Advice from a paranoid: Keep holding your breath until noon on Tuesday.

[Cyrano]

Until the stroke of noon this coming Tuesday, Bush/Cheney will still have their blood-soaked hands from Hell on the levers of power. So as of the time of this post, you will only have to hold your breath for a little more than 72 hours.

Does that sound insane? After living through the last eight years, how can any rational human being still not grasp that these people are capable of anything -- ANYTHING?

It isn't necessary to once again list their countless crimes, or the pure evil they have visited upon the people of this country and this planet. (Not to mention crimes they may still be committing at this very moment that we may never learn of.)

All that's necessary is that we make it through the next three days. And for those who don't yet "get it," it's a bit like hoping to survive three days in a room with Hannibal Lector.

[Windy]

1. agreed. I see them doing anything they can to tie Obama's hands. nT

[bushmeister0]

16. What more could they do than they've already done to make Obama's job harder?

[tavalon]

24. Careful, don't say things like that

It's like mentioning how quiet it is on the Labor Deck. Just isn't done.

[ezgoingrl]

2. Since this nasty bunch says the opposite of what they do,

I wonder if this is why Bush keeps saying things like, "I wish the new President the best. I really do." Then again, maybe the last 8 years have been about making the rest of us paranoid and afraid of what their next move may be and they're just sitting around drinkin a beer laughing their asses off at our paranoid musings. :shrug:

[lonestarnot]

3. Hang on. You can do it!

[cliffordu]

4. RE: ".....And for those who don't yet "get it,"

"It's a bit like hoping to survive three days in a room with Hannibal Lector...."

Yep....

Covered in barbecue sauce....

[WilliamPitt]

8. ...with a pork chop tied around your neck.

And a nice Chainti.

[Cyrano]

14. "Someone once tried to poll me. I ate his liver with a nice chianti."

Hannibal Lector (Anthony Hopkins) followed up this line with a (perhaps brilliantly ad-libbed) tooth-over-lips suction sound.

It was at this moment that Agent Starling (Jodie Foster) fully grasped who/what she was dealing with. Her reaction was a (perhaps two or three second) piece of film brilliance. She stared at him, her eyes widened and she fully grasped the almost unimaginable, terrifying horror named Hannibal Lector.

Unfortunately, the majority of Americans never grasped the unimaginably terrifying horror named George W. Bush. This "man" spent eight years in the Oval Office being manipulated by a frightening, grotesque, gargoyle-like creature named Dick Cheney.

The combination of these two men are nightmares that Hannibal Lector can only envy.

[shadowknows69]

31. Lector movies are rated G compared to the Bush administration

Hannibal only killed for food and always used the entire buffalo. Or was that the Native Americans?

[Jamastiene]

5. Garlic Necklace: Check

Holy Water: Check
Nicely whittled stake: Check
Counting the nanoseconds: Check

:thumbsup:

Other than that, I know the "head between the legs and kiss my ass goodbye in case of emergency" routine.

You are right about this, only I wouldn't limit their crimes to only those against the country and the planet. Microbes were just discovered on Mars and that is the part they ARE telling us about. There's no telling what intelligent life forms Bush/Cheney have found that they are not telling us about and you KNOW they have committed crimes against them too. I hope and pray (just in case) the Bush administration weren't the ones to discover intelligent life in the universe. You know the first thing Bush would do is prove we are NOT an intelligent species and piss the grays off royally with audacious, callous, proud, rank stupidity. The last thing we need is a bunch of alien life forms pissed off at us when we've been kept in the dark and fed bullshit like bad mushrooms for the last 8 years straight.

[kestrel91316]

6. I'm definitely not letting my guard down until then.

[Cyrano]

20. You think that's hard? Try not breathing until then.

Yeah, holding my breath is a metaphor, but a very apt one.

Eight long, horrible, miserable, evil fucking years.

Holding our breaths' was not an option. Holding Bush/Cheney accountable was.

