Democracy is spreading like wildfire!

[shereads]

I haven't been this nervous since we sang the 'Duck and Cover' song and practiced crouching under our desks.

Oddly enough, the new, subdued George W. Bush makes me even more nervous than Cowboy Dubyah. If even he has the sense to be frightened by what he's helped unleash, we're in what Bush Sr. called 'deep doo-doo.'

...Is it just me, or does it smell like radioactive fallout in here?

 

[minsue]

Come hide under the desk with Mats & me. We'll scooch over for you.

 

[Guest]

I find fault with the poll, Sher. There isn't a time I DON'T find Bush scary. Even if he were dead, I'd still worry....

 

[rgraham666]

We definitely need all of the above.

 

[shereads]

Even if he were dead, I'd still worry....

Well, naturally. Because there would still be...

(Caution: not for the faint-hearted)

Jeb.​

(•)(•)​

 

[Guest]

Well, naturally. Because there would still be...

(Caution: not for the faint-hearted)




Jeb.

Sher~
I always thought you were insanely nice and objective...
this makes me gag and i don't know if i can forgive you or your little dog toto either.

 

[shereads]

Sher~
I always thought you were insanely nice and objective...
this makes me gag and i don't know if i can forgive you or your little dog toto either.

None of it will matter when we're all cooked and served with a side of mushroom cloud.

Heehee.

That will be ironic, won't it?

 

[lucky-E-leven]

*mutter, mutter*

I hate mushrooms. Why can't it be a fried okra cloud?

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

*mutter, mutter*

I hate mushrooms. Why can't it be a fried okra cloud?

They're working on that at Los Alamos. The Russians are already ahead in the boiled turnip-cloud race, so it's pretty important research.

 

[wazhazhe]

I haven't been this nervous since we sang the 'Duck and Cover' song and practiced crouching under our desks.

I remember "Duck and Cover." And yes, it's much scarier now not knowing who's piloting the ship.

 

[shereads]

Here's how it might go:

Israel and Syria get into it about Lebanon. USA sides with Israel. The entire Islamic world, including moderate Pakistanis who used to less-than-hate the USA, decide it's time for a showdown. They are no longer restrained by un-hate, having decided after the Iraq invasion and Abu Ghraib and the recent rape-murder of a 14-year-old girl and her entire family, and some other stuff, that the US is really out to get them - just like Uncle Osama used to say back when they all thought he was just nutty, a bit paranoid, and should wash his beard more often.

Yes, it's time for a rumble. Like in 'West Side Story" but with incendiary devices instead of switchblades. And without show tunes.

"Not a problem," we say. "The only players in the 'hood in possession of nukes are Israel and India, our allies; and Pakistan, our other ally.

"Oops," says someone in the State Department. "Pakistan was divided on the issue of how friendly to be with the U.S., even before we collateral-damaged one of their border villages. Also, remember that one guy in Pakistan who got slapped on the wrist for selling nuke-making stuff? He claimed he accidentally gave it as a donation to the Jehovah's Witnesses, but the story didn't wash."

"Okay, but even if the US-friendly gov't of Pakistan gets overturned and their nukes fall into the hands of our enemies, that still leaves the regional nukes count 2 to 1 in our favor.

"Not if you count the Pakistani nukes-kit that went missing after the general's yard sale."

"Okay, two against two. What do we care? We're on the other side of the ocean. None of these backward little nuclear-superpower-wannabes have sufficient range to threaten us on our side of the ocean...When the President said Saddam Hussein had missiles ready to deliver WMD to our shores in as little as 45 minutes, he meant 45 years. It was a typo."

"Well, that's good then. We have nothing to worry about."

"Except North Korea."

"Right."

"What about Europe?"

"They don't have the balls to nuke us!"

"No, you idiot. I meant, what about our allies in Europe.

"Old Europe? Or new Europe?"



Meanwhile, a rubber raft comes ashore on an isolated stretch of US coastline that might have benefited from some of those terror-fighting funds that Congress allocated to the states after 9/11 based on such criteria as the number of cattle.

A man unloads a container of blackmarket WMD from the raft, looks up and down the dark shoreline to confirm that there are no witnesses, and removes his black wool ski mask.

"They'll pay," he snarls. "They will all pay!"

It's Neil Bush, black sheep among the Bush brothers, recently escaped from the low-security prison where he's been held since Campaign 2000 along with George W's college roommate, illegitimate children, transvestite lover, and a former Yale cocaine dealer.

