Gentle Readers, there are 2 points today.
One is my own, because I haven't seen this obvious comparison anywhere else.
The other is a GEM forwarded from an Australian.
DO NOT MISS IT. SCROLL BABY SCROLL!
Perhaps Texas's current petition to secede,
along with several other Red States, gets seen from a fresh angle, Down Under.
I.
Back in 2002, Liberals were a bit unfair to use 20/20 hindsight, to pile on George W. Bush for not foreseeing 9/11, for not understanding the significance of prior warnings -- which always seem so clear in retrospect.
I am no fan of GWB, but even back in 2001-2002, I felt Lib critiques sounded like
Monday Morning Quarterbacking for partisan purposes.
For the histoire-minded, check out similar scathings against FDR after Pearl Harbor.
"How could he not have seen it coming! Intercepted codes, blah blah blah!"
And what we have now is simply another chapter, Benghazi-style. Yes, balls were dropped everywhere! But for Lindsay Graham & John McCain to lead the charge in blaming Benghazi on Obama, Hillary, and Susan Rice seems just as nonsensical as the previous critiques of 1941 and 2001.
As Bob Schieffer repeatedly asked on this morning's "Face the Nation,"
Why did Chris Stevens, our U.S. Ambassador to Libya, who was more attuned to Benghazi Intelligence than anyone, go into his office, on the 11th anniversary of 9/11 no less, when he must have known -- far better than leaders thousands of miles away, like Obama or Hillary or Susan Rice -- how little security there was?!?
II. AND NOW, FROM THE LAND DOWN UNDER, WHERE WOMEN GLOW, AND MEN CHUNDER:
Subject: Red vs Blue
Dear Red States:
We're ticked off at your Neanderthal attitudes and politics, so we've decided
we're leaving.
We in California intend to form our own country and we're taking the other Blue
States with us.
In case you aren't aware that includes Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Minnesota,
Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois-- and most of the Northeast.
We believe this split will be beneficial to the nation and especially to the
people of the new country of The Enlightened States of America (E.S.A).
To sum up briefly:
You get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave states.
We get stem cell research and the best beaches.
We get Andrew Cuomo and Elizabeth Warren. You get Bobby Jindal and Todd Akin.
We get the Statue of Liberty. You get OpryLand.
We get Intel and Microsoft. You get WorldCom.
We get Harvard. You get Ol' Miss.
We get 85 per cent of America's venture capital and entrepreneurs.
You get Alabama.
We get two-thirds of the tax revenue. You get to make the red states pay their
fair share.
Since our aggregate divorce rate is 22 per cent lower than the Christian
Coalition's, we get a bunch of happy families.
With the Blue States in hand we will have firm control of 80% of the
country's fresh water, more than 90% of the pineapple and lettuce, 92%
of the nation's fresh fruit, 95% of America's quality wines (you can
serve French wines at state dinners) 90% of all cheese, 90 per cent of
the high tech industry, most of the US low sulphur coal, all living
redwoods, sequoias and condors, all the Ivy and Seven Sister schools
plus Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Cal Tech and MIT.
With the Red States you will have to cope with 88% of all obese
Americans and their projected health care costs, 92% of all US
mosquitoes, nearly 100% of the tornadoes, 90% of the hurricanes, 99% of
all Southern Baptists, virtually 100% of all televangelists, Rush
Limbaugh, Bob Jones University, Clemson and the University of Georgia.
We get Hollywood and Yosemite.
38% of those in the Red states believe Jonah was actually swallowed by
a whale, 62% believe life is sacred unless we're discussing the death
penalty or gun laws, 44% say that evolution is only a theory, 53% that
Saddam was involved in 9/11 and 61% of you crazy bastards believe you
are people with higher morals then we lefties.
We're taking the good weed too. You can have that crap they grow in Mexico.
Sincerely,
Citizen of the Enlightened States of America
