State of the Onion

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State of the Onion

Post by Lightning Rod » February 3rd, 2005, 7:17 pm

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State of the Onion

"Some say my tax plan is too big. Others say it’s too small. I respectfully disagree. [Laughter] This plan is just right." G. Bush, State of the Union speech, 2001.

Four years ago when George Bush gave his first State of the Union speech, I almost wept for the man because he was so inept and sophomoric. Do you remember his grand literary allusion to The Three Bears? We've come a long way in the post 9/11 world. Bush was poised and confident in his delivery to Congress on Wednesday night. Butter wouldn't have melted in his mouth as he told lie after lie after lie.

The President expected us to believe that democracy has been born in Iraq under the barrel of an American gun. He told us that there were free and fair elections when on that same day there were 175 terror attacks in the country. He lauded a domestic economy that has enjoyed more bankruptcies than any in history. And he didn't mention that these bankruptcies were in great proportion caused by unbearable medical bills. One quarter of full-time workers have no health care coverage.

He didn't mention that the dollar has fallen 40% against the European currency in the past two years. He glossed over the fact that America's reputation in the world has gone from the beacon of peace and freedom and opportunity to that of an imperial bully.

Yes, George Bush has improved greatly as a speaker in the past four years . You can almost believe him when he tells you that the way to save Social Security is to rob money from it, money which will be deposited into the pockets of his Wall Street buddies.

The speech was fabulously Orwellian. Not since Joseph Goebbels has anyone mastered Newspeak better than Rove & Co. Robbing medical malfeasance victims of their right to the courts becomes 'medical liability reform.' Blocking lawsuits from victims of asbestos poisoning turns into a measure to 'promote small business.' And it's only 'environmental responsibility' to drill for oil in Alaska.

Oh yes, the State of the Onion is just peachy, until you start peeling through the layers. I don't know what world George Bush lives in, but it's not the same one that The Poet's Eye sees. In George Bush's world, we've conquered AIDS, our ports are secure, in fact the whole world is more secure now that we are exporting 'freedom and democracy.' In George Bush's world marriage is only between a man and a woman, no child is left behind and Iraq is 'free and sovereign.' Where is he living? Fantasyland.

Thankfully, the President didn't plumb the literary depths of Little Red Riding Hood in this speech. Do you remember his first State of the Union speech when he did the Goldilocks 'not too big, not too small, just right' routine? But he is still telling fairy tales. By some fiscal magic he is going to balance the budget while fighting foreign wars at a cost of thirty million dollars a day, and he's going to fix Social Security by robbing it of two trillion dollars over the next ten years. The Big Bad Wolf, bin Laden, wasn't even mentioned in the speech.

With a straight face, our President told us that, "Justice is distorted, and our economy is held back by irresponsible class-actions and frivolous asbestos claims." Translation in Realspeak: "We are going to inhibit your access to the courts and if industry poisons you with it's foul products or by-products, tough luck." I noticed that there were no asbestos cancer victims sitting in the First Lady's section with their respirators. Where do these people fit into the President's 'culture of life?' Oh, excuse me, I forgot my Newspeak for a moment. 'Culture of life' is a code phrase for no right to abortion and no stem cell research.

Now here is another little passage straight from Mother Goose:

"We're working closely with the governments in Asia to convince North Korea to abandon its nuclear ambitions. Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and nine other countries have captured or detained al Qaeda terrorists. In the next four years, my administration will continue to build the coalitions that will defeat the dangers of our time."

Get this guy a ticket to Disney World. He's living in Fantasyland. And the scary part about it is that the Congress seems to be acting like elves and dwarves--one happy chorus of munchkin yes-men. The Democratic response to the President's State of the Union speech was the weakest broth I have ever tasted. The chicken barely stepped into the pot.

The Poet's Eye sees the handwriting on the wall, and it's not in a language that I understand. It's in a strange new language concocted in the basement of the White House and designed to make you think that black is white and that war is peace and that hate is love. If you wish to prosper, learn to speak it.

"And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'" --George Orwell, 1984
"These words don't make me a poet, these Eyes make me a poet."

