U.S. Techno-Industrial Base Eroding Due To Foreign Competition

[yesthattom]

The new The Onion web site includes full archives for free (used to be for paid members). jwz reminds us of this classic article:

It is not enough to say, ‘We must rock the crazy beats,’” President Clinton said Monday in a secret live appearance at D.C.’s famed underground The 930 Club. “If American techno is to become the world’s leader once again, we must drop much bass; we must rock mad, phat-ass, crazy beats; and we must do so quick-fast in a hurry, 24-7, 365. And I am out.”

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29944

The funny part is that I can see Clinton using the term “rock mad”.

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[nulldevice.livejournal.com]

The three people in the photo were regular club-goers in Madison. I still see a few of them occasionally, immortalized though they are.

[dr-memory.livejournal.com]

(Since your last post was closed to comments...)

One other thing about FEMA's gutting during the Bush administration: it's not just -- and probably not most importantly -- the Grover Norquists who hated FEMA. The GOP in general and Bush very much in particular owe their string of electoral victories to an energized base of evangelical Christians and assorted fellow-travellers in the survivalist/militia/reconstructionist movements. Those folks had very clearly identified FEMA as a major player in the "New World Order" conspiracy, and believed that Clinton and Witt's reorganization of the agency in the mid-90s was a cover for everything from drug running to building concentration camps for Christians (yes, really) to prepping for a full-scale United Nations takeover of the US.

Decapitating FEMA was a cheap, easy and effective political payoff to those groups, and one which Rove probably thought the rest of the country would never even notice.