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So, early Saturday a.m.
If I'm lucky I'll do nothing today, just sort of drift about, eye-walking, staring and the like.
I was eating oatmeal yesterday when I noticed that it was "Vanilla Almond-for women". I wasn't sure what to do. "Should I put the spoon down and switch to a masculine breakfast?" It was confusing, and this is sort of becoming a popular trend, this food "for men", or "for women".
The very idea of an edible gender product is, unquestionably, weird, it makes you wonder what the hell is going on at advertising agencies. Anyway, I'm just gonna skirt the whole issue and stick with asexual bakery items until this whole trend blows over.
So, Kerik was chosen to head homeland security and then had to step down. Which doesn't really matter because Bush will just replace him with someone equally as awful. "What? Kerik was the police commissioner in New York City on 9-11, how could you call him awful?" Because, that's exactly what Bush wants: to mumble the phrase 9-11 and then get away with anything. We're supposed to get teary-eyed when we hear those numbers and then write Bush a blank check for power. Kerik was Bush's way of installing a physical symbol of 9-11 in his administration, because he obviously wasn't chosen for his experience, which was non-existent. Bush's exploitation of 9-11 is a cheap and manipulative tactic, but he uses it for a good reason: it works. To this day more than 50% of the country still believes that Hussein was involved with 9-11. Bush just threw those numbers around before the war and people bought it,
it's like a magic charm that turns us all into idiots. "Did he say 9-11?! Hell, we gotta blow something up, but quick! Otherwise the terrorists win!". Uh, weren't the terrorists mostly from Saudi Arabia, and weren't their bases in Afghanistan (you know, that place we only semi-invaded before pulling out in order to invade Iraq)? Yeah. We suck.
Which, by the way, doesn't make me a "self-hating American". I'm actually a "you-hating American", I like to be very precise with my terminology. Thanks.
If I'm lucky I'll do nothing today, just sort of drift about, eye-walking, staring and the like.
I was eating oatmeal yesterday when I noticed that it was "Vanilla Almond-for women". I wasn't sure what to do. "Should I put the spoon down and switch to a masculine breakfast?" It was confusing, and this is sort of becoming a popular trend, this food "for men", or "for women".
The very idea of an edible gender product is, unquestionably, weird, it makes you wonder what the hell is going on at advertising agencies. Anyway, I'm just gonna skirt the whole issue and stick with asexual bakery items until this whole trend blows over.
So, Kerik was chosen to head homeland security and then had to step down. Which doesn't really matter because Bush will just replace him with someone equally as awful. "What? Kerik was the police commissioner in New York City on 9-11, how could you call him awful?" Because, that's exactly what Bush wants: to mumble the phrase 9-11 and then get away with anything. We're supposed to get teary-eyed when we hear those numbers and then write Bush a blank check for power. Kerik was Bush's way of installing a physical symbol of 9-11 in his administration, because he obviously wasn't chosen for his experience, which was non-existent. Bush's exploitation of 9-11 is a cheap and manipulative tactic, but he uses it for a good reason: it works. To this day more than 50% of the country still believes that Hussein was involved with 9-11. Bush just threw those numbers around before the war and people bought it,
it's like a magic charm that turns us all into idiots. "Did he say 9-11?! Hell, we gotta blow something up, but quick! Otherwise the terrorists win!". Uh, weren't the terrorists mostly from Saudi Arabia, and weren't their bases in Afghanistan (you know, that place we only semi-invaded before pulling out in order to invade Iraq)? Yeah. We suck.
Which, by the way, doesn't make me a "self-hating American". I'm actually a "you-hating American", I like to be very precise with my terminology. Thanks.
posted by Samwick @ 4:39 AM
6 Comments:
At 7:38 AM,
Samwick said…
By the way, Kerik made a huge amount of money in stock deals based on stun gun sales to the Department of Homeland Security. When a business you're associated with can make money from a department you run...that's old fashioned, Cheney-esque corruption, so I say good riddance.
At 2:51 PM,
Christopher said…
Kerik was a good choice to be the terroism czar because, well, he looks tough. I mean, would you want to fight him in a bar?
At 4:26 PM,
Samwick said…
You know, I think I'm gonna pass on the bar fight. My guess (and I feel pretty confident with this prediction) is that Kerik would tie me into screaming man-pretzel. The guy definately looks like a brawler, yikes!
At 7:03 PM,
Tonto said…
You know Hillary Clinton supported Kerik's nomination. And Bill Clinton went on the 'Today' show before we attacked Iraq and said he supported it too based on the same intelligence he had that there was "WMD" when he was in office. I do not know how I feel about this war long term but how do you reconcile the fact that you can only act on what you know at the time and then get blamed for it when it turns out bad? I mean...what are the people in power suppose to do? Bad informatison does not seem to be partisan.
At 10:13 AM,
Samwick said…
Hi there Georgina! Hillary definately would've supported Kerik, and my guess is that he would have received broad approval from most Democrats. Despite my negativity, I'm sure he's a decent guy, I'm just getting so tired of these people who have enormous conflicts of interests involving corporations. They're drawn to Washington and they're beginning to wreck the place. And it's a problem with just as many Democrats as Republicans. "Bad information does not seem to be partisan", and I would add that greed does not seem to be partisan either. Yikes, I'm in a serious-ish blogging mood this week, I need to drink some wine perhaps.
At 2:52 PM,
Tonto said…
I could use a glass or two of wine myself. But please keep blogging.
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