Ah, what's a trillion dollars between friends. Without being finalized in conference committee, Congress has passed a "stimulus" bill that probably won't stimulate anything. I think the line that best describes it is "this bill was written based on the wish list of every living - or dead - Democratic interest group." But don't worry. Our man Obama is convinced that without it, we're all going to die. Nothing will get the economy moving as building dog parks and frisbee golf courses. Just because the Congressional Budget Office says the massive cost will eventually hurt employment by removing money from the private sector is no reason to think it's not the best damned idea to come out of Washington. And its urgency cannot be understated. Just because (as mentioned before) most of the money won't be spent until down the road is no reason to think passing it before Wednesday is necessary to keep the economy from imploding. I think the best part of that article is Obama's contention that he was elected for just this reason. Funny. I don't remember his campaign platform including an $8 billion spending package. I'm pretty sure I would have noticed that. Maybe I missed it because his inaugural address included language about spending wisely. But that was a couple of weeks ago. It's different now. It's dire. If he waits too long, the percentage of people for it might drop even lower than the 38% it's hovering around.
But I can't blame Democrats alone. Three Republican Senators voted for it too. Add the zero Republican members of the House who voted for it and you get 3 Republicans in Congress vote for this crap. That's bipartisanship. Remember the good old days when bipartisanship (according to the New York Times) when it meant John McCain and the Democrats. Now it means idiot Arlen and the Maine bimbos along with the Democrats. But not McCain. How bad is that? This bill is so bad that McCain won't even stab his fellow Republicans in the back to get good pub in the New York Times.
I don't watch American Idol. Getting a record contract for winning a karaoke contest should only happen in the movies or if your a Filipino joining the band Journey (which is still nowhere as embarrassing as the Journey Escape game for Atari). So, I had no idea who Bikini Girl was. Now I do. Well, I know there was a contestant who sang in a bikini (and thank God was a female). And now Playboy wants to put her in their magazine. Looking at her, she's attractive enough, but it really shows the decline of Playboy. She's definitely not centerfold material, and I actually don't think (by which I mean I hope) they want her for the traditional centerfold. But I remember when Playboy went for the A-list celebrities or at least ones who became famous for something in really bad taste (say, Darva Conger). She isn't famous enough or trashy enough to make me interested.
And her boobs aren't big enough. Unlike this freak show. A woman in Texas didn't think her knockers were big enough. So, she got about a gallon of silicone put in to have the biggest fake ones ever. I'm all for big boobs, but I'm not sure I'd like being around someone with some beanbags on her chest.
This is some fun political stuff too. Obama isn't content with a scandalously bad stimulus package. He also wants a cabinet full of scandal. First Bill Richardson pulls out of Secretary of Commerce because of a little federal investigation. Gee Bill, that endorsement worked out real well. Now, we get at least four appointees (not all cabinet) who have had tax issues. His Secretary of Labor nominee's husband's auto shop (which is listed as an asset on her disclosure forms) forgot to pay some taxes until a lien was put on his business. But it only goes back to 1993. Compared to Robert Byrd's Senate tenure, that's nothing. And his nominee for performance officer (is that really a job) had to pull out for tax reasons of her own. Then there was Tom Daschle who was going to be Secretary of Health and whatever who had to drop out because he didn't pay taxes on a chauffeured limousine provided by a political supporter (how is that not a problem of its own). Oh, and he also didn't include income from consulting work. It was only $83,000 so anybody could overlook that.
Yet, the guy who got in was the original appointed tax evader Tim Geither. He had a job with the International Monetary Fund which meant he had to pay his own Social Security taxes. He didn't. Because he kind of forgot. I once forgot voyeurism was illegal. Can happen to anyone. Except the IMF took great pains to let their employees know those responsibilities, and oh, the IMF also gives extra money to their employees to pay these meddling taxes. So, he took the money to pay his taxes and didn't. Guess what job he was nominated for. Secretary of Treasury. Taxes shouldn't be an issue for the guy just because the IRS falls under the Treasury department. He'll have plenty of people to help with his taxes in the future.
I think a few things are really funny about this. The first is that people dug up an old Senate campaign commercial for Daschle where he makes fun of people in limos. My have the times have changed. And another blog made a funny point but I can't remember which blog. They said that Obama has a plan to pay for his stimulus package. He'll keep nominating all these tax cheats to his cabinet. Once found out, they pay their back taxes which fills the treasury. But it does bring up a good point. The Democratic Party is the one always saying people need to pay their fair share of taxes. Why don't they? I guess raising taxes is easy if you don't plan on paying them.
Speaking of ridicule, this dude in Canada built a female android. Actually, his second one. Very lifelike. But he doesn't have sex with her. Which kind of begs the question why you would build a lifelike female robot if not to make your sex slave. Other than the scientific value of it.
Speaking of sex, a member of the Bee Gees, Robin Gibb (the ugly one), knocked up his housekeeper. Which apparently was unacceptable to his wife who didn't mind the sex aspect of it. Just the baby. I don't know what her deal is. Look at her. The wife looks like Rosanne Barr with a bad dye job. She should thank God every day that her wealthy husband hasn't left her for good for the 33 year old cootchie that he's been getting a hold of. Except she can't thank God because she's a Druid which means she's stupid too.
I'm not sure what to make of this story. A Boston cop could be in trouble for using this squad car to take a couple of gay porn stars to a strip club (I'm assuming for a gay show). I'm guessing this never comes up in Nicholasville. Cops go for the macho act so I'm thinking that wouldn't be the best use of your time and city equipment if you don't want the ridicule. No mention whether he stayed for the show. Or had buttsex.
I'm warning Phil in advance not to read this story. A journalist decided to take a job at Walmart to find out how bad things were there. His finding: not so bad. Obviously he's clueless to miss the high paying joy that comes with non-Walmart retail jobs.
Also down in Texas, computer hackers have been breaking into electronic road signs to post warnings about zombie attacks. Austin authorities are threatening prosecution of those who did it. Well, I for one am appalled. Zombies are attacking and our authorities are refusing to warn us of this impending threat.
Here's a couple of stories about the dangers of not taking the internet seriously. The first is some 18 year old who pretended to be a teenage chick on Facebook. He used that to sucker stupid high school boys into sending him naked pictures. Then he threatened to pass the pictures around unless they had gay sex with him. Are high school students that stupid now? You sent a naked picture of yourself to an anonymous person on the internet. Now, you're going to suck his willy to keep him from showing it to other people? You were willing to show your junk to someone you don't know. Why do you suddenly feel the need to protect your privacy?
But that was Facebook. Myspace has problems too. Some wackjob who ran for governor of Minnesota a few years ago as a vampire met a 16 year old girl who left him a supportive message on his Myspace page. The online relationship turned bad when she tried to dump him (go figure). And proving teenage girls in Rochester are as stupid as teenage boys in Milwaukee, her best idea to get rid of him was to claim she was a vampire hunter and he wasn't safe with her. Obviously she was unaware that he was using the whole vampire thing to pick up stupid 16 year olds and probably doesn't really believe he's a vampire.
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