Who's "playing" today?

Well, Sunday headlines had the immediate effect of raising my blood pressure, but that's nothing new. So does Monday's, or Tuesday's, or any other day's of the week. Thank heaven for the power of sleep to restore the psyche or I'd have been dead almost five years already.

The big attention grabber this morning was our "oil tanker" Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, in the headlines. (She's such a bad assed dude, I swear she thinks she has a penis!) Yes, remember the last time, then National "Mushroom Cloud" Security Advisor, Rice rattled her sabers? We're now two thousand dead Americans and a couple hundred billion dollars into the future. And Iraq is now a 100,000 dead and bombed into the Stone Age past.

But that's okay. Remember, the Bush administration dictated we don't show flag draped coffins or maimed returning Iraqi war veterans. We don't need to focus on the human cost of war by showing how some loved ones come home. Forget that. As for the tremendous costs for destroying Iraq? Forget that shit too. It's all paid for by supplemental appropriations. No coffins. No cost of war in the budget. It's all so neat. As for those dead Iraqis, remember as General Tommy Franks said, “We don’t do body counts.” And as far as the destruction of Iraq? That's all being taken care of by Cheney's Halliburton and the other administration's crony corps who are "rebuilding" that nation with the billions of dollars we've awarded them. (Reminder: This is how we Americans choose to spend our fucking money!)

So today we're told Condoleezza has been to the United Nations. And her lips, dripping with testosterone, are warning Iran that the time for diplomacy is running out. Doesn't this all seem a little too familiar? And remember, the attention-deficit-disabled's concept of time is not the same as normal people's. It's hyper-dimensional. The time normal folk consider appropriate for diplomacy may be months, a year, or more. With Bush folk, diplomacy time is measured in days and weeks. They're always in a hurry to destroy shit. Time speeds up when heading toward war. The one exception to those Bush time distortion speed-ups is when a huge natural disaster strikes. Like Katrina. In those cases, time slows down. But I digress, of course.

So, are we all going to kick back, watch today's Patriot game while the Grim Reaper prepares to nuke Teheran? Probably. After all, it really doesn't affect us much. And we're all big "Cowboy" fans too, right?