Let's play conspiracy for a moment.
 The view (yesterday) from our window. In the background (where the top of my skull is basically) is where Rachel goes flying from, and at night (if it's clear) you can see Niagara Falls from here (the city, not the waterfall), as well as some cities in New York across the lake. |
In terms of the whole Janet Jackson thing that totally monopolized the media for the last few days, let's take a look at what else has been in the media that got “replaced” by the boob… Hmm…. Could it be the budget?
Bush's record setting $2.4 trillion, “fiscally responsible” (his words, not mine) $521 billion deficit (with an additional $400 billion expected over the next year) — and that's on top of the $1.7 trillion deficit he's already built up — budget was released yesterday (more, more). It of course has huge increases in military spending (and that doesn't include the “emergency” billions he's expected to ask for — Iraq is still not in the budget). Bush's explanation for this fiscal disaster? “It's because of the terrorists!” (I'm not kidding; read the articles).
Not only is military spending way up, but, in what Senator Kennedy is calling the “most anti-family, anti-worker, anti-health care, anti-education budget in modern times” (more), he's slashed everything from local police budgets, employment equity for women, alcohol abuse programs (giving a good excuse to use the word “IRONIC”), literacy programs (more irony), education programs in poor neighborhoods (38 separate education programs were “terminated” as Bush seems to be enjoying saying), fitness programs, scholarships, native rights, and lots of small programs like organizations documenting the black history in America (more).
He's even cut a half a billion dollars, eliminating the Environmental Protection Agency's clean water programs, and another nearly half a billion from the Center for Disease Control (more). And you know all this moon mission bunk? Oh, that's being done by telling NASA that they have to scrap $10 billion in other programs (more).Let's see. He's also cutting the Agriculture Department, Health and Human Services, the Army Corps of Engineers, and on and on and on.
Oh, but he did make permanent $1.1 trillion in tax cuts for the wealthy. Yay.
In other Janet-related news, lots of people were injured and killed by jocks partying after the Super Bowl (more). But who cares, that's normal sports behavior, right? It's healthy… I know when I have to choose between nipples and murder, I always choose murder. Clear Channel, one of America's largest broadcasting conglomerates, agrees (PDF), calling for tighter censorship on all media that enters the home (including cable and other paid subscription services). What, the company that just got fined $755,000 for indecent broadcasts (more) is calling for a media police-state? Nice.
And if you want to veer off even farther into conspiracy-land, ask yourself why is Cheney all of a sudden taking the fall for the neo-con mistakes? Saira just pointed out to me that he's the perfect patsy — everyone thinks he's the devil incarnate, and he's about to drop dead anyway. He's on, what, his seventh baboon heart now? So here's how it plays out — Cheney takes the fall, and dies before he can be investigated, conveniently making all this “disappear” from the public mind. Either Kerry or Bush (childhood friends and fellow members of the Skulls) will take the next election, this all will be forgotten, and it's business as usual until the four horsemen make their appearance later this year.
See you in hell! There's a BBQ scheduled in my torture chamber already.
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