Saturday, December 13, 2008
Ancient History, and I was there...
Well, I wasn't really there there. This is from October 1965. I was at Camp Lejeune protecting the Eas' Coas' from the Viet Cong and the Cubans. This video is worth watching just to see an incredibly young Chris Hillman and an equally young but as yet undissipated David Crosby.
Also, the faux duck hunting set, complete with fake (hopefully not stuffed!) Springer Spaniels and lovely young mod birds with double-barrel shotguns is a hoot!
Also, the faux duck hunting set, complete with fake (hopefully not stuffed!) Springer Spaniels and lovely young mod birds with double-barrel shotguns is a hoot!
Friday, December 12, 2008
Murderers Row ...
D-cap has a good idea, get the Yankees to bail out the auto industry.
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It warms my heart that the city and state see fit to give the Yankees tax breaks, allowing them to sign players at ridiculous salaries in the worst of times, while the rest of us get to walk to the unemployment office.
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How The Bailouts Were Created
I got this in an e-mail from our pal Bustedknuckles. Pretty much the same bunch that engineered the bailouts, I'd say. Obviously of the school of No Tax Dollars Left In The Treasury When We Get Kicked Out Have To Leave.
Friday Afternoon Emmylou & Secret Subtext Blogging
I need a break from all the political lyin', cheatin', and stealin'. It'll still be there...
From AuntieRhonda:
I'd do whatever I had to to get Meryl Streep to look at me like that!
From AuntieRhonda:
Is there a secret subtext behind The Devil Wears Prada? Was it a deeper relationship than that of a boss and an assistant?
Emmylou Harris - "A Love That Will Never Grow Old"
I'd do whatever I had to to get Meryl Streep to look at me like that!
Gettin' out while the gettin's good
Trey Ellis
Oh, they, and many others just like them, knew. How could they not? They did it. Gotta get off the gravy train with as much swag as they can get just before it wrecks from pullin' up the tracks and sellin' 'em or blows from tyin' down the safeties to get more speed outta the engine. Or both at once. Spectacular and utterly destructive.
Wherever you look, people whom you'd hope would have some inside knowledge of the American near future, seem to be losing their minds.
Sure, Governor Blago might have always been a hoodlum numbskull but how else to explain super lawyer Marc Dreier suddenly gambling an insanely lucrative legitimate career to try to con hedge funds out of as much as $380 million? And just yesterday seventy-year-old Wall Street legend Bernard L. Madoff stands accused of one of the most egregious white collar crimes in history -- bilking his investors of as much as $50 billion.
Do they know something we don't know? It's as if the risk of getting caught was outweighed by their panicked desire to get as much as they could before it's all gone.
It's as if the architect of the Titanic, minutes after they brushed the iceberg, said, "Don't mind me, I'm just going out for a smoke," when really, knowing what he knew about the ship's chances, stole into a lifeboat and set off alone into the dark cold waters.
Oh, they, and many others just like them, knew. How could they not? They did it. Gotta get off the gravy train with as much swag as they can get just before it wrecks from pullin' up the tracks and sellin' 'em or blows from tyin' down the safeties to get more speed outta the engine. Or both at once. Spectacular and utterly destructive.
The Latest Doping Scandal!
Spiegel Online International
Yo, World Chess Big Dudes - this guy ain't dopin' for performance! I think if you make this crazy mofo go off his meds World Chess is gonna get a lot more exciting!
Grandmaster Vassily Ivanchuk refused to submit a urine sample for a drug test at the Chess Olympiad in Dresden and is now considered guilty of doping. [...]
Professional chess player Vassily Ivanchuk, born in Berezhany, Ukraine in 1969, has been a grandmaster for the past 20 years and is currently ranked third in the world. The man with black hair and bedroom eyes is known as "Big Chucky" by his fellow chess players. Why? Because, after losing a game, he goes into the forest at night and howls at the moon to drive out the demons. Because he walks around in shorts in freezing temperatures. Because he likes to sit in dark rooms. Because he usually looks at the ceiling instead of the board during a chess match. Because he tries to fold the oversized winner's check handed out after a tournament down to pocket size. And because he, as World Champion Visvanathan Anand says, lives on "Planet Ivanchuk."
Yo, World Chess Big Dudes - this guy ain't dopin' for performance! I think if you make this crazy mofo go off his meds World Chess is gonna get a lot more exciting!
