Thursday, January 20, 2005

Great Britain Declared 51st U.S. State

Is is just me, or are the British copying everything we do? We say there's WMD in Iraq, Tony Blair says there's WMD in Iraq. We go into Iraq. They go into Iraq. We bust some G.I.'s for abusing prisoners, GB busts some G.I.'s for abusing prisoners. I know there's countless other examples of parallel political reports, I just can't think of them at the moment. But If I were a Brit, I'd be kind of embarassed about the coincidences.

Makes you wonder if Tony Blair got his $240,000 check from The Bush Regime like Armstrong Williams did. Something sneaky's going on between Bush and Blair - I've thought so from the beginning.

Sunday, January 16, 2005

Low-boy gets the Brig

Army Spc. Charles Graner Jr. has been sentenced for his part in the Abu Ghraib prison debacle. After busting Graner back to private, the military court gave him ten years and led the scapegoat out in shackles. No word on why Military Intelligence (definitely an oxymoron in this war) allowed an army reservist and his girlfriend to force "detainees" to perform lewd acts and photograph them - all the while unsupervised. Seems almost as if they were asked to do it.

Read about it in The New York Times.

Saturday, January 08, 2005

News Flash: Uncle Tom On The Take

Houseboy admits to getting extra gruel

Conservative radio host, media commentator, and until yesterday, journalist Armstrong Williams, has been outed by recent reports that he accepted $240,000 from the Bush Regime to promote its "No Child Left Behind" program and, 'to explain its policy to minority parents' - according to a statement obtained by The New York Times from The Department of Education.

If Williams had any doubt about NCLB, a policy that many educators consider an unfunded mandate at a time when Federal cut-backs in State aid have resulted in smaller education budgets, the near quarter-million dollar pay-off surely re-invigorated his enthusiasm.

Formerly a protege' of Sen. Stom Thurmond (R-South Carolina), who holds the record for the longest filibuster in U.S. Senate history while opposing The Civil Rights Act, Williams admitted his mistake on national television, reportedly saying that he was thinking like a businessman without worrying enough about journalistic ethics - no doubt a bad habit he picked up while hanging with The Right crowd and which led to his syndicated column being dropped by Tribune Media Services.

Perhaps he and J.C. Watts can put together a song & dance routine for the southern country-club set once they've lost all credibility with blacks in The United States.

Wednesday, January 05, 2005

Let's get this clear, we make the rules...

Republicans have effectively dismissed any threat that their party leaders will ever have to face discipline by congress for ethical misconduct - at least not while they're in charge and the party faithful are locked in goose-step formation ( so prepare for your state to be gerry-mandered into a Republican majority - if it hasn't already).

According to the New York Time, a 1997 rule (adopted to deal with the Clinton Administration) stated that if the ethics committe is deadlocked on an issue (in which the chairs are evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans) a preliminary investigation would automatically kick-in after 45 days. Under the new & improved rules for the Bush Regime congress, any ethics charge that splits down party lines is dismissed. That means, as long as the old boys club locks elbows on any particular ethics violation, say, buggering congressional aides in the coat-check closets, the charges are dismissed. Never happened. What congressional aide? What coat closet?

This just gets better and better.