Shays shuffle

It never amazes me what the suits in Washington will do to get re-elected.
Case in point Rep. Christopher Shays (R-Conn.) long time backer of the War and now conveniently calling for a timetable for withdrawal.
Is it acceptable to call him a waffler now, or a flip-flopper or whatever the opposition would like to label him?
It is too bad as noted in the article that his change of thought required 14 trips and 3 years to notice that the Iraq situation has not made the progress the administration was so optimistically hoping for.
So it goes.

Pluto out

Pluto not considered a planet any longer. Say it's not so.
What is amazing to me is there was an international group of astronomers debating this incredible problem.
I guess the other huge crises on this planet were secondary to Pluto and it's classification.

Earn your keep

Well it's about time these ball clubs and players earn their salaries. Fighting in baseball is just what the game needs.
That's why I enjoy Hockey.
Go Dallas Stars.

Beyond Petroleum

Isn't it ironic an oil corporation can market itself as "beyond petroleum"?
It's almost a quaint way of selling itself. Well for most of us consumers we already know BP is or was British Petroleum and their marketing and advertising geniuses thought up the catchy new way to define itself.

With the Alaskan pipeline being shutdown until who knows when, I wonder how soon America will begin looking more like Communist China where so many working class citizens are forced to drive smaller cars or worse having to ride a bicycle to work.

Exxonian Profit

How nice it must be to own shares of ExxonMobil or better yet to be one of the executives that are sowing and reaping profits out of middle America's pockets.
So it goes.

Plain Spoken

There is something good about being straight forward and plain spoken.

Listening to the media's recording of The President and Tony Blair, I have to say it is refreshing to hear The President and/or any politician being so honest about anything.

The unholy land

Wow, I can't believe it. The holy land at war. How frikkin ironic.
I wonder what Jesus would say if he were alive today? What would Gandhi say? What would Buddha say? Okay, and what would Mohammed say?

Try living in peace you sons of bitches.

Maybe we should just start calling that historical part of the world the "Unholy Land", it has a potential ring to it.
So it goes.

Snow job

"It's not really a reversal of policy."

Thank you, Mr. Snow for clarifying this complex policy addendum. I wonder what Mr. Cheney thinks about this Gitmo makeover.
So it goes.

Shooting star

Well it was probably time for the Star to go Nova or maybe the Star was simply being sucked into a Black Hole of self-aggrandizement.
Whatever the case may be, any sane person with half a brain would be certain to never cross the ever-powerful Barbara Walters.
Of course, she won't be looking for employment for long, she is a lawyer.
Ask her, she'll tell you.

Step forward

Steps forward from Corporate America? I was shocked and dismayed. It seems that there are some executives that can think outside the box and truly have some progressive ideas.
I wonder how soon Ford and Chevy are going to pull their heads out of the sand and start offering some real hybrid contenders that can compete with the Toyota Prius and the Civic hybrids? Not soon enough I'm certain.

Anntagonism

Wow the more things change the more they stay the same.
It seems that no one ever mentioned to Ms. Coulter that hate breeds hate.
There might be something in the good book about treating others as we ourselves would like to be treated but I'm not good at remembering such details.

Gay old time

Banning gay marriage. Is this really a priority concern for Americans?
It seems to me just another diversion for this administration to flex it's morality muscle.
Excuse me if I don't join in on the horror of gay people across the land wanting to get married.
I'm not sure if this really is about moral decay and the decay of family values. What is the divorce rate among man/woman marriages right now? Better than 50% I can almost bet.
How has the sacrament of marriage been stained by our (the heterosexual community's) lack of respect to such an esteemed institution.
Maybe something more radical needs to be introduced to marriage, such as a 2 or 5-year renewal of the license? This way the divorce rate will no longer tarnish what our exceedingly wise leaders consider such a holy union.

Mexico's other border

Thanks to the Newsweek publication I was able to read this insightful report. It seems Mexico and it's above-board government may need to be more introspective when they decide to tell the U.S. government how to handle illegal aliens coming across the border to take jobs their citizens will not do.

$3.50 is a day's pay for a Guatemalan field hand on a coffee plantation in southern Mexico.

Irony sure is ironic. Just when they think their feces doesn't stink, some media outlet lets them know different. Maybe our leaders in D.C. should consider how Mexico handles it's undocumented worker problem and adopt some of those tough love solutions.
So it goes.

Quote of the Day

"Given the approval ratings of Congress these days, I guess we should all be grateful the bricks are coming through the mail, not the window. "
DAN PFEIFFER, a spokesman for Senator Evan Bayh, on a campaign to influence Congress on the immigration issue.

Come November all incumbents should be sent home. Maybe freshman suits can listen to their constituents and make some progress for a change.

Shiloh and behold

Well it finally came to pass. I still can't believe why any man would leave Jennifer Aniston for a girl that used to think Billy Bob was hot.
So Pitt loves the bad girls it seems, so what, who cares?
Obviously the tabloid-indoctrinated masses care. Why else would they be buying up this yellow journalism?
Anyhow, none of it really matters, Jennifer will give birth to some gorgeous babies when she's good and ready.

Preview this

Okay, so recently I was at the Cinema and they now have previews they show prior to showing the previews. I was hoping the previews I was seeing before the movie start time was going to be the previews, but I was mistaken.
I was able to view the previews a second time which was in fact the movie start time. WTF.
I guess it is just too much to ask for a movie to actually start as indicated on the ticket you are given by the clerk.
Just another paradigm stuck in a paradox.

Hatch goes down

Never lie to the judge is likely one lesson Mr. Hatch will remember as he spends 51 months in the can.
"Survive this," might be a familiar saying Richard will hear from his fellow inmates over the next few years.
Another classic genius-turned-idiot story.
So it goes.

Quote of the day

"It's time to cut seniors a little slack."MAX BAUCUS, senator from Montana, on legislation to waive the financial penalty for people who sign up late for Medicare's prescription drug benefit.

Finally, I can agree with one of the suits in Washington.

Fight or Flight

I guess these thugs forgot the first rule about Fight Club. What can be said about this?
A couple of kids decide to be entrepreneurs and record a fight then mass-produce the footage for sale.
What we have here are breakout producers of a fantastic new reality show. Call them Young Urban Don King wannabes. Everybody is just trying to get paid. What could be wrong with that? It is capitalism at it's best.
Thugs and gangsters want to fight, why shouldn't they?
They want to make some hard-earned cash for the newest $5000 dollar chrome spinner rims for their ride. These young toughs are just trying to stimulate the economy.
Maybe something about pure capitalism is not so pure after all.
I wonder what Mr. Bill Cosby would say about this?

Broken Axl

Didn't Axl's career die some ten years ago? I guess wishing for him to disappear is too much to ask.
I wonder if the original crew can make one last stand. They are so strung out and played out it's become a rock and roll cliche.

Usually I'd have to agree with Neil Young's
'it's better to burn out than fade away'
but for me, I would much rather have Axl just fade away.