Tannishblog

On the issue of “Intelligent Design,” President Bush announced: “I think that part of education is to expose people to different schools of thought.” Interesting this coming from an Administration that has spent most of the last five years squelching dissention of its policies. For years to openly criticize the war on Iraq is to invite hate speech discrediting you motives, your patriotism, and sometimes even your sanity. So; for our Nitwit-in-Chief to spout such hypocrisy about the need for different schools of thought is beyond ridiculous.

Another famous hypocrite, Bill Frist said, “I think in a pluralistic society that is the fairest way to go about education and training people for the future.” We do indeed have a pluralistic society, to the collective chagrin of most fundamentalist ideologues like Senator Frist. The past strength of our nation is in diversity, but today we have a group of people that aw working very hard to reverse our diversity, to steal back powers Americans have fought for over the past century, and to create a New American Century™ of White, Christian supremacy. So-called “Intelligent Design”, really just bible-thumping, is only one of many fronts in our culture war.
To bring up this old argument is also another way for our Failure-in-Chief and his sycophants to deflect attention away from our failing war; a smokescreen of emotive power that, when used, deliberately buys time for development of an exit strategy.

No. I’m not talking about the troops; I’m talking about how our Washington Mafia is going to leave through the political back door with all their hard-earned loot. As I understand, there are still plenty of south Pacific islands for sale, to be bought with the staggering proceeds wrought from no-bid contracts, closed-door deal making and other hitherto unknown nefarious methods. When a group of influential people get into their collective heads that “The Rapture™ Is Now,” there is no end to the mischief they’ll reationalize.

So up does the Darwinian Debate, as thick and pungent as mustard gas, and just as friendly. Out goes the public support and - soon to follow - our elected leaders and their appointed lackeys who, I suspect, have orchestrated our current catastrophe, off to a remote island of their choosing.

Pay no attention to the men behind the curtain, as we all debate the methods of the Great and Powerful OZ, said men are making clean their getaway.