Is GWB dying?

One has to wonder...Why this phony passion for the life of someone he undoubtedly hadn't even heard of a month previously? The Schiavo woman. When back in Texas as Governor he supported and signed into law something which had the opposite effect, I suppose saving the state a lot of medicaid money. The Texas law could be seen as something conservative in this way. But using the weight of the Federal government, as the Executive branch, along with those in the Legislative branch he got to go along with this effort, to hurriedly pass a special law now "on the side of life"? I had thought the main tenet of conservatism was to get big government off the backs of the states and the individual families.
Maybe he has an inoperable brain tumor or something. It wouldn't be the first time something of the sort was hidden from the public. Woodrow Wilson had a stroke and wasn't running a thing in the last months of his Administration, unknown to most at the time. I say this because there is possibly something reminding W of his mortality, and now he wants to make up for mistakes of the past, get right with his Maker. Maybe he would lapse into a persistent vegetative state and require tube feeding those last two years or so of his term.
OK, wild speculation then. But maybe at least Cheeny, Cheany, however it's spelled, sorry, would have to leave Social Security alone as a caretaker President. Or whatever... :-0

Don't Blame Me

I recall those bumper stickers, back in the Lee Sherman Dreyfus days in Wisconsin. He was then Republican governor of the state and, for good reason, a one-termer. The stickers simply said, "Don't Blame ME, I Didn't Vote For It" and they showed his trademark red vest next to the script.
Now, I have read several examples of people who voted for George W. Bush for (re)election, and now somehow hope he will do everything differently than he has done and said he would do. You know, like the Denver Post, which I used to read when stationed near there, which endorsed Bush and then listed all the things he should do differently. (I would link to the articles, but I can't get links to work. If I figure it out, I'll put 'em in).
One wonders what the logic is in voting for someone whose platform disagrees with your own and then hoping it won't come to pass. Maybe these people are so afraid that gays will want to marry, or that women might want abortions, that this somehow threatens them to the point that the Iraq mess, the deficit spending, the Orwellian named Patriot act, do not.
If that's the case, then these voters are doubly fools, as Bush is now showing signs of backing away from the promised Defense of Marriage. Maybe he can still get conservative justices on the Supreme Court in the next four years, to eventually overturn Roe, but one wonders if he will really spend his "political capital" on that, a long term goal. Even if he does, there's still going to be abortions, the rich going to other countries, the poor going to "somebody who takes care of these things" when needed. That's how it was before Roe, by the way.
So I have been thinking of the new "Don't Blame ME" sticker. It could use the same words and show, maybe, naked prisoners stacked in a human pyramid in a "W" shape. With a yellow cowboy hat hung on the end of the W.
Or instead of a sticker, use one of those fish-shaped magnetic ribbons, most of which are made in China. The color of the magnet could be Desert Sand or something. Anyhow, Don't Blame ME! :-0
Update: Looky here...http://store.pomosideshow.com/ribbons.html

Arafat's diagnosis

So Yasir Arafat is finally dying. And those Paris doctors of his can't come up with a diagnosis? How about long term exposure to bomb making chemicals and resultant poisoning? Now that would be justice. All this cat ever knew how to do was blow people up. He had his chances at running a Palestinian state and completely blew them, no pun at all intended. Good riddance and maybe we can now get some progress on mideast peace, that is, after the war for power sorts out, another Arafat legacy. :-0

Now this just tears it

Story at CNN http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/10/25/iraq.explosives/index.html has it that explosives that are used to detonate nukes are MISSING from a site in Iraq that was actually under US control before Bush's disastrous invasion. Now conceivably terrorists can use this stuff on targets in the US. Plus Condoleeza Rice has been part of a cover up of this. And we're supposed to be SAFER under Bush? Or election of Kerry guarantees an attack? I don't see how anybody with a brain could still be a Bush supporter, even those who have profited under his rule. :-0

Orwell didn't set the year

If you'll recall, in the novel "Nineteen Eighty Four", the year was never revealed. The title came from the date on the yellowed newspaper clipping. It very well could have been set in the year 2004. Oceania: the US and Great Britain. OK so we're tenuously allied with Eurasia, perhaps. Not against Eastasia, to be sure. But war is peace, lies are truth...and unless one agrees with circumventing the Constitution, one is not a Patriot...I'll rant some more later. :-0

GWB was probably on vacation

I always thought that something was hinky about how 9/11 went down, that nobody had any idea it could happen. http://aethern.blogspot.com/ has something about a report that's being stalled right now. Somebody should have known, especially after the USS Cole and US embassy attacks in Africa, that Al Q. had plans for CONUS. :-0

Phone call from Toxic Tommy

I received one of those "canned" telephone calls the other day, "Hello, friends, it's Tommy Thompson." Well I "told" him that I hope he's out of a job in three months, and that he should be sure to get his flu shot before then. Maybe he can work for his bro down in Tomah at the Tee Pee club. BTW, I thought those pre recorded spiels over the telephone were outlawed in Wisconsin? :-0