Obama hates Polar Bears?

Ronald Reagan claimed to have
seen three flying saucers, believed
earth was to be invaded by aliens.

Obama hates polar bears? The MSM, as well as many of the blogs I read sometimes, all report that the Obama administration has let stand an unpopular Bush ruling on Polar Bears. That’s it. With that bit of information we are supposed to conclude that Obama must hate Polar Bears and doesn’t care about the possibility of their going extinct, etc. No one bothers to mention why this ruling was allowed to stand. In fact, the ruling was allowed to stand because the Obama administration does not believe that ruling is the best or most efficient way to preserve the bears, and is therefore working on a better way to do so. Our MSM stinks, and as most blogs feed off the MSM they, too, often stink. At the rate things are going in the news business it won’t be long before there will be no real news at all, someone at AP or elsewhere will simply make things up and release them, and as there will be no alternative source of information, their fairly tales will be the news (this is not too far from the current situation).

Somewhere I saw on the web (must have been either on Buzzflash or Smirking Chimp) that some Republicans are lobbying Obama to proclaim the year 2010 the Year of the Bible. With two unfinished “wars,” an economy in the tank big time, to say nothing of the dozens and dozens of other problems confronting us, they want a Year or the Bible? Are these people crazy, or what? Actually, as they are beyond crazy, they must be “or what.” These numbskulls should not be allowed anywhere near government. We can thank Bush and his “born-again” crowd for allowing them to gain influence they never should have been allowed (anyone remember the separation of church and state?). As for me, I am a “born oncer,” and an atheist, one of a rapidly growing minority.

In general I believe Obama is doing a fine job in an exceedingly difficult situation. It appears that he may actually establish some form of universal health care, and perhaps the economy will pick up again. But I don’t understand how at the same time he can be so damn dumb when it comes to Afghanistan. He has allowed this Afghanistan business t o develop into another Vietnam for no good reason at all as near as I can tell. The Taliban, who now seem to be our main target, were not so when this all began. It was al Quaida that was the problem, and the Taliban were ready to turn Osama bin Laden over to us, provided we could give them evidence of his criminality (which Bush/Cheney refused to so). So because the Taliban exercised their thousand year tradition of hospitality to those who were guests in their clans, and refused to give in to our demands, they have now become our chief enemy, along with al Quaida (a much smaller enemy). Granted the Taliban are not the most pleasant of people when it comes to civil rights, the rights of women, and so on, is it really our business to tell other people how to behave? I realize we do so all the time, but if that is to be the case, why don’t we change the behavior of the Saudis and everyone else who do things of which we don’t approve? The Taliban are not sitting in Afghanistan and Pakistan plotting to invade the U.S., they just want us out of their country and out of their business. If they were not required by cultural tradition to protect al Quaida, they would probably get rid of them themselves once we butted out of their affairs. And, as Cheney’s dream of a pipeline across Afghanistan would seem now to be totally out of the question, what in the hell are we doing there? It is as someone recently said, “war simply for the sake of war” (to make sure our defense industry and military can continue to live the good life). Oh, yeah, I know, we have to protect those nuclear weapons in Pakistan (the Afghans don’t have any). Personally, I would bet that our continued presence in Afghanistan and Pakistan probably, in the long run, increases the possibility of nuclear stuff falling into the wrong hands. Bush/Cheney left the world in terrible shape, Obama is charged with cleaning up after them, no small task, but in Afghanistan and Pakistan he is doing a lousy job. We have to get out of there ASAP.

Does anyone intend to do anything about Dick the Slimy, or is he going to be allowed to go on boasting publicly of his war crimes forever? He has no defense whatsoever for his actions. It doesn’t even matter if somehow we gained evidence through torture, it wouldn’t matter. It would still be criminal. And there cannot possibly be any definitive evidence for this claim. Nor does it matter if Nancy Pelosi or any other Democrat was aware of what was going on, it would still be criminal (and I tend strongly to believe Pelosi on this matter. I do not doubt that the CIA was playing games with their briefings). My greatest fear is that Cheney will die of natural causes before he is found guilty and punished for his terrible crimes against humanity.

LKBIQ:
When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.
C. P. Snow

TILT:
There are an estimated 14,000 species of ants.