The Furious Spinner

Do you think it is beginning to happen? Can the Evil Lord be overthrown? I love seeing the old farts starting to speak up, don't you? Senator Ted Kennedy gave a rousing speech at the Center for American Progress. Sounds to me like he's calling Bush out. Awright, boys. Saddle up. Time to give them there varmits what's comin' to 'em. (I remember when Ted Kennedy gave his speech about Chappaquiddick. Even though we were an Irish Catholic household where the Kennedys were adored and I was a wee babe, I thought his story was a bit fishy. Still, I think history will tell that he's been a great senator.)

Chalmers Johnson makes an argument in "America's Empire of Bases" that the US is the biggest military despot on the planet. Johnson writes, "Due to government secrecy, our citizens are often ignorant of the fact that our garrisons encircle the planet. This vast network of American bases on every continent except Antarctica actually constitutes a new form of empire....Without grasping the dimensions of this globe-girdling Baseworld, one can't begin to understand the size and nature of our imperial aspirations or the degree to which a new kind of militarism is undermining our constitutional order."

Have you heard Ralph Nadar is thinking of running for president again? I'm with Ted Glick on this. Don't do it, Ralph! Apparently he was proposing running a campaign that would somehow draw voters away from Bush. That's fairly confusing. I don't happen to believe (as some do) that Nadar gave the election to Dubya by running. I think Gore and the lack of vision by the Democrats (or seemingly lack of difference from the Republicans) lost the election. However, this time around we can't chance Dubya being re-elected. So stay out of it, Nadar! Unless you want to campaign for the Dems. Or get Ross Perot to run for president again. Now he took votes from the Republicans.

Dubya hastily made plans to lay a wreath on Dr. Martin Luther King's grave—on his way to a fundraiser. This man has no shame. As Dubya walked up to the tomb with Mrs. King, protesters held up signs that read, "No blood for oil." Bush couldn't see the protesters, however, and they couldn't see him: city buses came and parked between the protestors and the grave.

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