they
couldn't hear or see him. So Mayor Bloomberg was
talking but New Yorkers were walking.
Chill down my martini glass honey, I'm coming home* Thursday, August 14, 2003So you thought the bush administration would do anything and everything to help our troops come home did you?Well, you're just as wrong as can be and if you have any doubts, just check out this article (link and intro below). It's more important to this administration to be the "big boss" of everything in Iraq than to receive troops and help from other United Nations countries. I don't think bush cares when the hell your father, mother, daughter, son, sister or brother comes home, he's more concerned about running the show than he is about ruining your life.
Please remember this greed and stubbornness
when you see him campaigning and bragging and strutting.
Just remember he's not all about you and your family, he's all
about big business and oil companies. If he really gave a
tinker's damn about our troops, don't you think he would do
anything reasonable to get relief for them as they live day to day
in the hellish weather and conditions of Iraq. Don't you
think if he was really concerned for our troops he would let go of
the oily purse strings and do the right thing so that they might
come home?
Pride and control is more important to this
administration than your loved ones in Iraq!
Compassionate? You tell me!
U.S. Abandons Idea of Bigger U.N. Role in Iraq Occupation
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/14/international/worldspecial/14DIPL.html?th
Chill down my martini glass honey, I'm coming home*
Wednesday, August 13,2003
re: Karl Rove says Florida will be 'ground zero' in 2004
election
As a Floridian, all I can say is
YIKES!
Rove should have said, Florida will we
"ground zero" once more shouldn't he?
Well stay tuned ladies and gentlemen
and hang onto your chads because here we go again!
***
Everyone should check out and hopefully
support the site: http://www.bringthemhomenow.com/
Chill down my martini glass honey, I'm coming home* Tuesday, August 12, 2003
It Depends on What the
Meaning of Peace Is
Many of us differ with
the idiologies of the bush administration. Perhaps one of our
most fundamental differences is what the meaning of
"peace" is.
To the bush
administration it appears that the meaning of peace is when and
where everyone agrees with their point of view.
To their way of thinking, this doesn't come about through
cooperation, concession or compromise. To this
administration "peace" is the result of heavy fisted
domination and peace can only come about as a result of
war or intimidation. Is true peace simply a result of being
victorious in war? To this administration it appears that the
only meaning of peace is victory by death.
Over and over we hear
bush speak of "peace lovers" and "people
who hate peace", but he never acknowledges that
true peace must be the result of two factions coming together,
talking out their differences and compromising some
of their ideals for the betterment of all involved. Bush has
declared a war on terror and with this declaration of war he
has completely denied any other means to accomplish his goals.
Is a war on terror a war with anyone who does not agree with
his goals or a war with anyone he does not agree with? It
would appear to me that a war on terror will be a never ending war,
a war with no specified theater of battle and no measure for
conclusion. He has simply stated that the only way to achieve
his definition of peace is to kill the opposition. No
middle road, just his "peace" at any cost. But
what is peace for george bush? Doesn't he realize that war
will always leave a residue of resentment and that resentment is a
permanent enemy of any complete peace?
Peace on earth doesn't
mean that one side has won, it means that both sides have realized
and understood each others values and weaknesses and they have
come to the conclusion that together they have much to
gain. They have relinquished some of their desires
in order to preserve tranquility and to endure and prosper.
I think to most sane
Americans, peace is worth the concession of a victory
in order to survive in an environment that offers mutual hope
for the future. Some competition is acceptable as long as the
victor and the conquered are able to equally coexist and mutually
benefit after the game.
War is not a game, war
is a means to an end where no one actually wins, the only victor is
death. To resort to killing to achieve one's
peace seems to be the most primitive of actions.
Kill or be killed requires nothing more than taking or losing a
life. The greater challenge is to find some common ground of
mutual existence. Finding and defining the differences and
working toward a compromise that will allow each side to benefit
from the other is the greatest victory and the greatest
reward.
Peace is the result of
all factions being intelligent enough to realize that it is more
valuable to share thoughts and ideas and work through differences
than to destroy one another. Peace is knowing that there is
deep and sincere understanding between all involved. Peace is
realizing that everyone is working to benefit one another in some
devoted way and knowing that all will share in the rewards of
tranquility.
When war is considered
the only tool to achieve peace,, the only peace will be for
those who die.
