Snowfall

It looks like Tony Snow isn't doing too well. A growth near his abdominal area has been determined as cancerous, and has spread to his liver. Too bad, huh? What? Do I sound cruel? Insensitive? Yeah, I know I do; but I can't help it. No, I'm not proud of it, but I can't summon much sympathy for Mr. Snow. Bad as it is for Tony Snow right now, he still has it better than most of us. He's wealthy (which we're not), so he can afford to take the time off from his job as long as he needs to (which we can't), and get the best doctors and medical treatment available (and there's a big difference between what he gets and what the rest of us get). Being Bush's hand puppet is a well-paying gig, and Tony is great at it. Cancer doesn't discriminate, but you don't want to be in the ER with a tin cup either. Maybe to his rich white Republican friends sending him "Get Well" cards Tony Snow is a good guy, but he hates the rest of America, and he lets us know it. As a newspaper columnist, a talking head on Fox, or press secretary for the President, Snow has been nothing if not consistent: a smug, narrow-minded bigot. But because Tony Snow is articulate, and handsome and has a nice smile, he gets a pass. Hey, if you're not parading a Confederate flag or wearing a swastika, you can't be racist, right? Just ask Ann, or Rush, or Sean. He didn't build the GOP's Pretty Hate Machine, but he certainly helps keep it running and well-oiled. And Tony Snow never met a queer, tofu-eating, dope-smoking, Bible-burning, terrorist sand nigger he couldn't beat up on. And he liked it. I'm not enough of a bastard to wish him dead, but only because of his wife and children. Nobody deserves to be a widow. Nobody deserves to be a orphan But say a prayer for him? Sorry, but I don't have the time. I'm busy. I'm saying prayers for the soldiers fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Walter Reed. I'm saying prayers for hundreds of thousands of Iraqis trying not to get raped, tortured, shot or blown up. I'm saying prayers for the people of New Orleans who helplessly watched their friends, family, jobs, homes, neighborhoods, culture, and future drown. I'm saying prayers for all the besieged working-class heroes of America who are one paycheck away from bankruptcy, unemployment, poverty and homelessness. So, you want me to waste a prayer on Tony Snow, one of the grinning cheerleaders whose relentless parroting of the party propaganda propelled us into Dubya's incompetent, blood-soaked obscenity of an administration in the first place? God forgive me, I can't. I can't.

The border fence is not a solution... unless you are Halliburton.

click to enlarge The only one who will benefit from a border fence will be the contractor and it will probably be someone attached to Cheney. And by all evidence seen from the war, Katrina and now Walter Reed, everything this man touches turns to shit. But it wouldn't surprise me if Halliburton got the border fence contract. That is how despotism rolls. But beyond that, fences and walls never work and the one planned for our southern border will just as much of a disaster - for humans, the economy and for the environment. The stupid man builds a fence, the smart one fixes the problem that created the need for the fence and Bush does not have that ability since he can't bomb the sweatshops illegal immigrants work in here in the U.S. Those are called contributors. That is Bush's only tool it seems - the bomb. Bomb them into submission, bomb them out of existence, bomb them into the stone-age, we have heard those lines before from the GOP. That is all they know. They are incapable of solving a problem where the solution begins with the human heart. Cheney's has nothing but springs and gears.