Perhaps all those clowns who sent nuts to the show will be so moved as to send bags of Pretzels to George Weasel Bush at the White House.......Of course, I'm sure that might not be as pressing a matter.
21st Century Reading List:
The Bush Agenda by Antonia Juhasz, American Dynasty by Kevin Phillips, Blood Money by T. Christian Miller, Hostile Takeover by David Sirota Armed Madhouse by Greg Palast, Jacked and also Other People's Money by Nomi Prins, Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins, No Place To Hide by Robert O'Harrow, Screwed: The Undeclared War Against The Middle Class Thom Hartmann, War is a Racket by General Smedley Butler, Licensed to Kill by Robert Young Pelton, Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace by Gore Vidal
Wow! I guess this probably means I should give up on that ole Databus language after all? Seriously, though (just this once), I suspect/. is on the way out.
If the Smithsonian would pre-emptively change how it does things just because it thinks thats whats expected of it, then all you need is the idea that you are going to suppress certain ideas, not actively pursue their suppression.
Hmmmm....might that be one of the reasons that newsies have all but given up on reporting any newsworthy items anymore in America - since a number of them ended up in jail - or fired???
Of course, the other reason being the complete and total corporate/military contractor ownership of the media - and then there's that situation in Oklahoma and Texas when a bunch of newspapers starting criticizing that NAFTA Superhighway and the Macquarie Group (Australian financial group that will operate the toll roads) bought up around 40 small newspapers to stop their stories.
Tremendously well said, Good Citizen nelsonal. A month or so ago, I purchased the NY Times, Washington Post, Seattle Times-P.I. (that would be the Seattle-Post Intelligencer, they evidently combine the Seattle Times and P.I. for the Sunday edition) and a bunch of other major American newspapers. I do this every six months to see if the American newspapers are still filled with only crapola and no content.
I read every read every word of every edition, and the only new item I learned (and nothing newsworthy, of course, that stuff is only to be found on blogs, online or in Euro and Asian newspapers) was from the Fashion Supplement in the NY Times: that Richard Gere's son's name is Homer. (Whoopee do dah.....).
And this is just another tip of the humongous-sized iceberg that is the complete and absolute subversion of the US Government by BushCo, or the Bush Crime Family. Please keep in mind the dissolving of the "high roller" tax analysis department in the IRS (which recovered the most revenues by auditing the tax returns of the richest individuals and corporations); the use of the private security firm, (Carlyle Group-owned)USIS, to perform the background security checks on those hired by the Office of Personnel Management (who, in turn, is responsible for the testing and hiring of the majority of civil service personnel), and they do other agencies as well, plus there is Blackwater USA, which performs the security background checks on employees of the Transportation Security Administration, and some other fed agencies, as well.
Next, you have not only the seeding of the DOJ with those kooky, substandard grads of Pat Robertson U. (Regent University) and Jerry Falwell U., but a number of other government agencies as well. Plus, the insertion of Unification Church members into the DHHS (tell me that isn't really weird??). And a sizable number of interns being hired specifically from Patrick Henry College (I'll bet everyone has heard of that place [NOT!!]?). The circumvention of the US intelligence agencies by the establishment of the Penta(costal)gon's Office of Special Plans.
Geez Louise!@!!! I can't believe there are still clowns out there who still refuse to GET IT - or are still living in the delusional neocon bizarro world:
If a US Attorney is fired in the middle of an ongoing criminal investigation - and that effectively shuts down said investigation - which occurred in a number of the US Attorney firings - then that is interference with a criminal investigation and obstruction of justice, both federal crimes.
And Gonzales, especially after former Deputy Attorney General James Comey's testimony before Congress, along with everything else Gonzales is been found to be derelict (and that ongoing investigation in Texas with regard to Juvenile Prison child molesting and rapes which may very well have involved collusion on the part of this A.G.), it is not only unlikely Gonzales will be not be exonerated of anything, but just how much they decide to convict that rat bastard of.....
