   How Dumb Is America? By Ernest Stewart "You'll never go broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public." ~~~ Barnum's Law "The horror... the horror..." ~~~ Colonel Kurtz ~ Apocalypse Now "For a long time now, there's been too much secrecy in this city. The old rules said that if there was a defensible argument for not disclosing something to the American people, then it should not be disclosed. That era is now over. Starting today, every agency and department should know that this administration stands on the side not of those who seek to withhold information but those who seek to make it known." ~~~ President Obama "Be afraid. Be very afraid!" ~~~ Wednesday Addams
This year, the groups couldn't be more different. On one hand, we have more of the same ole, same ole, no matter which party you vote for, and on the other hand we have Teabagger candidates that mimic characters out of old Alfred Hitchcock movies! Think films like "Psycho," "Frenzy" and "Rope!" Quite a crop of loony toons even for American politics! I think my favorite is a woman who equates gay marriage with people who want to marry their furniture and swears under her watch as lieutenant governor she'll allow neither! As by now I'm sure you know I'm an Independent so for the most part this election holds nothing for me. There are no candidates that even come close to my wants and needs. Still, as my daddy liked to say, "You may not know who to vote for but you always know who to vote against" and this year the choices couldn't be any clearer! Normally I seldom see any real difference between the Demoncrats and Rethuglicans. For example, with Barry in office it's like George W is doing a third term (except that Barry has gone over the edge a little farther than George) and since both sides of the aisles has been bought and paid for by the very same corpo-rat puppet masters, there is little real difference. As old Will Rogers was fond of saying, "We have the best Congress money can buy." Still, it's often better with the Devil you know than the Devil you don't! Will Americans on Tuesday cut their own throats and elect the Teabaggers who have sworn to do all they can to destroy the America that we know? To do away with all the social, "socialistic" programs that we've come depend on and have already paid for, like Social Security and Medicare, the interstate road system, airports and train stations, public schools and universities, the police and firemen, libraries and the military, just to name a few! Do you really want to get rid of those social programs to be able to give even bigger tax breaks to the filthy rich? Just how dumb are you America? By Wednesday afternoon, we'll know! Even after we handed the torture chambers in Iraq over to our puppet government we knew that they were torturing prisoners and still kept handing over innocents to be tortured despite what the Pentagoons and Barry claimed! Our take-no-prisoners approach of killing insurgents trying to surrender goes on and on with helicopter gunships being given the okay to mow down people trying to surrender. American officers raping Iraqi teenagers and then killing family members trying to stop it and in at least one case having our troops saw off a live protestor's head! Coalition forces killed hundreds of civilians, including children and families, as checkpoint procedures failed, according to Wikileaks in both Iraq and Afghanistan. US troops who were ordered not to investigate or report Iraqi torture even if they witnessed it. Nor have the British been following the "rules of war" and have many atrocities on their books. The difference is they get investigated when reported and not shoved under the rug and forgotten or spun like ours do! Another 15,000 dead Iraqis uncovered that were never reported officially but that we knew about and the list goes on and on of our crimes against humanity and war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. There are at least another 17,000 "war logs" yet to be released by Wikileaks. That begs the question of what is Barry hiding and why? All the ACLU wanted to know is where captives were first taken into military custody, their citizenship, the length of their captivity, and the circumstances under which they were captured. Seems like a reasonable request, does it not? Melissa Goodman, staff attorney with the ACLU's National Security Project said, "The military says that they can't release the information because it would be a threat to national security, but they provided that information for the prisoners at Guantanamo." Since some 95% of prisoners in Gitmo turned out to be innocent without even enough proof for the Kangaroo Court to convict I wonder what percentage of prisoners in Afghanistan are innocent, too? Every week Obama adopts as his own crimes some of Dick Cheney's "Heart of Darkness" programs and hides the truth away! So much for that transparency thing, eh? Also you might like to read my Halloween poem On All Hallows Eve. Let's all hope that Halloween ends Sunday night and doesn't get reborn Tuesday at the polls. I mean, Senator O'Donnell, Senator Angle, Senator Paul, Senator Whitman, Senator Miller, now that's really scary!  *****  01-11-2008 ~ 10-26-2010 Thanks for the soccer tips!
 07-01-1957 ~ 10-27-2010 Thanks for the film!
 12-08-1937 ~ 10-28-2010 Bury'em Danno! ***** We get by with a little help from our friends! So please help us if you can...? Donations ***** So how do you like Bush Lite so far? And more importantly, what are you planning on doing about it? Until the next time, Peace! (c) 2010 Ernest Stewart a.k.a. Uncle Ernie is an unabashed radical, author, stand-up comic, DJ, actor, political pundit and for the last 9 years managing editor and publisher of Issues & Alibis magazine. Visit me on Face Book. Follow me on Twitter. |
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