"The more you say it, the more people accept it.
They might as well admit it, this is political
strategy based on wearing down
the opposition."
I have started to shift my personal "documentation work"
from quoting the New York Times which has the disadvantage
of being copyrighted and interpreted thru the filter
of liberal reporters, to quoting White House Press Releases
directly.
At this time there are 17 hits if you search on
"trifecta" at www.whitehouse.gov, most followed
immediately in the transcript by: "(laughter)".
I should do a search on "laughter" -- I will right now.
914 hits. Nobody can accuse AlQaeda of dampening
our spirits (Heraclitus said that a dry soul is best!).
--
Here's a recent quote: Reporter: Are you asking for a
blank check? Bush: I am sending Congress suggested language for
a resolution they can pass to show they support keeping the
peace. That's what it's all about.
http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/quotes2.html#Q122
Why doesn't the reporter say:
Excuse me, Mr. President, but can you please answer
the question: Are you asking Congress for a blank check?
Yes or no, please, Sir.
No self-righteous parent or teacher would let their child
get away with this kind of disrespect: Who do you think
you are? Answer the question I asked, not the question
you want to answer!
And there's the truth of it: Bush is the adult and the
reporter is a child. Bush even ends by giving
the reporter a gold star:
Campbell,
congratulations, you got two questions in one day. And it
wasn't even a follow-up -- that's a brilliant performance.
Two questions. But how many answers?
Here's the deal: He sets it up so we have two choices: Suffer
and die for the profit of him and his cronies, or else
be traitors and let humanity fall into the hands of
Satan's incarnation-du-jour. The right thing to do,
of course, would be to defeat the Satan-du-jour and then
have a crimes-against-humanity trial of OUR LEADERS,
with summary executions to save our tax dollars.
I think it's high time that those who get the big
salaries also get the opportunity to commit sepeku
when bad thinkg happen on their watch even and especially
if they know nothing about it. Bush could
have taken responsibility for 911. Commander
Waddel could have taken responsibility for the Ehime Maru.
And Waddle's boss could have taken responsibility for
Waddle. It's a free country, isn't it? Nobody's
stopping these people from setting up a cheap
video camera, turning it on, making a sincere
apology to the American people and doing the right thing.
CNN would broadcast the tape.
Instead, lots of "little people" always have and ever again
will get the opportunity to have a sword stuck thru their
gut be cuase the alternative would be to be traitors and
be cvourt martialed and hung. Dulce et decorum
semper est pro patris mori.
I think it's time we took Nancy Reagan's advice and "Just say
no". If the world goes to hell in a hand basket, what's
the big deal, for, as I believe Achilles said, the hero
dies only once whereas the coward dies a thousand times.
People need to stop having children, because children
are the hostages our leaders use to blackmail us:
You wouldn't let your children fall into the
hands of Saddam Hussein, would you? What children?
Uhhhh.....
If the people in power won't give us a truly
"novus ordo seclorum", maybe it's [long past]
time to close down this charette. Lights out,
George, the Rose Garden is closed until some new
benefactor comes along.
Some day a rogue asteroid will wipe out the human
adventure. It really won't make much difference
if there are any witnesses to see it or not.
Not to have been born surpasses thought and speech.
Second best to have seen the light and gone back
swiftly whence one came. The feathery follies
of his youth once over, what trouble is beyond
the range of man? What [suffering] must he not endure?
(--Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus)
You see, Mr. Bush, I too attended a prep school, and
I too learned something there, although not what you
learned.
In the mean time, carpe diem for as long as
the day still shows a positive bottom line!
If you can't be rich, watch L'Avventura (I jsut bought
the DVD), or, for moral edification, watch the end of
Bergmann's The Seventh Seal. Verba volent scripta volent....
\brad mccormick
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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