A bunch of months back, I went off on a screed in the Downmarketguru column that ended with "The United States of America will be a third world nation in less than 10 years
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My brain is rotten to the core, and sometimes I must lance the boils festering on its surface to keep sane. The pus that splatters across the keyboard is my writing. Hope you stay with me!
Your rebuttals to each and every objection Bush-supporters would have are formidable. *bends and touches your feet* My respect for you has increased manifold.
It sounds a tad weird to say this but many Indians are completely glued to news about America. No, not because of Katrina and the girls, but because we're all agog to see what fresh madness your Commander-in-Chief (more like "Fuckface-in-Cheney") decrees, and how low his popularity polls can go.
It's hugely disturbing to see this but most people in the world are waiting for the "greatness" of America to be stripped away from it, thanks to that incompetent baboon in the White House.
Thanks for reading! I appreciate it. Unfortunately Bush & co. aren't the only ones with a sense of entitlement in this country. It is very interesting to see how rapidly India is developing, how much hungrier many people and businesses seem over there. A great book to read about how America really needs to wake the fuck up and get its act together is Thomas Friedman's (reporter for the NY Times) "The World is Flat." It is alarming. Bush and his mongrel pack of dogs certainly aren't helping on any level.
India ... ah well, my country is quite hypocritical re. the USA. It is the first to ask for aid, and US usually the first to give it, and then, India is among the first to despise the US and gleefully await the nation's humilation. When the Iraq brouhaha began, India's loathing for the US's high-handed ways almost led the dissident voices of the liberalists in south and south-east Asia. India's constitution was largely socialist when it gained its independence from the British, but thanks to the liberalisation policy adopted by the government in 1986, my country opened its doors and its economy to the world. In stepped the US and other 1st world countries, showed the way of laissez faire to India, and presto! Now we have hungry corporates who would snog white arses for money. All in the name of a burgeoning economy, you understand.
Thank you for the rec! I'll definitely procure the book, somehow.
Money makes people mad and indeed leads to snogging white arses. And I can't say I blame the rest of the world for looking at us as high handed arrogant bullies. Back in 1991 we were at war with Iraq because they invaded Kuwait. What gave us the right to do the same thing in 2003 without the backing of the U.N? The hypocrisy is glaring. Everyone is looking for us to take a fall and if we don't get our heads out of our collective asses its gonna happen... But I have heard from a few friends of mine hailing from Bangalore that India has a big cultural divide re: north and south the way the US does now re: middle America vs the east and west coasts.
Thank you very much! Although as I live in the East Village of NYC I might be described as both a survivalist and a nutcase. Still I just try to call it as I see it and will continue to do so (with more regularity going forward).
Yeah I'm scared too, but in all fairness it isn't just Bush & Cheney & the rest of those bastards fault. They represent the worst of the cancer that is eating into the heart of this great country. But I believe we can turn it around. I ain't movin' to Canada! Thanks for taking the time to read and post.
Absolutely beautiful! I love it. I'm the News Editor of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's student-run independent newsweekly, the UWM Post. Would you be willing to submit this as a letter to the editor? If so, sign your name to the text on this post in an e-mail to post@uwm.edu.
Thanks!
Sincerely,
Bradley Wooten ------------------ Bradley Wooten News Editor Secretary of the Board of Directors UWM Post office (414) 229-4578 fax (414) 229-4579 bawooten@uwm.edu
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My brain is rotten to the core, and sometimes I must lance the boils festering on its surface to keep sane. The pus that splatters across the keyboard is my writing. Hope you stay with me!
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*bends and touches your feet*
My respect for you has increased manifold.
It sounds a tad weird to say this but many Indians are completely glued to news about America. No, not because of Katrina and the girls, but because we're all agog to see what fresh madness your Commander-in-Chief (more like "Fuckface-in-Cheney") decrees, and how low his popularity polls can go.
It's hugely disturbing to see this but most people in the world are waiting for the "greatness" of America to be stripped away from it, thanks to that incompetent baboon in the White House.
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Unfortunately Bush & co. aren't the only ones with a sense of entitlement in this country. It is very interesting to see how rapidly India is developing, how much hungrier many people and businesses seem over there.
A great book to read about how America really needs to wake the fuck up and get its act together is Thomas Friedman's (reporter for the NY Times) "The World is Flat." It is alarming.
Bush and his mongrel pack of dogs certainly aren't helping on any level.
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India ... ah well, my country is quite hypocritical re. the USA. It is the first to ask for aid, and US usually the first to give it, and then, India is among the first to despise the US and gleefully await the nation's humilation. When the Iraq brouhaha began, India's loathing for the US's high-handed ways almost led the dissident voices of the liberalists in south and south-east Asia. India's constitution was largely socialist when it gained its independence from the British, but thanks to the liberalisation policy adopted by the government in 1986, my country opened its doors and its economy to the world. In stepped the US and other 1st world countries, showed the way of laissez faire to India, and presto! Now we have hungry corporates who would snog white arses for money. All in the name of a burgeoning economy, you understand.
Thank you for the rec! I'll definitely procure the book, somehow.
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And I can't say I blame the rest of the world for looking at us as high handed arrogant bullies. Back in 1991 we were at war with Iraq because they invaded Kuwait. What gave us the right to do the same thing in 2003 without the backing of the U.N? The hypocrisy is glaring.
Everyone is looking for us to take a fall and if we don't get our heads out of our collective asses its gonna happen...
But I have heard from a few friends of mine hailing from Bangalore that India has a big cultural divide re: north and south the way the US does now re: middle America vs the east and west coasts.
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Thanks for taking the time to read and post.
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Thanks!
Sincerely,
Bradley Wooten
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Bradley Wooten
News Editor
Secretary of the Board of Directors
UWM Post
office (414) 229-4578
fax (414) 229-4579
bawooten@uwm.edu
Vice-President
Honors College Student Association
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