For a good piece of progressive animation, check out What Barry Says.

I don't know if you have been listening to the news, but apparently Bush has signed a bill that will allow for an $800 Billion dollar deficit hike.
I don't know about you, but I can't grant myself a credit limit hike. I can't call up Discover Card and ask them to give me $800 billion dollars more this month because I am low on cash and I need to borrow more to get my life in order. They would laugh at me and hang up. Or berate me, because those Discover collections people are cold, unfeeling people that like to lower your self esteem. Of course the majority (Republicans) passed it without a blink because they are fearful and backwards thinking. I always laugh when I see the republicans get on the bandwagon thinking that they will get a piece of the pie once the neo-con train rolls in. Only a few will be selected and they took that vote years ago. Better luck with the next fascist movement.

Meanwhile in Iraq, U.S. Forces raided a Mosque and no one knows why. People were praying, PRAYING! and they were being killed. What have we accomplished with this raid? What damage have they done, as if we haven't already done enough killing of Iraqi citizens in Mosques? Would we ever have the nerve to go into a church and do this kind of raid or even into a synagogue? I don't think so. I think we would have waited until prayers were over and been more cautious about capturing the target. At this point, however, we do not know who the target is. The reports haven't said and according to the eyewitness accounts they weren't informed of the purpose of the raid.

In Iran, we have a dejavu situation going on. Are they making nuclear weapons, uh, yeah. Are we going to have Colin Powell stand in front of the world and claim to have "intelligence" that they are up to no good? yes, ma'am!
Are we going to go it alone, um I mean with a "coalition of the willing" to disarm them and take over their oil, I mean "spread democracy"? You betcha.
Keep an eye out. They don't say history repeats itself because it sounds so catchy.

Finallt, to get your weekend off to the right start, corpse desecration.Israeli troops are being investigated for reports that they positioned the head of a suicide bomber on a concrete barrier and took a picture with a cigrate hanging from the dead man's lips. A man was reported as saying that 'such acts were forbidden in an army that values human rights."
An army that values human rights? You have got to be kidding me. The same army that opens fire on little kids that throw rocks at tanks? Any military, no matter what nation, has a purpose and that purpose is not human rights. It is to follow the orders of your commander in chief and if his agenda is one based on human extermination, so be it. It's been a long while since we had any honorable leadership for any military organization.

On that note, have a great weekend!

1 Comments:

one of my favorite quotes, used by many people, but most interestingly in a comic book (secret wars, issue 4, 1983. geeky, i know, but sometimes progressive in thought):

terrorist is what the big army calls the little army.

By  Norman Rose, at 12:43 PM  

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