Americans hate America

Most Americans think the government is shit, the economy sucks, and we are all doomed.

quick, unplug the internets!

"So I've told people that, if you're interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from having the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon"

Dear Iran, please do not click on this link. Thank you.

Osama bin Laden tells it like it is

It's pretty sad when a terrorist leader can give a more articulate speech than the President of the United State (are you at OPEC or APEC shithead?). Assuming this is really Osama and not some lame attempt at psyops, which is certainly possible...

Republican Justice

Any man who goes by the name "Scooter" probably won't survive long in prison, so perhaps Bush wanted to save Scooter Libby's life.

More likely is Bush didn't want Scooter to talk.

against all empires

People want a world without superpowers.

Republicans want your brain to rot

The only explanation for this is that they want Americans so brain damaged that we keep voting Republican:

The Bush administration said Tuesday it will fight to keep meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease.

The Agriculture Department tests fewer than 1 percent of slaughtered cows for the disease, which can be fatal to humans who eat tainted beef. A beef producer in the western state of Kansas, Creekstone Farms Premium Beef, wants to test all of its cows.

Does it make any kind of sense that they are going to "fight" to stop a company from doing additional testing? We seriously live in a fucking dystopia.

an American suicide

So the Democrats capitulated to Bush on the Iraq funding bill. No real benchmarks required. No timetables. Yet another blank check to pay for more useless deaths.

Meanwhile, the sabers continue to rattle through the Middle East. Gas prices continue to climb. Housing prices continue to fall. National debt continues to grow with no end in sight. The trade deficit continues to skyrocket. The climate continues to change. American culture continues its obsession with celebrity and vacuous entertainment. Etc. Etc. Etc...

Some academic who has studied these sorts of things once said something along the lines of " civilizations are never destroyed unless they commit suicide". We've got the bullets in the gun and the barrel in our mouth, we can watch the season finale of American Idol while we pull the trigger.

The Decider

"The question is, who ought to make that decision? The Congress or the commanders? And as you know, my position is clear -- I'm the commander guy."

Laura Bush is a total asshat

Think of all the horrors of the Debacle in Iraqle. Now try to think of who has suffered the most. Did Laura and George pop into your head?

If she wants to see real suffering she should go visit some of the tens of thousands of severely injured soldiers, or the families of the dead, or maybe even some of the front line grunts living in tents who get serenaded by mortars and gunfire every night. Then she can shut the fuck up and go back to popping Xanax and wondering why George spends so much time alone with Condi.

i got my fist, i got my plan, i got survivalism

year zero

cognitive dissonance

After spending the last several years answering any questions about the number of troops in Iraq by saying he lets the generals decide how many troops they need, Bush has suddenly become a military genius.

Pre-military genius Bush:

"General Casey will make the decisions as to how many troops we have there," Bush said, adding: "He'll decide how best to achieve victory and the troop levels necessary to do so. I've spent a lot of time talking to him about troop levels. And I've told him this: I said, 'You decide, General.' "

The new military genius Bush, aka The Decider:

By yesterday, however, Bush indicated that he will not necessarily let military leaders decide, ducking a question about whether he would overrule them. "The opinion of my commanders is very important," he said. "They are bright, capable, smart people whose opinion matters to me a lot." He added: "I agree with them that there's got to be a specific mission that can be accomplished with the addition of more troops before I agree on that strategy."

A senior aide said later that Bush would not let the military decide the matter. "He's never left the decision to commanders," said the aide, who spoke on the condition of anonymity so Bush's comments would be the only ones on the record.

Ever notice how senior aides nearly always have to give anonymous interviews to the press afterwards to make it clear exactly what the hell Bush is actually saying? I wish I could do that, anytime I show up somewhere drunk and incoherent and act like a total jackass some guy in a suite would come out afterwards and say whatever I would have said if I wasn't a drunken jackass.