Happy Thanksgiving. Please be sure to read Sidney Blumenthal's Salon essay on Dick Cheney's climb to power. It tracks this warped creature from his palace coup (with Rumsfeld) kicking the moderates out of the Ford administration, to acting as point man for the Iran Contra traitors during his years in Congress, to engineering Gulf War I (supposedly the "good war" but as bogus as the current one IMHO), to picking himself for Bush Jr.'s VP, to his big moment--the opportunity to put all his world-dominating plans into action: 9/11. One of the most noteworthy things to me is that, yes, Cheney is a man of ruthless ambition, a bureaucratic inside player, and all that, but he's also largely incompetent. He completely had the Soviet threat wrong, right up until the USSR collapsed, and he consistently overstated Iraq's threat to the Middle East in both wars he got us into. Vice President for Torture--already planning his retirement to Eastern Maryland, where he will live off his stolen taxpayer money until his ticker finally gives out. Here's hoping he gets some Pinochet action, late in life, when he's all ready to relax. And here's hoping history properly places him on the dark side of America, along with Joseph McCarthy and the Boston Strangler.
What is sort of "funny" about Big Dick and others like him is that when you get beyond the fact that they are evil assholes, it really becomes apparent what pathetic, boring, lame-o impotent weenies they are. I almost feel sorry for them, but then I don't.
Hannah Arendt's book about Eichmann had a lot about "the banality of evil" in it, and that is precisely what I think about when I envision what Big Dick's personal life must be like... sad.
Oh, I'm sure Big Time's personal life is just a fucking barrel of monkeys ...
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Happy Thanksgiving. Please be sure to read Sidney Blumenthal's Salon essay on Dick Cheney's climb to power. It tracks this warped creature from his palace coup (with Rumsfeld) kicking the moderates out of the Ford administration, to acting as point man for the Iran Contra traitors during his years in Congress, to engineering Gulf War I (supposedly the "good war" but as bogus as the current one IMHO), to picking himself for Bush Jr.'s VP, to his big moment--the opportunity to put all his world-dominating plans into action: 9/11. One of the most noteworthy things to me is that, yes, Cheney is a man of ruthless ambition, a bureaucratic inside player, and all that, but he's also largely incompetent. He completely had the Soviet threat wrong, right up until the USSR collapsed, and he consistently overstated Iraq's threat to the Middle East in both wars he got us into. Vice President for Torture--already planning his retirement to Eastern Maryland, where he will live off his stolen taxpayer money until his ticker finally gives out. Here's hoping he gets some Pinochet action, late in life, when he's all ready to relax. And here's hoping history properly places him on the dark side of America, along with Joseph McCarthy and the Boston Strangler.
- tom moody 11-25-2005 3:49 am
What is sort of "funny" about Big Dick and others like him is that when you get beyond the fact that they are evil assholes, it really becomes apparent what pathetic, boring, lame-o impotent weenies they are. I almost feel sorry for them, but then I don't.
Hannah Arendt's book about Eichmann had a lot about "the banality of evil" in it, and that is precisely what I think about when I envision what Big Dick's personal life must be like... sad.
- Thor Johnson (guest) 11-26-2005 3:46 am
Oh, I'm sure Big Time's personal life is just a fucking barrel of monkeys ...
- mark 11-26-2005 5:02 am