Go directly to jail

Do not collect $50b. Just go to jail, you fuck. I mean you, Bernie!

And I want Jim Cramer to have to serve as your warden, walking the cell block at night making mad money threats. It's enough to make a man sick. My man, Bernie, he always kept a smirk, even through the trial. Even in the box. Even in the cell. Even in the hole.

To the judge: may I suggest a life sentence full of hard labor?

Bernie was here. Madoff with the blog. Taken care of now. He's in the box until June.

Saying "Hell, no!" to John Cornyn

Seven years ago, we were on our way to vote, when we were accosted (within 100 feet of the door to the polling booth, btw) by John Cornyn's goons, who urged us to vote for him.

"Hell, no!" Kristin responded, without batting an eye.

Now the bastard's been in office for years, and is starting to throw his dingbat weight around at the national level, and it's showing up on t.v. He's starting to make Texas look worse than it already does to non-Texans.

His latest nonsense - trying to stand in the way of the establishment of a fact-finding commission to bring to light any potential overstepping of legal bounds by the Bush administration.

Somebody get him off the national scene, before he really fouls something up.

Evicted!

Dear Bush,

So, I hear you're leaving the White House.

They must be hard at work painting office walls and working to get the blood out of the rugs in Cheney's office. Incidentally, who gets those contacts? A Bush friend, an Obama supporter? Someone's making bank on all these ch-ch-ch-changes.

This makes me think of more to ask you. For the cross-country move with that mansion full of stuff, it must take multiple 53' trucks to get the job done. Heck you're probably taking more than Bon jovi when they go on tour. Another question - who gets those moving contracts, the one for you and all the ones for all your cronies? Other cronies?

Is this public information? Someone shoulw look into this. Of course, this takes more work than entering a few search terms into a global search engine. So, someone in the press, take this up, eh? Are they sole-source contracts, or is there a bidding process? How much insurance is being taken out on the move? The follow-on questions are endless, so I'll leave them to you to ask and answer.

Oh, and what's in all those boxes? White House pens, or something more sinister? How many national secrets and coverups are encased in cardboard somewhere on I-40 heading west at this very moment?

Ultimate Exit Interview

The ultimate understatement: "Obviously some of my rhetoric has been a mistake." Bush, 12 January, 2009. Mark that day on your calendars, a mere week before the end of the (new) world (order) as we know it.

I can't think of a single thing he's done in the public eye that wasn't a mistake, except perhaps vowing to send money to Africa and better fund AID research. Has anybody checked up on this? Did the funding ever go through 2-3 years back when he made this promise?

Looking forward to putting the "ex" in exit. Hopefully this is the last simian prez. He seems to let his guard down, and is being even boofier and more inane than ever.

Yes, end of the world as we know it. I feel fine.

Is that a clogged drain I hear in the Middle East?

No, it's been blown the hell up like so many schools, highways, mosques and other infrastructure and structures.

Then why the hell is Joe the Plumber going there? To report on what's really going on.

Ooh, this is gonna be good.

Where's the leadership at CNN? I feel back for Christiane Amanpour and other journalists who've actually paid their dues and put in their time, working their way up the chain honestly.

God, I can't stand that f-in' plumber.

Honestly.

Madoff wth millions

Bernie Madoff (pronounced "MADE off"), former head of the NASDAQ. A $50 billion Ponzi scheme. Need I say more? Could this guy have a more perfect name?

I mean, sure, the evidence may or may not be there, and there's no guilty verdict by any means. At the same time, it's hard to swallow this kind of news. I think there's a lot more corruption and underhandedness going on behind the economic scenes; the whole system really seems like a big ol' pyramid scheme. Look at property ownership and values -- you have people paying two to three times the monthly payment of their neighbors who bought their homes just five to ten years earlier. That to me makes no sense! The whole flipping of houses that people like to do, the buying the largest house they can afford, all this helps cause the large wave of overpricing that we face these days.

And then these sorts of cronies running stock exchanges. Feh.

Glad I have no investments. But, man, I can't help thinking every now and again that I went to the wrong school of ethics.

Bleep them!

So, it's time to take a quick moment to speak out against Blagojevich. Is it just me, or is this guy the epitome of the corrupt duschbag scumbucket club? Caught on tape trying to sell Obama's soon-to-be-vacated Senate seat to the highest bidder, and likely the position left by Rahm Manuel, I'm left to ask - does he get a trial; do we waste taxpayer dollars on this bleeping bastard, or do we just skip the process when the evidence is so obvious?

Rod is a tool.

Another case of misleadership in this troubled representative democracy steeped in centuries of nepotism. With the exception of known national families like the Kennedys or the Bushes, it seems at the state level, this is more easily pulled off. Check your local structure of misleaders for similar names and cross-reference that against the family trees going back a few generations, and you'll see this borne out over and over again.

Let's hope the new administration can move away from this. There are a few more Illinoisians and Chicagoans, Clintonians and other folks being appointed to his cabinet than I would hope to see, but it appears he's taking a what's-best-for-the-country stance on these appointments.