Mad Dogs and Englishmen

Today is the eleventh day of 90 degrees or higher this month and at least four more to come. Everything is melting, including my brain. This may explain what I've been seeing in the news in just the last day.

The anointed one has sacked the lead General in Afghanistan-Bananastan, Stanley McChrystal for airing his negative opinions of the anointed one, the U.S. Ambassador to the area , the Vice President, and various other government mucky-mucks to Rolling Stone magazine, of all places. The replacement is General Petraeus, also known among some of his former commanders as Betrayus. Reportedly, he turned over command to McChrystal after the success in Iraq. Petraeus wanted to retire undefeated, 1-0, and believed he would have ended up .500 at best if he stayed in charge of the Afghanistan-Bananastan war effort.
The three remind me of my childhood heroes.

Meanwhile, the cap on the leaking oil well in the Gulf broke off when the robot cameras crashed into it, resulting in more oil spewing into the water.
And professional escort favorite Elliot Spitzer, disgraced former governor or New York State, has landed a prime time job on CNN starting in the Fall. CNN staff are upset, especially the females, who are now demanding personal tasers.
All is not lost, however. California is allowing welfare recipients to use their welfare cards at gambling casino ATM machines. That's one way for the state to get some of the tax payers' money back.
Speaking of the Golden State, the California Medical Marijuana Club (I kid you not)
has announced a contest for the best pot. Prizes have not yet been announced
but I'm sure they'll be flammable.

Last but not least, police in Salt Lake City finally caught a naked woman who had stolen a car, twice. First the naked lady parked her own car and got out, stunning a man who was standing by his car. I guess he was paralyzed by the sight. She got into his car and drove off. He called the police and a high speed chase ensued. She skidded to a stop and got out. The cops chased her. She fought like a wildcat, evidently, and broke loose. (The cops later claimed she was bleeding and sweating and was slippery as a greased pig, their word, not mine). She got back in the car and drove off again. Eventually, she drove over an embankment and crashed the car.
Now the unbelievable part. She got out and ran for it, climbing over a barbed wire fence! The exertion took a toll on the damsel. She collapsed and the cops were at last able to cuff her. No word on how the cops got her back over the barbed wire fence.

And, summer just started. Wait until the dog days arrive.

Baa Baa

"I do not fear an army of lions, if they are led by a lamb."

Thus spoke Alexander the Great, not a leader to be confused with our nation's contemporary 'leaders'.

Whether it's the anointed one giving a national address about the oil spill fiasco or the mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg, justifying the building of a giant mosque on the site of the 9/11 terror act in lower Manhattan, ("We have to, to show we're not biased."), I am saddened and sickened, but not surprised by our leaders' inability to tell the truth or make difficult decisions. Our foreign enemies must be licking their chops at the ineffective leaders we foist upon ourselves.

The anointed one promises that the British Petroleum company will pay for the entire cleanup as well as pay all damages. Of course, either action would force BP into bankruptcy. Let's face it, we, the taxpayers, will pay. All the anointed one is saying is basically, "I will gladly give you a solution tomorrow for your blind faith today, and by the way, I'll need your money too." He'll eliminate drilling our land and chase after pie in the sky alternative sources of energy, all the while making us more dependent on the nations that loathe us. Some day, they'll turn off the taps, both oil and money.

Mayor Bloomberg is saying, "Just let the moors have their mosque tomorrow for which they will gladly give us no bombs today." Of course, after the mosque desecrates the sacred ground where 3000 Americans were killed by other moors, the present day ones will use the mosque to teach the young'uns how to set the subway system on fire the day after tomorrow.

How the hell did we end up with such dishonest and un-American people in charge of our governments?

Unless there is an uprising in the near future, America is doomed. Maybe we deserve what we get. Maybe there's nothing we can do. I sure hope I am wrong, but things are beginning to spin out of control. Another disaster or two - natural or man made - and we may end up beyond the point of no return.

It may soon be time to head for the hills. Be prepared. The barbarians creep closer and our leaders sell their souls along with our future.

Your Other Face

The anointed one in DC condemns those who bring anger and division into the political debate. He yearns for a civil discourse. Yesterday, he told an interviewer (soft ball lobber Matt Lauer of NBC) that he was looking to find someone whose ass he could kick, over the Gulf oil spill. Ah, more civil discourse from the great uniter. (Matt Lauer recently made news when an adulterous affair was revealed. Of course, he blithely cavorts as if it's of no consequence in revealing his character.)

Today's news brings notice that the USC football program has been suspended from post season Bowl appearances for two years and has had twenty athletic scholarships eliminated. (They'll only be able to offer 5980 next season.) This is due to some players getting financial support from Alumni Boosters back in 2004-05. Of course, the head coach at the time and, until the end of last season,Pete Carroll has left the school and assumed the head coaching job with the Seattle NFL team. No doubt a reward for his duplicity. "We run an honest program."

And the sad news recently that the great college basketball coach, John Wooden, passed away. He won a record 10 NCAA championships at UCLA. During that time many of his players received financial and other material considerations from a sports booster named Papa Sam Gilbert. UCLA was never disciplined. The great coach made like the famous monkeys and had plausible deniability.

We are all sinners and given to prevarication on occasion, yet wouldn't it be sweet to address the hypocrisy in our nation's news makers? We should have a national ombudsman in charge of conducting public floggings of public personalities who betray public trust.

Shakespeare had it right when he said of man, "God has given you one face and you make yourself another."

Breathless

As Edmund Burke said, "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." We now have a perfect opportunity for an object lesson to demonstrate this truth.

Democratic candidate for Senator from Pennsylvania, Joe Sestak, admits he was offered a job by the White House if he dropped out of the primary against Arlen Specter. Such an offer is illegal and constitutes an impeachable offense.

A lone congressman, Daniel Issa (R-CA), is calling for an independent investigator.

Now the White House has enlisted that self admitted perjurer and impeached president, Bill Clinton, to say he offered Sestak an obscure, unpaid job on some White House committee if Sestak decided to do something else with his life.

The mainstream media, of course, is unconcerned. A few conservative publications are trying to keep the story alive. But it is the public which will decide whether the latest gang of crooks in Washington will receive justice or not.

Personally, I am not holding my breath that there are enough good men to influence the outcome.