Dead on, Hal.
Up here we have our own ways of ignoring what the government's about to
do to us (especially in taking away our health care & giving it to US
insurance companies)....
Doug
On 15-Feb-06, at 7:41 AM, Halvard Johnson wrote:
> What I Hate
>
> about Harry Whittington is that by putting himself into
> Vice President Dick Cheney's line of fire, he has distracted
> many of us from the Winter Olympics, which, in turn, have
> distracted us from the Global War on Terror and the shameful
> response of the Bush Administration to Katrina, both of which
> themselves distracted us from our losing war efforts in Iraq,
> which have had the effect of distracting us from our pain over
> the 9/11 attacks, which (thank God, some would say) distracted us
> from the collapse of Enron, the possible (no, probable) involvement
> in that (not to mention the betrayal of Joe Wilson's wife) of the
> Bush/Cheney
> Administration, which we, distracted by porn, pro football, baseball,
> basketball and pay-per-view TV, allowed to come into power
> by not voting in sufficient numbers to soundly defeat them
> or coming to grips with what really concerns us,
> whatever that happens to be.
>
>
> Hal, NYC, 2/15/06
>
> Halvard Johnson
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