It Couldn't Happen Here

[welshTerrier2]

thank heavens we're safe in our country from the sorts of things Dionne is warning about ...

this is biting satire at its best ...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/06/AR2006070601549.html

[rock]

1. Say, all that sounds vaguely familiar

Deja vu perhaps?

[NNadir]

2. Gee, that's surprising in the American media.

[AuntPatsy]

3. Nawww, couldn't happen here, no way.

[reichstag911]

4. I especially liked...

..."Jaime A. Panadero (Spanish for "baker") III!"

[welshTerrier2]

7. great catch ...

i don't speak Spanish and that one blew by me completely ... thanks for the translation!!

[reichstag911]

8. Thanks. Here's a very quick primer:

"Pan" is bread, and "-ador(a)" signifies a vocation, or what one does...something like our noun suffix "-er." "Matar" -- to kill; "matador" -- killer.

[NNadir]

5. Kick

[SheilaT]

6. Aaron McGruder said it best.

"In this time of war against Osama bin Laden and the oppressive Taliban regime, we are thankful that OUR leader isn't the spoiled son of a powerful politician from a wealthy oil family who is supported by religious fundamentalists, operates through clandestine organizations, has no respect for the democratic electoral process, bombs innocents, and uses war to deny people their civil liberties. Amen."

Said Huey Freeman on Thanksgiving, 2001.

[Doctor_J]

9. I have that Boondocks framed on my desk

the best ever.