Well, with Lieberman's overthrow by antiwar voters in Connecticut Tuesday, it's obvious the American public's getting too comfortable with the state of things, save this inane war. That probably explains why the first headline I saw when opening the electronic newspaper this morning read, "US raises air security alert to red for first time."
Guess it's gonna be another long fall election's campaign season. But with dire warnings like that, rigged voter rolls and rigged voting machines, looks like another republican landslide in the offing.
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"another long fall election" ... perfect, dada! The last thing I saw on TV before bed last night was Britain going to "critical", and now of course today I wake up to our "red". Too bad they were a coupla days too late to help Joe. And it hasn't escaped my notice that GWB finds himself in Wisconsin on a day we go to red, just a momentito from canadian airspace (same area his daddy & babs escaped when they got outta DC on that early AM flight on 911, hmmm). Similarly, Blair in Barbados. Cheney's probably set himself up under that BC leak for an intravenous hit. Truthfully, I don't know what to think & I resent even having to think that way at all. And then you HAD to wind up with rigged black box voting ... just to keep our paranoiac antennae up about the finishing top-off ... assuming elections won't be tossed along with all liquids & gels in another red alert (the dessert course)! Hey, bet you're glad you did NOT fly recently & get caught up in this, huh. D.K.
yes, i commented about this farce in my blog also...
he is such a joke...our pres
problem is when he snarls up plane travel....then he's just an asshole..
oops, re Cheney's oil jones: i meant "BP" leak, you know, the one in Alaska ... i don't think British Columbia would have anything to do with him! D.K.
Yeah, well...
Oh, FUCK 'EM ALL!
Pardon my French, but I'm not losing hope. The people of Connecticut managed to pry Lieberman off his throne, let him know he doesn't own the Ivory Tower, and that is nothing but good. I'm goddamned good and tired of all these talking heads and neocons yakking about we gotta stay the course while they're steering us all straight at the iceburg.
And you know what? My white trash, redneck, red state friends and relatives are all making noises. Even my Mom, who hates discussing politics and is very conservative, as an aside recently said we'll do better with some Democrats for a change. I almost dropped the phone, and my teeth.
The newest terror threat thwarted? Even on the broadcast national news they admitted they've know about it for a while -- the timing is interesting.
Red alert, orange alert, bull-fucking-shit. Did we get any alerts or elevated threat levels back in the day when the gangs were airing everybody out? No we didn't. And why? Because if "those people" mow each other down in Compton, East LA, or any other ghetto, it's not important. Hell, I remember going home to Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1992 and being warned by my friends not to wear a red OR a blue shirt in public because you could get shot. Which sucked, because most of my casual clothes are blue.
So I went about my happy day. You see, I refused to be intimidated then, and I refuse to be so now. Whether it's afraid of the terrorists (gnats at the picnic) or the Republican Machine (termites of America), I'm not giving in one iota.
They can bully and steal a close election. They cain't do SHIT if the working, voting, elderly, soccer mom, NASCAR dad, black, chicano, and middle class (getting robbed of their homes - the bubble is over) start puking up the entrenched rich thieves.
Hell hath no fury to match Soccer Mom and NASCAR Dad and their 2.5 younguns having to move in with Granny.
I just thank God, Buddha, and Allah that we have such idiots in Washington -- the last time we had to run the Republicans out on a rail it was after 12 long years...and Cuzzin Bill turned around 12 years of pillage into a huge surplus in about 6. The only reason Bush came close to winning the 2000 election was because SocMom and NasDad got uncomfortable explaining what a blowjob was to 2.5....
Ain't that odd? Nobody minds wall-to-wall sex in advertising, and nobody trusts a politician, but half of our fellow Americans are okay with hiring a fool who has FAILED AT EVERY BUSINESS VENTURE HE WAS GIVEN. We must really love cousin Larry -- that guy, we all have one in our family, who always needs a loan for his latest sceme. Me, I wouldn't loan the fucker the keys to someone else's car!
