back to blogging
for the last year or so, most of the 'blogs' i have posted have been on face book but rhonda wants me to start here again so that later she can edit some of these and put them in a book. matter of fact, now that i think about it, since i have been toying with the idea to do what hundreds, if not thousands, of you have asked me to do which is to write a book about my life and times, i may just write many of these with that exact thought in mind. the problem with facebook is that the comments and posts disappear and finding them again is a real time consuming process. anyway....
the republican field for president is filled with a. nuts,b. religious fanatics and c. people who just make shit up when they have nothing to say. in class a. we have michelle bachman and the undeclared favorite of the tea party, sarah (read my lips since i don't read anything) palin....just google up their statements on you tube, the examples of nuttiness are rampant. leading the pack for b. is gov. rick perry of texas who is having a big "prayer meeting" where only christians and right wing fundamentalist christians at that are welcome (apparently muslims, jews, hindus, unitarians, methodists, native americans, animists, buddhists et al are neither americans nor do they pray) plus it is co-sponsered by the american family association which is an anti-gay right wing group so gays don't count either in rick's america. my favorite little fact (and not little at that) is his belief that abstinance works to cut down on teenage pregnacies. with this belief firmly in mind, rick perry cut sex education in texas schools and guess what? teenage pregnancies in texas are now the largest in america. when this was pointed out to him, the good guv said, and i quote, "abstinace works." he also cut funding for schools across texas hoping, i guess, to grab that #50 spot in studnet achievements...presently the grand state of texas (republican to the core) is 48th in reading and 49th in science. of course, all of the republicans claim to be staunch christians and all will tell you that america was founded by christians but they neglect to say that a good number of our founding fathers were unitarians...including thomas jefferson. ah well, never let facts get in the way of a good campaign speech; which brings us to
b. tom pawlenty another favorite of the republican right. being a member of the war party, tommy boy said this past week that "iraq is a shining example for the entire middle east." man oh man. the week before the cia said that THE LARGEST CONCENTRATION OF AL QUAIDA FIGHTERS IS IN IRAQ!.. and in today's new york times 96-22-11) are these examples of that shining example. 1. suicide bombers detonated two car bombs on tues outside the governor's compound in baghdad killing at least 27 people, many of them police officers. 2. roadside bombs were detonated near american convoys in the cities of hilla, tikrit and samarra. 3.militants fired rockets into a u.s. military base in baghdad, where five soldiers were killed in a rocket attact two weeks earlier and a sixth soldier has died since then of wounds from that same attack. 4. a military convoy in basra was attacked on tuesday but no one died. and 5. "although villence in iraq has decreased significantly in recent YEARS, there is still a STEADY stream of attacks, particularly against government officials and security forces. last week, suicide bombers attacked a provincial council office in baquba, killing seven. (maybe tommy boy was referring to the movie..the shining...since the horror continues daily) and now for ...
c. the erstwhile, newt ginrich, (you know, the family values guy who left his dying wife for a helmet-headed bimbo) has been tauting himself as a professor. which he is not. but why quibble? and why question a man who has a million dollar line of credit at tiffany's? to buy baubles for his baby....
on the democratic side of the war party (the only party we have), though obama is highly unpopular, not a single democrat has said that they will oppose him. i guess they are just super happy with how things are going.
in final comment for today, we are building bridges and roads and providing job training not here in america where we so desperately need it but in afghanistan and iraq. can you say...."we are so fucked"?
the republican field for president is filled with a. nuts,b. religious fanatics and c. people who just make shit up when they have nothing to say. in class a. we have michelle bachman and the undeclared favorite of the tea party, sarah (read my lips since i don't read anything) palin....just google up their statements on you tube, the examples of nuttiness are rampant. leading the pack for b. is gov. rick perry of texas who is having a big "prayer meeting" where only christians and right wing fundamentalist christians at that are welcome (apparently muslims, jews, hindus, unitarians, methodists, native americans, animists, buddhists et al are neither americans nor do they pray) plus it is co-sponsered by the american family association which is an anti-gay right wing group so gays don't count either in rick's america. my favorite little fact (and not little at that) is his belief that abstinance works to cut down on teenage pregnacies. with this belief firmly in mind, rick perry cut sex education in texas schools and guess what? teenage pregnancies in texas are now the largest in america. when this was pointed out to him, the good guv said, and i quote, "abstinace works." he also cut funding for schools across texas hoping, i guess, to grab that #50 spot in studnet achievements...presently the grand state of texas (republican to the core) is 48th in reading and 49th in science. of course, all of the republicans claim to be staunch christians and all will tell you that america was founded by christians but they neglect to say that a good number of our founding fathers were unitarians...including thomas jefferson. ah well, never let facts get in the way of a good campaign speech; which brings us to
b. tom pawlenty another favorite of the republican right. being a member of the war party, tommy boy said this past week that "iraq is a shining example for the entire middle east." man oh man. the week before the cia said that THE LARGEST CONCENTRATION OF AL QUAIDA FIGHTERS IS IN IRAQ!.. and in today's new york times 96-22-11) are these examples of that shining example. 1. suicide bombers detonated two car bombs on tues outside the governor's compound in baghdad killing at least 27 people, many of them police officers. 2. roadside bombs were detonated near american convoys in the cities of hilla, tikrit and samarra. 3.militants fired rockets into a u.s. military base in baghdad, where five soldiers were killed in a rocket attact two weeks earlier and a sixth soldier has died since then of wounds from that same attack. 4. a military convoy in basra was attacked on tuesday but no one died. and 5. "although villence in iraq has decreased significantly in recent YEARS, there is still a STEADY stream of attacks, particularly against government officials and security forces. last week, suicide bombers attacked a provincial council office in baquba, killing seven. (maybe tommy boy was referring to the movie..the shining...since the horror continues daily) and now for ...
c. the erstwhile, newt ginrich, (you know, the family values guy who left his dying wife for a helmet-headed bimbo) has been tauting himself as a professor. which he is not. but why quibble? and why question a man who has a million dollar line of credit at tiffany's? to buy baubles for his baby....
on the democratic side of the war party (the only party we have), though obama is highly unpopular, not a single democrat has said that they will oppose him. i guess they are just super happy with how things are going.
in final comment for today, we are building bridges and roads and providing job training not here in america where we so desperately need it but in afghanistan and iraq. can you say...."we are so fucked"?
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