Showing posts with label idiocy. Show all posts
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Thursday, August 28, 2008

'Don't let the door hit you in your sorry ass on your way out!': Americans bid 'farewell' to the worst US 'President' ever!!

The blog, Farewell 43, gives Americans a chance to bid George W. Bush 'farewell'. I think they really mean: GOOD RIDDANCE!

Visit them and post your own 'good riddance' message. Let the very worst frickin' "President" in American history know what you really think.

Following is the test of my 'good riddance' message. Post your own on their site. Here's a link to my comment on Farewell43! See also: Oh, Blessed Day!

Hey George

I would hope the nation you leave behind 'fares well'. You're on your own! Good riddance to you and your slimy ilk!

I am a fourth generation native Texan. My ancestors were in Texas before the railroad. You brought shame and disgrace to the state. You are NO Texan! You're a carpetbagger.

I will not mourn if I never again see your repulsive mug or hear your whiny voice --characterized as it is by a phony Texas accent which you affect. Leave Texas. Go back to Connecticut if Connecticut will have you.

You won't have the Oval Office to hide out in anymore. With any luck and a good federal prosecutor, you may learn what life is like on the lamb or --better --in a federal lock up run by one of the sub-contractors so favored by your GOP locusts.

You once said "The Constitution is just a goddamned piece of paper!" Perhaps, when you wake up one day to find yourself charged with mass murder and other capital crimes, you will learn to love the Constitution and the Bill of Rights in the same way that the profligate embrace the Bible. Many who share your dubious mindset have had such predictable epiphanies inside dull, gray cells.

You said that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. He didn't! You lied.

You once said "Bring it on!" Tell that to an honest Federal judge.

You encouraged the American people to believe there were connections between Iraq and 911. There were none. You lied!

You said: "This would be a helluva lot easier if this was a dictatorship"! Then you tried to make it one. For the sake of the nation and the world, I hope you failed!

You claimed you won the 'Trifecta'! Perhaps you call a 'trifecta' 1) America's status as an aggressor nation, 2) its bananna republic status, 3) its collapsing economy due solely to your economic incompetence and utter stupidity.

You said "I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family". You lied!

You said: "Our enemies .. never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." The lasting harm you inflicted upon our Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the economy is your lasting legacy.

Because YOU lied, over one million civilians in Iraq are dead, many are the result of direct combat like the war crimes perpetrated upon Fallujah -- a heinous crime not unlike the Nazi liquidation of Lidice. It would be fitting if your 'Presidential Library' be housed inside a Holocaust Museum.

There is a Holocaust Museum in Houston. But it's doubtful that it would bother to make room for your crap.

Upon a pack of evil, malicious bald-faced lies and deliberate fabrications, you sent US 'servicemen' into battle against a nation that was never, ever in any way at any time a 'threat' to the US. You lied! US soldiers died by the thousands. They are still mired in Iraq a phony war which will 'live in infamy'.

You represented the selfish, venal interests of just one percent of the nation. You favored them with tax cuts even as you threatened the Social Security that is essential to everyone but your favored few. 'God bless the child that's got his own!'

You were NOT elected. You stole the office.

You did your best to ruin the nation. Your robber baron constituents must be very happy. But with any luck, they will soon be out of luck, as well.

I will not wish you 'good luck'. It would most surely mean 'bad luck' to wish 'good luck' upon one so irredeemably and institutionally evil as you. Tragically, you never had to make your own luck but you may soon have to live with the karma that you have sown. People like you are accustomed to simply buying their luck! With any luck, you will have run out of luck and out of office. Unfortunately for the world, there was always pappa and his cronies to bail you out. We know that you are still AWOL.

It is, rather, to the nation and the rest of the world to whom I say: "Good luck". In your wake, it will be needed. To you, I say: "May you live in interesting times!" That, by the way, is an ancient Chinese curse! Watching your defense of your capital crimes should be interesting, indeed!

There are some old Native American curses, but as you have problems with 5th grade level English, they would be utterly wasted on you. You don't deserve a good curse.


Above were my 'get lost' messages to Bush. Following are others chosen almost at random:
You royally fucked up!

Shakespeare said, “The evil men do lives after them. The good is oft interred with their bones.”

In your case, there is no good to inter. The celebration of your departure from Washington will be overshadowed by the financial and moral debt you’ve left behind.
You, George W. Bush, have done more than any single human being in the history of this country to destroy more than 200 years of American pride and progress. If you have even one shred of decency and any honesty left, you will admit publicly and beg forgiveness of the People for having been party to the theft of the 2000 election; to being guilty of war crimes; to destroying our international reputation; to having been responsible for the deaths of thousands of human beings domestically and abroad; to having had not one shred of concern or compassion for anyone outside your socio-economic status; to burdening future generations with the consequences of your actions; to having furthered the potential destruction of our planet through global warming; and to having done all this for mere power, foolish pride, greed, and money.

