10. He immediately invoked a true American hero, Coretta Scott King.
9. He severely altered my understanding of world geography -- is the world really only composed of the United States and the Middle East?
8. I'm extremely nervous now that terrorists like bin Laden may "seize power in Iraq and use it as a safe haven to launch attacks against America and the world" or "murder children in Beslan." Boy, that bin Laden sure gets around!
7. I have to re-think my whole life philosophy, as I always thought there was peace and honor in retreat.
6. I am wracking my brain trying to identify the "appropriate members of Congress."
5. He made me fucking scared about U.S. dependency on natural resources from other countries, especially from the Middle East. But, see, I thought in 2003 our fair nation was responsible for 20 percent of the world's production of natural gas. I'd tell you the most current figures for crude oil too, but that page seems to be conveniently absent from the online PDF version of the Statistical Abstract. You'll have to be satisfied with the 2000 figure, when the U.S. was third in the world in crude oil production.
4. I hadn't realized we were only allowing immigrants into the U.S. to take shitty jobs that "real" American's didn't want. Now I have to shift my support away from immigrants' rights to drivers licenses, public education, and welfare benefits.
3. He appears to consider the existence of 45.8 million uninsured Americans to be an adequate "meeting the responsibility" of providing health care for the poor and the elderly. Especially when 24.3 percent of people with incomes below $25,000 were uninsured, I fail to see how Americans are meeting said responsibility. Get me a drink.
2. He credits the reduction in abortions in this country to "support for abstinence and adoption," when every sensible person knows that abstinence-only education is a farce that is harmful to teens' sexuality. The Guttmacher Institute (and Henry Waxman) have demonstrated the falsity of information that is meted out by the nation's most popular abstinence programs. Uh, maybe the decline in abortions is due to more responsible use of birth control, or perhaps to the horrendous lack of abortion providers in certain parts of the country? (Yeah, only 13 percent of counties in the United States are home to doctors who provide abortion services.)
1. My ears will never recover from hearing Bush utter the word "rostrum." Vaguely sexual, vaguely school-marmish, it disturbed me to no end.
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Hiya from London!
Loved your '10 Reasons...' post. From thousands of miles away Bush is looking like a very scary man.
His line about 'America's addiction to oil', though a massive change in rhetoric, is too little too late.
Still, we're all in this together and, well, HE LOOKS A RIGHT DICK. Which is nice.
And I didn't know The Fall were well known so far from Salford!
all the best,
http://infinitemuppets.blogspot.com
Hey, SomeMuppet. Yup, I'd have called Bush a right dick too, if it wouldn't've sounded so false coming out of my Amurrican mouth. He is pretty damn frightening, all right.
As for the Fall, I'm a fairly recent fan, but they sure have been loved by certain folks here for a long time. I attribute the long-distance love to Mark E. Smith's wonderboy good looks.
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