Say there, fishdan, I'm betting you aren't in the symbolic analysis (IT, programming, etc.) bizz nor in any of the hard sciences?????
American Dynasty by Kevin Phillips, Blood Money by T. Christian Miller, Hostile Takeover by David Sirota The Bush Agenda by Antonia Juhasz, Armed Madhouse by Greg Palast,Jacked and also Other People's Money by Nomi Prins, Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins, No Place To Hide by Robert O'Harrow, What Every American Should Know About Who's Really Running the World by Melissa L. Rossi, War is a Racket by General Smedley Butler, Licensed to Kill by Robert Young Pelton, Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace by Gore Vidal
First, the Iraqi infrastructure, seriously damaged after the first Gulf War, was rebuilt within three months by the Iraqis themselves.
It has been well over four years, and the Bush neocon, war profiteering cronies haven't done diddley squat. As far as those death squads you mentioned, you most definitely need to read - not your history - but actual history.
Until the Civil Insurgency expert, John Negroponte (old "Death Squad" John) was brought onto the scene by the Busheviks, there were no death squads in operation in Iraq. Also, read the history of the rebuilding of Germany and Japan after WWII and how their militaries were utilized in that process.
You are confusing the Republican Guard with the entire Iraqi military. You've got to get more focused intellectually - but of course, if one hasn't done so by a specific adult age, it's usually impossible.
The Iraqi Parliament voted just the other week for the US to pull out - that was their third vote. You need to go back into the military and fight on behalf of the Sunnis in your Iraqi war, dood.
You are absolutely right - easiest proof is to observe those picture-taking obsessives who have little time to experience the environments they travel to and briefly photograph....
History today is patchy. I never met either of my grandfathers -- both of them died before I was born. One of them I recognize from three photographs; the other, from two photographs and about a minute of cine film. Silent, of course. Going back further, to their parents... I know nothing of these people beyond names and dates. (They died thirty years before I was born.)
This is the most absurdist pile of crapola I've seen on/. in a long time. Evidentally this Stross fellow has no interest in his genealogy. As far as history being patchy "today" - Geez, at no time in history have people with even a modicum of critical thinking skills had so much access to (albeit however temporary - if those in power have their way) existing information.
True, history is primarily written by those who can afford to write history - while the rest of us who can afford the time to investigate it, and state what appears authentic (maligned as "conspiracy theories" as the truth is so often unpalatable) are marginalized.....
The Green Hills of Earth, and some of his other short story collections, although many general sociopolitical trends used as background in various stories, be it Stranger in a Strange Land, Methuselah's Children, Friday, etc., would also suffice. (Puppet Masters is really the classic spy story, which many, many other authors of spy fiction have cribbed from.)
It's us trying to train up their army and policy, build up their infrastructure and get out as soon as what we've built up becomes self-sustainable. The Iraqi government can meet any day and request that we leave.
Build up their infrastructure? What have you been shooting into your veins, kiddo? The Bush crony Transnationals like Halliburton, Fluor Daniel, Lockheed Martin, Bechtel, et al., have destroyed the infrastructure - laying off as many Iraqis as possible and importing the cheapest foreign labor they can from Bangladesh, the Philippines and elsewhere.
They had a functioning army...now why do you suppose they fired them all - before they disarmed them?? Could it be the same reason Franks and his invading army ignored (at Franks' command) the cardinal rule of an invading force and secured the enemy's ordnance? Catch a clue, dood, read up on Naomi Klein's excellent article about the neocon's imbecilic strategy for Iraq. And read a few more books while you're at it (Blood Money, Armed Madhouse, etc.).
That's why they just voted for us leave - again! And why every poll has shown the (remaining) populace wants the US invaders/occupiers gone years ago. And how is that you know that Rumsfeld's old friend, Saddam, is so evil? Is it because Rumsfeld and Cheney told you that? Maybe Cheney's old lunch buddies, the bloody dictators of Myanmar, told you? You exemplify the herd, zombie mentality which is never, ever confused by such things as facts and data.....and, oh yes, where's Osama.....as far as that "internationally recognized government" - also known as the American-installed puppet government which is an Islamic Theocracy which has legalized Pedophilia - suggest you peruse the Iraqi "constitution" for a bit....
