It sounds like a Hawaiian hula dance!
But if you were to listen to the news, you'd think the United States was about to explode in a nuclear cloud. I for one am pretty glad that WikiLeaks is around because, god knows, our media couldn't hold our government accountable for shit, much less investigate their way out of a paper bag. I find it amusing, but don't really understand, all of the rhetoric coming from the politicians and the media over this thing. Some people are calling for this Julian Assange dude to be tried for treason, even though he's not an American citizen (Thanks, Sarah Palin! Another winning missive outta your pie-hole!), some are calling for the plain and simple execution of Assange, with no charges, due process, trial, etc., some are saying that if Assange is hiding in a foreign country, we should invade that country to catch him, even if said country is an ally ...
Ka-blooey! There goes the collective American brain in a single puff of insanity!
Honestly, are the documents, or cables telling us anything we didn't know already? Aside from the fact that employees and diplomats with the State Department are a bunch of petty, backstabbing little high school mean girls? There were a couple of things that surprised me, like Hilary Clinton (and Condoleezza Rice) asking our diplomats to spy on their peers, to the point of collecting DNA, at the United Nations. If I were from another country, I'd be more than a little pissed about that one. I mean, honestly ... DNA? What the fuck?! What are they?! Fuckin' E.T.?! (Phone home! I would, but she just pricked my dialing finger with a needle!!!)
Then of course there was this shocker: Saudi Arabia, while one of our biggest "allies," was also begging the US to strike Iran over their nuke program, while at the same time funding al Qaeda. Boy, oh boy! We sure know how to pick 'em, don't we?!
But if you were to listen to the news, you'd think the United States was about to explode in a nuclear cloud. I for one am pretty glad that WikiLeaks is around because, god knows, our media couldn't hold our government accountable for shit, much less investigate their way out of a paper bag. I find it amusing, but don't really understand, all of the rhetoric coming from the politicians and the media over this thing. Some people are calling for this Julian Assange dude to be tried for treason, even though he's not an American citizen (Thanks, Sarah Palin! Another winning missive outta your pie-hole!), some are calling for the plain and simple execution of Assange, with no charges, due process, trial, etc., some are saying that if Assange is hiding in a foreign country, we should invade that country to catch him, even if said country is an ally ...
Ka-blooey! There goes the collective American brain in a single puff of insanity!
Honestly, are the documents, or cables telling us anything we didn't know already? Aside from the fact that employees and diplomats with the State Department are a bunch of petty, backstabbing little high school mean girls? There were a couple of things that surprised me, like Hilary Clinton (and Condoleezza Rice) asking our diplomats to spy on their peers, to the point of collecting DNA, at the United Nations. If I were from another country, I'd be more than a little pissed about that one. I mean, honestly ... DNA? What the fuck?! What are they?! Fuckin' E.T.?! (Phone home! I would, but she just pricked my dialing finger with a needle!!!)
Then of course there was this shocker: Saudi Arabia, while one of our biggest "allies," was also begging the US to strike Iran over their nuke program, while at the same time funding al Qaeda. Boy, oh boy! We sure know how to pick 'em, don't we?!
You know, over the Thanksgiving weekend I watched All The President's Men with Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman, portraying Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, respectively, and their Watergate story that blew the top off that chain of events. What happened to that kind of journalism? That dogged, pit bull, I'm-gonna-grab-ya-by-the-jugular-then-rip-your-face-off kind of reporting. It's so incestuous now. The media feeds off the politicians, the politicians feed off the media ... but then the people are fed this regurgitated shit-sandwich they call the news ... it's disgusting ... but we keep on swallowin' it.
Personally, I'm thankful for WikiLeaks. I'm glad to see what our government is doing behind closed doors, and to see someone actually hold their feet to the fire, albeit in a round about sort of way. After all, I'm the one paying for it, as is every other tax-paying American in this country. And to know that my country is conducting itself in a not-so-dignified manner, at yours and my expense, pisses me off to no end.
Oh, but wait. I just remembered ... the other thing that's sticking in my craw, courtesy of Judson Phillips, President of the Tea Party Nation:
PHILLIPS: The Founding Fathers originally said, they put certain restrictions on who gets the right to vote. It wasn’t you were just a citizen and you got to vote. Some of the restrictions, you know, you obviously would not think about today. But one of those was you had to be a property owner. And that makes a lot of sense, because if you’re a property owner you actually have a vested stake in the community. If you’re not a property owner, you know, I’m sorry but property owners have a little bit more of a vested interest in the community than non-property owners.
Ahem, excuse me, I have something in my throat ... *cough*
FUCK YOU!
Up the ass, you fucking asshole ...
Challenge my right to vote!
I dare you!
I dare you!
Happy place! Happy place! I need my happy place!!! Arrrggghhh!
