BuzzFlash Mailbag for July 2, 2008
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Subject: "GOP"
I hear from my source that the GOP is changing their name to the Gas and Oil Party. Sounds fitting.
Diesel1507
Cocoa FL
Subject: General Clark
General Clark is spot on!
He said nothing to demean Senator McCain's war record. How in the world can the republicans demean General Clark?
But "there they go again" (Reagan's famous quote,) making up spins as they go along. The Republicans, Rove of the worse kind, making the truth sound like a lie, just as they make their lies sound like the truth. McCain's a war hero, that being said,all our fighting men and women are without a doubt, war heros.
As usual Obama is above the fray, and they are using this quality against him, also. Republicans will never, never play fair. It's not in their makeup.
Bush used McCain's adopted child from Bangladesh, against him. That was so wrong! Yet McCain embraced Bush. This shows McCain is right in Bush's pocket, to let his child be used a political fodder is repulsive. Where are the morals in this?
Obama 08!
A BuzzFlash Reader
Subject: "Change All"
Technology, in the form of word processing, can be a real time saver and make a person's life much easier. The handy tools, such as spell-check, search and replace, and change all are especially useful as long as one uses a bit of common sense when using these applications.
Thus the gales of hilarity that ensued when I read this article
http://pageoneq.com/news/2008/American_Family...
... were enough to wake my neighbors at 4:00 in the morning.
Seriously, this is one of the FUNNIEST things I have read in a long time -- but I don't know if it's truly funny or just funny because a paranoid delusion resulted in something that demonstrates the lengths that such paranoid delusions can lead to.
I'm trying to picture the faces of the straight-laced sheeple conservative bible-banging Christians who read this article. Is it even possible that the absurdity may have chastened some of them of their judgmental attitudes. Probably not.
Lisa Johnson
Tacoma, WA
Subject: Our Next President Has To Be A Peacemaker
"Otherwise?"
"The abyss."
"Why is that?"
"Either we end the Iraq War or it'll be the end of us."
A BuzzFlash Reader
Subject: Guns in National Parks
Are park rangers carrying guns now? Given that visitors can!!
NM
Subject: Wes
Buzz,
While Gen Clark's words may be 100% accurate, one might consider the fact that they are going to be used by the right wing to attack Barack. The nut jobs are going to come out in droves and point to us "liberals" and scream how they have been vindicated and how we don't support the troops. (Yes, I am aware that's patently false, but then has that ever stopped them?) I understand that the campaign has distanced itself from the general's comments. I came across the following petition supporting Gen Clark:
http://ga3.org/campaign/petitionclark
I have signed it and will leave it to your readers to decide whether they want to do the same.
Akhil Bhardwaj
Jersey City, NJ
Subject: McCain's Mental State According To The Right Wing
In 1999 the rovian right wingers in South Carolina said that McCain was as crazy as a loon and no one with his mental capacity should ever be allowed to control America's nuclear arsenal. The Bushees were referring to his p.o.w. past and inferred that he had lost a great deal of his ability to make rational judgment.
My question is: What has changed? Has McCain undergone mental evaluation and treatment that now makes him fit to be in control of the most powerful and deadliest weapons ever developed? The use of these weapons will mean human life extinction without any hope of survival. The point to make is why have they, the Republicans, changed their mind about the mental fitness of McCain to hold the very future of humanity in the palm of his hand?
Afraid of Osama bin Laden? Maybe, according to the righteous right, we had better look closer to home!
Lawton Watson
[BuzzFlash Note: GOP hypocrisy.]
Subject: Religion And Politics
Good grief -- what's next? First McCain actively seeks the endorsements of Hagee and the other radical right Christian preacher (whose name I can't even remember any more) and then disavows them because he or his campaign didn't bother to find out where these fruitcakes really stood on specific issues. Now, I read over the weekend that McCain flew on his "Straight Talk Express" plane to North Carolina to meet with Franklin Graham and ended up also having an audience with the old man, Billy Graham.
