The Dumb Bin is full, so it needs emptying. It has been a particularly long week for dumb people.
We can start with the Paris Hilton video. The heiress was filmed at New Years, dancing like a drunken debutante. At one point she faces the camera and says something to the effect of "We’re dancing like a couple of niggers". Hmmm. No, actually you’re dancing like a drunk white girl who has about as much dancing ability as I do. Which would be none.
Of course the various groups are up in arms about the use of the the word "nigger", as they should be. Not one dance group, regardless of racial affinity has come out to criticize her terpsichorean efforts. Please Paris, don’t dance for the camera, as all you do is perpetuate stereotypes that White Folks Can’t Dance.
Republican Sen. Joe Byden decided that he liked Barak Obama because he was the first African-American candidate who was smart, intelligent, clean and good looking. Byden has also just announced his running for President. Let’s see. Barak Obama is a clean African-American? Meaning, what? That Obama performs basic ablutions each day? Or that he is clean of scandals?
As for good-looking, well, yes, Barak Obama is a handsome man. Unlike Joe Byden who has the pinched faced bitterness that only comes from years as a second-string walking verbal IED that is just as likely to detonate because it is Tuesday, as for any other reason. That low, rumbling boom you heard was your campaign cratering Joe.
Florida Governor Charlie Crist has finally woken up and looked outside. He’s asking the Fla. Legislature to spend more than $30 million to replace all the touch-screen vote-bots with paper Mark-Sense-type ballots by 2008. At least he’s trying to de-Bush Florida election process, but he is cutting his personal campaign out of the largesse of Diebold.
Oil giants Exxon Mobil and ConocoPhillips have posted their economic results. Exxon reported profits of $39.5 Billion dollars. ConocoPhillips was a more modest $15.55 Billion. I’m not going to ask how much both companies got in tax breaks or incentives to drill holes in the planet, as any company that profitable should be willing to do their own exploration out of their own profits and not rely on government handouts. Right?
President Jo Jo The Idiot Boy is going to ask Congress for just a bit over $100 Billion to continue to fund the war in Iraq and Afghanistan for the rest of this fiscal, plus an anticipated even larger whack to keep it going into fiscal 2008, which starts October 1st.
Didn’t I read somewhere that the reconstruction of Iraq and the funding of the war was supposed to come directly from the oil revenue from Iraq? Which makes me ask why Jo Jo the Idiot Boy has to suck the tax tit for $100 Billion to keep the guns and groceries going. Or, was that just another in the series of lies fed to the US by their government.
Speaking of lies, occasionally the truth sneaks out: "I think that the vice president is a person reflecting a half-glass-full mentality."—Speaking on National Public Radio, Jan. 29, 2007, is the Bushism of the Day from Slate.com. I think I’m following here: Shotgun Dick is a half-glass full mentality. This means he’s drunk, as well as Undead.
Shubenacadie Sam, Wiarton Willie and Punxutawney Phil have all agreed: Short Winter, Early Spring. Ahh, at least there is some upside to global warming. Ask me again in May when it hits 35 C with 99% humidity.
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