We have a very large country with over 300 million people living at any given time, within our borders. According to recent accounts, we add one new person every 30 seconds, and that is not from birth increases.
We have as many opinions in this country as we do people - on every subject. A few watch Jerry Springer and maybe a few still believe Elvis is alive, that UFOs fly our friendly skies, that bigfoot and creatures from middle earth transform into what appear to be earthlings, all the way over the ledge with the 9/11 conspiracies.
We do have our share of fruitcakes, nuts, fools, idiots, and retarded rodeo clowns, BUT that number is, as a whole, insignificant statistically. Less than 1% of a population at any given time is irrelevant as to what their opinions are and we tend, generally, as Americans, to be middle-of-the-roaders (not to be mistaken for middle -earthers although the US is or could be in the middle of the earth depending on ones perspective. The number of fools and idiots, nuts, and fruitcakes who believe the nonsense listed above are deserving of a strong suggestion that they not reproduce, for all our sakes.
That is generally how Americans regard idiocy.
Then we have the flavorful retarded rodeo clowns who run around screaming and hissing about repairing American relations around the world. One presidential candidate said they would immediately send two former presidents on a round-the-world tour to tell the world we are back (and open for business I presume) and work very hard to repair relations with all the nations of the world that have, for seven or eight years been trampled upon. I assume that also means the Lincoln Bedroom is back up for sale.
A wise owl would ask - who are these nations we must repair relations with. Anyone who does not ask that question is neither wise nor very useful, instead they play to rhetoric and the retarded rodeo clown mentality (aka Jerry Springer guests).
So who are they, these esteemed nations we must work so hard to rebuild relations with ???
Today we work on Egypt, tomorrow, the rest of the world:
We give to Egypt on average of 2.5-3 billion dollars a year in aid. This aid, whether called a bribe or suggested as to be a bribe, is intended for the government of Egypt to use to help the people of Egypt and indirectly, increase our likability factor among the masses who should benefit from our donations. Color it whatever way you wish - International Aid intended to be used for global warming centers or homeless shelters - doesn't matter - it comes out the same - it is our way of making nice and 2.5-3 billion should get some nice out of it. We get none that is or would be discernible by the average middle-earther.
A population that believes (73-80%) no Arab, no Egyptian, no Muslim male took part in the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. Over 90% of the conspiracy believers believe THE Mohammad Atta is still alive and in hiding for his life.
A population swept up in believing that the Protocol of the Elders of Zion was actually real, and have a myth spun around the fabrication to offer up a goodly story - that the Holocaust did not occur.
A population that believes (78-90%) that Israel is sending prostitutes into Egypt and or the West Bank (which in some stories becomes interchangeable) with AIDS in order to infect Egyptian men. A population that believes Israel causes earthquakes and does so to wreak havoc on the world in their grand design for controlling the planet.
A population that believes (92%) that Israel is an enemy of their state, with a majority believing Denmark is also an enemy of their state.
What can you say about a population (60-80%) who are in denial about the most fundamental of issues? How do you discuss anything with them? When their intelligence services believe the same lies the retarded rodeo clowns on the street believe - how do you converse with these people?
Surely not by the news - they believe that the Jews and America control Al jazeera - reason: to give a bad image of Arabs to the world.
That Jews steal body parts from Palestinian children. (Not easy to do - they are busy using the blood of Christian babies in their pastries - they don't have time to be gouging out eyes from palestinian children, most of whom are armed and dangerous unlike their Christian counterparts).
What do you make of a population that believes the Jews killed Yasser. Hard to do - he died of AIDs complications from all the little boys he molested.
When the Achille Laurel was hijacked - what did Mubarek do? The ship docked and the murderers of Leon Klinghoffer, hijackers of the ship, were given an escort off the ship and away to freedom (for some). What about the passengers - they spent hours being grilled by retarded rodeo clowns - also known as Egyptian security police. I believe they were still being grilled when the Egyptian airline carrying the murderers of Leon Klinghoffer was forced down by US airforce F-18s hours later, in Greece.
What can you say to these people and why do you want to bend over for them - the best they deserve is to be treated as they treat everyone else. That's my new rule - treat them as they would treat us. I read accounts by scores of passengers on their treatment at the hands, not of the murderers, but the Egyptian Security police.
Finally, October 31, 1999 - Egypt Air Flight 990 crashed into the Atlantic killing 217 people on board. The Boeing 767 made a 40 degree dive with the engines shut off. After an exhaustive investigation, the NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) concluded that it was a deliberate act on the part of the Co-Pilot. Planes can withstand 5 degrees or a 10 degree dive or climb, but a 40 degree dive, engines shut off would have created a speed close to 700 mph, 86% the speed of sound - the plane would have come apart as it sped toward the ocean/cement. The black box found provided tape recordings - the pilot gets up to the bathroom and leaves the cockpit under the control of the copilot. While the pilot is away, the copilot begins to recite prayers before turning the plane into a descent. Then the engines were shut off. The pilot makes it back and is screaming at the copilot - what are you doing, what did you do. The copilot ignores his screams and holds the controls pointing the plane toward the ocean cement fast approaching.
End of facts.
Egyptians blame Boeing. they say the co-pilot has a daughter who needed medical treatments he would bring back from the US on his flights. He would never do such a thing and leave his daughter, nor would he do something so unIslamic. The NTSB conclusions must be fabricated and a lie - Egyptians are convinced the NTSB covered up the crash and blamed it on the poor co-pilot. The percent who believe this, according to the polls - 93% of those polled believe it was a cover up by the NTSB and Boeing was responsible.
The logic - Boeing didn't want to be responsible so they paid the NTSB off and the US government to protect Boeing from bad headlines in the press.
I ask again - how do you converse with people whose national identity is one of conspiracy and fear. What on earth do they do with the billions we provide them? Surely it is not used to develop an educated populace for it has failed.
Everything is a conspiracy with them. If it isn't, that is a conspiracy. If it isn't the Jews it has to be the Americans.
They should be very concerned about how and what we think of them.
Yet, we have a few people who fell out of the stupid tree, hitting every branch on the way down, who believe we need to rebuild relations with the world.
Pakistan, sorted.
Iraq - their government and people should, if they are rational and at all reasonable, be very very appreciative of everything the US has done for them and there is NOTHING on earth we can do better to make them like us any more.
Afghanistan - this is another Iraq issue - there is nothing we can do in Afghanistan that will make them like us one iota more that we have not done or given or do every day. Our blood has been shed for them and many understand that. No hugging by Obama or Edwards or Clinton, Biden, Kennedy, Richardson will change anything in Afghanistan or Iraq.
Thus far - Pakistan and Egypt have been sorted as has Iraq and Afghanistan.
Four countries.
In later episodes we will sort out the other 180 odd countries, one at a time so even the retarded rodeo clowns can follow.
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