you don't seem to be seeing what's going on here

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Retired Col. Lettie Bien, an adviser to the No. 2 commander in Iraq, wears jeweled letters spelling "U.S.A" at a naturalization ceremony for US Troops at al-Faw Palace on the western outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, July 4, 2009. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden was in attendance as some 237 soldiers from 59 countries took the oath during his visit to Iraq.

Biden went over there to help consecrate the pact we have made with people so desperate for citizenship they will obviate the need to create a draft to fight all the war these fuckers deem profitable enough.

And I know you've already heard about their little boo-boo on the economy, but I want you to listen to Biden spit that out again, and then make sure you have read and digested this vital article. It's a project to take in this little constellation of linked concepts, but if you embark upon it, you might finally get the idea that none of this is about incompetence, or about politics. None of it. You just keep fascinated by those complaints because almost everything you encounter reinforces it. The government and the media and even most of the sites on the internet are training you just as your parents trained you to use the toilet instead of your diaper.

[Oh, oh, and, here, amuse yourself to death with this one....]