Boo Waaa
So ex-Rep. Foley says a priest molested him. Well boo fucking WAAA, you ratfink. There’s nothing I find more reprehensible and slimy than a person who comes up with some great past wrong done to them as some kind of balm for the rancor that follows a hideous act. I have no beef with homosexuals [...]
Postal Experiments and massaging the blogosphere
I don’t know why, but I love reading about folks who mess with the postal service. A site called Direct Creative has a fun article on the things they were able to get the Post Office to deliver in spite of postal regulations. Apparantly, the “agents” involved were beset at every turn by courteous professionalism, [...]
Outlook: Dark and Cloudy
I haven’t made a post to allwrong.com in a couple of months. I can’t find anything to say. Nearly everything political seems so hopeless and stupid, and nearly everyone political seems so shortsighted and selfrighteous (and often greedy and evil, to boot) that I can’t begin to get a lock on what’s important, what threads [...]
CNN headline on Miers: “What Doomed Her Nomination?”
Gee, I’m no expert, but I’m going to go ahead and humbly posit that it’s because she was a dubiously-qualified administration crony with undocumented legal opinions, less-than-stellar credentials and a sub-top law degree nominated by a president with a history of appointing dubiously-qualified cronies whose best-considered quality was loyalty to the administration. But that’s just [...]
Reaching for my tinfoil hat
CNN Says: President Bush said Tuesday that the possibility of an avian flu pandemic is among the reasons he wants Congress to give him the power to use the nation’s military in law enforcement roles in the United States. The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 bans the U. S. Armed Forces from acting as law [...]
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t
Hurricane Rita is at this moment the third most intense storm the National Hurricane Center has ever recorded, a Category 5 monster that’s steaming towards the Texas coast. As one would expect following (well, really, during) FEMA’s Katrina debacle, all levels of government are standing up straight and manning their posts. What I’m thinking is, [...]
Handy WashPost Scandal Roundup
“Scandal Visits the White House” is a nice roundup of the current outlandish things going on around PA Ave. You know, folks, I don’t know if everything everyone mentions about the Bush Administration (including me) is as horrible/conspiratorial/evil/stupid/really stupid/really, absolutely, blindingly evil and stupid/dumb as it’s made out to be. But what chafes my pants-covered-areas [...]
Scary talk brings questions to my mind
CNN.com – Bush pledges nation’s help for Gulf Coast – Sep 15, 2005 “It is now clear that a challenge on this scale requires greater federal authority,” [President Bush] said, “and a broader role for the armed forces — the institution of our government most capable of massive logistical operations on a moment’s notice.” What [...]
More outrage than you can shake a stick at
CNN is reporting “New Signs of Progress” in New Orleans. This is good news. As the number of civilians in the city drops while the number of National Guard, Army, and volunteer organizations increases, good cannot help but get done. Sadly, the Feds are still running about like foxes caught “guarding” the hen house. While [...]
On the judgement of looters and the human heart
It is a zoo out there though, make no mistake. It’s the wild kingdom. It’s Lord of the Flies. That doesn’t mean there’s murder on every street corner. But what it does mean is that the rule of law has collapsed, that there is no order, and that property rights cannot and are not being [...]
U.S. a Battlefield, Solicitor General Tells Judges
In other news, since Gerneralissio Busholini is a king in his own mind, he has the right of prima noctae with your daughters, too. One of the first principles of the governace of this country is that rights are given to the government by the people–exactly the opposite of how Solicitor General Paul D. Clement [...]
Roberts is Supreme Court Nominee
Folks are already bandying about the idea that Bush nominated the very conservative John Roberts, Jr. in order to cause enough snow to distract from other, ah, issues facing his administration. Or maybe Roberts is Bush’s idea of a moderate. Or maybe Bush forgot he said he was going to nominate a moderate–like he forgot [...]