Blurting Out Random Crap

This column of a day or two ago, by Bob Cesca, speaks the truth, makes you laugh, and is a good illustration of my point that "saucy" should become a regular part of everyone's vocabulary.

Jesus, I'm Sick Of These People

I'm just about as sick of hearing how John McCain is a "maverick" as I am of hearing that he was a POW. (I'll bet you didn't know that he was a POW, did you?) Here is Sarah Palin, being interviewed by hard-nosed investigative journalist Katie Couric:

COURIC: You've said, quote, "John McCain will reform the way Wall Street does business." Other than supporting stricter regulations of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac two years ago, can you give us any more example of his leading the charge for more oversight?

PALIN: I think that the example that you just cited, with his warnings two years ago about Fannie and Freddie--that, that's paramount. That's more than a heck of a lot of other senators and representatives did for us.

COURIC: But he's been in Congress for 26 years. He's been chairman of the powerful Commerce Committee. And he has almost always sided with less regulation, not more.

PALIN: He's also known as the maverick though. [My italics. By the way, I think that sentence would have had more oomph if she had begun it with the words "Yet however." "Yet however he's also known as the maverick though."] Taking shots from his own party, and certainly taking shots from the other party. Trying to get people to understand what he's been talking about--the need to reform government.

COURIC: I'm just going to ask you one more time, not to belabor the point. Specific examples in his 26 years of pushing for more regulation?

PALIN: I'll try to find you some and I'll bring them to you.

Sarah Palin is dangerous. She's also a blithering idiot, but that didn't stop people from falling for the lies of Bush/Cheney now, did it?

You want a maverick? Here's a real maverick!

Don't Mourn, Organize!

Two little ways to take action today, right now.

First of all, this PBS poll is making its way around via email, asking whether you think Sarah Palin is qualified to be the vice president. If you haven't seen it, go here to put in your 2¢ worth.

Second thing regards the proposed bail out. HuffPo had an article about "section 8" of the bail out proposal crafted by the White House. Section 8 reads

Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency.

Read it carefully and think about what it means. Non-reviewable by any court of law or agency (including the U.S. Congress.) It amounts to highway robbery -- the White House can take any amount of taxpayer money to give to their friends and nobody can say anything about it. I find this horrifying. It makes me feel sick to my stomach, literally.

For what it is worth, the folks at ImpeachBush.org are on it and have an easy link for sending a message to your representatives in Congress, stating that you do not support a bail out for the fat cat bankers who will only get richer at the expense of ordinary citizens. They correctly refer to the bail out as "a bankers' coup d'etat." Friends, whether or not the current financial disaster was engineered, it is being manipulated into a major power grab by the neocons, as surely as the 9/11/01 attacks were. Click here to send letters to your representatives.

A Little Too Close to the Truth

The Onion is frequently very funny (my favorite headline: "Jenna Bush's Wetlands Now Open for Public Drilling") but sometimes they hit the nail squarely on the head, as with this week's top story: BUSH BEGINS PREPARATIONS FOR NATION'S FINAL YEAR.

WASHINGTON—As his last term in office winds to a close, President Bush has directed White House aids and Cabinet staff to begin preparing for 2008, the nation's 232nd and final year in existence ...

The president held a special America Wrap-Up press conference with members of the international press earlier today, where he spoke frankly with reporters and gave out long, heartfelt hugs. Bush also took time from his hectic schedule of staring blankly into the gaping maw of absolute dissolution to reflect on the country's past and look forward to its 281-day future.

"Our great nation will be a shining, then blinking, then slowly fading beacon to the world," Bush said. "As our time as a sovereign country with borders and currency comes to a close, let us hope we will be remembered for all the great things we accomplished, and not for the 1960s."

Read it all here.

When I saw it on the newstand yesterday, I just about lost it. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Oy, these times we're living in.