take back America from the jerks

Closing this goal as part of my “no ‘cause-related’ goals for now” spring, erm, fall cleaning…

Irony Deprived, Depraved, Erectile
Dysfunctional…

A no holds barred rant from Durst’s one man off-Broadway show “The All-American Sport of Bipartisan Bashing.”

Michael Moore roasts CNN

Keith Olbermann ridicules Homeland Security head Michael Chertoff’s gut feeling we’ll be attacked by terrorists this summer.

...the jerks include bankers.

This is a really entertaining and informative animated film about where money comes from.

Banks conjure money. The only thing that they have of actual value is your signed promise to pay a loan back with interest. that document can be traded like money. So debt creates wealth. Banks are allowed to create as much money as is borrowed from them.

Today I was on the subway and these 2 girls got on the train with food. They stood up in the middle of the aisle, opened it, and started eating it. It may not sound like a big deal, but NOBODY eats on the train. Its something that just doesnt happen. There is not supposed to be any food on the train. When they opened up the box, the small started to fill up that part of the train. Its not that it smelled particularly bad, but I didnt like the smell – maybe because I knew it wasnt supposed to be there. So when I got to the next stop I told them there is no food on the train. Im not sure what they did at that point, but at least they no longer could say they didnt know. So much for people who think the rules dont apply to them.

from a friend:

V.I.? Why, victory in Iraq, of course. It was four years ago today that our glorious and divinely anointed president landed on the deck of a U.S. Aircraft carrier, decked out in his finest Jet Fighter Pilot costu…er…uniform and proclaimed these immortal words under a “Mission Accomplished!” banner

“Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the Battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed. And now our coalition is engaged in securing and reconstructing that country.”

Pretty stirring stuff, I think you’ll agree. Why was it only a quick 1461 days ago that the war in Iraq ended. And of course since then, our troops have been showered with flowers and greeted as liberators as President Bush’s neo-conservative oracles had foretold. It would really be a mess if 3,300 Americans and no one really knows how many Iraqis had been killed in a pointless and illegal war. Why, you might even read about that in the paper.

But let us not dwell on unpleasant what-if’s. Let’s just fire up the grills, open up a a case of Bud Light, read some scripture and thank Jesus for this great and not-at-all messy or quagmire like victory for us, God’s favorite country.

Mission Accomplished, everybody

I’m done being an angry teenager. DONE, I TELL YOU! I give up, I’m leaving. See you in a few years, America.

Well the boys in blue now that the majority in congress. let’s hope they can pull some worthwhile things off with the opportunity.

I have been glued to CNN.

The failure of neocon policy was not due to flaws in neocon policy. It was White House incompetence in the execution. Say the Neocons.

‘Kenneth Adelman, a lifelong neocon activist and Pentagon insider who served on the Defense Policy Board until 2005, wrote a famous op-ed article in The Washington Post in February 2002, arguing: “I believe demolishing Hussein’s military power and liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk.” Now he says, “I just presumed that what I considered to be the most competent national-security team since Truman was indeed going to be competent. They turned out to be among the most incompetent teams in the post-war era. Not only did each of them, individually, have enormous flaws, but together they were deadly, dysfunctional.”’

There are many excuses, and one of the most bizarre for the royal f#ckup in Iraq (no mention of the one in Afghanistan? or is that not yet admitted?) comes from a Michael Ledeen of the American Enterpise Institute, who blames the “women who love the president: Laura [Bush], Condi, Harriet Miers, and Karen Hughes.”

Its interesting that most of the poeple interviewed pushed the blame onto the core of the Bush Admin. It was the unfathomable incompetance of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, who failed to keep with the program. They mouthed the rhetoric, but they didnt believe it. Despite many of the interviewed neocons knowing the players before, working with them before, and holding senior positions in the Bush administration, they cant accept blame.

Riiiight. Nothing to do with you and your other PNAC cronies. nothing to do with a flawed ideology that you authored or supported. Nothing to do with a flawed premise for war. Nothing to do with any of it. Not your fault. huh.

Bastards. Its nice to hear some little scraps of remorse, though, even if off focus. The embarassment should be their arrogant, dangerous, xenophobic, naive belief in America’s global superiority in all things (moral, cultural, economic, as well as military spending). Not simply overestimating Bush.

Try again, guys. The Hatter, at least, says “We’re all mad here”.