It’s October in a Presidential election year, so the Hedgemony issues a terrorist warning.
Five-year-old, non-specific information dealing with a guy who is dead, telling us to “be afraid”.
Let us hope they never get any real information about a real target, because at this point no one will believe them.
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LMAO They had real information about a specific target 8 years ago. And it didn’t do the USA any good at all (and I refer to BEFORE 9/11, not after!) These retards-in-charge couldn’t discover their collective anuses with the help of a proctologist and an anatomical map! But they can smell money a thousand miles away. Sadly for you all, they don’t like to share the wealth, only the pain. Good luck with that.
When you listen to the crap about “not sharing intelligence” you know they are lying their asses off. The National Security Council is the group responsible for coordinating intelligence and they hired a group of losers who weren’t interested in doing their job.
I know they got it because I typed the address on every report I submitted, and I was no were near the top of the hierarchy. If they received copies of my stuff, they got copies of everything that was important.
They were just too incompetent to do the job.
After the way they “massaged” the intel to go to war, why would anyone believe anything they say.
I do understand Bryan. Having been in the *biz* also, I understand the depths of your anger and frustration my friend. And I do share it. We are too few and far between, sadly. We show it in slightly different ways, I’m less… tolerant and more abrasive about it than you, but I do try to aim at those deserving. I’m not a fan of *collateral damage*. To me, that’s simple a cop out for piss-poor workmanship and a careless (literally) attitude. The World is where it is today I believe primarily because of one group of people who bothered to evaluate and understand the consequences of what they were about to do, and said “It’s for the greater good! To hell with it!” and did it anyway, and the other group who didn’t give a damn because it was happening to *them* not *us* (and the *us* became a smaller subgroup of the greater *us* every year) and therefore doesn’t count! I saw *FAR* too much of that, and that’s why I got out… Because in the end, the only way people like us can survive in that environment, is to become *one of them*. I wasn’t willing to pay that price, neither were you.
‘nuf said.
I did mean what I said to hipparchia over a week ago. 🙂 Too many of *me* is not necessarily a *good* thing for the World! If I had the power, I’d burn it all down and start again! 😉 Maybe in a decade when some of the anger has dissipated… maybe… 😉 Because, in the end, I also blame all the sheeple who couldn’t be bothered to spend any time learning what *they* were doing in *their* names, and with *our* lives! They spent most of their lives in blissful ignorance of all the BS being shoveled their way, and now it’s being rammed down their collective throats. Well, boo-hoo. I’m so sad about that. Yeah… right!! LOL
All of my sympathy was exhausted in a year in Cambodia watching millions being murdered for no reason other than power, greed and stupidity. And I blame the USA for that too. 🙂
They’ve cried “wolf” far too many times.
Nobody would want our types in charge because reality is pretty scary and we might actually start holding people accountable for what they have done. Politicians think it is enough if people resign. I want them tried and punished. If you are going to throw some kid in prison for a bag of grass, there should be a real penalty for getting people killed for political advancement.
At some point, Jill, you would think they would lose their voice.
ok, k42, i’ll modify my statement a bit — would that we had more like you, but only up to a sustainable number. zat better? 😉
LOL @ hipparchia. 😉
I suppose a balanced number might be achievable. 😉 LOL
Truth is, all people need is a sense of honer and honesty, with themselves foremost and then the rest will follow. 🙂 Which I suspect is what you meant. What my grandfather would call some common sense and common decency and a little respect. We wouldn’t be in this mess now. 😉
Amen to that Bryan! 😀
Hey… We have a couple of satirists on our ABC currant affairs program and every Thursday they do a sketch about something currently topical. 🙂 The transcripts and vid’s are available online. The did one of Bushmoron on the credit crisis last week! Very funny (well, until you realize it’s probably horrifyingly close to the truth that is). 😉 They have done a few sketches on the current debacle worth watching. The vid’s are better than the transcripts. 🙂
Special Feature: John Clarke and Bryan Dawe
Enjoy! 😀
They only problem is that they made Bush sound better than he actually is. It’s amazing how he does it. The sentences have nouns and verbs and punctuation but they don’t seem to form anything recognizable.
