Friday again, and next week is deadline week combined with a big tradeshow which we will be covering. Forecast calls for very light blogging. Operation
Media Handjob Iraqi Freedom will probably still be swinging when I get back to the keyboard. And how's that name for a little Bush Co. Orwellian doublespeak? Operation Clueless Warmonger would be more accurate. Operation Free Iraqi Petroleum would be spot on.
Have a good weekend, G.
Stop me if you've heard this one:
President Bush and Colin Powell are sitting in a bar.
A guy walks in and asks the barman, "Isn't that Bush
and Powell sitting over there?" The barman says, "Yep,
that's them." So the guy walks over and says, "Wow,
this is a real honor. What are you guys doing in
here?"
Bush says, "We're planning WW III ." And the guy says,
"Really? What's going to happen?" Bush says, "Well,
we're going to kill a million Iraqis this time
and one blonde with big breasts.
The guy exclaimed, "A blonde with big breasts? Why
kill a blonde with big breasts?
Bush turns to Powell, punches him on the shoulder and
says, "See, smart ass, I told you no one would worry
about the million Iraqis!"
An important
guide to dealing with terrorist attacks. For example:
"If a door is closed, karate chop it open. "
"Try to absorb as much of the radiation as possible with your groin region. After 5 minutes and 12 seconds, however, you may become sterile."
"Michael Jackson is a terrorist. If you spot this smooth criminal with dead, dead eyes, run the fuck away."
Janeane Garofalo speaks the truth:
"Unfortunately though, in this country, as in many countries, there's always going to be groups of individuals who want war anyway. They like to be aggressive. They like to have an us-and-them attitude. They like to be isolationists. They like to be somewhat exclusionary and racist in their thinking anyway. If they have the opportunity to wrap it in a flag, so much the better -- you know what I'm saying?
You have a lot of people out there who are just straight-up bullies and thugs, no matter what. But if they can hide behind the flag and pretend to have the moral high ground, they are in hog heaven. They are absolutely thrilled that they can take their misguided anger, and their xenophobia, and their aggressiveness, and their belligerence, and hide behind the flag and Jesus, that is fantastic. You have a lot of right-wingers out there, and just a lot of nuts out there anyway, regardless of party affiliation or right or left affiliation, who are always eager to swing their fists and wave the flag at the same time."
I have kids and I know that kids are innocent, especially the little ones. At three years, we are as honest and happy and innocent as we are ever likely to be. Despite the fact that they may be swarthy, Iraqi kids are also innocent. So when the shock and awe campaign kicks off, remember these faces.
Goddamn you, George W. Bush.
No war but class war, as the anarchists say.
How did I end up in a country full of idiots? According to USATODAY.com, more than half the respondents to a
recent poll say France is "stabbing the U.S. in the back." Yeah, those pansy-assed frogs are
against war, if you can believe that, and they've stabbed us in the back by not prostrating themselves before the intellectual might of the Bush junta.
"Mark Rozell, a political scientist at Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., says the poll reflects the tendency of Americans to side with their president and military as combat draws near. "It's the classic rallying-around-the-flag. They may be uneasy about going to war, but they feel that criticizing now would be unpatriotic.""
Yeah, remember how much restraint and patriotism the GOP Senators displayed when Clinton had troops in Bosnia? Fuck that.