Good riddance, George (I don’t dare honor you with the title “Mr. President”). You, Sir, are the WORST President this country has ever seen. You are a national disgrace. We pray to recover some day from all the damage you have caused to us as a nation, and to the world.
Dear Dimbya,

You are a disgrace to this once great country! America is now hated by more people in this world than ever before! Thank you for destroying my homeland!
Hey Georgie,

Thank you for:

Two recessions.

Endless war in Iraq.

Eroding our civil liberties.

Housing foreclosures.

Bailing out corporate criminals.

Corrupting the Justice department for political gain.

Making America hated in the world.

Have a swell retirement, now that you ruined everyone else’s.

Heckuva of a job fella
You have earned your place in history.

As the possibly the dumbest president in US history, certainly the most corrupt, the most coldblooded, most consistent liar and the most arrogant sociopath this country has ever had the misfortune to deal with at such a high level.

You have made huge strides in establishing a third world OILigarchy in a first world nation, cost us the respect of the world and have gone farther than anyone in this nation’s history to destroy the Constitution of the United States which you perjuriously swore to defend.

You have destroyed the checks and balances in government, and also the regulations which kept this nation out of economic disaster since the Great Depression.

You have done more than any previous president to ensure that you successor does not have the leisure vacation time which you have granted yourself during your malfeasance in office.

If you have a hard time reading this, get your wife to help you with the big words, she used to be a teacher.
Thanks, George, for proving to all Americans and the entire world that, indeed, it CAN happen here!
You should have been Impeached. You violated the constitution and international law. You brazenly used the office as a power grab. You’ve disgraced America with your crimes. You have sanctioned torture, and should be impeached and tried for war crimes.

As of today, you have 296 days left in your occupied office. That is 296 days too many. Goodbye to the worst President in history.
H.L. Mencken [wrote],

“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”

After 7+ years of that reality, I believe the “plain folk” of America realize that the leader of the world’s most powerful nation should be smarter than a 5th grader.
I never thought I would see a president I could not stand more than Dick Nixon. You have made my nightmare come to life. I always thought a president should be able to talk without stuttering and huhing but you have taken the English language to a new low. Please don’t let the door hit you on the way out. Bye.


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Friday, August 22, 2008

The Bush Debacle: Inevitability and Consequence

by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy

There is a mathematical inevitability to Bush's many and consistent failures which are as numerous as his many lies and directly related to his certitude of all things though he is never correct about any of them! The 14th-century philosopher William of Occam said:
Multiplicity ought not to be posited without necessity.
In other words, the best hypothesis is the one with the fewest number of unproven assumptions. Occam did not say that the 'simplest' explanation is the best, nor did he say that the simplest explanation is always true. In many cases an hypothesis that is simplest on its face is just 'flat' wrong. There is a simple case in point. 'The world is flat' is simple but untrue but believing the world to be flat was true enough until you ventured past the 'Pillars of Hercules'. Likewise, Newtonian physics is true enough to get you to the moon and back, whether or not we really went there. When the time comes to navigate interstellar space, however, even Einstein may prove insufficient to get us there and back.

In advance of his time, Occam introduced a measure of probability into the very concept of truth and, by doing so, presaged Heisenberg's uncertainty principle by some 500 years or so. Heisenberg posited that either the position or the velocity of a sub-atomic particle may be known with certainty —but not both at the same instant.
The more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known in this instant, and vice versa.
--Heisenberg, uncertainty paper, 1927
If one value is known, the other is but a probability. If the velocity is known precisely, location may only be expressed as a probability inversely proportional to the degree to which the location is known. This is knowledge as probability.

If Occam's razor is problematic for the conservative mentality accustomed to thinking in terms of absolute truths —a world of black or white, a world of you are either for us or against us, a world of if you are liberal you are a traitor, then Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle is a nightmare.
Heisenberg realized that the uncertainty relations had profound implications. First, if we accept Heisenberg's argument that every concept has a meaning only in terms of the experiments used to measure it, we must agree that things that cannot be measured really have no meaning in physics. Thus, for instance, the path of a particle has no meaning beyond the precision with which it is observed. But a basic assumption of physics since Newton has been that a "real world" exists independently of us, regardless of whether or not we observe it. (This assumption did not go unchallenged, however, by some philosophers.) Heisenberg now argued that such concepts as orbits of electrons do not exist in nature unless and until we observe them.
--Quantum Mechanics, Implications of Uncertainty
This mentality will discount a 'proposition' if it conflicts with a prejudice, a pre-conceived notion for which there is neither proof nor evidence. The GOP inclined, for example, will discount empirical evidence if it conflicts with cherished ideology. In other centuries, this 'top down' mentality burned witches, disemboweled heretics, and, more recently, in Kansas, it forbade the teaching of biological science and mandated the teaching of superstition and discredited dogma.
In the early 20th Century, neither Bertrand Russell nor Alfred North Whitehead would have supposed that ancient Egyptian, Greek or Alexandrian mathematicians first thought out a logical formal system from which they, then, derived mathematics as we know it.

