More stupid than Bush?

Morialekafa will not appear again until Wednesday, February 1st. Another trip to the west.

According to the Los Angeles Times the reason Bush continues to get away with lying and duplicity is because half of the American public is more stupid than he is. Well, duh. I don't believe that so many Americans are stupid. I believe they are ignorant. There is a great difference between stupidity and ignorance. People in the New Guinea Highlands where I worked were not stupid, for example, when it came to the question of space exploration. They were completely ignorant about it and when once explained to them (however inadequately by me) they very quickly caught on fairly well. They were also ignorant about many things such as how automobiles and planes were made and etc. This does not man they were stupid. Similarly, I think the problem with so many Americans is that they are ignorant rather than stupid. And how could they not be ignorant with the utter useless trash they are fed daily by the mainstream media? They are given virtually no real information about anything of importance, fed instead on scandal, reality tv, disappearing blonds, celebrity pregnancies, and whatever. Why do so many still believe there was a connection between al Qaeda and Sadam Hussein? Because the media have not made a point to tell them otherwise. Why do they continue to believe that Sadam was behind 9/11? Because the media refuses to emphasize the truth. Why are they going to believe Bush didn't know either Ken Lay or Jack Abramoff? Because the media isn't going to tell them the truth, or anything about it at all if they can help it. For all intents and purposes the mainstream media are part of the Bush/Cheney administration and are equally guilty for the dismal state of the world at the moment.

Fifty thousand (50,000) American troops have been forced into extended duty under the military "stop-loss" program. But this doesn't mean that our military is spread too thin or than morale is suffering, or that the occupation of Iraq is not going well. Just ask your brain-dead Secretary of Defense. Things are going well in Iraq and we are making progress (aside from the complete chaos, the absence of security, the ongoing civil war, the failure to provide water and electricty, the alignment of Iraq with Iran, and other minor matters). And, as the billions that were earmarked for reconstruction have already disappeared into the coffers of war profiteers we will not be able to reconstruct much of anything. I guess we aren't going to reconstruct New Orleans for many of the same reasons. You're doing a hecka of a job Bush!

Tiger Woods wins again! Incredible.

Root for the Seahawks!

I don't believe there could be a lot of people more stupid than Bush. But what do I know about anything? Not much, I fear. But something tells me that things are not going well either in the U.S. or the world. Is this just my ignorance, or perhaps my imagination?