Fat Tuesday Thoughts
Mardi Gras generates approximately 1 billion each year to the New Orleans economy. New Orleans and Louisiana have received billions over the years from the federal coffers. And the city fathers of NO cannot keep their own damn levees in better shape?
Hillary Clinton was one of the first, if not the first, to speak out on our security over the ports deal. Ms. Clinton is proving herself and her party to be just as strong on national security as the republicans. She can thank BushCo for the nice start on her forthcoming presidential bid.
DP World ports. The bossman could sell to one of the formerly interested bidders - Denmark's Moeller-Maersk, Singapore's Temasek Holdings (oops state owned) and Hong Kong's Hutchison Whampoa (part of Cheung Kong Group holdings). Moeller-Maersk really needs the income as in 2005 Iraq filed suit against the Danish company Moeller for failure to pay port fees. (Don't be silly, those cartoons were not retaliation.)
In other, more important news, Olbermann and O'Reilly continue to rag one another. You know the ruling class just wants to entertain when they create "feuds" for anchormen, reporters, news hosts, or whatever these characters are called. It's raw World Wrestling for intellectuals.
Zogby poll says 90 percent of troops in Iraq think they are there because of Saddam's involvement in 9/11. I believe Herr Kissinger said, "Troops are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns." Or to that effect. Does Zogby prove Kissinger correct? Do the families of these 90 percent also believe we're in Iraq because of SH/911? Who will have empathy for dumb animals, stupid enough to be used as killer pawns - the American public who pawned them? Stay tuned – next week a poll will show 80 percent of Iraqi in Iraq think 100 percent of Americans are dumb.
And, for all those strung out Brits needing good news, Afghan opium production which provides 90 percent of Brits drug market, has doubled, and the British commander yesterday vowed his forces would play no part in drug eradication there.
Also in the news from Europe – half of you are fat and happy. Which leads me to conclude, Europeans too are just as doped, dumbed, and happy as Americans.
1 comment:
Of course, we now understand that NO and LA, like innumerable needy foreign countries, only received U.S. monies in the sense that the recipients' names were invoked as the actual funds were transferred from Americans to Americans (Halliburton, agribiz, whoever) with juicy scraps going to heads of state or preferred contenders for top positions. At least this is how it seems to me now. But then nothing is what it seems, heh.
Except there are a lot of XL people now, of all ages except infants and elderly. Dunno how happy they are, but food can be comforting in these trying times and also, ppl know sh*t about nutrition. Just because it's for sale in a grocery store doesn't mean it's healthy or even safe to eat. Okay, maybe some are dumb.
But we know from our own families that 'the troops' are not all dumb. Sometimes enlisting is one option on young people's very short list of options.
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