after an absence from the computer for a couple of days I checked my email to find it stuffed with maybe 8 messages (under slightly different headings) that promise that little ol' me can help "STOP HILLARYS {sic} BOOK" by purchasing a deck of cards with pictures of Hilary Clinton on them & various "outrageous" quotes.
before deleting them, I had a brief vision of Senator Clinton's memoir stomping across the landscape, breathing fire & dropping squirming & screaming schoolchildren into it's gaping maw while poorly dubbed soldiers shriek "Crinton! Crinton! Aieeee!", & hurl playing cards at its scaly carapace before being squished...
or something like that.
there was also a bizarrely ominous statement to the effect that "the Department of Defense has shown the effectiveness of playing cards as a way of identifying the enemy"
oy.
I actually LIKE Ms. Clinton, if only for the reason that someone who inspires so much animosity among the conservatives must be doing SOMETHING right.
I'm not sure how much my little town is representative of much of the rest of the country, but here her name is pronounced with the same sort of curl of lip one would use for "Adolf Hitler" or "explosive diarrhea" or "environmentalists"--& it seems to have nothing to do with her politics, her stand on any particular issues, or her resume, as much as that she's a bit--uppity.
not like Laura Bush--now THERE'S a gal that knows her place. (actually, I quite like Ms. Bush, because she's a reader. beyond that I couldn't really say anything about her beyond the fact that I'm pretty sure she's a brunette.)
similar with the Rev. Al Sharpton--a bit uppity. not like that nice Colin Powell. HE knows the game.
(at least now he does--does it seem to anyone else that he just sort of--changed--a couple of months ago? NOT that I'm suggesting that there's a Powell-shaped pod somewhere in DC, or one of those leechy things from Star Trek 2, Wrath of Khan wrapped around his cerebral cortex, or he's been replaced with a robot but--well, hell, that WOULD explain a lot, now wouldn't it?)
before deleting them, I had a brief vision of Senator Clinton's memoir stomping across the landscape, breathing fire & dropping squirming & screaming schoolchildren into it's gaping maw while poorly dubbed soldiers shriek "Crinton! Crinton! Aieeee!", & hurl playing cards at its scaly carapace before being squished...
or something like that.
there was also a bizarrely ominous statement to the effect that "the Department of Defense has shown the effectiveness of playing cards as a way of identifying the enemy"
oy.
I actually LIKE Ms. Clinton, if only for the reason that someone who inspires so much animosity among the conservatives must be doing SOMETHING right.
I'm not sure how much my little town is representative of much of the rest of the country, but here her name is pronounced with the same sort of curl of lip one would use for "Adolf Hitler" or "explosive diarrhea" or "environmentalists"--& it seems to have nothing to do with her politics, her stand on any particular issues, or her resume, as much as that she's a bit--uppity.
not like Laura Bush--now THERE'S a gal that knows her place. (actually, I quite like Ms. Bush, because she's a reader. beyond that I couldn't really say anything about her beyond the fact that I'm pretty sure she's a brunette.)
similar with the Rev. Al Sharpton--a bit uppity. not like that nice Colin Powell. HE knows the game.
(at least now he does--does it seem to anyone else that he just sort of--changed--a couple of months ago? NOT that I'm suggesting that there's a Powell-shaped pod somewhere in DC, or one of those leechy things from Star Trek 2, Wrath of Khan wrapped around his cerebral cortex, or he's been replaced with a robot but--well, hell, that WOULD explain a lot, now wouldn't it?)
Great to read you again. Thanks to your posts, these unfathomable mysteries of north-american politics are made clear even to us ignorant foreigners.
(in order to gain some additional information, i'm considering buying the card deck published by the Rseau Voltaire, portraying the 52 most dangerous members of the Bush government...."the Department of Defense has shown the effectiveness of playing cards as a way of identifying the enemy".... so true....)
When I think of it, didn't the TV show "Dark Skies" unveil, some years go, some disturbing secrets about Colin Powell's past experiences (back in the '60s) with leech-like extraterrestrials?
I told you: U.S. politics are incomprehensible to non-americans, without some help by somebody "in the know".... (is it the correct way to say it?)
.... so is this Donald Rumsfeld REALLY your Secretary of Defense?