The Ant and the Grasshopper

[Maengelito]

jack, please dont think because it was on cnn, it must be true.

Article I wrote exactly one year ago yesterday that was published in Diogenes Lantern. Note the last paragraph.

ummm, it was basically saying fox news is full of shit, and cnn is right. i'm not saying either are right, and in fact most media outlets (ESPECIALLY IN ELECTION YEARS) tell about 1% of whats going on there. and yes the "rising death toll" sucks, but thats the most relative term used in the news today. i'm not saying that 1 or 2 deaths in a day are good, but its relative to the 200,000+ coalition troops over there and millions of iraqi citizens. do you hear on the news about what the majority of iraqi citizens do to insurgents caught red handed by planting a roadside bomb? i'll tell ya that the insurgents would be better off being caught by coalition troops.

as for the economy, it wasnt doing great when clinton left office. he got to ride the bubble of the widespread use of e-commerce and it had definitely popped in his lame duck timeframe. bush has done a great job with the economy. i think people have to realize that policy in general takes years to have an noticeable effect, and you wont see the numbers overnight. so in the beginning of bush's presidency, you got to see the effects of all of clinton's actions or inactions. plus if clinton had any balls with foreign policy, then the public probably would never have heard of terrorist groups like a-q. but peaceniks get all pissy if there's one thought of shooting someone.

see what you made me do? i dont want to discuss politics.... :wink: