Wednesday, September 19, 2007

More Random Thoughts On the Day's News

A new study finds that Southern California commuters waste, on average, seventy hours per year stuck in traffic. Seventy hours per year? Are you kidding me? All I can say is, from my perspective, there are a whole lot of folks out here not doing their fair share of traffic time.

Other than George W. Bush, is there a dumber man ever to grace this great nation than O.J. Simpson?

Speaking of Bush, now he says he wants Congress to make his illegal domestic wiretap program permanently legal. The next time I have the urge to call Bush a lazy slacker, I'm going to remember his grand legacy, his one shining accomplishment: first president to burn the Constitution in effigy.

Iraqi leaders want to shove Blackwater out of their country for shooting a bunch of innocent civilians. If they come up with the gumption to throw out the other 100,000-plus hired mercenaries, er, "contractors" we have fighting there it could be a real turning point in this mess. Take away the mercenaries, er, "contractors" and there's no way our over-stretched and broken military can avoid being run over by the burgeoning civil war, er, "sectarian violence." Bush will have to make one of two choices: either reinstate the draft or get us the hell out.

As you can see from the previous paragraph, I've pretty much had it with the misleading labels the righties have come up with for explaining this "war." In fact, we're not waging a "war," we're conducting an occupation. We're not dealing with "sectarian violence," we're conducting our occupation in the middle of a civil war. These are not "contractors" out killing innocent people, they are hired mercenaries. We are not "building Democracy," we're protecting our oil interests. And, for the love of God, we're not "fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them over here," we're fighting them over there because that's the best venue for Haliburton to make the most money possible from the blood and guts of our brave men and women. Note to Republicans: quit trying to tell us the sky is green and water is dry. We know better.

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