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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
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There have to be clowns...
Maybe they're here...
Well, I guess that depends on your defiition of "America," Kickstart. 50% of us at least didn't vote for these SOBs, not in 2000, not in 2004. Many of us actively worked against him. We protest, we do actions, we fund opponents, write letters to the editor, call our elected representatives, and yet, here we are.
Okay, so there are way too many stupid/gullible/evil people who've supported this regime. But Bush was a "popular" President for how long? Six months after 9/11? A year?
Yeah, people got tired. I stopped going to protests because I felt like they were useless. These f**kers were going to do whatever they were going to do, regardess of the "will of the people."
I don't know, I'm sick, angry, depressed; I'm way beyond frustrated, I think about leaving the country, every day. I think about not wanting to be an American any more. I think if they drop a nuclear bunker buster on Iran, that will be it for me.
And yet I still hope. I hope that they've gone too far. I hope that too many people are sick, angry, disgusted and can't take it any more. And that somehow our sentiments will be translated into effective action.
Go see the movie. While it does not focus on solutions (the film concentrates on making the argument that global warming exists and what the potential consequences of rapid climate change are), it ends on an optimistic note, laying out what we can do using today's technology to solve this crisis.
The fix-it program does not involve nuclear power, btw...
The first part of this book I really enjoyed - the whole, young writer seeking dark experience to deepen her work. But as the book went on, the implausibility factor became so high - why were all of these people, police, reporters, prison officials, so willing to help this girl? - that I got off the ride. As the story continues, I started thinking, okay, just who is this girl? Her character never really comes into focus. And the last sentence - okay, it was funny. But it was a cheap joke that underscored the contempt that the author seems to have for his hapless heroine.
The reviews are set up as a series of articles, which is a little confusing.
Click the link at the bottom of the first page; it will take you to the first review. The link to the second review is at the end of the first review, and so on.
I'm not even going to deal with the larger issues raised here. Just go see the movie for Meryl Streep's performance. She is absolutely wonderful, and if this weren't a comic role released at the wrong time of the year, a sure lock for an Oscar nomination.
I have no idea what either of you are trying to say.
I agree with just about everything you've said here, but you undermine your own argument by a gratuitous sexist (sorry, but it is) crack. Patricia's ignorance is not a function of her gender, and her knowledge-base may or may not having anything to do with cooking.
Just saying.
Speaking for myself, living six years in a near-continual state of rage about what has happened to this country does make one say less than politic things at times...
I think it's to our advantage to have families like the Kesbeh's in the US. Given the conflicts between the US and the Arab world, we need people like these to be a bridge and an example, to show that the American way of life and Arab cultures are not incompatible.
I also think the earlier poster's comment about the uneasy status of Palestinians is well-taken. They have no country to return to.
Hoo-boy...
Plenty of Democrats have said plenty of things about the mismanagment of the Iraq War, and the lies that got us into it in the first place. I'm on a couple dozen mailing lists and I get such statements multiple times in a day. But without the Presidential soapbox and a captive media outlet (Fox News), most of these criticisms don't get heard by a mass audience.
But it's clear that a majority of Americans have turned against the war and a majority of Americans disapprove of Bush's running of it. I believe a majority of Americans have great unease about other aspects of Bush's presidency and policies as well. But for people who don't pay a lot of attention to the news and don't delve into issues much past TV coverage, they may not have concrete reasons to articulate their unease. They just have the sense that something has gone very wrong. I think a lot of these people still trusted Bush on the "terror" issue and that he was "keeping America safe" - mainly because he and his propaganda machine kept telling us he was doing so.
Something like Foley serves as a crystallization of that unease. It exposes the fiction that the Republican leadership is either competent or cares about the welfare of most Americans. They are willing to sacrifice our soldiers; they are even willing to sacrifice young Republicans - whatever it takes to maintain their stranglehold on power.
It's never about what it's about, and Foleygate is about far more than the misdeeds of one Republican Congressman.
If you watch the clip, it's clear that Kerry was referring to the Bush White House, not troops in the field.
If Kerry really was trying to "insult the troops," how to make sense of his own personal history? He got that higher education, he went to Yale, and he chose to serve in Vietnam.
The Bush Administration's extremist foreign policy and gross incompetence has literally gotten our troops killed and maimed by the thousands. And we're all supposed to get our panties in a wad over a failed punchline by an actual war vet who isn't even running for office.
Is this the best Rove's got?
Pathetic.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
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