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  • SOTU 2006 COMMENTS
    1 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    SOTU 2006 Comments
    By Peter Fredson
    February 2, 2006
    The lengthy speech of G.W.Bush at the SOTU met all of my expectations. I expected Bush to mention 9/11 and was not mistaken. I expected many other words and phrases designed to arouse emotions and was not mistaken. Terrah, Iraq, Stay the Course, God, etc. all were applauded by the sycophant gathering.
    I have dissected some of Bush’s speeches and found many phrases to be old friends. Bush promises have previously been promised (…)

  • THE LEGACY OF G. W. BUSH part 3
    31 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Legacy of G. W. Bush 3
    By Peter Fredson January 31, 2006 Part Three: GEORGE W. BUSH: SAINT OR SINNER?
    G. W. Bush has a large base of Christian fundamentalists including many thousands of trained influential evangelists, parsons, ministers, priests, faith-healers, etc. who are expert in dealing with emotive issues, fantasy scenarios, and persistent indoctrination. They have an absolutist view of their ideology which allows them to show disdain for all other beliefs, dogma, practices (…)

  • The Legacy of GW Bush part 2
    30 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Legacy of G. W. Bush 2
    By Peter Fredson January 29, 2006 Part Two: GEORGE W. BUSH AND COMPASSION
    I have studied the mannerisms, verbalizations and actions of GWB for some years. I now realize that nothing is what it seems to be. GWB may never have studied George Orwell, but he has mastered the arts of Double-Think (holding two separate contradictory thoughts at the same time) and of NewSpeak (in which words rarely mean what they seem or actually represent the opposite of what is (…)

  • The Legacy of G. W. Bush
    29 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    THE LEGACY OF GEORGE W. BUSH 1
    Part One
    By Peter Fredson
    January 28, 2006
    The passionate interlude of William Clinton with Monica Lewinsky started my computer files of Presidential adventures. Soon thousands of files of interesting escapades filled my computer hard-drive, although none as sexy as those of Bill and Monica.
    There was a great moral outrage of Republican Senators over the Presidential blow-job with a tremendous sackcloth-and-ashes routine for months, including (…)

  • CONSIDERATION
    25 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    CONSIDERATION
    By Peter Fredson
    January 24, 2006
    I wonder if President George Bush has ever thought about what his actions reflect, or what consequences will result? Does Bush ever deliberate, reflect, or contemplate? Does he ever recite a little mantra to help his mind instruct his body? Does Bush ever show concern, compassion, respect, sympathy toward other people, other cultures, other religions?
    Although I have been a Bush watcher for several years I find no trace of concern for (…)

  • BASIC PROBLEMS WITH GEORGE W. BUSH
    24 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    SOME BASIC PROBLEMS WITH GEORGE W. BUSH
    By Peter Fredson
    January 24, 2006
    Like many Americans, I have spent much time in the past 5 years trying to figure out who George Bush is, how in the world he was considered to be Presidential Material, what he is trying to do, and why his character shows so many flaws but yet his supporters are willing to forgive, overlook, or disbelieve any of his negative elements.
    Any analysis is difficult as he surely does not act alone, or with ordinary (…)

  • CRIES OF WAR NOW HEARD
    23 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WAR CRIES
    By Peter Fredson
    January 23, 2006
    What is appropriate to describe the onset of a war? Crossing the Rubicon, The Die is Cast, The Flight of Birds signals disaster ahead, the Oracle has Spoken, or Crying Wolf?
    Certainly Greek and Roman warriors had their rhetoric, their beating of shields with swords, the symbolic flight of arrows, the chest-beating, the swaggering and strutting, the bellowing and threatening.
    In that respect we have not evolved a whit. The entire stage (…)

  • I WEEP FOR MY COUNTRY
    21 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I Weep For My Country
    By Peter Fredson
    January 20, 2006
    Several years ago I was trying to find something on TV worth watching amidst all the commercial propaganda for cars, chapstick, sanitary napkins, and diet pills, when my attention was suddenly focused on the slight figure of a white-haired Senator, with a slight tremor, who was holding a palm-sized copy of our Constitution in his hand.
    He said this phrase which has since come back to haunt me. “Today I weep for my country.” At (…)

  • BUSH AND NEWSPEAK DIPLOMACY
    19 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    BUSH AND NEWSPEAK DIPLOMACY
    By Peter Fredson
    January 19, 2006
    Most of us know that Bush not only mangles phrases, but he manipulates the meaning of ordinary words, twisting them beyond recognition in some sick paraphrase designed to further his imperial ambitions. For instance, he seems to blast ordinary but “sacred” words in the US into unrecognizable rubble. Democracy, liberty, freedom, and sovereignty have been mangled and distorted far from any legitimate meaning.
    Democracy for (…)

  • PUZZLED TO DEATH
    16 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Puzzled to Death
    By Peter Fredson
    January 16, 2006
    I’m puzzled. Perhaps I’m confused and do not see things clearly. I’m not a lawyer, nor do I play one anywhere. But the legality of the Bush administration actions really puzzles me.
    For instance, if the President sends people out to destroy a village because he suspects one person in that village has bad intentions toward him, is that okay? I
    f he does not succeed in killing any terrorist, but instead “accidentally” kills several (…)