Wait a minute! I thought. I wrote about that two years ago. That wasn’t the Iraqis, that was L. Paul Bremmer and Company. Rather than buy new weapons on the open market, Bremmer’s commandos bought secondhand instead. Remember the war in Yugoslavia? And how the warring factions were to be disarmed and the weapons destroyed? Well, the factions were disarmed all right, but the weapons ended up on the black market. Bremmer’s raiders made a deal to buy the guns but black market arms dealers wouldn’t take a check; so Bremmer's henchmen sent them cash. The arms merchants were supervised while loading the weapons onto an old Soviet Republic Airline cargo plane, and as it would turn out later, the airline had no license, business, flight or otherwise. Everyone smiled and waved as the plane took off, another job well done for the American taxpayer and now it's Miller time! Except that the plane never arrived in Iraq. Bremmer and his boys had been suckered, hoodwinked, taken on a transcontinental snipe hunt.
There they were, waiting on the runway, holding the bag wide open, waiting for the snipes to come. But now the GAO reports that the episode was all the fault of those irresponsible Iraqis. It would appear that the truth has absolutely no place or meaning in our society anymore. Reverend Rick at the Swayback Church told us the candidates were to be kept in a cone of silence off stage. At the time when he said that, one candidate wasn’t even in the building! If the honorable Reverend had said that during taping of the game show “The Price is Right,” his next book would have been entitled “The Purpose-Driven Prison Sentence.”
The McCain camp assures us that there was no impropriety; let's get real. If the New England Patriots will tape the opposition's practice, the candidates for President of the United States will take every advantage possible to them. I’m not going to the cookie jar on that one! But again, presto! The story disappears; how about those possible VP candidates huh? No news, but let's talk about them anyway! This morning I was reading a news story, “Americans Less Gloomy on Economy Amid Discontent, Poll Finds."
“For the first time since January 2007, Americans who say the economy will improve in the next six months outnumber people who say it will get worse, by 28-to-21 percent. A bigger group, 45 percent of those surveyed, says it will stay about the same.”
Is the economy good now? The article's title implies no; 45% say it will stay about the same as it is now, or bad. 21% say it will get worse, so less than 30% say it will get better, yet what is the title? “Americans Less Gloomy on Economy Amid Discontent, Poll Finds.” A perfect example of the happy, happy, joy club, the media inverting the news subverting the meaning of the news. Telling only the good news. But there is always a meaning behind the message; my siblings only abused me for gain, never for sport!
'Could Help McCain'
''If this trend increases and people start opening up their pocketbooks, it could help McCain, since Obama is now winning on the economy and gas-price issues,'' Pinkus says.”
They tell us of improving home sales in California, and leave out that 40% of the sales are foreclosure sales. Of improving conditions in Iraq, but not about the growing crisis in Afghanistan. Scapegoating Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac while ignoring the self-inflicted wounds of Ford and GM. A corporate oligarchy to tell us only the news that we peasants need to know. The good news, the happy news, the Fox news, the happy, happy, joy club.
There they were, waiting on the runway, holding the bag wide open, waiting for the snipes to come. But now the GAO reports that the episode was all the fault of those irresponsible Iraqis. It would appear that the truth has absolutely no place or meaning in our society anymore. Reverend Rick at the Swayback Church told us the candidates were to be kept in a cone of silence off stage. At the time when he said that, one candidate wasn’t even in the building! If the honorable Reverend had said that during taping of the game show “The Price is Right,” his next book would have been entitled “The Purpose-Driven Prison Sentence.”
The McCain camp assures us that there was no impropriety; let's get real. If the New England Patriots will tape the opposition's practice, the candidates for President of the United States will take every advantage possible to them. I’m not going to the cookie jar on that one! But again, presto! The story disappears; how about those possible VP candidates huh? No news, but let's talk about them anyway! This morning I was reading a news story, “Americans Less Gloomy on Economy Amid Discontent, Poll Finds."
“For the first time since January 2007, Americans who say the economy will improve in the next six months outnumber people who say it will get worse, by 28-to-21 percent. A bigger group, 45 percent of those surveyed, says it will stay about the same.”
Is the economy good now? The article's title implies no; 45% say it will stay about the same as it is now, or bad. 21% say it will get worse, so less than 30% say it will get better, yet what is the title? “Americans Less Gloomy on Economy Amid Discontent, Poll Finds.” A perfect example of the happy, happy, joy club, the media inverting the news subverting the meaning of the news. Telling only the good news. But there is always a meaning behind the message; my siblings only abused me for gain, never for sport!
'Could Help McCain'
''If this trend increases and people start opening up their pocketbooks, it could help McCain, since Obama is now winning on the economy and gas-price issues,'' Pinkus says.”
They tell us of improving home sales in California, and leave out that 40% of the sales are foreclosure sales. Of improving conditions in Iraq, but not about the growing crisis in Afghanistan. Scapegoating Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac while ignoring the self-inflicted wounds of Ford and GM. A corporate oligarchy to tell us only the news that we peasants need to know. The good news, the happy news, the Fox news, the happy, happy, joy club.
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