Posted by
The Hermit Crab on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 1:31:37 PM
Once again I'm short of (lunch)time, so let's dispose of the quick stuff:
We of the internet or talk radio public are familiar with the "tinfoil-hat brigades"; those wacky people who are convinced that the government's satellites are reading their minds, or at least they are whenever the brigadier is not wearing his protective tinfoil hat. I find it amusing that the people in our society who are most worried about the government reading their thoughts are the most likely to be having no thoughts worth reading.
Bitter Irony Department: The main office for the Welfare Department in Sullivan County, NY is in the town of Liberty. (If you don't see the irony, you need to learn more about the deleterious effects of the welfare system.)
I've seen several conservative authors who I respect lamenting the recent awarding of the multi-billion dallar tanker plane contract to EADS (the military wing of Aerbus) and its American partner, Northrup Grumman. They fell that that good all-American firm, Boeing, should have received the contract so as to keep the American defense industry American. Apart from the fact that Northrup-Grumman is just as all-American as Boeing is (the Grumman Hellcat is my favorite carrier plane of World War II), maybe Boeing might have had a better shot at the contract if they hadn't tried to defraud the government the last time 'round. That dirty deal (which resulted in a few prison sentences) was shot down (I love military puns) by Senator John McCain. For this he deserves our thanks. Thieves never like a good watchdog, though, for obvious reasons...
Just think – if Juanita Broderick’s husband had shot her rapist the way many honorable men would have, we would have been spared 16 years and counting of the Clinton contagion. Mull that over for awhile.