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burythehatchet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-27-06 10:10 PM
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Mom and baby killed
All cable "news" networks divert resources to story for next 6 months

United States of America dies a slow and painful death.

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Tom Yossarian Joad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-27-06 10:15 PM
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1. It's the American "Shiny Thing."
We live in the land of...

Aug 15, 2005

America, the land of stupid motherfuckers

I started thinking about this when the Iraqi invasion began. Surely, I wasn’t that much smarter than the rest of my countrymen. Surely, they could see that there were no WMD. Surely, they heard Saddam back peddle and invite inspectors in.

Guess not

Today at work, our HR director was bitching about insurance costs. I said, “It’s amazing, isn’t it. We pay through the nose for crappy coverage that will drop you like a hot potato as soon as they can if you get sick and need to use what you’ve been paying for.”

She knows my feelings, so her answer was “Yes, but we get to pick the doctors we want!”



Yeah. As long as they are listed by our HMO.

She, like so many others has drank so deeply of the Kool Aide that she doesn’t even hear what she’s saying and does not go past Republican talking points in her reasoning. Mindsets like this are damning in their pervasiveness and damning in their results. Every day, I drive by SUV’s and pick up trucks festooned with American flags, bumper stickers proclaiming they support Bush, telling me that ‘these colors don’t run’ and yellow ribbon magnets to inform the world that they support the troops even though they would quickly dismiss any suggestion that they actually go to Iraq and truly support the war effort up close and personal. If all these people feel so strongly about this war, why are the Armed services falling so far behind in recruitment goals?

I’m still hearing people damning the French… “Surrender monkeys.” When I say that we would most likely be a part of the British Empire if it weren’t for Lafayette (You know, that French guy… “Lafayette, we are here” guy?), the answer I got today was “probably not.”

Are these people trying to be stupid? They make Luddites look like the Manhattan Project. Stem cells? Cloning? Evolution? If Newton lived in America today, they would hang him from the nearest tree to disprove the law of gravity. And call it compassionate science…

Compassion? Not if you are poor. You chose to be that way. Not if you’re gay. You chose to be that way. Killing tens of thousands of Iraqi citizens? We’re spreading freedom and you know you have to break a few eggs. After all, we lost 3000 people in the Trade Center disaster, so I guess that figures, Iraq ought to lose 30,000… Even though the 9-11 attackers were Saudis and Iraq had NOTHING to do with it.

I’m sorry, America, 51% of the voters are not simply uninformed. They are Stupid Motherfuckers because they have taken the lies given to them by a bunch of power hungry men and women and have not just held on to the lies but have gilded them in gold and carry the lies as battle standards.
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left is right Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-27-06 10:31 PM
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2. my dad says:
that Americans do not have enough sense to govern ourselves
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burythehatchet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-27-06 10:32 PM
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4. its nice to have a dad who "gets it"
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burythehatchet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-27-06 10:31 PM
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3. preach brother..preach
hey, you comin to Atl in Feb?
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Tom Yossarian Joad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-28-06 08:24 AM
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7. I'm planning on it!
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NIGHT TRIPPER Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-27-06 10:39 PM
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5. GOOD GOOD Post !! a must read for all DUers !! you got it right!! n/t
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tatertop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-27-06 10:48 PM
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6. Mark Twain would agree with you
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