Let's Let Osama's Friends Run the Ports..Brilliant

I have an idea. Since we are afraid of terrorists infiltrating our "homeland defense" let's give over our port management to...an Arab country. But not just any Arab country. Let's give it to one with a long record of supporting Osama, denying worker rights, abusing immigrants, female repression...and child labor trafficking...Brilliant, old, boy, simply brilliant.
I think my ear is still sore from the Cheney gunshot blast. Did I hear this correctly. In another one of the Cheney administration secret deals, they have given over 5 or 6 ports to be managed by a company completely owned by the United Arab Emirates.
Was this the same UAE that allowed their ports to be used for illegal nuke transhipments from Pakistan ? Uh, yup.
Is this the same UAE that had pre-9/11 ties to Ossama the Bomba and al-Qaeda ? Ummmmm...yup.
Is this the same UAE that has been cited for human rights violations such as refusing to allow workers to organize, allowing no worker rights, trafficking in child labor, etc ? Yepper, one and the same.
This sounds like a real good deal for the US. Let's let a human rights violating, al-Qaeda-supporting government take control over our ports.
Of course, the department of Homeland Security and Coast Guard had objections to this port takeover, but the "don't bother me with facts" mentality in the Cheney White House ignored the experts. Again.
The best scene was watching Cheney's "beetch", GW, defending the port giveaway to the public. Later the White House admitted that GW was not even notified of the transaction until he read about it in the press. Now there's a man who knows what's happening. No reason to wake up George and get him in the loop on this one. Let him sleep.
All we have been hearing for the last 4 years from this band of charlatans has been...terror...homeland security...terror attacks...fear Arabs...we need to tap your phones and read your emails....red alert... Maybe they should start reading their own emails.
If this time period is as dangerous for America as Cheney makes it out to be, why give up management of our ports to foreigners ? Can you imagine FDR giving a contract to Morocco to run Pearl Harbor during WW2 ? Or LBJ handing over Boston to be managed by the Chinese during the Vietnam War ?
This latest folly further exposes the "war on terror" to be the phoney war that it is. Just another way to transfer wealth from the American people to international energy and transportation conglomerates. At least the Halliburton corruption went to American crooks. This port transfer to a non-democratic Middle Eastern Arab state is the ultimate cynicism.
There is something deeper and more disturbing here. Giving control of American shipping facilities to foreign powers like UAE indicates the real priorities of this gang.
And homeland security is evidently pretty low on the list.

Shoot Me in the Face, Really, I Don't Mind

This shooting people in the face is an interesting concept. As the Winter Olympics winds down I wonder if the biathletes might consider this as a tactic for Vancouver 2010. Some guy is ahead of you by a few yards, you pull out your rifle and bang em, right in the gluteus maximus. "Oh, hey, sorry buddy, I thought you wuz a quail."
No. But if you are the 2nd most powerful human being on earth (right behind Barbra Bush), then you can shoot with impunity. In support of President Cheney there are some 78 year old men who actually DO bear a strong resemblance to birds. An honest mistake.
Maybe that hunter safety course Cheney took...what ? . Oh, he didn't take a hunter safety course. Maybe when he stood up like a patriot and defended his country during the Vietnam era he wasn't taught properl...what ? Oh, he dodged the draft ? Well, maybe that required bird stamp he bought had a list of instructi...what ? Oh, he never bought the required bird stamp. Well, at least he was sober...what ? He had "a beer or two" before heading off with a loaded shotgun into the woods to blast budgies ?
Well, my point was going to be this: Did anyone ever tell him he SHOULDN'T shoot people ?
There must be oodles of rules regarding hunting. I am a golfer and that sport, not nearly as dangerous, is packed with do's and don'ts. So I am guessing that nowhere in the official hunting rulebook does it say: Don't shoot people in the face. So, how was he supposed to know ?
After all, his 78 year old buddy didn't seem to mind. In a sense, he had it coming. Anyone dumb enough to hang around The Dick Cheney after he's had a few in him AND he's packing heat deserves what he gets. And initial reports said it was the old guy's fault anyway. What was he doing walking behind the President out of the line of fire. He would have had a better chance of not getting shot if he was flying front of Cheney's red nose.
Is this a "metaphor" for the adminstration as some pundits are claiming ? Disregard for the law. Running like a coward from wrongdoing. Refusing to accept responsibility . Blaming the victim. Hiding the facts until the press slowly crowbars them into the light. Not telling GWBush what happened as though he were an irrelevancy. (Did I say "as though" ?) This is not a metaphor for the administration.
It IS the administration. Cheney's contempt for the law, the public, the press is neither new nor metaphorical. It is real. He is beholding to no one. No one tells him what to do. He was not put in office by the people so he has no reason to respond to the public. He holds secret meetings with the energy companies to set energy policy. Nobody stops him. He outs CIA agents, no one stops him. He plans a war and sends the bills to the American people and no one stops him.
So, Dick...Shoot me in the face, already. Shoot all of us in the face. Why not ? "What you going to do about it, old man."

In the Beginning....

In the beginning the good lord created the earth and all the wonderful things therin. Then she created Adam and Eve. So far, okay. Then she created religions and governments. This was a major mistake.
This blog is devoted to the errors of god, man and politicians.
I will share my thoughts on how and why the dumbest members of the human race often rise to positions of great influence and power. This seems to be true in all institutions, but most especially in the last quarter of the 20th century in America.
I will share my thoughts on American Empire, religious nuts and the anti-scientific theology sweeping through the less intelligent (that is, the majority) segments of American society.
I invite you to submit your BRIEF thoughts and reactions.