Sorry to go off on a rant like that but the "good ol' day" people really piss me off, maybe because I remember my poor parents thinking about buying a washer or a TV or a hoover as a major investment.
Another thing obviously missing is critical thinking skills - especially if yahoos like megaditto believes were are in "future" times - the USA has been in a chronic state of retrogression and de-evolution for quite some time now....
Hell yes,kannibal klown, why not simply raise everyone in the Spartan way - nothing like the good old times. And if they can't tolerate surviving nude in the cold winter, tough on them, huh?
Or, maybe as adults they could all go through military boot camp. Such training would make them tough like Dick Cheney (Oops! A draft dodging super-wussy. Bad example.) or Paul Wolfowitz (Oops! Another draft dodger. Poor example.), or George Bush (Oops! He received a direct commission to 2nd looey - Now how the hell did he manage that??????).
The closest successful future predictions I've ever read - although disguised as S.F. stories - was the earliest works (short stories, especially) by Robert A. Heinlein. Examine the sociopolitical trends he predicted - now take a sloooow look around you.....
This is soooo indicative of what passes for education today in the Universal Stupified America (USA). This piss-poor education - especially in the cracker states like Tennessee, Texas et al., is exactly why the US ends up with a criminal imbecile for president. Only a pure moron would vote for the likes of that super non-achieving moron loser.....And, speaking of education:
21st Century Reading List:
American Dynasty by Kevin Phillips, Blood Money by T. Christian Miller, Hostile Takeover by David Sirota, The Bush Agenda by Antonia Juhasz, Armed Madhouse by Greg Palast, Jacked and also Other People's Money by Nomi Prins, Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins, No Place To Hide by Robert O'Harrow, What Every American Should Know About Who's Really Running the World by Melissa L. Rossi, War is a Racket by General Smedley Butler, Licensed to Kill by Robert Young Pelton, Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace by Gore Vidal
Unfortunately, that is incorrect. The outsourcing (or more accurately, offshoring) has increased exponentially and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. As long as there are traitorous Americans - who will do anything to screw their fellow citizens for a cheaper dollar - then give that dollar to the Chinese government to view the preserved remains of murdered Chinese dissidents (the Bodies Exhibition) - the offshoring shall continue. Boy oh boy, are those Chinese getting the last laugh (their elites, that is...).
Americans are consuming goods and services at record levels.
Actually, no. Plus, quality-made goods are becoming far scarcer - so that appliance that once lasted for 10 to 20 years, now usually lasts under 1 year - but costs the same or higher. Ditto services....
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21st Century Reading List:
The Bush Agenda by Antonia Juhasz, American Dynasty by Kevin Phillips, Blood Money by T. Christian Miller, Hostile Takeover by David Sirota Armed Madhouse by Greg Palast, Jacked and also Other People's Money by Nomi Prins, Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins, No Place To Hide by Robert O'Harrow, Screwed: The Undeclared War Against The Middle Class Thom Hartmann, War is a Racket by General Smedley Butler, Licensed to Kill by Robert Young Pelton, Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace by Gore Vidal
Wow! I guess this probably means I should give up on that ole Databus language after all? Seriously, though (just this once), I suspect /. is on the way out.
Not this candy-assed government of Amerika!
I, for one, welcome our new Anti-Christ Overlord!
Isn't the world's biggest sinkhole at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C., USA (I think it's a big white house)?
Hmmmm....might that be one of the reasons that newsies have all but given up on reporting any newsworthy items anymore in America - since a number of them ended up in jail - or fired???
Of course, the other reason being the complete and total corporate/military contractor ownership of the media - and then there's that situation in Oklahoma and Texas when a bunch of newspapers starting criticizing that NAFTA Superhighway and the Macquarie Group (Australian financial group that will operate the toll roads) bought up around 40 small newspapers to stop their stories.
