Well, hell, time for a link dump. I’d love to sit and babble, but I am too tired to think. I also think I am coming down with something. I’ve been feeling weird since Tuesday noon: no energy (no matter how much I sleep), headaches, body aches, and occasionally I feel chilled. Blech.
Anyway, on with the links that have been open in my browser window for too long:
Bush’s Surprise Serenade Hits YouTube: Just about as crass and repulsive as him looking under the desk in the Oval Office for WMD.
President Weakens Espionage Oversight: Would anyone expect any less of the Bush administration?
Many Voting for Hillary to Boost GOP, because they haven’t considered how much they’d hate it if she won, which she could. It’s sort of like voting on what to get on pizzas for an office party. You want pepperoni, but it will be running against either sausage or cat shit. Obviously, cat shit would lose against pepperoni, so you vote for it to be the second choice. Except … people are stupid, and you could very well end up eating cat shit pizza.
Lynndie England Blames Media for Photos: Yes, it’s the media’s fault a lot of people around the world are upset about what happened at Abu Ghraib. It has nothing at all to do with her and what she and others did. Had there not been photos, everything would have been hunky-dory. The “dense” is strong in this one.
Gov. Paterson admits bedding women, jealousy over wife’s affair: It’s apparent we now live in a world where nothing is considered private business between husband and wife, but do we really want to be living there? I couldn’t care less what my elected officials are doing and with whom, so long as it’s legal, it isn’t costing me anything, and they seem to be doing a decent job of running things. It disgusts me that these two people felt the need to address this publicly, because the media would have gone wild with it anyway. Politicians need to start saying out loud that some things are simply no one else’s business, and Americans need to look at the statistics for people having affairs while married. I’m just saying, people in glass houses and all that.
And in closing, Cheney being a dick:
Informed during a Good Morning America interview broadcast Wednesday that two-thirds of Americans now think the war was not worth fighting, Cheney said: “So?”
Though the Whitehouse transcript of the interview failed to transcribe that little bit, it’s right there in the video, plain as day … as is that grin he wears when he isn’t scowling. So? So what? F*ck ‘em. We don’t care. Repugnant attitude for elected officials to hold.
And now I can finally close my browser and turn off my computer. :)
I saw that on tv today! That made me yell. “So?” and then he smirked. I hate him and dogface Bush so much. I have zero respect for them. They make me ashamed to be an American. :boom:
Every time in my life I have said “So?” to answer a question of someone telling me they don’t like something I am doing, it has always been a “So what? F*ck you. I don’t care.” And I stopped doing that in middle school like most adults eventually do. It’s an extremely childish response to being told that 2/3 of US citizens think the war is a bad idea. You know, the citizens that vote people into office and are supposed to be the root base of our government … We The People, and all that. Really, really cocky of Dick.
Even above his stupid “So?” is that damn grin. Really. Grinning. As if there was anything in the question or conversation to grin about.
Orb,
Putting aside the WMD issue, which everyone, every intelligence agency in the world believed, including Saddam’s own generals thought he had. I always find it odd of Liberals who want to free enslaved people by waving some magic wan, hoping the ruthless dictators and other tyrants will suddenly see the wrongs of their ways and immediately turn over a new leaf. When has this ever happened in human history? Americans forget that under Saddam Hussein, 300K plus Iraqi citizen were murdered, not to mention the systematic rapes and tortures that were just business as normal. And this is real torture, real pain and suffering, not some water boarding technique, which BTW our own elite military units have to endure while in training, but real torture. Liberals want all the world’s nastiness just to go away because they wish it.
If Americans thought Iraq wasn’t worth fighting for wait till we go into Darfur, Sudan. Sudan another Muslim faith base country, 400k murdered in Darfur. Question Liberals must ask themselves, how many of our bravest are they willing to see get killed in Sudan, because it is going to take US boots on the ground to clean up that rats nest, and Americans will die? Don’t sit around hoping for the UN to stop the killing, the UN has demonstrated in situation like this they are about as useful as, forgive me, but tits on a bull.
If we, the USA, are the mightiest country in the world, and let there be no doubt we are, along with that grand title comes the responsibility to free innocent people from the megalomaniacs like Hussein, Sudanese military and the Janjaweed, the Taliban, Pol Pot, Hutu extremists who murder between 500k and 700k Tutsi in Rwanda. If you don’t use that might to stop such atrocities, you are no better than the regimes who are committing them.
One thing is for sure, sitting around hoping and wishing they’ll just go away, hoping they’ll stop the killing, the raping, the maiming, the torturing, hoping they’ll see the light, or making pretty speeches at the UN is sure to produce only more of the same. If one wants to be ashamed of being an American, then be ashamed for it’s lack of courage to use it’s might to correct the world’s wrong, sitting around wringing it’s hand over the atrocities yet does nothing to stop it.
On the other hand we could withdraw from the world scene, and turn over everything over to the UN. Unfortunately the UN and it’s lack of resolve to enforce it’s own resolutions is the number 1 reason why situations like, Hussein, Sudanese military and the Janjaweed, the Taliban, Pol Pot, Hutu extremists who murder between 500k and 700k Tutsi in Rwanda, and why any number of other tyrants exist today.