Get Ready for WAR!

[Lightning Rod]

Get Ready for War!

Russia has made a very shrewd decision to attack Georgia on the first day of the Olympics when the world's attention is focused on Beijing.

It is also very ironic that George Bush should be in China watching the spectacular opening ceremony of the Olympic games with Alexander Putin when Russia invades a sovereign country named Georgia.

Today Bush went to a Chinese Christian church and attended a basketball game and appeared to be having the time of his life. Ok, so what if Russia has invaded a sovereign country that is one of our friends in a not very friendly region? Let's play ball.

Sure, I know it's the Olympics, but when the call came at 3:00 in the morning our president was asleep. He's still asleep at the wheel.

What he should have done was to slide down the bleachers at the opening ceremonies and planted his ass next to his buddy Putin and said, "let me buy you a beer. And by the way, if you don't pull your tanks out of Georgia, you are going to be in a world of shit. Like my daddy said when Iraq invaded a sovereign country, 'This Will Not Stand.' Hope you enjoy the games, Pooty."

Yes, that's what he should have done, but at least he should have done the same thing in a more dignified public way in a statement.

I agree that girl's beach volleyball is much more fun than impending world war, but the president's job description, George, includes responding to world situations like this one. You can watch the beach bimbos on Tivo.

The Poet's Eye sees war on the horizon. Real War.

[mousey1]

Bush is a whack job! Does more harm than good. *spits*

[WIREMAN]

thanks for being my walter cronkite...or was that andy rooney....LRod ya got any good news????smile

[Lightning Rod]

yeah, the good news is that the US beat the Chinese in basketball

now, here's the rest of the story:

the world is about to freak out

nobody seems to realize that this event could easily set off WWIII

When Iraq invaded Kuwait, George Sr. said, "This Will Not Stand"

Kuwait is a sultanate, a monarchy. They are nowhere close to a democracy, but they do have oil.

Georgia is a country that exactly fits the model that Bush purportedly supports. It is a fledgling democracy.

Georgia wanted to join NATO. The country represents everything that we are preaching in the Bush democratic evangelism doctrine.

If we don't open a can of whupass on the Russians, we are not only cowards but also hypocrites.

But mark my words. We are all in trouble.

[mtmynd]

"If we don't open a can of whupass on the Russians, we are not only cowards but also hypocrites."

You sound like Stone Cold Steve Austin here, Clay.

Do you really believe Dubya can prevent Dubya-Dubya-III by intruding in the affairs of Russia... at a time when the whole friggin' world is already at un-ease and unsettled about the future ? Dubya invaded Iraq and look at what that fiasco cost us. How much dinero do you think our country has to start war with Russia ? Hell, let's go and fuck with Iran while we're fightin'... let's whupass everybody that fucks with our idea of democracy. We don't have anything better to do but to go fucking broke, homeless and jobless while defending ideals that are strictly American.

[stilltrucking]

Yes, it is about time we had a real war.

I am so tired of these phoney wars we been having lately.

So are you still listening to CNN all the time?

I think you need to change stations Clay.

All the static in my attic getting ready to blow

john prine

[stilltrucking]

Clay you rascal
you fooled me again
I was really worried about you.
I should have known better.

Have you checked the price of scrap iron lately?

[Artguy]

I guess bushy must be tickled silly....this is the perfect provocation for him to suck us all into his warring vortex before his time is up....

[WIREMAN]

ST junk cars are now worth good bucks as scrap and rebar yeah useless rebar is being sold for good money @ the scrap heap....
eve of destruction...you can either sit around and freak out or throw your t.v. out the window and make art is wht i say.....this is why i hang at a real laid back cafe with cute girl's working, there only worry is what to do tonight.....no news is good news....i would not even know about this shit at all if it was not for U....LRod .....thanks so much for keeping me informed.....it's kinda like we got us a hippie current events cyber cafe going....getting it off the chest when we should be driving pick-up trucks around searching for scrap metal....smile

[stilltrucking]

What interests me about it is how it will play out in our elections down here. It seems to be helping McCain more so far.

[mnaz]

reality's just a crutch.

[WIREMAN]

Get Ready for WAR!......hell i thought we was in a war......o you mean WWIII.....right????.....i dunno now i'm confused.....i'm just an old hippie atist who could care less about the news....what r u saying, i really wanna know???

[stilltrucking]

We've placed ourselves in a position that globally we don't have the wherewithal to do anything," Stratfor's Mr. Friedman said. "One would think under those circumstances, we'd shut up."

One senior administration official laughed when told of that comment.

"Well, maybe we're learning to shut up now," he said. He asked that his name not be used because he was not authorized to speak publicly on the issue.

Dallas Morning News

I read my news, I don't want it coming at me 24/7.

Sometimes I hear myself expressing opinions like there is a pull string in my back. Pull my string and I will repeat an pre recorded opinion I heard some pundit give. And which I think is my own.

So where are you getting your opinions Clay?

[WIREMAN]

.....you know what we say about opinions on the construction job ST.....yeah...same thing we say about excuses......

[Lightning Rod]

I try not to have opinions, truck
they get in the way of thinking

but if I were going to have opinions
this is how I would make them:

first get the facts. This is sometimes the hard part
unless you are an eyewitness to an event
you have to accept what another reporter says about it

it's fortunate that today we often have several viewpoints available
so it's good to compare and get an average of second hand observations

then you add the spices

humor, hopefully
insight and experience
your world view

and voila----an opinion!