The Curmudgeon

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Wednesday, February 01, 2006

De-Hyping Detriments, Energising Accomplishability

The hundredth significant death in Iraq has caused the government some concern. A spokescreature for the Vicar of Downing Street said, "I do not think we should do the terrorists' job for them by in some way hyping this kind of incident". Apparently there is some moral equivalence to be drawn between discussing soldiers' deaths and actually blowing them up. Possibly this explains the arrest of Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a "fallen" (or was he pushed?) soldier in Iraq. Ms Sheehan was removed in handcuffs from America's latest disaster site - that of George W Bush's State of the Union speech - apparently for a dress code violation.

Bush, as usual, mentioned freedom. He is in favour of it, apparently. He also thinks that the amount of vegetable matter on America's roads should be increased. He wants market forces to arrange for a practical and competitive kind of ethanol derived from wood chips or switch grass, which is also sometimes called panic grass. Imagine that. Bush also announced "another great goal: to replace more than 75% of our oil imports from the Middle East by 2025", presumably by conquering South America.

Market forces are also expected to come up with "zero-emission coal-fired plants, revolutionary solar and wind technologies, and clean, safe nuclear energy", though it is not clear whether this will all happen before, during or after America's flight to Mars (announced last year), liberation of Iraq (announced every few months), liberation of Afghanistan (to be accomplished again soon), and vanquishment of terrorism (to be accomplished eventually). It's called the "Advanced Energy Initiative", or AEI, which hopefully will prove a less confusing sequence of vowels than the IAEA turned out to be.

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