Peace is being able to
strike a balance of desires, it is a goal of the heart and the
dedicated mind, perhaps difficult but always rewarding.
War is a primitive
resolve of simplistic minds with success being measured
by the number of human deaths tipping the scale
toward victory . Declaring war is a declaration of
brutality and a challenge to the death.
Achieving peace is the
realization of individual worth, a dedication of cooperation
and a promise to one another for the present and the future.
True peace is
the realization and sincere resolution that war
is not the first answer to all problems!
Peace may not be
dictated, it must be the result of desire, patient diligence
and heartfelt dedication.
War maybe a
temporary panacea for anger but peace is the permanent goal and
solution for the betterment of all mankind.
patricia
Monday, August 11, 2003
The major 24 hour tv news
channels didn't have enough time to cover Al Gore's speech last week
but they had plenty of time for Arnold to say nothing
today. Arnold is not a statesman, he's not much of
anything except a third rate actor who makes all appearances of liking
little kids.
Bush's idea of preventing
forest fires is to chop down all the trees. Would he also
suggest that the best way to prevent house fires is to level all the
houses?
According to past
history, the only way we can boot bush out of office is for him to
have oral sex and lie about it. Basing a pre-emptive war on lies
and lots of people being killed just doesn't cut it I
guess.
To locate all the bad
guys, the administration feels it necessary to check out our
private lives. Well who is checking out the bad guys
lives? Do terrorists really truly get library cards and if they
do, do they use their true names and addresses?
If someone can find one
damn thing that makes sense in this world please let me know because I
just can't.
Chill down my martini glass honey, I'm coming home*
Friday, August 8, 2003
"Our safety, our liberty, depends upon
preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made
it inviolate.
The people of the United States are the rightful
masters of both Congress and the courts,
not to overthrow the Constitution, but to
overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution."
Abraham Lincoln
Chill down my martini glass honey, I'm coming home* I wish I didn't feel this way but I can't help it. It's one of those gut feelings that one gets when things just do not seem to be right. Seems to me that there is something about Howard Dean that I question. He seems to have to apologize a bit too frequently and he also makes "misstatements"that weaken his credibility. I'm not relying on the media for this information, I have noticed it myself.
I like Dean's, in your face, delivery but I
fear that he is tending to say more of what we want to hear than what he
is really capable of and prepared to do. I believe his
intentions are good but I suppose I doubt his ability. At a time
like this, I don't want the Democratic candidate for President of the
United States to be caught up in repeatedly correcting himself
because he has misspoken or given flawed
information. That sort of business will not fly when
you're up against Carl Rove and that gang. I also see Dean as
being a grand and easy target for the right wingers. We know they
are going to leap on this apology business. They're going to say,
Type the words, Howard Dean Apology on your Google search
page and see how many entries you find. (as of today, there are
about 13,500) of course many of those are references to the same event,
but the GOP isn't going to mention that. Especially damaging
for Dean was the Meet the Press interview, (June 22, 2003) which
was dismal for Dean because he appeared somewhat uninformed and
skittish on details. You can just hear the right wingers, "If
we are attacked again, are you going to rely on a President who has
fought terrorism or are you want to call a doctor who doesn't even
know how many troops we have on active duty?
"Russert: Let’s talk about the military budget. How
many men and women would you have on active duty?
Dean: I can’t answer that question. And I don’t know what the answer is. I can tell you one thing, though......"
Hopefully Dean will be able to calm down
and be more careful if he is indeed the Democratic nominee.
Please don't get me wrong, I will vote for
the democrat who wins the nomination, no matter who he or she may
be. Humm, I don't usually say that, I'm usually open-minded enough
to say I will vote for the candidate I feel is most capable. This
administration has done a great job as far as souring me on the
Republican party. Maybe it's their turn to do a little
apologizing.
Chill down my martini glass honey, I'm coming home* |
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Wednesday, August 6, 2003
George bush has inappropriately
touched my life without my consent.
First he tore away my faith in democracy.
Next he forced me to lay aside my hopes for
peace. Then he slipped his economic
plan into my purse and ripped away my
financial future. And then he began to
thrust his war into my daily life, all the
while he kept telling me that if I complained
he would slap me with the title of
traitor. Even as all this was
occurring, he kept telling me that he wasn't
hurting me.
After he had his way with my life, he just
walked away with no apparent
remorse.
