tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20417751.post7450871796498014679..comments2024-01-22T18:22:29.391-08:00Comments on hedera's corner: Don't Relax Yethederahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01696592301686568456noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20417751.post-44372348941975853272007-12-08T08:54:00.000-08:002007-12-08T08:54:00.000-08:00I've read the resume; one of my colleagues at work...I've read the resume; one of my colleagues at work had it posted on his cube. I certainly agree about the sleazy details of his business career. I always wondered why THAT record qualified him to lead the country.<BR/><BR/>We'll just have to disagree about his intelligence; I have no argument about the evil.hederahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01696592301686568456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20417751.post-18831400322089423262007-12-08T05:56:00.000-08:002007-12-08T05:56:00.000-08:00I disagree about Dubya, always have.I don't think ...I disagree about Dubya, always have.<BR/><BR/>I don't think he's dumb, and I don't think he's confused.<BR/><BR/>I DO think he's a very evil man whose mother was a witch and whose father was a lying toadie. <BR/><BR/>He was a lazy, spineless rich boy who knew he didn't have to play by the rules, and he made sure he always had lots of fun wherever he was sent. <BR/><BR/>His first real job out of college was to canvas the West Texas hardscrabble country (very much like Larry McMurtry's lonesome prairie towns) trying to convince the locals to sign over their mineral rights to the oil companies, whose extractive paradigm is to consolidate and concentrate the depleted resources. He failed at that--couldn't budge those stubborn poh-white folks. <BR/><BR/>Then they made him a part owner of the Tex-Ass Rangers major league baseball team. During his tenure, which required that he put his feet up on the furniture and smirk a lot to the media, the team went nowhere, but he cashed out his initial investment of $600,000 for a cool 14 million--not a bad return for a silent partner. <BR/><BR/>The rest, as we say, is history. For lots more juicy bits on Dubya's rise to stardom, check out <BR/><BR/>http://www.realchange.org/bushjr.htm<BR/><BR/>which takes you on the chronological ride through his sparkling career and political fortunes.<BR/><BR/>Like Reagan--who at least had an actor's slick charm to go along with his compromised intelligence--Dubya quickly learned that the best way to get ahead was to shill for the big-time corporate interests his family had always worked with: I.e., big oil, and the military contractors. <BR/><BR/>That's all any serious Republican candidate has needed to get along--a handful of shrewd think-tank advisers like Cheney and the Wolf, Karl Rove pulling the strings. <BR/><BR/>But America elected him, proving once again that a blow-job (especially a secret one!) is a much greater evil than the trashing of a great nation, and the killing of hundreds of thousands of innocent human beings. <BR/><BR/>Red States--god love'em. I hope they don't put Giuliani or Romney in the White House. That'd be the living end.Curtis Favillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20417751.post-7084056604478118232007-12-07T13:01:00.000-08:002007-12-07T13:01:00.000-08:00The thing that worries me, which I'm not sure all ...The thing that worries me, which I'm not sure all the "let's get out now" folks really grasp, is that even if and when we do pull out (and having made this mess, I'm afraid we do have some responsibility to avoid making it any worse than it already is), you can't logistically move 130,000 troops plus support units etc. overnight. It'll take months; and I heard one military type on a radio show point out that the U.S.D.A. (of all people) will insist that every piece of equipment, from the armored personnel carriers down to the boots, must be sterilized to keep alien critters out! His estimate was 12-18 <I>months</I>.<BR/><BR/>That said, I'm with you entirely that I'll take any hopeful sign that says we won't repeat that appalling mistake again.<BR/><BR/>It's really distressing to have a mule-headed idiot as a president.hederahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01696592301686568456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20417751.post-65890750388508027812007-12-07T11:52:00.000-08:002007-12-07T11:52:00.000-08:00I relaxed a little when I read it. The fact that ...I relaxed a little when I read it. The fact that the report was publicized gives me hope we won;t attack. I'm so worried about his I'll grasp at anything.<BR/><BR/>I'm troubled my the resent news from Iraq that things are getting better. from my perspective we've missed 3 or 4 opportunities to get out of there. I'm worried we'll miss this one too.Sweating Through foghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07138602196953744517noreply@blogger.com