Secretary of Energy
Oz at earthfamilyalpha sounds off on the proposed Secretary of Energy. Links at site.
What!? A SecEnergy who's not in the pockets of Big Oil and Coal? Holy crap!
I never heard of the guy before, but he sounds OK to me.
We've been waiting to hear who will be the new Secretary of Energy. Even though my boss announced to the executive team this morning that he was not going to Washington, I remained confident that someone besides the normal business as usual, green on the edges, let's not be too concerned about climate change if it endangers our economy, fire burning neo-neanderthal would get the nod. (my em and I like that phrase!)
And it looks like we are not going to be disappointed.
According to Huffington and everyone else, it will be Steven Chu:
A Chinese-American, Chu is a professor of physics and molecular and cell biology at the University of California-Berkeley and has been the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory since 2004, where he has pushed aggressively for research into alternative energy as a way to combat global warming.
It is the oldest of the Energy Department's national laboratories, but does only unclassified work. In recent years under Chu, it has been at the center of research into biofuels and solar technologies. Chu has been a strong advocate for the need to engage scientists in the search for ways to combat global warming by replacing fossil fuels with other energy sources such as biofuels and the sun.
What!? A SecEnergy who's not in the pockets of Big Oil and Coal? Holy crap!
I never heard of the guy before, but he sounds OK to me.
On the bright side ...
I probably won't be working on any new models of these or these anymore. Digby:
Indeed, breaking the UAW seems to be the ultimate goal. Point of fact: Union wages and benefits only make up 10% of the carmakers' expenses.
Digby also mentions the Dems' enabling of the Republican looting but you know who it really comes down to? It's on us. If it weren't for the apathy, ignorance, and just plain stupidity of the average American, we wouldn't have petulant teenagers representing us.
After decades of not giving a shit, of allowing themselves to be brainwashed into voting against their own interests, this is what we get. On one side we have the big children, the Republicans with their childlike view of how the world operates and on the other, the Dems, a spineless bunch of pantywaists who are afraid of their own shadows; afraid to anger anyone because of perceived future political considerations.
Our political system has become a joke. The strong principles the Founders built this nation upon took a long time to erode under the constant assault upon it over the past 40 years because it was made to withstand aberrations - a rogue administration, civil war - but what it couldn't support was an entire political party devoted to its destruction (and one too weak-willed to stop them). It took 40 years but it is done and over the last 8 years - after what we see happening now would be the obvious outcome - we have none but ourselves to blame.
As anybody who's overcome an addiction knows, one day you have to look in the mirror and admit to yourself how far you've fallen. Once you see what you've become (not the drug-induced delusion of grandeur), you can begin to assess what got you there and what you must do to correct it. It's time for Americans to look in that mirror realistically. The reflection ain't pretty.
When the American people will elect leaders like Richard Shelby, Mitch McConnell, and those of their ilk, term after term, when we send people like Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi to Congress, we have a serious problem. We're addicted to what people like them give us; the status quo.
The status quo where everybody generally gets along. No great highs, no serious lows, the chance once every decade to make some real money if your timing is right and life plods along. We're able to have our stuff, a TV in every room, boat, cars, house, whatever, and as long as our representatives kept the status quo we were good. We didn't really have to pay attention because the talking heads on TV told us what we needed and as long as they were good with it, so were we.
And then we got George Bush and Dick Cheney. The guy who everybody thought was just like them and wanted the same things. We looked in the mirror and George Bush looked back at us, we believed the delusion. They were gulled into thinking he was looking out for them and they let him do what he wanted. When they might be having doubts (those that come with a particularly bad hangover), a 'tax rebate' check appeared in the mail (the hair of the dog) and the high returned. We turned away from the mirror when the financial institutions were deregulated because it meant we could have more stuff. We could afford a house, and then we were allowed to remortgage that to get more, bigger, better, more. Pay it back? Times can only get better, right? A permanent Republican majority was the answer! We tightened the tourniquet and stuck the needle in.
And now we have the big crash, when all the dope and liquor in the world won't make the shakes go away, the itching at the needle marks becomes relentless, and you wonder when you're going to puke up your upper GI because your stomach emptied out hours ago. And, as you pass the mirror on another trip to the can, you realize you can do one of two things. You can go for the big, hot load, a desperate attempt to catch the high once more, even though it'll probably kill you, or you can say 'enough', and start to change the behavior that got you to this point. It's the point you reach when you know there is no one to blame but yourself.