Sgt_Doom (Sons of the American Revolution)
And, in case you've yet to see this, check out this site articel for further cluelessness.....
Silly wabbit! Bush supporters don't even know such a subject as history even exists.....
I read every read every word of every edition, and the only new item I learned (and nothing newsworthy, of course, that stuff is only to be found on blogs, online or in Euro and Asian newspapers) was from the Fashion Supplement in the NY Times: that Richard Gere's son's name is Homer. (Whoopee do dah.....).
And this is just another tip of the humongous-sized iceberg that is the complete and absolute subversion of the US Government by BushCo, or the Bush Crime Family. Please keep in mind the dissolving of the "high roller" tax analysis department in the IRS (which recovered the most revenues by auditing the tax returns of the richest individuals and corporations); the use of the private security firm, (Carlyle Group-owned)USIS, to perform the background security checks on those hired by the Office of Personnel Management (who, in turn, is responsible for the testing and hiring of the majority of civil service personnel), and they do other agencies as well, plus there is Blackwater USA, which performs the security background checks on employees of the Transportation Security Administration, and some other fed agencies, as well.
Next, you have not only the seeding of the DOJ with those kooky, substandard grads of Pat Robertson U. (Regent University) and Jerry Falwell U., but a number of other government agencies as well. Plus, the insertion of Unification Church members into the DHHS (tell me that isn't really weird??). And a sizable number of interns being hired specifically from Patrick Henry College (I'll bet everyone has heard of that place [NOT!!]?). The circumvention of the US intelligence agencies by the establishment of the Penta(costal)gon's Office of Special Plans.
The list goes on and on.....
Geez Louise!@!!! I can't believe there are still clowns out there who still refuse to GET IT - or are still living in the delusional neocon bizarro world:
If a US Attorney is fired in the middle of an ongoing criminal investigation - and that effectively shuts down said investigation - which occurred in a number of the US Attorney firings - then that is interference with a criminal investigation and obstruction of justice, both federal crimes.
And Gonzales, especially after former Deputy Attorney General James Comey's testimony before Congress, along with everything else Gonzales is been found to be derelict (and that ongoing investigation in Texas with regard to Juvenile Prison child molesting and rapes which may very well have involved collusion on the part of this A.G.), it is not only unlikely Gonzales will be not be exonerated of anything, but just how much they decide to convict that rat bastard of.....
Say there, fishdan, I'm betting you aren't in the symbolic analysis (IT, programming, etc.) bizz nor in any of the hard sciences?????
21st Century Reading List:
American Dynasty by Kevin Phillips, Blood Money by T. Christian Miller, Hostile Takeover by David Sirota The Bush Agenda by Antonia Juhasz, Armed Madhouse by Greg Palast, Jacked and also Other People's Money by Nomi Prins, Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins, No Place To Hide by Robert O'Harrow, What Every American Should Know About Who's Really Running the World by Melissa L. Rossi, War is a Racket by General Smedley Butler, Licensed to Kill by Robert Young Pelton, Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace by Gore Vidal
It has been well over four years, and the Bush neocon, war profiteering cronies haven't done diddley squat. As far as those death squads you mentioned, you most definitely need to read - not your history - but actual history.
Until the Civil Insurgency expert, John Negroponte (old "Death Squad" John) was brought onto the scene by the Busheviks, there were no death squads in operation in Iraq. Also, read the history of the rebuilding of Germany and Japan after WWII and how their militaries were utilized in that process.
You are confusing the Republican Guard with the entire Iraqi military. You've got to get more focused intellectually - but of course, if one hasn't done so by a specific adult age, it's usually impossible.
The Iraqi Parliament voted just the other week for the US to pull out - that was their third vote. You need to go back into the military and fight on behalf of the Sunnis in your Iraqi war, dood.
You are absolutely right - easiest proof is to observe those picture-taking obsessives who have little time to experience the environments they travel to and briefly photograph....
