Burning Bush (a must-read, illustrated)

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Burning Bush
January 7, 2006


The euphoria has faded. Those who voted George Bush back in are anxious and yearning for the past, as Michael Gawenda finds on a tour of the US.

On A Saturday night in Tombstone Arizona, in a saloon that feels like it was built as a set for a Hollywood western, the locals are dancing. The men wear 10-gallon hats, fancy cowboy shirts and elaborately patterned boots, their jeans hitched high on the waist and held up by belts with big silver buckles. The women, with hairstyles straight out of the 1950s, are in long skirts, cowgirl shirts and suede jackets.



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"I voted for Bush but I'm sorry I did," says Mercer. "He's on the side of business, doing their bidding on illegals. Business exploits these people. They are paid nothing, have no benefits, do all the dirty work. Bush is a disappointment all round. I was against the war in Iraq, but now that we are there, why can't we just do what's needed to win? We lost in Vietnam because we didn't want to win. Same thing now. And we are hated everywhere. We give money to all these countries, we support them and they hate us in return."


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"It's all very well to spread democracy and get rid of bad men like Saddam Hussein, but we get no thanks for the blood and treasure this has cost us," says Kate Polly, a middle-aged hotel worker in Phoenix. "Then, when it comes to saving and helping Americans after Katrina, George Bush and all the other politicians in Washington do nothing."


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"He's a fake," Costa says. "There are homosexuals in his Administration. There are people opposed to Christianity in his Administration. What has Bush done for us? Nothing. There's more pornography and Hollywood trash around than ever. Liberals are destroying our schools. Wake up people."


more (long article)...



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homosexual would serve in this administration. Just a Log-Cabin or two:evilgrin:

If there is ONE more CSI spin-off, or any more replays of 10+ years of "Law and Order," I'll puke. What are we training our youth...how to be trained killers (and get away with it).

What better way to recruit blood-thirsty youths for "fun" combat duty. The fact that TV's primetime is now so crowded with crime/ murder shows is downright eerie...and obviously 'training' mid-America's mind in a direction I don't wish to predict.

And the "approval" for all this crime/murder shows are NOT coming from "Hollywood," but from Powers-That-Be who OWN the networks. Let's not be naive.