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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 07/05/2007 : 05:11:34
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Our boy Scooter is getting away clean, as Bush/Cheney's criminal consorts seem to do -- the cheap thug & general scumbag, Rove yet walks free, after all.
Scooter Libby In Hell
What do Dick Cheney, Paris Hilton,
"The Sopranos" and colon spasms have in common?
Find out here!
So there you have it. Bush shrugs and smirks and then commutes the easy soft-focus sit-on-your-ass-all-day-and-knit white-collar prison sentence of a hollow political lackey who, in turn, took a bullet for his sneering mafia thug of a boss, Dick Cheney, who in turn was complicit (along with lead flying monkey Karl Rove) in the appallingly illegal outing of a CIA operative, which itself was a tiny but particularly nasty link in the giant chain of lies and deceptions undertaken to lead our wary and tattered nation into an unwinnable impossible costly brutally violent war that will now last, if current estimates are correct, until the goddamn sun explodes.
You have to laugh. You have to laugh because if you do not laugh you will likely be overcome by a mad desire to stab yourself in the eye with a sharp feral cat and/or shoot yourself in the toe with a high-powered staple gun, over and over again, all while tearing out pages of the United States Constitution and crumpling them into tiny little balls and hurling them into the smoldering firepit of who-the-hell-cares as you shiver in the corner and swig from a bottle of Knob Creek and wail at the moon. Or maybe that's just me.
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Me too, oh yes.
I, as well as Mark, want these treasonous motherfuckers gone, and I, for one, want them gone to the prisoner's dock to answer for their crimes. And their enabling members of Congress charged as accessories, as well. And instead of the cruise-ship activities of Club Fed, let them rot in Marion, IL or a like facility. Let 'em join the Aryan Brotherhood, if they can, just to get some protection.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 07/05/2007 : 06:32:38 [Permalink]
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Doggone, I like that writing. His and your, Fil.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 07/05/2007 : 06:58:29 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
Doggone, I like that writing. His and your, Fil.
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Thanks! Great, ain't he? At one time, I suspected that he might have been the Rude Pundit, but it's not so. I still don't know who the Rude One is, and am happy enough in the ignorance.
Keith Olbermann writes in the same vein, but a little different style. I Accuse You, Mr. Bush…
by Keith Olbermann
“I didn't vote for him,” an American once said, “But he's my president, and I hope he does a good job.”That-on this eve of the 4th of July-is the essence of this democracy, in 17 words. And that is what President Bush threw away yesterday in commuting the sentence of Lewis “Scooter” Libby.
The man who said those 17 words-improbably enough-was the actor John Wayne. And Wayne, an ultra-conservative, said them, when he learned of the hair's-breadth election of John F. Kennedy instead of his personal favorite, Richard Nixon in 1960.
“I didn't vote for him but he's my president, and I hope he does a good job.”
The sentiment was doubtlessly expressed earlier, but there is something especially appropriate about hearing it, now, in Wayne's voice: The crisp matter-of-fact acknowledgement that we have survived, even though for nearly two centuries now, our Commander-in-Chief has also served, simultaneously, as the head of one political party and often the scourge of all others.
We as citizens must, at some point, ignore a president's partisanship. Not that we may prosper as a nation, not that we may achieve, not that we may lead the world-but merely that we may function.
But just as essential to the seventeen words of John Wayne, is an implicit trust-a sacred trust: That the president for whom so many did not vote, can in turn suspend his political self long enough, and for matters imperative enough, to conduct himself solely for the benefit of the entire Republic.
Our generation's willingness to state “we didn't vote for him, but he's our president, and we hope he does a good job,” was tested in the crucible of history, and earlier than most.
And in circumstances more tragic and threatening. And we did that with which history tasked us.
We enveloped our President in 2001.And those who did not believe he should have been elected-indeed those who did not believe he had been elected-willingly lowered their voices and assented to the sacred oath of non-partisanship.
And George W. Bush took our assent, and re-configured it, and honed it, and shaped it to a razor-sharp point and stabbed this nation in the back with it.
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Well, some, even many of us didn't lower our voices at all.... 
Both articles are well worth reading, stem to stern & tops'ls to keelsons, and remembering well. What they boil down to is simple evolution: legitimate freedom must be exercised vigorously or it will certainly be lost; in short, use it or lose it. Currently, we are losing it like the whales lost their legs. The remnants just keep getting smaller, and unlike the whales, we have nothing but misery to replace it.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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Mark Morford: a damned good rant!
