Three Headed Dragon

My gawd, I never would have expected a site like this, but it is an interesting comilation of the words of our President and assorted family.

Here's a choice quote from Dubbya's mother. Is it true?

"I don't give a good goddamn if you want to be a cheerleader. Your father and I have decided you are going to play sports, like all the other little boys, mister sissy britches. Now get your hands off of your damned hips, you little pansy, and fetch me a scotch on the rocks!"

-- Mrs. George H. W. (Barbara) Bush, 1954

So, what do you think of some of the talk out there about not only the divide in the nation, but the possibility of it breaking up?

Not only people on the Blue State left are bellyaching about the 'backwards' red states and wanting to leave the naiton. But there is also a movement on the Red State right to expell the Blue States from the union

What do you think about all this? Should the Blue States and all their liberal elite be expelled for the good of the nation?

HST Overdrive is curious. Please use the Comment below to let him know.

Here's a good old Japanese proverb: "If you believe everything you read, better not read."

Progress in women's rights seems to be taking a beating overseas. Check out how the Bangladeshi National Women's sports programs are being gutted because those pose a threat to Islamic sensitivities.

It's a shame the US won't sign the International Anti-Personnel Landmine Treaty, but it is worth noting that no other country donates as much money as the USA when it comes to landmine clearing projects.

This one is just plain creepy. What proud parent would want that sitting on their desk?

It looks like Bush's trip to Canada may attempt to mend some fences, but he will not address the Canadian Parliament for fear of heckling from the ranks. Wow, what a brave leader. Bush is scared of a few angry Canadians? Who'd ever heard of such a thing!

And the Aussies have come up with a great idea to keep you from getting in trouble when you're drunk.

A new way to get out the women's votes in Zimbabwe.

Finally, I guess drug paraphernalia truly is dangerous... when left on a hot stove... for all you stoners out there!

Here's a decent Yahoo! slide show of Natalie Portman. It's no stretch of the imagination that Portman is going to be a star for some time to come. She will definitely be the next Jodi Foster. Think about it. Not only is Portman extremely well educated, like Foster, she fiercely intelligent, hot and has played multiple Lolita roles in her time. All like Foster.

I think it's safe to say we can look forward to many years of excellent acting from this actor. The lame Star Wars movies aside, she has done some fine work. And her new film, Closer could be a break out role for her.

Oh, and check out this hot pic of Lynn Collins waiting to meet Prince Chaz...

Drug Dealers ----------------------------------- Refer to their clients as "users". "The first one's free!" Have important Asian connections. Strange jargon: "Stick" "Rock" "Wrap" "E" "Stash" "Drive-by" "Hit (LSD)" "Source" "The Pigs" Realize that there's tons of cash in the 14- to 25-year-old market. Clients really like your stuff when it works.When it doesn't work they want to kill you. Job is assisted by the industry's producing newer, more potent product. Often seen in the company of pimps, hustlers and low-lifes When things go wrong, a "fix" is just a phone call away, but may be expensive A lot of people are getting rich while still teenagers. Product causes unhealthy addictions. Do your job well and you can sleep with sexy movie stars who depend on you.

Software Developers ----------------------------------- Refer to their clients as "users". "Download a free trial version..." Have important Asian connections. Strange jargon: "SCSI" "RTFM" "Packet" "C" "Cache" "CTRL ALT DEL" "Hit (WWW)" "Source-code" "Microsoft" Realize that there's tons of cash in the 14- to 25-year-old market. Clients really like your stuff when it works.When it doesn't work they want to kill you. Job is assisted by the industry's producing newer, more potent products. Often seen in the company of marketing people, venture capitalists and fund managers. When things go wrong, a "fix" is just a phone call away, but may be expensive A lot of people are getting rich while still teenagers. DOOM, Quake, SimCity, Duke Nukem 3D... Damn! DAMN!!!

George Bush has a heart attack and dies. He goes to hell where the devil is waiting for him.

I don't know what to do here," says the devil. "You're on my list but I have no room for you, but you definitely have to stay here, so I'll tell you what I'm going to do.

I've got 3 people here who weren't quite as bad as you. I'll let one of them go, but you have to take their place. I'll even let YOU decide who leaves."

George thought that sounded pretty good, so he agreed. The devil opened the first room. In it was Richard Nixon and a large pool of water; he kept diving in and surfacing empty handed over and over and over. Such was his fate in hell.

"HELL No!" George said. "I don't think so. I'm not a good swimmer and don't think I could do that all day long."The devil led him to the next room.

