no matter how much logic, no matter how much thought, i guess it really doesn't matter. people are still going to believe what they believe and the facts be damned. gw looks for support for his presidency and his all-important legacy and he look no further than the trailer park mentality of middle america. i was talking yesterday to a young man mid-thirties, who felt bush did the right thing in invading iraq. afterall, according to him we needed to avenge 911. he felt that bush had been digilent and that was why we have had no more attacks. This guy did not even want to listen to the other side. of course, he had spent his time in the military doing his part.

people this is what we are up against. this country is filled with people of like thinking, and they continue to believe even when faced with the problems this country is facing on a daily basis because of bush's handywork.

Viagra for Afghani warlords.

I am sooooo glad it's finally Boxing Day. Every radio station I turned on was playing carols, whether it was classical music, or an 80's station. Even though it wasn't an 80's song, the latter kept playing Elvis Presley's Blue Christmas, which sounds like something you listen to while sea-sick, or hungover.

I'm more into El Vez thrashed out version of Feliz Navidad.

There have now been 60 years of war propaganda, promoting the CIA and the Military Industrial Complex.

The American people are brainwashed. Our overlords meant it to be so.

The threat of the Soviet Union was at first, way over sold. Remember the missile gap?

It was a fiction.

At the the May Day parades the Kremlin marched the same troops, with the same armaments around the block numerous of times.

They wanted to put on a good show.

We kept pumping and they responded.

Finally they went bankrupt.

The 'Islamofascists' proved a pretty good stand-in for a boogieman noveau, but they are thread bare now.

Some people even doubt they ever existed.

We have tried to revive the Russians but they are having problems.

We keep pumping, and we will blow up Afghanistan some more.

But sooner or later, probably a little sooner, we will go bankrupt too.

History is one damn thing after another, but when viewed in broader perspective, things really do not change all that much.

According to the latest USA Today/Gallup poll, Barack Obama is the most admired man in America. But you'll never guess who finished #2 and who wound up behind him.

The womens' results weren't much more encouraging.