READING AND DANCING BETWEEN THE LINES

THE PRESIDENT:

Thank you all. Thank you for the warm welcome. Thanks for coming. It's my honor to be here. I'm proud to address the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference. (Applause.) Thankfully, you only left it for five words. (Laughter.) I appreciate your commitment to renewable energy. I probably didn't help today when I rode over in a 20-car motorcade.

[OR WHEN I RODE ROUGH-SHOD OVER THE CONSTITUTION TO BURN THREE-TRILLION DOLLARS IN IRAQ]

(Laughter.)

I hope you understand that you're pioneers on the frontiers of change.

[I HOPE YOU UNDERSTAND THAT I WAS A PIONEER ON THE FRONTIERS OF DICTATORSHIP]

Mike Eckhart is the President of the American Council on Renewable Energy -- he and I went to Harvard together...I can assure you that when we were at Harvard Business School together he never envisioned that we would be in our respective positions, like we are today. As a matter of fact, I know in 1975 he never even thought about the word "renewable fuel," [OR RENEWABLE FOOL] much less "President George W. Bush."

(Laughter.)

...Listen, let me start first by telling you that America has got to change its habits.

[BUT DON'T LOOK AT ME FOR AN EXAMPLE, BECAUSE I'LL NEVER CHANGE MY HABITS]

We've got to get off oil.

[BUT WE WON'T GET OFF OF THE OIL IN IRAQ]

We want there to be general prosperity.

[MAYBE WHEN THERE'S A NEW PRESIDENT]

The dependency upon oil also puts us at the mercy of terrorists.

[NOT AT THE MERCY OF THOSE FILTHY RICH OIL SHEIKH BUDDIES THAT I HOLD HANDS WITH]

If there's tight supply and demand, all it requires is one terrorist disruption of oil and that price goes even higher.

[OR A DISRUPTION SUCH AS MY INVASION OF IRAQ, AND THE PRICE OF OIL GOES OVER $100 A BARREL]

It's in our interests to end our dependency on oil because it -- that dependency presents a challenge to our national security. In 1985, 20 percent of America's oil came from abroad. Today that number is nearly 60 percent.

[YOU MIGHT ASK WHY I'VE WAITED ALMOST EIGHT YEARS TO TELL YOU THIS. ASK DICK CHENEY…EXXON, HALLIBURTON AND OTHERS]

Now, all the countries we import from are friendly, stable countries

[LIKE VENEZUELA AND IRAQ?]; but some countries we get oil from don't particularly like us. They don't like the form of government that we embrace.

[JUST LIKE MANY AMERICANS DON'T LIKE THE FORM OF GOVERNMENT THAT I'VE EMBRACED]

And finally, our dependence on fossil fuels like oil presents a challenge to our environment. When we burn fossil fuels we release greenhouse gases. The concentration of greenhouse gases has increased substantially.

[AS HAVE THE DEFICITS]

I've come today to tell you that America is the kind of country that when they see a problem, we address it head-on

[JUST LIKE IN THAT HEAD-ON T.V. COMMERCIAL].

I've set a great goal for our country, and that is to reduce our dependence on oil by investing in technologies that will produce abundant supplies of clean and renewable energy, and at the same time show the world that we're good stewards of the environment.

[BUT TALKING ABOUT GOALS AND SETTING GOALS IS EASY...ESPECIALLY FOR ME SINCE I'M "OUT OF HERE" IN A FEW HUNDRED MORE DAYS]

Now, look, I understand stereotypes are hard to defeat.

[LIKE THOSE STEREOTYPES OF WMDS AND AL-QAEDA BEING IN IRAQ]

People get an image planted in their head, and sometimes it causes them not to listen to the facts

[I'VE HAD THIS PROBLEM DURING MY ENTIRE PRESIDENCY].

But America is in the lead when it comes to energy independence

[HEY SPEECH WRITERS...DIDN'T YOU JUST TELL ME TO SAY THAT AMERICA WAS TOO DEPENDENT ON OIL?]

We're in the lead when it comes to new technologies.

