WHY WE CAN LEAVE SOON

Here is a funny notion, a little quip about leaving Iraq. How about we do this why don't we get the electrical grid up first. Instead of Iraqi's experiencing 2 hours of electricity a day how about 24 hours of electricity? Can you imagine living in a country that sees temps of 115 degrees and not having AC? When the temps were in the 90's for much of August I was pretty damn uncomfortable imagine what the Iraqi's feel. Once we do that how about instead of spending 1 billion on an embassy we spend 1 billion on employing Iraqi's ,developing a workforce. A billion dollars is alot of money I bet we could create at least a couple of jobs. The Iraqi's might even like to make money and provide for their families They might even see a future instead of worrying about how or when they might be blownup, maimed, mutilated or secretly detained in Abu Ghraib. Maybe we could find out what Paul Bremer and co-horts did with the missing 9 million dollars checked to go to the Iraqi people. I bet the Iraqi's kind of wonder how competent we are to bring "freedom and democracy" when we keep on losing money earmarked to help them. Maybe we could force Halliburton to hire Iraqi citizens to rebuild the country instead of bringing in Filipino,Thai,Bangledeshi and Indian work forces. Thats got to hurt when you can't even get paid to rebuild your own country. I guess maybe that is why the Iraqi's are'nt to fond of us and oh yeah we could even pull our troops out with the infrastructure in place. When you hear some Republican or Democrat say we can't pull the troops out ask why we have'nt been rebuilding the infrastructure for the past three years and then ask what benefit they get out of the troops staying.

RIGHT ON THE FUNNY BONE

American Dad a show on FOX(sun. 9:30) hit the nail on the head tonight with a humorous take on the Patriot Act and nervous nellyism. Basically the Dad of the family is in the C.I.A and when he finds out an Iranian-American couple from Cleveland live on his block his terror alert senses go in to overdrive. He takes every opportunity to catch them in the act and at one point creates a prison in his backyard "detaining" the couple in the prison. When the couple exclaims "Hey you can't do this!", American Dad whips out the Patriot Act saying something to the effect of "I can now!" The creator of the show also created Family Guy and he has a somewhat interesting take on humor.
Another funny take I came across http://tomburka.com/ scroll down to June 29th, it's a good laugh.
At http://tenlittleindians.blogspot.com/ is a summary of various scandals while the gov. is on recess.

BLINDED BY THE RIGHT PART DEUX

Once again lets go back to the book,"Blinded by the right" by David Brock. It is relevant because the book is a primer to how the New Repubs. are reacting to Cindy Sheehan ( A mother who lost her son in Iraq and then found out about the Downing Street Memos and various other lies the Bush admin. has spoken,and was rightly pissed off her son died for a less than noble cause). The right-wing or nut-ball organ of the Repub party has been slandering her! As if she should'nt feel the pain of losing her son and is just grandstanding because she likes to see her face on T.V. They are also slandering Paul Hackett who ran in a very conservative part of Ohio as a Democrat, and was also an Iraq war vet. He almost won and lilly-livered cowards like Rush slandered him because unlike Rush he was a man and didn't get deferments because he had a pimple on his ass! This all relates to the time when Clinton became Prez. The nutjobs were attacking him with frivolous charges THE DAY he became president. The plan worked because the main stream media reported the charges being thrown at Clinton no matter how ridiculous they were and poof a movement was born. Attack ,you don't have to believe just ATTACK this is the mantra of the nutjobs and it works because people are conditioned to accept a simple easy to listen to message. "Clinton raped a woman "( Oh my God!)," Clinton had an illegitimate black baby"(Oh my God!). Attack for attack's sake damn the facts. This is what we have now being parroted out of these peoples mouths. The truth is not good enough this is a mere abstraction. Here is where we are; now they attack the mother of a dead son, a marine in Iraq because they have no belief, abortion,anti-corporation, social security, these are words that set the mouth to frothing because these are issues the Fuhrer concluded hurt true PATRIOTS? as long as they are against what ever the other side is for they can pat themselves on the back and say;" Good job!" These people are sad and I feel sorry for them, because the gratification they recieve is attacking other people in otherwords SADISTS! These people have no values besides the value of a good attack.

BLINDED BY THE RIGHT

Well I finally got around to reading David Brocks book " Blinded by the right". This book is an excellent map as to how the right-wing nut jobs operate(Brock used to be a right-wing smear master until his conscience set in). Basically the book confirmed every notion I had about these psychos. What it boils down to is they have no "moral values" the thing that they value is attacking any position the Demos have. A number of them are closet homosexuals and sadists looking for a quick buck financed by Richard Mellon Scaife. Overall they come across as very sad people who have sold their soul to the highest bidder as long as the message conforms with their views.They say what they need to say be it, pro-choice, anti-gay marriage,anti-tax ,whatever they need to say to get you on their side. What seeps through the scum is that they have formed an ideology according to attack, principles be damned.
Another book that I went back and read is Kevin Phillip's(a born again Democrat) book "American Dynasty" it is all about the corrupt practices of the Bush family. The thing that made me jump out of bed in surprise is that we should not be surprised by Dubya's incompetence the first Bush already set the standard. The correlation goes as follows:
Bush Senior during the time he was V.P. and Pres was embroiled in many scandels.
1." The October Surprise", this involved releasing the hostages in Iran after Reagan was announced President. There is alot of evidence Bush had some part in orchestrating this.
2. "Iran-Contra", Bush was former CIA and pardoned people who could spill the beans on his affairs even though the bank BCCI was being investigated and his buddies, the Bin Ladens and the Saudi royal family was involved.
3."Iraqgate" The fact that the US government built up Iraqi weapons capabilities and that Bush did not want to investigate is a crime! Saddam used these weapons on Iran and his own people.
Lets get to the parallels with good ole Georgie Bush Jr
1."2000 Election", Bush Jr learned if you are to incompetent to win an election on your own then cheat and claim your presidency.
2."Make Saddam the boogeyman for your troubles" Bush Jr wanted a war against terror so he attacked Iraq. Making them out to be the threat they never were but a good reason to enrich your buddies in the war machine industry.
3."Of Course cut Taxes for the Rich!", just to make sure our economy falls by the wayside.
How could we not remember how bad and deceitful Bush Sr was, man did we drop the ball, Dubya is a clone of his Daddy, basically making life comfortable for his friends and who gives a shit about the middle class.