The Republican Party was fucking us over. The Democratic Party, especially since gaining a majority in 2006, was fucking us over worse.

It's easy to grasp the motives of your enemies. It's virtually impossible to grasp the motives of your (supposed) allies.

And now that we have the power to demand accountability, and with 57% of the country demanding it, is anyone ignorant enough to believe that any one of those who defiled our country, spit on our constitution, and told us all to go fuck ourselves, will ever have to answer for anything?

Hold your breath.

[tavalon]

27. Maybe the allies aren't really your allies

That's what keeps occurring to me in the dark nights.

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. I want a 1000% guarentee Cheney will be sitting on the platform.

And Bush and Poppy Bush.

Then I will feel 2% less paranoid.

[mnhtnbb]

10. Didn't I see somewhere that Cheney is not planning to attend?

[dixiegrrrrl]

11. Whaat???? where? Think, please ! Where?

You series?

[mnhtnbb]

18. I must have been dreaming. Can't find a source or link. My bad.

[dixiegrrrrl]

19. Jeez, you made eat the dog's tranquilizer.....

[mnhtnbb]

9. But, but Bush is a "nice guy"!

:shrug:

[tavalon]

26. Yeah, like Hitler kinda didn't like Jews.

[Cyrano]

42. Well, as Mel Brooks said, "Der Fuhrer was a better dancer than Churchill."

[Warpy]

12. I'm a pessimist so I won't breathe a sigh of relief until Obama is sworn in

and the bastards get on their choppers and leave.

I did allow myself enough hope to buy that bottle of sparkling cider to open to toast the hope of bringing those scumbags to justice sooner or later.

[Ichingcarpenter]

13. I am apprehensive until he is sworn in too- Too many last

minute signing statements, pardons, paper shedding and
typical bush behavior can happen.

[LWolf]

15. I like breathing.

I haven't held my breath at all in the last 8 years.

Expended a lot of it in outrage, yes.

Held it, no.

I don't think there is a legitimate cause for concern. It's not like Obama is going to usher in fundamental change that will shake up the power brokers. If there were any chance of that happening, I'd be more concerned.

As it is, I don't see a threat.

[Cyrano]

17. "It's not like Obama is going to usher in fundamental change..."

You may be right. However, millions, and perhaps hundreds of millions of us are hoping that we are seeing another FDR taking over the reins of power from George W. Bush, the modern day equivalent of Herbert Hoover. And if you never read a book, Herbert Hoover's policies, and those of his predecessors, brought on the Great Depression. And right now, it looks like Reagan/George W.'s "ideology" has brought on a second Great Depression.

All I can say, LWolf, is I hope you are wrong. For 30 years, the Republicans have done everything possible to destroy our belief in government. They convinced some number of idiotic people to believe in the "wonderfulness" of unregulated capitalism. What a great idea. Let Wall Street's "greed is good" people, and "corporate CEOs" making more wealth than exists in "King Solomon's Mines," run amok and steal everything they can lay their hands on.

Do you really believe that Obama is going to allow the biggest heist in history to continue? Do you see no difference between Bush/Cheney and Obama?

If you don't grasp the onset of what so many of us hope is a new era, I pity you. Conversely, if you're right, a new era of prosperity and renewal will not come about. And, if you are right, the sands of time on the human species will run out faster than anyone anticipated. The result would be a return to a feudal era in which the vast majority of us will be peasants under wealthy overlords. Or, it could be the final destruction of our species.

You really should be living in dread of the possibility that you are right.

[JackRiddler]

21. Thirty years is about right...

Since it was Carter who initiated a milder form of what became known as the Reagan policies in 1979-1980, and Clinton who helped Bush Sr. get away with murder, continued to develop the Reagan policies and facilitated the rise of Bush Jr.

I do hope Obama's different. Of course.

[LWolf]

30. If I never read a book, lol.

I'm a former librarian turned teacher. ;)

I understand what so many are hoping for. I just don't see any substance behind the hope. I never did, which is why I never had any hope for an Obama administration. His appointments didn't help.