[DIDN’T WE TAKE THE LEAD OUT OF GASOLINE?]

We're in the lead when it comes to global climate change -- and we'll stay that way.

(Applause.)

[WHAT THE HELL...ARE MY SPEECH WRITERS TAKING DRUGS OR WHAT? AREN'T WE SUPPOSED TO BE TRYING TO DECREASE GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE?]

Overall, over the past seven years -- or since I've been the President

[SEE, I CAN COUNT TO SEVEN],

the federal government spent more than $12 billion to research, develop and promote alternative energy sources.

[BIG DEAL! THAT'S HOW MUCH I SPEND EACH MONTH IN IRAQ]

Our strategy is twofold: One, we're going to change the way we drive our cars

[WE’LL DRIVE OUR CARS WHILE NOT USING OUR CELL PHONES---WE’LL DRIVE OUR CARS WITHOUT SO MUCH ROAD RAGE]; and two, we'll change the way we power our businesses and homes. In other words, the two most vulnerable areas to economic disruption happens to be automobile use and electric power.

[BUT DON'T STOP DRIVING YOUR AUTOMOBILES TO SHOP AT WALMART OR TURN OFF YOUR T.V. SETS JUST YET]

This administration is a strong supporter of hydrogen

[AND PLAIN OLD HOT AIR].

We spent about $1.2 billion in research and development to bring vehicles running on hydrogen to the market. A lot of people don't even know what I'm talking about when I'm talking about hydrogen .

[BUT IF YOU ADD 2 AND 0 YOU'LL GET WATER]

I was interested to see that Virgin Atlantic flew a 747 from London's Heathrow Airport to Amsterdam, fueled partly by coconuts and Brazilian babassu nuts. I've never seen a babassu nut, but it's amazing that it helped power an airplane the size of a 747.

[AND I BET THAT VIRGIN WAS PRETTY AMAZING TOO]

(Applause.)

You know, there's a lot of politicians who just talk. I hope when history is written of this administration, we not only talked, we actually did positive things and constructive things

[LIKE DOUBLING THE NATIONAL DEBT...INVADING A COUNTRY WHO DID NOT HARM US…MAKING BIG BROTHER A REALITY.]

Leave with one thing in mind: The United States is committed [AND I PROBABLY SHOULD BE],
and we're firm in our commitments, to deal with energy problems and to deal with global climate change.

[SO DEAL WITH IT!]

And it's been my honor to be with you today.

May God bless you. (Applause.)

IT'S THE OIL STUPID!

GLEAM OF THE GODS

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom or philosophy.Beethoven

But prodigies sent by Heaven soon came to disturb the tyrant’s repose.
Thomas Keightley

He was a Titan, wrestling with the Gods.
Richard Wagner on Beethoven

The proofs that God does not exist are very strong, but in lots of people they are not as strong as the feeling that He does.John Steinbeck

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.
Lao Tzu

Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers.

Virgil

The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.

Socrates

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

H. L. Mencken



When I hear the magnificent (booming or soft) sounds of Beethoven I think, "Some men must have been sent here by God or gods."
Although I am not a devout church-going person, I try to practice and apply spiritual ideas.
I try.

I’m not a religious person.
I’m not one who follows or practices a religion.
I have attempted to learn and know what is spiritual.
Not in any esoteric, dogmatic, or bombastic sense.

I also appreciate beauty whether it is music, writing or art.
I do not go out of my way to tell others about this appreciation.

I do not have any God or gods hanging on my sleeves.
Although I consider many parts of the Bible to be "God-inspired", I do not have any proof, nor can I really say what I mean by “God-inspired”.

Maybe I don’t need to.
Maybe “God-inspired” is a self-evident term that speaks well enough for itself (except for those dissecting scientists and philosophers).

Define your terms!
But these are only words.
But, then, what else is there?

Of course there is architecture, music, mathematics and painting (and the arts).

After almost five wasteful years of lies and war...war…war…
And lies…lies…and more lies…
And thousands and thousands and thousands of corpses, is it any wonder that Americans want to hear something inspiring for a change…something meaningful…some things that are…
Good

True

and
Beautiful.

