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Well it seems to me like a slow news week, unless you enjoy the charade of congress going thru the motions of pretending to scrutinize king georges latest nominee for supreme court justice. Does anyone really believe Samuel alito is the best choice for one of the most important positions in us govt? a more pertenant ques is why it should be a presidential appointment in the first place. Is this an absurd system or what? No one seems to question why they cant seem to find a judge who is qualified and yet not obviously biased. Its simply taken for granted that any appointee is seriously biased and therefore flawed. As I have stated many times before, the united states has a first world economy, a first world military, and a 3^rd world system of govt.

The other news of note this week can be filed under the heading: local boy makes good. Our own beloved congressman john Doolittle made national news with the revelation that he was amongst the beneficiaries of large sums of money from disgraced lobbiest jack abramoff. Please note that big john gave no favors in return, such as voting in favor of legislation favoring abramoffs clients, or passing on some of that money to other legislators for purposes unknown and unspoken. Perish the thought. Abramoff gave Doolittle the money simply because he thinks Doolittle is a really swell guy. Well, im also a really swell guy, and so im eagerly awaiting abramaoffs check in my mail box. Are you expecting your check too? I had to laugh at the gv union’s quoting local gop honcho tony gilcrease extolling the virtues of his boy Doolittle. Its sort of like the pot calling the kettle chromium. Tony baby, you can call it what you want, it still smells from here. Credit Doolittle with a shrude political move. He claims he did nothing wrong and he aint returnin no money to no one no how. How do you like dem apples?

So, that’s what passes for news this week. Meanwhile, in the semi real world: lets play "whatever happened to": I know its hard to remember last weeks major stories. With our short term memory impairment, the ongoing media bombardment of the latest whatever, while somehow forgetting to follow up on last weeks major stories, its almost impossible to even remember what they told us last week was major news. But lets try: how bout Patrick Fitzgerald, Valerie plame, joe Wilson, and good ole karl rove ? Remember that one? So wha’s happinin bro? Gazillions of taxpayers dollars are spent and the result is: drum roll please: one low level flunky is persuaded to fall on his sword. Bfd. Justice in America? Gag me with a spoon.

How bout our cool vice pres appearing before congress to plead for the right to continue torturing prisoners? The world shudders, and our media slumbers. But excuse me, that was last weeks news. Except for our prisoners, who are still being tortured.

How bout them downing st memos? In a just world, we would be in a race to see if we could impeach king geo and dick cheney faster than the british got rid of tony blair. Instead we have: nothing. Absolutely nothing. A few more republicans woke up to the fact that their golden haired boys are first class scoundrels, but do they care? Meanwhile the American media and the people who believe them slumber. Anthrax. Whatever happened to the fbi investigation of who sent anthrax to key democratic leaders, at a most interesting time? It was revealed that the anthrax could not have been made by terrorists. It had to have been made in the usa, had to have come from military funded labs. Suddenly, the story was dropped. Disappeared. It never happened. Oops, I just typed a paradox in terms. A flaw in logic. I linked the words fbi and investigate. Sorry.

And then we have all the scientific types slowly coming to the conclusion and having the chutzpah to publish that the world trade center towers defied all laws of physics by falling as they did, at the speed they did. Couple that with the further embarrassment that the govt doesn’t even bother to concoct a story explaining why or how wtc tower 7 fell, when it wasn’t even damaged. "It fell, so what, now get on with your life and don’t bother us with questions". Yes sir, how high sir? And may I have permission to come down sir?

Say, did anyone ever find geo bushes missing military service records? How curious that they went missing. Did anyone ever look?

And finally, my favorite. Whatever happened to those 4 christian do gooders who went missing in iraq, just at a time when king geo and his puppet masters were facing some embarrassment or another. The spin was that they were kidnapped by Islamic insurgents. You know, the bad guys. I doubted that story when it first was offered to us, but its looking even more suspicious as time goes by. Why would insurgents kidnap anyone and then not use them to make some sort of point. Why bother to kidnap them and then feed and house them, for no purpose. If the kidnappers were indeed Islamic boogie men, they would have either publicly beheaded them, or magnanimously turned them loose, garnering valuable publicity of one sort or the other. Instead we are supposed to believe the victims simply disappeared. Sorry, I aint buyin them apples. Something is weird about that whole story. But the media ignores follow-ups, and forges on with the latest nonsense. And my number one smoke screen of the week? Impeachment. Fa ged about it. The very politicos who would have to vote for impeachment are the ones whose political careers are completely intertwined with the clowns they would be impeaching. It aint gonna happen. We don’t have the votes. King geo could do anything, absolutely anything, and congress would not vote to impeach. The sad fact is that in present day amerika, treason is not an impeachable offense.

Just heard on npr news that Turkish authorities, fearing bird flu, are advising citizens to avoid dead poultry. Boy am I glad that us health authorities aren’t giving us similar warnings. Avoid dead poultry? When is the last you ate a live chicken? I prefer mine to be dead. Really dead. Cooked too.

Ok, that’s my quick list of forgotten or neglected stories. Im sure you have yours.

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