great post Slider ... amongst all your recent gems, I really did like this last quote in ur last post:
---- "Damnit, there comes a time when you need to stop playing your fiddle...and counting your profits.
...like when Rome is burning. And don't tell me you can't smell the smoke."
Remarks: I don't recall this country being so divided since the darkest days of Vietnam. The biggest difference is much more of the country was personally invested in that war because we had the draft.
And I don't mean this next comment in any way negative toward our brave soldiers serving in the mideast, but IMO the current Bush/Cheney regime have utilized the Army and Marine Corps in Iraq and Afghanistan as if the nations' military was their own personal "Blackwater-USA" mercenary force. The country should never again commit is military to a war without having the public invested in the war, and supporting the war. To do less is unfair to those in uniform, and cheapens their sacrifice. But what can we expect from the chicken-hawks in this GOP party who dodged service in Vietnam, but can't wait to send others' kids off to fight and die in this war.
Going back to what Slider says on the current state of affairs, yes, it is a mess in Washington and on Wall Street. We have ZERO adult supervision in Washington in the halls of Congress, and in the White House.
Watching Bush come on TV day after day crying about the Democratic Congress is getting old and frankly seems like the angry 6 year old who is throwing a tantrum cuz he's not getting treated like the little King from Crawford he was used to when Denny Hastert and the other butt licking Senator from Tennessee were GOP majority leaders 2001-06.
To listen to Bush suddenly find religion on federal govt spending is unbelievably ridiculous.
This is what you see when the spoiled Yale brat frat boy President lost all his handlers like Karl Rove, there is nobody left to control him and give him guidance except the shady Dick Cheney.
yes, I've already sent a check for $500 to Ron Paul, the ONLY candidate with any sanity amongst either party.
good luck to all, we will need it |
