by AlicetheCurious » Tue Nov 07, 2006 7:08 pm
Hugh, I'm speechless (well, about as speechless as I can get) -- what an incredibly nice thing to say!<br><br>Seriously, I didn't know what fear was, until they were born. Being a mother is like skating on very thin ice, making sure everybody's having a great time, while your eyes unconsciously check every crack and every dark spot in the fragile barrier that separates you and them from plunging suddenly into a dark, icy hell.<br><br>Motherhood is a form of insanity, a dissociative disorder; the dangers are infinite and horrific and most of them get assigned to the wild-eyed crazy woman who lives in my attic, while I calmly and cheerfully go about my life. The crazy woman sees what's going on outside from the attic window, however, and she's already gibbering in fear at all the things I throw up there because I can't function if I face them too directly. Too many horrors, and the attic floor separating her from me will collapse, and she'll be living in my house.<br><br>All this is to say, it's a crappy world, who needs the aggravation?<br><br>As for Saddam, they announced his discovery on Dec. 13, 2003; perfectly timed to drown out any news coverage of President Bush signing into law additional provisions of the Patriot Act:<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>On December 13, when U.S. forces captured Saddam Hussein, President George W. Bush not only celebrated with his national security team, but also pulled out his pen and signed into law a bill that grants the FBI sweeping new powers. A White House spokesperson explained the curious timing of the signing - on a Saturday - as "the President signs bills seven days a week." But the last time Bush signed a bill into law on a Saturday happened more than a year ago - on a spending bill that the President needed to sign, to prevent shutting down the federal government the following Monday. <br><br>By signing the bill on the day of Hussein's capture, Bush effectively consigned a dramatic expansion of the USA Patriot Act to a mere footnote. Consequently, while most Americans watched as Hussein was probed for head lice, few were aware that the FBI had just obtained the power to probe their financial records, even if the feds don't suspect their involvement in crime or terrorism.<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.sacurrent.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=10705756&BRD=2318&PAG=461&dept_id=482778&rfi=6">www.sacurrent.com/site/ne...&rfi=6</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><br><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <br><br>The photos of his "capture", however, showed palm trees loaded down with ripe dates, which unequivocably proves that they were taken sometime in September. It would be like taking photos in New England in the autumn, with multi-coloured leaves, and then saying the photos were taken at Christmas time. "I-DON'T-THINK-SO!!!" said Arabs and Middle Easterners. "Wow! Daring capture!" said the corporate "journalists". <br><br> <p></p><i></i>