The swirling cauldron of shit in my head has reached its capacity and is now spewing forth onto my keyboard. Guess it was just some 6-6-06 crappy timing or something, but I was raiding the rec list and watching TV while my ssssllloooooowwwww ISP switched pages. I just happened to click on bonddad's
diary about why the market is tanking at the same time that
TIME BOMB came on.
TIME BOMB is a documentary warning about how close the economy is to crashing like-russians-waiting-in-line-for-bread style. Some of the warnings in it were described today on the rec list as current events. FUCK.
That's just what's put me over the edge though. Here's what's been adding and adding and adding to my if I had health insurance I would know for sure if that was an anxiety attack.
Iran-Contra, "Dad, what is this court stuff on TV all the time now?"
"That guy gave weapons to the other side of a war we're paying for"
"Are they gonna put him in jail?"
"If the courts are worth anything they will" Now 'that guy' is on TV again.
Desert Storm, "Mom, isn't that the country we pay for wars we don't want to fight?"
"Yeah...they stopped taking our orders"
That was the first time I saw W on TV...shortly after his first appearance I saw him again promising to go after the guy who tried to kill his dad.
Ran into an old high school buddy and heard all about him and his navy ship mates writing HAPPY BIRTHDAY SADDAM on the bombs they launched on his birthday - there was supposedly no war going on then. Silly me, bombs are an anytime gift nowadays.
This one I have no way to confirm but I seem to remember news about Saddam changing Iraq's laws to only allow Iraqis to own Iraqi oil fields....after that news gas was cheap as hell, actually cheaper than water. And a few oil guys from here were pissed that they were robbed of their investments
Ethnic cleansing of Albanians...and the guy who was responsible had captured some Osama guy and offered to turn him over to us. Glad we don't make deals with genocidal maniacs. Osama who anyway?
Uh-oh Clinton's time is up. Hey isn't that the guy who wants to go after Saddam? Crap...update voter reg to new address and try to get friends and family to notice what's in the possible future. Well he's not that smart anyway...hey isn't that a Saudi in the background. Hope they don't teach him that 'use fundamentalist radical religion to gain support then use it as an excuse to extend your power' trick, they got that thing down pat.
9-11 well I guess he's got his excuse now. I wonder if he had any warnings about it. Papers said we paid this Osama guy to fight the Russians and try to stop the poppies from growing. Hey, why not put Iraq back on the payroll for the sloppy stuff and just send a few green berets to take out their leaders... they aren't a country are they?
WMD's WMD's WMD's WMD's WMD's...didn't we give em that crap and watch em go through it all within days of delivery? Is there really anything left. I think Saddams talkin shit. Is that an air photo of a toothpaste factory in Kansas? WTF. Who decided that drawing Madden-ish circles on an unidentifiable satellite photo is the crap you feed people to sell a war?
Oops no WMDs, but we took back the oil with -our- their new constitution and propped up leaders...we're gonna save so much money on gas now....Oh you mean they're price gouging while selling it to themselves then blaming the war and high crude prices?
This gas thing is causing inflation. Better watch that crap. They wouldn't ruin the country to make some extra cash would they? No. they couldn't.
Then this
According to Abbas, Bush said: 'God told me to strike at al Qaida and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East. If you help me I will act, and if not, the elections will come and I will have to focus on them.'"
Before you jump to any conclusions, remember that you are reading a translation of a translation of a translation. Mahmoud Abas does not speak English. Bush does not speak Arabic. If Bush said these words, or something like them, Abas heard them from a translator. Then Abas repeated them, as he remembered them a couple of weeks later, in Arabic. Some unknown person wrote down what he thought he heard Abas say. Then Regular, or someone at Ha'aretz, translated them back into English-or perhaps first into Hebrew and then into English
let's hope that was some bad translation... He can't think he's a
prophet
proph*et NOUN: 1. A person who speaks by divine inspiration or as the interpreter through whom the will of a god is expressed
Uh-oh I think that's what he's selling, I'm not buyin.
This oil thing is getting worse. Houses aren't flipping as quickly. There go the interest rates tryin to catch up. Should I be worried? Should I start stashing MRE's and canned crap? hmmm
Then today that word showed up. My cousin the econ major who now audits a really big bank told me watch out for this one - stagflation. "Even if they down play it, don't forget Enron" the last ditch he said will be when they say "monetize the debt" then we're screwed, cause the dollar is abstract now. No more gold behind it (which I never understood anyway) its value is based on our good name.
But this is a democracy right? We can stop this right? Oh crap, the Mexicans are gonna laugh their asses off when we're climbing our own stupid fence looking for something better.