Sep 2, 2008
War's Confetti and RNC 2008
Will Americans turn out in large numbers in November to REWARD the GOP for breaking down the social fabric of society and for speaking with forked tongues when the spirit moves them?
Are there copper pipes they have't stripped or gold bars they haven't shipped overseas yet? Perhaps a war widow's benefits that need suspending?
Have you noticed how 'gas prices are down at the pump' (as if by magic - Who Knew this could happen before November?) and the disturbing sounds from Bush-Cheney's occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan are miraculously muffled by the cheers and confetti of hero worship?
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What's Past is Prologue: The War Will Go On
By C. G. ESTABROOK
In the late summer of 2008, as the American political parties convene toproduce a new president, it seems clear that Americans will continue to kill and die - and suffer and inflict terrible injuries - in the US war inthe Middle East, regardless of who is elected president, well into the next administration and beyond.
(That's what I thought. - jc)
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Those Who Are Tasked to Police This Democracy Are Blinded by Confetti
By Gary Younge
The real problem with the Bush years is not so much what he did but that America's political class enabled him to do it. #
(Actually it is very much what he did and is doing. -jc)
Are there copper pipes they have't stripped or gold bars they haven't shipped overseas yet? Perhaps a war widow's benefits that need suspending?
Have you noticed how 'gas prices are down at the pump' (as if by magic - Who Knew this could happen before November?) and the disturbing sounds from Bush-Cheney's occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan are miraculously muffled by the cheers and confetti of hero worship?
~:~
What's Past is Prologue: The War Will Go On
By C. G. ESTABROOK
In the late summer of 2008, as the American political parties convene toproduce a new president, it seems clear that Americans will continue to kill and die - and suffer and inflict terrible injuries - in the US war inthe Middle East, regardless of who is elected president, well into the next administration and beyond.
(That's what I thought. - jc)
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Those Who Are Tasked to Police This Democracy Are Blinded by Confetti
By Gary Younge
The real problem with the Bush years is not so much what he did but that America's political class enabled him to do it. #
(Actually it is very much what he did and is doing. -jc)
Sep 1, 2008
Missing nukes feared in Georgia
The region in the Caucasus where Russia, Georgia, and South Ossetia are currently entangled are hiding deeper fears than most people care to consider in the light of day.
Read the world news from The Telegraph.
This is a good demonstration of how 'civilized' countries should keep their differences with one another under better control so that rogues don't take advantage of chaotic situations for their own purposes.
Read the world news from The Telegraph.
This is a good demonstration of how 'civilized' countries should keep their differences with one another under better control so that rogues don't take advantage of chaotic situations for their own purposes.
Aug 31, 2008
Sunday TV: Palin, Palin, and Palin
Idiot Box Morning:
Lindsey Graham just said to George Stephanopoulos that experience and judgment have to come together for the presidency and he seems to believe that they do in Sara Palin!
Candidates meeting a national security threshold? We still have one?
Joe Biden vs Sara Palin has an almost otherworldly flavor and should make an interesting show - but please, do not adjust your sets. You're now in the Twilight Zone so don't bother to squirm.
Wonder if Biden chuckled when he heard of his vice presidential peer? Will he wear kid gloves with Sara Palin? Does he own any?
Has jingo John McCain been wrong about Iraq and re-inventing the Middle East, a region which now has al - Qaeda in 60 countries after years of stimulation and vexation by Bush-Cheney policies and aggression?
Saturn calling: Palin is "back there with the flat-earth caucus," says John Kerry to Stephanopoulos. Kerry seems pretty hot under the white collar this morning much as he did when delivering his (for him) fiery speech at the DNC last week.
Now I know that the Dems can do no less than 'see an opening' with Palin's VP nom, yet it's all rhetoric, folks...just political theater, dahlink! Are you diverted?
Still, kudos must go to the McCain campaign which has garnered a lot of people's attention that was sorely lacking before last Friday's announcement of Sara Palin as VP pick while stepping on the DNC's shadow big time!
Just watch what they're up to elsewhere while the Sara Show is happily diverting most eyes toward her sparkling and fascinating direction.
~:~ Update Sept 3: there's been a Palin limerick published at Lim's Limericks - I'm just warning you!
Lindsey Graham just said to George Stephanopoulos that experience and judgment have to come together for the presidency and he seems to believe that they do in Sara Palin!
Candidates meeting a national security threshold? We still have one?
Joe Biden vs Sara Palin has an almost otherworldly flavor and should make an interesting show - but please, do not adjust your sets. You're now in the Twilight Zone so don't bother to squirm.
Wonder if Biden chuckled when he heard of his vice presidential peer? Will he wear kid gloves with Sara Palin? Does he own any?
Has jingo John McCain been wrong about Iraq and re-inventing the Middle East, a region which now has al - Qaeda in 60 countries after years of stimulation and vexation by Bush-Cheney policies and aggression?
Saturn calling: Palin is "back there with the flat-earth caucus," says John Kerry to Stephanopoulos. Kerry seems pretty hot under the white collar this morning much as he did when delivering his (for him) fiery speech at the DNC last week.
Now I know that the Dems can do no less than 'see an opening' with Palin's VP nom, yet it's all rhetoric, folks...just political theater, dahlink! Are you diverted?
Still, kudos must go to the McCain campaign which has garnered a lot of people's attention that was sorely lacking before last Friday's announcement of Sara Palin as VP pick while stepping on the DNC's shadow big time!
Just watch what they're up to elsewhere while the Sara Show is happily diverting most eyes toward her sparkling and fascinating direction.
News at Noon: Gustav is forcing Bush AND Cheney to 'skip' the Republican Convention 2008. Not quite the same as skipping out when Katrina came to call with responsibilities, but the best the neocons can do at the moment.
Should I insert: sigh of relief coming from the McCain campaign?
~:~ Update Sept 3: there's been a Palin limerick published at Lim's Limericks - I'm just warning you!
Aug 29, 2008
Palin ready to be demi-leader of the free world?
Yes I know the 'free world' is on the endangered species list but does Sara Heath Palin look ready to be in line for the US presidency to you?Celebrity status vs Obama's celebrity status...are they trying to make us crazy?
I blame Reagan...he started it.
photo courtesy of AP, wonkette, and The NY Daily News.
Here's my post on Sara Palin's natal chart with some very interesting insights to be found in the post's comment thread.
First Follower: Clymela!
Hurrah! Stars Over Washington now has its first Follower, or Favored Visitor as I've termed it!
Welcome aboard to Clymela of Clymela's Place, where I hope soon to find posts and whatever content my First Favored Visitor publishes!
Clymela, I guess that makes you SO'W's FFV!
Welcome aboard to Clymela of Clymela's Place, where I hope soon to find posts and whatever content my First Favored Visitor publishes!
Clymela, I guess that makes you SO'W's FFV!
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