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Only the religious could turn a disaster into a mark in the plus column for God.
This is my annual Thanksgiving post ("annual" because I wrote it last year and I'm reposting it this year. It's companion piece is over at my old place). --PalMD
"The Sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do." -Galileo
It's official! The results are in, and thanks to all of you, I came in first place in the $10,000 Blogging Scholarship!
Wow - the response is to throw out a whole field of strawmen: the good ol' Unions = Commies, imaginary anti-business people in the US spend more on controlling Congress than the poor old corporations (including foreign corporations). I would have thought that with such outrageous claims it should be pretty damned obvious who's lying.
I don't agree with the Steel Union guy's line about calling the US Chamber of Commerce the Chinese or Russian Chamber of Commerce. Hell no, call it the Republican Chamber of Commerce and remind everyone that the Republicans have sold the USA down de' river. The Republicans serve their corporate masters and they don't care about fucking over the rest of the USA.
Now how do we get more folks like Al Franken into office?
So? It's not as if the American government and companies haven't been buying elections, or using even dirtier methods to get foreign governments that work for their interests. I guess some of them learned the lesson.
The leaders of the so-called "American" Chamber of Commerce are traitors and should be tried as such. They work for foreign governments against the interests of America.