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May 1, 2006
WB: Joker in the Deck
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It reinforces our view of Bush’s commitment to free market principles & solutions, doesn’t it?
Posted by: ralphieboy | May 1 2006 21:11 utc | 3
“No matter how cynical I get, I just can’t keep up.” Lily Tomlin
Posted by: PeeDee | May 1 2006 22:03 utc | 4
yikes, billmon. I don’t know if you ever spend any time here, but I just saw your nightmarz post at Huffpo and you have GOT TO make them get rid of that cheesy daisies advert placemarker.
cognitive dissonance. aaaeeeiiiiiiiaaaaaa.
put your old poster from the spanish civil war up there or something…m’kay?
smooches-
your ever-faithful reader. except when I’m not.
LOL.
but no more daisies. really. …sunshine, lollipops and rainbows, everything that’s wonderful is what I feel when you’re on huffpo…
gack.
Posted by: fauxreal | May 2 2006 1:59 utc | 5
Caleb:
Just a short while back a planeful of terrified Lower-49’rs made a desparate Christmas landing in a howling gale, just at sunset, far out in the Aleutians Islands of the Bering Sea.
This was before GPS and ILS and VASI glide slope marker beacons, just a pure IFR play off an RDF, on a too-short runway, and an island surrounded by tall ice-covered mountains.
The engines cycled up and down, from a whine to a dull roar, the flaps never stopped moving, and the cabin pitched, rolled, yawed and alley-ooped down through a dark fog, lurching into twilight just above a steel gray ocean, slamming spray high onto jagged black rocks along the shore.
The seats bucked and shook, and everyone leaned forward almost involuntarily as the cabin lights dimmed and flickered. Then one wheel screeched down and stuck, while the pilot strove to bring the opposite wing down. We shinnied and hopped and side-windered down the runway at 140 knots.
A woman unbuckled her seatbelt, and stood up screaming a flat-out wordless open-mouth ahh, “Ahh-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h!”
An old sourdough sitting behind her bellered, “Shawd-dup lady. For Unalaska, that was a good landing!” Everyone broke out in laughter as the plane shuddered to a halt before the terminal.
Steven Colbert reminded me of that dark night.
We live today in a nation lost at sea, clawing our way down through a maelstrom into a fury of unimaginable ferocity, with no runway in sight.
As a People, as a Pact, we’re the most capable people in the world for handling this scuffle.
But instead of assuring US, instead of leading US, instead of leveling with US, our “Decision Maker”, our “Mission Accomplished Maestro” is deliberately misleading US. He and his Neo PNAC cabal are deliberately mis-directing US, mis-cegenating US, dithering fiction with fact, falsehood with frivolity, made into Fear.
“Nailed it!” Jesus, what an obscenity Bush is.
More, they are stealing US blind. For that fact, for walking away from the controls and stealing all our check-on’s and our frequent flyer miles, the Neo’s should be invited to take an air-walk,
without their carefully-packed golden parachute.
Fewer words? Car 54, Where Are You?
Posted by: Campbell Sawfer | May 2 2006 5:46 utc | 6
The words “protitute” and “whore” has come up in a number of web news media services including AOL. Is it the record of an honest reaction (like mine) or is it the Neocons finally putting the Presidential ambitions of Senator Frist deep into the cold ground in favor of whatever dark candidate Mordor has in mind for 2008? Me thinks he is getting the Harriet Meyers job from that corner as well, although my favorite description of the fauxfaith senator was one poster that called him “a lying sack of Frist!”
Meanwhile I’ll push for developing better mass transporation, planned walkable communities, longer functional bicycle trails connecting working areas to home and shopping areas, biofueled vehicles, advocating a tax break for converting your vehicle to a biofuel vehicle (yes it can be done: Link to Biofuel Conversion)
Posted by: Diogenes | May 2 2006 11:44 utc | 7