Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Harry Reid's "Real Vote Getter" is a Pig
The New York Times recently ran a column critical of Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman's push to legalize prostitution. In response the elected official threatened to harm its author.
“I’ll take a baseball bat and break his head if he ever comes here.”
Had Oscar worn a rag on his head, might he be on a rendition flight to Guantanamo? This rising star in the Democratic Party did two things with his warning. First, he threatened physical violence. Second, he warned a member of the media not to come to his fair city. Are we losing out freedom to travel within our borders as well?
Nevada Senator Harry Reid called Oscar Goodman a "real vote getter" not long ago. The Senate Majority Leader entertained the prospect of Goodman's run for the U.S. Senate. Had Oscar won, would he be threatening Capital Hill members of the press with baseball bats?
The times are strange to say the least. The answer to a cowed Congress isn't a swing to other extreme with mob-like threats and violence. However, people are sick of sorry leadersip. The recent finger pointing on dismantling Saddam's army was pitiful to say the least. Was it Bush, Rumsfeld, Rice, Bremer or Cheney?
While things may be clear with Oscar Goodman, from my view it's clear the man is a pig. I guess that qualifies him to gorge at the campaign money trough with Damnocrats and Repugnicants.
“I’ll take a baseball bat and break his head if he ever comes here.”
Had Oscar worn a rag on his head, might he be on a rendition flight to Guantanamo? This rising star in the Democratic Party did two things with his warning. First, he threatened physical violence. Second, he warned a member of the media not to come to his fair city. Are we losing out freedom to travel within our borders as well?
Nevada Senator Harry Reid called Oscar Goodman a "real vote getter" not long ago. The Senate Majority Leader entertained the prospect of Goodman's run for the U.S. Senate. Had Oscar won, would he be threatening Capital Hill members of the press with baseball bats?
The times are strange to say the least. The answer to a cowed Congress isn't a swing to other extreme with mob-like threats and violence. However, people are sick of sorry leadersip. The recent finger pointing on dismantling Saddam's army was pitiful to say the least. Was it Bush, Rumsfeld, Rice, Bremer or Cheney?
While things may be clear with Oscar Goodman, from my view it's clear the man is a pig. I guess that qualifies him to gorge at the campaign money trough with Damnocrats and Repugnicants.
Monday, September 10, 2007
George Was Supposed to Raise, not Raze the World
President George W. Bush speaks of lofty goals, yet falls well short on delivery. Democracy in the Middle East remains in prolonged "birth pangs" with the infant's life in jeopardy. Domestically 47 million people have no, as in zero health insurance. This number is guaranteed to grow dramatically as business bails on its traditional employment benefit. Both examples are part of the Republican mantra of strong defense and free markets.
Yet free markets have American businessmen (who fund U.S. politicians) all pursuing the lowest common denominator, with the main exceptions CEO and investment manager's pay. I've heard several folks speak lately about the burden of employer sponsored health insurance on businesses. A U.S. Congressman mentioned it in his open house while a retired CEO of a large for-profit hospital chain lamented on behalf of his industrial counterparts.
Rather than look to European countries or Japan (against which we also compete), Republicans look to China and other "low to no benefit" countries as justification for dumping health insurance as an employment benefit. Notice there is no encouragement to lift the slackers up. The U.S. "needs" to lower itself to remain competitive in global markets.
Oddly, the for-profit CEO painted a bleak picture for the future of "private" health care, complete with hospital bed and doctor shortages. I thought that was the outcome of "government run" health care, not free markets. It turns out training doctors and building hospital beds is alot like discovering oil. It takes a lot of money and a long time. Something the current administration has no, as in zero plans for.
Despite this bleak future, Mr. Shelton won't pay a penny more on his $40 million proceeds from the recent sale of Triad Hospitals. He wants more inefficiencies wrung out of the system before raising taxes on the rich. Yet, 700,000 more kids became uninsured and 1 million more employed adults lost coverage the year Denny negotiated his big sale.
Over 7 million new uninsureds, over 4 million displaced Iraqis, President Bush, you were supposed to raise, not raze the world.
Yet free markets have American businessmen (who fund U.S. politicians) all pursuing the lowest common denominator, with the main exceptions CEO and investment manager's pay. I've heard several folks speak lately about the burden of employer sponsored health insurance on businesses. A U.S. Congressman mentioned it in his open house while a retired CEO of a large for-profit hospital chain lamented on behalf of his industrial counterparts.
Rather than look to European countries or Japan (against which we also compete), Republicans look to China and other "low to no benefit" countries as justification for dumping health insurance as an employment benefit. Notice there is no encouragement to lift the slackers up. The U.S. "needs" to lower itself to remain competitive in global markets.
