Archive for April 21st, 2008
Presidential “hope”full Senator John McCain still can’t tell his Shia’s from his Sunnis, or Maliki from Sadr, or a ceasefire from all out defeat. He keeps on getting it wrong. All wrong. You just can’t make this stuff up!
But, hey: cut him a break! McCain’s just calling it as he sees it … through McCain-colored glasses that is. Keep on livin’ that dream, McCain!!!
I’m sure McCain will find all sorts of stuff to forget about if he makes it to the White House. (Anybody seen my “Straight Talk Express” lying about?)
The AP is reporting that a former high-ranking Department of Justice official has been accused of a criminal conflict of interest with connection to the disgraced and imprisoned former Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff. What a mess! Abramoff is the nightmare from which the Republican Party is never going to wake.
And this latest revelation only points in one direction: The White House.
Isn’t it a coincidence that Bush is fighting to keep his visitor logs confidential?
Duh. Apparently the UN’s Human Rights (has not been) Watch(ing) very closely. The organization just released a report today which details the suppression of women in the world’s largest oil producing country.
Saudi Arabia has a hooorrrrible track record regarding women’s rights. But, I assumed that everyone already knew this. There is no such thing as a “woman’s right” in conservative Saudi society. Women in Saudi Arabia are nothing but property. They cannot vote, drive or be without a male relative’s “supervision”. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. This isn’t just Saudi custom; repressing women is Saudi law.
But, hey, better late than never. Thanks Human Rights Watch for keeping Saudi Arabia’s systemic abuse of women on the front page.
Because do I need to point out where almost all of our petrol-dollars are going? That’s right: Saudi Arabia. And as long as we remain addicted to their oil, there’s not much hope for the emancipation of Saudi Arabia’s women. The Sauds have got their kingdom cowed under a repressive blanket of oil money.
That is just the way it is. Free, fair and transparent trade is inevitable. It is our collective destiny.
And free trade is nothing to be frightened of. Free trade should be embraced. And soon enough, NAFTA will join CAFTA and then a future SAFTA. Globalization: that’s the way the cookie crumbles.
It’s time to renovate. And it’s time to innovate. It ain’t no time to be cry babies.
Check out these peacenik grannies:
The Supreme Court rejected 11 death row appeals today. This gets us right back on track with our death penalty besties: Iran, China, Viet Nam, Saudi Arabia, Mongolia and Pakistan. Feels good, doesn’t it?
The Prime Minister of Malaysia, Abdullah Badawi, wants to put his country on the road to self-sufficiency by increasing domestic agriculture production. This is welcome news in the face of the food shortages sweeping the globe. All props to Badawi.
Can you smell the sarcasm? Once again, the Kremlin has tightened its iron grip around the throat of Russian journalism. It’s sort of like you can lead a horse to water (tear down the Berlin Wall) but you can’t make it drink (expect the Russian people to embrace democracy and a free and unbiased press) - or something along those lines.
Just like in the good old days of the USSR, the “Democratic” Kremlin (Under Vladimir Putin’s steel-tipped boot) is firmly in control. And if you say, write, print or broadcast anything to the contrary expect to have your lights put out (literally and figuratively).
What an adorable little idiot, our W. After all these years of filling cabinet and ministry positions with inexperienced friends and cronies, Bush has once again nominated … take a guess! Yes, you got it. An inexperienced friend for Housing Secretary (after his last appointee had to step down in disgrace for playing favorites with a Philadelphia contractor).
Despite minor inconveniences like Katrina, Bush is just as loyal as ever. (If we could have been so lucky to have attended Andover, Yale or Harvard with President Bush!!! One can always dream, I suppose.) And just what’s on the plate for this new Bush-buddy (Housing Secretary)? The subprime mortgage crisis. Yippee! Oh, what fun.
I’m calling bullshit on all this press about McCain visiting “poor areas“. As if “poor areas” were dead zones on a map where you can’t get a cell phone signal. As if “poor areas” were uncharted regions of Mars thought to be inhabited by savage life forms. As if McCain were fucking diving in to a black hole tethered to one of his wife’s diamond-studded panties. As if we should give McCain a medal of honor for doing his so-called job.
How brave. How noble. How exemplary for this privileged white man to dirty his shoes in “poor areas”.
McCain might as well come out and say: “Let them eat cake.” Or he could just fly over them in one of his private jets. He is so fucking out of touch.
The poor are not aliens. The poor are not foreign. The poor are our friends and neighbors, our brothers and sisters.
And the poor don’t live in one “poor area”. The poor live right next door, down the street, above and below us. Has McCain never taken a stroll around the block in DC (one of the most impoverished cities in America!)??? What a load of horse shit, McCain.
Call me a cynic. Call me jaded. But, I don’t buy for a second that McCain gives a damn about “poor people”. I don’t think that McCain cares or empathizes with those less fortunate. This is nothing but a media blitz in hopes of inaccurately painting McCain a “compassionate” Republican.
Again: bullshit. It’s all politics, baby. If he really cared about the poor he would have taken the silver spoon out of his mouth and done something to ease their burden during his 26 years in public office.