He has left my life torn and scarred and bleeding
with anger, pain and frustration.
My life has been the victim of bush's desire
for dominance and control.
I demand that bush be held accountable for his
actions. I demand justice!
Chill down my martini glass honey, I'm coming
home*
Tuesday, August 5, 2003
I want my
friend to come home from Iraq and I want it to
happen today!
Yes I know
you'll talk about how unstable it would be
in Iraq if all the troops came home today.
I know you'll
say that would be bad for the Middle East and
so on and so on.
I know you'll
say that we have started a war and we have to
finish it.......and so on and so on.
I know you'll
say Saddam is evil and he must be disposed of, only
you usually say "he must be killed".
I know you'll
say that we have to find all these damned wmd so the
world will be a safer place.
I know you'll
say that in some kind of warped way Iraq was
involved in 9-11.
I know you'll
say that stuff and all the other stuff you always
say.
Here's the
deal, right now I don't give a damn about any of
that stuff.
I'm tired of
the intimidation. I'm tired of the
frustration. I'm tired of the arguments.
I'm tired of being patient. I'm tired of
being rational. I'm tired of worrying.
I'm tired of trying to figure all of this out.
I'm tired of dreading. I'm tired of
crying. I'm tired of trying to reason.
I'm tired of trying to make sense of this war.
I'm tired of this whole stinking mess. I'm
tired of the lies. I'm tired of this
administration. I'm tired of hearing
about war, I'm real damn tired of that.
I want to hear
about peace and diplomacy and honesty and
respect.
I just want my
friend to come home from Iraq and I want it to
happen today!
Chill down my martini glass honey, I'm coming home* Monday, August 4, 2003
Just when you
thought it couldn't get any worse, we
learn today that Colin Powell will step down
after the next election and either Wolfowitz or Rice
will step up. It's like the Freddy Kruger
movies, it gets scarier and scarier. Obviously,
the idea of 4 more years with bush "acting"
as president would be a sequel to this nightmare on
Pennsylvania Avenue, and it is tortuous to
think of, or even try to imagine, Wolfie or Condi
as Secretary of State. That would
definitely earn an "R rating" due to
graphic scary stuff.
Powell says that
he promised his wife that he would resign after this
term. Too bad bush didn't promise Laura the same
thing.
If we don't work
just as hard as we can to wake up Americans and to get
a Democrat into the Whitehouse, we will have to dread
the next installment in this series of real
nightmares.
Chill down my martini glass honey, I'm coming home*
Friday, August 1, 2003
"Unless
someone like you cares a whole awful lot
Chill down my martini glass honey, I'm coming home* Thursday, July 31, 2003
Bush spoke to us yesterday about sinners and
specks and logs in eyes. Probably you and I
were thinking the same thing, "What?".
Then he goes on to casually mention he was conferring
with his lawyers regarding gay marriages. Now it
dawns on us what he's truly saying, he's saying that he
wants to change the Constitution and make it forever,
totally, permanently ILLEGAL for two
gay people to marry. Can he do that?
Are we going to let him do that? What are the odds
we can change his mind? Probably somewhere between
zip and zero.
Marriage may be holy and sacred to some, but it is
legally nothing more than a binding
contract. If you don't believe that,
just try getting a divorce using only a
bible. So bush wants to make it illegal for
gay adults to get married/enter into a legal binding
contract, because it apparently says something
about that in the bible. Well, it says lots
of things in the bible. It also says stuff about
not killing (bush unnecessarily sends men and women to
war) and not lying (bush's famous 16
words) and not cheating (bush goes AWOL). I'm
also pretty sure that somewhere in the bible it says,
"blessed are the peacemakers".
Seems to me that bush should spend a bit more of
his time practicing what he preaches and a little
less time dictating which American adults may enter
into the legally binding contract of marriage,
a contract that is based solely upon their love and
devotion to one another. I believe
the sanctity of marriage relates to the
sincere pledge that two people make to one
another. It's that promise of love and
respect and the willingness to share their lives, their
successes and their failures with one
another. If two adults, regardless of their sex,
are willing to legally make that pledge and
commitment to one another, who the hell has the
righteous audacity to deny them? Certainly
not george bush!
Bush may have been appointed President, but even the
Supreme Court can't make him God. His job is
to run this country, not to interpret the bible.
