h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

With the Mexican press full of a debate over the ramifications of a vote against the resolution, [George W.] Bush added, "But, nevertheless, I don't expect there to be significant retribution from the government." His emphasis was on the word "government," raising the possibility of adverse reaction to Mexico from America's business community and average citizens. Making that point, he cited what he called "an interesting phenomena taking place here in America about the French." With many Americans unhappy at French resistance to a war in Iraq, the president said there has developed "a backlash against the French, not stirred up by anybody except by the people."

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The American Prospect and Mother Jones (mojones.com)amoung other articles explain the bully tactics the US is now using on Mexico.

Bush has said "Its NOT ME"! It is NOT the government.The *people* are mad at the French and next they'll be mad at the Mexicans. The fears/threats/ past history of Internment Camps have been mentioned by many political columnist concerning this topic.

NO NO NO. NOT!

Blimey, things really are going from bad to worse aren't they? Why can't people see the bully boy lurking beneath the hapless veneer? The sort of trade sanctions and other forms of coercion that are being threatened at the moment are outrageous. I would dearly love for the rest of the planet to start boycotting/cutting trade agreements with the US to make this idiot re-think his actions. Can't he see that it is exactly this sort of thing that makes other countries loathe the US and gives fuel to the terrorists fire?

It is such a shame that people like you seem to be in the minority over there Abbi, you must feel like a lone voice in the wilderness.

Oh, yeah Dubya, pass the buck!

Changing the topic momentarily abbi, one of the newbies I'd welcomed recently U221475 was asking about an infomercial. She's up in Minnesota, I just thought there'd be more likelyhood of it (the infomercial) being on U.S. TV...I haven't watched any recently...well, nothing significant. How are you today?, looks very grey & wintry here.

That's it (steel seive memory ), it's for the Qray ionizer bracelet.

But somehow I think Bush, who gives shrubs a bad name, will stand out in the crowd, even in a sea of brownshirts and red, white and blue armbands. He needs it like William Burroughs needed heroin.

And the deeper he pushes the needle, the stronger the rush.

He can't stop now until they find him with a knotted rubber tube around his bicep and the needle dangling from his purple rotten vein and a crusty scarf twisted around his jugulars.

Oooo... the ecstacy of torment!!! To have it all, and still have nothing.

The delicious taste, the despair of doom, the protruding tumescent tongue of tawdry turpitude melting into a heap of grisly goo.

What word power U have woman!

mrs:
It is nice to be in your good company,
Lone wolfs unite!


Jazz: I am doing pretty well. Today was a day , VEP test tomorrow for my retina. I was told 20 years ago I would probably be blind by 50 Beat those odds! Having a tiny visual problem. No serious change, I can hootoo!


Wow. What imagery and word powers U have Analiese!
Your writing shows you believe as I, that the desire for
power is the most seductive of all!

Yes, I commend your verbal skills Analiese!

Congrats on beating those odds abbi! I've got some minor problems with my eyes & otherwise, but we won't get into that here.

I'm not sure if it's the most seductive, Abbi, but it probably comes close to booze or smack if it's not.

Those substances are about power too, along with many others.
Relinquishing it.

These are two sides of the same coin.
Having ~ ALL the power Giving up ~ ALL the power

U cannot own your Self while doing either.

There's many kinds of power I think. Each of us, when we are born, possesses the power of life or death and, maybe in time, we learn the power to make things happen.

But there's another power that broods darkly and seeks to coerce or intimidate everyone or everything around us. This is the power of fear, especially that fear of the universe. So then the terrorized person seeks to alter universe, to "improve" it so it's not so threatening. That's a very destructive power because for every "improvement" there are maybe a dozen more threats created that must be dealt with by somebody and it's frequently not the person who devised the improvement.

And ironically, that person rarely feels more secure for all the mayhem that she/he creates to feel more secure.

Something just occurred to me as I reread what you'd originally posted at the beginning of this discussion.

Bush, in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, unilaterally declared the mission of his administration as securing the American people from the threat of terrorism. Now it appears he is recasting everything such that he seems to say that the people have forced this mission upon him, this mission he chose, but now wants us to believe it was actually an imposed duty. How convenient that might prove in time.

I wonder how he thinks he can have it both ways, how he can lead and follow at the same time?

That is why more and more people disbelieve him.
It was Revenge on Terrorists
Defending America
then WMD and Hussein
then it is duty to Global safety and Gods work
Now it is reconstructuring the middle east.
Lost in there, a humanitarian concern for the Iraq people.

All planned in the 90s as the New World Order.
The new American Century now, proudly at http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqmiddleeast2000-1997.htm