No Client #9 to kick around any more

Eliot Spitzer, or as we call him Client #9, had his dreadfully boring show on CNN cancelled. He was getting outrated by Keith Olbermann's show on Current TV which broadcasts on an obscure, local-access UHF frequency and by RedEye on Fox, which comes on at 3AM. Times are indeed tough when a disgraced liberal governor who used his state's highest priced prostitute service can't get other liberals to listen to him prattle on about current events.

Heh heh...maybe if they added Casey Anthony as co-host they could get a few more months of show.

Boogie Woogie

I don't dance, but if I could dance like this....well, I'd dance once in a while. Check out this couple. If you don't have fun watching this then you are utterly dead inside....

GM in another hole

One of the biggest problems for GM for which they received $50billion from taxpayers to stay in business was a huge inventory of unsold vehicles. Obviously the insidious unions caused most of the problems, but unsold inventory contributed also. Apparently GM is pretty much back at the same point with unsold inventory that they were when they got taxpayer relief. Will GM need another infusion of taxpayer cash to fund lavish union contracts and will Obama skirt the Constitution to shore up union support for 2012?

Over at DougRoss@Journal, Doug sums the GM bailout debacle pretty succinctly...

You mean that abrogating bankruptcy law, screwing over secured creditors and rewarding Democrats' union supporters with billions in equity, tax breaks and subsidies didn't really fix GM?

He's right. Corporate welfare for GM didn't get them to improve their shoddy business practices any more than welfare to individuals motivates them to change the behavior that made them poor in the first place. Why change what you're doing when other peoples' money will be given to you for not changing?

US bankruptcy laws were completely ignored in order to funnel billions of taxpayer money to Obama's union friends. Who's going to stop the utterly corrupt Obama union machine from doing it again and using "too big to fail" as a rationale?

Now that's irony

People tend label as ironic things that are just coincidences. Like in that Alanis Morissette song Ironic, she lists 'rain on your wedding day', 'he won the lottery and died the next day', and just to keep it rhyming, 'a fly in your Chardonnay' as being ironic. But these things aren't ironic, they're just things that are bad that happened to some body.

There are many definitions of ironic but I feel certain this story exemplifies it perfectly.....

From the Huffingtonpost -- ONONDAGA, N.Y. -- Police say a motorcyclist participating in a protest ride against helmet laws in upstate New York died after he flipped over the bike's handlebars and hit his head on the pavement.

I don't think it gets any more ironic than that.

Did Casey Anthony get away with murder?

About an hour ago, Casey Anthony was found not guilty on the 4 serious counts of murder, man-1, man-2, etc, but guilty of lying to the cops. So basically she got off. This raises a few questions....

-Was there a miscarriage of justice here? Should she have been convicted based on the evidence shown?
-Is the bar for a murder-1 conviction too high in this country? Should it be lowered so that people who we "know" did it like OJ and Casey, get convicted?
-Can we as a nation afford to abandon the "beyond a reasonable doubt" standard without abandoning what makes our legal system the fairest(but not perfect) in the world?

As inept and idiotic as Jose Baez was in presenting his defense, the prosecution just didn't have enough direct evidence to convince a jury to take the life of somebody. Everybody is complaining that "this just shows you can get away with murder in this country". And they're right, but what's the alternative? A system by which numerous innocent people get put to death by the State for crimes they didn't commit?

I'd rather have a system that occasionally lets a guilty person slip through the cracks than one by which innocent people are found guilty....and THAT still happens with regularity.

West Philly granny has been watching the news

My friend Pat over at Belchspeak posted this story about a kid in a west-Philly ghetto who ate too much of his granny's bacon. Apparently she's been paying attention to the news, that is if she owns a TV, because she chased him around the yard, sat on top of him, and water boarded him with a hose jet to the face as punishment for scarfing down the delicious pig meat.

Heh heh....that'll teach him.

I blame Obama for not closing Club Gitmo. But for the CIA water boarding vacationers at the tropical paradise resort, the water boarding technique wouldn't be so popular and granny would have just beaten him with a belt like everybody else.

For all you longsuffering parents out there with misbehaving kids, I've included this helpful primer on waterboarding. Who says TRR isn't educational?

Pollution is our friend

The insanity that is the man-made global warming movement received yet another nail in its coffin....

From (Reuters) -- Smoke belching from Asia's rapidly growing economies is largely responsible for a halt in global warming in the decade after 1998 because of sulphur's cooling effect, even though greenhouse gas emissions soared.

Turns out the sulphur in pollution reflects the sun light, actually cooling the Earth.

Not to be deterred by little things like facts, no doubt the Obama administration through the EPA will continue aggressively closing coal power plants in the US in the name of this insidious hoax perpetrated on the world by petty tyrants whose lust for power over the rest of us knows no bounds.

Schools thrive without union thuggery

Over at the WashingtonExaminer, Byron York has an article that shows what an immediate and drastic improvement Wisconsin schools have seen since the collective bargaining law was signed into law by republican Gov. Scott Walker...

The Kaukauna School District, in the Fox River Valley of Wisconsin near Appleton, has about 4,200 students and about 400 employees. It has struggled in recent times and this year faced a deficit of $400,000. But after the law went into effect, at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday, school officials put in place new policies they estimate will turn that $400,000 deficit into a $1.5 million surplus. And it's all because of the very provisions that union leaders predicted would be disastrous.

See, you take collective bargaining out of the labor market and have public sector workers contribute to retirement and benefits like everybody else, and suddenly you are flush with cash. Let's hope this stands as an example of what should be done around the country where union goons control everything and entitled government bureaucrats' wallets get fat thanks to the taxpayers.

It's Canada Day?

Apparently there's such a thing as Canada Day...who knew? What there is to celebrate about Canada other than the exportation of some really talented comedians to the US, I haven't a clue. Whatever.....here's William Shatner singing the Canadian national anthem to mark the occasion....

The timely demise of Hugo Chavez....at long last

Over at MSN this a.m. the headline read "Venezuelans stunned by Chavez cancer revelation".....yeah stunned and thrilled.

Thanks to Chavez being a brutal, murdering dictator, nationalizing foreign industries, and establishing a true socialist state in Venezuela, a nation that was once a wealthy breadbasket of South America has, in less than a generation, plunged into poverty, despair, and is the butt of jokes by free people the world over. After all if Sean Penn and Danny Glover are your friends, you know what a demented screw up you are.

Nobody knows what will happen when the devil mercifully comes to take Chavez away to hell at long last, but utter chaos created by a power vacuum in Venezuela would have to be better than what they have now. Here's hoping that Chavez' remaining days are short and uncomfortable.