Who Cares?

This is truly hilarious; The New York Times reports today in their article re: Bush’s great Latin American Adventure that President Dingbat [Bush] ‘refuses even to mention [Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez’s] name.’ Now I knew that righties more or less all think and act alike, but when Bush starts emulating Bill O’Reilly in their refusals to utter the names of their arch nemeses, then this is truly a sorry state of affairs. While it is certainly one thing for Bill-o not to allude or even allow his audience to allude to Keith Olberman, one might think that the leader of the free world would be above such sophomoric antics, but then again just up until recently we refused to discuss our differences with Iran, well, because they’re a big bunch of meanies!

Another laughable matter, the subtext of which is more tragic than anything, is Bush declaring that the main purpose of his trip is to illustrate “that when we see poverty, we care.” I am not entirely sure who this collective ‘we’ is/are and I have not heard to the contrary, so I am presuming he made this statement with a straight face, well probably a smirk, but honestly Mr. President! How many millions of people in your own country are ravaged by poverty? Can you really state that you cared about those who were washed away after Katrina struck?! Seriously, don’t bother wasting the time of Latin Americans you seek to appease; you’ve wasted enough North American time as it is. I would personally recommend going back to the playpen in Crawford, have your staffers throw some more trout in the pond, get Lance Armstrong to cycle around with you some more, just keep yourself occupied in ANY other way than trying to pose as a good and decent human being, much less president.

What else is going on here? Oh yes, American citizens being raped of their right to privacy all in the name of Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism, aka the USA PATRIOT Act. One must admit though, it’s a helluva lot more clever than ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’ innit? This jerk Mueller, head of the Full of Bullshit Institution, will probably receive a congressional medal of honor for stepping up to the plate and taking the blame for all their considerable abuses of power. I think I may have even heard on the radio last night that records were illegally used, but no charges will be filed. Accountability, what me worry?! So basically it’s more or less okay for the feds to impinge upon our constitutional rights, but a federal appeals court in D.C. strikes down a gun control law that would have restricted Washington residents from keeping handguns at home. We’re very picky over which rights can be violated and which should be upheld, after all – you don’t want the King of England to come to your house and start pushing you around, do you?! If I remember correctly, the pro basketball team the Washington Bullets was considered too violent, so they ended up just renaming them ‘The Bullets’… (Thanks be to Jay Leno!)

Finally, we have Chess Champion Garry Kasparov in the news vehemently denouncing the Putin administration, stating: “This regime is getting out of touch with the real world. It’s a deadly combination of money, power and blood – and impunity.” Where have you gone Bobby Fisher?! Oh yeah, he’s locked up for being an enemy combatant or something, isn’t he? D’oh.