We are at that point. We can't blame our representatives because we put them there. We can't blame them because we allowed them to do what they've done. Seriously, would you want any of them representing you in court on a murder charge? Shit, you'd get the needle for manslaughter. If you wouldn't hire them as your attorney, why would you hire them to protect your rights and interests? It's time to kiss the status quo goodbye and to change our bad habits before they finally kill us. The first step is to pay attention to what really goes on (in the age of the intarwebs, there's no excuse not to) and vote sensibly. The next is to make your voice heard to the people you hired to represent you. Everything that's happening now comes down to the fact these people are more interested in their own (and those of their friends) self-interest than yours. It's time to stop being ignorant sheep, we can't afford it anymore. We can't survive it.
On the bright side, things might get bad enough that we actually do gaze upon our reflection and are disgusted enough with what we see to affect some real change in the next few years. If we don't, we might as well kiss what's left of this nation goodbye.
So, the Republicans are saying that if the Democrats don't agree to destroy the unions, they will block any loans to Detroit, and allow the auto companies to fail. And even that might not be enough to stop them because this wrecking crew seems have decided that the country needs to understand that if they vote for Democrats the Republicans will make them pay by ushering in another great depression.
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Indeed, breaking the UAW seems to be the ultimate goal. Point of fact: Union wages and benefits only make up 10% of the carmakers' expenses.
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Republicans spent the last eight years like drunken sailors on their first shore leave after years at sea. They wantonly drained the treasury of billions and billions of dollars on harebrained schemes to induce "birthpangs of democracy" around the world, chasing phantom enemies and enriching their defense contractor contributors. They created a lobbying culture so corrupt it finally collapsed of its own weight. They deregulated the financial industry so thoroughly that it created an elaborate ponzi scheme that has just about destroyed the world economy.
They have no standing to lecture anyone about responsibility, fiscal or otherwise, and no right to obstruct the cure for the problem they created.
...
Digby also mentions the Dems' enabling of the Republican looting but you know who it really comes down to? It's on us. If it weren't for the apathy, ignorance, and just plain stupidity of the average American, we wouldn't have petulant teenagers representing us.
After decades of not giving a shit, of allowing themselves to be brainwashed into voting against their own interests, this is what we get. On one side we have the big children, the Republicans with their childlike view of how the world operates and on the other, the Dems, a spineless bunch of pantywaists who are afraid of their own shadows; afraid to anger anyone because of perceived future political considerations.
Our political system has become a joke. The strong principles the Founders built this nation upon took a long time to erode under the constant assault upon it over the past 40 years because it was made to withstand aberrations - a rogue administration, civil war - but what it couldn't support was an entire political party devoted to its destruction (and one too weak-willed to stop them). It took 40 years but it is done and over the last 8 years - after what we see happening now would be the obvious outcome - we have none but ourselves to blame.
As anybody who's overcome an addiction knows, one day you have to look in the mirror and admit to yourself how far you've fallen. Once you see what you've become (not the drug-induced delusion of grandeur), you can begin to assess what got you there and what you must do to correct it. It's time for Americans to look in that mirror realistically. The reflection ain't pretty.
When the American people will elect leaders like Richard Shelby, Mitch McConnell, and those of their ilk, term after term, when we send people like Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi to Congress, we have a serious problem. We're addicted to what people like them give us; the status quo.
The status quo where everybody generally gets along. No great highs, no serious lows, the chance once every decade to make some real money if your timing is right and life plods along. We're able to have our stuff, a TV in every room, boat, cars, house, whatever, and as long as our representatives kept the status quo we were good. We didn't really have to pay attention because the talking heads on TV told us what we needed and as long as they were good with it, so were we.
And then we got George Bush and Dick Cheney. The guy who everybody thought was just like them and wanted the same things. We looked in the mirror and George Bush looked back at us, we believed the delusion. They were gulled into thinking he was looking out for them and they let him do what he wanted. When they might be having doubts (those that come with a particularly bad hangover), a 'tax rebate' check appeared in the mail (the hair of the dog) and the high returned. We turned away from the mirror when the financial institutions were deregulated because it meant we could have more stuff. We could afford a house, and then we were allowed to remortgage that to get more, bigger, better, more. Pay it back? Times can only get better, right? A permanent Republican majority was the answer! We tightened the tourniquet and stuck the needle in.