Now for some more Beethoven.

P.S.
Here is a poem by D.H. Lawrence that spells out what I have tried to express above.

Worship

All men are worshippers
unless they have fallen, and become robots.

All men worship the wonder of life
until they collapse into egotism, the mechanical, self-centered system
of the robot.

But even in pristine men, there is the difference:
Some men can see life clean and flickering all around,
and some can only see what they are shown.

Some men look straight into the eyes of the gods
and some men can see no gods, they only know
the gods are there because of the gleam on the faces of the men
who see.

Most men, even unfallen, can only live
by the transmitted gleam from the faces of vivider men
who look into the eyes of the gods.
and worship is the joy of the gleam from the eyes of the gods,
and the robot is denial of the same,
even the denial that there is any gleam

 

 

***

 



I am adding this poem by Stephen Crane.  Today is November 21, 2012.

A spirit sped

by Stephen Crane

A spirit sped
Through spaces of night;
And as he sped, he called,
"God! God!"
He went through valleys
Of black death-slime,
Ever calling,
"God! God!"
Their echoes
From crevice and cavern
Mocked him:
"God! God! God!"
Fleetly into the plains of space
He went, ever calling,
"God! God!"
Eventually, then, he screamed,
Mad in denial,
"Ah, there is no God!"
A swift hand,
A sword from the sky,
Smote him,
And he was dead

 

IT'S THE OIL STUPID!

A WAR HORSE AN IDEALIST AND HILLARY CLINTON

Hillary Clinton is becoming much like her husband:
She is becoming the "comeback" girl.

Obama still has more delegates.
But her wins in Ohio and New York have placed Mrs. Clinton back into the saddle.
The ensuing months will probably pave the path for a battle royal and not a photo finish.

But politics is like the weather, and not completely accurate in its forecast.

Obama's smooth persona and smooth-talking may not be as convincing as Mrs. Clinton's louder and more strident voice.

Americans in general, however, are hedging their hopes and bets on a candidate who will ease the pains of the current $3,000,000,000,000 war economy.
(Thank you George W. Bush...for everything...and your nothingness.)

War economy?
That's an oxymoron.

John McCain is now riding in the war chariot, enshrouded in the disgraceful mantle of George W. Bush, maintaining a strong grip on the Decider's battle ax and his pathetic half-decade old mantra to achieve Victory in Iraq.

McCain will not win the hearts, minds or pocketbooks of the American electorate.

This leaves McCain's chance to win with faulty electronic voting machines, an obeisant U.S. Supreme Court, or some other October surprise before the general election in November.

IT'S THE OIL STUPID!

Q & A

How can you tell if you’re suffering from primary election fatigue?

Did you say primary erection fatigue?

No, I suppose you didn't.

I am not really that fatigued by the primary "parade".

In fact, I am happy that I was able to be exposed (no pun intended) so much to all of the candidates.

Some might complain that all of these debates, and hearing so much from the candidates, etc., is overkill and unnecessary. I

disagree.

This is democracy at its best.

If people can't tolerate this, then something is wrong with their tolerance for a maximum amount of debate and self-expression by those who want to, as the cliche goes, be in the most powerful position on the planet.


IT'S THE OIL STUPID!

THEME SONGS

What theme song would you suggest for any of the remaining presidential candidates?

Rock, Rock

( Barack)

Around the Clock for Obama.

I Am Woman

for Clinton.

You Ain’t Nothing But An (Old) Hound Dog

for McCain.

IT'S THE OIL STUPID!

WAR DOESN'T MAKE SENSE (CENTS) FOR THE RIGHT PEOPLE

War produces death.
Peace produces life.
War is of the Old Testament.
Peace is of the New Testament.
War is not Christ-(Muhammad?)like.
Peace is.
Wars are defended in God's name.
Is Peace ever defended in God's name?
Why war?
Why not peace?
The money spent on war could be spent on social needs.
Such peace-spending would then be called liberal, socialist, pork-barrel, etc.
Instead of producing corpses, it would produce jobs, new schools, new roads etc.
The trillion-dollar war could pay for a trillion-dollar peace.
Instead of invading countries that have not harmed America, we could invade communities that are harmed or doing harm to themselves or to each other.
Which is better for the economy?
War or Peace?
Bullets
Or
Bread
And
Butter?
Don't ask a terrorist.