And based upon his job performance so far, I kinda doubt
that God would want him messing with the bible.
There's an old adage that says " love is
blind". Perhaps george bush has a log in
both his eyes and just cannot see that.
Chill down my martini glass honey, I'm coming home*
Wednesday, July 30, 2003
This morning I feel
like someone has taken over the media and that
same someone is a master of sadistic wit.
First I hear on
tv that there just might be another plan to hijack
jets and crash them into things. Next I hear that
the US is reducing, or totally removing, the armed sky
marshals because it costs too much for them to stay at
hotels between flights. You're kidding right?
I also heard a
talking head on FOX news say that the attacks of 9-11
couldn't happen again because the planes would be shot
down before they could be crashed into anything.
Well, okay that would prevent the exact same
thing as 9-11, but what about the passengers on the
plane that is shot down and what about the people on the
ground where the "shot down" plane is going to
fall? Still sounds pretty damn tragic to me!
Then I read
that the market was down yesterday, consumer confidence is
still low, the war, in Iraq and everywhere else except
where it should be, is still going strong. Next
I read that bush is going to take the month of August
off and spend it at his dude ranch in Texas.
About one day in five he will be raising money for his
zillion dollar campaign. Yes, he's going to be out
of Washington, out of the spin and out on the
range. That cowpoke will be schmoozing wealthy
corporation bigwigs and rustling up some of
their big bucks.
What? Why does
he need a month off? Was he tired? Tired of
what?
Perhaps he's a bit
fatigued from the daily grind of totally
and completely screwing up our country.
While bush is having
a good rest in his cozy place, I hope to hell he thinks
about all the deployed US soldiers who are sweating
and miserable and trying 24 hours a day to avoid being
murdered.
I bet they
too would also like at least a month's vacation at
their homes right about now.
Chill down my martini glass honey, I'm coming home*
Tuesday, July 29, 2003
Today Saddam released an audio tape. He stated
that he is mourning the death of his sons and
grandson. Wouldn't that convince the Iraqi
people, more than the grizzly photos that we cheerily
put all over the tv last week, that his sons are indeed
dead? If there were any Iraqis who did not
believe the photos, they certainly will believe what Saddam
has said. Since there could be no better
proof to the Iraqi people than to hear the words from
Suddam's own mouth, one might wonder who's side is Saddam
on? Why would he put out this tape to confirm what the
US has been saying? In doing so, he makes the claims
of the US a reality and also makes their case for them that
the boys are no longer a threat. It seems to me that
it would have been more to his advantage to leave his people
wondering.
Perhaps I just don't understand this war at all.
Chill down my martini glass honey, I'm coming home*
Monday, July, 28, 2003
Bob Hope has died.
When I was a little girl I had a crush on Bob Hope. It
was a little girl's, "I wish he was my daddy",
crush. Bob Hope was funny and to my little girl eyes
he was handsome too.
So today, I'm not ranting and I'm not raving, I'm just
mourning.
Mr. Hope, you had a very long and successful
life and in my memories I'll always remember your
smile and how it made me smile too.
Thanks for the memories Mr. Hope.
I will miss you!
Chill down my martini glass honey, I'm coming home*
Sunday, July 27, 2003
Am I the only one who finds it ironic that one of the first
big time things we have done in Iraq, other than killing
thousands of innocent civilians and hundreds of American
military people, is to totally disrespect the Muslim customs
regarding handling the dead?
Apparently the Muslim religion dictates that a deceased
must be buried within two days and no cosmetic treatment is to
be performed on the corpse. As everyone knows by now, we
have completely disregarded those wishes as they
relate to the Hussein boys.
Wasn't the freedom to practice one's own religion one of
the reasons we split from England? Hey, I'm no American
history scholar but I'm pretty sure I remember something about
that.
So we go to Iraq to give the Iraqi people freedom and a
democratic government and then we tell them: "We
aren't going to honor your religious wishes, we may not even
acknowledge your religion. We have our own plans
and your wishes are not a factor. We will take your
dead and put them in a tent with a fan blowing on them and we
will totally change their appearances and put makeup on
them and we will just leave them there as long as we damn well
feel like it. And one more thing, we will cut out their
internal organs and test them to see if they show signs of
ever being around chemical or biological weapons of mass
destruction!"
