Newsgroup: it.politica
Titolo: Verdetto elettorale

Il presidente piu', votato, battuto anche Reagan.
Bush ha ottenuto quasi 59 milioni di consensi popolari, record nella
stroria Usa, Kerry fermo a 55.2 milioni.
In tempi non sospetti - qualche settimana dopo gli attacchi delle
torri gemelle - avevo presagito che Bush - rieletto - sarebbe stato
dagli eventi e logicamente dalla storia indicato come uno dei piu'
determinati, coerenti e quindi apprezzati  presidenti delle ultime
generazioni. 
- Origin: Buon sangue non mente mai.   
Ciao
Luigino Ferrari
luf...@tin.it

 generazioni. 
Pero` Bush ha ottenuto il 51% dei voti mentre Reagan, che stava
sviluppando la malattia di Alzheimer, ne ottenne il 59% nel 1984
(incredibilmente il 61% del voto etnico--italo-americani, ecc.).
Prima degli attachi alle torri gemelle, Bush e i suoi gerarchi non
erano affatto interessati al pericolo dei terroristi. Questo e` stato
rivelato nel libro di Richard Kelley che occupava il secondo posto
nell'ufficio di Sicurita` Nazionale. L'obiettivo primario di questi
gerarchi--Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Perle, Rice, ecc.--era di risuscitare
Stars Wars.
Le fantasie di certi elettori, sviluppate e nutrite dal molto
raffinato sistema di propaganda, sono molto piu` confortevoli della
crudele realta`.
Appendo un articolo nel quale Molly Ivins, una gionalista del Texas,
scrive che "millions of Americans voted for George W. under the honest
impression that he stands for moral values" [milioni di americani
hanno votato per George W. sotto l'impressione onesta che lui
rappresenta volori morali]--uno dei grandi inganni di questa elezione.
Domenico Rosa
============================================= 
http://www.ctnow.com/news/opinion/op_ed/hc-ivins1105.artnov05,1,6109994.story?coll=hc-headlines-oped
The Hartford Courant         5 Nov. 2004        Pagina A15
The Values Ruse [L'Inganno dei Valori]
Do you know how to cure a chicken-killin' dog? Some people think you
cannot break a dog that has got in the habit of killin' chickens, but
my friend John Henry claimed you could. He said the way to do it is to
take one of the chickens the dog has killed and wire the thing around
the dog's neck. And leave it there until that dead chicken stinks so
bad that no other dog or person will go near that poor beast. You
leave it on there until the last little bit of flesh rots and falls
off, and that dog won't kill chickens again.
The Bush administration is going to be wired around the neck of the
American people for four more years, long enough for the stench to
sicken everybody. It should cure the country of electing Republicans.
And at least Democrats won't have to clean up after him until it is
real clear to everyone who made the mess.
In some circles, that will be seen as sour grapes. But in Texas, we've
been losing elections to the demagogic triad of God, gays and guns
long enough to be pretty cynical about how it works out. I'm sure
millions of Americans voted for George W. under the honest impression
that he stands for moral values - family, patriotism, faith in God.
I'm sure it's the Democrats' fault that such a silly ruse is allowed
to stand. What Bush actually does stand for is nicely summed up by a
rather common news story that got stuck on the business pages lately.
In September, Merck & Co., the huge drug manufacturer, pulled Vioxx
off the market. Vioxx was a popular pain-killing, anti-arthritis drug,
but Merck said it was putting patients' safety first. A new study from
the Federal Drug Administration showed high doses of Vioxx triple the
risk of heart attack and sudden cardiac death.
From there, the story takes two directions. Sen. Charles Grassley of
Iowa revealed that the FDA had tried to silence the author of the
study, Dr. David Graham, associate director of science in the Office
of Drug Safety. Grassley said the FDA first sat on Graham's study and
that then he was "ostracized" and "subjected to veiled threats and
intimidation."
The Wall Street Journal followed the other fork, finding internal
memos from Merck showing that company officials may have been aware of
the dangers of Vioxx as long ago as 1996, including a memo apparently
instructing its sales reps to "dodge" the question when doctors asked
about the cardiac record of Vioxx.
In short, we have a toothless regulatory agency in the pocket of the
industry it is supposed to patrol. We have an administration-wide
contempt for science and plain facts. And the allegation against the
folks at Merck is that they were making such enormous profits on a
drug that killed people that when they suspected it was killing
people, they kept right on selling it. When the information that Merck
had known for a long time about Vioxx and heart attacks became public,
the company's stock fell by 9.6 percent.
That's the system George W. Bush stands for: where a corporation can
knowingly kill people for profit and, when it finally comes out,
everyone knows the penalties will be so light the company doesn't even
lose a tenth of its worth. Hey, just a little bump in the road.
We sure don't want any burdensome government regulation to control
that kind of behavior, do we? We sure don't want an FDA that listens
to its own scientists and acts promptly, do we? We sure don't want
anyone to sue these monster corporations, do we? I bet if it were
possible to compare the odds of an American getting killed by a
negligent regulatory agency and rapacious corporate behavior vs. an
American getting killed by a terrorist, it would turn out we need to
be a lot more scared of rank greed than we do of terrorists.
So, fellow progressives, stop thinking about suicide or moving abroad.
Want to feel better? Eat a sour grape, then do something immediately,
now, today. Figure out what you can do to help rescue the country -
join something, send a little money to some group, call somewhere and
offer to volunteer, find a politician you like at the local level and
start helping him or her to move up.
Don't mourn, organize.

crudele realta`.
Punti di vista logicamente, espresso il mio non mi disturba quello di
chi diversamente la pensa anche se nell'ipotesi, un po' arrampica
sugli specchi.
- Origin:Negare l'evidenza si compromette reputazione e faccia. 
Ciao
Luigino Ferrari
luf...@tin.it

Domenico Rosa
Ciao
Luigino Ferrari
luf...@tin.it

di prendere lezioni proprio da nessuno. 
Signorsi' signora maestra
-- 
Jolly

Signorsi' signora maestra
E' promosso allievo, pardon interlocutore. 


 > >risuscitare Stars Wars.
Intendevo dire Richard Clarke che ha scritto il libro "Against All Enemies."
Domenico Rosa