The bit on the ratings was spot on, and people have missed that part.
Ahhh, well… Ya see… *our* ABC has some standards Bryan. (LOL Now I sound like John Clark! I think that’s a good thing) 😉
Errrm… oh, right! Yes, our Aunty (as the ABC is affectionately known here) wouldn’t dream of publicly making a President of the great USA look a fool on National TV! After all, we simply let Bush do that himself, it’s entirely his prerogative to look a complete fool at every opportunity. And may I just say, he does a masterful job at it! 😀 Just as it’s been the prerogative of every American citizen to have a foolish incompetent as the leader of their country for 8 years. 🙂 None of our business. We had our own fool-in-charge to worry about and eventually get rid of… after the joke wore a bit thin, finally. 😉 LOL
Yep! I liked that one about the ratings agencies! LOL I liked the bit at the end about buying the Judge! 😉 LOL Yeah… spot on! “Clarke and Dawe’s spin on the credit crunch.” That one. 🙂
You can watch the other skits (or parodies really) about what C&D think about our own Gov for a laugh if you like. 😉 We don’t mind. LOL
They did a wonderful series before the Australian Olympics called ‘The Games”. Was hilarious (and horrifyingly close to reality!) 🙂 This was not their normal 2 person format, but a full mini-series. 🙂
The Games
Scripts (in PDF) are available at John Clarke’s site:
John Clarke – The Games
I’ve seen some of the episodes, or snippets on YouTube (of course!) LOL
They are apparently working on a new series for the London 2012 Olympics, there is a sample there. 🙂
There’s even a Wiki (duh!)
The Games (Australian TV series)
LOL
There was a time when we had political humor shows on the broadcast networks, but no more. Now you need to be a cable subscriber to see the few shows that are left, like the Jon Stewart and Stephen Cobert shows on the Comedy Central network. The corporate overlords don’t like political humor.
People in the US have lost their ability to laugh at themselves at the same time they have become totally absurd.
From the link – ‘Saudi security forces killed al-Ayeeri in 2003.’.
So – who ya gonna call? Ghostbusters?
Normally that would indicate a closed case with the possibility of a future novel, not a national alert five years after the fact. I think most of the world is aware that Al Qaeda taught members how to con people into becoming suicide bombers, so there is absolutely nothing new in the report.
At this point more people are afraid of the Dow than terrorists.
Hah! True Bryan! 😀
And adante… you probably won’t believe this… but that song, Ghostbusters by Ray Parker Jr, was just playing! I swear… How’d ya do that?? Spooky…. 😐
Not all Americans have lost their sense of humor. 🙂 If you look at the guestbook entries on The Games ABC site, you’ll see a *few* Americans begging for the series to be released on NTSC format. 😉 LOL Like a lady from Salt Lake City before the US Winter Games, 2002. 😉
The Games Guestbook
Then… you have a few like this sad case who’d trying to score with John Clarke and even posts her age and address for God’s sake! (Which I’ll cut out here). 😉 LMAO
It appears it was on PBS… Maybe a copy of the series is available there? Well, there are *bootleg* copies apparently… 😉
Heh… funny! 😀
I answered last night, but apparently forgot to hit post [grumble, grumble, grumble].
PBS is the only outlet left that shows political satire on broadcast TV, and it’s all imported. There’s no lack of sarcasm in the US, but the “powers that be” don’t want to offend the conservative sensibilities. The history clearly shows a grand American tradition of annoying the people in power, but the history has been revised to the point that the Founding Fathers were saints having all of the virtues, not the reality that most were wealthy landowners who had the free time to foment revolutions and create governments.
Actually, when poor people have their fill and take to the streets it’s called rioting. To be a proper revolution the leaders need a university education. 😈
LOL No proplems m8, of course. 🙂 And too true! 🙂
Of course… it’s only actually a revolution when the people in revolt actually win! 😉 Otherwise… it’s a slaughter.
This not the time for a trip to the US, even if you are from one on the few countries that is apparently still solvent. We are in for some “interesting times”.