June 3, 2006

Flat-earthers

Filed under: US

The Guardian offers an intriguing glimpse into the last stronghold of true believers in the Serbian American President:

The governor of Idaho, an affable rancher named Jim Risch, stretched back in his chair and outlined his alternative history of the last few years in America. “Hurricane Katrina - they heaped that on George Bush!” said Mr Risch, in his shirt-sleeves in the blasting dry heat of an afternoon in Boise, the state capital.

“Here in Idaho, we couldn’t understand how people could sit around on the kerbs waiting for the federal government to come and do something. We had a dam break in 1976, but we didn’t whine about it. We got out our backhoes and we rebuilt the roads and replanted the fields and got on with our lives. That’s the culture here. Not waiting for the federal government to bring you drinking water. In Idaho there would have been entrepreneurs selling the drinking water.”

Also, small bottles of really potent snake oil, two for the price of one.

“President Bush is one of our greatest presidents, and he’s one of our bravest presidents,” the governor said. “People know what’s in his heart.”

Let’s just say some of us have an idea.

“You go into something like Iraq, nobody can know how it’s going to turn,” Governor Risch said. “People say Saddam was terrible because he tortured his people, now Bush is awful because he invaded. Well, which do you want?”

I think I’ll have both, actually. Could you put them in a paper bag? But I’ll pass on that oil and the, uh, drinking water. Thanks, good day to you too.

Déjà vu

Filed under: US, Middle East

Somehow this reminds me of this.

There is a sense that, if they didn’t do it, they could have; and their brass would deny it anyhow, so the official pronouncements are worthless.

America 2006: the new Serbia, with better cars.

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