tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post115829284626296597..comments2024-02-07T00:13:30.741-08:00Comments on The Existentialist Cowboy: How Bush made of the last remaining superpower a banana republicAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-1158454708936792722006-09-16T17:58:00.000-07:002006-09-16T17:58:00.000-07:00My mother was full of admiration and praise for So...My mother was full of admiration and praise for Solzhenitzine, as much for the extraordinary beauty of his written Russian (she read him in the original, of course) as for the treatment of the subjects he covered. According to her, his spoken Russian sounded very vulgar and "common" - but that's how the White Russians consider the Russian as spoken in the Soviet times and since. The pristine Russian they brought with them during the Emigration is apparently now considered a kind of "Old Russian" by the younger generations of Russia today. I think it has to do partly with the propaganda they were daily exposed to for decades and decades - even though they were quite aware that it was propaganda and didn't believe a word of it (which is the opposite of what has been happening in America for longer than the span of the existence of the Soviet system). A form of Newspeak was by nature a tool of the Soviet Propagnda - it is, after all, the one indispensible tool for any fascist or totalitarian system or régime to succeed in imposing itself and last for any length of time, short or long.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-1158453966197621362006-09-16T17:46:00.000-07:002006-09-16T17:46:00.000-07:00Hey there, Fuzzy (quoth Vierotchka vaguely waxing ...Hey there, Fuzzy (quoth Vierotchka vaguely waxing familiar), thanks for your visit and message - come back often, it's the best of the net that I glean hither and thither and yon. Len is quite right, you must be a descendant of the Bard and have inherited his genes! Best regards to the missus. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-1158366598844867602006-09-15T17:29:00.000-07:002006-09-15T17:29:00.000-07:00The talking heads on PBS Washington Week reports t...The talking heads on PBS Washington Week reports that Bush is now saying that there are numerous new terror groups emerging —Shi'ites, Sunnis, Kurds! So —in effect —Bush is now saying that every Kurd is a terrorist. Every Shia is a terrorist. Every Sunni is a terrorist! Sheesh! C'mon America, wake the f___up, grow up and throw this idiot out of the White House! <BR/><BR/>Thanks for the kind words, Gracie. Tsunami of Blood is a great blog and Skip Conover is a lucid writer. I am, of course, pleased to link back to his site. Peace, indeed! <BR/><BR/>Fuzzflash, Shakespeare has nothing on you, my friend. Good work : )Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-1158350786658060352006-09-15T13:06:00.000-07:002006-09-15T13:06:00.000-07:00Well you have summed it quite well I must say. Ex...Well you have summed it quite well I must say. Excellent piece of writing that I stumbled upon from Skip over at Tsunami of Blood's website.<BR/><BR/>This is an incredible site, thank you for putting this out there for those who want truth, not BS propaganda.<BR/><BR/>I must add you to my bookmarks.<BR/><BR/>Peace,<BR/><BR/>GracieGraciehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01863671580176900686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-1158341156976526802006-09-15T10:25:00.000-07:002006-09-15T10:25:00.000-07:00Driveawayfromhome, I am likewise suspicious of the...Driveawayfromhome, I am likewise suspicious of the way Bush so eagerly exploited 911. But, like damien, I am equally suspicious of the Bush/Bin Laden nexus of terror and more so because nothing Bush has said about 911 is true. Bush's response was not only over the top, it doesn't address the issue. As many have pointed out: terrorism is a tactic. It is not a religion, a creed, an economic system, a cult, a nation-state. One does not, cannot wage a war on terrorism. <BR/><BR/>Sharon, I agree. Bush did not win either election.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-1158339552711504882006-09-15T09:59:00.000-07:002006-09-15T09:59:00.000-07:00Christopher, I beg to differ. He was most certainl...Christopher, I beg to differ. He was most certainly not elected in 2000. Yes, yes, I understand all about the Electoral College. I stand by my statement. He was not elected in 2000.<BR/><BR/>2004 is a different story. Maybe P.T. Barnum was right. Or maybe fear really is the most powerful human emotion. BushCo played us for fools, and a majority of the voters --that is, the ones who didn't have to stand in line for 6 hours, and didn't have their names "mistakenly" scrubbed from the voter records-- got suckered in.sharonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08373027426802320587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-1158299295362093172006-09-14T22:48:00.000-07:002006-09-14T22:48:00.000-07:00I find myself wondering what the world would have ...I find myself wondering what the world would have been like today had Bush treated 9-11 less like an excuse to go to war, and more like what it was; a sucker-punch by a powerful <I>gangster</I>. He should have investigated it as a crime (albiet a huge and horrible crime), then only used the Military to bring bin Laden to justice (if at all). Instead, the stupid fucker gives bin Laden a legitimacy akin to that of a head of state, and declares a war that anyone with half a brain would understand to be endless and un"win"nable.<BR/><BR/>He should have played "M" to bin Laden's Blofeld and sent in a Bond, instead he decided to play Rambo.<BR/><BR/>Dubyo: There wouldn't be no trouble except for that king shit dictator! All I wanted was something to run in my SUV. But the man kept pushing Sir. <BR/>Trautman: Well you did some pushing on your own George. <BR/>Dubyo: They drew first blood, not me. <BR/>Trautman: Look Georgie, let me come in and get you the hell out of there! <BR/>Dubyo: They drew first blood...daveawayfromhomehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06237313399294302353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-1158297991803269142006-09-14T22:26:00.000-07:002006-09-14T22:26:00.000-07:00A very excellent analysis of the assininity of Geo...A very excellent analysis of the assininity of George Bush. <BR/><BR/>But the sad truth is that he was voted president by the American people not only once, but twice, notwithstanding the skulduggery in Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004. <BR/><BR/>And it is also a sad truth that the Congress and Senate voted overwhelmingly to approve the invasion of Iraq even though the democrats did so with their fingers to the political wind. <BR/><BR/>People get the leaders they deserve. So the question to be asked is: Are the American people any different?Christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02378087326571746733noreply@blogger.com