Today over at My Left Wing that blessed lover of God gottlieb wrote the best contemporary account of the recent history of the United States that I have ever read.
If you have not yet read it, please do so.
Below…my extended comment upon it.
YES, GOTTLIEB!!!
If bits and bytes still exist after this current mess is over (and has of course been replaced by OTHER messes) what you wrote here will be hailed by historians as the first true, contemporarily written compact history of the United States of America as the country morphed into wherever it was headed after the Forty Year Coup was complete.
A brief history.
Its beginning and its end.
1963-John F. Kennedy Assassinated
2003-Howard Dean “AAAAARGHED” out of the race for the Presidency so that the interests that had been working for the previous 39 years could be sure to re-elect George H. Bush and finish their ongoing previous 39 years of work nullifying the Constitution of the United States.
The only thing that remains to be seen regarding this work now?
Whether it is defeated from without or from within.
From within would be preferable, because the extent of the carnage that would result from a true defeat by hostile forces in this nuclear age is not even remotely conceivable by the human mind.
We shall see.
A domestic Nagasaki or reform.
The only two choices left, because when the bad guys get THIS bad, they never win.
Bet on it.
Hot ginger and dynamite
There’s nothing but that at night.
Back in Nagasaki where the fellers chew tobaccy
And the women wicky wacky woo.
The way they can entertain
Would hurry a hurricane.
Back in Nagasaki where the fellers chew tobaccy
And the women wicky wacky woo.
In Fujiyama you get a mommer
And your troubles increase.
In some pagoda she orders soda
The earth shakes milk shakes ten cents a piece.
They kissee and huggee nice
By jingo it’s worth the price.
Back in Nagasaki where the fellers chew tobaccy
And the women wicky wacky woo.
Nagasaki bomb, 1945
Plutonium core of the Nagasaki bomb.
American delivery system, 1945
Alternative delivery system, 2007
Be afraid.
Be VERY afraid.
Please!!!
Before it is too goddamned late.
Impeach now or suffer the consequences.
Please.
AG
Do or die time…
Bet on it.
AG
Ever since Bush v. Gore, I’ve been terrified that the United States is facing major troubles.
Gottlieb’s essay suggests: “Get out of debt. Get local. Think tribes.” I’ve been doing this. I’ve moved family and business to the middle of nowhere (as rural as one can get in Maryland, but basically still part of the Boston-Norfolk megalopolis).
I’ve got woods and streams, so I have water and heat if the electric grid goes down. Guns for defense, although I’m such a peacenik I really doubt I could ever fire on another human being in any circumstance; God spare me from such a crossroads. Still planning to put in generators and solar panels.
I’ve been saying for years now that I think a nuclear strike on Washington and/or New York is nearly certain.
I have a friend who is a famous professor of statistics. In the years after 9/11 he was consulted by the U.S. government at astonishingly high levels about risk analysis. He says the consensus among government scientists is that the risk of a nuclear strike on Washington is 5 percent over the next 10 years.
THINK ABOUT THAT!
My wife and I were talking about this again this morning. We’re trying our best to prepare for bad times. I really think Bush is going after Iran, and after that all bets are truly off.
We’re trying to be intrepid and resourceful. But the fact is, we’re terrified. We really doubt we could bear the psychological pain of such a disaster, the loss of loved ones who continue to live and work in downtown D.C., the refugees and starving people that would proliferate, all the suburbanites who would be completely cut off from everything.
I grew up poor, never inherited a dime, have supported myself since age 17. But I’ve made some money in honest law practice. If it comes to the great disasters I fear, my family is going to try to make our hilltop property into a refuge. “Think tribes.”
Meanwhile, I’m doing my best to support peace initiatives.
I’m SCARED.
the evil we fear, is amongst us, not overseas ; )
wado
In the past month I’ve done a “180” on this issue. It’s not that they don’t deserve it. No one has deserved it more…and subsequent indictment on war crimes.
But it seemed unlikely that 18 senators (write off Liebermann) would vote for conviction right before an election. I have very little faith in their consciences.
Yet now, like many Americans, I am terrified that this cabal will force a war with Iran, and perhaps the Armageddon they think will send them to Heaven. And I’m also unsure that the next president would have the political capital (or the cajones) to undo all of the erosion of civil liberties that has occurred, without something dramatic and unique in American History.
But for all those who are drinking the “moonbat coolaid” it’s important to clearly outline the challenge. There are 21 Republican senators up for re-election (I may not be correct, but know I’m close.) They must find it absolutely essential that they face their constituents with clear, defensible responses to a absolutely rock-solid list of charges that are clearly documented and clearly “high crimes and misdemeanors.”
The second challenge, of course, is to keep Cheney or some stooge (like the “shoe queen” Rice) from assuming the Presidency as a result of this action. Con Law experts differ on whether it is legal to impeach both criminals in one vote. Alternatively, the Congress could start with Cheney, then filibuster any new Vice President except a “lame duck” (like Bill Clinton, who would be ineligible for re-election) until the President’s impeachment vote is completed.
That puts a tremendous burden on the one person who has repeatedly come out against impeachment–Madame Pelosi.
Don’t just talk to the same old crowd on this site or related sites. Don’t just smoke and dream. This is a difficult challenge, which will require a very concerted effort by the “netroots.” There will be no good press coverage of the charges, nor will the MSM demand clear answers from the Republican senators on whether they agree with the charges (NOT how they intend to vote.)
But this is 2007. Katy Couric isn’t relevant any more. We are. Perhaps it’s possible.