Thursday, December 21, 2006
George Bush needs to be removed from office now!
An additional carrier group was deployed to the Persian Gulf on December 12. Another carrier is reportedly going there within the month. Plans are in the works to preclude Iran from the tactical opportunities to disrupt oil transport in the event of a war.
George W. Bush uses the weekend before Christmas to declare that he's ordered his new Secretary of Defense to get busy increasing the size of the U.S. military. Yet again our Commander in Chief addressed our country in his new speaking style - with a lecturing tone, consistent finger poking, and a high voice seems to be tittering on lunacy. Who knows what's going on in that guy's head? I don't want to know.
I know the bodies are still piling up in Iraq, but can't we take a break from all this shit for just a few weeks? Bush is a lame duck, the Democrats will not be in actual majority until the start of next year. Bill O'Reilly been whining about a 'war on Christmas' for months - shouldn't we get just one damn weekend to set the burdens of the world aside and spend some happy moments with our families?
George W. has taken vastly more vacation time than any other President in history, they really should have shipped him down to his play ranch right after the elections so he could cut some brush and ride his mountain bike. If Iran is not dropping nuclear bombs all over the Middle East, maybe Mr. Bush doesn't need to swing the hard cock of the U.S. military all over the place. Maybe he just needed to take a big step back for a month or two.
But he won't. He's a proving daily that he's a nutcase, and he's not finished with whatever agenda his crazy, fundamentalist, messianic understanding of the world demands.
War with Iran is coming.
We saw the war with Iraq coming, and we rallied by the hundreds of thousands in damn near every major city on this planet, but we couldn't stop it. We ranted on the internet and read all sorts of alternative media that pointed out the obvious bullshit that was WMD, were intimidated with stories about how Iraq without Saddam would be a horrible place to try to occupy. We wanted desperately to see just one talking head point out how fucking stupid invading Iraq was - putting Christian soldiers in the middle of the holiest of Islamic cities is just pouring gasoline on a fire. Nothing could boost the positions of the religious fundamentalists more. It was retarded on its face, and we just marched right on in there thanks to GWB.
George W. Bush loves to lie to the country as he cleverly pretends that he 'hasn't made up his mind yet.' Thus the only debate entertained regarding foreign policy takes place only in his fucking head. He played that game for months leading up to Iraq, but we now know from the Downing Street Memo and other sources that the intention was set from day one, and that the 'intelligence was being fixed around' justifying it.
Modern war requires a large amount of prep time, and the Iraq invasion was being prepped the whole time Bush aped the actions of a thoughtful leader. Iran is now being prepped, and Bush is crazy enough to pull the trigger.
I honestly believe that if he could, Bush the Elder would just drive up to the White House and tell his son to get in the car, 'that's it, time to go home.' If we don't impeach, he'll cause even more damage trying to fix the Middle East.
Mr. Bush may no longer cure a hangover with a few shots of gin in the morning, but that pattern of behavior has not gone away.
He can't be trusted with the lives of any more soldiers, and the geo-political balancing act that will be required to keep this country in oil has become far too subtle for a man like him.
He should be impeached based on what he has done. He must be impeached based on what he might do.
George W. Bush uses the weekend before Christmas to declare that he's ordered his new Secretary of Defense to get busy increasing the size of the U.S. military. Yet again our Commander in Chief addressed our country in his new speaking style - with a lecturing tone, consistent finger poking, and a high voice seems to be tittering on lunacy. Who knows what's going on in that guy's head? I don't want to know.
I know the bodies are still piling up in Iraq, but can't we take a break from all this shit for just a few weeks? Bush is a lame duck, the Democrats will not be in actual majority until the start of next year. Bill O'Reilly been whining about a 'war on Christmas' for months - shouldn't we get just one damn weekend to set the burdens of the world aside and spend some happy moments with our families?
George W. has taken vastly more vacation time than any other President in history, they really should have shipped him down to his play ranch right after the elections so he could cut some brush and ride his mountain bike. If Iran is not dropping nuclear bombs all over the Middle East, maybe Mr. Bush doesn't need to swing the hard cock of the U.S. military all over the place. Maybe he just needed to take a big step back for a month or two.
But he won't. He's a proving daily that he's a nutcase, and he's not finished with whatever agenda his crazy, fundamentalist, messianic understanding of the world demands.
War with Iran is coming.
