A New Word; Short Shorts

Booshonian

After analyzing Boosh for all these years, I have decided that there is no word to describe his artful dialect. If he and the Boosh favorite, "the greatest Supreme Court Justice ever" Clarence Thomas, were to have a conversation, no one on earth would know what the hell they were talking about. But, I digress. Back to the word. Booshisms is used and stale, so I am making one up.(or at least I think I am) Booshonian. I think it fits the man and the circumstances that we find ourselves facing perfectly. Yesterday, Boosh had a perfect Booshonian moment. It came with the announcement of the “terror plot” that was cleverly foiled by Booshco some four years ago. Yes, that’s correct, four years ago. First mentioned four months ago, finally explained. Yesterday. The Booshonian moments come when the Booshman speaks, and inserts the pregnant pause, trying to convince you that he is serious and that the subjecct matter is very dark and dangerous. It was taught to him by the master of non-effect, John Ashcroft. The only person in history to lose an election to a dead man, I believe. Boosh usually does it at just the wrong time during his speeches, which could be for effect or because he is just an uneducated mullet imitating a President. (A mullet, for those of you who don’t know, is a vegetarian fish. I am not referring to the haircut version.) The best example of a Booshonian moment was the delivery of the line “in the form of a mushroom cloud” while speaking before the UN some years ago.

Yesterday’s Booshonian moment came when he stated, “They were going to fly a plane into the largest building west of the Mississippi, the Liberty Tower.” Followed by the, Pause, Long Pause. Such “keep you on the edge of you seat” drama is almost more than my little heart can stand. Never mind that the actual name of the building is the “Library Tower” and not the “Liberty Tower.” Nor that it is probably a total lie. The mayor of LA didn’t know a damn thing about this, had never before heard it. Nor did he know that they were going to release this information. The White House says they called him, in advance, of course. So, who do you believe?

Not that I would accuse Karl Rove or Boosh of using fear as a weapon, or releasing information for purely political reasons, of course. Liberty Tower just sounds better, and makes the Booshonian moment more effective. Maybe the misstatement of the name of the building was orchestrated, maybe it was an innocent mistake. With the lack of brain power inside the head of our President, one can never be sure. But, the timing of the announcement cannot be confused with anything other than playing the “leadership by fear” card. The world is getting ready to end and these bastards are playing games aimed at the ’06 elections. Man, it is getting boring.

I heard an employee that works in this particular building state that they (the employees) have known about this alleged threat for many years. She said that she didn’t know what the big deal was, why it was announced now. She thought that maybe they were playing that “fear game” again, and that she was getting tired of it. She said that the building had put in some extra security at the time of the alleged threat, some new concrete barriers and another level or two of rent-a-cops, but otherwise life went on as usual. No big deal. Oh, by the way, she claimed to be a Republican, showing that even they are tiring of these antics.

My Favorite Statement

The following statement perhaps fits todays America better than anything I have ever read. I have had it on my file cabinet for about a year, and think it needs to be shared.

H.L. Mencken wrote,

"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the 'plain folks' of the land will reach their heart's desire at last,
And the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."


Student Loans

The stated reason for the massive cutback on the availability of student loans, “we don’t have the money,” is simply a fraud. And not a very good one, at that. How this nonsense fools anyone never ceases to amaze me. I also don't know how they can continue to do it with a straight face. I guess it's an artform. First, it is not exactly a news flash that we don’t have any money. We’ve been bankrupt since shortly after Boosh took office. That hasn’t stopped us from fighting unnecessary wars, just stopped us from spending money on things that are actually needed. To my knowledge, the damn printing presses aren’t broken, so I don’t find “we don’t have the money” to be a legitimate excuse. Printing money is how we have survived over the life of the entire Boosh administration, so why we feel the need to stop now is obvious. And no, it has nothing to do with suddenly becoming fiscally responsible.

The truth is, this “cutback” has everything to do with the war(s), and the war(s) only. As we well know, recruiting kids to get their asses blown up has been difficult of late, and the best way to raise the enlistees is to cut off education funding. Now, kids that aren’t from the elite families have one avenue to college, the military. Do you remember that “world’s largest military complex” that I wrote about some time ago? This is the beginning of that movement, and, a big part of it at that. We might even be able to avoid a draft that way, although I find that doubtful. Shameful, and disgusting. Nothing else can describe this action.

Libby Update

I hate to say I told you so, but I did. I told you all a long time ago that Plamegate would reach the door of the Vice President’s office, and it has. It seems that Scooter Libby testified that he was told by the Evil Bastard Cheney that it was okay to release all the information on Ms. Plame to the press. Now, Libby wants the records of the emails to use in his defense. Alas, the emails disappeared during that 10 hour black hole of time between when Gonzales heard of the indictments and received notice that he wasn’t to destroy anything. I’m sure that it was quite a shredding party at the White House. They probably had a shrimp ring and veggies and dip available for the occasion. Paid for by us, of course.

The problem for Libby is this. It doesn’t have a thing to do with what he is charged with. Emails and orders or not, it does not change the fact that he lied to the Grand Jury. The defense are wisely doing all they can to get the charges dropped on the basis of not having access to certain White House correspondence and documents. That strategy will fail, Libby will be convicted and Cheney will skate merrily along. Fitzgerald is at Cheney’s door, but won’t get the key to the lock. The key was shredded along with the documentation of the orders that he gave to Libby.

Rove will still fall, the Evil One will be tarnished but not ruined, at least from the Plame investigation. The Abramoff matter may be another story, however. There is no telling who all might be trapped in his web. One bit of pleasure will be had in the Abramoff scandal. Ralph Reed is guaranteed to be history. It seems he “forgot” to register as a lobbyist in Texas, after taking between 4 and 5 million dollars from Abramoff to make certain a casino was not opened. Good riddance to the Stealth Evangelist. I hope they throw away the key when they take him down. Were I Ralph Reed, I would probably be looking into saving souls in a country that has no extradition treaty with the US, and head there to set up shop pretty quickly. Right after I announced that “for personal reasons” I have decided not to run for Lt. Governor of Georgia, of course.

Something New, the Boosh Quote of the Day

I am going to start putting one of these with each post. Believe me, Boosh makes Dan Quayle look like Einstein.

" The CIA laid out several scenarios and said life could be lousy, life could be okay, life could be better, and they were just guessing as to what conditions might be like."
George W. Boosh--New York, New York; Sept. 21, 2004


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