Thoughts Out Of Season

Leaked NSA documents reveal that the United States bugged German phone calls and emails to the tune of half-billion a month. German lawmakers were speechless when they learned the breath and extent to which their privacy was invaded by one of their closest allies. I mean WTF is going on with this government?  On the one hand we have a Congress that's as useful as a pair of balls on a priest and on the other hand we have a US security agency working like dogs spying on our allies as if another D-Day was fast approaching. Has our damned government become schizophrenic? What in God's name is going on? Stay tuned ladies and gents because it looks like things are gonna get a lot worse before they get any better.

So tomorrow the interest rate on student loans jumps from 3.4 to 6.8% because the Do Nothing US Congress could not waken themselves from their self induced coma to pass legislation that would have halted the rise. I usually like to lampoon government officials and try to get my point across by trying to make them look ridiculous but I'm really starting to get concerned. Our government is not working, both literally and figuratively. Like a plane that moves to slow and thus stalls, our country appears to be doomed by a legislative inertia that will bring it crashing limply to the ground

It appears to the world that the only way to prosper in the US government is to be third rate, moronic, misogynist not to mention paranoid, avaricious and downright stupid. Look at the events of just the past week or so: A House of Representatives member tries to bolster arguments against abortion by revealing he has seen fetuses as young as 15 weeks performing "purposeful actions"while reviewing the ultrasounds of pregnant women. These purposeful actions? Masturbation! Never in US history has a Farm Bill been voted down. What is a Farm Bill? It's a welfare handout or, if you like, a bribe paid to US farmers to ensure they do what they do: Farm! And why was the bill killed? Because a group of Republican House members tried to include in it a provision to cut $20 billion from the Food Stamp program which helps the poor in getting food to eat. Republicans knew from the start that no Democrat would ever vote for such a provision thus sabotaging the bill from the star...

The European Union is terribly pissed following revelations that the United States bugged EU offices in the United States and monitored telephone calls throughout the EU. Now why the Hell would you eavesdrop on your allies? Prevent attacks? Unearth plots? Gain advantage for US businesses? Business? That's right folks! I bet a thousand-to-one this bugging and eavesdropping were done at the behest of American businesses looking to gain a competitive advantage over our European allies. What else could it be? This administration is going to have a lot of explaining to do in the coming weeks. From the killing of the Farm Bill to Bugging Our Friends, it looks like armature hour for the U.S. government.

Republican Party chairman Jim Allen got scorched after sending an email that described a former  Miss America running for Congress as, among other things "a street walker' and "a love child of the D.N.C." To quote Allen, "“Rodney Davis will win’ the primary against Erika Harold and the love child of the D.N.C. will be back in S**tcago by May of 2014 working for some law firm that needs to meet their quota for minority hires,”.  He he also added that Harold, "was being used like a street walker and her pimps are the DEMOCRAT PARTY and RINO REPUBLICANS.”  Mr. Allen, upon being approached by reporters seeking clarification of the remarks contained in the email appeared visibly shaken, perspiring freely in the air conditioned lobby of his office. Upon seeing the reporters approaching Mr. Allen, wide-eyed and shaking screamed out "Some of my best friends are black,  then ran into the mensroom and locked himself in refusing to come out until the repor...

It's been a busy week tracking the grunts, groans and unintelligible moans of various members and aficionados of the Republican party. There was Texan republican Michael Burgess revealing that he has spent time watching ultrasounds of 15 week fetuses masturbating; there was Glenn Beck praising Eric Snowden who is wanted by the United States for one of the most shocking cases of espionage in the country's history and the defeat of the $500 million dollar Farm Bill which hands out welfare payments to American farmers who then spend a portion of that money to elect legislators who then go and try to take similar payments away from non-farm owners such as senior citizens and single mothers with dependent children. Man this is like watching the worst damned reality show in the world, so bad that you can't wait for the upcoming week's episode to see what absurdities will be perpetrated next.

Who ever is advising this guy Eric Snowden either does not have his best interests at heart or doesn't understand the current political environment in the United States. The Republican Party has such a visceral hatred of President Obama that they would embrace Satan himself if in doing so they could score points against the current administration. So Eric, don't drive yourself crazy running around the world from one dismal country to the next, come back home and face the music and don't worry that much because the GOP will have your back.