What for?

Texas man tries to cash a 360
billion dollar check, to start a
record company. Bank suspicious.

Anonymous: Of course if 88% of blacks are voting for Obama it is racist. That would seem to go without saying. At the moment this would seem to be in the nature of the case. I think it makes sense that a majority of African-Americans would vote for the first real possibility that an African-American could become President. But this African-American vote is not being shamelessly exploited as the white American vote is. Indeed, the fact that African-Americans will vote virtually en masse for Obama can be used as a further excuse for whites to vote against him. It makes sense that African-Americans would vote for Obama. It does not, necessarily, make sense that working class whites would vote for Clinton who is much more of an elitist than Obama and who also supports positions not in their best interest, like NAFTA. Similarly, she is promoting her ridiculous idea of suspending the gas tax that virtually all knowledgeable people perceive as just more pandering and a really stupid idea. All she can do at this point is continue to lie and pander as she has no realistic chance of winning, whether she can take it all the way to the convention or not. I know many people like me, who used to be Clinton supporters, who now say they would not vote for her under any circumstances. This doesn’t mean they will vote for McCain (who in their right mind would do that), it means they will probably not vote if she is the candidate. Obama has the potential, at least, to do something meaningful, the potential to be a great President, He may not realize that potential but at least he has it. Clinton has no such potential at all as she is just another Republican at heart. If she is the nominee the Brafia wins, because they will get either her or McCain and there is no real difference between them, other than pre-election rhetoric.

I cannot understand this unbelievable hysteria over Iran. This is being manufactured by the MSM apparently on behalf of the neocons and the Israelis. Iran has not attacked another country or shown any signs of doing so for more than two hundred years. We do not know for certain they are actually trying to build a bomb. The one thing that is as certain as anything can be, is if they did have a bomb they would not run out and attack either Israel or some Arab nation. If they develop a bomb it will be for purely defensive purposes, to defend themselves from nuts like Hillary Clinton who threatens them with oblivion. Contrary to what the MSM and the neocons would like us to believe, the Iranians are not a bunch of “stupid savages” who want to see their nation destroyed by a paranoid out-of-control United States. We do not even know for certain they are sending weapons into Iraq in spite of what we are being told by this warmongering administration.

Now it is being said we are about to send 7000 more troops to Afghanistan. What madness is this? Why? What would be the point? That many more troops will not make any difference whatsoever in trying to control Afghanistan. And as we seem to have lost interest in trying to find and capture Osama bin Laden, and our apparent dream of a pipeline across Afghanistan is about as realistic as dreaming we will ever do anything realistic about drugs, it would seem to have no purpose at all. If someone knows the purpose I would greatly appreciate it if you would explain it to me. This is one point on which Obama and I completely disagree. He seems to think sending more troops to Afghanistan is something we ought to do. I would like to know why, what purpose would be served by doing so? Are we going to protect the civil rights of Afghani women? We don’t seem to be much concerned about the rights of Saudi women. Generally speaking, we don’t seem much concerned about the rights of women at all. Are we seriously going to try to find and capture Osama bin Laden? With such a small amount of troops are we going to try to occupy Afghanistan? Build and defend a pipeline against the wishes of the Russians? Just what in the hell are we doing in Afghanistan at all? Are we seriously going to rebuild their infrastructure (at the expense of our own)? When the late Robert Benchley arrived in Venice he reportedly send a telegram to his friends that said: “Arrived Venice. Streets full of water. Please advise.” That’s the way I think about Afghanistan: “Arrived in Afghanistan. Streets full of rubble. Please advise.” So who am I to question this business? Obviously the motives must be so complicated, so noble, so altruistic, so obvious, and so secret, they are not for the likes of me to comprehend.

It is probably a good thing that our military is in such bad shape and our nation so bankrupt. Otherwise, we might do something really stupid.

LKBIQ:
“There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson