Trolls on your marks. Get Set. Counting down: 3, 2, 1. Go.
John Ashcroft thinks it's okay to torture members of the United States Armed Forces. However, Mr. Ashcroft sometimes has problems with facts and reality. It seems unlikely that he would approve of the use of waterboarding on his own person. Perhaps waterboarding would help change his mind.
A special shout out to Michael Savage. The "brats" aren't faking autism. In Michael's case I'd say he's not faking stupidity either.
Just for the record, in case anyone gets confused, I'm voting for the candidate who works out (That's bad, Nutz?). He's a strong man, both physically and of character. You may have heard of him. His name is Barack.
Number of times I wanted Ron Paul to run the show: -1000
Number of insane things Congress has done: I lost count.
Keep your head down, this bazooka has a hair trigger.
Onward.
There's a 30 year difference in life expectancy between the residents of Mississippi and the residents of Connecticut. Guess which one has the lower life expectancies. Our nation ranks 42nd in the world with regard to the life expectancy of our citizens. While we only have 5 percent of the world's population, we have 24% of the world's prisoners. Do you ever get the feeling our nation may not be able to come back from all the evil things some of our leaders have done to it? Down in Florida some wack-job wrote a crappy little ditty in defense of all the good things that Republicans do for us, and attacking all the bad things Democrats do. Those of us who are dying very quickly tend to see things in a different light. Poor health doesn't come from laziness, and lack of medical insurance doesn't necessarily happen because somebody is unemployed. Thanks to the war in Iraq, employed poor people have just been getting poorer and poorer.
Not breaking news: Bush makes McCain look stupid by taking a first step in multilateral negotiations with Iran. Whoa, hold on. Could this mean Bush deep down inside him somewhere actually does want to achieve a positive legacy before he leaves office? It's not a homerun for our international image, but it's a start. Crazy extremism, it seems, can be turned around on both sides of the ocean. It worked with North Korea, and this appears to be a glimmer of hope that bombs and missiles won't start whizzing through the air in the Middle East.
Morning music: Dead at Kezar Stadium on May 25, 1973 (currently Weather Report Suite).
Our funding of intelligence agencies has ballooned. Does everybody feel safe now? We're paying more than double the amount we were before Bush took office. That must be why there are more than a million names on the terrorist watch list. It should be a foregone conclusion that terrorists don't stand a chance against our intelligence. That must be why some guys with box cutters were able to hijack jumbo jets, we were only spending 29 billion dollars before. With 55-66 billion dollars being spent now, don't you think our government would be informed enough to curb carbon emissions?
Senator Carl Levin talked yesterday about wealthy people and banks costing the U.S. Treasury at least $100 billion dollars a year. Abuses of numbered overseas bank accounts have allowed the wealthy citizens of our nation to hide their money from the IRS. I was shocked, SHOCKED. I would never have guessed rich people are screwing our nation under the current administration's policies. The Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, which Senator Levin chairs, held hearing on the matter yesterday. UBS, one of the responsible banks, stopped private banking operations for United States citizens in response.
To the nice lady who wrote the diary about Arianna Huffington: I was completely mistaken in what I said about the Huffington Post. I am not sure why my newsreader was not updating their syndication. I did not, in fact, do what I said and remove HuffPost. It provides more stories than I can keep up with now. It had been when I first added it, and now is again. My apologies.
Yesterday's diary was a tip of the hat to Banksy and Shepherd Fairy, and other artists. Good work, guys. I refuse to Obey. If it's not art, then we need to destroy all of Shepherd's Obama posters. (It is art.)
Short self rescue (the diary was only up for a half hour or so):
On to the tags... I must apologize that I never took pictures. I don't own a camera, and I never have (weird, huh?). Also, it's hard to take pictures hanging upside-down off a 20 story roof.
Will Work For Change
Nation in Payne
Bah-Bee
Beans For Gas
De-Bushify
Truck Nutz (not original, but easy)
My Daughter Needs You To Think
Stop! America! Stop!
McCrazy w/ stencil images (again, no camera, sry)
Danger!
I took the diary down because comments can't be edited. Within seconds of postng my email address for the purpose of playing chess, my account blew up (126 emails in 5 minutes). Special thanks to the elitist guy who thought I meant his pennies when I said "Will Work For Change."
I wish I could be here to defend myself and my writing, but this working man has to attend to the business of making the money to stay alive. I write when I can, and that was now. Anyone who wants to can shred what I have said. It's your right, and I wouldn't deny you the opportunity if I could. I can only hope that one day the people who don't see how badly things have been going for our nation will wake up to the reality.
Have a Nice Day.