Bush and the Organization of Islamic Countries Envoy
Some commentary.
Seriously, it’s like sending a special envoy to the neo-nazis in Idaho to get their opinions on how to treat neo-nazis.
George, you munkie.
I Smell Economic Depression
Not repression, depression… 2009, I think… maybe 2010.
Big war to pull out in 2011 or 2012.
Could be bad.
Could be worse.
When I Said “I Do”…
When I said “I Do”, I invested my ego into her. That’s half my being. My friends, my family, my NAME, the essence that I’ve built from birth… my very identity is wrapped up in her and around her.
Does she know that? Does she understand? Really understand?
If she knew, would it be different?
Bush’s Mistake Is Truth, But It’s More Pundit Buffoonery
“You know, I’ve heard all the rhetoric — you’ve heard it, too — about
how this is amnesty. Amnesty means that you’ve got to pay a price for
having been here illegally, and this bill does that,” Bush said,
according to the official White House transcript.
You bandwagon bastards, the one president who is absolutely abysmal at giving clear and concise speeches is being called out because he misspoke? Fuuuuuck you. It’s like Kerry fucking up the joke about the troops. It was obvious he was jamming on Bush, but this publicly-condemned golem misspeaks, just as you’d expect him to do, and everyone’s all over him.
Look, my point is there’s plenty to be angry about when it comes to politicians. Using gaffes as flash points is probably the most ignorant way of pointing out that the people we’ve elected are virtually retarded. These people can be trounced with actual facts about their actions and policy decisions. Making a poor turn of phrase into a big deal makes the whistleblowers look like buffoons.
Control The Terms, And You Control The Argument
The word “occupation” has been accepted, foolishly, by too many in the
West. It does not adequately describe Israel’s taking possession,
because of its victory in the Six-Day War thrust upon it by Nasser and
a runaway Egyptian military, of Gaza and “the West Bank.” (An aside:
curious, isn’t it, that the topoynms “Judea” and “Samaria,” though they
have been in use all over the Western world since Roman times, and
certainly were used by Jesus and the first Christians, suddenly dropped
out of use, and the vague placename invented by the Jordanians in 1949,
“the West Bank,” was accepted and “Judea” and “Samaria” mocked as
“Biblical names used only by Israel’s right-wing” — yet at the same
time “Gaza,” a Biblical term for which the Egyptians did not find a
replacement, continues to be unembarrassedly used by those in the West
who, having no sense of history or logic, who would not be caught dead
referring to “Judea” and “Samaria”?)
