Tired of Spinning

I know it seems like I’ve been preoccupied lately with my depression and depression in general and my birthday and my new puppy. (Have you seen my new puppy?) However, believe it or not, I’ve been keeping up with the news and online back and forths when my internet wasn’t down. I’ve even added a few new voices to my online daily reads.

To be kind of honest, I’m just a little tired of all of the arguing and excitement even among people who are supposed to be on the same side of the political fence. There’s only so long you can live on high alert before you burn out.

And mostly, I’m tired of the spin. I feel like I’ve been on one of those sit-n-spins for 5 years and I feel a little ill. At this point I don’t know what to trust anymore or what the truth is or even what those “facts” Big Dog insists are the only thing you can trust are.

It always amazes me how extremely differently the left and right interpret “the facts” whatever they are.

For example, here are two interpretations of a recent story concerning documentation that may show a possible connection between Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Ladin from a liberal blog and a conservative blog.

Liberal: Middle Earth Journal

Yes, after three years of pouring through tens of thousands of documents found in dusty basements of Saddam’s pleasure palaces, investigators have found two or three documents where some low level lackey has hinted that Saddam may have considered cooperating with OBL’s agents in the war on terror. As we’ve pointed out here in the past, OBL and Hussein clearly had one thing in common - the enemy of my enemy is maybe, kind-of, sort-of my friend. Neither was any fan of the United States. But, of course, OBL is a fanatical Muslim while Hussein had no use for people of that ilk. He was a self-centered, heretical dictator interested only in his own power and control.

Conservative: One Big Dog

In recently released papers the association between Hussein and bin Laden is disclosed. These papers are written by Iraqi officials and start sometime in 1995 and go through to 1997. The papers discuss an association between the two terrorists, an association that the 9/11 Commission denies. Leftists every where to this day harp on the “fact” that there was no association between these two killers.

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Moonbats are such that if they repeat something long enough they begin to believe it and they influence their drones to believe it. Even in the face of evidence they can not grasp the reality of the situation.

That last bit is particularly funny to me because both sides say the same thing about each other. Kind of makes me think that no one knows what’s really going on anymore. I think everyone is making it up now and hoping someone buys their bullshit at this point.
In case, you’d like to check out what they’re actually talking about, the liberal’s reacting to a post found here and the conservative is reacting to an article found here, but it’s the same story sort of. Personally, at this time, I have no comment about the actual story. I’m still waiting for all of the facts to come out. I don’t think it’s enough to get over-exited either way.

Anyway, I’m sure I’ll get all riled up over something any minute now. Some Senator will say something or pass something that will piss me off. Or some moron will try to make Wicca the official religion of Los Angeles. Or someone will take a bank full of puppies hostage. It’s just that every where I go there are other bloggers already all riled up doing just as good a job pointing out the insanity and stupidity of our government. Some are really mean about it too. And if they aren’t nitpicking about the other party, they’re nitpicking about their own party or about other liberal bloggers. Oy.

Personally, I’m mostly waiting for someone else to realize that we need to stop whining and start actually doing something about it. I can’t do it all by myself. I’ve already called and volunteered my services for the 2006 campaign, but I’m just one person.

tags: politics, Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden

2 comments

1. on March 24, 2006 at 9:28 am

   Big Dog said:

   You mean Wicca is NOT the official religion of LA??

   And all those witches out there, hmmmmm

2. on March 24, 2006 at 9:31 am

   Big Dog said:

   The only thing that comes from this is that there was an association that the 9/11 commission and every other opponent said never existed.

   It is like the WMD, they were all gone, but where did they go. I know Hussein did not destroy them. I have a bit of expertise in that area and you can not destroy chemical agents without somekind of plant (we did not find one) and without leaving by-products (we did not find any, in large enough quantites anyway). They went to Syria, as I said all along.

   But people call that unsubstantiated.

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