Oddly, the for-profit CEO painted a bleak picture for the future of "private" health care, complete with hospital bed and doctor shortages. I thought that was the outcome of "government run" health care, not free markets. It turns out training doctors and building hospital beds is alot like discovering oil. It takes a lot of money and a long time. Something the current administration has no, as in zero plans for.
Despite this bleak future, Mr. Shelton won't pay a penny more on his $40 million proceeds from the recent sale of Triad Hospitals. He wants more inefficiencies wrung out of the system before raising taxes on the rich. Yet, 700,000 more kids became uninsured and 1 million more employed adults lost coverage the year Denny negotiated his big sale.
Over 7 million new uninsureds, over 4 million displaced Iraqis, President Bush, you were supposed to raise, not raze the world.
Focus Shifts from Iraq to "I Ran"
On the day when General Petraeus testifies before Congress on the state of the Middle East's newest democracy, CNN's breaking news states Idaho Senator Larry Craig wants to withdraw his guilty plea for lewd behavior in a Minneapolois airport.
"I had to go number two real bad so I ran from my plane to the men's room. How was I to know it was the gay meet up place? Anyway, my favorite stall was occupied. How dare he? So I glared through the crack in the door as menacingly as possible, hoping to scare the crap out the goy so he'd leave. How was I to know he was a fearless cop?"
A reporter asked "How traumatic, Senator, what happened next?"
"Thank you for asking. I had to potty in my least favorite stall. For me to get the proper pooping angle, my physiology requires a wide, NFL down lineman stance. You should see the john's in our house, there are yards of free range, squating space. I also like to pre-emptively prepare a handful of toilet paper. The tiniest corner of the wad flacked off falling to the floor. I couldn't bear to see what was once a tall strapping Idaho tree go to waste. So I reached down. The feathery little fellow flew into the air toward the stall next door. I quickly grabbed the base of the divider and ran my hand back and forth to create a breeze that would return the little fellow to me for proper use. The next thing I know the man next to me flashes a badge and I'm charged with a crime. Despite all my best preparations, the poop never shooted. Therefore, I didn't flush, wanting to conserve water in the Land of 10,000 Lakes."
The Senator paused to wipe a tear from his eye, before steeling himself in righteous indignation.
"At first I thought it best to resign my Senate seat rather than make a spectacle of myself. But my friend Senator Specter encouraged me to hold firm, to stand up to the cop who squatted in my favorite stall. So today, I tell you the truth. I am a victim of having a broad stance and wanting to conserve valuable natural resources. With that I plead my case."
Wind breaking news....
"I had to go number two real bad so I ran from my plane to the men's room. How was I to know it was the gay meet up place? Anyway, my favorite stall was occupied. How dare he? So I glared through the crack in the door as menacingly as possible, hoping to scare the crap out the goy so he'd leave. How was I to know he was a fearless cop?"
A reporter asked "How traumatic, Senator, what happened next?"
"Thank you for asking. I had to potty in my least favorite stall. For me to get the proper pooping angle, my physiology requires a wide, NFL down lineman stance. You should see the john's in our house, there are yards of free range, squating space. I also like to pre-emptively prepare a handful of toilet paper. The tiniest corner of the wad flacked off falling to the floor. I couldn't bear to see what was once a tall strapping Idaho tree go to waste. So I reached down. The feathery little fellow flew into the air toward the stall next door. I quickly grabbed the base of the divider and ran my hand back and forth to create a breeze that would return the little fellow to me for proper use. The next thing I know the man next to me flashes a badge and I'm charged with a crime. Despite all my best preparations, the poop never shooted. Therefore, I didn't flush, wanting to conserve water in the Land of 10,000 Lakes."
The Senator paused to wipe a tear from his eye, before steeling himself in righteous indignation.
"At first I thought it best to resign my Senate seat rather than make a spectacle of myself. But my friend Senator Specter encouraged me to hold firm, to stand up to the cop who squatted in my favorite stall. So today, I tell you the truth. I am a victim of having a broad stance and wanting to conserve valuable natural resources. With that I plead my case."
Wind breaking news....
Sunday, September 09, 2007
Virtually Incompetent Fran Calls Osama Virtually Impotent
Foul mouthed White House Homeland Security Advisor . Fran Townsend called Osama bin Laden "virtually impotent" today on CNN. She said he'd been marginalized to the point of sending videotaped messages from a cave. That brings to mind another Bush video star, Michael Brown of FEMA. Bush's emergency czar did little more the first few days than pose for a camera.
I can hear the collective groan saying, "no fair, that's Brownie's not Fran's." And who wants to defend Osama bin Laden? Certainly not me. However, Fran played a key role in Hurricane Katrina. She wrote the White House Lesson Learned report for Katrina. Had she been a male, I would characterize the report as virtually impotent. Instead, it qualifies as incompetent.
