If you've never played StarCraft, you won't really get the headline today. Don't sweat it. In any case, Nancy Zerg managed to remove the cancer that is the smug Ken Jennings from Jeopardy!, thus allowing me to watch the show again. I was tipped off to a "close" Final Jeopardy and got to watch the downfall myself. I was giddy. And, as most of you know, that doesn't happen all that often.
Got busy working on a new template for the Galva Guard pages (and am still working on it) so was distracted from posting here. Not that much hasn't happened. Here are the high points (focus on the part where Congress would be allowed to read your tax returns for the hell of it - thanks to Nancy Pelosi for catching that GOP trick).
While you were busy working on your leftovers, fuzzy math endures at the White House. Bush's budget apparently excludes Social Security spending. Hmm, the biggest program the government runs and we're pretending it doesn't exist. Hey kids, did you believe Bush when he said he was gonna increase spending for Pell Grants? Well, he lied. He's reducing them. Guess the Ivy League didn't train him too well in math skills. But that's okay, because according to scientific research (yeah, scientists still practice in the US; they're just in hiding), lying is good exercise for your brain.
Speaking of dumb Americans, CBS released a horrific study related to how many people believe evolution - or some form of it - doesn't exist. These are the same trolls who want to kill science and keep our kids ignorant of how their bodies work. And apparently subject the rest of this country to their extreme right wing views. It's no wonder foreign exchange students don't want to come here anymore. I mean, Alabama still has a constitution endorsing racism, backed by the Christian Coalition no less. Their excuse is that they're not racist, they just don't like public education. Um, please go away.
At least one more conservative wonders what the hell happened to his party. Keep asking buddy, and take it back from the bigoted psychopaths when you can.
Financial news. The dollar's freefall has run off foreign investment. Our Treasury Secretary is mouthing platitudes instead of working on real problems. The cost of the 12 Days of Christmas has risen again.
Random stuff. The Federal Trade Commission wants to give access to the Do Not Call List so scumbag telemarketers can - well - call you. Give the idiots a message here. More on the Bush plan to destroy the CIA. Administration plans to not protect your privacy when it comes to chipping your passport. We can't find out what Cheney had for lunch but any punk in an airport standing thirty feet from you can know everything down to your blood type because the government doesn't give a damn about your safety. HAVE I THANKED YOU ALL FOR VOTING FOR THIS IDIOT YET?
Dennis Hastert takes partisan politics to a new level, saying no bill will pass the House if a Democrat sponsored it. Seig Heil baby. You can't even wear an anti-Bush shirt and get an education these days. Then again, all you'll be able to learn soon is that race mixing is bad; and so is treating other races as equals, so don't read Huck Finn. Or that abstinence implies that sex is evil and ignorance of your body is God's plan. Or maybe that creationism is proven science, though we won't be able to speak of science per se. By the way, the earth remains flat and at the center of the universe. Next week, we cover lunar eclipses and God's wrath.
Speaking of churches, not all of them have the right to tell you how wrong you are. The UCC, who believes everyone is worthy of God's love, is not allowed to broadcast ads on many networks that point out the hypocrisy of other churches because "we have a long policy of not accepting advocacy advertising" says one CBS exec. CBS, by the way, never stops to worry about creating, producing, and airing advocacy television shows that may offend people, but that must be me getting out of line.
Bush doubts the results of the Ukrainian election and thinks the will of the people should be heard. Now really, he should know more than anyone about fraud, rigging elections, and disenfranchising voters after stealing one election and consorting with voting machine manufacturers and election officials to "win" this latest one. More complaints, observations, and general stories about the election we should be out in the streets protesting. And surprise! It was the economy after all in most places that affected the election. Bread and circuses my friends.
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