The New White House

The Republican National Committee with strong support and encouragement from President Bush and his administration has decided to remodel the White House. The new design will more adequately reflect how 6 years of Republican dominated governmental “leadership” has resulted for the vast majority of people.

The Indy Voice has exclusively obtained an artist’s rendering of the new design:

There is also talk that Republicans are entertaining the idea of changing the iconic Republican elephant to an infinitely more appropriate symbol, a baboon’s ass. Opponents counter that changing the well-known elephant to a baboon’s ass would only reflect the temporary present day leadership of the party. Supporters of the change maintain that a quick look at recent Republican history affords example after example of baboon’s asses.

Tip of the hat to Jim, Maura and Dallas for the pic

The Bush Solution: FINGER IN DIKE

“I should like to remind you that the Army of the United States exists not to protect your property, the national territory, even your homes and your lives. It exists to protect and to insure against threat from without a way of life.”

Be afraid that your government is manipulating you into being afraid. Be afraid that more human and tangible monetary resources are going to creating war and terrorists than are going to education, health care and protecting the American way of life. You probably should even have a more practical reason for being afraid to cross the street but don’t be afraid of guys like Osama Bin Laden. He’s an extremist. Be afraid of those that give him power. Fear the ignorance that gives him strength. Concern yourself with those that feed into his extremism; that fan the flames through extreme action like needless pre-emptive war and curbing of civil liberties. Neither one will protect us nor will building walls or closing off our ports.

The reality is that we will never be safe and we have never been safe, even before 9/11. That doesn’t mean that we should wall ourselves off or go back to living in caves. It does mean that we should examine our actions and the actions of our government to see if it is reasonable that someone would fly themselves into a building at 600 miles an hour just because they hate our freedom. We should examine the actions we undertake and don’t undertake as a country, the policies we support and the myths that sustain our superiority complex to see if maybe we share some level of culpability in the crimes perpetrated against us. And we should all fear not having the courage to exam our faults and perpetuating the conditions that create terrorism while we pour all of our energies into fixing the symptoms of the problem like the boy with his finger in the dike.

(The quote above is from a Texan, a General and Republican President, Dwight D. Eisenhower.)

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A couple more:

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking… is freedom.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

How far you can go without destroying from within

what you are trying to defend from without?

(Isn’t it interesting that today these sentiments are considered to be “liberal.” )

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