The Farce Continues

Bush and Cheney continue to appear at public events such as baseball games and such, and they also continue making speeches (especially Bush who seems to be on a non-stop speaking tour), but for all intents and purposes, no one is listening anymore. It is now no more than a charade where they pretend to be our chief executives and for some peculiar inexplicable reason we continue to go along with the gag. By now everyone knows they have lied shamelessly and continue to do so. The latest revelation has to do with Bush's claim that "we have found WMD's" (in the form of mobile biological labs). Two days before he made this claim it was unanimously decided by those who were investigating this matter that they were definitely not such labs. So now Bush's unprincipled defenders are saying something to the effect that in only two days there was no time for this information to have penetrated the White House. This would seem to be a poor defense, given the fact that Bush went on claiming this same erroneous claim for another year. Someone questioned whether Bush was ignorant or just out of the loop. I suspect he was both. We seem to be witnessing Bush's emulation of Captain Queeg.

Stephen Rademaker, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation, has now claimed that Iran could produce enough enhanced uranium for a bomb in 16 days. Where do they find these guys? What do they feed them or give them to smoke? As all the experts claim Iran could not have a bomb before anywhere from 3 to 10 years it would appear that Rademaker is stretching things more than just a bit. But of course the Republicans desperately need another "war" if they are to stay in power and out of jail so I guess it is understandable. It will not be understandable if they are allowed to get away with this utter bullshit once again.

Still another retired General has now said Rumsfeld should resign. What the hell, what do Generals know? Rumsfeld's mixture of arrogance and incompetence is truly a thing to behold. Nice job Rummy! Keep up the good work. Things are really going well in Iraq as you, Bush, Cheney, and Rice seem to uniquely understand. The rest of us, along with the known world, just doesn't get it.

Another kudo for the advertising world. They are now using children in ads promoting the use of coal for energy. I think I have now seen at least three versions in which children proclaim how much coal we have, have coal technology is great, and etc. Do you think these kids truly understand the arguments for and against the use of coal? Now, I know that if adults were saying these same things they probably wouldn't know any better than the children. But somehow you expect adults in advertising to be paid liars. I don't think that using children in this way is ethical. That is, you might expect that adults who make their living whoring in this way would know it was unethical to lie about such things and do it anyway. But children? I don't think so.

I guess I'm just an old fuddy-duddy. I remember when one didn't have to apologize for being an American. Oh, I forgot, praise Bush, the one Bush, Bush is great. Face West when you do your daily prayers to Bush. West, where the sun goes down, symbolic of death and the end of the day and other such things. East is where the day and life begins, West is where it all ends. How appropriate.