IT'S ABOUT PEACE AND RENEWABLE RESOURCES!

MORE (ON) BUSH: A DUMMY WHO GETS DUMBER AND DUMBER

I haven't made UP the following conversation.

It really is the Long War President speaking.

The Decider is once again exposing to the world the contents of his mind.

The last sentence will blow your mind.

George W. Bush: And as people are now beginning to see, Iraq is changing, democracy is beginning to tak[e] hold. And I'm convinced 50 years from now people look back and say thank God there was those who were willing to sacrifice.

Ann Curry: But you're saying you're going to have to carry that burden... Some Americans believe that they feel they're carrying the burden because of this economy.

They say -- they say they're suffering because of this.

George W. Bush: I don't agree with that.

Ann Curry: You don't agree with that? Has nothing do with the economy, the war? The spending on the war?

George W. Bush: I don't think so. I think actually, the spending on the war might help with jobs.

Ann Curry: Oh, yeah?

George W. Bush: Yeah, because we're buying equipment, and people are working. I think this economy is down because we built too many houses.

[From

NBC's The Today Show

February 18, 2008]

IT'S THE OIL STUPID!

McCain, who voted to go into Iraq and said it was "important" to do so, does not seem to have noticed that the price tag for it and Afghanistan is rapidly rising to $3 trillion to $5 trillion over the long term, or $10,000 for each man, woman and child in America. For a family of four, that is $40,000 or a whole year's salary that George W. Bush has stolen from us and given to his friends at Halliburton, Hunt Oil, Exxon Mobile, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Electric, etc., etc., etc. (See Tom Engelhardt on this and other morsels in Bush's Mulligatawny Soup of a war). Not to mention the nearly 4,000 killed in action and the thousands seriously wounded, with brain trauma, spinal injuries, confined to wheel chairs or forever impaired, who will need to be taken care of the rest of their lives (and guess to which address the bill will come-- not Crawford, Texas.) Is the war really unrelated to the growing bad times in the US economy?

FROM

Informed Comment

Thoughts on the Middle East, History, and Religion

Juan Cole is President of the Global Americana Institute

Friday, February 29, 2008

WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY

I have always enjoyed listening to Dick Cavett and William F. Buckley speak.

I first wrote "enjoyed watching", but then I remembered just how painful it was, sometimes, to watch Mr. Buckley speak when he got bug-eyed and writhed his tongue like some hungry serpent.

But, then, that was what fascinated me.

Also, William F. Buckley spoke about ordinary matters in extraordinary ways.

I am trying to think of the right words to describe his speaking style.

He decorated ideas not just with a white and chocolate (or whatever flavor you choose) frosting, but he embellished them with colorful and imaginative verbal sprinkles that astonished mind and imagination.

I liked how he said something more than what he said.

Sometimes I said to myself,

"I don't know what the hell he just said, but it sure sounded good."

Then there were those captivating pauses and stutters of Mr. Buckley's which were just as fascinating as his words and facial gesticulations.

One year I subscribed to The National Review the same year that I subscribed to In These Times and, if I recall correctly, The New Yorker and The Nation, and a few others.

It was this same year that I was mailed ("out of the blue") information by the John Birch Society.

We have lost some very good wordsmiths.

Mailer.

Vonnegut.

And now

William F. Buckley.

May they continue their colorful conversations wherever they find themselves.

IT'S THE OIL STUPID!

SANDRA GWENDOLYN AND B.B. KING

I had already graduated and gotten my B.A. in English.
I taught for one semester in a small Colorado town, but racial tensions in the school (parents were bringing guns to school and other violent acts were occurring) made me quit before the first semester was over.
I took my last pay check and used it to rent a one-room cottage in the mountains.

I read a lot, burned incense, and listened to Cat Stevens.

