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If you thought that the Bush Administration spent all its time trying to make the rest of the world bend to the will of the United States, well, you�d be right.
However, by some freak of nature, they apparently make existential poetry while doing it. Not purposefully mind you, but they make it nonetheless. And we�re lucky that some enterprising folks, you know the type, the ones with way too much time on their hands, have collected the words from the ether and written them out as poems.
I think we all agree, the past is over. This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses.
Rarely is the question asked Is our children learning? Will the highways of the Internet become more few? How many hands have I shaked?
They misunderestimate me. I am a pitbull on the pantleg of opportunity. I know that the human being and the fish can coexist. Families is where our nation finds hope, where our wings take dream.
Put food on your family! Knock down the tollbooth! Vulcanize society! Make the pie higher! Make the pie higher!
Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, briefings and interviews yield some real gems.
quote:The Unknown As we know, There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know There are known unknowns. That is to say We know there are some things We do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, The ones we don't know We don't know.
�Feb. 12, 2002, Department of Defense news briefing
And...
quote:Glass Box You know, it's the old glass box at the� At the gas station, Where you're using those little things Trying to pick up the prize, And you can't find it. It's�
And it's all these arms are going down in there, And so you keep dropping it And picking it up again and moving it, But�
Some of you are probably too young to remember those� Those glass boxes, But�
But they used to have them At all the gas stations When I was a kid.
�Dec. 6, 2001, Department of Defense news briefing
And...
quote:Clarity I think what you'll find, I think what you'll find is, Whatever it is we do substantively, There will be near-perfect clarity As to what it is.
And it will be known, And it will be known to the Congress, And it will be known to you, Probably before we decide it, But it will be known.
�Feb. 28, 2003, Department of Defense briefing
And...
quote:Chasing the Chicken If you're chasing the chicken Around the chicken yard And you don't have him yet, And the question is, how close are you? The answer is, it's tough to characterize Because there's lots of zigs and zags.
In fact, Mr. Rumsfeld's poetry has been collected in book from by Hart Seely, apparently an actual example of one of those people with too much time on their hands... like, I guess, people who post about such stuff. Anyway, the book is Pieces of Intelligence: The Existential Poetry of Donald H. Rumsfeld
One last one...
quote:Central Question It's awfully hard to know, In fact, it's impossible to know, Unless one just speculates. I don't know how many people Who live in an exceedingly repressive regime Actually like it.
(Feb 25, 2003, remarks to the Hoover Institution).
Now, go. Think about this.
-------------------- Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war. ~ohn Adams
Once again the Bush Administration is worse than I had imagined, even though I thought I had already taken account of the fact that the Bush administration is invariably worse than I can imagine. ~Brad DeLong
You're just babbling incoherently. ~C. Montgomery Burns
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quote:The funny thing is, I actually like those poems.
Yes. I think "The Glass Box" was good.
-------------------- Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war. ~ohn Adams
Once again the Bush Administration is worse than I had imagined, even though I thought I had already taken account of the fact that the Bush administration is invariably worse than I can imagine. ~Brad DeLong
You're just babbling incoherently. ~C. Montgomery Burns
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My fortune cookie today read " The best law is the will of the people." and it got me thinking about the half-assed government we're installing in Iraq.
If we really do make Iraq a a democracy, they'll probably just elect a theocracy that will sieze all power and set up a strict fundamentalist regieme to be toppled at a later date by us, or their neighbors.
Depressing.
Worse still, if we go ahead with what is doubtlessly the real plan, to make Iraq a a "west friendly" nation of officials freely elected because we've supported a select few campaigns, are we not undermining the purpose of our "freeing" the people?
So, what's worse, rigging their government now to ensure they'll enjoy personal freedoms later of allowing them to freely decide their government structure now and possibly revert to a theocracy?
Chinese food and rainy days food makes you think.
-------------------- Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering. -Aeschylus, Agamemnon
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quote:Chinese food and rainy days food makes you think.
Fortunately for me then, it wasn�t raining here and we had Thai food.
-------------------- Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war. ~ohn Adams
Once again the Bush Administration is worse than I had imagined, even though I thought I had already taken account of the fact that the Bush administration is invariably worse than I can imagine. ~Brad DeLong
You're just babbling incoherently. ~C. Montgomery Burns
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Well then, listen to two Morphine albums and try to get laid.
-------------------- Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering. -Aeschylus, Agamemnon
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