just got back from toronto.
where it was cold.
and dj’ing was fun.
in other news: yesterday a pentagon report stated once and for all that there never was a substantive relationship between iraq and al qaeda.
of course we’re all well informed, and we’ve known this for years, right?
but yesterday dick cheney was on rush limbaugh’s show and the vice president stated again that there was a relationship between iraq and al qaeda.
he’s been saying this for years, even as everyone else in the administration has backed away from this claim.
and on the very day that the pentagon releases a report saying that there absolutely never ever ever was a relationship between iraq and al qaeda dick cheney goes out in public and says that there was.
as an aside: i live in lower manhattan.
although manhattan is absurdly gentrified at this point, we still have a surfeit of homeless people.
some of these homeless people are homeless because they suffer from delusional schizophrenia.
you might have seen a caricature of a delusional schizophrenic on the simpsons a few years ago when the simpsons went to nyc.
lisa was talking to a homeless man who asked her to write to him.
he gave his address as ‘jesus, care of the pentagon’.
we laugh because:
a-this man is most likely not jesus
and
b-he most likely doesn’t live at the pentagon.
so: humor.
but not all delusional schizophrenics are funny. many of them endure great suffering and can only lead productive lives with the help of therapy and medication.
and some of them are from wyoming and end up being the vice president of the united states.
i mean, really?
dick cheney stating in public that iraq and al qaeda were linked pre 9-11?
when EVERY SINGLE PERSON ON THE PLANET INCLUDING EVERYONE IN HIS OWN ADMINISTRATION KNOWS THIS ISN’T TRUE?
how is that any different than, say, a cartoon homeless person claiming to be jesus and claiming to reside at the pentagon?
or, perhaps, a little boy who refuses to accept that santa claus might not be real?
the delusional schizophrenic is suffering from a severe neurological disfunction.
the boy who refuses to accept that santa claus isn’t real is suffering from wishful thinking
and the desire to hold on to comforting childhood certainties.
which one is dick cheney?
personally i think he’s a hybrid of the two. delusional schizophrenia coupled with wishful thinking in the face of overwhelming evidence that doesn’t support his delusions.
but can’t the white house get him to stop spouting off falsehoods? maybe they could give him 5 minutes a day with a fake news anchor and a camera made out of cardboard and they could call it ‘dick’s play corner’ and he could pretend that the world is as he wishes it to be?
having a bitter, angry, belligerent, delusional vice president going on national tv and pouting well known falsehoods can’t really be in the republicans or the administrations best interest, can it?
i’ve asked this before, but why do they let dick cheney out of the white house?
why do they let him do interviews?
isn’t there a strong, easily locked, comfortable room in the basement of the white house where they could keep dick ‘i’ve been dead for 15 years and am only kept alive by regular transfusions of oil and infant blood’ cheney medicated and under lock and key?
they could even give him toy shotguns and fun things that he might enjoy.
and they could feed him comforting untruths(your daughter’s straight, iraq is a stable democracy, the republicans control congress, you didn’t shoot your friend in the face, etc)to keep him happy and calm.
wouldn’t that be for the best for all involved?
-moby
