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The 2005 Nobel Prize for economics went to Thomas Schelling,
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2005/schelling-autobio.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Schelling

What it doesn’t say at his Nobel autobio or in his Wikipedia entry is that as a consultant for the RAND corporation in the 1960s, he advised the Air Force on planning Operation Rolling Thunder, a bombing operation which killed several thousand people.

http://www.slate.com/id/2127862

Orrin Hatch is a horse’s ass,but he was there before Bush took office.

Um, has Bush installed his horse in the Senate yet?

He has been at the Hoover Institution for a long time, and perhaps laptop-bombardier-itis proved infectious.

Conferring some kind of pro-liberty award on these Hee-Haw crypto Fascists in the name of Jefferson is like confering an award for serious thinking on Pee Wee Herman in the name of Cicero.

One simply has to laugh, albeit with tears at the idea of some bored Red-Baiter at NR writing some fulsome piece of boo-hooing doggerel begging for a military coup.

But, the public is deleriously impervious to the tawdry shame of it all, prefering not to accept the fact that their beloved government is led by abject morons and cunning swine. Did anyone catch Handsome Mitt’s swooning speech about the absolute need for the United States to be the “Lone Superpower”? I suppose like Candidate Hunter, he also believes “Precision Munitions” to be the “best of America”.
Mitt’s passionate speech of checking the boxes only outdone by Secretary Gates using the analogy of “Faucets running” to describe his many streams of military funding. Poor Mr. Gates, obviously not thinking far enough ahead to know that faucets are generally connected to drains,…. where copious amounts of whatever is being dispensed is lost forever, after a brief period as sewerage. A man with such a tin ear for sweet metaphor should never be trusted with “defense”.

The public, lost in a swarming sea of “isms” has been properly softened up for a rogue wave to come along and “give it to them good and hard”.
George W., His Titanic Majesty is stearing steadily away, gunning the engines of the Good Ship White House toward the ice, confident that it cannot possibly sink as designed. His Attorney General quoted as telling him the idea of ice as being dangerous to be a quaint notion while Ensign Wolfie whispers that it aint ice, it’s cotton candy. Meanwhile, Cheney is poop-side, playing a brisk round of Stone -Paper -Scissors with Condi whilst the Cruise Treasurer is occupied by chasing cockroaches about the empty coffers.

The Boys in Hell just must be laughing themselves silly. An empire has not been this easy to bring down for a good long while….if , in fact, forever.

For Blair, a Legacy Overshadowed
Briton’s Decade of Achievements Dimmed by Embrace of Bush and Iraq War

By Kevin Sullivan
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, May 10, 2007; Page A01

LONDON — In July 2003, the U.S. Congress voted to award Prime Minister Tony Blair a Congressional Gold Medal for being “a staunch and steadfast ally of the United States of America.” Since George Washington earned the first medal in 1776, the legislature’s most prestigious award has been presented only 134 times, to figures such as Ulysses S. Grant, Winston Churchill and Mother Teresa.

Nearly four years later, Blair has not picked up his prize.

“He is a very busy guy,” said a spokesman at Blair’s 10 Downing Street office.

But critics, and even some supporters, contend that Blair is unwilling to drape a shiny U.S. medal around his neck just now because it would be too glaring a reminder of his extremely close — and poisonously unpopular — relationship with President Bush and the Iraq war, for which his critics dismiss him as “Bush’s poodle.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/09/AR2007050902717.html?hpid=topnews

Are any of you like me; whenever those awards are handed out do you start to blush with embarassment ? Are you happy you are not the one up there on the receiving end ?