I love the internet.
Of, course, he may already have one, and this has only fueled his jones for the real thing.
Wasn’t chess invented for the same purpose?
They would have made a better statement donating the money to Amnesty International, but hey, why help out a legitimate cause for peace and human rights when you can make a boneheaded publicity stunt to slam the President, huh?
No chance. The 24-7 news channels already switched to western movie metaphors. “Showdown With Saddam.” I guess a hodown is out of the question. Subvert with techno and rock and roll, I say.
While I understand this statement, and to some extent agree, on balance this seems to me to be a valid form of political discourse.
There will always be a place for the sober and serious legitimate aid organizations, but there is also validity to the proverbial pie in the face. I think that the more folks that point out what posturing fools our leaders are, the better.
Bush should sell it on Ebay and give the money to the defense department.
Shouldn’t this have been posted in MPSIMS?
Our Leader strides purposefully from the Oval Office, and, glancing around the empty hallway, assures himself that the is unobserved, he slides to an unmarked door. Soundlessly, he submits to a retinal scan, and the door smoothly unlocks. Down a featureless concrete corridor to another unmarked door, which he unlocks from a keychain, and slips within.
It is a room like many a suburban basement, odds and ends, refuse of various types (stacked piles of back issues of the American Spectator, a file of pictures of J Edgar Hoover dancing Afternoon of the Faun, reports from Area 51…)
In the corner stands a Playstation 2 (Presidential Model, not sold in stores) and a 100 inch Sony Eyebuster TV. One a table next to it is a single CD case. His hands tremble with repressed agitation as he opens it, beads of sweat form on his brow as he places it in the slot. Grand Theft Auto 3: The Baghdad Version
Or even better than GTA 3:
This is going to backfire. Saddam’s got 4,000 of 'em and it hasn’t slowed him down.