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Fated Fliers
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Hussein Stanfill
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George Carlin
performed the most amazing trick of his life yesterday.
He outlived his heart.
And even though it was a trick he could only
perform once
we were all privileged enough to watch him do it for 50 years.
I plan a fitting tribute for this great man but I've spent not
near
enough time this evening revisiting his genius, courtesy of youtube.
So, for now, I leave you with a few fitting last words.
Take it way, George.
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Zuzu's Petals
"Fascism is capitalism in decay." - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
 If
George W. Bush had been born poor it's very safe to say he never would
have been a C-student
cheerleader at Yale or ever gone AWOL from a "champagne unit" of
the Texas Air National Guard.
He would never have run three failed oil companies backed by Saudi Arabian
friends of his father.
He would never have been allowed closer to the Texas
Ranger locker rooms than a seat down the first-base line would allow.
He most certainly would never have run for public office, much less
be awarded the job of President by his father's friends on the Supreme
Court.
Never.
But some things would have certainly been the same. He would have still
be the same booze-guzzling, cocaine-snorting party boy he ever was.
And
I'm just guessing here but based on what we now know he most likely
would have served a tour or two in Viet Nam as he'd have been too dumb
to avoid
the draft. If he survived that gauntlet my guess
is that
he'd
now
be
a
homeless
drug-addict,
because
that's what happens in America when you like drugs more than education
and no one is there to help you.
A little harsh? Not as harsh as if George Bush been born poor AND black. Then
he would have had the additional burden of fighting the prejudices and
intolerance heaped upon him by the likes of those serving in our government
today.
People
like... George Bush. (If you think otherwise, just deduct the number
of blacks on Bush's staff from the number he allowed to drown in New
Orleans.
Which
is the bigger number?)
John McCain's story is not so much unlike George Bush's except minus
the drug-and-alcohol abuse (as far as I know), as he graduated 894 out
of 899 in his class at the U.S. Naval Academy. This is an unexceptional
man
who, if
not
for
his
family's prominence (his dad was an admiral) or his very wealthy beer-heiress
wife, would also have had no chance at our nation's highest office.
Some people will find comfort in voting for a man who has faithfully
followed the path that others have carefully laid out for him, but I'm
going with
the
guy that's
blazing
the trails he's forged all by himself.
=mike=
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John McCain Fun Fact:
The right wing propaganda machine, primarily Fox News, has been
making hay with the following quote by Michelle Obama, the wife
of democratic presumed presidential candidate Barack Obama:
"For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of
my country."
She is, of course referring to an America which suddenly seems
to have no qualms about electing something other than a lily-white
male
to the office of President. I see her point and I agree with
her.
However, in a March 13th, 2008 interview with Sean Hannity John
McCain said the following:
"I didn't really love America until I was deprived of her
company."
He is referring to his being captured by the Viet Cong and how
he suddenly, and presumably <sniff> missed his TV and his beer
and perhaps even his wife, the former swimsuit model whom he
divorced after returning home because she'd become misfigured
due to
a
terrible
traffic
accident.
John McCain reportedly had a good, stable life as a child. He
went to an expensive boarding schools and got a college degree
at the U.S. Naval Academy. Then he joined the miltary as a naval
aviator,
something he presumably always wanted to do. His life was hardly
a living hell.
And he didn't love
this country until he was captured by the enemy?
Well, boo-fucking-hoo.
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