Finally!

I have had this feeling for the last week+ that Condi Rice was ecstatic about the conflict in Georgia.

Finally, she must have thought, something I know something about!

Of course, the Kings of Opportunism have used this conflict to promote their missile defense system. No different than three weeks ago when the price of oil was sky high, and Bush promoted off-shore drilling.

I know, I know, the price has fallen!!! It must have been the speech!

The thing that really confuses me is the whole SDS (missile defense) thing. I remember vaguely in the mid-80s we were so concerned with the Russians attacking us, and that we needed missile defense to prevent that. I know mutual assured destruction was part of the equation to, which made missile defense seem even more retarded, but they pushed in. Had to have it. Russians could kill us!

Well, here we are, years later, and the world still exists. Somehow we have made it 20+ years without missile defense.

Time to move the goalposts!

Now it's Iran, or some "rogue state" that can attack us, "the way they did on 9/11..."

One would think if a nation knew we had missile defense they'd think of another way to attack us, no?

Also, the Patriot Missile defense, which was essentially a limited missile defense system, used in the Gulf War, had a 0% hit rate. That's right. Not even an accident connected. That didn't stop Bush Sr. from going to the factory that made those missiles to congratulate them on helping us win that war. Curious as to how many of those silos landed on people or homes?

ANYWAY.

For a group of people who never believed in nation-building, and was seemingly always more concerned with the borders, etc. etc. They sure do want to build that missile defense system in a different part of the world to assure everyone that someone like Iran cannot attack say Israel...or, realistically, their favorite ally, Saudi Arabia. Yes, building a defense system that does not help America withstand an attack is the plan now that the whole Soviet threat has passed by.

But fear not, if the Russian threat grows we can use that original excuse to build some useless defense system that will cost taxpayers billions upon billions so they can send cash to the military industrial complex.

Pfff

McCain in response to his wealth:

“I define rich in other ways besides income,” he said. “Some people are wealthy and rich in their lives and their children and their ability to educate them. Others are poor if they’re billionaires.”

Now that's rich!

Obama's

I have come to a conclusion about who Obama's running mate will be!!!

:-)

What happens when the two dumbest people in the world get into a conversation about Big Oil, Democrats, and Profit?


Find out here.


Moving forward, there's been some noise that T-Boone Pickens has supported solar and wind power, and yet some progressives were upset with the ads he was running. People were complaining that he shouldn't be the voice telling us how to run the country when it comes to energy.

I heard progressive talk host Ed Schultz saying we should be "happy a guy like Pickens" is supporting wind and solar, not angry that an oil-man will profit over something like this. And that "someone has to make a dollar in America...and if it's Pickens or someone else, who cares, as long as it helps"."

Yeah, I get it, someone has to make a dollar; that's not the issue. The issue is the commercial is essentially lecturing people as to the need for solar and wind, and the last person progressives want to be lectured to from is a guy who has made millions supporting the current President and the polices that enriched himself and fucked the country. It's no different from a Scott Mclellan or a Paul O'Neil writing a book after working in the White House.

Pickens is pushing the issue now because he knows it a) helps America and b) helps Pickens. That's what bothers people. Not the fact that an oil-man is pushing the correct agenda. We certainly don't need to be lectured to by that guy.

And to close, I was reading the NY Post today (it's free mid-day) and when you start to lose their columnists you know shit has hit the fan.

First and foremost, the economy is Bush's fault. Not Congress, no one else. The economy is effed because of world oil prices, and those prices are effed because of speculation over oil. The speculation has reached the view it has because of the war, that he and his people created. That's it, there's nothing more. Not Congress, not tax cuts (which haven't worked), etc., etc. The war. His war. Their war.

The economy could be improved by a leader people have faith and trust in. They don't have either in this man. The economy suffers. Put all your numbers aside.

So after reading John Crudele's piece I asked myself 'aren't supporters of green causes like solar, wind, and other forms of energy helping the economy? Is not getting off oil going to sink the price, lessen demand, and help us?' Is this not simple economics?

(Please don't discuss ethanol. I didn't.)

It's Official!

They can vote for him now!!!!!!!!

McCain's straightforward answer, along with his assertion that he would not have nominated any of the Supreme Court's four liberal judges (notwithstanding that he voted to confirm all but John Paul Stevens, who was named before McCain was in the Senate), had social conservatives breathing sighs of relief. "I will be a pro-life president, and this presidency will have pro-life policies." McCain said, to cheers from the audience. "OK," Warren laughed," we don't have to go longer on that one."

I mean, what other issue really matters in this crazy world?

Iran, Iraq, Syria

Just read this Times article about who the real McCain is, and how he responds to a hostile world.

I come away with this: He's Bush.



But what I love most is how they all seemed to be reading the same playbook, repeating the same lines, acting the same way. It's fascinating. Hawks converge, write up the game plan, turn it over to these clowns, and then they get their balls up.

I find it amazing that no Republican can ever muster two words: Saudi Arabia.