The most disgusting thing I think I've ever read

No, it's not about a child molester.

No, it's not a romance novel about Rosie O'Donnell or Ann Coulter.

Ship of Fools (National Review cruise for neocons)
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2766040.ece

It's about the rise of the American self-proclaimed aristocracy. The uber-privileged rich white pseudo-Christian Americans who are so far removed from any semblance of reality that they've become dangerously insane.

I knew people like that existed but to be so numerous in this day and age it's taking this country back centuries. Heck, it's pre-911 thinking (no, not Sept. 11...I mean the year 911).

I never thought the days of the robber barons and the self-absorbed would return to this great nation but, alas, they have. I weep for these fools.

And to think half the voters asked for this guy and liked him as they also lost their way. Even the rich base will not stay with Bush if they do not make money. The church base seem to go with him on about every thing. It is after all God work if it turns out bad, as they are sure he is right, as Bush thinks he is.

Theirs is a tenuous position, a deluded and teetering position, complete with demon-spawn children who may, just may, be even more crazed than them.

But it is a position that, while owing much to the Dark ages and feudalism, that is also rooted in the perceptions of the world that they learned while growing up during the reign of St. Ronnie. They live in a romanticized past that never really existed. It was just crafted by conservative brujos from drug-addled dreams.

The thing is that when their dreams of piss all go down the toilet, a good number of them WILL resort to violence. You can take that to the bank.

that entire read had me wondering how on earth these people could call themselves human beings. :puke:

Things get so bad that the serfs rise up and take over and try to create something better. Over time it becomes corrupt, people become complacent, and slowly reverts back to the have's and the have nots.

wash, rinse, repeat.

Neocons on a Cruise: What Conservatives Say When They Think We Aren't Listening
By Johann Hari, Independent UK. Posted July 17, 2007.
http://www.alternet.org/story/57001


these people are the danger to society - moral terrorists. x(

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"Aren't you embarrassed by the absence of these weapons?" Buckley snaps at Podhoretz. He has just explained that he supported the war reluctantly, because Dick Cheney convinced him Saddam Hussein had WMD primed to be fired. "No," Podhoretz replies. "As I say, they were shipped to Syria..."

This may seem like a really stupid question, Podhoretz, but if the WMDs were shipped to Syria, why aren't we in Syria searching for WMDs? Isn't there a mushroom cloud out there that could hit us in 45 minutes?

I gotta stop reading this stuff before bed...

Their reality isn't reality at all.

I'd have jumped overboard the 2nd night of the cruise if I had been on that ship.

:(

unless, of course, I opted for copious amounts of alcohol and the "HOTT" pool boy to get me through the week!

Of course, there would have been the few moments of contemplating how to get the ship lost in the Bermuda triangle - kind of like my mission for mankind x(

:hi:

It is a good article, I've tried to share it with all I can. Their mindset is frightening.

I cannot believe people - in this day and age - think this way.

They say liberalism is a mental affliction... if that's true, then conservatism must be a disease. At least liberals LIKE people.

on the ship it would be money well spent. Let them live out their conservative fantasies without hurting anyone.

I vote for torpedoes.

They're the ones in charge. Good lord, they are completely insane.

... http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/display.php?id=2008

The comments are the best.

One little rich kid, talking about people who don't like him : "At the end of the day, they hate because they are jealous. Jealous of our priviledge, jealous of our economic success, jealous of our fun. I hate to say it but they hate us for the same reasons the terrorists do. Perhaps that's why they all want us to withdraw from Iraq and hand victory to al Qaeda on a silver platter? Ok, I better stop before I go off on a major tangent/rant here."

with those families. x(

In recent LTTE in my local paper, "envy" seems to be a recurring theme on many issues. One example is the tear-down phenomenon, as in, "the people opposed to tear-downs are just envious that they can't afford a McMansion!". Not really, some of us are happy in 1800 sf bungalows as opposed to 6000 sf behemoths. Besides, isn't envy one of the Seven Deadly Sins? Like pride?!

Gluttony, Greed, and Lust (originally Extravagance)

... as long as they're not fighting it. No mystery why W is their role model.

with that proposition to the journalist on record.

and...let me tell you ...it's NOT EASY...living with them. Some might have taken the Bush/Cheney 04 stickers off their car (most likely they sold the old one and bought a NEWER SUV or BENZ or BEEMER) and they couldn't replace the sticker fast...but...I live with those folks ...and they WILL NEVER CHANGE.

THEY...are the BUSH/CHENEY "24 Percenters" that show up in those POLLS time after time after time.......UGH....