Because we are just dying to do September 11th, 2001 all over again.
Are you guys that slow that you still don’t understand most of the 9-11 substitute pilots were from Saudi Arabia and were moved to militancy by the long term presence of US troops in their country? There was no terrorism in Iraq before the US gave them the Britannia make-over. It’s now a massive perfomance piece of the 1812 Overture on wheels. If we got out of all the countries in which we currently quarter troops, terrorism would drop to a tiny fraction of what it is today. That’s not an opinion, it’s a fact. If you find yourself unable to agree then you, my cognitive dissonant chum, are a de facto sponsor of terrorism.
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The lyrics found by this query are fanciful. She did not die in prison—the soul of the Nakota, Dakota, Lakota, Cheyenne, and such did. Crazy Horse’s daughter died as a young child, of cholera probably.
Please click on the image to visit the amazing monument to this real American hero being carved out of a mountain.
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That is to say, we should impeach the president of the United States of America for the smallest infraction of the law whatsoever. The president works for the citizens of the US as our highest law enforcement officer. He’s either within the law completely or he’s unfit for the work. If he’s not one of the greatest Americans living, he should not have the greatest job America has to offer. We’re not his lackeys. He answers to us.
It is that simple but I know some of you want more.
You think the current guy is bad, you’re right. But what happens whenever we have a guy this bad in the captain’s seat—and God! he stinks to Hell—is that we forget the last guy—Clinton in this case—was also an ass-reaming, child killing, tub of goo who spent more time trying to erode American freedom than he did getting his knob polished by secretaries, interns, and beauty queens.
So, they continue to get worse. The precedents build and soon there is no pressure for the president to do anything but exactly what the fuck he feels like doing.
And guess what? Because, in part, y’all were unwilling to legally oust Reagan and Clinton, that’s exactly where we’ve landed. [I will admit the words “President Cheney” and “President Gore” fill my heart with horror but the point stands and their heads could have rolled just as metaphorically.]
George W Bush, the pinnacle of human evolution and civilized progress said of Iraq–
I will not withdraw even if Laura and Barney are the only ones supporting me.
George W Bush as reported in “State of Denial”
The President just remarked that he wouldn’t end an illegal, catastrophic, phony war. Not even if the entire Congress, Judiciary, and country stood up and told him he had to.
Without the threat of impeachment being a bit more than a joke, the only ones to whom American presidents are beholden now are their wives and dogs. Could be worse, I guess. Could be Tipper, Shiloh, and Daisy.
I’d be more excited about this if I thought it came from someone besides a Texas republican or some noisy twat in Ohio trying to help prevent an audit of electronic voting machines.
I’ll give you a couple pieces of information you might not have heard before and let you make up your blue, blue mind.
The Great Depression did not end on his watch though he has somehow come to gain historical credit for it. The US remained in a persistant trough of recession and depression while he was president. Unemployment remained in the double digits despite his supposedly successful work programs. Only when he died, war ended, and some of his policies were rolled back, did the US economy recover.
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Actually we generally don’t. To our eternal shame. Those ten rules are the most important words ever written by humans and they are almost entirely responsible for the fruition of the greatest nation the world ever knew. Losing them means the end of that nation and the ensuing return, digital or otherwise, to the dark ages.
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While legally proscribed from directly participating in bolstering this term’s importance in the American lexicon, we are Constitutionally guaranteed the right to pray for a resurgence in common usage.
God bless America.
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Me: Wait a second. I think I have something in my ear. Did that watery, infectious, trough of cow-shit just use Dr King’s legacy as a metaphor in support of the continuing occupation of Iraq?
Myself: Yes, I believe he did.
Me: On the day, on the day of Coretta Scott King’s death?
Myself: No one’s saying it wasn’t tacky.
Me: Why aren’t you furious? Foaming? Swearing up a blue streak?
Myself: What are you gonna do? Endorse Hillary?
Me: Oh, yeah. Quite right.
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The answer is like that of most other yes or no questions: yes and no.
I had just around 85 teachers and professors in my education from K-12 and Freshmeat through Senioritis II: Revenge of the Graduated. I remember 20 of those teachers fondly and 3 or 4 as exceptional. I distinctly recall knowing that I was smarter than about 60 of them and that 40 were positively wasting everyone’s time.
The exceptional teachers—they fucking deserved between $250K and a cool $1,000,000 for what they did for me and continue to do for others. The 20—they deserve better than they get; the $60-$120K range.
Those 40? They deserve to get the worst possible treatment in the unemployment line until they land in the jobs they’re truly qualified for like ditch digger, crack whore, and George Bush crony.
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When the AP Murrah building in Oklahoma City was quite literally defaced 149 adults, and 19 children in the first floor daycare, died. People who probably had done nothing terrible to anyone in their entire lives. People who did not deserve to die. Americans who did not deserve to die. Civilians who were killed by a decorated American war hero.
Every day overseas right now an American kid—maybe he’s 18, maybe he’s 25—kills an Iraqi—maybe an armed insurgent trying to set an IED, maybe a child or a woman in the line of fire or just running too quickly for help toward a Marine. It takes just 4 pounds of pressure on that M16 trigger and no thought at all to end a life. Just training. Several hundred thousand men trained to not think, evaluate, or deal with their humanity; just to point and squeeze. Taking their practicals every day now. Being given medals and promotions. Sharing the title hero.
That American kid learns the value of a human life is just political capital to be spent, bartered, exchanged, or called-in whenever a whim blows through the marble courtyards of DC. That American kid learns that the difference between murder and killing an enemy is irrelevant; perspective. Learns that his government is as confused as he is and doesn’t care enough about him to send him over with decent equipment or intelligence. Learns that his friends are dead or missing important pieces for a protean series of evaporating reasons that bear no resemblance to the picture his homecoming presents him.
There is collateral damage being done in ways and on levels that will not be known for 20 years after America declared—without an actual declaration—the so called War on Terror. A war without borders. A war without uniforms or enemies who care if they live or die. A war not to win anything. A war without conditions for victory.
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