Videotape showed President Bush asking Mike Brown about hospital patients, but this area got short shrift in the post mortem. In a normal investigation you state who's responsible and how they performed. Not in Bushes world.
Fran left out the hospital with the largest number of patient deaths post Katrina, Lifecare. Just weeks before landfall, The Carlyle Group purchased LifeCare Hospitals. That company now blames the federal government, saying as soon as FEMA set up evacuation teams in New Orleans, their patients became wards of the federal government.
However, Carlyle has for the most part kept their good name out of news reports. Their media guru is the ex-CEO of Time Warner, which happens to own CNN. Now we're getting somewhere...
Impotent, incompetent ... they seem to apply to both Bush and bin Laden.
I can hear the collective groan saying, "no fair, that's Brownie's not Fran's." And who wants to defend Osama bin Laden? Certainly not me. However, Fran played a key role in Hurricane Katrina. She wrote the White House Lesson Learned report for Katrina. Had she been a male, I would characterize the report as virtually impotent. Instead, it qualifies as incompetent.
Videotape showed President Bush asking Mike Brown about hospital patients, but this area got short shrift in the post mortem. In a normal investigation you state who's responsible and how they performed. Not in Bushes world.
Fran left out the hospital with the largest number of patient deaths post Katrina, Lifecare. Just weeks before landfall, The Carlyle Group purchased LifeCare Hospitals. That company now blames the federal government, saying as soon as FEMA set up evacuation teams in New Orleans, their patients became wards of the federal government.
However, Carlyle has for the most part kept their good name out of news reports. Their media guru is the ex-CEO of Time Warner, which happens to own CNN. Now we're getting somewhere...
Impotent, incompetent ... they seem to apply to both Bush and bin Laden.
Monday, August 13, 2007
Why Karl's Wrong
White House Senior Political Adviser Karl Rove prognosticated after announcing his retirement from "public service". He suggested one day President Bush will be known as "a great President". Apparently Karl didn't read the transcript from last Friday's press conference.
Q But, Mr. President, there have been seven investigations (into the Pat Tillman friendly fire death) and the Pentagon has not gotten to the bottom of it. Can you also tell us when you, personally, found out that it was not enemy fire, that it was friendly fire?
THE PRESIDENT: I can't give you the precise moment. But obviously the minute I heard that the facts that people believed were true were not true, that I expect there to be a full investigation and get to the bottom of it.
Great President's don't stonewall Congressional committees on such issues, nor do they offer Alberto Gonzales "hazy memories" responses. As for the full investigation, President Bush has a long list of soft to inexistent studies to "get to the bottom" of things.
And that's exactly where Karl and George dragged us, to the bottom. One down with Rove's retirement, one to go. But things won't really change, as the systems remain the same. I guess I should thank President Bush for being such a bad liar, otherwise I might not have noticed the underlying sleaze and self centered behavior greasing America's government industrial monstrosity. As for the Bush legacy, I offer once again "Nero Fiddled, Bush Strummed".
Q But, Mr. President, there have been seven investigations (into the Pat Tillman friendly fire death) and the Pentagon has not gotten to the bottom of it. Can you also tell us when you, personally, found out that it was not enemy fire, that it was friendly fire?
THE PRESIDENT: I can't give you the precise moment. But obviously the minute I heard that the facts that people believed were true were not true, that I expect there to be a full investigation and get to the bottom of it.
Great President's don't stonewall Congressional committees on such issues, nor do they offer Alberto Gonzales "hazy memories" responses. As for the full investigation, President Bush has a long list of soft to inexistent studies to "get to the bottom" of things.
And that's exactly where Karl and George dragged us, to the bottom. One down with Rove's retirement, one to go. But things won't really change, as the systems remain the same. I guess I should thank President Bush for being such a bad liar, otherwise I might not have noticed the underlying sleaze and self centered behavior greasing America's government industrial monstrosity. As for the Bush legacy, I offer once again "Nero Fiddled, Bush Strummed".
Saturday, August 11, 2007
Church Drops Funeral as Pictures Show Partners Hugging
The nondenominational High Point Church dropped the funeral of a gay veteran of Desert Storm due to inappropriate pictures "of men engaging in clear affection". Words like friend, stalwart and partner put off the church, whose leaders couldn't suspend their judgement even after the man was dead. They volunteered to do the burial because the deceased's brother, a mentally challenged adult, works as a janitor. I believe the hugger above also has a mentally challenged brother. No burials for you at High Point, Mr. Bush! You are clearly an affectionate hugger...
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