Friday, July 28, 2006
Pundits and Happiness
Winning hearts and minds, cowboy style. US foreign policy mobilizes the region as Israel claims the international community is giving it a green light. Meanwhile, Secretary Rice ignores the entreaties of her counterparts asking for support of a cease fire resolution in Iraq.
“Staying the course” in Iraq is the GOP’s national security message. You know, the course that has seen three times as much money spent on rebuilding Iraq as was spent by the United States under the Marshall Plan to rebuild all of Western Europe, with Iraq in utter chaos and the power and water systems still at pre-war levels.
The coal industry mobilizes its propagandists against global warming.
Democratic insiders recoil at the idea of impeding free-trade iniatives to secure American workers’ share of the profits.
I suppose I have an obligation to report this: Ann Coulter calls AL Gore a “total fag.”
Neocon pundits still dominate the airwaves, even after their predictions about Iraq proved so ridiculous. I would love to have that job security. That means you, Charles Krauthammer.
And finally, the happiest countries in the world? Six if the top ten are in Europe, if you count Iceland as European. The small nations of Bhutan and Brunei also round out the top ten, along with Canada.
# posted by BitterHarvest @ 4:29 PM 
