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The Vidiot's weekly blog: What pissed me off this week? 9/19/2005 (updated every Monday at some point during the day) ...'cause I'm angry and my friends are sick of listening to me... Track your congresscritters here!
Free stuff can be found here Mirror (in case geocities is wacky or, in case of trouble in New York, check it for messages): http://129.79.148.33/vidiotcontact/ Welcome to my Rutgers classmates. I didn't watch the speech last week. I had better things to do. But it did not get rave reviews, down to the buttoning of his shirt. I guess it wasn't a BAD speech, per se. He said most of the right things, it's just that HE was the one to say them, so what can you believe? Do you really believe he accepts "responsibility"? (Honestly, when I heard that, I immediately ran to the window and checked for the four horsemen. And I'm not the only one.) And the media's response? They fawned over 19 words. Anyone who thought they'd sprouted spines over the last few weeks can just toss THAT notion out the window with the fairies. In the Katrina aftermath, a few interesting things have come to light. Turns out the Red Cross was working with Homeland Security and withholding aid, The LA governor, Blanco, did her job correctly (contrary to the right wing spin), and unusual long-term repercussion of the evacuation will be more republicans in office, The Feds bungled their response, FEMA is outsourcing it body counting to a Bush-linked (funeralgate) body-dumping firm and Bush is lifting wage rules for the rebuilding of the Gulf Coast, (a rebuilding, I might add, that's being run by Karl Rove.) But let's just discuss THAT wage thing for a moment, shall we? On the surface, it would seem that Bush is thinking of the small business and severely unemployed here. The thinking being, they can hire more people with the same amount of money. WELL, you can bet that's not how it will work out. All those "connected" firms that are getting the contracts, can now basically pay slave wages, increase their bottom line and pocket even more profit. (Judging by their behavior in Iraq, we can totally trust them with the money.) Well, at least the guy is consistent. And his polls keep going down and his base is getting pissed off. But it's like Leno said on his show the other night (Saw it on ABC Sunday Morning. It's not like I actually watch Leno.): "In the 80s, there was a Bush in the Whitehouse, his ratings were in the 30s and there was a Clinton waiting to take his job. Nothing has changed!" It's a kakistocracy.
Swag of the Week: Vasectomy pen knife Useful Site of the Week/Year: IVR Phone System Shortcuts Pictures of the Week: The Mummies of Guanajuato Clothing of the Week: Hypercolour t-Shirt WTF? of the Week: The Catman Craft of the Week: Crochet Creepy yet Cool Idea of the Week: Video Tombstones Clever Idea of the Week: Pizza Fork Flash of the Week: Falling Bush Cool Thing of the Week: Pocket Mod Video of the Week: Fainting Goats Another Video of the Week: Japanese Cockroaches Senseless Site of the Week: Things in Rubbers Animal Site of the Week: Jumping Cats Correction: Last week, I linked to a Robertson statement blaming Katrina on the Emmy award committee's choice of Ellen Degeneres as the host. Ok. It was satire. I felt like it was, but Robertson is SOOOooo off the deep end, it was easy to believe, no? Programming note: Watch PBS' wideangle this week. They're doing a story on Avian flu. Asshole of the Week Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner for not waiving the new bankruptcy law for Katrina victims.
Hell has a room ready for you, sir. Faith no more. This guy is brilliant. He posed as a "head-banger for Jesus" on Christian radio. And they were so dumb, they didn't figure it out.
A win by default. Here's what gets me about this:
It's not that the dems had any real strategy to garner the support, they just haven't fucked up as much as the republicans have. Flipper lives. One of the feel good stories to come out of New Orleans was the one about the pod of dolphins.
Headline of the Week What? They didn't have potatoes?
(thanks Dave.) A little Watergate anyone? Seems there was a coverup. Just a little one.
Now, who might've done it that, and what exactly might have been the long-term consequences of that? Well, no nevermind. If this article is true:
Then there's a lot more going on that will nail these guys. Chavez should up his bodyguards' pay. This has got to be killing the Bushies. First, Chavez lobs all sorts of insults at the UN
And the Bushies can't find anyone to form a coalition against Venezuela.
May I please be excused? I'm sure you've all seen the picture of the note Bush wrote Condi at the UN.
Not that I don't think the leader of the free-world should have to hold it in until he implodes (and here's a solution), but couldn't they have come up with a more discreet head scratch or ear tug? I mean, he's the laughing stock of Europe now. (As if he wasn't before)
And is this part of Condi's new job description? Not my president. It known to most of us out here who have been paying attention the there was a good chance the that last election was tampered with. Well, what we didn't know was that Homeland Security had issued an alert to Diebold that it was a possibility.
Bottom line: election software should be open-source. Were you aware... Just in case you missed this in the headlines this week, they seemed to have cured breast cancer in mice.
There's also this,
but I don't know how credible it is. Media & Stuff What was missing from this article on AQ Khan was any mention of AG Khan's history with the US government.
That's all they said about him. But Khan has a rich and sordid history that could've been included with at least the on-line version of the story. (Though, honestly, the New York Times has done a poor job of reporting the Khan story to begin with.)
Bottom line, the US government allowed Khan to do what he did because in 1993, it behooved them with regards to Russia's war in Afghanistan. Then, later, when it behooved the administration to expose him, they did. In a realist foreign policy way, it makes sense. A realist, which many in this administration are, is sort of machiavellian. It's the national interest that usurps all other interests. I think the NYT does a disservice to it's readers when it glosses over issues like this, just providing facts with no background. News of the Weird Yeah, I know lots of German guys (homophobes) who'd wear one of these.
Just in case you missed this story,
What do we do about all of this crap? I have no idea. Part of me wants to start teach-ins at my local pub. Just go to the bar, rant and rave and inform the idiots who still think Brian Williams is telling them the truth. I sincerely believe that if we protected the voting rights of the underprivileged that any Democrat could SWEEP any election. I don't think Democrats are the answer. But they are at least a start. At the very least, point your CNN-loving friends to my links page. Just getting started in reading alternate news sites gets people thinking. I have one friend who was very happy-go-lucky, thinking ol' Greta was telling the whole truth until I opened up his eyes a bit. Now, he's all depressed. He'll get over it. You gotta' get depressed before you get angry and you gotta' get angry before you can accomplish anything. We're all in mourning. We have to move through the steps. But we gotta' hurry it up. Read. Inform. Spread the word. Even if it means your friends avoid you for awhile. If they really love you, they'll start to listen.
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