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Brief update from Casa Taco
Jan. 25th, 2004 02:45 amBush on Mars
( Bush is a fuckwit. Details inside. )
That is a rant I wish I'd written. The full text is linked to above, and is by Stephen Notley, the same gentleman who does the "Bob the Angry Flower" comics.
This whole situation reminds me of a plot from a thriller I read as a kid; the President had been kidnapped by operatives working on behalf of the Russian Government. They attempt to mind-control the President, and for a whole bunch of reasons (which Ian Malcolm* could tell you about), it goes really wrong and the President goes insane and gets very megalomaniacal. He becomes a virtual dictator, and manages to stop Congress from meeting. If I was home, I'd probably pull you a choice quote, but I'm not, so you'll just have to take my word for it.
I'm really glad I don't live in the US right now. I just wish I didn't live on the same planet. Or in the same solar system. Sigh.**
Ooh, ooh! This is my favourite part of the above rant!
I guess it's ironic that, for all their obsession about security, the Bushites' policies expose and weaken America's most vulnerable flank. America's military supremacy is unchallenged and currently unchallengeable, but it has gaping weaknesses in its economy. The Bushies are running America just as Bush ran all his previous companies: at a loss, crumbling into debt and eventual bailout. Who the hell is going to bail out America once Bush is gone?
*I'm pretty sure that there was a really glib quote I could drop in here that said something about chaos, and something about "sufficiently complex systems", but it's been about seven or eight years since I last read that book. I thought it might have been in the chapter breaks, underneath the fractal drawings, but unfortunately not. Ah, well.
**This may be misunderstood, so just for the sake of clarification for any American friends of mine: I fear that I will die young andbeautiful without liver disease because Bush is going to blow up the entire planet, and as many others as he can get his hands on. If he weren't President, and so rich and privileged, he'd be locked up by now. I think we all know that's true. He's certainly a danger to those around him... and these are the people we put in charge of that little red button that launches nuclear missiles? We, as a species, clearly have a death wish.
[Edit: Cut for her pleasure.]
( Bush is a fuckwit. Details inside. )
That is a rant I wish I'd written. The full text is linked to above, and is by Stephen Notley, the same gentleman who does the "Bob the Angry Flower" comics.
This whole situation reminds me of a plot from a thriller I read as a kid; the President had been kidnapped by operatives working on behalf of the Russian Government. They attempt to mind-control the President, and for a whole bunch of reasons (which Ian Malcolm* could tell you about), it goes really wrong and the President goes insane and gets very megalomaniacal. He becomes a virtual dictator, and manages to stop Congress from meeting. If I was home, I'd probably pull you a choice quote, but I'm not, so you'll just have to take my word for it.
I'm really glad I don't live in the US right now. I just wish I didn't live on the same planet. Or in the same solar system. Sigh.**
Ooh, ooh! This is my favourite part of the above rant!
I guess it's ironic that, for all their obsession about security, the Bushites' policies expose and weaken America's most vulnerable flank. America's military supremacy is unchallenged and currently unchallengeable, but it has gaping weaknesses in its economy. The Bushies are running America just as Bush ran all his previous companies: at a loss, crumbling into debt and eventual bailout. Who the hell is going to bail out America once Bush is gone?
*I'm pretty sure that there was a really glib quote I could drop in here that said something about chaos, and something about "sufficiently complex systems", but it's been about seven or eight years since I last read that book. I thought it might have been in the chapter breaks, underneath the fractal drawings, but unfortunately not. Ah, well.
**This may be misunderstood, so just for the sake of clarification for any American friends of mine: I fear that I will die young and
[Edit: Cut for her pleasure.]
