Open Threads

Yesterday I wrote about the shadow government and predcited an idiotic column by Maureen Dowd. Little did I know how accurate my prediction was going to be. Here is a touch:

In a banner headline on Friday, The Washington Post blared: “Shadow Government Is at Work in Secret.” The article said President Bush had assembled a cadre of officials to operate under the radar, out of the sunlight.

This is news?

The president did that on Jan. 20, 2001.

But it turns out that after Sept. 11, wanting to make sure that everything wouldn’t collapse if there was a nuclear attack on Washington, he did it again. He formed a secret government within a secret government. A shadow of a shadow.

I am sure this will titillate the Prada handbag crowd, but it is just more of the same old innueDowdo we have grown to love. Supposedly witty, unsubstantiated half truths written by a half wit. Dowd is like a canker sore- irritating, annoying, and providing a sharp bursts of pain every now and then. In the end however, she, like the sore, is harmless.

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Mail Call:

Got a couple of them that were pretty much hate mail, which is always fun. I will go through some of the issues addressed:

1.) To the reader who said I was a bigot because I said that we should throw very religious people to the lions, I would like to direct you to this sight. You will find a full discussion of what quotations are, and when they are used. After you check up on that, please re-read the offending piece here. You should note that I was quoting P.J. O’Rourke, and those were not my words. True, I may have tricked you by using italics instead of quotation marks, and for that I am sorry.

2.) To the drooling idiot who thinks I have ‘no f*****g compassion’ because I want the terrorists to starve themselves to death and then be thrown to the sharks, I would like to point out that what I do not have in compassion, I make up for in my sense of humor. What is funny, you say? These thugs spend five years beating, torturing, and starving the population in Afghanistan, and then when captured and treated like royalty by our servicemen, they decide to starve themselves to death. That is funny, and at least they are consistent. And, I might add, so our European friends don’t become all agitated, it is their right to kill themselves. We wouldn’t want to abuse their rights.

3.) My favorite reader comment to date: “Go polish your jackboots swastika-boy.”

Regular posting will resume when I finish laughing.

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Congress Afraid of Its Shadow

Area 51 watchers, X-Files fans, and Art Bell listeners all across the country got together in what can only be called a mutual orgy of conspiracy theory paranoia, relieved to learn that their suspicions had finally been confirmed. In attendance at the charade were several senior Democrat officials.

Key congressional leaders said yesterday the White House did not tell them that President Bush has moved a cadre of senior civilian managers to secret underground sites outside Washington to ensure that the federal government could survive a devastating terrorist attack on the nation’s capital.

Notwithstanding the fact that most ‘senior’ Congressional leaders could not find their ass with both hands and a flashlight, is this really news? This is what is known as a CONTINGENCY plan- a contingency plan “which was devised during the Cold War of the 1950s so that federal rule could continue if Washington were struck by a catastrophic attack.” Bush et. al would be DERELICT in their dutyif they had not put this plan into effect.

Don’t put it past the Democrats to attempt to use this for cheap political gain. Expect them to breathlessly use the words ‘SHADOW GOVERNMENT’ at every opportunity- God knows what Bush is doing in secret??? And who did you meet with about Energy Policy????

Senate Majority Leader Thomas A. Daschle (D-S.D.) said he had not been informed about the role, location or even the existence of the shadow government that the administration began to deploy the morning of the Sept. 11 hijackings. An aide to House Minority Leader Richard A. Gephardt (D-Mo.) said he similarly was unaware of the administration’s move.

Probably because neither one of them can be TRUSTED with that kind of sensitive information. If you tell them, you might as well print the location and diagrams of the secret area in Arabic, complete with weaknesses and flaws in the plan, and then air drop them on the Afghan/Pakistan border, or wherever you think Al Qaeda terrorists might exist. Daschle and Gephardt aides and other ‘undisclosed highly placed copngressional officials’ will be on the phone with Adam Clymer at the NYT so fast it won’t matter.

This is the most amusing paragraph of the entire story:

“There are two other branches of government that are central to the functioning of our democracy,” said Rep. William Delahunt (D-Mass.), a member of the House Judiciary Committee. “I would hope the speaker and the minority leader would at least pose the question, ‘What about us?’ “

Take the hint, buddy. I am willing to bet that the normally hyperventilating Maureen Dowd is going to be worse than usual tomorrow. I hope she finds a way to pin this all on Rip van Rummy, her nemesis.

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HappyFunPundit with a message to the music industry (this is a must read):

I have an alternate theory for the downturn in record sales: THE MUSIC SUCKS. You know something is very, very wrong when Barry Manilow is on top of the charts with a moldy greatest hits collection instead of caterwauling at the Tick-Tock Inn for tip-jar money.

You want to know why the kids aren’t buying your music? How about because you package two or three ‘good’ songs along with 8 other pieces of complete crap, call it an album, and sell it for $20? How about because you cancel record deals with great artists like John Prine or Warren Zevon so that you can make more shelf space for the latest focus-group packaged boy band or pyrotechnic female singer with big hooters but no soul?

You screw over the artists by making back-room deals with politicians in order to slide midnight riders into unrelated bills, depriving artists of their performance rights without giving them a chance to plead their case. Then you have the nerve to get on your high horse and pretend that you are defending musicians rather than your own pocketbooks. In the meantime, your royalty accounting practices would make an Enron accountant blush.

Now go away, digest what Dan has said, or they shall taunt you a second time.

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In other world news, the Opinion Journal runs a story titled Axis of Allies- Not all European leaders hate America and I am somehow relieved- BEFORE READING IT.

Our friends the Europeans. Snicker.

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I am too keyed up to read- must post instead. At any rate, as I was getting traumatized by a major motion picture (that in itself sounds weird enough, I know), the world continued to slide into mayhem.

While Jeff Goldstein at Protein Wisdom is reporting that authorities intend to uphold a law keeping dwarf tossing illegal in Florida, Ken Layne notes a Washington Post story that states that HALF of the September 11th murdering Islamofascist scumbags were given ‘extra scrutiny’ PRIOR to boarding the planes they used as guided missiles.

I need Tom Ridge’s job- I need a job where the standard has been set so low prior to my assuming the position that all I have to do is not drool on myself and I can be considered a rousing success. If Tom Ridge were a Major League Baseball player, all he would have to is bat .005 a season and be considered a super slugger.

In the mainstream media (sort of), Molly Ivins dedicates 11 paragraphs to inform us that Nuclear Waste is dangerous and a problem (which is why we want to bury it in a tunnel in a mountain appropriately named YUCCA- complete with big GREEN FROWNING FACES AND CROSSED EYES etched into the landscape), and in the NY Times, Tom Daschle is reported to have claimed that the war on terrorism so far “has been successful. I’ve said that on many, many occasions. But I think the jury’s still out about future success.” Yeah. Those juries are not too good at predicting the future, jackass. Hell, a jury in LA couldn’t even figure out to convict OJ.

No wonder the terrorists didn’t think we would take 9/11 seriously and that we would not fight back. I can’t take us seriously anymore.

I need a drink.

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Ok.. One more post. I just got a search request for:

The+fish+that+saved+Pittsburgh+Wholey

Wholey’s is a well known seafood wholesaler in Pittsburgh about an hour away that I have written about in the past, but that is just a strange combination.

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