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The Whole World is Watching


In these days of the anniversaries of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which stand as symbols to the entire world of the horrors of atomic war, those cities and their meaning find little resonance in the Dubya administration (oxymoron), which, as Dubya put it, "hit the trifecta" with 9-11, in terms of the war and other bellicose preparations practically freely licensed thereby, a very large part of which of course is nuclear. And if you compound national interest, which in any nation is about equivalent to amoebic interest, with Dubya's handlers' proclivities, it is a very dangerous blend indeed. The Mayor of Hiroshima, in his anniversary speech at the epicenter, expressed his dismay with this state of affairs, and with the increasingly nuclear/bellicose focus of the Dubya administration; Dubya just responded, in essence, wha...? I think that, unless Dubya can produce a war, as the terror wears down the American people will see more and more clearly where he is being told to 'lead' them, and will vote him out of office. To stay in, he needs to manufacture a 'just' war, and Iraq's 'nuclear capability' is just the ticket. The whole world is watching.

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Refining the Pantheon

George Washington

Thomas Jefferson

Abraham Lincoln

Dubya

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STASI Redux Redux

The TIPS story gets more and more interesting, as a Salon article indicates that TIPS calls from neighbors spying on neighbors will be forwarded to and handled by the tv show "America's Most Wanted," in an astonishing admission of the incest between politics and showbiz. Maybe Dubya will get a guest shot on Dallas as a real oilman; Ned will certainly rat on Homer. But all you folks that sign up to spy on your neighbors for the Dubya guys, remember what happened to the STASI squealers after East Germany collapsed and their names were revealed...

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Real Value for Investors


"All of us recognize that the vast majority of men and women in the business community are honest and above-board. They run solid companies providing goods and services that enhance our quality of life... At the same time, they provide jobs for their workers and real value for investors."
---Cheney, the good example, speaking to the Commonwealth Club of California.
This is true. The vast majority are honest and above board, and are left holding the bag without jobs or pensions while execs cash in before the crash. As to "real value for investors," where did that 95% value and the money disappear to?

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looknaked.com

You think iamcarbonatedmilk.com is funny? You think buyclamsonline.com is weird? Ah, the lameness of hungry standard journalists hunting for stories in strange lands!! No sense of poetry, granite sense of syntax, only a trained sense of subject, only a careerist's sense of the bizarre. What about jobsonmars.com? moneypuker.com? nakedbankers.com? anippleaday.com? bonethugsonline.com? fartnozzle.com? assfactory.com? angrydwarf.com? soggybooks.com? fartinabox.com?? Just a few of the many I've listed as coming available over the past year. How about some journalists who haven't been trained as journalists, who see further than right now?? Where are the sharp, fresh eyes and voices, where are the Mark Twains of today?? Blogging, that's where!!

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STASI Redux

I remember when I first saw John Ashcroft there was something squirmy/smarmy about him, and I thought to myself 'I bet he was a squealer in school.' He got into office using the same grease Dubya used, and what do you know, turns out he's come up with and is organizing and testing the world's biggest system of hired squealers since the USSR, using workers in their daily routines. According to Dubya's Citizen Corp (Dubya loves all that military stuff, except enlisting) website, "These workers will use their common sense and knowledge of their work environment to identify suspicious or unusual activity." Once TIPS gets set up, and the postman, milk man et al. are reporting back to headquarters on any activities they think are strange at your house or in your life, and given the Fed's new Bushy ability to arrest for an unlimited time and ask questions afterward, Americans will learn firsthand what the Russians were experiencing for all those decades. Apparently, TIPS will enable the government to spare us the effects of retaliation for its low IQ foreign policies. And if TIPS gains a foothold, it will be here for a while; we all know how quickly such agencies and their records disappear once they're set up, no matter how crooked they get. If the Wcrew get their way, TIPS will start in ten cities and expand from there, to include you and everyone you know and everything you do. East Germany, anyone?

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