Laughter of the night

Get Your Own Smear Tactics - Satire by Andy Borowitz

The Democratic race for president has descended to “a level of meanness and acrimony that is damaging to American politics,” the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth said today.

The Swift Boat group, which became famous in 2004 for attacking Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry, said that it was speaking out because “the current Democratic contest is giving Swift-boating a bad name.”

“We have increasingly heard pundits accusing Clinton and Obama of Swift-boating each other,” said Swift Boat Veteran Tracy Klugian. “This hurts the reputation of Swift-boating.”

Mr. Klugian was quick to draw a distinction between what Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are doing and Swift-boating, which he called “a noble profession.”

“When you try to destroy a member of another party, that’s Swift-boating,” said Mr. Klugian. “When you do it to a member of your own party, that’s cannibalism.”

He said that the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth would soon air ads attacking both Democratic candidates for sullying the reputation of Swift-boating.

“Tear each other up if you want to, but don’t take Swift-boating down with you,” he said. “That’s just unfair.”

The Swift Boat Veterans’ statement came on the heels of a similar statement by the Weather Underground, a 1960s radical group that has been tied to both the Obama and Clinton camps over the past week.

“We denounce and reject both candidates,” said the Weather Underground, which has seen its approval ratings plummet in recent days.

Award-winning humorist, television personality and film actor Andy Borowitz is author of “The Republican Playbook.”

Hillary's junk

War rarely achieves its aims.

I had "a moment" reading this article about the counter-productivity of wars for those who start them:

The Military Option By URI AVNERY

Le sous-homme qui coûta 3 milliards

Obama's VP

Barack will eventually clinch the nomination but how does he keep Hillary off the ticket without alienating Democratic female voters ? with the upcoming mess at the Denver convention, she will want to lawyer her way onto the VP spot, but that is just about the only way to energize the right to victory in November.

The answer for Barack is to take another woman as his VP. Arizona's governor Janet Napolitano would be just perfect. Unless there is a "security scare October surprise", they could landslide McCain in November.

a little trivia about race in the USA

August 1st, 1981: MTV launches
....2 years, 4 monthes and a day later...
December 2nd, 1983: first black musician appears on MTV (Michael Jackson's Thriller)

Political prediction

After watching the 4-hour New Hampshire debates, here are my predictions for the US presidential elections in November:

Obama/Edwards beat McCain/Huckabee

(if no terrorist "october surprise")

un politique sans langue de bois

Laurent Wauquiez est un jeune depute de droite qui est devenu porte-parole du gouvernement. Voici une interview interessante, intelligente, franche…bon ok d'il y a un an

Guantanamo

When I hear that "we don't live in a democracy", I always thought it was exagerated...until I listened to this Peabody-award winning report. Some people have been imprisoned and tortured for years without charges in Guantanamo, for the most ridiculous reasons (2 of them was for making a joke !)...almost unbelievable but all too true.

les Tontons flingueurs

Israeli espionage in the US

Disturbing reporting from FOX news in December 2001. They pulled it out from their website within a week.

It's official, 1/3 of Americans are either stupid or delusional.

According to the latest polls, about 1/3 of Americans approve the way Bush has handled the war in Iraq.

War Prediction

Wow Steve Chapman got it right in 2002 !

Another poem by Harold Pinter

American Football
(A Reflection upon the Gulf War)

Hallelujah!
It works.
We blew the shit out of them.

We blew the shit right back up their own ass
And out their fucking ears.

It works.
We blew the shit out of them.
They suffocated in their own shit!

Hallelujah.
Praise the Lord for all good things.

We blew them into fucking shit.
They are eating it.

Praise the Lord for all good things.

We blew their balls into shards of dust,
Into shards of fucking dust.

We did it.

Now I want you to come over here and kiss me on the mouth.

A poem by Harold Pinter just before the Iraq invasion

January 2003

God Bless America

Here they go again,
The Yanks in their armoured parade
Chanting their ballads of joy
As they gallop across the big world
Praising America's God.
The gutters are clogged with the dead
The ones who couldn't join in
The others refusing to sing
The ones who are losing their voice
The ones who've forgotten the tune.

The riders have whips which cut.
Your head rolls onto the sand
Your head is a pool in the dirt
Your head is a stain in the dust
Your eyes have gone out and your nose
Sniffs only the pong of the dead
And all the dead air is alive
With the smell of America's God.

An Iraq Interrogator's Nightmare

"A man with no face stares at me from the corner of a room. He pleads for help, but I'm afraid to move. He begins to cry. It is a pitiful sound, and it sickens me. He screams, but as I awaken, I realize the screams are mine.

That dream, along with a host of other nightmares, has plagued me since my return from Iraq in the summer of 2004. Though the man in this particular nightmare has no face, I know who he is. I assisted in his interrogation at a detention facility in Fallujah."

The untold tragedy of war

Amazing picture of the effect of the war