Category: Politics

George W. Bush, 2005

Wow, evidently three white house aids corroberated Bush’s comment on
our Constitution.  Check out a couple of related articles:

Mr. Bush, seems to me like you are sporting some pretty nice flip-flops, at least as far as the Plame leak is concerned . . . 
From what I can tell, on September 30, 2003 you said, "If there is a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is.  And if the person has violated the law the person will be taken care of."

Then on June 10, 2004 you were asked if you would fire anyone who was involved in leaking Wilson’s name, and you answered "yes".

On July 18, 2005 you seemed to change your answer a bit.  When asked a question about the leak inquiry you said, "If someone committed a crime, they will no longer work in my administration."  That seems to be quite a different approach from your committment to firing anyone who was involved in the leak.  Now the bar gets set a bit higher, and they have to have committed a crime?

That sounds to me like you are flip-flopping on this issue.  That you stated your position, and now, when it’s obviously to your favor, you are changing your position.  Perhaps you should take a look back at the issues on which you accused Kerry of flip-flopping.  You might discover that for Kerry it may have been a case of modifying one’s opinion on an issue as more information was gained, and that in your case it’s a clear example of flip-flopping to cover the wrong doings of your own staff.

Tell ya what though, those flip-flops suit you . . .

From Sonia:

Donald Rumsfeld is giving the president his daily briefing.

He concludes
by saying:

"Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed in an accident."

"OH NO!" the President exclaims, "That’s terrible!"

His staff sits stunned at this display of emotion, nervously watching as
the president sits, head in hands.

Finally, the President looks up and
asks……….

"How many is a brazillion?"

An interesting article about the state of our economy and the effect of Greenspan’s (usually cryptic and mostly unintelligible gobbledegook) announcements on the subject.

From Sonia:

I just was passed this link by the Montgomery County Democrats:

http://www.buyblue.org/index.html

Big name companies are rated in terms of how much money they donated to
either Republican or Democratic causes.  Look up your computer maker, the
last airline you flew on, the last grocery store you shopped at.  My
results were rather frightening and I might need to change where I buy
chickpeas for Ryan and I.  :-)  I guess one of the ways we can vote in
non-election years is with our wallets!

The company list is located at http://www.buyblue.org/alphalist.php.

Wasn’t that nice of us?  I’m certain all of our "enemies" would send us a thank you card if they didn’t think it might endanger their lives.  I’m certain they all think thankful thoughts though, so don’t worry.

Why are they so thankful?  Every tax payer in the USA is currently funding the largest terrorist trainging and recruiting camp in history, Iraq.  And $300,000,000.00 goes a long way  . . .

 
Iraq is now a central hub in the "war on terror" because the current US administration botched the peacemaking part of the invasion. They didn’t listen to our military leaders and didn’t prepare for winning the peace.

As a result, we’ve now got the largest terrorist training and recruiting camp on the planet.  And we are paying for it out of our own pockets and our own future.

The terrorists (as they have been labeled) are loving it!  They get face-to-face combat training with us, get to watch our tactics, probe our weaknesses, and gather tons of intel on all of our systems and behaviour.  And they have some very smart people who are taking full advantage of the distributed nature of their organization and the weaknesses of the large bureaucratic nature of our "modern" organized forces.

. . . .more to come . . .

Ever since day 1 there has been the struggle between Federal and States Rights/Power.

Regardless of whether the electoral college continues as a part of our voting system we need to standardize and revamp the voting system for national elections in the United States of America.
Because how someone votes in Alabama effects the lives of people in
Oregon and the rest of the 50 states everyone in this country should
see the same ballot and vote in exactly the same way.

What needs to happen is that the Presidential Election needs to be
separated from the local elections.  I think that local judges, school
board, State and local laws and how they are voted on are the
responsibility of the individual state.  As a Marylander, I could care
less how people in Texas conduct their local elections.  However, since
those folks cast a ballot that directly impacts my life, I want some
Federal/National accountability on it.

. . . more to come . . .

If you want to enhance the security of the US and the world in general
against the threat of so-called terrorism the best thing to do is to
help the percieved "enemy" be and feel more secure.

This will enhance security for both parties.  Now there are two parties dealing with each other who both have something to lose and it is possible to re-enable the paradigm of deterrence.

It seems to have helped get us through WWIII (Cold War), and is a good logical step from the current chaotic geo-political fuckage.

🙂

…. more to come . . .  

The more monotheistic influence that has crept into government has dissolved the concept of debate and plurality.  Based on a mono-theistic religious ideology you are morally prohibited from allowing another viewpoint on the question of "Who is God?".  Thus, if you think you are legislating for the "cause" of your religious ideology, you cannot even engage in a discussion with someone else on the subject because you are pre-judged.

Fundamentally, a monotheistic religion is based on the ideological base paradigm of dictate and dogma.  Not discussion and compromise.
. . . more to come . . . 

Simple:  in both cases you need to be dealing with a prospect (or invaded, defeated, and/or occupied country and people) that is ready for change, wants to move in that direction and has already been trying to do it for sometime.

Bascially, it needs to already be present in the corporate culture (in a business context) and culture of a people already.

People point to Japan and Germany as examples, however, they are way off the mark as far as parallels that are both implied and inferred.

1. In 1945 Japan had been actively building a parliamentary democracy for 200 years.,
2. Germanic culture already had the same democratic historical experience that most of Western Europe had experienced up until then.
3. And I’ve got a couple of more that I’ll add as I do more research and refine this paper.

. . . more to come. . . .