 

[shereads]

*mutter, mutter*

I hate mushrooms. Why can't it be a fried okra cloud?

"Okra cloud."

Scary! Raw okra makes my skin itch.

 

[Guest]

Sher = Nostradamus of our time.
they all scoffed at first, but time shall reveal all.

it is a critical point in time, however. you must now choose billy graham status or pick a cave and live like plato. either way, i am your humble disciple...i have no problems picking lice from your hair when you lose all personal hygiene ambition.

 

[Pure]

silly shereads,

thinking it's about bush and his ignorance, bumbling etc.

even the right know he's an idiot; but they'll vote the GOP.

ya see, it's the VALUES they [and GWB] represent!

don't ya get it? it's us/US or alqaeda. get on board, shereads!

if you aint with us/US, you're agin' us.

 

[Stella_Omega]

well, I'm hoping that the terrorist attack on Los Angeles will drive property values down to an affordable price.
"yes, it's contaminated- but only a tiny bit. The laundry room reads as clean, and if you stay out of the front yard, your life span should be reasonably long..."

 

[Guest]

well, I'm hoping that the terrorist attack on Los Angeles will drive property values down to an affordable price.
"yes, it's contaminated- but only a tiny bit. The laundry room reads as clean, and if you stay out of the front yard, your life span should be reasonably long..."

ABG and I still regularly discuss moving to Toronto...

 

[Pure]

we in s. ontario do our best with refugee settlement, and feel very secure and happy.

god you guys down there are paranoid! don't you know that this summer the US highways will easily take a toll equal to 9-11! what is with youse?

wait, wasn't it just a few days ago that a terrorist cell was arrested in TO (toronto). well, at least the RCMP had a fellow on the inside --i.e., a Muslim.

oh, and our new prime minister has decided Canada wasn't Bush and US friendly enough, and he's sent a few hundred troops to Afghanistan to help kill those Taliban--aka Afghanis. so the body bags have started coming in--with, get this: Bush policy of no press, bring 'em in at night.

in the US, neither FBI, CIA or homeland security desk jockeys seem to have set up anyone on the 'ground.' slight oversight-- hardly any analysts or agents speak arabic (not to speak of pashtun, etc.). even though the first WTC bombing was almost 15 years ago. but don't worry about that, Israeli intelligence will keep the US in the loop.

 

[McKenna]

... but don't worry about that, Israeli intelligence will keep the US in the loop.

If they aren't too busy bombing Lebanon and Syria, that is.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

I had to say "quiet"... because he's pretty much always reckless and clueless...

 

[matriarch]

*mutter, mutter*

I hate mushrooms. Why can't it be a fried okra cloud?

Neither. Fluffy mashed potatoes cloud.

 

[Huckleman2000]

Ahhh! THAT's what's spreading like wildfire on my TV.

I thought it was, ermm... wildfire. And bombs.

Good to know it's just Democracy. I'm going back under the covers now.

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

That asshole!!!

Interesting comment on CBS last night: "President Bush is strangely quite on the subject [fieaso in the middle east]. An unnamed White House aid told this reporter Mr. Bush is holding secret negotiations with..."

It seems he holds a lot of SECRET negotions and everytime he does we get screwed. Strange he wouldn't tell the Israelis to back off either in person on through the UN Security Council... and on another front the price of oil hit a record high yesterday.

Wonder how those two stories go together?

 

[Guest]

Ahhh! THAT's what's spreading like wildfire on my TV.

I thought it was, ermm... wildfire. And bombs.

Good to know it's just Democracy. I'm going back under the covers now.

any room in that bunker, Huck? We'll bring good vodka.

 

[shereads]

Oops. History

July 2, 2003

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — President Bush on Wednesday had a tough message for Iraqi militants attacking U.S. troops — "Bring them on"— and said the U.S. military presence was sufficient to deal with the attackers.

Bush spoke in the face of increasing American concern about the rising casualty toll among U.S. troops. At least 23 American servicemen have been killed by hostile fire since Bush declared major combat operations over on May 1.

July 15, 2006:

2,847

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/fallen/

 

[shereads]

Interesting comment on CBS last night: "President Bush is strangely quite on the subject [fieaso in the middle east]. An unnamed White House aid told this reporter Mr. Bush is holding secret negotiations with..."

It seems he holds a lot of SECRET negotions and everytime he does we get screwed. Strange he wouldn't tell the Israelis to back off either in person on through the UN Security Council... and on another front the price of oil hit a record high yesterday.

Wonder how those two stories go together?

Such cynicism!