He broke my heart last time around. Hours bleeding into days of obsession with numbers, trends, statistics ...all for not. Pure horror when I realized he was back. A passing flutter in the heart, an abnormal palpitation, a mild aortic aneurysm... How dare he do this to me again with his seductive interactive maps and sexy polling data. And before I can turn away, it's over. I'm an addict. The Votemaster has returned.
"Walk into any bar, hair salon, gym or motel lobby in the country; if the TV is tuned to Fox rather than CNN, you know that the owner or clientele or both are Republican. It's a secret - although not actually secret any more - sign of fraternity among conservatives"
oh, and the remainder of the article is the fair & balanced part.
byeee world.
The terrarists, that is.
"Americans are asking, why do they hate us? They hate what we see right here in this chamber -- a democratically elected government. Their leaders are self-appointed. They hate our freedoms -- our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other." ~ Bush: Address to a Joint Session of Congress and the American People - United States Capitol, Washington, D.C.
Or, sir, maybe they hate us because you DO STUFF LIKE THIS
"THE question puzzles and enrages a city: how is it that the Americans cannot keep the electricity running in Baghdad for more than a couple of hours a day, yet still manage to build themselves the biggest embassy on Earth?
Irritation grows as residents deprived of air-conditioning and running water three years after the US-led invasion watch the massive US Embassy they call “George W’s palace” rising from the banks of the Tigris.
In the pavement cafés, people moan that the structure is bigger than anything Saddam Hussein built. They are not impressed by the architects’ claims that the diplomatic outpost will be visible from space and cover an area that is larger than the Vatican city and big enough to accommodate four Millennium Domes. They are more interested in knowing whether the US State Department paid for the prime real estate or simply took it. "
It doesn't matter if we payed a bazillion dollars to them for it, that's sadly not even the issue. Just sit back and imagine if any, ANY, other country had the sack to even propose such an endeavor on US soil. Insane right? ...right? Now come back to reality, this is how our president envisions winning their hearts and minds.
Neat.