When my money ran out I worked on the back of a garbage truck.
It was hard work, but it paid well for only six hours of labor, and I usually finished by 1:00 P.M.

After a few months I retired and became a landscaper.

I moved out of my mountain retreat and rented a "garden" apartment in a three-story building that had two other apartments.

Directly above my apartment was a single mom who lived with her son.
She was an actress, and sometimes the ruckus got a little loud above, but most of the time it was pretty quiet.

Sandra and Gwendolyn shared an apartment on the third story.

I forget how I met both of them, but it was probably just some casual encounter.

Sandy was a theater/dance student, and I think Gwen was a psychology major.

Sandy was petite and thin.

Gwen had more meat on her bones.

Neither was beautiful, but neither was ugly either.

I flirted with both, but I called Sandy "my lady".
(Actually, I said "me lady", and made myself sound more English than American.)

I didn't love Sandra in Love's deepest sense, but I was fond of her.

I was wooing her, but to what end I did not know.

There was no physical attraction, infatuation, or lust.

Sandy’s skin color was turning orange from eating so many carrots.
She seemed to always have a carrot in her hand.
I guess she didn’t want to add too many ounces to her tiny torso.
I could have called her Bugs Bunny, but that thought never crossed my mind.

Gwen was more omnivorous and less fastidious about what she ate.
Her body was also more curvaceous.

I had just ended a relationship with a young woman, and so
I was in no hurry to jump back into the saddle.
Gwen and Sandy were my lady friends and not girlfriends.

This was the time when I had my cat Frieda.
Frieda spent a lot of her time ascending the apartment building’s wooden stairs to visit my friends on the third floor.

And so did I.
I always felt that I was being treated like royalty.
Sandy was a superb host.
She made me feel rich in both body and soul.

Sandy, Gwen and I went to Aspen one weekend (when the Aspen trees were spinning their golden leaves).
Sandy drove her blue Volvo.
We rented a motel room.
Gwen and Sandy slept in the only bed, and I slept on the floor.
I joked that I would sleep between them, but didn’t.

We went to hear B.B. King perform that night.
I walked up and stood beside the stage, and was only a few feet away from B.B. King.
But what had me mesmerized (besides King’s masterful guitar playing) was his harmonica player just an elbow away from where I stood.

And there he stood, his body swaying back and forth, his harmonica in his hands, which were also moving back and forth to his face, and the harmonica never quite getting to his mouth.
I wondered to myself, “Can he even play? He looks drunk.”I think he was intoxicated.

His mouth finally made contact with his harmonica.
MAN COULD HE EVER PLAY THAT HARMONICA!

After the concert, I took Sandy for rides on my back in the park.
And we played hide and seek.

Not much happened after our weekend excursion.
I saw Sandy and Gwen less and less.
Sandy was spending most of her time with a theater director.
I think his name was Michael.

I do remember my last goodbye to Sandy (or rather hers to me).
She simply said, “Take care of your heart.”

I have tried, Sandy, I have tried.Postscript:Two other memories:
Sandy gave me a beautiful print for my birthday which I keep next to my computer here at the high school where I teach.
It is called THE HINDOO MAIDEN. On the back of it is an excerpt from an e.e. cummings poem.
I gave Sandy the original of my poem called BAGGY POCKETS.
It was written with purple ink from a fountain pen.
I hope she still has my poem.
I wish I knew where Sandy was today.

Baggy Pockets

The ocean roars like a mad god
Who has slammed a sandy door on man
The waves rush across my mind
And I look upon the
ocean floor:
Diamonds inside buried treasures from chests of
ancient lore.
A golden ring and a crown of a king
Inside a toy jukebox that makes me sing
A silk handkerchief once inside a pirate's pocket
Now beside a modern rocket
With Jesus' cross all rusted and cracked
Does Santa have a new one packed?
Skeletons of drunk Norsemen with their insane swords
Still shining and ready to use in today's cancerous wars
Sipping mead with a few Greek gods from the Peloponnesian war
And at Gawain's side sits young David, shaking on Goliath's shoulders
Looking at Columbus who has just landed for a second time
To come and take America back to the Indian's fort
But like Robin Hood in a TV commercial
Columbus sells his act for a profit
To keep making crazy rockets and keep filling baggy pockets
With silver, platinum, and gold.

