Politics is, by many accounts, a game, one of wheeling and dealing, of shifting alliances and jockeying for position. Which may explain more about the sorry state of our national governance than politicians, pundits and assorted in-the-knows care to admit.
There is a wonderful legal website in North Carolina that deals in elder law and the attorneys there are wonderful and the help on the website is free. Their apparent intent is to reach those with 'large estates' or perhaps litigants who would need to hire their services, but all are welcome. I cannot begin to say how much they helped me during my step-dads long-term illness and ultimate death in 2005. Now they are pointing out some things that Bush did low key and it is a little known act.
The war on terrah has been ongoing since the Bush Administration decided that there should be a war on terrah. The Bush Administration and their media wing(nuts) have been filling American's heads full of the FEAR, DAMMIT! FEAR! of those skeery Mooslem's and their ability to put a pea under YOUR bed and cause a serious rash or slight loss of sleep. THOSE Bastids!
However, the actual bastards have been domestic terrahists.
This is my latest 'video tribute' to the lack of successes of George W. Bush and his good friend John McCain. Don't let the cover photo confuse you. YouTube chooses those and I can change them which I have elected to do. It just takes them a while to get it done.
WARNING! Might contain spoilers if you could find them through the snark.
In John Cusack's brilliantly deranged War, Inc., Hilary Duff sticks a live scorpion down her pants, Cusack fights Sir Ben Kingsley in the back of a garbage truck, Dan Aykroyd does a moving portrayal of Dick Cheney on the toilet, and Halliburton-style war profiteers wage the very first American war to be entirely outsourced to a private corporation. Did I mention I love this movie?
I don't think I've ever written so much about one movie before, but when Mr. Cusack cross-posted both of my previouspieces about War, Inc. to his MySpace blog, I made a rash mistake. In a comment, I wrote:
If you are going to keep cross-posting these, I'm going to have to find new angles to use to write about this movie. You know that, right?
Speaking of John Cusack's movies, why do I suddenly hear the Carpenters on my radio? What if that devious mind keeps cross-posting this stuff? Have I just doomed myself by my word to an eternal damnation of writing about War, Inc. until Halliburton brings about the end times? This could get as scary as, well, Stephen King.
(news that the "news" media isn't covering - and they should be... - promoted by poligirl)
Did this article slip past you like it did me? The Washington Post has uncovered two secret memos: LINK.
The memos were the first -- and, for years, the only -- tangible expressions of the administration's consent for the CIA's use of harsh measures to extract information from captured al-Qaeda leaders, the sources said. As early as the spring of 2002, several White House officials, including then-national security adviser Condoleezza Rice and Vice President Cheney, were given individual briefings by Tenet and his deputies, the officials said. Rice, in a statement to congressional investigators last month, confirmed the briefings and acknowledged that the CIA director had pressed the White House for "policy approval."
Okay, so we are less than 30 days from election 2008 a day many of us have looked forward to for years! It's the day that we can take action against the Republicans. A day when George Bush cannot legally (not that that every stopped him) be on the ballot. A day for hope, justice, even revenge! In our elation and joy at just seeing another election day, let us not forget to proceed with EXTREME caution and step up to try to help guarantee that our votes will count.
Nancy Pelosi carries much blame for the breakdown in passing the bailout but NOT because of her "I'm holding my nose while voting" speech trying to herd Democrats to vote yes. Rather, it's the failure of BOTH Republican and Democratic House leadership to impeach Bush and Cheney for violating the Constitution, and replace them with trustworthy heads of state who govern for the good of all citizens!
Over at Townhall.com, a right-wingnut-site-directly-from-Hell-with-no-middle-man, they are thowing their once revered Fearless Leader under the 18 wheeler over this financial debacle that the Bush Administration has foisted upon the entire World economy.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Bush is being called out by his own yammering, slobbering group of crazies for not owning up to Washington's role in the cratering of our economy. And it isn't pretty.
And before anyone starts screaming about Godwin's Law and the Jewish persecution of Kristallnacht... THIS IS ABOUT ECONOMICS. As was Kristallnacht, as Tek's essay explains.
I have taken the liberty of editing Tek's piece for spelling, grammar, syntax and punctuation, and emphasising elements of the essay I feel are important to the historical parallel. I've also reproduced only that part of the essay I believe relevant to the argument.
There is a wonderful legal website in North Carolina that deals in elder law and the attorneys there are wonderful and the help on the website is free. Their apparent intent is to reach those with 'large estates' or perhaps litigants who would need to hire their services, but all are welcome. I cannot begin to say how much they helped me during my step-dads long-term illness and ultimate death in 2005. Now they are pointing out some things that Bush did low key and it is a little known act.
This is my latest 'video tribute' to the lack of successes of George W. Bush and his good friend John McCain. Don't let the cover photo confuse you. YouTube chooses those and I can change them which I have elected to do. It just takes them a while to get it done.
