The Once and Future Ki-… P.M.

A not so poignant look at, “and he created them in his own image” administration.

That cold Susie, really cold.

And be careful, you never know what Adam might have…

As always, it’s not who votes that counts; it’s who counts the votes, that counts.

Jafaari, I feel your pain.
Grouseland’s budget for amenities is limited, but I have Herman Miller chairs. Herman Miller is located in Zeeland MI, my home territory and one of my uncles was an executive there. He let me roam the returned merchandise warehouse to outfit my shop. Herman Miller built the only chair displayed in MOMA (Museum of Modern Art). Damn good chairs.

You don’t reckon Allawi would actually make such a blatant power grab, knowing that W would just assume the deer-in-the-headlight look, drool gallons, and be unable to make a decision about what to do next, for days on end, do you? And by then, it would be a fait accompli? Probably a reasonably safe bet.

By the way, Bush took a hell of a chance today, after making another “historically important” speech about his Iraq War Stategy. He took questions from the crowd. Questions that had not been scripted from people who had not been vetted, finger printed, loyalty oathed, retinally scanned and rectally scoped. I bet they won’t let him do that again. Almost immediately, the dervishes and spin doctors were backtracking and denying and blaming Democrats. Jumpin’ Jesus, three more years of these clowns.

Murray - Yes, that’s inspirational posters in a nutshell.

Cooper - Did I hear Bush answer a question by saying that yes, we went to war over WMDs and, no, there weren’t any, but he’d do the same thing over again? I keep thinking of a line from the movie Ruthless People: “This could very well be the stupidest person on the face of the earth.”

Bob, that is a good line, plus the line about why “Debbie can’t come to the phone right now”.

Murray,
“Who” counted the votes in disputed Fla. counties were Dems. and Big Media, and no matter how many times they counted them, it was still Bush. Get over it.

Bob,
He’d do again w/ the same info…Wait a minute…, I’m the “stupidest person on the face of the earth” for trying to explain what sane people have known for years to obvious aliens.

WF
This is a quote from the Miami Herald which did a full FL recount of EVERY ballot cast in 2000
” if the recount had been started from scratch in each of Florida’s 67 counties, Gore would be in the White House today.”

You must have missed the stories that pointed that out.

As long as Diebold has non trackable voting machines around, you bet it’s who counts the votes that count.

Say, last time I asked you this question you failed to answer, but wouldn’t you agree that the war in Iraq has been incompetently handled. I mean letting the looting go on with out stepping in, letting the Museum of Antiquities be looted, letting a warehouse of high explosives fall into insurgents hands after we secured the building, allowing the nuclear power plant to be stripped including highly radioactive materials that are perfect for making a dirty bomb, putting the police and army on unemployment, not getting water, electricity, sewage etc. for the people, telling the insurgents to “Bring it On!” I’m only a third of the way through but I think you get the idea. Wouldn’t you agree that this is the most incompetent administration in recent memory?

Now, now, kids, let’s not bring up the subject of the “vote count” in Florida all those years ago. It’s accepted that Bush “won” the “vote”, just as it’s accepted there were enough voting irregularities in those states controlled by Bush’s cronies and relatives to make the Azerbaijan and Zimbabwe elections look like a clean show of hands in a classroom! (And by “accepted”, I specifically mean accepted by nonpartisan people the world over, not accepted by republican Americans - in other words, it doesn’t matter a foetid dingo’s kidney.)

My favourite inspirational poster (hanging in my office here) is a huge closeup of some McDonald’s-type fries, with the motto “Not everyone gets to be an Astronaut when they grow up”…

I’d imagine that, to a dingo, the significance of dingo kidneys is obvious. Even more so to a fetid dingo!

Thanks Pete.

http://www.convergencetime.com/weaselden/?p=182

(and just to prove this isn’t blogwhoring, no one else can click on this link but Pete, so there)

Fetid dingo’s kidneys indeed.