NOTE:
 I wrote this poem in the early 70's when I was in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.

IT'S ABOUT RENEWABLE RESOURCES!

HILLARY AND HARA-KIRI

schiz·o·phre·ni·a.

That's a mouthful.

And a brainful.

But no other word will do to describe the extreme and splitting change in tone and substance of Hillary Clinton's recent descriptions of Barack Obama.

The other night Mrs. Clinton was oozing unctuous paeans while holding Mr. Obama's hand.

Now?

The mellow madam has become a maddened woman.

Commendation has become condemnation.

It’s true that the streets of politics are paved with shame.

It's scary.

It's pathetic.

To get our attention and to win the nomination (so her campaign handlers might think), Hillary must now scratch her nails on the blackboard and scrape her shoes on the hard floor.

BARACK OBAMA YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF!

A mother who behaved like this might be due for an appointment with

some overpaid psychologist.

Talking tough and being rough is not going to work.

Hillary can grow hair on her face, but it won't win over the American people.

Macho screaming is appropriate for a woman wrestler, but not for a future American president...

Man…

Woman...

Black…

OR

White!

IT'S THE OIL STUPID!

BILLION DOLLAR BABIES

"At this point, buying the United States isn't looking like such a good investment," the adviser said. "At the end of the day, Mike might be better off buying Canada."
An adviser to Mayor Bloomberg

NEW YORK (AP) — New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who might launch his own independent presidential bid, on Monday defended Ralph Nader's right to seek the White House.

"This business of Ralph Nader being a spoiler — you know, in any three-way race, two of the three are going to be spoilers," Bloomberg said. "Come on. Everybody's got a right to do it — you're not spoiling anything."

"If people want to vote for you, let them vote for you, and why shouldn't they?" he added.

The billionaire mayor denies he is exploring his own presidential bid, but aides and operatives have been working behind the scenes to lay the groundwork for an independent campaign.

Without the need to raise money, Bloomberg has been able to delay a decision much longer than most candidates.

Many Bloomberg watchers have been eyeing March 5 — next Wednesday — as a key date in his timetable because it is the first day that he would be able to start a petition drive to get on the ballot in Texas, which has one of the earliest deadlines and some of the toughest requirements for independents.
2/25/08

Maybe New York mayor Mike Bloomberg will raise the ceiling of campaign spending sky-high and out-of-this-world by spending billions and billions.

Ralph Nader is a green candidate but he won't take any green(backs) from corporate entities.

Will Mr. Bloomberg buy the 2008 presidency?

Start making your bets now.

IT’S THE OIL STUPID!

HOT DOGS THE MOON AND RALPH NADER

I admire Ralph Nader.

He has done a lot to make the environment cleaner and automobiles safer.

But I sure wish that he would stop running for president.

The Ralph Nader line that has stuck in my memory is "Going to the moon is safer than eating a hot dog", or maybe it's "Eating a hot dog is more dangerous than going to the moon."

I still eat hot dogs.

I haven’t gone to the moon.

Mr. Nader is critical of the corporate state and its wasteful machinations.

I applaud him for these criticisms.

But he should retire from the presidential stage.

Nader is a superb gadfly.

He should remain as one.

The likelihood that Mr. Nader can win the 2008 presidential election is as likely that I can ever go to the moon.

This time Ralph Nader should drop out of the race for the White House.

He is older than John McCain.

Drop out so that Mrs. Clinton or Barack Obama can win the race.

Mr. Nader will make the race unsafe at any speed.

He might help put McCain in the driver's seat.

IT'S THE OIL STUPID!

