We put the Mafia out of the loan shark business by putting BankAmerica in. We could now put Organized Crime out of the drug business by putting the IRS in. Prolly cure the deficit, too. An exchange in kind, innit.
Category Archives: Quickies
Hubris
The U.S. Senate voted today, by an unbelievable 90-6 margin, to strip the money needed to close the Guantanamo Bay prison from the supplemental war bill.
The question: “To prohibit funding to transfer, release, or incarcerate detainees detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to or within the United States.”
It turns out that no other countries will accept the Gitmo detainees. It also turns out that all but six Democrats got religion when they suddenly discovered that, if the prison closes, those terrorists would suddenly get all the free lawyers and the constitutional rights and the three hots and a cot that those Democratic Senators all vigorously campaigned for just a few short months ago.
My goodness. Some terrorists might even be freed by the courts and allowed to settle in the United States.
Imagine that.
Those voting to provide the money to close Gitmo: Dick Durbin (D-IL), Tom Harkin (D-IA), Pat Leahy (D-VT), Carl Levin (D-MI), Jack Reed (D-RI), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI).
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) came out in favor of moving Guantanamo Bay prisoners to the United States because, she said, “the legal rights of these detainees are the same under the Constitution.”
Sen. Feinstein said “American justice has to be applied to everyone, because if it isn’t, we then become hypocrites in the eyes of the world.” Then she voted to deny the funds needed to close the Guantanamo Bay prison.
Indeed.
Buying Happiness
Many of us learned in Kindergarten that you cannot buy friends. Most of the rest of us — the slow learners in the back of the room — got that lesson down pat by Fifth Grade.
Even if the lesson itself didn’t take (bought friends require a constant salary) the penalties for snitching the money from Mom’s wallet or little brother’s piggy bank made sure we didn’t repeat that particular error.
And that we didn’t sit down for a while.
I wish there were fewer Democrats.
See they haven’t learned you cannot buy friends.
And they insist they can do it with the money they steal from MY wallet and my kids’ piggy bank.
Benedict Arlen
Holy vote counters, Batman!
Arlen Specter, the lawyer who once upon a time became a District Attorney as a registered Democrat on the Republican ticket, has demonstrated once and for all that Washington maybe ought to take over the car business. After all, there is no one on the planet — not even the bond traders or mortgage brokers — who has a better handle on the ethics of used car salesmen than our top level politicians.
Legacy
I would like to be remembered as the little kid smart enough to recognize that the emperor was butt naked and ugly to boot.