August 2006

August 27th, 2006
Katherine Harris, Synagogue Siren
Katherine Harris was making a speech before a crowd that identifies themselves by their religion. She told them that if they didn’t elect Christians, the world of abortion and gay marriage was going to swallow them alive.
Here is why Katherine Harris should be sat down and innoculated to prevent her disease from spreading. One, she is woefully late to the party. The majority of Americans are pro-choice, and gays get married all the time. These are battles she is either losing or has lost.
Two, her speech reinforces my suspicions about the Jew hating element of evangelical Christianity. You cannot think I am going to hell and then tell me you love me.
Imagine the spiritual volcanic ash spewing from Mt. Falwell if a candidate made a speech saying if you don’t elect Blacks, hell is assured.
Imagine the sweatry natterings of eternal spinster Ann Coulter if a candidate said if you don’t elect Christians, hell will be on this earth.
Only a group of loons would hold off of slamming Harris for her bigotry, and the GOP did react with disapproval. There is, however, a larger question. Why is this woman, this woman who is tons of points behind in her senate quest, the best the GOP could do in a red state?
Of course, the GOP owed her for rigging the 2000 election for Bush, (and gee,hasn’t that turned out great for the US of A) and they did stand behind her for the House race.
The Senate is not the House. In the House, you can be a little nuts or really crooked,and folks let it go if the sewers are working. The United States Senate is just a hundred people, and there are only two per state. This means if you’re an accused crook (like Conrad Burns) or an actual racist (like George Allen) it stands out.
Harris’ behavior would be noticeable immediately, and if there is one thing the GOP does not need, it is more appearances of intolerance and religious extremism.
August 26th, 2006
Ray Nagin, Fool
I do not blame Ray Nagin for the disaster of Katrina. He is not the head of FEMA,or Homeland Security. He is the incompetent mayor of a corrupt city in a state so steeped in racism that a Klansman took about half the vote in major party primary a few years ago.
What he is, though, is irresponsible, in deed and word,popping off thoughts like a heavy drinker at closing time.

When Nagin makes stupid remarks about the World Trade Center and New York in general, he forgets a few things. First, few places have donated more to the disaster in New Orleans than NYC. Second,three thousand people died in the “hole in the ground”, and his lack of sensitivity is astounding.
As long as New Orleans was a place where tourists went to throw up and dance,and girls went to flash their boobs for a video tape vendor,all was well.
However, the combination of no preparation, added to the monumental stupidity and inefficiency of George Bush, and suddenly, the adorable idiosyncratic remarks come out moronic.
Here is a thought. Stop your bitching, and lift a sandbag so that more “chocolate” children do not die.
August 21st, 2006
Dick
If you shoot a friend in the face and he apologizes to you, you are one mean piece of testosterone. Of course,this toughness is co-opted by his five draft deferments and the fact that the birds he was hunting were so old that one had to stomp on the ground to get them to fly so you could shoot them, sort of an avian “Fight Club”.
August 21st, 2006
No He’s Not
What the world has come to realize is what many of us have known for some time: Georeg Bush is not a conservative. He has never been a conservative. His views on some subjects jibe with some religious conservatives, but if by conservative you mean a small government person who minds his own bedroom business. George Bush is a religious radical fundamentalist. Those are hard words to grasp when speaking of a president. He entrusts everything to a higher being. He believes he was put on earth to be president. When someone believes that, you know David Letterman was right when he said “You shouldn;t run for president because you have a needy ego”.