REMEMBRANCE OF McCain's PAST

John McCain remains stoic, serious and sober about the New York Times article ["The Long Run:
For McCain, Self-Confidence on Ethics Poses Its Own Risk"/By JIM RUTENBERG, MARILYN W. THOMPSON, DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK and STEPHEN LABATON
February 21, 2008]
Irony of ironies is that this article has increased contributions to McCain's campaign to be the next U.S. president.
First impressions, however, are lasting ones.
There is a simian on McCain's fundament regardless of his innocence or whether he wants to ignore the article.
Little by little a river grows.
To allege that the NYT went ahead and published this article in order to smear McCain's run for the presidency is not without truth.
But so what?
FOX News (or FAKE-FAUX News) has been ensconced in Bush's saddle before and after the Decider's selection by the Supreme Court to be our Divider & Liar-in-Chief.
FOX News was Bush's and the GOP'S cheerleader before and after his deceitful invasion and occupation of Iraq.
Bill O'Reilly is the lyncher-in-chief at FOX News.
The Free Press is called the Fourth Estate for a good reason, and the New York Times or any other portion of the Fourth Estate has the privilege and moral duty to report that which can help citizens to make the best-informed decisions about whom they vote into office.
Whether we like IT or not.
Especially for the Office of President of the United States.
Finally, there will no doubt be attempts to foul and smear Mr. Obama's or Mrs. Clinton's candidacy and legitimacy before the election.
Make sure your sh** detectors are on.


IT'S THE OIL STUPID!

WHO WILL YOU VOTE FOR?

IT'S THE OIL STUPID!

Q & A

Style is the dress of thoughts.
Lord Chesterfield


Which is more important in a presidential campaign: style or substance?

Naturally, the answer is that both style and substance are quite important.

Mrs. Clinton's hair style, however, is not as important as her ideas (although the style of her hair changes a lot.)

Does this affect her substance?

Not really.

Obama does have style in his ability to speak.

But this speaking ability is not just about style.

The style also affects substance.

The style and substance of a candidate's words are very important to indicate what each might be like as our president.

Keep your ears, eyes and minds open!

IT'S THE OIL STUPID!

MORE (ON) BUSH

I feel at great pain when the spotlight is on the death of 4,000 American soldiers, while 600,000 Iraqi deaths are ignored. War is not a movie; it is a tragedy of dead bodies, victims, the disabled, orphans, widows and the displaced.

I feel sad when I realize how much truth is being changed or obscured in the American media.

Sharon Stone

February 18, 2008

You know, history, it's just, it, I, I've always felt that there needs to be a long leash to history. That you can't judge a administration, immediately. And, particularly one that has pushed hard for some big ideas, like, like, my administration has done.
George W. Bush

I had not heard or read these Bush lines before, or if I had, they had not imprinted on my memory.

Before I continue, here’s a small bonus---a short READING BETWEEN THE LINES for the above Bush lines:

You know, history, it's just, it, I, I've always felt that there needs to be a long leash to history [AND TO MAD DOGS LIKE ME].

That you can't judge a administration, immediately.

[THOUGH GOD CAN].

And, particularly one that has pushed hard [LIKE A CRAZY DRUG ADDICT] for some big [DUMB] ideas, like, like, my administration has done.

George W. Bush

But what I had not remembered---or read--- or heard---made me think of these

NEOLOGISMS

For

Bushisms:

Dumbisms.

Moronisms.

Idiotisms.

Asininisms.

Stupidisms.

What a bad president.

What a mad president.

What a pathetic presidency.

Why would anyone embrace George W. Bush?

How could anyone embrace George W. Bush after he unleashed this terrible and unnecessary war?

This genocide that was made in the name of democracy…

This genocide that was perpetrated (and now is perpetuated) in the name of spreading freedom…

And all of the other words that are used to Justify

This

Debacle

of

Death and Destruction.

American voters are not ready to embrace McCain.

America is not ready to embrace McCain’s continuation of Bush’s

UNHOLY

MESS!

IT'S THE OIL STUPID!

WHERE'S THE BEEF?