We saw the war with Iraq coming, and we rallied by the hundreds of thousands in damn near every major city on this planet, but we couldn't stop it. We ranted on the internet and read all sorts of alternative media that pointed out the obvious bullshit that was WMD, were intimidated with stories about how Iraq without Saddam would be a horrible place to try to occupy. We wanted desperately to see just one talking head point out how fucking stupid invading Iraq was - putting Christian soldiers in the middle of the holiest of Islamic cities is just pouring gasoline on a fire. Nothing could boost the positions of the religious fundamentalists more. It was retarded on its face, and we just marched right on in there thanks to GWB.
George W. Bush loves to lie to the country as he cleverly pretends that he 'hasn't made up his mind yet.' Thus the only debate entertained regarding foreign policy takes place only in his fucking head. He played that game for months leading up to Iraq, but we now know from the Downing Street Memo and other sources that the intention was set from day one, and that the 'intelligence was being fixed around' justifying it.
Modern war requires a large amount of prep time, and the Iraq invasion was being prepped the whole time Bush aped the actions of a thoughtful leader. Iran is now being prepped, and Bush is crazy enough to pull the trigger.
I honestly believe that if he could, Bush the Elder would just drive up to the White House and tell his son to get in the car, 'that's it, time to go home.' If we don't impeach, he'll cause even more damage trying to fix the Middle East.
Mr. Bush may no longer cure a hangover with a few shots of gin in the morning, but that pattern of behavior has not gone away.
He can't be trusted with the lives of any more soldiers, and the geo-political balancing act that will be required to keep this country in oil has become far too subtle for a man like him.
He should be impeached based on what he has done. He must be impeached based on what he might do.
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Under construction
Aurelius would like to inform his last few visitors that he's been working on Atheist Seeker V 2.0.
Hopefully, we'll have something new and cool to have up by the first of the new year.
I'd like to focus my blog, so that I can also focus my thoughts. I don't think I want to have a myspace site, with all the trivia about what the inside of my bathroom looks like (it's bright fucking hello, and cozy) A blog site that people might come to for a reason, not because they have stumbled across it before and were momentarily amused. Click, amuse me again; a focused site that focuses on a few topics.
And like, some of these stories I've been reading about the crazy fundamentalists again are really causing me so hurt. Jesus Camp, the recent Mac Hammond article in my own local City Pages - my formor employer is a member of this guy's megachurch. I've been to a Christmas pagent within that edifice in the last two years . . .
I'm just becoming more and more concerned by the varieties of theism that I'm seeing in my daily life. Crazy, fundamentalist types who cannot be reasoned with and will not accept compromise.
They are a serious threat that has surfaced time and time again. Revival after motherfucking revival. There are many treatments, but only one cure. Atheism.
The mormon got into an intimidation display when I told him I was on an Atheist Ministry.
"Do you know the definition of ministry? It means to tell people about Gawd."
I'm concerned enough about these fundamentals and their suffering to want to do something more than I do, and I want to use my mildly amusing capacities as a writer to try to drive my blog in a direction that challenges them - that helps spread the salve of atheism.
There is a political aspect to atheism too. The skepticism and critical thinking which both invoke and demand atheism never dull once that responsible state is reached. An atheist cannot help but have a much more nuanced and realistic view of the world than what, unfortunately, has become the norm. Plus, once one accepts that they are a conscious animal, of the species homo sapiens sapiens, they must therefore conclude that each other member of our species is more like them than not. Thus, being killed is a bad thing for them. The tragedy of mortality is understanding what it means when a computer is off and her hard disk be decomposing.
I want a new stance, less vulgaromic blowhard and more anti-baptist to the rising anti-christianism in the hearts of everyone.
Anyhoo. Hopefully by the new year. A new Atheist Ministry. Maybe only weekly or bi-weekly postings, but consistent and contentful. I'm not done with this media.
Hopefully, we'll have something new and cool to have up by the first of the new year.
I'd like to focus my blog, so that I can also focus my thoughts. I don't think I want to have a myspace site, with all the trivia about what the inside of my bathroom looks like (it's bright fucking hello, and cozy) A blog site that people might come to for a reason, not because they have stumbled across it before and were momentarily amused. Click, amuse me again; a focused site that focuses on a few topics.
And like, some of these stories I've been reading about the crazy fundamentalists again are really causing me so hurt. Jesus Camp, the recent Mac Hammond article in my own local City Pages - my formor employer is a member of this guy's megachurch. I've been to a Christmas pagent within that edifice in the last two years . . .
I'm just becoming more and more concerned by the varieties of theism that I'm seeing in my daily life. Crazy, fundamentalist types who cannot be reasoned with and will not accept compromise.
They are a serious threat that has surfaced time and time again. Revival after motherfucking revival. There are many treatments, but only one cure. Atheism.