And now we have the big crash, when all the dope and liquor in the world won't make the shakes go away, the itching at the needle marks becomes relentless, and you wonder when you're going to puke up your upper GI because your stomach emptied out hours ago. And, as you pass the mirror on another trip to the can, you realize you can do one of two things. You can go for the big, hot load, a desperate attempt to catch the high once more, even though it'll probably kill you, or you can say 'enough', and start to change the behavior that got you to this point. It's the point you reach when you know there is no one to blame but yourself.
We are at that point. We can't blame our representatives because we put them there. We can't blame them because we allowed them to do what they've done. Seriously, would you want any of them representing you in court on a murder charge? Shit, you'd get the needle for manslaughter. If you wouldn't hire them as your attorney, why would you hire them to protect your rights and interests? It's time to kiss the status quo goodbye and to change our bad habits before they finally kill us. The first step is to pay attention to what really goes on (in the age of the intarwebs, there's no excuse not to) and vote sensibly. The next is to make your voice heard to the people you hired to represent you. Everything that's happening now comes down to the fact these people are more interested in their own (and those of their friends) self-interest than yours. It's time to stop being ignorant sheep, we can't afford it anymore. We can't survive it.
On the bright side, things might get bad enough that we actually do gaze upon our reflection and are disgusted enough with what we see to affect some real change in the next few years. If we don't, we might as well kiss what's left of this nation goodbye.
Mary on the Half-Shell Day
Our Lady of Guadalupe, also called the Virgin of Guadalupe (Spanish: Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe or Virgen de Guadalupe) is a 16th century Roman Catholic Mexican icon representing an apparition of the Virgin Mary. It is perhaps Mexico's most popular religious and cultural image. Guadalupe's feast day is celebrated on December 12, commemorating the traditional account of her appearances to Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin on the hill of Tepeyac near Mexico City from December 9, 1531 through December 12, 1531.
[...] The Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes once said that "...one may no longer consider himself a Christian, but you cannot truly be considered a Mexican unless you believe in the Virgin of Guadalupe."
Nobel laureate Octavio Paz wrote in 1974 that "the Mexican people, after more than two centuries of experiments, have faith only in the Virgin of Guadalupe and the National Lottery"[
La música es una antígua composición indígena-colonial mexicana e interpretada por Linda Ronstadt.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
The Pakistan Shell Game
Joke Line
We've sent Pakistan $billions to be our friend in the phony War On Terror, most of which has been spent to make Pakistan stronger militarily in their never-ending Mexican standoff with India, or to strengthen the very terrorist groups we're supposed to be fighting against.
President Obama needs to make it crystal clear to the Paki military and ISI that the taps are going to be turned off if they don't start spending it the way we want them to. I guess we should tell their nominal government as well. If no-money-without-provisos works with the U.S. automakers, and the jury's still out on that, maybe it'll work on Pakistan too.
Our government needs to learn a very basic lesson, simple enough that even Joe Klein got it: he who pays the piper calls the tune.
This thought just came to me, and I'm not real proud of it, but I'll throw it out there anyway and I'm sure I'll hear about it: maybe it's time we allied with India and whoever in the region's up for it and just beat the shit out of Pakistan. Something on the order of getting a mule's attention with a 2x4 upside the head.
[...] But more important, it is finally dawning on some in Washington--if not exactly those packing their bags and shredding their files in the Bush White House--that Pakistan has played us for fools ever since September 11, 2001.
The world has become a more dangerous place because the Bush Administration took its eye off this particular ball in order to fight the war of choice in Iraq. It is up to the President-elect to let the Pakistanis know that the days of American carelessness are over. It is up to the Pakistanis to make clear that they truly want to be our ally in the struggle against violent Islamic extremism.
We've sent Pakistan $billions to be our friend in the phony War On Terror, most of which has been spent to make Pakistan stronger militarily in their never-ending Mexican standoff with India, or to strengthen the very terrorist groups we're supposed to be fighting against.
President Obama needs to make it crystal clear to the Paki military and ISI that the taps are going to be turned off if they don't start spending it the way we want them to. I guess we should tell their nominal government as well. If no-money-without-provisos works with the U.S. automakers, and the jury's still out on that, maybe it'll work on Pakistan too.
Our government needs to learn a very basic lesson, simple enough that even Joe Klein got it: he who pays the piper calls the tune.