Hortencia: Gloria, you don't look good.
Gloria: Neither do you Hortencia.
Hortencia: It's my legs. They feel wobbly. My gout's acting up.
Gloria: You need a veterinarian to take a look at them.
Hortencia: Right. But maybe if I'm having trouble with my legs I won't be slaughtered.
Gloria: I don't know about that. I'm scheduled to "get the ax" next week, and I've been having trouble breathing.
Hortencia: I guess we fatted calves are destined to be killed and eaten by humans in order to make them merry.
Gloria: That's the udder truth!



The U.S. government on Sunday ordered the largest beef recall in U.S. history — 143.4 million pounds — and said the meat has been used in school lunches and food assistance programs.
The government portrayed the action as precautionary and classified it as a Class II recall, meaning there is little likelihood of illness.
The beef dates to cattle slaughtered two years ago, starting Feb. 1, 2006, at Hallmark/Westland Meat Packing, based in Chino, Calif. The USDA said it believes most already has been eaten. It will remove the rest from inventories.
"We don't know exactly where all the product went" but will "cast a wide net to make sure that we can find all the product that we can find," Ken Petersen at the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service said in a conference call with reporters Sunday.

The meatpacker is accused of improperly slaughtering what are called "downer" cattle — those unable to walk to slaughter.
Such cattle raise the fear of mad cow disease and are more likely to carry E. coli and salmonella bacteria because they typically wallow in feces and their immune systems are often weak.
The government said it had inspectors present "continuously" at the plant, as is standard procedure.
Even so, the use of downer cattle was brought to light by the Humane Society of the United States, which published a video last month it said was made by an undercover worker at Hallmark/Westland. The video shows cattle lying on the ground being moved by forklifts and being chained and pulled.
In a statement Sunday, the Humane Society said, "A recall of this staggering scale proves that it's past time for Congress and the USDA to strengthen our laws for the sake of people and animals."

USA TODAY
2/18/08

IT'S THE OIL STUPID!

THE PRESIDENT HAS NO MORE FUZZ ON HIS PEACH AND HE SHOULD BE IMPEACHED

Joseph P. Nacchio, former CEO of Qwest Communications International, reported that his firm was approached more than six months before the September 11, 2001, attacks and asked to participate in a spying operation that Qwest believed to be illegal.

The essential hardware elements of a (Total Information Awareness)-type spy program are being surreptitiously slipped into 'real world' telecommunications offices.

 

There may be dozens of surveillance rooms in AT&T offices around the country.

The internet surveillance program covers domestic traffic, not just international traffic.

The system is capable of looking at content, not just addresses. The Narus software exists primarily to conduct sophisticated rule-based analysis of content.

Transit traffic originating with one ISP and destined for another is also being sniffed if it crosses AT&T's network. Ironically, because the taps are installed at the point at which that network connects to the rest of the world, the safest web surfers are AT&T subscribers visiting websites hosted on AT&T's network. Their traffic doesn't pass through the splitters.

 

Room 641A of a large telecommunications building in downtown San Francisco was filled with powerful data-mining equipment for a "special job" by the National Security Agency...

Keith Olbermann on his Countdown program (2-14-8) said that all of the nasty pictures--all of the Internet sites---all of the emails---

EVERYTHING and EVERYWHERE

THAT YOU HAVE EVER VISITED ON YOUR COMPUTER

HAS BEEN MONITORED

IN Room 641A.

YOU HAVE BEEN SLEEPING

WITH THE ENEMY!

George W. Bush

HAS BEEN MORE THAN JUST

THE DECIDER

THE DIVIDER

THE DECEIVER

AND

THE TORTURER

(and not just a torturer of the English language)...

The LONG WAR PRESIDENT

HAS ALSO BEEN

THE SNOOPER!

 

[NOTE: It appears that President Obama has continued the same SURVEILLANCE practices.]

 

IT'S ABOUT RENEWABLE RESOURCES!

GOOD NEWS BAD NEWS

GOOD NEWS: President George W. Bush has decided to have the Navy shoot down a disabled 5,000-pound (2,270 kg) minivan-sized spy satellite satellite with a modified tactical missile before it enters the earth's atmosphere.

BAD NEWS: Dick Cheney is on the tactical missile with his shotgun.


IT'S THE OIL STUPID!