FWIW, I sincerely hope that you are correct. I AM admittedly highly cynical of government at this point. I am one of those defiant idealists: one who never loses sight of, or gives up on, the ideal, and who is sickened by the manipulation of people through emotion, through noble rhetoric, and through noble-sounding legislation that actually obstructs further progress, rather than achieving it. I've had almost 49 years to watch the patterns, and the cycles, in politics, as well as to read.

If Obama does something to eradicate the corporate tentacles pulling all the strings...if he does anything to convince me that he is working for ALL citizens, not just the more powerful or the mainstream, I'll be happy to turn my idealism loose.

For now, it shelters behind a much-needed, and long-building, shield of cynicism.

[cali]

40. No you won't. You're positively wedded

to your negative opinion of Obama, as your many posts have demonstrated. You'll remain wedded to it no matter what he does, and you'll continue justifying said negative opinion.

[LWolf]

44. So says the seer, lol.

:rofl:

[Cyrano]

41. I apologize for the "... never read a book ... " remark, LWolf

I've got to stop posting emotional reactions.

Yes, the "corporate tentacles" have just about destroyed the idea of who/what we are supposed to be. My "holding my breath" is a statement of fear of the criminals who still hold the reins of power. But it is also a statement of hope --
hope that Obama is today's FDR who can give the rest of us hope.

I share your protective wall of cynicism. But, this time around, I'm clinging to the hope that an exceptional (perhaps, "great") man is about to seize the reins of power and lead us out of the Republican valley of death and destruction.

Given the vast amount of damage that's been done, this may take more than the next four or eight years. The most we can hope for is that Obama sets us on a sane, healthy and humane course, and that he can inspire the vast majority of us to follow him.

[LWolf]

43. I can join you in that,

even if my hope and cynicism are in different places.

I'm certainly ready to move forward into sanity.

[NMDemDist2]

22. the only thing(s) keeping me from agreeing with you is(are)

a) Chimpie is tired of this game and wants to go home

b) they have already stolen the treasury blind

c) they want to be long gone when ALL the chickens they hatched come home to roost, who better than a Democrat to be left holding the bag


That's what I'm thinking anyway.....

[The Doctor.]

23. I'd easily pick three days with Dr. Lector over five minutes with the idiot son.

Seriously.

[tavalon]

25. Depends

Without consequences in either direction? Nope, give me an hour with Bush. And some waterboarding equipment.

[The Doctor.]

29. Actually, if Lector were real,

I'd be thrilled to chat with him. Unlike Bush, he has a code of discipline.

But if you threw in the waterboarding equipment... well, I'll tell you... that would be a tough choice; Get the idiot son to admit to everything, or talk to one of the greatest inhuman minds of all time... tough choice.

[tavalon]

45. It's not so much the information I want from him, because we all know

torture such as waterboarding doesn't really yield any information, rather I would see it as, well, a teaching tool.

[The Doctor.]

46. Ok, it's settled...

We put Hannibal Lector in a room with 'W' and see who perishes first.

[Nickster]

28. I'm still waiting for the flood of pResidential Pardons, you know we're going to be appalled.

[bonito]

32. I hear you loud and clear n/t

[Mira]

33. I am waiting to exhale. And hope to do it in Washington on the Mall around Noon.

[bertman]

34. Cyrano, being paranoid is having an unfounded or delusional distrust of others, sometimes

reaching delusional proportions.

In this case, that does not apply.

[mogster]

35. Aye, bro

Sending good wishes to Obama all the time, crossing my fingers and hoping.

[BlueIris]

36. No kidding. And keep on holding it until at least 2012.

:scared:

[Cyrano]

38. Sorry, BlueIris, but I'm afraid I don't follow what you're saying/implying

Could you be more specific?

[liberalla]

37. ahhh... a paranoid after my own heart!

*sigh*

...holding my breath in Arizona!

[Cyrano]

39. Only a little over 48 hours to go. And I'm dying for some clean, fresh air