Have No Fear- Jeb Bush Is Here!

Lame duck Colin Powell and Presidential proxy Jeb Bush are on their way to Indonesia. Powell I understand, but Jeb is completely off the wall. The official justification is that since Florida is demolished by hurricanes on a regualr basis, he has experience managing natural disasters. On the other hand, since there are substantially fewer trailer parks in Phi Phi than Orlando I suspect that his contribution may amount to little more than sending someone whose name is Bush. I wonder if George Prescott was unavailable.

The flap over the "stingy" remark, which was entirely innocuous and did not name names in its original context, had the remarkable effect of increasing U.S. aid tenfold. Nevermind that $350 million buys slightly less than two days of warmongering. It would behoove our government to remember that you get more flies with honey than vinegar; our wise leaders, however, would rather try to convince the flies that the vinegar is just as good as the honey, and we're gonna ram it down your throats anyway so just get used to it.

Memo to Dubya- move the troops out of Iraq and send them to the disaster zone. Have them help with the rebuilding effort. Let the world see that they are not conquerors and occupiers, but that they are simply people- kids, really- who want to do right by their country, their world, their God. Not much different from the Iraqi people who only want to do right by their country, their world, and their God. I don't see it happening, though; our leadership doesn't think that far ahead.