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Thursday, April 13, 2006
Mutually Assured Dementia
Whiskey Bar had a great post (and great title)

Even by the corrupt and debased standards of our times, this is a remarkable thing. The U.S. government is planning aggressive nuclear war (the neocons can give it whatever doublespeak name they like, but it is what it is); those plans have been described in some detail in a major magazine and on the front page of the Washington Post; the most the President of the United States is willing to say about it is that the reports are "speculative" (which is not a synonym for "untrue") and yet as I write these words the lead story on the CNN web site is:

ABC pushes online TV envelope

ABC is going to offer online streams of some of its most popular television shows, including "Desperate Housewives" and "Lost," for free the day after they first air on broadcast TV.

It appears our long national journey towards complete idiocy is over. We've arrived.


I'm thinking of countries in the past who have launched preemptive wars (Germany and Japan). In each case, their cities wound up as ashtrays. Hard to imagine New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, or Dallas as ashtrays, but it is entirely possible if this regime continues to function as a rogue nation.
Written at 7:42 AM by Lynne.
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