March 2006 Thoughts ....Randy Winn

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Fun Stuff!

Enough politics. Here's some fun stuff (...with a little politics...):

If This Were Fiction, Would You Believe It Possible?

Imagine that you were writing a novel, or a screenplay. It's about a heroic president who does the following: I could go on, but why bother? If this were fiction, no-one would believe it possible. The novel would never get published and the movie would never get filmed because this all is just too far beyond reason or rationality that a democracy would stand for criminality and incompetence.

 

So why should we believe this story, merely because it's the truth? - 3/25/06

Security? What Security?

(CNN) "Budget constraints are forcing some FBI agents to operate without e-mail accounts, according to the agency's top official in New York.

"As ridiculous as this might sound, we have real money issues right now, and the government is reluctant to give all agents and analysts dot-gov accounts," Mark Mershon said when asked about the gap at a New York Daily News editorial board meeting.

"We just don't have the money, and that is an endless stream of complaints that come from the field," he said."

http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/03/20/fbi.email.ap/index.html  -3/20/06

You know what I miss about Nixon?



He may have been a drunken, paranoid warmongerer, but by golly, he was a pro-AMERICAN drunken, paranoid warmonger.

He wasn't out to enrich himself. His many crimes were part of his megalomanic view of himself as an historic figure who had to get re-elected at any cost, but he didn't enrich himself at all or his buddies much. There was a scandal involving something like $50,000 in contributions from the milk industry, and his Vice-President was brought down by bribes he'd started taking as a minor state official. Serious felonies of course, but by today's standards, barely a rounding error.

Bush OTOH is in it for the money. Think about it. The ONLY consistent theme in his administration is whatever enriches his crime family. He'll betray conservatives, Christians, and all of America to that simple principle.

The drunken paranoia is just the frosting.

Is it not a bad place that America has come to when Nixon would be the lesser evil? - 3/15/06

Senator Russ Feingold is right

http://rewinn.com/9974.html

 

What is the Correct Title?

When the chief executive of a republic assumes "all powers necessary" during time of war, traditionally the title changes. During the Roman Republic, an "Imperator" was selected to wield whatever power was necessary until the enemy was defeated. "Imperator" comes down to us through the ages as the title "Emperor".

On the other hand, the Caesar family of Roman assumed Imperial power so thoroughly that its name, Caesar, became almost synonymous with Emperor. "Caesar" comes down to us as the title "Kaisar" or "King".

So which title is most appropriate for an American President who claims unlimited power as Commander in Chief in Time of War?

Caesar? Kaiser? King? or Emperor? - 3/12/06

It Could Be Worse ...

By the 4th chapter of the statutes made at Trim, 23 Hen. VI. (A. D. 1447) it was enacted, "that if any were found with their upper lips unshaven by the space of a fortnight, it might be lawful for any man to take them and their goods as Irish enemies, and to ransom them ..."  [From: Memoirs of William Sampson, (1817)]

If mustaches are outlawed, only outlaws will have mustaches!  - 3/11/06

Morality In Government

"Morality in government means more than a mere absence of wrongdoing.

"I think it is just as immoral for the Congress to enact special tax favors into law as it is for a tax official to connive in a crooked tax return.

"It is just as immoral to use the lawmaking power of the Government to enrich the few at the expense of the many, as it is to steal money from the public treasury. " ... President Harry S. Truman, March 29, 1952

Full text: http://rewinn.com/9976  - 3/10/6

Bluenecks: New Political Category

A Blueneck is a Redneck who got screwed blue by Bush.

For example, our troops. A lot of them were proud rednecks but Iraq is making them blue.

Then there's the citizens of Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana are discovering how little the Bush Crime Family really cares about them. And here's an article about Toby Keith & Faith Hill who may turn into bluenecks any day: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/03/09/hill-mcgraw-lash-out-at-_n_17021.html

What we got here is a rebirth of old-fashioned American populism. We come in all colors: Red, White and Blue but for too long we let the criminals in the White House divide us over stupid stuff. Now that our great nation is in danger from their criminality and incompetence, let us join together: welcome home y'all!  -3/9/06

 

Ooops - They Did It Again!

Remember Katherine Harris ... the Bush/2000 campaign official who used her public office to stop the counting of votes in Florida? She was rewarded with a seat in the House of Representatives from which she launched a bid for the Senate. But it seems that she couldn't resist taking a bribe ... http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060305/NEWS/603050833

The owner of the company (MZM) admitted in federal court that he gave $32,000 in illegal campaign donations to Harris.  In March 2004, at a private dinner in Washington, D.C., Wade and Harris talked about "obtaining funding and approval" for a Navy counterintelligence program. After that dinner meeting, Harris put in a $10 million budget request to the Defense Appropriations subcommittee to fund the project. Days later, an employee in Harris' congressional office went to work for Wade at MZM. Federal investigators have said that Wade never told Harris that the 16 checks of $2,000 each in the name of MZM employees and their spouses were obtained illegally, but the timing of the money in exchange for the favor would excite the suspicion of anyone with a conscience.

Harris's comment: "There is nothing to it except for the press trying to be negative."

What have we learned from this?
That criminals should stick to their specialty! Either fix elections or take bribes; if you try to do both, you'll stumble! - 03/04/06

(Meanwhile, in Florida, lobbyists are suing for the right to continue bribing officials: http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/13891988.htm  and http://roblimo.com/node/view/89 )

1806 or 2006?

"... There are men of ambition so depraved, who would rejoice to be called wicked, if with that they could appear what the corruptions of the world, and the servility of historians, have denominated GREAT.

"But these same men would never have courage to consummate their crimes, were they taught that these crimes would render them contemptible, and still more, ridiculous."

... William Sampson, "The Causes of the Troubles in Ireland", 1806 (...but just as true in 2006)
http://rewinn.8032

Demand Better Lies From Your Government!

We now know:

I don't mind being lied to so much as having my intelligence insulted. In the old days, Presidents knew how to lie. LBJ's story about the Gulf of Tonkin last for decades. Nixon's lies took years to unravel.

Bush's lies evaporate in days.

Where is the quality? Where is the pride in workmanship?

We have the best technology, the most expensive military, and the best-funded public relations apparatus in the world, so why can't we have better presidential lies?

I DEMAND BETTER LIES!

http://rewinn.com/9972.html

-03/01/06