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George Waffle Bush

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Frankly, I think if your position never changes, you’re probably dead. Still, it is amazing how the myth of a ”resolute” Duhbya is so out of touch with the reality of Duhbya:

* in the 2000 campaign, he opposed using the military for nation building
* in the 2000 campaign, he said the president should ”jaw-bone” OPEC to lower prices
* in the 2000 campaign, he claimed to be ”a uniter, not a divider”
* Bush opposed the Homeland Security Department
* Bush refused to let Rice testify before the 9-11 Commission
* Bush invaded Iraq because of 9-11, no, to destroy WMDs, no, to depose a tyrant, no, to liberate a grateful populace, no, to make democracy bloom in the Middle East, no, to find WMDs …

This is just part one, off the top of my head. I honestly think one should not expect people to never change a view; I appreciate subtlety and nuance. However, it seems to matter to Bush that Kerry ”flip-flops”. In that case, I say hoist Bush on his own petard, hang him by his own words, make him eat his own dog food.

Please contribute other examples of Bush’s flip-flops. Thanks. mjh

Bush and the Flag again

Letters-to-the-Editor

American Ayatollah

John Kerry’s Catholic

problem by Cal Thomas

When Kerry and other Catholic politicians say they accept church teaching but selectively deny it when it

comes to abortion, they place the state above the church and man above God. They mortgage their consciences to convenience and

principle to pragmatism. Should such a person lead this nation?

Ah, the arrogance of the Righteous Right. We have

Calcified Cal Thomas ‘reasoning’ that John Kerry is not a ”good” Catholic and, therefore, not qualified to be President — only

radical fundamentalists need apply. I think Cal was considerably more tolerant of Bush judicial nominee William Pryor, another Roman

Catholic, who strongly opposes abortion but promises to enforce the law (wink-wink). If this is our litmus, how is Pryor trustworthy and

Kerry not? And, who is Cal to judge the quality of their faith — Saint Peter or an American ayatollah? Judge not, least ye be judged,

Cal.

The self-righteous right dominates public discourse because they are relentlessly aggressive bullies and stunningly over-

confident (after all, they believe god is only on their side). One cannot discuss color with people who only see black and white and,

worse, insist that seeing color is a defect. This kind of conservative doesn’t simply lack nuance, he despises it and ridicules the

ability to see more than one aspect of an argument. Better a president who can reconcile conflicting thoughts than one who can’t speak

one clearly.

I say it is precisely someone who puts the state above god, or, at least, can keep them separate, who should lead

America. We have no need for a pharaoh. mjh

PS- The Albuquerque Journal finally published this two months later

(6/15/04).

Letters-to-the-Editor

Ann Coulter, Elitist

Conservative Coulter

She frequently

called Liberals elitist and, because of their public schooling, inherently unintelligent.

Why anyone respects a

word from Ann Coulter is beyond me. She lauds the American fascist Joseph McCarthy and repudiates ALL of the people who helped bring

about the Civil Rights movement — there’s a never-ending war that built something.

The stunningly-elitist Ann Coulter says liberals,

along with being traitors and un-American, are elitists (huh?) and can’t reason because we all went to public school — what an example

of reasoning that is. Just what is the MIT of Christian home schooling, Ann? How many global-warming-denying creationists have won the

Nobel prize? Or advanced science in any way?

The self-righteous right dominates public discourse because they are

relentlessly aggressive bullies and stunningly over-confident (after all, they believe god is only on their side). One cannot discuss

color with people who only see black and white and, worse, insist that seeing color is a defect. This kind of conservative doesn’t

simply lack nuance, she despises it and ridicules the ability to see more than one aspect of an argument (critical to what used to be

called reasoning).

This has little to do with the quality of anyone’s education or faculties; it has much to do with hubris. Pride

goeth before the fall, Ann. We’ll try not to laugh too hard at your inevitable come-uppance. Not that you’ve demonstrated the slightest

compassion or grace to us. mjh

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Maps of Contributions

This site has several interesting maps based on contributions to Democrats and Republicans. I found this at blogsforbush.com, which I got to through a long, strange series of clicks from sportsmenagainstkerry.com to armedliberal.com and on and on. The armedliberal was almost as odd as the pro-choice republican. mjh

The Money Map

Letters-to-the-Editor

Keep Your Mouth Shut!

This small news item caught my attention this

morning:

A woman ”was charged with aggravated assault on a peace officer with a deadly weapon after

she spit in an officer’s face early Sunday morning, police said.”

The woman was stopped for weaving while driving.

She was arrested and, during an odd-sounding stop on the way to the station, she struggled with the cop and spit on him.

Notice that

spitting on a ‘peace officer’ is akin to shooting one.

You will obey and keep your mouth shut in the process, understand? mjh

Future Docile Citizens of America

U.S. Secret Service agents questioned a high school student here about anti-war drawings he

turned in to his art teacher…. [read more]

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Future Docile Citizens of America

Secret Service questions student about anti-war drawings By Associated Press

U.S. Secret Service agents questioned a high school student here about anti-war drawings he turned in to his art teacher, one of which depicted President Bush’s head on a stick.

Another pencil-and-ink drawing depicted Bush as a devil launching a missile, with a caption reading ”End the war — on terrorism.”

The 15-year-old boy’s art teacher turned the drawings over to school administrators, who notified a police officer assigned to work with the Prosser High School campus.

”We involve the police anytime we have a concern,” Prosser Superintendent Ray Tolcacher told the Tri-City Herald newspaper. ”From our perspective it was an incident that needed to be reported to the police on campus.”

Secret Service agents interviewed the boy last Friday. The student, who was not arrested, has not been identified.

The school district disciplined him, but district officials refused to say what the punishment was. Tolcacher said the boy was not suspended.

Tolcacher insisted it was not a freedom of speech issue, but a concern over the depiction of violence. …

”If this 15-year-old kid in Prosser is perceived as a threat to the president, then we are living in ‘1984’,” Cravens said.

I think the important fact of this story is that a teacher betrayed a student and turned that student over to the government. So much for fostering independent thought and reasoning.

High school students should know they have no rights and no freedom. In this zero tolerance age, all search and seizure is ‘reasonable.’ No doubt this will make for very pliant, docile citizens in the future. mjh

"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds." — Sam Adams