~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ So Dubya and puppeteers had news of possible terrorist activity months before 9/11. Why did they keep it secret for so long? Because the entire national security apparatus went: "Lemme see: suicide bombers + airliner hijackers = uuuuhhhh... d'ja see Survivors last night?" For this we pay taxes to offset Dubya's tax cuts for the rich!? The dumbing-down of America starts at the top. posted by Robert Brady 12:07 AM . . .
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dubya says, regarding Cuba, " I haven't changed my foreign policy," leaving everyone wondering what he's talking about. You mean the policy of invading small third-world developing nations with overwhelming force, the one your father and his boss used? Does it have anything to do with the Grecians? Definitely be of help though in getting Jebya re-elected governor of Florida, to again help crowbar Dubya into the presidency via the Republican supreme court. If this gets any more sinister, Dubya's puppeteers will soon have him using Ashcroft to court the NRA. posted by Robert Brady 6:35 PM . . .
And now they're trying to get The Boss to run for the Senate from New Jersey. "Hey little girl is he good to you, does he do for you the things that I'd do, uh-huh, I got a bad desire, Oh, Oh, Oh, I'm on fire..." Don't do it, Bruce; politics is way below your level of fulfillment. You'd wind up giving politics a good name, and it wouldn't stand for that. posted by Robert Brady 9:25 PM . . .
Any world-traveling American discovers that every other country in the world knows a lot more about America than Americans know about them, which leads to the realization that Americans don't have the sense of history that say the Greeks do, or the French, or the Chinese, indeed anyone else. At first, one thinks: of course! America, long a world superpower, and now the world's only superpower, would naturally be more well known around the world than, say, Bhutan; but then further consideration, if any, discloses that Americans don't have that sense of history because they don't value history, not really having any history themselves. American history is almost Disneyesque in its naivete, with practically none of history's truly personal down-and-dirty aspects like plague and famine and successions of total destruction and resurgence and erasure of families and radically shifting fealties over centuries and millennia, whereas the old countries and territories are 'rich' in such history, which knowledge gives factual tints to their perspective of the world and the importance of its events. (The deep history of America is that of its natives, whose story has never been part of America's, except as a brief foreword to the 'worthwhile' colonial events that began with Columbus and carried on with Conquistadores and the Pilgrims and caused native americans to experience the extremes of history on a grand scale, to their near demise.) So as things stand now the whole world knows the value and details of history except the most powerful nation in it (led by one who speaks of 'Grecians'), a nation fast becoming an empire; and most of the world knows what happens always to empires, as history shows. posted by Robert Brady 7:11 PM . . .
