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Nothing that happened today seems worthy of much comment.
Oh, the Vice President not only said that Guantanamo was a success -- “The results speak for themselves,” – but also blithely admitted that he had not only approved torture but helped the people who wanted to torture get their ideas “through the approval process.” It was clear he was proud of this.
What is there to say that hasn’t been said before?
In the Mideast, the street has taken to their hearts the journalist who threw his shoes at President Bush. He’s considered a hero by anyone outside the al-Maliki government. President Bush has laughed it off, but anything that unifies the Arab world probably isn’t a good thing for our troops.
On the other hand, if I had experienced what this journalist has experienced, I might throw my shoes at the leader of the country that led the “Coalition of the Willing” into Iraq.
Closer to home, the state is having trouble meeting its financial obligations. When the education plan was passed in 2005, everyone knew that it was cutting things pretty close, revenue-wise, so it’s not surprising a fall-off in tax collections would dunk the state in hot water. I wonder if the Republican legislators who prided themselves on negotiating that deal without even a modest tax increase are having second thoughts.
Probably not. They still think tax cuts heal all wounds.
The low prices we’re paying at the pump are causing oil companies to shut down some drilling projects, causing displacement of the oil riggers and other workers who were going to put them up. I wonder, don’t the oil companies ever put aside some of those obscene profits they make to get through a rainy day?
Or have their savings have gone the way of the savings of the rest of us?
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I admit to wanting to interview Cheney just about as much as I would like to interview BTK ...and, both for the same reasons: to find out what makes a sociopath tick.
I can't think that there is too much difference in the world views of either Cheney or BTK. The saddest aspect of all about Cheney and the rest of the Bush crowd is that we allowed them to manipulate their way into the uppermost echelons of American power. Americans were like people who didn't know their house was infected with termites until it was too late to save the house.
If we EVER get the Constitution back to where all of our Bill of Rights are once again functional, I will be very surprised.
I'm afraid that the termites have pretty well eaten through the foundation of our nation's most important underpinnings of democratic principles - our freedoms.
Now that we've given up our moral leadership with our adoption of unprovoked war and the implementation of torture of US citizens (note the Padea case), the only thing left for us to do is become witnesses to history.
Here's hoping that Obama can bring us back together as one nation ...a nation that does what is right and not only what is right for American and Multi-national corporations. You'd think that more than a hundred years of using our military for the advancement of Wall Street, Banks and our corporations would be enough. As General Smedley Darlington Butler said, "I spent 33 years in the Marines, most of my time being a high-class muscle man for big business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for Capitalism."
Here's hoping that if Obama can play it safe, right down the middle, without offending the power elite - - which includes the 40,000 primary contractors and 80,000 subcontractors that make up the Military Industrial Complex, Wall Street etc. - - maybe he can, as JFK had intended to do, steer the Ship of State away from war during his second term.
We can only hope.
Carl
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