Columnist - John Sammon
Why is all this happening? Iraq? Hurricane Katrina and then Ike? Sarah Palin? And now the economy?

Why?

I think it’s simple. It’s God.

God doesn’t like America.

If the Republicans can invoke the name of God constantly in literally everything they do, God bless America. God bless our troops. This is a mission from God. God is with us. God is Right Wing. If the Republicans can talk about God like he’s (assuming he’s a male gender) our own personally owned piece of high-rent property instead of the God of all people, even those who reside in countries we label as “rogue states.”

If Republicans can do this, I have the right to invoke the name of God in a different way. I think God has had it with us and our arrogance. While some of our people starve and go without basic care, we have corporate lying, cheating, conniving, double-dealing no-good bastard fat pig executives riding around in limousines as the system collapses around them. You know. The kind of person who would steal $50 off his mother’s bureau while her back was turned.

God doesn’t like him. That him is us.

Why would God bless a man-made border whose origins were created by annihilating the native inhabitants (Indians) after conquering Mexico, and a political system (that once included slavery and then segregation) that often makes mistakes (Iraq), and then is too arrogant to admit the mistakes?

Does God endorse political systems?

Does God back everything we do despite the cost?

I think God is fed up with us. We launched a war based on Bush’s lies that there were weapons of mass destruction when there weren’t, and killed 500,000 Iraqis when it could and should have been handled in a different manner. We didn’t try hard enough to find a less costly solution.

God doesn’t like that. He doesn’t care about politics. But he does about lives lost. We were wrong. God knows it. We don’t, some of us, or won’t admit we’re capable of the same kind of hubris all people throughout history have exhibited. We just let this war drag on and on forever as lives continue to be lost without even an attempt to settle it somehow.

God doesn’t like it.

You see, it works like this. When you use God’s name to sanctify whatever agenda you’re trying to push…..it makes it easy, all SO EASY!. You don’t have to demonstrate what you’re doing is right. After all, God’s for it (Nazi soldiers in World War Two had emblazoned on their belt buckles, GOTT MITT UNS, God is With US)..

I never hear any other country use God’s name as much, or in the endless variations that we do. Have you ever heard a Frenchman say, God bless France, or God bless the Eiffel Tower? Do you ever see a bumper sticker on a Peugeot (French car) that reads, God bless duck l’ orange? What about China? God bless my bowl of rice?

God bless our enslaving (Chinese) troops in Tibet?

God bless this new ballistic missile with Chinese writing on it?

If God isn’t upset with us, then why all this recent news? Bush stumbles from one disaster to the next. I guarantee you, when they go to build his Presidential Library to commemorate his presidency after his term is up, there will be a building accident and the roof will collapse.

It’s obvious. Somebody up there isn’t pleased with what we’ve done, with and to our country.

Copyright 2008 Sammonsays.

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Records are being set every day by steroid pill popping swimmers. Go ahead. Puff yourself up and feel proud. The pool is better than athletes had fifty years ago, the water treated chemically better, the swim suit designed better, the steroids are better, genetically engineered food is better.

You’re twice as big because of the steroids.

But you set a new record. Oh boy. Strut around. You’re better!

Meanwhile, the Chinese, a fascist dictatorship that is sort of also capitalist, puts on a showcase glorifying their country. Much like the 1936 Nazi Games in Berlin, the regime in Peking (I refuse to call it Beijing), has hidden away its torture victims and slaves being held without trial.

We love the Chinese. We equip them and trade with them and supply them. Bush, who yesterday warned the Russians not to attack US supplied Georgia (Gee, the US is the only country allowed to attack anyone), goes to China for a photo op and to act the big guy. This is the only thing he’s managed to do successfully, visit China. He’s only got six months left of the most disastrous presidential administration since Warren G. Harding.

Why does Bush love the Chinese?

They torture helpless people in jails.

They conquered and enslaved Tibet.

They massacred thousands during the Tiananmen Square riots.

They cut up executed prisoners and sell the body parts over the Internet.

It’s because they’re acting more like us (US). They have a McDonald’s in Peking. They don’t act crazy like Mao used to with those little red (Communist) books and Mao jackets and riding bicycles everywhere.

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Now they drive cars. We can understand that.

They’re just like us. Or maybe, it’s that we’ve become more like them.

We hold prisoners without trial.

We set up camps to hold them.

We attack other countries without warning because we’re in the right. I’ve got both a McDonald’s and a Chinese restaurant in my neighborhood.

Like the 1936 Olympic Games, when the Germans won the most Gold Medals, the Chinese are winning them left and right. Now am I naïve, or should I assume that a country that has continually demonstrated a total ruthless disregard for human rights might have an overwhelming urge to cheat to win to make their country look good?

The screams of their victims have been muffled until the Games are over.

We should limit the Games to only those countries who are honest, Switzerland and Nepal.

We won’t attack the Chinese anyway because we’re afraid of them. We only attack small impoverished countries that don’t have an air force or a navy. And like the Olympic athlete whose victory was made possible by super vitamins, we strut around after we beat the small impoverished country, proud of ourselves as being real tough.

We also depend on their (China’s) tortured prisoners to make our blue jeans. The slave Chinese prisoner makes the jean and is paid nothing and fed a bowl of maggot-infested gruel. The jean is then shipped over here and you buy it at Wal Mart for $99.95.

Sound fair?

All’s fair in geopolitics and the Olympic Games.

The Games should be disbanded because of terminal hypocrisy.

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For nearly five decades, the United States has pursued a policy toward Cuba that could be described as incredibly stupid.

Raúl Castro is not going to transform Cuba into a free-market democracy. But he gives every indication of moving down the path that China’s leadership has taken, toward making his country a free-market, one-party autocracy. That’s not a perfect outcome, as shown by recent events in Tibet. But it’s impossible to deny that the Chinese people enjoy far greater personal freedom than they did, say, 20 years ago. Why wouldn’t Washington want to encourage Havana to become more like Beijing?

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