I know my mind boggles--and I'm getting TMJ from all the jaw-dropping I do every time, after I think it can't get any worse, that it does. Like Dubya's remarks in tribute to the Reservists and National Guardsmen before a huge audience of old, out-of-shape retired striped and ribboned guys who just ate it all up. He went on about how appreciated they are for making this sacrifice and the swell job these guys are gonna do over in Iraq and how they'd signed up for exactly this kind of occurrence (yeah, right), but the kicker was when he actually had the nerve to say he recalled with pride his OWN "career" in the Texas Air National Guard! Is there really anyone who doesn't remember that he deserted the Guard during wartime and disappeared for a full year? Or was it two years? Well, no one in the room seemed to remember that because they applauded like Elvis had entered the building.
Doreen Miller has written a great article that presents a laundry list of reasons why Ann Coulter is wrong. It's a terrific hand-out to pass along to friends and relatives who still listen only to Fox and CNN. It's up to us to try to get a little light into those dark, cobwebby attics of non-thought before it's too late. At the same time that we try to encourage the Bush (dare I say it?) "fans" from disengaging from their "hero" ("But he did SUCH a good job after 9-11!" they always say. Then they can't answer when asked, "Yeah? Like what?") it's important to have a replacement to fill in the empty space so they're not left with a vacuum. Be ready to enthusiastically impart a little information about your favorite Dem candidate. For me, that's Kucinich, but everyone should vote his own heart--not just play the "who's most electable" game.
"Foxes in the henhouse"
By Doreen Miller
YellowTimes.org Columnist (United States)
(YellowTimes.org) – There have been many questions raised over the past few
years concerning George Bush's level of competence, or lack thereof. People
joke about his numerous linguistic faux pas, with some even pointing to his
bastardization of the English language as evidence of his being an ordinary
Joe, just like the rest of us. He may appear to be harmless, but the truth is, he is as dumb as a fox, and he and his gang of marauders have taken over and are destroying this country for their own personal ego-trips and profit.
In three short years, the U.S. government has gone from having a budgetary
surplus to having the largest deficit in U.S. history that promises to overburden our nation for many generations to come, from being a beacon of hope for the world to being seen as the world's largest rogue nation that perpetrates its own form of willful international terrorism via military violence, from being a free and just nation to becoming more and more akin to a fascist state with fewer and fewer freedoms, greater government spying on its citizens and threats of endless incarceration based upon guilt by association to whatever arbitrarily labeled "terrorist" groups or organizations may be seen as a threat to those in power.
These wolves in sheep's clothing may talk about such nebulous, feel-good
concepts as compassionate conservatism, but the only compassion they have
shown thus far is towards the wealthy who lavishly support them and their
bottom lines. They think nothing of flagrantly flaunting corporate cronyism by awarding political paybacks, most recently in the form of lucrative no-bid contracts in Iraq to the very corporations from which they hail and to which they themselves are financially bound. Such a practice under the watchful eye of a truly independent press would be exposed for the conflict of interests it is.
This administration is in the process of turning back decades of hard-won
environmental progress either by failing to allocate the funds necessary to sue polluters, or by weakening or eliminating pollution rules altogether so that their campaign contributors can turn a hefty profit at the expense of the health and safety of the American people.
If it were up to Bush and Co., there would be no public programs of any sort -- everything would be privatized so that the wealthy few could then legally rob the public trust.
Posted by veebeep at November 16, 2003 12:50 AM