Category: Congresscritters and other venal idiots

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Well, not so much an explanation as an observation that a universal law of large organizations compelled the unseemly haste which impelled the passage of the Dhimmicraps’ obscene “stimulus” bill.

PARKINSON’S LAW OF TRIVIALITY: The time spent on any item of a committee’s agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum of money involved.

Indeed.

In cards, a player’s “tells” give away what the player wishes to remain unknown. Politicians have their “tells” as well, and the recent rush to pass “Porkulous”–the so-called stimulus bill–without open examiniation is one such. After all, as Robert Burns said,

“There’s nane ever fear’d that the truth should be heard but they whom the truth would indite.”

Aye, most telling indeed.

(“The Dhims”? Yep. Even those three Repugnican’ts in the Senate who voted for the thing were but acting as wannabe-dhimmicraps)

Oftentimes, folks take good intentions and run with them without enough forethought, resulting in more unintended consequences than if they’d stopped to think things through first.

Case in point: my keyboard drawer. Now, my desk is a cobbled-together bunch of bits and pieces from here and there (the legs, for example, are mere pieces of ice-felled sycamore branches that vary from about 7″-10″ in diameter), and I just sort of assembled the thing like Topsy grew. As a result, my keyboard drawer–1″ thick a piece of MDF with plastic laminate on all six sides that’s 24″ wide and 18″ deep; a piece of scrap I pulled from someone’s discard pile–has nothing to keep me from shoving things off the back side. And, given its size, I do tend to collect things on it…. to be shoved off the back whenever the pack gets too populated. Hence, at least once a week, I have to crawl under my desk–usually behind the safe I use as a foot rest–and retrieve something I’ve shoved off the back.

All this could have been avoided with a little more careful planning (heck, any planning at all! *heh*)

Something like this is behind the recent “stimulus” package, I fear. Nearly 1,500 pages of unread pork passed without any review by adults whatsoever. “Do something–now!” without any sober reflection or consideration of unintended consequences (let alone revelation and consideration of the intended consequences). Good will not come of this, contrary to the spin and lies put forth by politicians, Mass Media Podpeople and the (other) folks set to benefit from all that pork.

All that pork. Needs garlic.

I don’t care what “color” or “race” or whatever someone is, nor do I care whether a person is able to sound out the words on a printed page and otherwise mimic functional literacy, any person who says he’s eager to get to work in Washington “to face a convergence of parallel crises”¹ is an illiterate boob, and we have more than enough of those in the Senate already. (OK, he heard someone somewhere get the plural of “crisis” right and aped that well enough.)

Roland Burris may be a nice enough guy, and he might even be an honest guy (Hey! It could happen, even in Illinois politics! It could too!) Heck, he might even possess a modicum of intelligence (although Howard University certainly can’t take any pride in his alumnus status given the assinine statement above). But he’s illiterate and butt stupid if he thinks parallels can converge. Heck, even taking its loosest meaning, if he can converge parallels, then HE should be our political messiah, not Obama.

The Dhimicraps should refuse to seat Burris on the basis of how much stupidER he makes them look, if for no other reason…

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