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shipment of T-shirts and jeans due in Warsaw this week was delayed and
some people in Poland may not get their new duds on schedule.
Did I say DeLay? Well excu-u-use me.
My ethicths need no exth-plaining.
The stuff was supposed to have already arrived at the port of
Gdansk. Gdansk?
I’d love to. So
some Poles will be clothing late. Others
are already clothed. Some
will only be wearing Pole O’Shirts.
“Don’t forget Poland.” In
this country, some polls will be open early.
Early voting is the new trend in many states this year.
This will help local election officials rig the vote in favor of
their particular candidate without having to stay up late nights waiting
until November 15th or 20th when the court cases roll into full swing. And
speaking of swing- -it might as well be swing- -state, that is- -that
will determine how the rest of us will live for the next four years.
Someplace like New Hampshire or New Mexico or Who-Knew?- -New
Jersey?- -may take their Electoral College Swing Break and arrive in
Florida to lie on the beach, lie by the pool, or, what-the-heck, just
lie. The
candidates are winding up or down, depending on your perspective,
towards the November 2nd deadline with important discussions
of the issues- -like whether Dick Cheney’s lesbian daughter and her
life partner Heather Poe, who Mary Cheney brought up on stage at the
close of the Vice-Presidential debates, should be getting more air time
than Bill O’Reilly and his vibrator.
(Wouldn’t that be Roger Ailes?
Just curious.) America wants to know. And
cable and network news outlets have been falling all over each other to
bring these important issues into your living room.
War in Iraq? Is that pesky thing still going on? You mean kids are still dying every day?
Well it’s worth it because if it were not for the War in Iraq,
people in Cincinnati might face a nuclear threat from terrorists,
according to proud father-of-a-lesbian Dick Cheney.
Hey! Wait a minute!
Wasn’t it Cincinnati where the President said that a mushroom
cloud might just envelop the population?
Well, that is Ohio and that’s a Swing State.
Have we scared you enough? Vote
for us. You can hide under
our bed. We have no clue
what we’re doing, but vote for us anyway. And
it isn’t just that these topics and others of absolutely zero
relevance have come up at this time, it’s that all the talking heads
have fallen into place to make them sound as if they are real campaign
issues. Your kid, your neighbor’s kid, dead in Iraq- -that’s the
issue, not some 35-year-old woman who was once the Coors Beer marketing
liaison to the gay and lesbian community and whose father just happens
to be Vice President. There
is no longer anyone on TV- -almost- -interested in enlightening the
American public about what’s what and what’s not.
But fortunately we can check out one of George Bush’s
“Internets” to find backstory and corroboration of the facts.
TV would rather yell at itself and argue about non-issues for
your entertainment dollar. I
say “almost” because every once in a while, something does slip
through the cracks- -like Daily
Show host Jon Stewart guesting on CNN’s Crossfire
and telling both sides that they were just a lot of noise yelling at
each other and were not really discussing any important issues or doing
America any good. The hosts
took offense and asked Stewart why he wasn’t being funny, which is
what they thought he would be when they asked him on.
He said something to the effect, paraphrasing Winston Churchill,
that he would “go back to being funny tomorrow, whereas your show will
still be awful”. [The Churchill? “Mr
Churchill, you’re drunk.” “Yes,
and you’re ugly, but tomorrow I will be sober and you will still be
ugly.”] It’s
appalling that only the few in this country who read and are selective
about their TV viewing really will have any idea what’s going on come
Election Day. Karl Rove and
his posse, Karl’s Kommandos, have managed to just about blot the real
issues out and off the front pages and create this diversionary tactic
of making non-issues seem important.
They rely on the fact that the public is ignorant and will not
realize that if you call for a Constitutional amendment to define
marriage as a union between two miserable people who should have known
better before they said “I do”, it takes about seven years and the
legislatures of 38 states to make it a reality.
Most people have no clue how a Constitutional amendment gets
ratified, so it makes for a good campaign hot-button issue which in
reality will never happen. And
Rove keeps urging Bush to proclaim that God is on their side.
Guess what? God is
NOT a Republican, and if Jesus came today, he’d probably vote for
Ralph Nader or some other obscure candidate, but certainly NOT Bush.
But Bush, you say, is for the sanctity of life- -no abortions
under any circumstances- -no meaningful stem cell research.
However that is only for the unborn.
What about the undead? How
about the death penalty for the mentally ill and foreign wars which are
not about oil, but about, about- -well I don’t know which of his
stated 23 reasons he’s using this week.
Sanctity of life. Life magazine, maybe. We
are a nation of dumb people. Bush
is counting on it. Only the
dumb people will vote for Bush. Are
you one of the dumb people? I’ve
got to go clothe the Poles. -30-
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