Stumble It!
Dec 05 2008
No Such Thing As A Slow News Day
From OJ Simpson finally getting some jail time, to the 75th Anniversary of the end of alcohol prohibition, to BushCo stepping around the other two branches of government (again) and subverting the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, to the Coleman/Franken recount coming to a close, it’s been a pretty eventful Friday.
Yup. Orenthal James Simpson (61), received a minimum 16 years in prison-parole eligible in 5-with a 23 year maximum on 10 counts ranging from conspiracy charges to assault with a deadly weapon to kidnapping. Now, there are some out there that will claim that this is all payback for some kind of supposed wrongdoing that Simpson was accused of a long time ago. I can’t remember that far back, so I’m going to guess it had something to do with helping Bill Clinton smuggle interns into the Oral Office. I mean really, it’s not like the guy killed someone in cold blood then wrote a book about it!
What?
Oh. Snap.
And yes, 75 years ago today the United States Government realized the error of its ways and repealed an unfair and ricockulous law that banned the consumption of a mind altering substance. Realizing there was little to nothing they could do the stem the constant flow and use of this product, that they were helpless to stop people from doing what they want, and wasting an unheard of amount of taxpayer money fighting a dumb fucking war, they finally came to their senses and re-legalized cannabis.
What?
Booze? Fuck. That was stupid. People die from that shit.
Didja hear that Congressional Committees no longer have the power to vote on and enforce 30 year old laws? The BLM stripped regulations that allow the Secy. of the Interior the power to stop drilling and strip mining on state and federal lands. A 20-2 vote was passed in the House Natural Resources Committee denying the BLM the right to go onto public land and, yes, ‘Drill, baby, Drill’ claiming that there weren’t enough Republicans present on the committee.
Gotta love the “Unitary Executive” philosophy.
The recount that never fucking seems to end should come to a close by the end of business today. There’s a bit of squibbling (hard to believe, I know) over an apparent 133 missing ballots from a Franken district that Coleman is trying to block, but it looks like Al “Deep Thoughts” Franken may pull this off by four votes.
Franken should win because he’s good enough, smart enough, and doggone-it, people like him.
Yeah that Unitary Executive still makes my head explode. OJ still doesn’t get it, does he? Neat post. ~k