April 04, 2006

Stay With It... Stay With It...

Hopefully the last time you'll have to be subjected to that series of pictures ever again... and now for the weekly news item clearance sale, with the good news tucked away at the end:

Despite the protestations of some bow-tied twit who can't even throw a baseball correctly (or was that Dana Carvey?), humanity-influenced global warming is in the process of causing a catastrophic melting of the polar ice sheets. The U.S. is busy teaching and learning from fledgling democracies like Libya how to deal with people outside of the traditional judicial system, such as how to indefinitely detain people who have been formally cleared of being terror suspects. The Supreme Court is handing out candy canes to Bush Administration lawyers to reward their jurisdictional tricks played in order to prevent the review of indefinite detention of American citizens by fiat, causing another chapter of the civics book in my mind to be rewritten.

(deep breath) Scientific fraud allowing a $26 billion Star Wars corporate boondoggle to proceed is being covered up by the General Accounting Office. Meanwhile, contractors not building health clinics in Iraq are still getting paid in a separate corporate boondoggle. The country's still going to hell, by the way. In something that I would like to call a boondoggle but can't, corporate lobbyists have managed (surprisingly) to convince Bush Administration EPA officials to spike in-house studies on the cancer-causing properties of trichloroethylene, a substance with which I bathe regularly to give me that minty, all-over smell. Fortunately, we can just fire the pasty, professional liar sent to placate the terminally lazy White House press corps, and all will be right with the world. And praying that these revolting developments will sort themselves out is not gonna help.

On the contrary: take my approach to influencing the world around us. I not-prayed that Tom DeLay would not seek re-election under a cloud of scandal and criminality, and whoomp! There it is! Now I'm not-praying for his getting some Chuck Colson time to find Jebus in the slammer. Sorry I made fun of you all of those times, you slimy little canker sore on the body politic. Good thing the federal government is chock-full of corrupt, manipulative wannabe-theocrats, or I might just fold up shop and donate my substantial backlog of movie reviews and Sunday coupons to TBogg.




Posted by Norbizness at April 4, 2006 12:43 AM
Comments

Do you think the federal indictment will come before he cleans out his office or after? Since he is resigning, will that have any impact on his pension package if he is out before the indictment? If convicted will he lose that pension? Inquiring minds want to know.

He was my Congressman. Not in the biblical sense of the word. I didn't vote for him. I am so pleased he is out of there although I wish he had been voted out. That would mean, however, that this district has a soul. Which we know it doesn't.

Posted by: jaye at April 4, 2006 05:19 AM

The important question is when can he take that cushy lobbying job and get back to doing God's work?

Posted by: Pug at April 4, 2006 07:13 AM

I won't be happy until I see him like this.

Posted by: Stash at April 4, 2006 07:43 AM

I still say Tom Delay looks like the horse from Ren and Stimpy.

"No Sir, I don't like it."

Posted by: Vestal Vespa at April 4, 2006 04:26 PM