people_gw_bush_should_thank bird freeRepublic.com and their only-missing-their-brown-shirts readership known as "freepers" for organizing rallies whose chief intent was intimidating and attempting to disrupt the florida recounts in 2000 as well as camping on Al Gore's lawn and acting like a general bunch of ignorant idiots saddam_hussein, for helping distract the public from the miserable failure that has been bushco economic policy, for helping to distract the public from their miserable failure to catch osama bin laden, for helping to distract the public from his miserable failure at giving the country a straight answer about who knew what and when about september 11, for helping to distract the public from his miserable failure to protect americans from the bottom-line-above-all-else-and-fuck-the-rest practices of corporate america Osama bin Laden, for creating an atmosphere of fear and paranoia so easily exploitable that congress and the public were willing, by and large, to write the government a blank check to exploit, abuse, eviscerate, and erode the same freedoms they are disingenuously claiming to defend paris hilton, michael jackson, the contestants on american idol and every other subject of some trumped up, tempest-in-a-teapot scandals whose stories broke usually in concert with bushco pulling another fast one on the public. john ashcroft recuses himself from the valerie plame/CIA leak scandal and the next day, michael jackons is headline news claiming the cops roughed him up, two and a half weeks ago, november turns out to be the bloodiest month for coalition troops in iraq and republicans jammed and twisted their medicare plan through congress to the chagrin of anyone capable of doing the math and when public sentiment wasn't as favourable and the economic indicators began to show that the alleged fiscal recovery is likely to be just a short spike, saddam hussein is conveniently captured violence continues in iraq in spite of saddams capture, and conveniently michael jackson or paris hilton or governor grabass of california pops up every time the news coverage even hints it will stray too close to the ugly facts even as an entertainment_junkie i know that somewhere the fun stops and the real world (not the idiotic MTV version, either) is lurking outside my door and if i don't watch my ass, i can only guess what sort of unpleasantness i will wake up to some morning oi. heppy f'n new year yeee-hah 031231 ... endless desire me damnit me i had a dream last night that he died. someone killed him. so the army hung a sacrafice in his honor at my church. a man hanging by his legs with his chest cut open like that guy from the_silence_of_the_lambs. 040101 what's it to you? who go blather from