The mormon got into an intimidation display when I told him I was on an Atheist Ministry.
"Do you know the definition of ministry? It means to tell people about Gawd."
I'm concerned enough about these fundamentals and their suffering to want to do something more than I do, and I want to use my mildly amusing capacities as a writer to try to drive my blog in a direction that challenges them - that helps spread the salve of atheism.
There is a political aspect to atheism too. The skepticism and critical thinking which both invoke and demand atheism never dull once that responsible state is reached. An atheist cannot help but have a much more nuanced and realistic view of the world than what, unfortunately, has become the norm. Plus, once one accepts that they are a conscious animal, of the species homo sapiens sapiens, they must therefore conclude that each other member of our species is more like them than not. Thus, being killed is a bad thing for them. The tragedy of mortality is understanding what it means when a computer is off and her hard disk be decomposing.
I want a new stance, less vulgaromic blowhard and more anti-baptist to the rising anti-christianism in the hearts of everyone.
Anyhoo. Hopefully by the new year. A new Atheist Ministry. Maybe only weekly or bi-weekly postings, but consistent and contentful. I'm not done with this media.
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
The Tears of the Father
Why is the First Father breaking into tears in public places? I know that the bitch media is making sure that every opening paragraph frames them as 'tears of pride for his son Jeb,' but what sort of fella is going to buy into that?
The chances are fairly fair that President George W. Bush will be sacrificed for the 'good of the party.' Just like after Vietnam and Iran-Contra, too many of the slumbering masses are getting a bit too savvy regarding how the government works - and that's never a good thing for those who believe the U.S. government exists to serve the elite class. The best and the brightest of the spinmeisters are doing their damn'est to keep the Fortunate Son free of the consequences of his actions (as he has been his entire fucking life), but that just might not be possible anymore.
As he falls so will the Bush name, and so will the chances of Jeb.
The gossip always was the Bush the father was never too keen on bull-headed junior being used as a figurehead for Cheney, Rumsfeld and their neo-con cultists. A man whose personality was tempered by cocaine, falling down alcoholism, and messianic goofball christianity; perhaps not the sort of fabric from which a great President is cut. Compound that with a set of values that places submissive respect and personal loyalty over any other virtues - well, we now see what troubles haunt George H W Bush's soul.
When the republican party controls so much media, with such a lockstep dissemination of talking points and smears, this sort of thing should never happen. Without even mentioning the crazy amounts of voter suppression alleged to have been taking place - only evags can feel comfortable voting on a paperless touchscreen, cuz it's totally an act of faith. Seats in the Federal Congress are damn near locked in for incumbants, like 98% re-election rates, how in the world does the Grand Old Party lose both houses in a mid-term?
Blame the particularly weak performance of President Bush and folks like ourselves who get a least a balancing view of the world from alternative media. Our kind forced the democrats to get in up in 2006, now we're long, and we're strong, and we ain't gonna let Nancy Pelosi deal away the momentum that we've got going. Well, we're sure gonna try not to let them return to the teats of K Street and Big Business.
Mr. Bush may be a lame duck, but that duck has just begun being prepped for cooking. For the last six years he's operated under a protective blanket of two subservent Houses and a Federal Judiciary largely stocked with partisan hacks. He could be manipulated into lying about our reasons for going to war with Iraq, and blow sunshine up our asses about how easy that war would be. He could insist that nobody got any civilian positions over there unless they were of proven loyalty to the Republican Party (Bush Chapter, naturally.) His military could violate the Geneva Conventions with both in what they did (collective punishment on cities such as Fallujah, use of banned and questionable munitions - white phospherous, cluster bombs, DU shells) and what they failed to do (provide security for the civilian population) George Bush gave himself legislative powers as he 'refined' over 800 of the laws he signed with 'signing statements' that - such as with the McCain bill that redundantly forbid torture - declared he personally could ignore any part of it when he felt it was right. Oh, and he took war profiteering to new levels, and fucked up FEMA and just about everything about Katrina. He spyed on Americans, had foreign nationals kidnapped by the CIA and tortured, and has driven at least a dozen men out of the human family via the highly effective techniques at Gitmo and other places. I doubt Mr. Padilla will ever be able to interact with anyone as a human being for the rest of his wretched existence.
Did I forget anything? I have a feeling I did.
I don't think it's a question of should he be impeached. For me the question is, 'how the fuck can he not be?!?'
So perhaps the tears of the father are invoked by visions of the girls on 'The View' discussing what sort of crappy parenting generates such a loser and a sociopath. I think the impetus for waterworks is a bit more pragmatic.