I think America is ready to start kicking out the bad friends, like Joe. And I think, unless we get our troops back home and start fixing our bruised and broke military pretty damn quick, America might just kick a rotten, snarly, ingrate bad kid right out of our own (white) House.
Myself, I know what house I want to see him go to: the Big House. I want him to have plenty of company, too.
Once we kick the moneychangers out, we can start doing the things we should have been doing all along: vetting checked luggage electronically, checking containers at the ports, and REGULATING each and every industry and public utility, like we used to do, back when America was strong and not hollow.
And I think we can do it. We are Americans. Our national identity is based on we the people, in order to create a more perfect Union. The cretins in Washington have taken Don't Tread On Me and run it thru a press to create snake oil. A fucking pox on that noise!!!
er....ahem.
Well, shit. You did say you enjoy my anger, Dada. I'm just trying to point it in the right direction. Forgive me for ranting.
And I'm not bitter.
OMG, MEL, I'm blown over, feeling like I've just been to a big tent revival meeting! The Church of Reality, Reverend Mel presiding, giving The Truth to anyone not suffering from permanent cranial rectitis. Haven't been to church in 40-yrs & now I'm wiping my eyes, straightening up my broken & bruised spine.
Got my fingers crossed you're right about a landslide election overcoming The Big Fix! That the Soccer Moms & Nascar Dads can wrap their minds around who/what is to blame for the whole shee-bang and not be swayed by some minor-issue BS.
Oh yeah, cousin Larry ... in our family we actually nicknamed him "Moochie" and he LIKED it. No pride, it was always someone else's fault he needed $$$. If only Bush had stuck to scamming his family & friends, huh.
ps, they had GANGS in Little Rock? Kinda blows my image of a peaceful pretty place. Guess Laura's cleaned them all out now though, harhar. -- D.K.
Gee Mel, was it something one of us said? (grin)
Great, great rant! (And I'm glad you're not bitter.)
A couple of times I've flown off the spinning pottery wheel in the comment section of a blog or two. And I was always amazed to see the responses that followed. Often my comment was like the conversation killer (or sticking with my analogy, just so much mud on the wall).
Hopefully that won't happen here because such a wonderful effort as that deserves to live a long, long time. (Thanks DK for jumping right in here after Mel's excellent venting.)
But there's so much to respond to. And I hope you're right about the red anger simmering.
I was listening to some author on late night talk radio a week or so ago. He's got it all figured out. He called 9/11 a military coup. Bush and Cheney are but well paid puppets for fronting for the real government. It was all very intriguing and I wished I could have remembered his name. But around midnight, I'm usually in and out of consciousness, much as our nation is in and out of danger. (I just saw the gov't encouraging everyone to keep flying--it's perfectly safe--so why the red alert still?)
Well, I find conspiracies intriguing if not believeable. And I suspect you're right Mel about the anger welling up in the majority of Americans.
But one thing that continues to fuel my cynicism for hope of change thru the "ballot box" is the fact 2000 was stolen. And I have no doubt 2004 was also. The neocons have seized power. The only question remaining is: When do they reveal they are NOT giving it up? Reveal the government we have cannot remain in power and continue the charade that this is still the constitutional America everyone was born into?
So I'm watching with great anticipation these fall elections. It would be fantastic if angry voters could overthrow an election process that stinks at a number of levels.
I hope we're not there. But what if we are? How willing would Americans be to really change things? Willing enough to spill blood? As I say, I hope we never get to that point, but as of now, I'm not sure where we are.
It was so funny to hear Bush tell us of the Islamic fascists we're up against. Coming from a guy who's added 800 signing statements to the bills he's signed--more than all president's before him combined (and now we hear some lawyers group saying he "ought to stop that 'cause it's undermining our constitution -- EXCUSE ME??), to a man who wants to pardon everbody for war crimes his regime authorized, etc. etc. you know the littany of his shit (and it's long, very long indeed), that's pretty fuckin' delicious, isn't it? Talk about fascists! They're so seeped in their own stink, they cain't smell themselves.
Well, this doesn't do justice to your comment, Mel. But it's a start.
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