Comments on: Protesters Greet Bush In Brazil

Latin America Trip Is Intended To Promote Democracy And Ethanol Use

[karlimhof]

"The trip is to remind people that we care." bush


Hypocrisy know no S H A M E

[searingtruth]

"He [King George] has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred right of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither."
Thomas Jefferson, deleted portion of a draft of the Declaration of Independence, June, 1776

"In a world of universal deceit, telling the truth is revolutionary."
George Orwell, 1984

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[gramto7]

Here is an excerpt from an article about Andersonville:
Remaining in operation until the end of the war, Andersonville held more captured Union soldiers than any other Confederate camp, a total of more than 45,000, nearly 30 percent of whom died in captivity. The North had learned of the camp's appalling conditions well before the emaciated survivors were released in 1865, and outraged citizens urged retribution on Southern prisoners of war. That was hardly necessary: the Union had its own wretched prison camps, including Elmira, New York, where the death rate approached Andersonville's, even though the North was far better equipped to cope with captured soldiers. Mismanagement and severe shortages were more to blame for the horrors of Andersonville than any deliberate attempt to mistreat prisoners.

So much for the North being so good, huh? BTW, in case you are interested, the Mason-Dixon line is North of D.C. so the Lincoln Memorial is in the SOUTH!

[searingtruth]

Tick, Tick

Fellow citizens, the truth is that our present can only be as stable as our future.

For too long we have hobbled from decade to decade, generation to generation, and millennium to millennium, myopically adhering to superfluous battles that can never be won. Never once as a species forwarding or embracing an all encompassing path towards a certainly better future.

Our excuses have been many, our reasoning mostly incoherent, and our lack of vision as a species, certainly fatal.

For in the meantime, as each tick of the ages has passed, the critical threats posed and ignored by our species discordance have increased exponentially.

Pandemic famine and disease, massively destructive weapons, fatal atmospheric and climate change, super volcanic eruptions, catastrophic space body impacts, Orwellian societies of unparalleled oppression, and many other global catastrophes too numerous to list here, waiting to befall us at any moment.

In fact, one of the most immediate and ominous threats facing America and much of the world today is the utilization of advanced technologies for the implementation of authoritarian control over societies.

My friends, the truth is that if we do not fight for and secure freedom today, the time will very soon come when it will be almost impossible to do so.

In retrospect, when one soberly considers the critical challenges that we must face together to survive as a species, our differences, at times, can become almost imperceptible.

[randalds]

We can move from a fossil based fuel source to a renewable ethanol source, but we can't do it with corn based ethanol which is terribly inefficient (much too expensive to produce for the benefit), but rather only with a sugar based one as Brazil has done. Also it doesn't have to be just sugar cane as sugar beets can provide a (smaller) but added help.

Of course we won't do it because the agricultural lobby is in favor of corn and they will not budge unless the government pays farmers (not the good old family farmers of old, but major corporate farm conglomerates) millions of dollars of what amounts to blackmail money to subsidise the transition, even though these corporate farmers will make millions of dollars in the end. the new farm bill is coming up for it's once every several years debate and renewal soon and it's time to start treating these corporate farmers as major business instead of as government subsidised welfare recipients. Yes, support family farms by all means, but stop the blackmail subsidies of corporate farmers who are just sucking off from the taxpayers.

[karlimhof]

Mr. Bush will also use his visit to Brazil to promote his vision that biofuels can ease the dependence on foreign oil,


Silva, in turn, has said he will press the U.S. Congress to repeal or scale back the 54-cent per gallon U.S. tariff on sugar-based Brazilian ethanol


Bush wants to promote ethanol ? But Congress has imposed a tariff making it more expensive than gas ?

Who are we protecting? Definintely not Free World Trade.

[searingtruth]

"... Shall we forever grasp only for the sustenance needed today, eternally trusting in a future harvest that we know must one day fail?

Can we not at least begin to attempt to break the cycles of rampant evil and suffering that have thus far been humanity%u2019s inheritance?

I%u2019m not speaking of utopia, just something at least a little better than today.

It is indeed true that history is replete with examples of its own iteration, and many claim that it can never be different. But is this really true?

Couldn%u2019t it be that we, as a species, have missed something? Something very simple, something very fundamental? Something that perhaps may even have been discovered from time to time, only to be lost again in the churning turmoil of our species thus far aimless path?

I believe so. I believe we have simply forgotten how very much we have in common. And in turn, how dependent we are upon each other for our species ultimate survival.

In fact, one of the greatest tragedies of our existence is that we are a people united by so many common goals, but divided by so many uncommon beliefs.

I believe that our goals are more important. We all want to be free. We all want our children to be healthy and happy. Most all of us want peace so long as our own rights are protected.

These are the ideals that we can all strive for together. These are the threads of humanity that cannot be torn apart."

A Future of the Brave - www.searingtruth.com

[randalds]

Don't Presidents tend to take more frequent trips abroad when scandals start swirling around in Washington.

