That's lovely, PDiddie. However, I remain a staunch fan of Willie's. And Texas. Only in Texas can you go to a Willie Nelson concert at the San Antonio convention center and get high on other people's smoke.
Who
doesn't love Willie Nelson?
I love the guy and for all I know he's a Republican.
At the opposite end of the cultural spectrum from Willie....here's Gore Vidal, making the point again and again:
Quote:"At the time the first hijacking, according to law, FAA, it is mandatory within four minutes of a hijacking, fighter planes from the nearest air military base go up to scramble, that means go up and force the plane down, find out who they are, find out what's happening. One hour and 50 minutes I think it was, no fighter plane went up. During that [time], we lost the two towers, and one side of the Pentagon. Why didn¹t they go up? No description from the government, no excuse, a lot of mumbling stories which were then retracted, new stories replaced them.
That to me was the end of the republic. We no longer had a Congress which would ask questions, which it was in place to do of the executive. We have a commander in chief who likes strutting around in military uniform, which no commander ever did, as they are supposed to be civilians keeping charge of the military. This thing is surrealistic now and it is getting nastier and nastier, as we are more and more kept in the dark about those things which most affect us, which are war and peace, prosperity and poverty. These are the main things that the government should look after. And we the people should be told about them. We have been told nothing. And every voice is silent."
The United States of Amnesia
Yes, that was nice. And a nice article (which I still haven't finished - they all seem to arrive at once -- have you seen also the latest NYRB?).
PDiddie -- Speaking of the unscrambled planes, take a look at this description of goin's-on in Washington:
http://www.tomflocco.com/
Tartar, I click on to your link, and what do I see? A picture of Norm Mineta, a man I call a friend. A man of high integrity, and the only democrat in the Bush administration. What can I say? c.i.
Yes, CI -- and Tom Flocco's endlessly self-involved prose. But there have been no reports that I've seen on the commission, just this one. Looked for more "mainstream" accounts. Found a few brief ones, but Flocco raises the key questions, describes the atmosphere.
Okay you foreigners who don't know Texas, here's something interesting in today's Amarillo Globe. Amarillo. Up there in Panhandle Country. Bush country. Where Oprah had to show up to defend her comments about beef! Where there are plants making stuff you don't want to know about... And from today's paper:
http://www.amarillonet.com/ns-search/stories/052803/opi_americansmust.shtml?NS-search-set=/3ed60/aaaa01977d6034e&NS-doc-offset=0&
Tarty:
I certainly hope Bridget Gibson isn't flying any small planes anytime soon, and that she has enjoyed her journalism career, because she's about to have to find a new line of work...
Diddie -- Here's a little gift for you:
http://www.thepowerhour.com/
I'm sorry Tart but your links are so lacking in credibility that I actually LOL'd when I followed them.
Oh my gawd.
Can you counter them with better links, Cjhsa?
Better links to what? If I post links, there will be a reason for it. You have posted links to pure delusion.
Dilusion?!? Is that like, the opposite of concentration?!?
Oh goodie -- he lives! Where've you been Snoodie? Missed you!
Let's dismiss Cjhsa. He drives a badly dented two-door. Not in our class.
Dilusion: a weakening, or watering down, of one's own point.
Glad to see you looked it up, cj.
I just spelled it wrong.
The car's not dented Tart, it's decloaking.
Turning into a tank?
That would be an illusion!
That's a 1994 Plymouth Breeze, isn't it, cj?
Cloaking device was an option beginning in '95. :wink:
Actually, it's a 2003 BMW 330Ci, that has been absolutely demolished by my JPG editing software.
Did you know this about Karl Rove, aka Bush's Brain?
Rove came from a modest background and never knew his biological father. His mother divorced when he was twenty, and soon after committed suicide. He never graduated from college.
I didn't know that but I did know this: Bush will occasionally call Rove by a pet name he used years ago, realizing that it plays upon the man's deep-seated insecurities: "Turd Blossom."