Diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks (Jamaica Observer re: Bush)

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Common Sense
John Maxwell
Sunday, March 20, 2005

Mr Bush is on a roll. He's so happy he's thumbing his nose at the world. He's got away with Abu Ghraib, with Fallujah and Haiti and everywhere the rent-a-crowd counter-revolutions just seem to go rolling along. <snip>

Mr Bush's appointment of John Bolton to be ambassador to the United Nations - a job once held by Adlai Stevenson - seems weirdly appropriate, since Mr Bolton is not only about as far right as Adolph Hitler but is a pathological liar to boot.

Mr Negroponte's appointment as America's security czar seems fitting too, in this age of American gulags around the world, and of people being rendered like fat pork - 'teased' into confessing while their brains turn to jelly in some faraway, foreign torture chamber.

The nomination of Paul Wolfowitz to head the World Bank seems entirely sensible, even deserved, in this scenario where morality consists of denying post-facto contraception to poor women and in prolonging the torture of a brain-dead woman who has been in a vegetative state since 1990. <snip>

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/html/20050319T210000-0500_77169_OBS_DIFF_RENT_STROKES_FOR_DIFF_RENT_FOLKS.asp

[Cha]

1. Go Jamaica!

They got monkeyboy's number, too!

[Kire]

3. I think I want to move there.

Permanently.

[applegrove]

2. Conservatives in 19th Century England admitted it. They called

themselves "the great hypocracy". We need to learn scepticality from our friends in the South.