– Oh, the Unhip-Pocrisy of It All: CNN gets in a lather about one of Hillary’s aides planting a softball question with a woman in the crowd at a Q&A in Iowa, and then plants a silly question with a college student in the last Dem debate Nov. 15th: “Gee, what do you like better, Sen. Clinton, diamonds or pearls?” Maria Luisa, the UNLV student who has claimed CNN forced her to ask the nothingburger question, has been studying the problems related to the Yucca Flats nuclear waste storage facility and submitted five questions on that topic that were approved by CNN. But none of her serious Yucca Mountain questions were ever asked; instead, she was made to look like a girly-girl dolt with the ‘diamonds or pearls’ stupidity. Jebas, why didn’t they just force her to ask Mrs. Bill if she’d been aboard an alien spacecraft at Area 51 while First Lady?
– Pepto Dismal:Loose rumor has it that a widespread epidemic is being kept under wraps by the authorities. Seems that SRDD (Stress-Related Digestive Disorders) — known to us civilians as severe chronic constipation or diarrhea — are rampant amongst the youth of the nation, hitting the 18 to 34 demo hard. The culprits for making the younger generation go to pot, so to speak, are a combination of the stresses caused by high-speed multi-tasking, obscene levels of caffeine and high-fructose corn syrup in the diet, overwork, and anxieties about finding a job or losing one to outsourcing. Apparently someone in the government felt that letting the public know about this plague might be contrary to the best interests of the large corporations who run our economy, the chief dispensers of most of this stress, HFCS and caffeine, and so buried the report. Besides, the manufacturers of constipation and diarrhea remedies are doing land office business. Meanwhile, our kids are growing the innards of 70-year-olds. At this rate, one wonders what their guts will look like when they ARE 70.
– Progressives Win Big Down Under: Reuters reported Nov. 24th of the overwhelming victory of liberal Labor Party head Kevin Rudd over conservative Bush ally John Howard for Prime Minister of Australia. Rudd has promised to withdraw Aussie troops from Iraq, sign the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, and make progressive domestic reforms as his party captured a clear majority in the Australian Parliament. Howard, in office for 11 years, was one of Junior’s few friends and defenders on the international stage and campaigned much like a right-wing American politician, accentuating terrorist threats while promising tax cuts, more war, and little else. Rudd is sure to treat Bush’s White House with much less cooperation in what may be a precursor of the coming 2008 elections in the US.
– Conspiracy Theorists Alert: On Nov. 17th, C-SPAN3 treated all of its twenty-seven viewers to a replay of President George Bush the Elder’s 1990 address to Congress wherein he introduced the creepy Goebellian phrase ‘New World Order’ and called for an attack on Saddam Hussein if he didn’t leave Kuwait immediately. Is it just a coincidence that the date of the speech was Sept. 11, 1990, stuck up in the corner of the screen as 9/11/90? September 11, 1973 was also the date of the US-engineered overthrow of Salvador Allende’s democratically-elected government in Chile, installing the vicious dictator Augusto Pinochet in his place. Conspiracy buffs, get to work!
The Tattlesnake — CNN Plants a Silly Question, a Secret Epidemic, Liberals Win Down Under, and a Conspiracy Theory Nudge Edition
– Oh, the Unhip-Pocrisy of It All: CNN gets in a lather about one of Hillary’s aides planting a softball question with a woman in the crowd at a Q&A in Iowa, and then plants a silly question with a college student in the last Dem debate Nov. 15th: “Gee, what do you like better, Sen. Clinton, diamonds or pearls?” Maria Luisa, the UNLV student who has claimed CNN forced her to ask the nothingburger question, has been studying the problems related to the Yucca Flats nuclear waste storage facility and submitted five questions on that topic that were approved by CNN. But none of her serious Yucca Mountain questions were ever asked; instead, she was made to look like a girly-girl dolt with the ‘diamonds or pearls’ stupidity. Jebas, why didn’t they just force her to ask Mrs. Bill if she’d been aboard an alien spacecraft at Area 51 while First Lady?
– Pepto Dismal:Loose rumor has it that a widespread epidemic is being kept under wraps by the authorities. Seems that SRDD (Stress-Related Digestive Disorders) — known to us civilians as severe chronic constipation or diarrhea — are rampant amongst the youth of the nation, hitting the 18 to 34 demo hard. The culprits for making the younger generation go to pot, so to speak, are a combination of the stresses caused by high-speed multi-tasking, obscene levels of caffeine and high-fructose corn syrup in the diet, overwork, and anxieties about finding a job or losing one to outsourcing. Apparently someone in the government felt that letting the public know about this plague might be contrary to the best interests of the large corporations who run our economy, the chief dispensers of most of this stress, HFCS and caffeine, and so buried the report. Besides, the manufacturers of constipation and diarrhea remedies are doing land office business. Meanwhile, our kids are growing the innards of 70-year-olds. At this rate, one wonders what their guts will look like when they ARE 70.
– Progressives Win Big Down Under: Reuters reported Nov. 24th of the overwhelming victory of liberal Labor Party head Kevin Rudd over conservative Bush ally John Howard for Prime Minister of Australia. Rudd has promised to withdraw Aussie troops from Iraq, sign the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, and make progressive domestic reforms as his party captured a clear majority in the Australian Parliament. Howard, in office for 11 years, was one of Junior’s few friends and defenders on the international stage and campaigned much like a right-wing American politician, accentuating terrorist threats while promising tax cuts, more war, and little else. Rudd is sure to treat Bush’s White House with much less cooperation in what may be a precursor of the coming 2008 elections in the US.
– Conspiracy Theorists Alert: On Nov. 17th, C-SPAN3 treated all of its twenty-seven viewers to a replay of President George Bush the Elder’s 1990 address to Congress wherein he introduced the creepy Goebellian phrase ‘New World Order’ and called for an attack on Saddam Hussein if he didn’t leave Kuwait immediately. Is it just a coincidence that the date of the speech was Sept. 11, 1990, stuck up in the corner of the screen as 9/11/90? September 11, 1973 was also the date of the US-engineered overthrow of Salvador Allende’s democratically-elected government in Chile, installing the vicious dictator Augusto Pinochet in his place. Conspiracy buffs, get to work!