Internal organs were removed weighed and are being
tested for any exposure in any way, at any time, to
chemical or biological agents. We are actually going
that far. I guess if one of the boy's liver tests
positive to having, at some time in the last 10 or 20 years,
been in someway exposed to deadly stuff, other than the very
recently received, over 20 gun shots, then I guess that trace
of chemicals will sure as hell justify this war. If
george bush and his administration were so sure that Iraq had
wmd and they knew where they were and what they were, why are
we stooping so low as to look into the guts of Saddam's
dead sons for clues?
Jesus, no wonder we're having trouble making them love
us!
Chill down my martini glass honey, I'm coming home* Sat, July 26
Okay, let's just get it all out there. Here's my soul
and my life, deal with it.
My daddy, for the folks from everywhere else, other than the
south, this is my father that I'm talking about,
was an alcoholic of the worst degree, but he was also a
mortician. A mortician is an embalmer, a person who
takes a dead human being and makes them into something that
the public feels is acceptable to be viewed and mourned after
death has stripped them of their choices and their dignity.
If you are a person "of the bible", my daddy
was a man who made the "vessel" worthy of
public admiration after death.
As a little kid, I used to sit on a wooden stool in the
"prep room" and have a "daddy/daughter time as
my daddy prepared dead human beings for public
appearances. My daddy might have been a lot of things,
and he was, but he was never ever a man to disrespect a dead
human body. In my short years of being a
little girl, I never ever saw a dead man or a dead woman that
was not worthy of my daddy's respect. Daddy understood
that a dead person, no matter their past, deserved his
respect.
Having told you all of this, I must tell you that my daddy was
an artist in reconstructive appearances of the
dead. He might not have been a daddy of admiration, but
if your loved one was one of his canvases, he did the best for
you that anyone could ever do.
I remember one night when I was in the first grade, a man
had been killed and his ear had been completely removed
by whatever means, I don't remember. My daddy was in
such stress,( I doubt they knew that word then, but it fits
now), that my mom could not even
rationally communicate with him. Daddy
was sitting in the living room with me and I, like a typical
little kid of the time, was playing with my clay. I
had, through my little kid mentality, mixed all the
colors of my clay together. Daddy took my wad of
clay from me and proceeded to form a perfect human ear.
I remember, being amazed at his artistry. The next
morning, my wad of clay was permanently attached to the head
of the deceased and to the amazement of the family of the
deceased, my daddy was a magician! My clay was buried
with that gentleman and it made him presentable, through my
daddy.
Now having given you this background of my life and my daddy,
I can, without a doubt, tell you that daddy would
have gone totally bat-shit to see what the American
morticians did to the bodies of the Hussein
brothers. I am positive that Daddy would have said,
"What the hell did they do? The corpses looked
as though their facial features had been molded with
plaster of Paris." Daddy would have not
worried about who he was as a father but he
sure as hell would have been offended as an embalmer.
Whomever the embalmers were of the Hussein brothers, they
should cringe in embarrassment because they did not prepare
these bodies with respect, they prepared them as
propaganda.
Chill down my martini glass honey, I'm coming home* -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thurs July 24 There was a tragic event yesterday inside the city hall in New York City. This event occurred about two o'clock in the afternoon. An armed assailant and his victim, who was also armed, but did not use his weapon, were both shot and killed. After the assailant shot his victim, he was immediately shot by a police officer who was assigned to city hall. As a result of the ensuing panic and confusion, no doubt the result of lingering fears and memories of September 11, 2001, two main bridges in the city were shut down, subways stops were bypassed and the city basically just had to be lock it's doors until everyone could be assured that things were under control again.
This entire series of events should have been prevented and it
could have been.
After 9-11 security was a major concern, not only in Washington
and New York City, but all over the country. It was
needed and it was required that we be just a bit more
careful. I agreed with some of the changes
that were made, such as the installation of metal
detectors. I don't know if it was before or after
September 11, 2001, that a metal detector was installed in
New York City's city hall. But, as of yesterday, we know
that passing through that detector was never mandatory for
everyone. The assailant didn't pass through it yesterday
and neither did his victim. They didn't have to.
Mayor Bloomberg, during his time in office, has backed a
law that prohibited smoking in public places and another that
prohibited alcohol consumption in some areas. He supported
these new laws in the name of "health and safety"
concerns. But it wasn't until around three or four
o'clock in the afternoon,
July 23, 2003, that Mayor Bloomberg decided to require
that absolutely everyone who enters city
hall must pass through the metal detector.