This is the most absurdist pile of crapola I've seen on /. in a long time. Evidentally this Stross fellow has no interest in his genealogy. As far as history being patchy "today" - Geez, at no time in history have people with even a modicum of critical thinking skills had so much access to (albeit however temporary - if those in power have their way) existing information.
True, history is primarily written by those who can afford to write history - while the rest of us who can afford the time to investigate it, and state what appears authentic (maligned as "conspiracy theories" as the truth is so often unpalatable) are marginalized.....
The Green Hills of Earth, and some of his other short story collections, although many general sociopolitical trends used as background in various stories, be it Stranger in a Strange Land, Methuselah's Children, Friday, etc., would also suffice. (Puppet Masters is really the classic spy story, which many, many other authors of spy fiction have cribbed from.)
Build up their infrastructure? What have you been shooting into your veins, kiddo? The Bush crony Transnationals like Halliburton, Fluor Daniel, Lockheed Martin, Bechtel, et al., have destroyed the infrastructure - laying off as many Iraqis as possible and importing the cheapest foreign labor they can from Bangladesh, the Philippines and elsewhere.
They had a functioning army...now why do you suppose they fired them all - before they disarmed them?? Could it be the same reason Franks and his invading army ignored (at Franks' command) the cardinal rule of an invading force and secured the enemy's ordnance? Catch a clue, dood, read up on Naomi Klein's excellent article about the neocon's imbecilic strategy for Iraq. And read a few more books while you're at it (Blood Money, Armed Madhouse, etc.).
That's why they just voted for us leave - again! And why every poll has shown the (remaining) populace wants the US invaders/occupiers gone years ago. And how is that you know that Rumsfeld's old friend, Saddam, is so evil? Is it because Rumsfeld and Cheney told you that? Maybe Cheney's old lunch buddies, the bloody dictators of Myanmar, told you? You exemplify the herd, zombie mentality which is never, ever confused by such things as facts and data.....and, oh yes, where's Osama.....as far as that "internationally recognized government" - also known as the American-installed puppet government which is an Islamic Theocracy which has legalized Pedophilia - suggest you peruse the Iraqi "constitution" for a bit....
Another thing obviously missing is critical thinking skills - especially if yahoos like megaditto believes were are in "future" times - the USA has been in a chronic state of retrogression and de-evolution for quite some time now....
Or, maybe as adults they could all go through military boot camp. Such training would make them tough like Dick Cheney (Oops! A draft dodging super-wussy. Bad example.) or Paul Wolfowitz (Oops! Another draft dodger. Poor example.), or George Bush (Oops! He received a direct commission to 2nd looey - Now how the hell did he manage that??????).
The closest successful future predictions I've ever read - although disguised as S.F. stories - was the earliest works (short stories, especially) by Robert A. Heinlein. Examine the sociopolitical trends he predicted - now take a sloooow look around you.....
21st Century Reading List:
American Dynasty by Kevin Phillips, Blood Money by T. Christian Miller, Hostile Takeover by David Sirota, The Bush Agenda by Antonia Juhasz, Armed Madhouse by Greg Palast, Jacked and also Other People's Money by Nomi Prins, Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins, No Place To Hide by Robert O'Harrow, What Every American Should Know About Who's Really Running the World by Melissa L. Rossi, War is a Racket by General Smedley Butler, Licensed to Kill by Robert Young Pelton, Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace by Gore Vidal
Unfortunately, that is incorrect. The outsourcing (or more accurately, offshoring) has increased exponentially and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. As long as there are traitorous Americans - who will do anything to screw their fellow citizens for a cheaper dollar - then give that dollar to the Chinese government to view the preserved remains of murdered Chinese dissidents (the Bodies Exhibition) - the offshoring shall continue. Boy oh boy, are those Chinese getting the last laugh (their elites, that is...).
Actually, no. Plus, quality-made goods are becoming far scarcer - so that appliance that once lasted for 10 to 20 years, now usually lasts under 1 year - but costs the same or higher. Ditto services....