How does the saying go?

"You can fool all of the people some of the time...

...You can fool some of the people all of the time...

...But you can't fool all of the people all of the time!"

Have I got that right?

As GW Bush and Gang have clearly demonstrated over the past seven years...the thieves who rule us don't really NEED to fool all the people all the time... they are managing very well indeed with fooling just the some of the people some of the time!

And this article demonstrates that the Democrats have been participating in almost equal measure, in fooling the people (or getting fooled themselves)...

US citizens (and citizens around the world, in fact) need to start investigating the systems that govern them in rather greater depth than they currently do. It's very clear that the superficial attention we have been paying to our 'systems of governance' just will not do. (Actually that should be 'systems of mis-governance and mal-administration'... and we still haven't caught on!)

I think even the execrable GW Bush had some appropriate words of wisdom..."Fool me once - shame on you...fool me twice - shame on me!

Well, he did it once, and got himself all the funding he needed to launch his dirty war...and now, it's happening all over again, and the Democratic 'Leadership' in Congress have STILL not caught on to the game!!!

--- GSC

Yes, those pop-in ads are truly irritating - till you learn how to deal with them.

The pop-in pops in when your mouse moves over the ad. When that happens, a tiny "x" also appears at the top right hand corner of the ad. If you do not wish to read the guff of the ad, just click on that "x", and the pop-in pops right out!! - try it out. The ad is still quite irritating, but at least one can do something about it.

-- GSC

Louis Bayard is more or less on the ball with his assessment of Gore Vidal's virtues as an essayist:

-- (cutting) wit, with an exceptional ability to get into the heart of the matter;

-- (superb and memorable) phrasemaking,

-- autodidacticism;

-- a talent to inflame;

-- prescience

(and much else).

But Bayard is way, way off base in dismissing Vidal's novels so cheaply. Probably he was not one of the 'greatest' novelist, though I think it's much too early to make that kind of pronouncment: but in my view he is certainly amongst the better novelists that the US has produced (and the US has produced some of the very best).

--GSC

SCOTUS has done at least part of what POTUS always wanted: GIVE EVERYBODY THEIR TOYS TO PLAY WITH!

How very nicely POTUS thanked SCOTUS for doing what he wanted!

CONGUS (Congress of the US) five years ago gave POTUS all the money he wanted so that he could bomb the shit out of Eye-rack. (Hillary Clinton was right there!)

But I didn't notice POTUS thanking CONGUS (or Hillary) for giving him the money to get him the toys he wanted to do his thing. Ingrate!

Remember how POTUS when he was Governor of Texas just loved to send 150-odd people to the execution chamber? Problem is now as POTUS he can't quite do that no more.

It was JESUS told POTUS to do that (of course, he wasn't POTUS then! But he was sure to be, because even as POTUS-to-be he always followed JESUS' instructions every day).

And it was JESUS told POTUS-to-be (yes, when he was only Governor of Texas) to sneer at Karla Faye Tucker when on the morning she was to be executed she telephoned him to beg for mercy.

I do hope POTUS thanked JESUS nicely.

What a good life JESUS has given POTUS!

GSC

...to put GW Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld... and all the rest of that bunch of war criminals in jail for the rest of their miserable lives - or at least to make the formal efforts towards that laudable aim. Now add former General Richard Mysers to that shaming list.

So when are US citizens planning to get off their collective butt, put their voices powerfully together and work to accomplish it?

[I understand Dennis Kucinich has placed an Impeachment Motion before Congress. (See: ) It appears over 1 million people have signed it to put pressure on Congress to DO it, and DO it NOW! If there were something like 10 million US citizens thus demanding impeachment, I'm pretty sure that Congress would find it difficult to ignore 10 million US citizens].

GSC

http://www.impeachbush.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5283

Sorry about that.

GSC