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Post by jimboloco » February 4th, 2005, 11:19 am

well another very timely column. I am starting to believe that your dots are somewhat connected.
I wonder what the Poet's Eye thinks about Condi Rice's comment that we are not contemplating attacking Iran right now and the Marine Jarhead general's bully pulpit about liking a brawl.

It seem as tho our nationalist flexing is rampant.
Also in prior columns, did you comment on the return of the poppy to Afghanistan?
Personally I prefer poppies tio the Taliban any day, but the collateral damages we wrought on the way is a result of the exact heavy handed militarism that seems to permeate the national spirit.
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Post by Lightning Rod » February 4th, 2005, 12:14 pm

jimbo

I'm waiting for the Afghani hash to start rolling again
It's about the best in the world

I used to do business with a gang that imported from Afghanistan.
There was a little blonde dallas girl whose daddy worked for Braniff
She could fly for free anywhere in the world.

She was the one who flew to Afghanistan and went up into the hills and bought the hash. She told me how the natives were fascinated by her because she was fair and freckled. They would come up and touch her hair and her skin.

She would ship the load wrapped in an Afghan rug to Amsterdam and then they would put it in cans and ship it as gourmet food to Canada and then zip-zip across the border and in no time we were tokin' up in texas.
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Post by jimboloco » February 4th, 2005, 3:51 pm

Canned heat.
How fascinating.
This girl was a tree top flyer.
What a tale.

You have to be able to laugh
to disrupt the paradigm.
Gettin my fixins tonite too.
Sunlamp hydroponic
tonic
sonic clonic
jesus
working the weekend, bad habits and all,
lately I have been calling all the doctors,
"my friend."
That stuff does strange things to ya.

Saw democracy now today lady doctor
and amy goodman she said
dubya's "nano-health insurance" plans,
"affordable" he callz it,
are in reality worthless.

The lady doctor on Harvard staff
did a study of bankruptcies related to
health care costs incurred.....

she advocates a communal (shudder)
health care plan.
we got one as long as we are working, but then,
as old folks, we will have to get by on herbs, chi, and teas and various liquid nutritional supplements, like you sang about, a moderate diet of imbibing.....

the ownershit society
full of it
because those that own
and those that owe
gotta blow

funny note: i am paying off debts
consolidation with Ameridebt and
THEY JUST WENT BANKRUPT! :P

ps let me know if ya hear about the rolling again
afghan wool and hounds and
hashish.

What about the old Silk Road?
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Post by Lightning Rod » February 4th, 2005, 10:19 pm

jimbo

what a delightful human being you are

ok, I'm not trying to get gushy here

just the way I feel

roll it up and smoke it
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Post by jimboloco » February 5th, 2005, 10:38 pm

Actually now that I am back from another grueling marathon at cancer ward, wanna say that I am into a break from de pot.

Maybe it is guilt. Maybe it is my stepson who won't get a job even tho he is bright and out going.

Maybe it is my wife, who watches me doing this, giving him dope money and beer money.

Maybe it is my step-daughter, the splitter, who would not smile at my hilarity last night.

But maybe mostly it is me, I got four hours sleep and worked for 13 hourz, got a lady mixed up. She came to me telling me that her husband was having wheezing. I told her adamently that Michelle was her nurse. She was dumfounded. The secretary told me that it was my patient and suddenly I realised that it was. I had gotten her confused with another family member of another patient. She was Spanish, and so was the other lady,, but this lady's husband was Americano. I suddenly realised what I had done, rushed into the room and saw this old fellow having chills from the Interleukan that he'd gotten for his metastatic skin cancer. I knew what to do, and did so, but was terribly em-bare-assed for what I'd done to her. She had a moment of loss of trust and it hurt. I did my rational stuff, gave him demerol, watched, then more demerol and benadryl and got him a resperatory treatment, then called the doctor, who had not written a pre treatment. So I got the pre treatment ordered for the next time and got the frequency of the demerol admins increased to every 2 hours, but I wrote it as every 1 to 2 hours for rigors, what theman had.\

I need to be my sharpest, so am doing a slow burn now.
Slow burn. Natural high for a fortnite or more.
.
you know how much I appreciate your compliments

Had an idea for a new take off on "democracy now" like, "Plutocracy now!"

back to bed for another round, soon as I've scanned my mischief from arears.

I'll catch up on Monday.

The plutarchs want an ownershit society.
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