Mathematics probably preceded the formalization of a logic upon which mathematics may be derived. The 'Principia Mathematica ' attempted a 'formal system' from which mathematics might be deduced. Kurt Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem dealt the project a fatal blow. Gödel's 'Incompleteness Theorem' proved logically that no formal logic system is capable of yielding every true theorem. It struck at the very heart of Russell and Whitehead's grounding of mathematics in pure logic. [See: Principia Mathmatica] .

Both developments harken back to Occam. Truth may be fuzzy but is always the enemy of bigotry, moral certitude, propaganda and state-sponsored lies. [See: Medieval Theories of Consequence] Liars and moral absolutists have much in common: God and/or truth is always on their side.

There is, then, much comfort to be had in the embrace of uncertainty, the affirmation of doubt, the celebration of 'fuzzy math' and sub-atomic particles that are neither here nor there or, more accurately, neither 'here' and 'now' but here at some time or the other!

More recently, Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem strikes at the very heart of Russell and Whitehead's grounding of mathematics in pure logic. Gödel proved that in any formal system —consisting of a finite set of axioms and the meta-language in which the rules for inference are set —there will always be at least one true theorem that is not derivable by inference.

It was David Hume, as I recall, who spoke of the moral imperative to be intelligent. On the other hand, if God and truth are always on one's side, one need not be intelligent; one need not 'do nuance'. One need not think! One need not learn anything new! Is it mere coincidence that Bush, who professes to be both certain and correct about all things, is, in fact, wrong and incorrect in every instance in which he has put his policies to the test.

Put another way, Bush is demonstrably wrong to the degree to which he is 'certain' and he is always certain to the degree that he is unintelligent. Having 'God' on his side, as he has claimed, just hasn't worked out for him.

I would like to be as certain of one thing as Bush is of all things. Interestingly, the chances of my being right more often are infinitely greater than are chances that Bush will ever be right at any time about anything!

Both Occam and Heisenberg are threats to orthodoxy. From the grave Occam still poses the greatest threat to orthodoxy, conservatism of any sort, and ideology itself. Some 500 years on, Occam's Razor is still the fatal blow that has, in fact, already demolished Bush's official conspiracy of 911 whether Bush understands that or not. Even Einstein was threatened by Heisenberg's embrace of 'uncertainty'. 'God does not play dice with the universe', he protested!

How is it possible that Bush and the GOP are so absolutely correct about all things at all times? How is it possible that every one who opposes them is always wrong? The odds that Bush or the GOP are ever right at any time are inversely proportional to Bush/GOP certitude. GOP certitude is infinite; therefore, GOP chances of being right approach zero.

What is known they lie about. 'Global warming' is an example. Bushies must surely know the truth about 911 but lie about it in order to protect a robber baron constituency of corporatist and militarist sponsors for whom the dollar today is worth the villainous sacrifice of millions of innocent people.
The falsehoods of the Bush administration may be classified as follows:
  • Deliberate, planned campaigns of lies, falsehoods and propaganda!
  • Incompetent mistakes!
The war in Iraq is both. Colin Powell's infamous presentation to the United Nations was clearly a well-planned and orchestrated gestalt of deliberate lies based upon plagiarized student papers, exaggerations in which the Bush administration ignored evidence to the contrary and 20 year old black and white satellite photos. The consequences have not yet dawned upon the American public and, indeed, our elected officials.

Let's try to make clear the significance of this series of lies. If Bush deliberately misled the American people and the world in order to justify his attack and invasion of Iraq, then the war, itself, is and continues to be, a crime against the peace. Its continuation is but a series of individual crimes against humanity. As such, it violates the Nuremberg Principles that the United States had insisted upon at the end of World War II. Violations of Nuremberg are criminal offenses in the United States, prohibited specifically by US Codes, Section 2441.
(a) Offense.— Whoever, whether inside or outside the United States, commits a war crime, in any of the circumstances described in subsection (b), shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for life or any term of years, or both, and if death results to the victim, shall also be subject to the penalty of death.
US Codes; Section 2441
Bush's order to attack —whatever Congressional authorization he may claim —violates both Nuremberg and US Codes. Moreover, if Bush lied to the American people and to the world, he lied also to Congress. Whatever was passed by Congress is, therefore, null and void by virtue of Bush's deliberate fraud, itself a deliberate subversion of the Constitution. As such, it is high treason.

The war against the people of Iraq is just one fraud among many that Bush continues to perpetrate upon the world and the American people. A short list includes Global warming —about which the GOP and the oil industry waged a 15 year campaign of lies and misinformation. Other lies, frauds, and hoaxes include the tax cut; faith-based initiatives; the unilateral and illegal abrogation of Kyoto; "no child left behind"; the attack on Social Security; the illegal, unconstitutional and widespread domestic wiretapping program; the Bush crack down on American civil liberties; his every signing statement or rule by decree, his revocation of habeas corpurs, his assertion that 'officials' in his administration may not be prosecuted for their crimes, his having arrogated unto himself the powers of judge, jury, and legislature.

The Bush government was illegitimate! Viva la revolucion!

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