Posted by shingles1 at 01:11 AM : Mar 09, 2007

Yeah but sadly they always seem to find their way back. Bush isn't smart enough find his as*s with both hands, but I'll bet the sawed off little Napoleon want to be will mange to find his way back here. Dan*m it!

[tuckerndfw]

Little Georgie is visiting Brazil to see if Brazil is going to hand over her ethanol industry monopoly quietly, or, whether the US will have to make some excuse for the US military to invade and take it over by force.

ExxonMobil (et al) is not going to allow anyone to dominate her total control over the energy industry. Especially some piddly little nation such as Iraq, Iran, Venezuela or Brazil.

Regardless how many US soldiers have to die, or how many dollars it costs US taxpayers. No sacrifice is too great for others to make to ensure ExxonMobil execs receive their multimillion dollar bonuses.

TO BRAZIL: Just relax, spread your legs and remain calm. Resistance is futile. . .

[searingtruth]

"SearingTruth
What on earth are you talking about old chap?
Perhaps if you articulated your argument in a more accessible way, one would be able to engage with you in a reasonable debate."
Stezzer

Oh, it's just that pesky old Constitution of the United States of America. Perhaps if you read it you could better articulate your objections to it.
ST

"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."
Thomas Jefferson, letter to Benjamin Rush, September 23, 1800

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[shingles1]

Don't Presidents tend to take more frequent trips abroad when scandals start swirling around in Washington. I recall Clinton doing the same thing during the last couple years of his Presidency too.

So I don't think it's really a case of "this trip is to remind people that we care" but rather "this trip is to change the subject."

[waynabq]

Where Bush visits riots follow. The man/chimp is a vile and disgusting pile of filth and the world knows it.

[seven-pesos]

georgia and south carolina are promoting legislation to make bible study mandatory in those state's schools.

those sordid, filthy republican christian creeps are playing the role of good, god fearing people

when in fact they are the scum of america.

i ***** on georgia. i ***** on south carolina.

i wipe my azz with the confederate flag.

ha,ha,ha.

nothing good comes out of the south.

[seven-pesos]

georgia and south carolina...

georgia murdered more than 13,000 defenseless yankee p.o.w.'s in the civil war.

read about it...andersonville, georgia.

south carolina would torture, garrot and rape their slaves daily for fun.

south carolina imported young black girls stolen from their murdered parents in africa to be used as *** slaves.

after they raped these children, those plantation owners would sell them to the highest bidders to become ****** for their overseers and plantation foremen.

funny thing...georgia and south carolina voted overwhelminly for bush.

i guess the south never changed...they just became rethuglicans and reborns.

i ***** on the south.

i wipe my azz with the confederate flag.

nothing good ever came out of the south.

[grazinggoat]

"But, grandmother, what large hands you have."
"The better to hug you with."
"Oh, but, grandmother, what a terrible big mouth you have."
"The better to eat you with."
"Oh, but, grandmother, what a terrible foreign policy you have"
"The better to control you with"
And scarcely had the Bush said this, than with one bound he was out of his jet and swallowed up Little Red Brasilia .

[seven-pesos]

i ***** on the bush supporting phony christian creep south.

i wipe my azz with the confederate flag.

time to get rid of those phont dixie creeps.

let the mexicans have them...free of charge.

the south never does good for america.

war, hate, slavery, crooked republican snakes, ignorant, uneducated, smelly, rotten teeth, fat azzes, diabetic, diseased, ***** south...

bush's kind of folks.

redneck, white trash, twisted evangelist freaks.

don't let me catch any of you dixie ******* in california.

ha,ha,ha,

nothing good comes out of the bush loving, ***** south.

[stezzer]

SearingTruth

What on earth are you talking about old chap?

Perhaps if you articulated your argument in a more accessible way, one would be able to engage with you in a reasonable debate.

[searingtruth]

"Who would say freedom is not free, with the price being freedom itself."
SearingTruth, A Future of the Brave

"The safest and most secure type of society is one with machine gun toting security police on every corner, empowered with full authority to detain, search, torture, and convict citizens at will. You will find almost no public dissidence in this type of society, where the only crimes are committed by the government itself."
SearingTruth

"Those who perceive the foundations of tyranny within the Constitution are indeed blind."
SearingTruth

"There is no substitute for freedom."
SearingTruth

"I wanted only a freedom for all that I had coveted for myself."
SearingTruth

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[stezzer]

I'm British, and I have a great deal of respect for Mr. Bush.

Brazil is a mess of a country. I know, I've been there.

"Waving communist flags" is about all they're capable of.

I wish your President hadn't bothered, they don't deserve the effort he has made.

[searingtruth]

"Tyranny and tyrants do not change, nor does the character of those who defeat them."
SearingTruth

"We often speak of the famous but it is the anonymous who have created and safeguarded this great nation. We do not owe our freedom and liberty to a handful of well dressed men with great ideals, we owe our freedom and liberty to the millions of people like you and I who fought and died to win and preserve it."
SearingTruth

"And let history record that in that darkest hour, when loss predeemed history, providence again praised freedom. Providence, and the righteous will and might of the American people."
SearingTruth

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