Bill Kristol was on A Daily Show last night. Remember how it was predicted that the Iraquis would shower our troops with flowers? Kristol says they are doing that now. Um, Bill: news flash. Flowers don’t explode.
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Clinton criticizes Obama for voting “present” in the Illinois legislature. At least he was present. There were 99 senators on the floor doing business regarding the privacy of American citizens and immunization of lawbreaking corporations yesterday. I won’t name names, but the one that was missing has the initials HRC, and was campaigning in Texas.
Do we really want to elect to higher office someone who does not consider it important to fulfill the duties of her present office? An office to which she has already been elected and which she swore an oath to “faithfully execute”? She cannot possibly claim that this was not an important vote.
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Congress is investigating steroids in baseball, with subpoenas being enforced and threats of imprisonment. They are also investigating whether or not one football team was spying on another. Marion Jones used steroids and went to jail. Congress starts to investigate the political firing of attorneys general; the White House tells them “no” and they drop it. The White House says they will not investigate the use of torture and Congress says okay. It is demonstrated that the White House and several large corporations broke the law and Congress passes laws legalizing the actions and immunizing past actions.
This Congress will not tolerate cheating at sports, but defecating on the constitution is quite okay. This, you will note, is a Congress controlled by the Democratic Party.
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The plan for economic recovery is to put a relatively small amount of money into the hands of people who will spend it and, by some as yet undefined ledgedermain, to keep people in those homes that they still cannot afford without allowing the value of those homes to drop.
But the booming economy has been debt-based, and this stimulus plan uses money borrowed from future generations.
If the well runs dry you can obtain more water by digging the well deeper. But when the aquifer runs dry no amount of digging will prevent you from dying of thirst. We’ve dug the well deeper and deeper. Is the aquifer dry?
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Blue Cross of California has been sending letters to doctors to obtain the doctors’ help in dropping people from their health insurance coverage plan. All very illegal and the doctors are outraged.
But the solution to our healthcare crisis is to make sure that every one has health insurance. Not health care, health insurance.
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Has anyone noticed just how many countries and places in the world are torn apart by war and strife these days? Iraq, of course, tops the list but there’s also Somalia, East Timor, Java, Darfur, Kenya, Palestine, Israel, Pakistan, Zimbabwe, Afghanistan, Uganda, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Nepal, Lebanon…
There are certainly more that I’ve missed.
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Stock car racing (NASCAR) designed a new type of car about two years ago for safer and, supposedly, more competitive racing. It was to be phased in over a two-year period and was called the “Car of Tomorrow.” That period has passed and the car is being used in all of the races this year, but it’s still being called the “Car of Tomorrow.” The races in which it has appeared have not been noticeably competitive.
It is also being called the “Crap of Today” and some other names which are even less complimentary.
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"The world is populated entirely by idiots except for me and you my dear
friend, and sometimes I'm not too sure about you."
I've often wondered about politicians who campaign and miss their "regular" duties that we elected them to... why isn't NY (or anyone else) saying anything about that to Mrs. Bubba oops, Clinton? one reason is that it's become so commonplace no one (read voters) cares.
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Baseball ought to be regulated just like any other sport... I'ce often thought that many athletes get away with far more then they ought to. And baseaball seems to me to be more egrarious and egotistical than basketball or football (although basketball is pretty close).
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And Congress is piddling with "feel good" and minor stuff that make it seem that they are doing something, anything than doing what the country really needs. Of course, getting ~535 suits to agree on anything is a tall order on the best of days.
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Funny (sad) that they push this economy gimmee money thing when ~10% are going to spend it and 80% will pay bills (that they no doubt ran up when they felt good before and now the piper is calling. They ought to pave some roads or something with it - maybe create a few jobs,too. A novel idea, yes?
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I do not like Ms. HRC idea of mandated health insurance, and Mr. Obama is not a whole lot better, but at least he doesn't mandate it. It smacks of arrogance of Ms. HRC.. didn't she learn anything from her health care debacle 15 yrs ago? I guess not...
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There are many non-idiots in this world, but they certainly are not in public office it seems. Or voting for any... too bad.