If only he had made that decision a few hours
earlier...............
Chill down my martini glass honey, I'm coming home* -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wed. July 23 Perhaps if I share these feelings with you, someone might be able to help me untangle my emotions. I
suppose one could say that I'm holding internal investigations into
why I have the feelings that I do. I'm conflicted about why I
can't feel like cheering when even the bad guys are killed.
Why, if everyone else is feeling euphoric over the deaths of
Saddam's sons, am I not feeling that as well? I sort of
feel embarrassed and guilty when I hear about so many in
our country celebrating the event. Why is it
that, when I hear people on tv say that when we
"kill" Saddam "we should put his head on a stick for
all the world to see", do I cringe and have to turn away
and try to avoid the whole notion of that idea? Why, even
though Saddam is an equally bad man, am I feeling sorry for him
as he hears of his son's deaths? Why am I saying to myself
that he must just hurt so much right now? He may be a
bad man but he is also a father. If these
men committed all the torture and murders as is claimed, and I
have to believe that they did, why don't I feel as though justice
was done with their deaths. Why isn't revenge a reward to
me? Am I so wrapped up in my distaste for this administration
that I have lost some "human instinct" for deadly
retribution? Do I have such distaste for killing that I can't
see it's necessity? Why
the hell am I not happy about these two deaths? I can't
figure it out! I
hear about the mass graves in Iraq and I wonder what kind of fate
each of those people suffered and I feel so sorry for them. I
heard about all the Iraqi civilians who were killed as we invaded,
and I feel sorry for them. I hear, much much too frequently,
about our soldiers being killed and I feel so sorry for them.
Try as I might I can't feel happy when someone, anyone is killed, no
matter the reason. Does this mean I have lost my focus on
things or does it just mean that I'm not on par with everyone else
when it comes to death? Why can't I equate death with
justice? ***
Yesterday we
learned that two of Saddam's sons were killed in Iraq and we
also learned that two United States sons were killed in
Iraq.
George bush, please
wipe that smirk off of your face. Please stop
repeating the phrase, "we're getting them one by
one". Because they could say the same thing.
This isn't a
game. This is war, and these aren't chess
pieces. They are human lives.
Just for the family
and friends of each and every military person involved in this
mess, would it be so difficult to take this damn matter
seriously? Please don't grin and please don't look
bored when you speak to us. This is serious and this is
sad. Please try to at
least give us the impression that you are
concerned and that you care.
And lastly George
Bush, please don't start your victory celebrations
until all of our funerals are over.
Chill down my martini glass honey, I'm coming home*
Tuesday, July 22, 2003
Okay, I'm absolutely
fed up with talking heads saying that the Democrats who are
running in the 2004 Presidential election have the,
"difficult task of convincing the American people that they
will be able to make the US safe from terrorists attacks".
Hey, how about
this? The attacks of 9-11 came during the watch of a Republican
president. The terrorists did not use WMD, they used United
States Airplanes. The terrorists were not Iraqi.
Ossama took credit for the attacks. We can't find him.
Saddam did not take credit for the attacks. Most countries
in the world said don't go to war with Iraq. We went.
We can't find Saddam. We said Saddam had wmd. We
can't find them. Someone mailed anthrax in the US and
people died. We don't know who did that. We
haven't found that person. Korea is just about to road test
a nuke. We won't discuss that with them. Iran
just may do some crafty nuke stuff. We're just going
to wait and see. We are losing about one solider in
Iraq per day. Bush and his administration say that's to
be expected. No it's not.
After each of the
preceding sentences there is a dot, connect them! Does that
create a safe and sound picture for you ?
Chill down my martini glass honey, I'm coming home*
Monday, July 21, 2003
According to what has
been revealed so far, the report on the investigation of 9-11
will make the FBI look a bit more than incompetent.
Before totally accepting this theory, please review this
interview with Greg Palast in June of 2001.
When did it become
the norm to refuse to take full responsibility for one's
own actions and decisions? Is that no longer a
requirement in our country? Seems this administration
has someone else to blame for everything that goes wrong. If
all these other people and other departments are as incompetent
as bush is trying to lead us to believe, doesn't that
bring into question bush's ability to make wise decisions in
his choice of advisors, dept. heads etc.?