-my name? my name is not important.

David, I’ll have to send you a copy of the Diabetic Dingos’ Journal. I have no idea why dingo kidneys are important, apart from the dingo’s fondness of them for the usual urinary and territorial reasons. As a kid, I learned a very old saying about a “Dingo’s Breakfast” - being a pee and a look around…

‘Course, now that dingos are blamed for every problem the Big White Farmers experience - from livestock to water and fauna degradation - they won’t be around for very much longer (there are only about 5000 pure dingos still living, all the rest are mongrels in the worst sense of the word, having interbred with the Big White Farmers’ untamed animals), so dingo kidneys in any state will be rarer than a pleasant Vogon.

Sorry to go so far OT… I don’t know what’s come over me. Now, where did I put that chad analyzer?

Well, I just listened to Speech #4, which sounded a lot like Speeches #1,2 and 3. So if Allawi really wants to model his reign after this adminstration’s, he just needs to keep repeating “I’m the Prime Minister.” If the Iraqi press is anything like our own, no one will question it.

OF COURSE Bush et al would make the same decision (going to Iraq) with the info we have now. After all, they had the info then, too.

This American Life summarized it nicely in last weekend’s show:

… here are some facts.

Ten days after 9/11, the President’s daily security briefing said that there were few credible links between Iraq and al-Queda. A later CIA report said the same thing. But for three years after getting that information, administration officials continued to say that there were important connections between Iraq and al-Quada, to the point where nearly half the country believed it.

The Vice President went around claiming that 9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta met with Iraq officials, even after the CIA and FBI both informed them that the meeting almost certainly did not take place. The meeting was supposed to have happened in Prague. Atta was in Virginia Beach at the time.

The President and the Vice President claimed Saddam Hussein was importing nuclear material from Africa for more than a year after Ambassador Joseph Wilson proved that it was untrue. What’s so crazy about this one is that it was the Vice President’s office that originally asked the CIA to check the whole thing out. They sent Wilson to Africa. He reported back that it was absolutely untrue, provably so — and then the administration still claimed it was true, in TV appearances and speeches, including the State of the Union.

The administration continued to assert that the Iraqis had mobile factories that could make biological weapons, long after the source for the claim, an Iraqi defector codenamed Curveball, had been discredited.

They continued to say that Iraq had provided al-Queda with chemical and biological weapons training, even after the defense intelligence agency concluded that the source for that information was probably lying.

(And although TAL didn’t mention it, here’s another: the administration was still saying that those aluminum tubes could “only” be used for nuclear purposes, even after it had been determined that the tubes were NOT suitable for nuclear purposes.)

I don’t care *what* political party a president belongs to – if he knowingly deceives us into starting an unnecessary war (and all the things that entails: loss of American life, loss of American financial capital, and loss of America’s credibility, just to name a few of the ways it affected us personally), HE SHOULD BE IMPEACHED. I’d say the same thing if the Prez were a member of the Green Party… and a lot of Republicans are saying it about Bush/Cheney.

The bottom line is that it doesn’t matter whether Bush did a crappy job or a double-plus super job (he did a crappy job). Osama bin Laden stated that one of his goals is to bankrupt America. By invading Iraq and running massive deficits, Bush has aided and abetted Osama, and tied down our military so that we have no leverage against the threat posed by the Iranians and the North Koreans.

Even if democracy somehow survives and Iraq doesn’t fragment into three warring fiefdoms, there is no guarantee that it will be our friend. For example, note that Hugo Chavez is the legitimately elected leader of a democracy, but is no friend of the Bush administration. Iraq could even turn into another France!

David, funny you should mention ranching. There are a few forward-thinking souls in various places around the country trying to do just that - keep some of the dingo’s DNA alive and vital.

Meanwhile, there’s enough 1080 poison spread around the place to take care of Al Quaeda, J’amah Islamiya, and any poor damn marsupial that comes near it. We’re a stupid species. Really.