yeahwho
10-03-2006, 08:04 PM
What does it take to leave the comfort of my "rage from the keyboard" and actually meet up with people who are thinking the same thing?
Here is an article from our local Seattle paper today on that very topic (http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/jamieson/287327_robert03.html).
excerpt;
Writer Gore Vidal is spot on when he says we live in the United States of Amnesia.
People are not attuned to the lessons of history. Citizenry isn't as informed as it needs to be.
And news such as last week's startling turn -- a bill that could empower the president to possibly declare even American citizens "unlawful combatants" who may be detained beyond the reach of court review -- draws a snooze.
Meanwhile, the country is titillated over the latest distraction du jour: the GOP Florida congressman who sent sexy e-mails to boys.
This is how the president wants it. He'd prefer America keep its eyes on that sex scandal rather than on him and his war on terror.
Here is an article from our local Seattle paper today on that very topic (http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/jamieson/287327_robert03.html).
excerpt;
Writer Gore Vidal is spot on when he says we live in the United States of Amnesia.
People are not attuned to the lessons of history. Citizenry isn't as informed as it needs to be.
And news such as last week's startling turn -- a bill that could empower the president to possibly declare even American citizens "unlawful combatants" who may be detained beyond the reach of court review -- draws a snooze.
Meanwhile, the country is titillated over the latest distraction du jour: the GOP Florida congressman who sent sexy e-mails to boys.
This is how the president wants it. He'd prefer America keep its eyes on that sex scandal rather than on him and his war on terror.