This thought just came to me, and I'm not real proud of it, but I'll throw it out there anyway and I'm sure I'll hear about it: maybe it's time we allied with India and whoever in the region's up for it and just beat the shit out of Pakistan. Something on the order of getting a mule's attention with a 2x4 upside the head.
Schakowsky throws her hat in the ring
HuffPo
Rep. Schakowsky is absolutely my choice for President Obama's Senate replacement.
My Mother was also a Polish lady from Chicago. I think under Chicago rules that makes both me 'n Mom, who passed away in 1948, eligible to cast absentee ballots...
Rep. Jan Schakowsky will run for the Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama should that seat ultimately come to a special election, her office confirmed to the Huffington Post.
Schakowsky is widely considered one of the most liberal members of the House of Representatives. She was a cosponsor of a resolution seeking articles of impeachment against vice president Dick Cheney and was one of the most outspoken critics of the Iraq War. She was also an enthusiastic supporter of Barack Obama's candidacy, both for Senate in 2004 and president in 2008.
Rep. Schakowsky is absolutely my choice for President Obama's Senate replacement.
My Mother was also a Polish lady from Chicago. I think under Chicago rules that makes both me 'n Mom, who passed away in 1948, eligible to cast absentee ballots...
Quote of the Day deux
David Mamet
It's a fine source of income for the deceased as well...
I am from Chicago, and, so, having been disillusioned with politics at an early age I do not become involved. The only reason I vote is because they pay me.
It's a fine source of income for the deceased as well...
Quote of the Day
The Rude One:
Late for work. See yas ...
... All over Chicago, there's mobsters laughing their fat asses off because Blagojevich made mistakes that only amateurs make ...
Late for work. See yas ...
It takes balls ...
To try and implicate Obama in the Blagojevich mess.
I shouldn't have to comment on this but a Republican has the sack to cry about Barry's transparency and openness? Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.
The hypocrisy of the Republicans is unbelievable. After 8 years of lies, deception, and criminal secrecy, their chutzpah is amazing. Allow me to cite a couple examples off the top of my head:
Jack Abramoff
Cheney's Energy Task Force
Allowing bin Laden's family to leave the States after 9/11
Allowing New Yorkers to return to Ground Zero, even though the air was still toxic.
Scooter
And I bet I could fill up the page if I actually used the Google. Does anyone think, after watching Barry on the campaign trail for the last 2 years, he is dumb enough to get involved with Blagojevich? I'd even be willing to bet it was Obama's people who dropped a dime on Blago after he tried to shake them down for the Valerie Jarrett appointment. That was the feeling I got after looking over the indictments; after the 'sure thing' to replace Barry in the Senate suddenly withdrew her name.
The Republicans need to STFU and pray the Dems remain their usual spineless selves and not investigate what went on the last 8 years. Obama is too clean for them to treat him like the Clintons. Pat Fitzgerald already said there is no link and that's good enough for me (Fitz for AG?).
I'm tired of all the whining from the children in the Republican Party. They rail against what, a few months ago, was business as usual. They complain when the shoe is on the other foot, when they realize their incompetence and criminality might be exposed to the light (Fitz for AG?).
There are crooks everywhere and the Justice Department's job is to find and prosecute them, whatever their party affiliation. If they're Dems like Blago and William Jefferson or Republicans (time and space constraints preventing me from posting a list; literally hundreds), they all need to go. With a Justice Department staffed with professionals instead of political hacks, I'm sure we'll see a lot more fall in the coming year (Fitz for AG?).
I'm also sure the conservative mouthpieces like Lintball and Hannity will make hay out of this and a lot more (wait for the shouts of 'culture of corruption' in the Democratic Party) before the inauguration, let alone after. See it for what it is, a smokescreen to curb Obama's (and the Dems') power and preclude investigation of exactly what laws were broken during the Bush administration. They need someone else to blame for the mess we're in.
This January we can begin to correct things, to right the ship of state and return it to the proper course. The Republicans will lie and obstruct to prevent that from happening. They know their party (and what it's become) can't survive in a progressive America and will do and say anything to ensure their existence. The noise from the Right will get louder and the bullshit will come in like the high tide. They are incompetent, bankrupt of ideas and solutions, and the only tools they have are manufactured scandal, fear, and divisiveness; acts of desperation.
After watching what they did to Clinton, I do not envy Obama trying to govern in this environment.
...
"Americans voted for change. Barack Obama promised that he would have the most open and honest administration and transition in history," said RNC chairman Mike Duncan, on a conference call just now with reporters. "But that's not what we're getting. What we're getting is the same old politics out of Chicago."
