Please go read this from The Cunning Realist. He's a conservative. He says so right on the sidebar of his blog.
And this from IOS at Who Is IOS? Watch the video for a glimpse of our oh-so-confusing life in Bushland.
Thanks to my man Oyster at Your Right Hand Thief for the links.
The motto of Wounded Bird is: when you have nothing of your own, borrow, borrow, borrow.
Grandmere,
ReplyDeleteI used to think that W was just stupid, but I'm afraid that I have come to the conclusion that he and the VP are just plain evil. It's hard for me to imagine that people could really plan all this mess, but after watching these two for the last 7 years, I've come to believe that no one can be that dumb, and therefore, the only logical explanation is evil.
LTL, Cheney is not stupid. Bush is crafty, but not smart. I think he may be a puppet who took on a life of his own, independent of his puppetmasters. He thinks God is on his side. Neither seems to have qualms about lying.
ReplyDeleteBush lives in a fantasy world, and is way out of his depth facing any complicated issue or situation, whether in this country or in other parts of the world.
They've got us in a deep, dark hole, and all they know is to keep digging, or they will have to admit that they have made horrible and tragic mistakes.
It looks to me that the original plan, the plan we were never told about, was to get control of Iraq's oil, get the crony oil companies in to reap profits and direct the oil to the US. Beyond that, and sweets and flowers for the US troops from the Iraqis, I don't know if they had a plan.
I don't know what to make of them, but I look on with horror. They have blood on their hands, and all of us in the US, in some sense, are complicit.
God help us all!
Thanks for the various links. The reality is better to know that the delusions we are told. Evil, sad, and it seems hopeless, but I do believe in the power of God to work in every situation. Please, oh God, have mercy.
ReplyDeletethis is depressing. can you spell q-u-a-g-m-i-r-e?
ReplyDeleteI try to give Bush as much as I can because he says he's a Christian.
But it's disheartening.
and I don't trust Cheney at all.
Jan, "Our Help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth."
ReplyDeleteDiane, I can't cut Bush any slack because he calls himself a Christian. It seems to me that he should be all the more accountable for what he's done because he professes to be a follower of Jesus.
It's been a very long time since I had even one smidgen of trust in either of them.
The more I think about it, “After all, you just go to an emergency room” was Bush's "qu'ils mangeant de la brioche" moment - except, of course, that Marie Antoinette has a good excuse - she never said it.
ReplyDeleteOn a lighter note, think you might enjoy these cartoons:
http://www.redmeat.com/redmeat/2004-06-15/index-1.gif
http://www.redmeat.com/redmeat/2003-11-18/index-1.gif
Lapin, the cartoons were funny. An old Cajun saying goes like this:
ReplyDeleteBe careful what you pray for, 'cause sometimes it don't smell so good when you hol' it in your hand.
Oh, and thanks for the link to the lovely "Contemplations From the Marianas Trench". The MIDI settings I have listened to are a tad over-orchestrated for my taste - to a point where sometimes it's difficult to fit words to music - but there's some great, useful stuff there.
ReplyDeleteThe University of Virginia has a couple of good pages with 19th c. American, slavery-related popular songs:
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/utc/minstrel/misohp.html
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/utc/songs/sohp.html
Lapin, interesting, especially the caricatures on the sheet music.
ReplyDeleteI sang some of the songs on your first link when I was in a minstrel show - yes a minstrel show - at a tender age in my Roman Catholic grade school. The show was a fund-raiser for the school. That blacking on the face was a bitch to get off.
We had a bunch of those songs on an old 75rpm record, back in the day.
I know precisely what you mean. The BBC had a very popular black-face television show called "The Black and White Minstrel Show" that, incredibly, ran through 1978. NOT something one sees over here during ETV fund-raisers. As a kid, the nursery rhymes in my 78 record collection included what was later renamed "Ten Little Indians". In some ways things have changed rapidly and for the better.
ReplyDeleteps. This is fun and sort-of in keeping.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp?cont=1&hdn=0&pv=3111921
That is fun. And a Happy Thanksgiving to you, too.
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