Sunday, January 09, 2005
Fun and Games
What has the prez done for us lately? Iraq seems to be a mess and the chem-bio weapons have never turned up - however Michigan is coming up on the flu peak, and I can't get a flu vaccine for the first time in 30 years. And there was a chlorine leak the other day down in South Carolina that killed at least 9.
The guy at the Post Office yesterday looked at the package I picked up and said I won't be doing that much longer. I got a cell phone charger from Canada and he seemed to think I was bringing in drugs.
Basically it isn't torture unless you kill someone. And while they are tiptoeing around that definition, Bush has reserved the option to call for torture.
And like I alluded to earlier, the government can keep you in jail forever - even if they don't any proof that you did something illegal.
And the pres says that we will be going to a hydrogen based transport plan. However, there is no option to generate hydrogen right now except for using the inplace fossil fuel which means that instead of burning up fossil fuels directly, we get to put another layer of inefficiency between the wells and the roads.
And this year brings up increased med care costs and lessened coverage at my company and I can look forward to a Social Security system based on the same economic outlook that caused stocks to go from $40 when I started my job to zip - zero - nada - four years later. What's to keep whatever scumbag company I stick my Social Security account into declaring bankruptcy six months later. The CEO of that company would retire with his multi-million golden parachute and I'd get to look forward to being one of the mindless smiling greeters at WalMart when I'm 70.
And aren't we all looking forward to his $20 million inauguration, which would cost $5 million more than his initial monetary offer (after three days of whatever) towards international relief efforts.
2fers: Whitehouse.Gov and Whitehouse.Org
