Future SAT Question

23. Valley of the Dolls are to drugs as:

a. Bush Administration is to lying

b. Mel Gibson is to offensive outbursts

c. Bill O' Reilly is to spin

d. All of Above

This morning it was reported that after Al Gonzales claimed that he had nothing to do with the 8 AG firings, evidence has been found that he was in all of the meetings and signed off on the firings himself. I may not be the first to say: liar, liar -- pants on fire. What gets me about the members of the Bush administration is that they lie at all. If you watch Fox News they will tell you that the firings are not against the law and that democratic congressmen are just holding show trials. The obvious question is if they did nothing wrong in firing those AGs, then why lie about being involved? It is just like the Scooter Libby situation. If it wasn't against the law to reveal CIA employee Plame's identity, why did Scooter lie about being involved? It seems to me that this administration is addicted to the lie, even when they don't need to, or do they?

It seems that the decendents of the Mayans, who were the subject of Mel Gibson's last movie, Apocalypto, had a problem with his portrayal of their people. Mel apparently went off on them. I don't know what it is about Mel, but he seems to not have people skills, have anger issues, and can't seem to stop himself from saying offensive things. I think that one of their complaints was that he portray them as too bloody, but if they watched Mel's other films they would find the Brits were pretty sadistic in Braveheart and Jesus was pretty messed up by Romans and Jews. Mel seems to really go overboard with the realistic depiction of sadistic violence. I am not letting Gibson off about his offensive outbursts. I think he needs help and maybe a break from public appearances.

When my dad comes over, we are often obligated to let him watch FoxNews ("We Decide, You Believe") and it seems that many times it's Bill O'Reilly who is on. He welcomes us to the "no spin zone" yet he then commenses with spin. Maybe he doesn't know what "spin" is, or in the spirit of a great line in Princess Bride, "I don't think that word means what you think it means."

Never The Twain Shall Meet: Cheney and the Truth

It is not that Cheney wouldn't know the truth if it mistook him for a turkey (or a lawyer) in a turkey shoot. Cheney has a blatant disdain for the truth. Truth is to Cheney as water was to the Wicked Witch in Wizard of Oz. It would melt the latex off his cyborgian skeletal structure.

So the news today is that Cheney was trying to work his evil mojo over at Wolf Blitzer's place. He claims that talk of blunders in Iraq and/or lack of credibility are "Hogwash." He also goes on to say in regards to a Congressional resolution in opposition to the escalation of the war "It won't stop us." (How so very cyborg-like, Dick. It is nice to know how much you listen to the people's representatives)



Then he says that the bottom line is that they have had "enormous successes" in regards to Iraq. Yeah, that is why the American people booted the republicans out last November because you guys were having enormous successes. Then he says he thinks Rumsfeld did a "superb job."



Dick, can we talk? You have a credibility problem. Do you know why? You have been caught in so many lies they could fill volumes. I don't know anyone outside you, Bush, and your inner circle who would be able to say with a straight face that Rumsfeld did a "superb job"

The conventional wisdom and truth is that Rumsfeld was an incompetent bungler, who you didn't have the balls to fire until after your party got run out of town.



Dick you can go on trying to make the press, the democratic party, and all those who are against your plan on Iraq as wanting us to fail, be quitters, or any number of other ways to suggest your critics want to undermine the country or the troops. If we "fail" or have to pull out in a humiliating matter with all the consequences you claim will happen it will be solely your fault and the fault of the Bush administration and the republican party. It is not the troops that will fail, because they are courageous professionals, but you and George Bush who will be failures. It is this Administration who dragged us in under false pretense and then went on to bungle the operation and misuse our men and women in the Armed Forces. You cannot blame the democrats (ok, you can blame Lieberman) or any of your critics for your failures.

Truth, this is Dick.

Dick, this is Truth.