Gobama!

Seems Barak Obama is doing well among independent voters in NH. Sweet. I’d love to see him go far, even all the way to the big house – I mean White House. Not only because he has a fine mind; he would be a hundred times the president Bush is. He’s a hundred times the man Bush is. I’d love to see it, if only to poach and butter the gallbladders of the poor little morons who send around e-mails about him being a Muslim, and attending a madras. As though he had been planted in America a generation ago, just so he could grow up to be president.

Of course, what they’re really saying is “Y’all ought’n ta ee-lekt a Nig–r!”

You can’t fix stupid, but sometimes watching it twitch around in its white sheet and big white pointy hat can be entertaining.

Drama Queens in the Streets

While the abdication of humanity and reason essential to the resort to murder, and the attendant degradation of our species and our birthright as children of God, are always cause for regret, if not grief, we might take a moment now to congratulate the people of Pakistan. See, they love to riot more than anything. And the death of Bhutto has given them the chance to throw the kind of grand fiesta of pointless destruction and mindless rampage that we just never get a chance to enjoy in this part of the world.

I was watching the news a few minutes ago, and saw a small group of Pakistani men, enveloped in wafting smoke – presumably from burning tires – who seemed to be joyfully engaged in beating a refrigerator to death with large sticks. While all around them, thousands of their brothers just generally ran amok. Righteously, of course.

Obviously, the fridge was somehow culpable in the assassination, as were countless parked cars in Islamabad. Now they are feeling the wrath of circumspect and right-thinking men. And God is proud of his people. And the whole world will now sit up and hear their cry for justice. So again, congratulations. It’s cool that in the process, they’ve having such a blast.

Blood On Their Hands

Cigna HealthCare – a name which is probably not intended to be ironic – has caused the death of a 17 year old girl in Glendale, CA. The company refused to pay for a liver transplant for liver failure. The decision was reversed following protests, but it was too late.

Worlds fail, though Manslaughter jumps to mind.

Squelch worked for 10 years in the insurance business, so Squelch knows it’s as simple as this:

Evil is as evil does.

We Had a Good Run, Bill

I refer to the Bill of Rights, signed on this Day, December 15, Year of Our Lord 1791. The first document in the history of our world by which the inalienable rights of the common man were set forth and manifest. And the Bill and its transmutations and interpretations remained in force and effect, by the wisdom of our Fathers and by their struggles and blood, for approximately 210 years, until those rights were constructively revoked in the truculent imperial incumbency of George W. Bush.

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

– John Locke

I wonder what Locke would say about a State which had abdicated its imperative to serve and protect the people, and had instead set out to waste and squander their lives and property, by no other means than the domination of fear.

turn out the lights…

the party’s over.

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson