Well, later today Bush will come on TV, lie a lot, use the victims of 9/11 for political gain, tie Saddam and bin Laden together, and obscure the fact that he's destroying democracy at home. Or as the White House calls it, the State of the Union address.
So let's cover some recent events just to clarify where our dictator-in-chief has been taking our nation lately.
Conservative religious groups who say AIDS is God's punishment to homosexuals have earned a quarter of the money slated to combat AIDS. So, basically, hatemongers who refuse to make practical actions like advocating condom use and instead shove their religious beliefs on people worldwide are squandering $15 BILLION dollars that should be saving lives.
Meanwhile, over 50,000 troops have been "stop-lossed" and kept in uniform after fulfilling their terms of service. The backdoor draft is back in full force. In the meantime, Bush is looking to cut the Army Reserves and National Guard, silently acknowledging that neither force can meet its recruiting goals. Remember kids, when you can't succeed, Uncle George just lowers the bar for you, like his Daddy has done for him all his life.
Scientists are under attack again by BushCo, including this climatologist who NASA tried to silence.
More lies from Bush and inaction on rebuilding and restoring the devastation left by Hurricane Katrina.
And what of Bush supporters? Are they as committed to freedom, democracy, and equality as Bush's rhetoric states? In short, no.
Ann Coulter wants to poison Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. If I said such a thing about, say, Justice Scalia, I'd be doing 900 years in Guantanamo. But no, she gets to call that a joke.
Speaking of obscene gallow's humor, Exxon has posted a $10 billion PROFIT for the fourth quarter, with annual profits 42% higher than 2004, earning more than 125 out of the 184 countries the World Bank tracks. The absolute total insult to injury here? Exxon wants to have the $5 billion it still owes for the Valdez oil spill to be forgiven. As if they don't have the cash or something. Screw them. Make them pay ten times the amount for even asking for something so insidious.
Religious zealot pharmacists are suing Walgreens for trying to make them sign a statement saying they would prescribe any damn drug a doctor wished to give his or her patient, even birth control. To these morons and their allies, I have only this to say. You know what? You joined a profession to help people. You want to be a fundamentalist? Go join the frigging Taliban. Otherwise, shut your pie hole and dispense drugs that help people.
The Muslim counterparts to Bush and the Talibangelicals have taken over the Palestinian Authority. Hamas won the recent parliamentary elections, making a terrorist group the legal authority for the Palestinians. Two items of note here. One, they still refuse to recognize Israel and want to eradicate it from the map, presumably with everyone inside it's borders dead as well. To do this, they want to merge the PA's security forces with their armed militant terrorist thugs. I'd say, only in the Middle East; but then I'd be forgetting Bush is using the US military to conduct some psychotic crusade of his own making.
Sigh.
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