Stuff happens

Told he can’t have more beer,
Florida man kills his girlfriend,
tries to have sex with her body.

Mark Sanford, Governor of South Carolina, wanted to refuse stimulus money because he said he didn’t want to spend money the government didn’t have. But he wanted to use it to pay down South Carolina’s debt. So I guess spending money you don’t have to pay off a debt is different from spending it on jobs? This is moot now, because he finally just turned down the money, at least the 700 million he would have controlled. I’m sure all those out of work people in South Carolina will appreciate his thoughtfulness. It appears that Governor Rick Perry of Texas is also going to turn down some money. You should be aware that both of these noble Governors know full well their respective Congress’s will probably override them and take the money for the state anyway. Will this gain the Governors any points if they want to run for the Presidency?

Another thing, if the idea of the stimulus is to be spent in creating jobs, and if everyone is supposed t o work together in this enterprise, isn’t refusing to spend the money very uncooperative and hindering the effort?

It’s not that Republicans are hypocrites, they actually are hypocrites, hypocrites. Take Norm Coleman, for example, When he was ahead in the Minnesota vote he suggested that Al Franken should give up because he was 1000 votes behind and it would cost too much to continue. Now that he is 255 votes behind he is demanding a new election. I guess that wouldn’t cost anything.

Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska, and ex Vice-Presidential candidate, ran with John McCain and railed against earmarks just as McCain always does. But guess what, in the current budget just signed by Obama, on a per-capita basis, Alaska is getting more earmark money than anyone else. Ah, hypocrisy just spreads like wildfire in Republican circles.

Michael Steele, supposed head of the Republican Party has put his foot in his mouth big time. First he said a woman had the right to choose but then had to take it back under pressure from conservatives. He also said Homosexuality was not a choice anymore than being black was a choice. He also caught hell for that, too. He will soon be removed from office and replaced with someone more consistent as a bigot.

Republicans once again began their criticism of Pelosi for too extensive use of Military aircraft. Of course it turns out she uses it because the President thinks she should, given the fact that the is number two in line for the Presidency. It also turns out that in fact she uses these planes far less than her predecessor, Dennis Hatcher.

Apparently Coulter and Maher had a face-to-face contest in Chicago the other night and Coulter got all the worst of it (she and Maher are said to be friends, if you can believe that). The sales of her latest book are apparently down two thirds from the previous one. Is justice coming to the witch of witches?

It seems there were secret assassination squads that went around the world killing people and reported only to Dick Cheney. This has been claimed by Si Hersh, a very respectable investigative reporter. He says he does not have enough evidence yet, but surely Congress is going to have to look into this. If it is true (and personally I don’t doubt it for a moment) not even Cheney will be able to survive.

Just never a dull moment for these Republicans, hypocrisy, deceit, and blatant illegality everywhere you look. At least we have a real moment of honesty: Eva Morales, President of Bolivia, apparently stood before the UN and put a coca leaf in his mouth. He said, “this is not cocaine, it is coca. It has been an integral part of our culture for as long as anyone can remember.” Hooray for coca! Hooray for Morales!

LKBIQ:
As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness against himself. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
Hannah Arendt

TILT:
Peanut were ground into paste by the Aztecs hundreds of years before peanut butter was invented.