BuzzFlash Mailbag for November 4, 2009

BUZZFLASH MAILBAG

Want to join the conversation? Share your thoughts with other Mailbag readers by clicking here. You also may comment below; post articles yourself at BuzzFlash.net; or send urls for BuzzFlash to post to: www.buzzflash.com/contact/newstip.html.

Subject: Owens' good Omen

The thing about NY 23rd, is that DeDe, the GOP candidate, after dropping out, was actually calling people, telling them to vote for Owens, due to Hoffman being dangerous. That is how bad a representative Hoffman would have been.

A BuzzFlash Reader

Subject: These Republicans/Blue Dogs Put Their Laissez Faire Ideology Before Human Life

"Yet oh how they cheered Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping when he said 'Doesn't matter whether the cat is black or white so long as it catches the mouse.'"

"Apparently Republicans/Blue Dogs consider open-mindedness to be good for China but bad for for America."

"Based on?"

"Their refusal to even consider a single payer system such as Medicare for all, even though it provides more health care per premium dollar than profit insurance companies do."

"Which translates into longer and healthier lives for the American people."

"Then what are the Republican/Blue dogs afraid of?"

"That the success of Medicare for all will turn the one about government being the problem not the solution into when it comes to health care, insurance companies are the problem, government the solution."

"And since that's true for health care, why not for banking, industries such as fossil fuel & mineral extraction, capitalism itself?"

"Exactly."

A BuzzFlash Reader

Subject: Will Puppet President Hamid Karzai Go The Way of Vietnam's Puppet President Ngo Dinh Diem?

"Which was?"

"A CIA engineered assassination of Diem, followed by a prolonged period of instability leading 5 years later to the Tet offense, after which, the inevitable withdrawal of all U.S. & other foreign troops."

"History repeating itself as tragedy or farce*?"

"Both."

"Based on?"

"Every war's a tragedy but the story of a one & only superpower sicing its military drones upon scattered bands of semi-nomadic freedom-fighters could be turned into a Monty Python movie."

"Said movie's ending?"

"With freedom-fighters closing in on Kabul, as he boards a helicopter taking off from the roof of the U.S. Embassy, these parting words from General Stanley McChrystal, "Hey, haven't we been through this before?"

A BuzzFlash Reader

The opinions expressed in the Mailbag are not necessarily those of BuzzFlash. You can write to Mailbag at http://www.BuzzFlash.com/contact/mail.html. Guidelines for submissions are at BuzzFlash FAQ #18.

BUZZFLASH MAILBAG