Whatever dream you had about what America is, it isn’t that anymore. It’s gone.

Posted by bruni on September 17, 2008

Tomorrow is here. The game is over. The crisis has passed — and the patient is dead. Whatever dream you had about what America is, it isn’t that anymore. It’s gone. And not just in some abstract sense, some metaphorical or mythological sense, but down in the nitty-gritty, in the concrete realities of institutional structures and legal frameworks, of policy and process, even down to the physical nature of the landscape and the way that people live.
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Russia = huge bear [PIC]

Posted by bruni on September 01, 2008

bear should be in a judo uniform instead of a tank top.
why are political cartoons always drawn in the same manner?

How is that stupid?

Over his head I guess
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Obama’s Economic plan = income redistribution

Posted by bruni on August 26, 2008


Obama’s ‘emergency’ economic plan

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August 1, 2008 10:53 AM EST

Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on Friday announced an “Emergency Economic Plan” that would give families a stimulus check of $1,000 each, funded in part by what his presidential campaign calls “windfall profits from Big Oil.”
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russia crisis

Posted by bruni on August 09, 2008

well, this will be a very interesting turn of events. The United States has been an advocate of Georgian independence, and Georgia has responded with pro-west strategic moves.

we have troops there now, and would love to set up bases there along with other nations.

so, what does the US do? send troops? get out? mediate talks?

will the russians listen? will the georgians listen? does the usa have any credibility left after saying fuck you to the world in 03?
They’re shooting down Russian planes. They’re about to get their asses handed to them, and probably re-absorbed by the Russians.
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