Bumper stickers

I drove behind a woman this past week that appeared to be Dazed and Confused. She had 3 bumper stickers on her car. The Christian fish, one for a local church and a third with a handgun and the text “let me be your huckleberry”. My reading was that she will be your friend as long as you behaved the way she wanted, if you did not you are likely to get shot. Maybe I do not get it, but gun toting Christians scare the crap out of me.

We also recently saw Dubja casting his veto on the stem cell bill. I do not get this either. My understanding (maybe incorrectly) was that the request was to harvest stem cells from what is essentially medical waste destined for the incinerator. What the researchers wanted was to take stem cells from a fetus that was left over from an in-vitro process and was to be destroyed. So the bill was stopped not on rational thinking but based on religious doctrine. This is why this method of running a country is so dangerous. This is why our forefathers left Europe to create the USA. To get away from emotional reaction and to live under a system where rational thought was the order of the day.

Oh, yes I saw another bumper sticker. Maybe we need more of these: “So many Christians, so few lions”

What a Maroon!

Quoting Bugs Bunny “What a Maroon”

That was may thought when I saw the footage of Dubja telling Putin that Russia needs a democracy like Iraq. I have to say that Putin’s response was mild to say the least. The threat to Russia that Dubja then offered, “Just you wait” was menacing.

I am at a loss as to what the current White House is thinking (assuming they are capable of thinking) but this is not smart. We have but a few real allies left in the world, threatening a country like Russia is not in our best interest. The country is already sacrificing young men and women at an alarming rate, just over 2,500 already and we are bleeding money at a pace that clearly cannot be sustained without untold long-term damage to the USA. Now we are threatening more countries, hinting at attacking Iran, North Korea and now Russia.

All I can say is that November 2008 cannot come soon enough for us to try and get some sensibility back into the White House.