Not Open To Negotiation

This is something that I found that is too cool. More people need to check it out.  Cliche action movie dialog is layered with killer classic rock in a way that creates a compelling narrative. This one is a wicked bit of agitprop that is possibly in violation of a multiplicity of copyrights. Attorney / lobbyist / character actor / United States Senator, Fred Thompson features prominently all over this thing.

Bush’s eight years as President really kicked into high gear after 9/11’s big boom and this little dillio does the same. Bullshit braggdocio promises of vengence like the kind that comprise Mr. Bush’s legacy assure us that the bad guys are going down and then…..it’s on! I was all wtf as I sat there for  two and half well spent minutes, and then again to make sure. It is true! This joint is rawkin’!

“And it don’t know who’s problem it is, but somebody needs to get their ass on the plane and figure this out!” -Some dude interviewed in New Orleans during the chaos that followed Hurricane Katrina.

Let’s not forget that when FEMA finally began figuring the situation out it was three days later, and all hell had broken loose throughout The Big Easy. Michael Brown, the head of FEMA at the time, betrayed his own ignorance of the situation’s gravity, live on CNN. Of course maybe those complainers down at the convention center who chanted, “we need help”, wouldn’t have been so quick to bitch, if they knew the kind help they were going to get.

Trailers eventually provided by FEMA for the families displaced by Katrina’s in discriminant wrath actually turn out to be toxic. It’s true, the plywood in the trailers gives off toxic levels of formaldehyde gas and that is no good for the people who are trying to live inside. It makes them sick. I digress.

“This kind of government knows how to help business to encourage it.” -Indicted. Enron CEO Ken Lay

Royals and the Uber rich know about the the pill and, how at the last minute you can take it to prevent your world from being snatched away. Officially the death certificate says that Ken Lay died from a heart attack, but it is likely that he took his own life, the one he grown accustomed to, to prevent a hostile takeover.

I imagine Ken popping a tiny latch on the locket contained in his signet ring to reveal the pill inside, before he throws his head back and tosses it down his gullet. There would be no more long weekends in Aspen, and no more expense account lunches, but it was on his terms and not theirs.

“This will not be an age of tyranny.” -GWB

Why anyone would want to be President I am not sure. In GW’s case his motivation most likely involved a choice between resistance and a lack there of.  In three weeks someone else is going to get the job that makes a President age rapidly in increments proportionate with the perils they are forced to contend with.  Regardless of who wins,  I hope that the future, former President is right, and that it will not be an “age of tyranny”, the last eight years of that kind of crap was enough.

http://kenlayisalive.org

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/02/AR2008070202800.html?hpid=sec-health