USA did not invade Iraq

[shereads]

We "accepted obligations that it would now be dishonorable to abandon."

Somewhere in Washington, D.C. a speech writer is drowning his shame in gin.

 

[EnglishMuffin]

whatever

 

[shereads]

Isn't Ted Bundy supposed to be dead?

 

[CharleyH]

whatever

I wanna eat you with peanut butter, if you are allergic?

 

[shereads]

What a fun party it must be. Nothing like a $40 million self-congratulatory victory parade and a conga line through the White House rose garden, while the people you sent into harm's way are placing bets on who gets blown up next.

 

[cantdog]

I bet I could throw a muthafuck of a party for half that.

 

[Belegon]

I bet I could throw a muthafuck of a party for half that.

and fly us all up to share it with you...

 

[shereads]

I can't see spending more than $3 million on a party, even with an open bar. Over $3.5 million borders on crass.

 

[cantdog]

and fly us all up to share it with you...

Damn skippy.

 

[shereads]

Describe your ultimate party. Invite everyone who matters. Money is no object. Where? What kind of entertainment? Got snacks?

 

[cantdog]

Describe your ultimate party. Invite everyone who matters. Money is no object. Where? What kind of entertainment? Got snacks?

First, the venue. If 'twere only summer or fall! But alas, we shall very shortly be as uninhabitable as Canada.

Gary Chambers mentioned Merida. Would that be cheating?

 

[shereads]

First, the venue. If 'twere only summer or fall! But alas, we shall very shortly be as uninhabitable as Canada.

Gary Chambers mentioned Merida. Would that be cheating?

Cheating? How can you cheat when money is no object?

 

[cantdog]

Let's fly everyone to Merida, then. We'll soon find out if Gary knows his stuff. The Yucatán will certainly be more conducive to nudity than Maine, at the moment.



And it's close to some excellent Mayan sites. Maybe we can just have the party on the green among the ziggurats.

 

[shereads]

Let's fly everyone to Merida, then. We'll soon find out if Gary knows his stuff. The Yucatán will certainly be more conducive to nudity than Maine, at the moment.



And it's close to some excellent Mayan sites. Maybe we can just have the party on the green among the ziggurats.

Merida is in the mountains, right? So it won't be muggy. Works for me. Can we fly in some entertainment? Suggestions: Robin Williams as M.C. and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band.

 

[cantdog]

Those Preservation Hall guys are ancient; can they withstand the pounce-and-yell tactics of the Homeland Security blueshirts at the airports?

No matter, we got money!

 

[Couture]

We "accepted obligations that it would now be dishonorable to abandon."

Somewhere in Washington, D.C. a speech writer is drowning his shame in gin.

Has anyone told the Iraqis that Bush has a mandate or that he is God's chosen one?

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Am I the only one who found something surreal in the sight of GWB standing up and taking about freedom and liberty, and then seeing the crowd, which was like 50% police? Or his limo, which had 8 or 10 secret service men standing packed around it so tightly that if he looked out his window all he could see were their shirts?

The parade route was lined with police damned near shoulder to shoulder.

Maybe it's just me, but the image of massed formations of cops is not what I think of when I think of liberty.

---dr.M.

 

[shereads]

Am I the only one who found something surreal in the sight of GWB standing up and taking about freedom and liberty, and then seeing the crowd, which was like 50% police? Or his limo, which had 8 or 10 secret service men standing packed around it so tightly that if he looked out his window all he could see were their shirts?

The parade route was lined with police damned near shoulder to shoulder.

Maybe it's just me, but the image of massed formations of cops is not what I think of when I think of liberty.

---dr.M.

The first time I saw American streets lined with shoulder-to-shoulder SWAT teams was in Miami last year when Dubya gave his brother Jeb $23 million of anti-terrorism money for security at the Globalize & Outsource Conference whatever the hell it's called. FTA. That was it. FTA. There were police from 4 different Florida counties lining Brickell Avenue even before the protesters arrived. It was surreal. The first televised arrest was of 3 people standing in the empty street the night before the conference who were accused of "loitering." At one point police were rousting people just for taking pictures of them. A film editor I know was taking footage for a documentary commissioned by the FTA and was shot in the head with a lead-filled beanbag by a cop who wanted the camera taken away. He was knocked unconscious. Lots of blood. His face remains partially paralyzed. A stranger in the crowd rescued the camera and returned it to him after the event. Freedom! Nothing like it.

 

[Couture]

The first time I saw American streets lined with shoulder-to-shoulder SWAT teams was in Miami last year when Dubya gave his brother Jeb $23 million of anti-terrorism money for security at the Globalize & Outsource Conference whatever the hell it's called. FTA. That was it. FTA.

At least the SWAT members ended up with a few jobs thanks to the FTA.

 

[cantdog]

And there are more jobs for window-peepers than ever, in the new surveillance state.