Been either a bit under the weather, lazy, or lost in time
zones. I still want to acknowledge a significant date in American history. Misty-eyed
for the days when we had a good-old-fashioned-James-Bond-type villain to sink
our teeth into, we take you back to a time before Paying Attention was even a
twinkle in anyone’s fingertips. Back when Cheneys and Bushes and Rumsfelds and
Ashcrofts roamed the Earth. Back before Twitter-crazed, orange-haired, mental
defectives could become president. Before I. Mangrey found his way onto the
internets.
So, remember when you ran away and I got on my knees and begged you not to leave because I'd go berserk...oops, wrong memory lane.
Remember?
Ed Venture
Managing Editor, Paying Attention
Managing Editor, Paying Attention
Haymarket, Kent State And Now This…
USSA
May 4, 2006
On the anniversary of The Haymarket Tragedy of 1886, where
the United States government violently disrupted a peaceful union
rally during a nation-wide strike for an 8-hour workday – resulting
in several dead American civilians and the scape-goating/imprisoning of several
innocent men (later pardoned) and the Kent State Massacre of 1970, where the
United States government violently disrupted a peaceful student protest against
the Viet Nam war – resulting in four dead American civilians and numerous
wounded when National Guardsmen opened fire on unarmed students, Dick Cheney
decides to massacre whatever semblance of world peace that may remain by
leveling self-righteous threats against Russia.
Shocking almost everyone in the reality-based world community,
Itchy-Trigger-Finger-Dick said, "In Russia today, opponents of reform are
seeking to reverse the gains of the last decade." Dick-Tator Cheney, the man who held
inappropriate secret meetings with oil reps who wrote our nation’s energy
policy, the man who led the charge to attack Iraq for no good reason
whatsoever, the man who repeatedly lied to the American public about a
make-believe relationship between bin Laden and Hussein, the man who vowed to
maintain America’s right to use torture, the man who oversaw the outing of
possibly our most important covert intelligence asset on Iranian nuclear issues
and of course the man who shot his very large, very old fundraising and hunting
buddy in the face, apparently mistaking him for a small, flightless bird while
in a drunken stupor that took 18 hours to recover from. (Although, luckily for
our nation’s security, the victim had the good sense to apologize once he was
able to remain upright again and promised never to do bird imitations while
sneaking up in front of a drunken man with a gun ever again.) This very same Dick is the man who now sees
fit to begin posturing to Russia that he has a thing or two to teach THEM about
democracy in the 21st Century.
Just when you think these guys can’t get any dumber…
This administration is desperate for the good old days right
after 9/11 when many Americans were filled with fear and loathing and willing
to pretend that the recently appointed president was a glorious leader who
would deliver them from evil with a crusade of freedom, bombing and
torture. This joyride was short-lived
when we all found ourselves in a seemingly impromptu game of Three-country
Monty. Awash in what to some was a sea
of lies and bullshit, we were suddenly being told that Osama bin Laden was in
fact Saddam Hussein and that America needed to immediately invade a country
that had nothing to do with our current Red Alert. “Alright,” said most Americans, “you must
know what you’re doing, even though last week you swore to git bin Laden dead
or alive.” Well, those days are gone now
and the once very popular, if not in fact elected president now has an approval
rating somewhere around that of syphilis.
This unacceptable turn of events for a man who never looks
at the polls calls for a stunning and futile gesture that will make people fear
and love him again. As if to prove that
he never reads the polls (or the Constitution, newspapers, history, or books of
any kind for that matter), President Pee Wee© sent his top henchman
out to do his talking for him. None
other than Dick-Tator Cheney has now been set loose on his first PR campaign
since he shot a grown man in the face. Apparently,
Mr. Cheney has not learned his lesson of when to overindulge in alcoholic
beverages safely. One can only hope that
Cheney was again out of his right mind when he accused Russia of backsliding on
democracy saying, "In many areas of civil society…from religion and the
news media to advocacy groups and political parties…the government has unfairly
and improperly restricted the rights of the people." Maybe he’s not drinking enough or perhaps
somebody has slipped some LSD into his whiskey.
As if he hadn’t said enough already, the crazed Veep went on to flagrantly
insult Russia saying, "No legitimate interest is served when oil and gas
become tools of intimidation or blackmail, either by supply manipulation or
attempts to monopolize transportation.”
Somebody get this guy a mirror.
Vice President Strangelove
Strangely enough, Russian President Vladimir Putin responded
angrily, accusing Cheney of risking the start of a new Cold War with such
irresponsible comments. This of course
is just what the Dick-Tator ordered. He
knows there is no way in hell that his “boss’s” poll numbers can improve
without a massive threat to national security – real or imagined. Since the Iran thing isn’t panning out the
way they wanted, the Pee Wee administration is desperately searching for an
alternative dance partner for the necessary threat of a new war in time for the
upcoming mid-term elections. Cheney, who
cut his fangs on Cold War politics obviously decided to go home with who
brought him to this dance.
Cheney of course stands behind his comments, which he claims
were carefully crafted, just as he stood behind his shooting of a man in the
face while hunting crippled birds.
sg reporting
Thanks for listening. Responsible comment invited.
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