Daddy Bush sits on the board of the Carlyle Group. Oil is the most important thing in the world to those people. The House of Bush and the House of Saud do more than hold hands in public. If we are to believe some of what the ISG says, that the situation on the ground in Iraq might be ten times worse that gets reported here, that means the ruling family in Saudi Arabia ain't happy. Sunni vs Shia violence (the House of Saud is Sunni) , perhaps millions of Iraqi refugees fleeing into, and destabalizing, neighboring states; an Iran that grows in influence every day.
I think ole Bandar has pulled the smooth skin of his masculine grip out of the elder Bush's hand. I think someone's heart might be breaking.
The chances are fairly fair that President George W. Bush will be sacrificed for the 'good of the party.' Just like after Vietnam and Iran-Contra, too many of the slumbering masses are getting a bit too savvy regarding how the government works - and that's never a good thing for those who believe the U.S. government exists to serve the elite class. The best and the brightest of the spinmeisters are doing their damn'est to keep the Fortunate Son free of the consequences of his actions (as he has been his entire fucking life), but that just might not be possible anymore.
As he falls so will the Bush name, and so will the chances of Jeb.
The gossip always was the Bush the father was never too keen on bull-headed junior being used as a figurehead for Cheney, Rumsfeld and their neo-con cultists. A man whose personality was tempered by cocaine, falling down alcoholism, and messianic goofball christianity; perhaps not the sort of fabric from which a great President is cut. Compound that with a set of values that places submissive respect and personal loyalty over any other virtues - well, we now see what troubles haunt George H W Bush's soul.
When the republican party controls so much media, with such a lockstep dissemination of talking points and smears, this sort of thing should never happen. Without even mentioning the crazy amounts of voter suppression alleged to have been taking place - only evags can feel comfortable voting on a paperless touchscreen, cuz it's totally an act of faith. Seats in the Federal Congress are damn near locked in for incumbants, like 98% re-election rates, how in the world does the Grand Old Party lose both houses in a mid-term?
Blame the particularly weak performance of President Bush and folks like ourselves who get a least a balancing view of the world from alternative media. Our kind forced the democrats to get in up in 2006, now we're long, and we're strong, and we ain't gonna let Nancy Pelosi deal away the momentum that we've got going. Well, we're sure gonna try not to let them return to the teats of K Street and Big Business.
Mr. Bush may be a lame duck, but that duck has just begun being prepped for cooking. For the last six years he's operated under a protective blanket of two subservent Houses and a Federal Judiciary largely stocked with partisan hacks. He could be manipulated into lying about our reasons for going to war with Iraq, and blow sunshine up our asses about how easy that war would be. He could insist that nobody got any civilian positions over there unless they were of proven loyalty to the Republican Party (Bush Chapter, naturally.) His military could violate the Geneva Conventions with both in what they did (collective punishment on cities such as Fallujah, use of banned and questionable munitions - white phospherous, cluster bombs, DU shells) and what they failed to do (provide security for the civilian population) George Bush gave himself legislative powers as he 'refined' over 800 of the laws he signed with 'signing statements' that - such as with the McCain bill that redundantly forbid torture - declared he personally could ignore any part of it when he felt it was right. Oh, and he took war profiteering to new levels, and fucked up FEMA and just about everything about Katrina. He spyed on Americans, had foreign nationals kidnapped by the CIA and tortured, and has driven at least a dozen men out of the human family via the highly effective techniques at Gitmo and other places. I doubt Mr. Padilla will ever be able to interact with anyone as a human being for the rest of his wretched existence.
Did I forget anything? I have a feeling I did.
I don't think it's a question of should he be impeached. For me the question is, 'how the fuck can he not be?!?'
So perhaps the tears of the father are invoked by visions of the girls on 'The View' discussing what sort of crappy parenting generates such a loser and a sociopath. I think the impetus for waterworks is a bit more pragmatic.
Daddy Bush sits on the board of the Carlyle Group. Oil is the most important thing in the world to those people. The House of Bush and the House of Saud do more than hold hands in public. If we are to believe some of what the ISG says, that the situation on the ground in Iraq might be ten times worse that gets reported here, that means the ruling family in Saudi Arabia ain't happy. Sunni vs Shia violence (the House of Saud is Sunni) , perhaps millions of Iraqi refugees fleeing into, and destabalizing, neighboring states; an Iran that grows in influence every day.
I think ole Bandar has pulled the smooth skin of his masculine grip out of the elder Bush's hand. I think someone's heart might be breaking.
