Ben Stein Changes His Thinking

Ben Stein, speechwriter for Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, game show star, actor, financial analyst, and all-around genius, has changed his thinking about George Bush and Iraq:

Despite my best intentions, I made mistakes in Iraq and mine is the responsibility. Good men and women died and hard-earned tax money was lost. Fine young men and women are crippled and disabled, which is a tragedy. It is time for a change. Therefore, I am convening an official, national, bi-partisan, blue ribbon commission composed of Democrats, Independents and Republicans, civilian and military, to start meeting at once and give me a recommendation in one month as to what our Iraq policy should be. All options are on the table. All.

Too bad this will never happen. Just reading a few of Bush's recent mid-term election support speeches will make you realize that absolutely nothing has changed in Bush's political view. Any talk of bipartisanship is an absolute dream, pie in the sky.

Foley: What Hasn't Been Said?

p0rcelina commented about Foley in one of my previous posts, so now I have to say something.

Truth of the matter is, I've been wanting to say something about this whole situation for quite a while, but John Frickin Stewart has already perfectly assessed the situation:



Now, if you've just watched that video, you must make note of Representative Patrick McHenry, Republican from North Carolina. You need to put this guy on your "People never to be believed ever again" list. Anyone that is willing to tell you that you need to prove something that you never claimed in the first place, is either an absolute moron, or a dishonest person. Plain and simple.

This also comes back to this strange entropy that always seems to happen in politics. If you are on a high horse and make a living by disparaging others OR taking up good causes but for political reasons, you are likely to be dethroned, or dehorsed by the very cause you take up.

Google excercise:

• Newt Gingrich Cheating - Newt was a Republican known for leading the cause against Bill Clinton's indiscretions, and being a champion of the Contract With America. Newt is even in the John Stewart/Foley video above still talking out of his ass instead of addressing the issue at hand.

• Rush Limbaugh Painkillers - Everyone knows Rush. He is quoted as saying "The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too." when discussing the problem of illegal drug consumers in our country. That Rush guy is really funny. I'm waiting for him to be 'sent up the river' or come down with Parkinson's Disease, because, seriously, this entropy is a bitch. Oh, and did you know Rush Limbaugh was going deaf at one time and had surgery to bring back some of his hearing? Did you also know that a side-effect of Oxycontin is dramatic hearing loss? Anywho...

• Bill O'Reilly Harassment - I love this family man. He was never convicted of anything, because well, he settled. You should know, though, that the Smoking Gun link you will find under that Google search describes some really wacky behavior.

• Mark Foley Molester - This is triple jeopardy right here, baby! He was molested, took up the endangered kids cause, then went out and... endangered kids.

• Tom Delay Abramoff - More "conservative values" stuff here. To be fair, Abramoff had Democrats on his payroll too, but the connections to Tom Delay, the House Majority Leader at the time, were paved in cash.

• Karl Rove CIA Security Leak - The White House wouldn't take political retribution on an undercover CIA agent by exposing them to the press and the world. Would they? Would they???

Uggh... that was longer than I wanted.

EDIT: Interesting. A few minutes after this blog post, I get a hit straight from the U.S. House Of Representatives, Washington D.C. Am I on a watch list now??? :)

Back From Beyond...

I don't know where I'm going, and I don't know where I've been.

Not really. Anyway, I'm still kicking.

• This is a neat idea. How about a webcam from an African waterhole? Yep, you can see wildlife drinking and getting eaten. Of course, I have yet to actually see anything but darkness and a little watering hole, but hey, whatever.
• I know I'm late to the party on this one, but Rush Limbaugh is a bonafide asshole. He, of course, claimed that Michael J. Fox is either acting or is off his medication in a political ad for a Democratic candidate in Missouri. He based this on the extreme movements Fox has in the ad. Doing a little looking around, I found that going off the medication for Parkinsons doesn't make you move in uncontrolled ways. It makes you stiffen up. It's the medication that allows hime to move at all. From the New Republic Online:
  

  "What you are seeing on the video is side effects of the medication. He has to take that medication to sit there and talk to you like that. ... He's not over-dramatizing. ... [Limbaugh] is revealing his ignorance of Parkinson's disease, because people with Parkinson's don't look like that at all when they're not taking their medication. They look stiff, and frozen, and don't move at all. ... People with Parkinson's, when they've had the disease for awhile, are in this bind, where if they don't take any medication, they can be stiff and hardly able to talk. And if they do take their medication, so they can talk, they get all of this movement, like what you see in the ad."

  Again, Rush Limbaugh is a bonafide asshole.
• Is a fire set by an arsonist ever considered a 'wildfire'? I was under the impression that a wildfire is a fire started through the environment. I heard NPR talk about an arson fire yesterday and describe it as a 'wildfire'. Looked it up on dictionary.com. *shrug* I guess arson fires can be wildfires. Learn something new every day.
• The first station wagon I've ever fallen for.

That's it for today.

Marco!?

There are things I want to blog about for sure, but I haven't had time lately. Just a little heads up that I'm still alive and thinking about all 3 of my audience members.