Happy Furry Puppy Story Time with Norbizness

January Can't Come Soon Enough, For The Following Reasons

There is no God.

(1) The current chairman for the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works is certifiably insane. I may have asked for everybody's opinion on the craziest Senator after the mini-purge that claimed Santorum in the election; well, look no further (his Okie compatriot, 'Dr.' Tom Coburn, is similarly touched in the head, but at least only holds minor committee chairs). At least we just have an empty suit and empty Chanel ensemble representing Texas.

Usually, an explanation of such extreme environmental denial can be offered in terms of contributions from petrochemical companies, but as this previous example shows, we're in CIA-transmitting-orders-in-dental-fillings territory: "Now look, God’s still up there. We still have these natural changes, and this is what’s going on right now. New science comes out."

(2) Somebody who isn't a complete capitulator on unlimited executive power to shit on the Constitution and international obligations is introducing sane legislation to try and counteract the 11th hour abomination that was the recently passed Military Commission Act or whatever it was.

After all, the lack of oversight led to this absolute traveshamockery at Guantanamo: The U.S. military called no witnesses, withheld evidence from detainees and usually reached a decision within a day as it determined that hundreds of men detained at Guantanamo Bay were “enemy combatants,” according to a new report. I'd be surprised if the total of the prosecutorial argument was anything more than "Well, you're here, aren't you? Woo-hah! Got you all in check!"

(3) The President has retreated into addle-brained tautologies, and diplomatically inopportune ones at that (you do realize that your Vietnamese hosts might chafe at being on the wrong end analogy), in order to justify his delusional, transformational nonsense-theology: "It's just going to take a long period of time for the ideology that is hopeful — and that is an ideology of freedom — to overcome an ideology of hate," Bush said... "We'll succeed," Bush added, "unless we quit." I realize that nothing will keep us from this non-course of inaction until January 2009, except that...

(3a) We're still being expected to pay, on average, $6000 for every family of four in order to finance this failed venture: The Bush administration is preparing its largest spending request yet for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, a proposal that could make the conflict the most expensive since World War II. The Pentagon is considering $127 billion to $160 billion in requests from the armed services for the 2007 fiscal year... that's on top of $70 billion already approved for 2007. I think this takes the total cost of the war into the $500 or $600 billion range.

(4) This guy, appointed to be the Administration's Contraception Czar. I've heard saner theories about the effects of sex from General Jack D. Ripper:

I first became aware of it, Mandrake, during the physical act of love...Yes, a profound sense of fatigue, a feeling of emptiness followed. Luckily I-I was able to interpret these feelings correctly. Loss of essence. I can assure you it has not recurred, Mandrake. Women, er, women sense my power, and they seek the life essence. I do not avoid women, Mandrake...but I do deny them my essence.

Other areas and people that are prime candidates for clean-up can be left in the comments.

Posted by Norbizness at November 17, 2006 12:18 PM