True Life Is Always Weirder Than Fiction
- There's a dam in Iraq that is in danger of "in serious danger of an imminent collapse" that could unleash a trillion-gallon wave of water, so says the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. That wave could kill upwards of 500,000 civilians, flooding Mosul with 65 feet of water, and parts of greater Baghdad with over 15 feet of the wet stuff. The Corps is trying to fix it though.
Wait. Weren't they in charge of the levees surrounding New Orleans? How'd that work out for us? I think we might expect to hear about a half-million dead sometime in the next few weeks.
- In a series of internal musings and memos to his staff, then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld argued that Muslims avoid "physical labor" and wrote of the need to "keep elevating the threat," "link Iraq to Iran" and develop "bumper sticker statements" to rally public support for an increasingly unpopular war.
And now, the truth is now starting to emerge. Even the most ardent conservative Bush lacky can't deny that a whole nation has been spoon-fed lies for the last six years. It's interesting to me that conservatives, who like to think they are sooo smart and worldly, were sooo completely bamboozled. Meanwhile, most common folk have known the truth for years. Just proves, common sense ain't all that common.
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FEMA held a press conference that wasn't. Seems that the Emergency management folks held a news conference, wherein the questions questions were asked of Vice Admiral Harvey Johnson, FEMA Deputy Director, by FEMA staffers playing reporters. Most of this play in three acts was about FEMA's response to the California wild-fires. When asked if he was pleased with FEMA's actions a week into the fires, "I'm very happy with FEMA's response so far," was Johnson's reply, hailing "a very smoothly, very efficiently performing team."
To complete the ruse, FEMA set up a toll-free "listen line" and Fox News carried part of the "press event," live. FEMA press secretary Aaron Walker even interrupted at one point to caution he'd allow just "two more questions." Later, he called for a "last question."
Man, talk about manipulation.
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