Welcome to Potterville...

[Two Americas]

...where the fox guards the hen house and the criminals are deputized.

The fox comes to you and says "uh, hey, you know those chickens you gave me to like watch over for you? Well, I have some bad news. They are missing. In fact they are all gone. These things happen, what can you do? Chickens just disappear sometimes - hen houses can become volatile and unstable -and then people starve. This all real technical and stuff, so just take my word. It is hard to understand. So why don't you give me a whole bunch more chickens? Quick like. Inaction is not an option - or else, if you get my drift. You don't want to starve, do you? We gotta take care of this right away. Just grab your neighbor's chickens or buy some on credit, whatever. We need a lot of chickens and we need them right now, or there will be a terrible famine."

The gangster analogy is a good one, too. Some gangsters tear up the town and terrorize everyone and then come to the city council and say "hey it is a big mess out there. Worse than you even know, because as if tonight the power plant and the school are wrecked and the bridge is down, too. A few more days of this and the whole town will be gone. How about you put me and the boys on the payroll, and give us guns and badges - big guns, we will need really big guns - and complete freedom to do whatever we want - we need that, because you know, the problem is really bad. You do want to save the town, didn't you?"

That is exactly how the Bush administration acts, again and again. Create a huge mess, or tell us there is a huge mess, scare the shit out of us, and the demand some sport of rush "solution" that always makes the problem worse and puts more money and power into their hands.

This is some sort of problem for psychologists to work out or something. Why do people keep caving in to the bullies, and fall for the same tricks again and again? It is some sort of sick pattern. Is it that people are traumatized and that is making them irrational? Some sort of moth to the flame thing?

[Uben]

1. If it doesn't pass, we are doomed

.....I was hit by a piece of sky yesterday

[Two Americas]

2. sinking fast here

Of course, so is the country.




We have to think about the chickens! Doesn't anyone care about the chickens???

[Two Americas]

3. so much for any wonderful life

What happened?

[dchill]

4. Kicking...

into daylight!

:kick: