I was decidedly neutral when it was announced by the powers that be in Mormon land (or “Utah” to outsiders) that Mitt Romney was the chosen one. He would rescue the 2002 Olympics, and so be it.
My neutrality arose from memories of his dad, and the appreciation I had for him in taking on Richard [...]
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Brought to you by BUSHCO, the ultimate in creating chaos.
Death and destruction rolls on like it’s stuck on cruise control. Likewise some of it is so predictable that when the story makes the news the only appropriate reaction seems to be “I wonder what took so long?”
In its defense the Turkish government is in perhaps [...]
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Hugo Chavez says bad things about our President and he gets branded as some kind of international pariah. We say the same things about the same President and we get lumped into the majority of our fellow citizens who feel that this administration is a loose cannon on the deck of the ship of state.
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At the risk of proving that I was the only one who didn’t already know this, I just read today about a poll that is a bit different than any I’ve known of before. Some 2,000 people are being tracked on a continuing basis to determine their reaction to the primary candidates and their campaigning.
One [...]
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Freedom is theoretically possibly without democracy, one supposes. It would have to consist of a benign dictatorship (most likely possible in a historical Monarchy) with all of the shortcomings that that would entail.
Democracy without freedom is another matter altogether. Not only is it conceivable, it is a daily reality if one looks around, and events [...]
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When the only thing to be grateful for is small blessings, it only makes sense to be grateful in spite of that. Funny how far civic affairs have deteriorated, isn’t it?
The House was quiet as a mouse the day after Christmas. But across the Capitol, the Senate was operating in an unusually efficient manner in [...]
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The duplicity of the Bush Administration is exhibited nowhere as starkly as in “Kurdistan”. The current nature of the conflict between Turkey and Iraqi Kurds is almost a total creation of U.S. policy. I conclude this because of a 60 Minutes piece filmed in Northern Iraq, containing interviews in which prominent government figures in the [...]
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The age old question with the Bush Administration remains: Are these guys actually this incompetent or are they doing this shit on purpose? The weirdness seems to happen a bit more frequently with Iraq and our military but having government operations be seamless is becoming more and more of a quirk.
The Pentagon is bolstering a [...]
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One thing that clearly must be reckoned with in the modern world is the corrupting influence of money on government. Money, skillfully applied to decision making can virtually control every outcome. Only in the absence of monetary corruption is the will of the people, expressed through voting outcomes, able to be effectuated.
Accordingly, it’s clear that [...]
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There was a time that I lumped Mitt Romney in with the also rans in the Republican Primary, because I thought that he shot himself in the foot with his “I am my own Mormon” speech. It seems to me that it was no coincidence that Huckabee started to surge right around the same time.
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Where are the adults? Is there anyone in charge? Anyone at all? Yeah, I know we have “The Decider”. But I know that there is also supposed to be oversight. And I have the distinct impression that a very large majority of our population would be completely surprised to learn how far under radar the [...]
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I could have gone a very long time without running across a report of a law enforcement officer containing this quote: “He said: ‘I’m the policeman of the world, and I can do what I want.’” But the rest of the story is so sad that it really breaks my heart. Or maybe it just [...]
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