The killing of soldiers
continues in Iraq. The frustration continues to grow in the
US. The lies continue to flow from Washington. Fox
news continues to warp the reality of the facts. Just another
difficult day and days like this have become so
sadly and tragically routine.
Chill down my martini glass honey, I'm coming home*
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Sunday, July 20, 2003
In reference to Rob
Kall's article, http://www.opednews.com/kall_its_in_the_air.htm.
"We're
going to have a new vice president first. Any guesses on who it will
be? Drop me a line with your guess and your reason you think he or she
will be the one."
I almost hurt my brain trying to guess who
could be the new vice president, so to prevent inflicting
further harm to my myself, I'm going to skip over
the vice president and suggest a couple of ideas for replacing
the President.
Since just about everything that
has occurred during bush's reign has been a surreal
abomination orchestrated by the neocons from hell, I would
suggest that the Republicans just take one of the automated
figures from Disney's Hall of Presidents, prop it up behind
the podium and operate it by remote control. They could dress it
up in different costumes for different occasions, like landing on
aircraft carriers etc. They could send it to Crawford
Texas every weekend. They could make lies come out of
it's mouth and shoot, I don't think many Americans would even
notice the change. Things would just go on as they have been for
the past couple of years.
My other suggestion falls under
the category of, "it just isn't going to
happen". Yes I know this is a novel idea, possibly even an
antiquated idea, but perhaps they could give the position of
President of The United States to the gentleman who won
the Presidential election in 2000. See I told you it
was a novel idea! If however, he should be
unavailable at this time, why not give it to his predecessor.
This guy might lie to us about his sexual activities if he
gets caught but name one man who wouldn't!!!!
Chill down my martini glass honey, I'm coming home*
Saturday, July 19, 2003
Poor Dr. David Kelly
Either his life was snuffed
out by someone, he took his own life, or he died of natural
causes. No matter what, the cause of death is
murder. His death was the result of murder by
pressure, murder by guilt, or murder by choice. Dr Kelly
should be listed as another victim of the US/UK Invasion of
Iraq.
So Rummy is considering
sending the National Guard over to Iraq to replace the troops.
Well I'll be damned if I understand how this is going
to work. You see, my friend has been over in that hell hole
since January and he is a member of the National
Guard. Our just, god almighty wonderful, governor down here in
sunny, yet shady on voting day Florida, decided that he would send
his/our National Guard to Iraq just as soon as his bro in
the Washington hood was ready to do a whole
lotta shocking and a whole lotta awing and a
tragic, amazing amount of killing. Jeez Jeb, that sure
wasn't a swell idea!
Just in case you missed it, yesterday we had a pretty good rumble
between the Dems and the Repubs in the House of
Representatives. Seems the Repubs of the Ways and Means
Committee tried a little hanky panky. The Dems got
jazzed. One Dem. Representative called a Repub. a
"fruitcake". Apparently this Dem. was unaware of the
recent, Bush-proposed law banning any sort of reference to
"cake", yellow or otherwise, within the confines of the
United States, with the exception of the Christmas
holidays when "fruitcake" may be consumed but not
discussed. So Representative Thomas of California, a just
damn wonderful sort I guess, being a good American Repub.,
a mature man, a man of laws, called the Capitol Police and
had the Dems thrown out of their chairs in the library. Yes
indeed, the Capitol Police were called to the House of Representatives
by the Republicans to evict a few Democrats from their
chairs in the library! You want democracy baby, well you better
just truck on over somewhere else cause we started jettisoning
that ideal about two years ago.
Chill down my martini glass honey, I'm coming home*
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, July 18, 2003
I live in the wonderful
state of Florida.
I am a mom to Murphy (my
precious pup) and Fred (my occasionally precious cat).
I share my life, my
laughter, my world and all of my love with my husband and have
for 16 years.
I would describe myself as
a very sentimental and sensitive person who is forever willing to share
my point of view whether or not it has been requested of
me. This article is copyright by Patricia
Ernest, originally published by opednews.com
Permission is granted to forward this or to place it on a website as
long as the article is included intact, including this statement.
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Aug. 13 — The Bush administration has abandoned the idea of giving
the United Nations more of a role in the occupation of Iraq as
sought by France, India and other countries as a condition for their
participation in peacekeeping there, administration officials said
today.