Everyone, that is, who isn't big business or brain-dead (i.e. 'core' Republicans).
I keep thinking that if the news gets any worse, my brain will reach down into my throat, grab hold really tightly, and throttle me to death to save itself more torture. There have been times when I've awoken in the middle of the night, thinking I hear screams that Hitchcock only
wished he could get out of his actors - only to find out that they were mine.
Oh, not mine in the conventional sense of screams that come out through my mouth, but screams of that part of my brain that has compassion, empathy and kindness for other humans - all other humans. The screams are so bloodchilling because not only are they screams for what is happening to our country, but also screams - from the deepest part of my soul - that there are people even capable of thinking that the things that are happening are, in any way, shape or form - a good thing.
I dread going to sleep tonight.
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First - but not the worst; by
FAR not the worst, was the article on how career lawyers at Justice protested over the arbitrary and obviously - oh, SO obviously - political call to reduce the award requested by the US government in the suit against Big Tobacco. (
link) The Salon.com article referenced has a bit about it; to read the full NYT article, just Google for it.
Next was the 'transmorgification' (apologies to Calvin and Hobbs) of Sen. Durbin's remarks about the atrocities that we (Bush - in our name) are committing around the world. The right-wing-nuts has morphed what he said into accusing him of saying that our soldiers are like Nazis. Of course, what he's saying is that the attrocities that Bush is committing around the world are those that one would previously have only seen in gulags and Nazi camps. If Durbin had said that BushCo was a fascist regime who is doing the same things that other fascist and dictatorial regimes had done, he would have been exactly right. For, as we all know, and as was just shown in the piece about Big Tobacco and will be shown in ever-more-exquisite detail (much like a long session with the Marquis de Sade) in the next paragraphs about drug companies, Bush is in bed with corporations. In bed with them and, I'm pretty sure, they're not even using Vaseline on him.
Kos - naturally - has a great diary the Durbin affair, with links to all articles,
here, so I'm going to try and re-do the proofs about what the Right is doing.
The only note I would make about it is that the Right is not being moronic. The Right is doing what the Right does best; lying to Americans that believe them without question, so as to inflame passions against the left. The Right knows exactly what it's doing - EXACTLY.
What Durbin said, as I noted above, was true and could even have incorporated the 'fascist' theme; however - and this is a big 'however', we need to keep things phrased so that we make the same points, but don't give the Right the keywords they use to beat us to death with, or we need to phrase things - using those keywords - such that it's made clear that we aren't talking about the troops, per se. For example, if Durbin had said that,
"Bush is promoting a culture among the troops that reminds me of how Hitler motivated his troops and enabled them to commit acts that they would not normally commit. Bush is causing things to happen that we've previously only seen in Haiti, Russian gulags, Nazi camps, Iraq prisons and so on. Bush has caused us to become a nation of torturers."
The last thing - today - that is already giving me nightmares is the new article by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Just a side note: MAN O MAN do I miss John F. Kennedy and the honor and integrity he brought to our government. If you've ever seen the black-and-white made-for-TV movie, "The Missles of October", or read much on the Cuban missile crisis, you know that JFK saved our country. The military wanted to bomb, bomb, bomb; it's what they do (back then, we weren't much into torture, torture, torture). However, as we know now, Castro had working medium range tactical nuclear missiles and was requesting launch permission from the Kremlin. If we had attacked, the Kremlin would have given launch authority, then we would have struck back, then the Soviets would have launched, then "Do you want to play a game? How about Global Thermonuclear War?" Need I mention that the military commanders were all Republilcan? Need I?
So, to get back to the point, Kennedy writes on a secret meeting (does Bush do any other kind?) between the government and childhood vaccine suppliers. Well (ok, you guessed it) it turns out that the vaccine suppliers had known for decades that their vaccines had dramatically increased autism (up 1500%) and other diseases due to the addition of mercury. And what, do you think, would this meeting be about? Ok, you guess again! You ARE good, aren't you? The meeting was how to keep this information covered up and protect the drug companies. (
link)
Bush has already gone out of his way to make class action suits - just the kind of suit that this revelation calls for - MUCH tougher to file. He has also gone out of his way to limit awards; for example, on interpretation is that even if a class action lawsuit were filed, all of the autistic adults would have to split the $250,000 max award. Wow! Easy street!
How any person can commit such acts against his own people (and let's not EVEN get into the bankruptcy bill) is beyond me. It's like watching Kim Jong Il or Mugabe at their worst.
Bush is an embarassment to humans, and even septic tanks are trying to distance themselves from him and his administration.
Is there no limit to what he will do to his own countrymen? Apparently, as the (
Downing Stree Memo makes so clear, there isn't.
No wonder BushCo didn't want to sign up to the ICC; they knew that they would be committing multiple acts that could end them up in prison for the rest of their unnatural, pathetic, mean-spirited, twisted little lives. I guess that they, like Rep. Heny Hyde, think that even prayer wouldn't help them, because like Hyde said,
prayer is an empty gesture.
Much like Bush's soul.
You might want to check out my blog,
here for more articles, such as one on chemical plant anti-terror regulations and more on born-again's hypocrisy, like Rev. Fred Phelps' sites that all start with the words, "GodHates".