10,000 Monkeys and a Camera

I’m not done with the travelogue yet, but I’m going to take a break to bring you these news nuggets:

Sigh. I’m not sure how much worse things have to become in Iraq before the dimwits that dreamed up the whole stupid mess will finally admit that it was a mistake. These bozos let bin Laden wander away, they built a monument to America’s disregard for fundamental rights at Guantánamo Bay, compounded that image problem with our actions at Abu Graib and other prisons, turned Haditha into the Iraq War’s My Lai, and now American soldiers have shot and killed a pregnant woman who was trying to get to the hospital to give birth. Can we please, finally, stick a fork in this unbelievably idiotic waste of lives, resources and our former good will?

In other news, George Bush lies so much, no one even cares any more. They yawn, they are not surprised, they turn back to whatever “reality” TV is on tonight…

Oh, and Batwoman is a lesbian.

And this is just so very, very sad:

I had a friend die on 9/11 in Tower One, and the son of another friend in the Pentagon (I live in Maryland). I was heartbroken and angry as hell at Osama. I felt more patriotic than usual — and I am usually very patriotic (even if what we did to Native Americans always pissed me off). But now, unfortunately, Bush has ruined my feelings for this country. I’m ashamed. 9/11 has become a sort of bastardized event where the sadness I feel now is directed at how 9/11 has been used and abused. Osama wanted to destroy our infrastructure and Bush played right into his hands. I’m so angry. And why this man is not impeached just kills me. I believe America has been lost. It started under Reagan, and now it is complete. I have no more hope. I think 9/11 actually destroyed us. The problem is it really wasn’t Osama that did it — it was Bush, the media, and the scores of ignorant Americans that have forgotten what we stand for. I actually hate the America that now exists. Thanks, George.