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Just caught this interesting quote from an AP/Yahoo article about House Republicans who are joining the Democrats in trying to raise the minimum wage:

"Whether people like it or not, we need to go ahead with it," said Rep. Mike Castle, R-Del., who supports the idea. "There's a general agreement among Republicans (opposing the raise) that 'maybe we don't like it much, but we need to move forward with it just for political reasons.'"

"Maybe we don't like it much, but we need to move forward with it just for political reasons."

Could Mr. Castle have been any more blunt in his explanation? Just in case you didn't understand what he said, allow me to translate his words for you: "As Republicans, we really couldn't give two shits about raising the minimum wage to a level anywhere near the true standard of living for you lowly shitheads, but we also don't want to lose our jobs because of something as silly as the minimum wage, so we'll go ahead and raise it for you."

Wow, you just gotta' love that "compassionate conservatism," don't you?

Still nothing else to do . . .

This blog entry arrives very late from Rochester, NY. It occurred to me earlier today that I never mentioned the stupidity of a comment made by Vice President Dick Cheney during an interview with cnn.com. In the interview, Cheney stressed the importance of not giving into the Democrats desire to cut and run out of Iraq, but instead stay the course until a stable *cough-cough* government has been set up. Cheney then explained that it doesn't matter where we go, they [terrorists] will find us. He then explained how they've found us in various places around the world over the last few years. Now -- and here's where common sense enters the picture -- there's just one thing Cheney forgot to mention about terrorists attacking us in Iraq: they wouldn't be attacking us in Iraq had we not illegally invaded it in the first place! So, by invading Iraq -- against the will of the international community, against the wishes of many of our own Congressmen and citizens, against the advice of George H. W. Bush, and against common sense itself -- Bush & Co. simply opened up a front where terrorists could directly attack Americans where they could not have attacked us before. Now that makes a truck-load of common fuckin' sense, doesn't it?

Who voted to re-elect these dumb-fuckin' pricks, anyway? I think we ought to ship all those assholes (and there's no doubt that having voted for Bush/Cheney means you're an asshole -- see Jan. 28 blog entry) over to fight this unwinnable, self-serving war started by the Bush-Cheney Profit Machine of Doom. If saving a few thousand dollars in taxes was worth this, you should protect those dollars with your own life. Those few thousand dollars is blood money, and it should be your own blood on it, not the blood of those young men and women who don't believe in the purpose of this senseless, shameless attempt at bloody profiteering.

Nothing else to do . . .

Why won't the Yankees just go away? They have absolutely no pitching other than Moose, Wang, and Rivera; they have about five hundred position players on the DL; and Joe Torre is sleepwalking through the season. Nonetheless, they continue to win. And not only do they continue to win, they win more and more often as more and more injuries pile up. Perhaps this is just a cynical Red Sox fan's point-of-view, but if the BoSox were to find themselves in this same predicament, they would have fallen almost completely out of the race by now. Yankee Mystique? I don't know. Maybe they're just that good . . . every stinkin' year? It's so annoying.