Dr. Kanga, your observations and insights are accurate.
My opinion from day one has been that "Support the Troops" was a code slogan for support the cause for the war. If you carefully notice, the ideology from this incompetent, inept and corrupt administration has been based on metaphors and magical thinking. They use terms that instantly make any opposition the bad guy. How could anyone not support the troops or be "pro life"? They also have used repeated messaging, a tactic that worked well in Nazi germany in the late 30's. Magical thinking - we'll build a nation, we'll spread democracy, they'll greet us as liberators, the oil will pay for the war, they hate us for our freedom, we have to fight them over there so we dont have to fight them here, they'll follow us home and on and on. It's the makings of fairy tales, and a significant percentage of our citizens buy this shit. What a damn disgrace! We shouldn't be surprised of how the rest of the world views us now.
The 2000 election was bad enough, but what the hell were the people in this country thinking when they re-elected this buffoon? If they did a bit of research, you know the same amount of time they use to pick out their new television, they'd realize this guy was incompteent from day one. With every business and endeavor he had, he drove them into the ground. Sort of the Midas Touch in reverse - instead turning into shit. He has never understood the concept of cutting your losses and still doesn't.
Will the American public now realize that incompetence is very dangerous? An incompetent president hires incompetent people - Rice, Wolfowitz, Brown, Rumsfeld, etc. How many decades will it take to repair the damage this administration has done - politically, socially, environmentally and fiscally?
Dr. Pete;
"travelling with two two-and-a-half year olds, for seven non-stop hours in a car, well .... it's about the same" as reading the new york times or...."
I'm sure glad you said "it's about the same" as opposed to "it is the same".......as frustrating traveling non stop for 7 hours with 2 1/2 year old twins could get......they are curious,full of life, and innocent.............the news people are not only not curious, but they are way past the age of innocence. Given a choice I go with the twins!
"i seem to recall--albeit remotely--that we had .... ha ha .... i've got to laugh, i really do .... ha ha .... an election, in which the "american people" seemed to "send a message" that it was time to "get our asses" out of "iraq ....."
As you said it so well in January.....BUY PARTISAN! They've all been bought hook line and
sinker.
"spend more money that we don't have but that the chinese are only to happy to lend to us .....
ha ha ...... "
Ha Ha...when the Chinese start calling in the loans the fun will start!!! Good thing the Universities in the States have courses in Chinese!
"this is such a bizarre fuck-button that has amer'cans runnin' 'round like pavlov's poodles, poopin' theyselves 'n' slobb'rin ....."
Just the way they want it..........smart, well informed Americans = dangerous Americans.....
"you want to "suport the troops?"
bring 'em home ....."
The Europeans have been demonstrating yearly at the globalization conferences aka G8...the Italians have demonstrating 100,000 strong to prevent moving 2000 U.S. soldiers from Germany to Italian soil. They will be there on June 9th to greet Dubya................Seems like everyone but the Americans know what's going on (Dr. Pete excluded)...........anyways I think it's time for
a "Radio Free America" broadcast: of course not from American soil.........wouldn't want anyone broadcasting truth to be declared an "enemy combatant"
"next: dr. pete still makes no sense"
And I hope you do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here in the great midwest gas prices are the highest I have ever seen in my fity three yrs on the planet. Seems like someone is for sure enough getting a big ole bankroll on our expense. But hey, the president is not pocketing any money right? Uh huh.....yep, I just wonder how long the elected officials are gonna wait to impeach this punkin head, and I do not mean any disrepect to pumpkins. Last time I heard, the old prez had only something like a 26 % approval rating.....geez, any idea why he is still in there? I for one don't have a clue how the system works, guess I should have paid more attn to the teacher in class and not drool over some classmate's tight sweater. Hormones got in the way.....sorry folks.
Hey Dr. Pete;
"do you have to be a puppet and a howdy doody lookalike to be a politician?"
The above question is the perfect answer.
And, if Howdy Doody himself would just run for something...........the U.S.A. would be much better off!
petey,
You miss the paradigmatic ideal which David Brooks evinces. All of evolutionarnary biology's teleologic focusing has come together, 50,000 years of subtle genetic development by mutation, to reach the pinacle of utilitarian perfection- David Brook's smirk! The absolutely perfect melding of facial musculature and the meat-sack adaptation to express the essence of the Republican message- "I've got mine, fuck you" in a non-threatening, apparently (even to the blind and deaf, no offense intended to the blind and deaf) gracious superficial layer of good cheer and civility. This man, were he actually a cobra, rather than just playing one, could entice a mongoose to have his teeth pulled as an expression of right-mindedness. Get a clue, petey, David Brooks should be a made National Treasure, in the same way that the Japanees honor sand scrapers and small tree torturers -"BONSAI!! yankee dog"... He is the ultimate culmination of the art of hypocrisy. Honor him. The best of anything is worth respect.
Steve Schuster
Wanna ride soon?
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