Then, to top it off, I read another report wherein Obama now says he wants to expand the Office of Faith Based Initiatives (created by Bush, I think). Who has kidnapped the Barack Obama who ran in the pre-convention races to become the presumptive Democratic candidate? Has he been kidnapped and replaced by the Pod People or the infamous Lizard People from the "V" television series?
I have always been a strident believer that NO taxpayer money should go to any religious entity whether it be Christian, Jewish, Muslim or the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
If these so-called religious organizations want to get money from the taxpayer, their tax-exempt status MUST be removed and they have to start paying taxes.
Years ago, for a while, I allowed myself to go through the charade once again of trying to be a practicing Christian in a charismatic congregation. The day they handed out the Pat Robertson "Voters Guide" I immediately looked for a trash can and pitched it in clear view of whoever happened to be in eye sight.
Same goes for public funds going for educations at parochial schools. Religion and politics are supposed to be separated in our system of government.
Now we have two presumptive candidates both pandering to the right-wing Christian lobby. I contend that organized religion is an evil bane to society. The people I have known in my life who are non-religious are more ethical and honest than those who profess to believe in a "God."
To quote Steppenwolf: "America, where are you now? Don't you care about your sons and daughters? Don't you know we need you now. We can't fight alone against the monster."
Lisa Johnson
Tacoma, WA
[BuzzFlash Note: A concurring opinion: ‘Too big for government to solve alone’?]
Subject:Re Shirley, July 1 Mailbag [And Lisa, 6/30]
This is for dear Shirley.
My father-in-law, Walker, lived with us for several years until he died at age eighty-four. He occupied a second-floor garage apartment which adjoined our main house.
Walker was a retired railroad engineer, loved to listen to baseball games on the radio, and could talk for hours, if he had a listener, about the Bible - especially Revelations.
One spring Saturday morning when we had slept later than usual, we awoke to see two of the persistent conversion ladies knocking on the apartment door.
"Oh, no, he has invited them in!" I groaned. Usually we accepted the literature and tried to speed them on their way - without letting them inside.
We waited expectantly to see the ladies exit. Thirty minutes passed, then an hour. Suddenly the apartment door burst open and the women sidled out, backing down the stairs, followed closely by Walker with Bible in hand, shaking a finger, just warming to his subject.
The women appeared desperate, offering assurances they would return another day when they had more time to discuss Revelations.
We laughed all day! Oh, yes, there were no more Saturday morning visitations!
Creed Ballew
Arkansas
Subject: Ewwwwwweeeeee ... Matt Kaune ... 6/26
There is nothing I love more than the person who tries to make sense that "it is not guns." No, it is just the fact that many, many nuts can own them...load them, and shoot off your head!!! It is like the saying now that gets so on my nerves ... "Well, we haven't had a terrorist attack since 9/11"... Right...we did not have one before that either...the first one, in 1993, was contained by Clinton and W. Clarke...and quietly convicted and put away...there were some 200 incidents of terrorist threats during the Clinton reign...that were stopped. But, he never got credit for it like Bush does.
"Well, duh...there has not been another attack since 9/11"...I love the smartass looks on faces when they get that one over...did it ever occur to any of them that perhaps it did not happen then...maybe... just maybe. When one listens to the idiocy going around now about how J. McCain would benefit by another terrorist attack...does anyone think a right-wing nut would admit, say, "Hey ... that is what someone suggested"... Hell no! In my daily walk today... I passed the famous house that has the window sized "WE support our troops!" sign on the lawn...get your hands smacked if you ever try to touch it, too. Not like the fat redneck trucker who took the Kerry/Edwards sign off my car...nah...we have bred a whole new bunch of right-wing nuts this time ... and never, will it be worse! I always wonder...what "Support the Troops" means...it never meant "Support them"... we do that with every tax cent we pay...trouble is...Bush just doesn't always want to spend it on them...it is one thing to preach it...quite another to actually do it! We, the Democrats, also respect them...that is the ticket!
Shirley............St. Louis
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