George C. and George W. "Never be outniggered again"

Amazing how we've suddenly discovered Mexicans.
Mexicans all over the place. Cutting the grass. Washing the dishes. Killing the pigs. Pulling the beets. Mexicans everywhere -- to hear the Republicans tell it, anyway.
Funny how all these Mexicans showed up just as GOP Congressmen and their lobbyist buddies are heading to court like a bunch of Enron executives. How the folks from South of the Border changed from lettuce pickers, gardeners and garbage collectors to petential terrorists and inplacable threats to the Ameican Way of Life about the time Iraq turned to pus, the NSA got caught with their ears to the national keyhole, middle income people realized rich folks were getting more in tax cuts than they'd be taking home next year and a guy driving a cowboy Cadillac needed a hundred dollar bill and a fistful of singles to fill up.
Yeah, our kids are getting blown up, our constitution is getting ripped up and our oil supply is drying up and we're supposed to be worried there are too many Mexicans cleaning our hotel bathrooms, fixing our roofs and watching our kids.
Somehow it reminds me of what George Corley Wallace said after he lost his first run for governor of Alabama way back in 1958 -- "I'll never be outniggered again."
Well, Condi won't let George Bush say exactly that, but that's what he's doing -- the only difference is the skins are a lighter shade of brown and the accent is different.
When will we start hearing about the administration's "Final Solution to the Illegal Problem?"

It's the principal of the thing I can't stand

I don't know principal Tom Barth over at Central High in La Crosse, and I don't want to.
This is the guy who had one of his students - Carter Broer of Coon Valley, arrested -- yes, arrested -- for putting his administrative mug shot on a parody of a Captain Morgan's Rum ad. The kid may be charged with defamation for his PhotoShop exploits. The principal out to have his no-funski likeness and petty-ass action spread from sea-to-shining-sea and beyond.
When high school seniors go to court for making fun of the principal, our country is in deep, deep trouble.

Minnesota Taliban

Well it looks like the high priestess of the Minnesota Taliban got the nod to make a try for a two-year taxpayer-paid trip to Washington. Yeah, Michelle Bachmann -- nee' Amble, of youthful lust-tainted memory -- had the dirty old men of the GOP slavering out of her hand this weekend. Hit those doinks with a queer-hating, gun-toting, tax-cutting, Jesus-loving mama with T & A holding up pretty good for a passle of kids and the far side of 50 and we have and endorsed Congresswoman-wanna be.
Well, with any luck, she and her fanatic friends of Jesus will put a scare into the hoi poloi that will send them to the polls to vote for whichever jackass the DFL puts on the ballot and packs her off to a well-deserved obscurity.
On the otherhand, it might be fun to send her to Washington to publically befoul herself...
It is, however, amazing, that this is the same Minnesota Republican Party that was home to Harold Stassen, Elmer Anderson, Lloyd Duxbury and Arne Carlson.

Vox populi

Well, it's good to see that the people are still smarter than the folks we send to Congress. It appears that the latest bright idea of the elected class -- send everybody a $100 check and we'ss shut up about $3 gas was about to get them laughed out of office. Somebody might have pointed out to our pampered politicos that getting a couple tanks of gas on Uncle Sam's nickel wasn't about to be a life changing experience -- save maybe for the numbskulls who proposed it.
Americans may not be the brightest bulbs on the string, but jeez...