Friday, April 07, 2006

I (Heart) The 80s

While the media pays way too much attention to Cynthia McKinney's hair and her use of a cell phone as a shiv, the shallow Katie Couric becoming the "anchor and managing editor" of the CBS Evening News, and the sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui (I still have yet to see any of the media make a point about them basically having a whole long, expensive trial for a guy that has already pleaded guilty and will get no less than life without parole), there is one little tidbit that I noticed and isn't getting a lot of attention yet. Seems that Dumbfuck Dubya wants to upgrade America's nuclear weapon producing facilities to be able to start turning out 125 new bombs a year.

So while our government is out there telling every other country in the world that nuclear proliferation is bad, we are quietly working on plans to increase our supply of nukes for the first time since 1989. This is on top of the fact that we already have way more of these weapons than any other country (Thanks Ronnie!), and that this probably breaks the non-proliferation treaty. But I suppose breaking that aspect of international law is no big deal to the guy who thinks the Geneva Convention is a "quaint" idea that has no bearing on America's actions in war time.

Jesus George, I know the 80s are probably a great memory for you, I'd have great memories of that decade if I had been drunk and coked-up the whole time too, but do you really need to try to start a new cold war because of your nostalgia?

Couldn't you just watch VH1?

1 comment:

Ben Hocking said...

Regarding whether or not GW bush is breaking the non-proliferation treaty, this is probably the only relevant part of the treaty that he might be breaking:
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Article VI
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Each of the Parties to the Treaty undertakes to pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament, and on a treaty on general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control.