Reasons to be Bitter

Today’s News

Israel Rejects Cease-fire

Easily the largest, most sustained and most vicious act of international terrorism committed in the 21st century shall continue as maybe a million Gazans remain on the edge of starvation and Gazan hospitals remain over-flowing with civilians either murdered or injured by U.S.-Israeli state-sponsored terror.

President Bush has openly and brazenly declared his support of this hideous act of terrorism and keeping in line with his positions regarding occupied people’s during the Iraq War, has managed to blame the massive slaughter and starvation of Gaza by U.S.-Israel on who else but – the people of Gaza. To borrow from the late Harold Pinter, “how many people must you kill before you are considered a war criminal?”

All this, officially, is an effort to put a halt to Hamas’ terrorism. Some acts of terror are more equal and more liberative than others.

Huge Iraqi Embassy ushers in new Iraq era

After almost 6 years of full-blown efforts at subjugation and domination, a giant step has been taken toward “a new chapter in relations between America and a more sovereign Iraq.”(Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) The awesome display of Iraqi sovereignty comes in the form of a U.S. embassy that is 10x larger than any other embassy ever built in human history, complete with shopping malls and other monuments sacred to our national philosophy of consumerism that we are now so generously sharing with the people of Iraq.

If Barack Obama stands up and says he wants to spend more on inner-city education and social programs, he better damn well have a clear and unoffending explanation as to where he plans on getting this money, and it sure as shit better not come from my pocket.

But if George Bush wants to build an embassy 10x bigger than any in human history that costs 700 million dollars, also more than any in human history, you will hear not a question from the voluntary North Koreans in the press corps and then consequently tacit approval in the body politick.

I sometimes wonder what America would be like if it were inhabited by humans with the capacity for critical examination.

Bush speeds up airlift of equipment to Darfur

The atrocities in Darfur peaked years ago. Transportation equipment has been needed since the beginning, and the U.S. has had the capacity and the agency to bring it to Darfur all this time. But now, the dear leader announces that he will increase efforts at aiding the battered and broken people of Western Sudan and elsewhere, just 6 short years after the violence broke out and after only 2.4 million had been driven from their homes.

Aiding Darfur in and of itself is not such a bad thing. The reason this is aggravating news is that all the illusory sycophants in the press corps will be further praising Bush’s purportedly stellar record with regard to Africa because he has decided to do what had needed to be done years ago.

All this is going on whilst the propaganda machine known as the cable news channels are talking incessantly about Roland Burris, Rod Blagojevich, and Barack Obama’s kids as if these people were of national importance.

Who needs democracy when you’ve got cable news channels around. They provide all the same participatory feel that a real democracy would give, but with none of the responsibility and twice the entertainment!@