In it was Tony Blair with a sledgehammer and a room full of rocks. All he did was swing that hammer,time after time after time. "No! I've got this problem with my shoulder. I would be in constant agony if all I could do was break rocks all day!" commented George.

The devil opened a third door. In it, George saw Bill Clinton lying on the floor with his arms staked over his head and his legs staked in spread eagle pose. Bent over him was Monica Lewinsky,doing what she does best. George Bush looked at this in disbelief for a while and finally said,"Yeah, I can handle this." The devil smiled and said..

"MONICA, you're free to go!"

Now those chickens are coming home to roost. In 2000, when Dubbya 'wisely' decided to pull out of the venerable and stabilizing ABM treaty that was the cornerstone to keep the nukes from flying, it was widely seen throughout the world as a mistake. Of course, in the USA, especially in the Defense Industry, it was seen as great idea. With red-America no longer willing to believe in mutual assured destruction, it was reasoned that spending billions of dollars of taxpayer money on a missile system (that still has never verifiably worked) was a good idea. Keeping American Security in American hands was pushed by the Bush Administration. Perhaps this was prescient of Bush.

Well, in a post 9/11 world this makes a great deal of sense. It is well known that a terrorist attack is highly unlikely to take the form of a ICBM heading for Manhattan. So at the end of the day, what does this strategy do for us? It further isolates us from the world community, potentially enraged the Russians and effectively destabilizes the nuclear détente between Russia, the USA and China.

Now look at what progress the Russians are making on their own ABM Shield (click here). How long before they perfect this technology and sell it to China and the other burgeoning nuclear powers? How gallant would the council of Imams in Iran feel in launching an attack at the Great Satan if they had their own proven missile shield?

Looks like Mr. Bush is going to get a helping of Canadian Beef, no matter what his trade policy says. He'll porbalby like it! Click here.

Another brilliant theif. Click here.

Finally, are you in the giving spirit? Well, if you take the model for the '12 Days of Christmas', it might put you in the poor house. Click here.

Here's an interesting article on Salon.com (you might need a membership to read it). According to this commentator, the demographic trends in the USA are pointing away from turning America into Jesusland as the right would have you believe.

Like W.R. Clement wrote in his masterful book Quantum Jump, the people who are pushing the old ways know they are losing. The last gasp is the loudest scream. The cornered rat fights the hardest. This period we are seeing is really the end of the fight, the last vicious gasp of a dying monster who's 'morals' and 'values' are based in the mindset of the previous millennium.

I think Hunter S. Thompson was on to something when he was at his most elegant, insightful and tragic:

"And that, I think, was the handle -- that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting -- on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave....

So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look west, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark -- that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back."

- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Perhaps that 'high and beautiful wave' indeed 'broke and rolled back' those 35 treagic years ago, but the tide was slowly rising and that energy did have all the momentum. Such large change is slow, probably too slow to have satisfied that single, impatient generation.

...and so now, 30 years later, one can probably go up on that same steep hill in Las Vegas and look around, and with the right kind of eyes see that the beautiful sea-tide of change has come in and risen all over...

The poor guy. He sure was determined to jump. I guess he didn't like what he saw on the application...

And check this out. Dubbya's disastrous fiscal policy is actually good for the Canadian Dollar. As much as I love my friends back North, I find it sad, living in California and seeing the greenback that I work for slide because of the Dubbya's hyperactive version of Voodoo Reaganomics. There is no 'laugher' who is holding on to US money these days, I'll tell you that!

And those Aussie cops! Isn't that like closing the institution door after the pedophiles all run out?

Here's the Nightmare Before Christmas...

And a British Citizen's arrest? Is turn about fair play?

Here's an interesting diversion from the usual dreary foreign debates you see in the US news for all you avowed internationalists. If the USA is not going to take a role that leads the world (instead of subdue and insult it), then it really opens the door for other countries to do so.

There seem to be other forces acting for good in this world besides the usual English oriented players. With American exceptionalism at an end, there are other players out there. La Francophonie is an old grouping of French states that, when pulling together, actually have some leverage. But it is entertaining to see the first Anglophone (primarily English speaking) Prime Minister of Canada in years try to leverage a French based institution

Check out the article here.

Will something good come of this? Perhaps, if Paul Martin can articulate a vision strong and practical enough to energize the other leaders into resolute and committed action. This could primness the first and most drastic reform of the UN in its 49 years history.

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