Date Line June 5, 2007

Fantasy time. Report has it that Osama Bin Laden is functioning, alive and scared for his safety; hence he is both staying out of view and avoiding personal contacts.

OK, and when was it you planned to take title to the Brooklyn Bridge?

We are talking about a man in need of specialized hi-tech medical treatment. He needs insulin and dialysis; and he is supposedly getting it in one of the most backward places on earth.

Hum. Now there is a bit of unbelievable. Bin Laden is managing to get better treatment in a cave than the average American can in a hospital.

Hum. Ok, so not so unbelievable. Bin Laden does not have the American Congress doing everything it can to prevent his access to healthcare, even though that is, supposedly, what they authorized when they authorized the military action which is draining our budget.

Hillary Clinton voted to waste the money and deprive Americans of the various social supports the interest we pay to China et al could have funded. Hillary wants to be the next George Bush. Americans are really that stupid?

You bet they are. Did they not elect Bush to a second term? Did they not pay $27 million to build a museum to Creationism? Are they not cutting health care to those who served in Iraq and Afghanistan?

Are they not saying that soldiers who are blind, or who have lost limbs, are only a little disabled, only a little limited in their normal functionality, and thus do not need, or deserve, the disability benefits or medical care afforded the "truly injured" ?

Yep. Bin Laden is alive and well and enjoying far better care and living conditions than America affords its combat veterans. Sure, we can believe that. Do you hear anyone in Washington disputing it?

Taliban militant leader, Haji Mansour Dadullah has proclaimed, "He is alive, active and well." Certainly there is no reason to refute such a statement.

If it came down to it, George Bush has probably arranged for Saudi, or Sunni, medical specialists to keep Osama alive and well. Prove otherwise! Bush actions and management of American affairs has shown that he will do anything and everything he can to bring down this nation.

The end of the United State, the creation of an Armageddon style end to civilization, these are the things which all born-again types pray for. These are the things they support. If it were otherwise we would seem them marching on Washington and demanding national Health Care and an end to privatization, and end to the filling of some pockets with money which should be going to keeping the many alive and healthy.

But do not worry. The time will come when it will end. The time will come when reality envelops even those in deep denial. The time will come when a few realize that the many are doomed to the consequences of their own stupidity; and when that time comes, the few will step aside.

OH! Right! The rich are already doing that. Sorry, getting behind myself.

No matter. The economy is slowing, the last vestige of capital has been sucked from the home equity markets, and those adjustable rate mortgages are about to get costly. The rich will get richer.

China, that "Godless Communist Satanic Nation or Reds" is in the business of lending the reds the money to fund the programs which are busting the American budget.

China, that "Godless Communist Satanic Nation or Reds" is sending us, loaning us, our own money. In the greatest of capitalist practices we are watching the "Godless Communists" out capitalist what was once the capitalistic capital of the world. Adding insult to reality, it is through selling us poisons in toothpaste and pet food that they acquire our money. In hands of idiots, historic reality is perverse.

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