Actually the previous translation did a very poor job of translating the curses. But, don’t despair: “. . . it is with a great relief and pleasure that we are hereby dutifully reporting that Book Two and Book(s) Three&Four of our new translation of Jaroslav Hašek’s The Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Švejk During the World War are available for sale as paperbacks at http://zenny.com.

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Bush looked like he was practically doing “sight-reading” - as if he had never seen the message before he read it on the teleprompter.

(”We gottem on their last throes”)

I’m feeling better now; thanks guys. I was starting to lose it (again.)

Maybe enough folks will wake up in time to…..

…. ahh, frig it.

Dude missed watching a baseball game to show up and read the teleprompter.

Hey you guys, go easy on these Americanos; here’s why:

Americans are finger pointing (again.) What do all of you have to say for yourselves, now that all of your thousands of lectures have gone unnoticed ?

I thought all that war spending (not those fools who bought too much home) were to blame.

Either Bush is taking it hard (clinically depressed) or his denial mechanism has kicked in (again).

Economics 101 should include a paragraph about the most cost-effective way to combat Terrorists (don’t make any.)

Americans prefer the $550 billion Iraq tab over a Non-Interventionist foreign policy ? What do you think ? What about all those UIC economists who said the Iraq invasion plan would not affect our economy ?

I wonder if the Romans went thru the same stuff (before their collapse.)

Tyrants don’t usually throw up their hands and walk away just because their victims have an epiphany and realize they are being screwed.

The end of the Fed may mean the Treasury keeps the printing presses running until people start using the dollar to wipe their asses.

These are dangerous times. I expect the psychos that run this country will not react well to the prospect of their gig ending. They may just sweep the Monopoly Game off the table once they decide they are losing. Then watch out - the nukes could start flying.

Nothing like a little diversion to keep the rubes occupied. In fact, if Bush were to start bombing Iran, the press might be able to have the rubes rallying around the flag in a matter of hours. Bush might even leave office (or not) with an approval rating of 80%.

The fact that this “crisis” appears to be manufactured leads me to believe the powers that be really don’t give a damn about what the public thinks - especially a handful of libertarians.