...
I shouldn't have to comment on this but a Republican has the sack to cry about Barry's transparency and openness? Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.
...
"If he really wants to be transparent, if he truly is wanting to do the right thing and move the country forward, he has got to talk about his relationship with Rezko and with the governor," Duncan said, later adding: "He's got to come clean and have a press conference where he talks about what they've done in the past, the help that they've done, conversations that they've done."
...
The hypocrisy of the Republicans is unbelievable. After 8 years of lies, deception, and criminal secrecy, their chutzpah is amazing. Allow me to cite a couple examples off the top of my head:
Jack Abramoff
Cheney's Energy Task Force
Allowing bin Laden's family to leave the States after 9/11
Allowing New Yorkers to return to Ground Zero, even though the air was still toxic.
Scooter
And I bet I could fill up the page if I actually used the Google. Does anyone think, after watching Barry on the campaign trail for the last 2 years, he is dumb enough to get involved with Blagojevich? I'd even be willing to bet it was Obama's people who dropped a dime on Blago after he tried to shake them down for the Valerie Jarrett appointment. That was the feeling I got after looking over the indictments; after the 'sure thing' to replace Barry in the Senate suddenly withdrew her name.
The Republicans need to STFU and pray the Dems remain their usual spineless selves and not investigate what went on the last 8 years. Obama is too clean for them to treat him like the Clintons. Pat Fitzgerald already said there is no link and that's good enough for me (Fitz for AG?).
I'm tired of all the whining from the children in the Republican Party. They rail against what, a few months ago, was business as usual. They complain when the shoe is on the other foot, when they realize their incompetence and criminality might be exposed to the light (Fitz for AG?).
There are crooks everywhere and the Justice Department's job is to find and prosecute them, whatever their party affiliation. If they're Dems like Blago and William Jefferson or Republicans (time and space constraints preventing me from posting a list; literally hundreds), they all need to go. With a Justice Department staffed with professionals instead of political hacks, I'm sure we'll see a lot more fall in the coming year (Fitz for AG?).
I'm also sure the conservative mouthpieces like Lintball and Hannity will make hay out of this and a lot more (wait for the shouts of 'culture of corruption' in the Democratic Party) before the inauguration, let alone after. See it for what it is, a smokescreen to curb Obama's (and the Dems') power and preclude investigation of exactly what laws were broken during the Bush administration. They need someone else to blame for the mess we're in.
This January we can begin to correct things, to right the ship of state and return it to the proper course. The Republicans will lie and obstruct to prevent that from happening. They know their party (and what it's become) can't survive in a progressive America and will do and say anything to ensure their existence. The noise from the Right will get louder and the bullshit will come in like the high tide. They are incompetent, bankrupt of ideas and solutions, and the only tools they have are manufactured scandal, fear, and divisiveness; acts of desperation.
After watching what they did to Clinton, I do not envy Obama trying to govern in this environment.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
[Bleep] Blagojevich
I'm just enjoyin' the shit out of this!
Andy Borowitz
We'll see how well his 'do holds up under the kind ministrations of a 300lb horny transvestite biker named Bubba as his cellie. Better yet, Dubya.
'toon is from YubaNet
Andy Borowitz
In what is being called one of the most daring escape attempts in the history of law enforcement, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich today offered the U.S. Senate seat vacated by President-elect Barack Obama to the FBI agent who took him into Federal custody this morning.
According to U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, the astonishing escape attempt occurred moments after Mr. Blagojevich was handcuffed by the agent, who was wearing a wire and captured the entire expletive-laden offer on tape.
"'You can be the [bleeping] junior Senator from [bleeping] Illinois if you let me out of these [bleeping] handcuffs,'" Mr. Fitzgerald read from a transcript. "'And if that mother-[bleeper] Barack Obama tries to [bleep] with me, I'll [bleep] him up.'"
According to Mr. Fitzgerald, "When I say 'bleep,' he didn't really say 'bleep' on the tape," adding, "I'm going to keep making that joke until one of you [bleepers] laughs at it."
Gov. Blagojevich has been charged with a laundry list of Federal crimes, including stealing his haircut from the dad on "The Brady Bunch."
We'll see how well his 'do holds up under the kind ministrations of a 300lb horny transvestite biker named Bubba as his cellie. Better yet, Dubya.
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