Apparently a lot more. As evidenced by its rose-colored response to the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), the Bush administration remains willfully clueless.

Willfully clueless. Good description. Purposefully clueless in order to play the naive card while exploiting the nation and their power? Totally.

~Heathyr

The Blog | Arianna Huffington: Majority of Iraqis Approve of Attacks on US Troops, Why Are We Still There? | The Huffington Post

Prosecutors dropped all charges Wednesday against a man who claimed an airport security guard misheard him as saying he had a bomb when he told her he was carrying a sexual device in his backpack.

Terrorism takes on penis enlargers! This should be a lesson to all of us: pack your pumps or don't carry them when traveling with your mother. This could have been better if it were a vibrator that got knocked on. "Joey darling, why is your bag making that odd humming sound?"

~Heathyr, hopes her mother never looks in her bedside drawer

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We have two more years of this buffoon in office while there is a significant gathering threat. This guy is so incompetent that he brags that there was only one 9/11 on his watch. Could you imagine FDR bragging that there was only one Pearl Harbor while he was Commander in Chief? How many does there have to be before we declare you asleep at the wheel? My God man, there was a memo telling you they were coming and you stayed on vacation for another month! Do you care at all?

This is quote jumped out, but it's midway through the article. In the beginning, Uygur makes the point that Christianity has done a lot of wrong in the name of religion, just like Islam. My thought? *Monotheism* is wrong. It breeds exclusionary, self-righteous, violent behaviour. So much wrong has been one in the name of a "one God" that I can't see how they can justify there IS a one God.

Zealotry in any form is bad. Fanaticism leads to destruction. It closes minds and shuts down ethics and morality. Anyone or any group can be prone to this. It just appears that religions get it in spades. It's a shame.

How hard is it to follow a general golden rule, basic ethics and morals, and not put hard core religious twists and spins and guilts and such on it? Treat others well. Respect and accept their differences. What happens between consenting adults is their deal.

That sort of thing. Why is this so hard? The world be such a better place, if we could all just follow this.

~Heathyr

The Blog | Cenk Uygur: Vicious Muslims and the Americans Who Help Them | The Huffington Post

Given his sunny assessment (loved that his response to the Iraqi prime minister visiting Iran was a chipper, "It's a neighbor."), if the VP had had more time he might have added that completing the mission in Iraq would include purple unicorns taking sips from the Euphrates, and Sunnis and Shiites flying hand-in-hand down the streets of Baghdad on magic carpets on their way to that happiest place on earth, Disney Fallujah.

Disney Fallujah. Hmm. Now there's one themepark I won't be visiting any time soon! Our ambulance rep did his second tour there, and he's about to get called back to do yet another tour apparently. I bet he's hoping he can avoid Disney Fallujah as well!

~Heathyr

The Blog | Arianna Huffington: Memo to Democrats: Stop Buying into the GOP Framing on Iraq | The Huffington Post

To wit: the wishful thinking of clicking your heels together and murmuring, "There's no place like home," should not be the basis of our foreign policy.

Excellent blog. Great points and amusing. Read some of the blog responses wherein the respondees take up the blogger's challenge to write replies to "If I Only Had A Brain." The first one is brilliant, and the one later on that uses Carroll's "The Walrus and the Carpenter" is quite clever as well.

I'm feeling overly inadequate about now!

~Heathyr

The Blog | Chris Weigant: American Foreign Policy: Wonderland, Oz, and Never-Never Land | The Huffington Post