Priorities of the Rich & Greedy

It appears Democrats are serious about increasing the minimum wage:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/06/27/congress.wage.reut/index.html

The most striking fact revealed in the article is that "salaries for members of Congress have risen $31,600 during the time the minimum wage has been frozen." In case you didn't get that, Congress -- *ahem* the Republican-controlled Congress -- has given itself a raise of thirty-one thousand, six-hundred dollars over the last ten years.

The GOP has, in my lifetime, always been a "me first" organization -- anyone with any practical use of his or her brain knows this -- but their brazenness while in power still astounds me. Any time somebody proposes anything to benefit the lower class, the GOP trots out its "but it will be bad for small business" line. Just what exactly does the GOP consider a "small business," anyway? Radio Shack? IBM? General Motors? Microsoft? Most "small" businesses I know of don't have many "entry-level" positions that the GOP so passionately protects. The "American Success Story" is becoming increasingly more difficult to find (much less achieve), and nobody has done more to make it difficult than that best friend of Big Business, the Republican Party, a party now obviously much more interested in protecting existing wealth than promoting new wealth.

Life Update

I wanted to take this time to announce that I have nothing new or exciting whatsoever happening in my life. I do want to thank you, however, for being interested enough to read about how truly stagnate my life has become. Thanks again and have a great day.

Shocking News Story!

This is an actual headline from cnn.com:

"President satisfied with Cheney's account"

Why is this news? Did anyone think Bush was not going to be satisfied with Cheney's account of the hunting accident? Bush is satisfied with everything Cheney -- and Rumsfeld and Condi and Scooter and K-Rove -- does. The article could have been referring to Cheney's conviction on child molestation charges, and the headline still would have read, "President satisfied with Cheney's account." Does it qualify as news when somebody in the Bush administration justifies the actions of somebody else in the Bush administration? And now we have Cheney coming out and declaring that he has the authority to declassify information, which is going to be quite an interesting and convenient defense for lil' Scooter, isn't it?

Let's face it: if the news media were truly objective, the real headline would have read, "Bush, Cheney: What Will These Two Assholes Think of Next?"

Moment of Clarity

That's it. I've come to a realization, and I don't think I can be swayed on the matter. Yesterday I came to the conclusion that there is no way anyone who voted for George W. Bush in 2004 can justify his decision. I mean, it's OK to have fallen for that "I'm a regular guy" bit of bullshit that Bush likes to spew, but to have fallen for it the second time?!!? After witnessing all the fuck-ups of his first term, nobody can say anything to me that approaches anything near a valid justification for having said "yes" to such an incompetent, self-serving, hypocritical asshole like George W. Bush the second time around. A vote for Bush in 2004 says one -- or maybe all -- of three things about somebody:

1. I'm a selfish asshole.
2. I'm a stupid asshole.
3. I'm an insane asshole.

See how it works? No matter your adjective, if you voted for Bush, you're still an asshole!

Now, I realize that I'm calling just about everyone's parents (mine included) an asshole at this point, but the truth is what it is. Besides, we're all assholes about something; it's just that these people are assholes about selecting somebody to fill the position of "Most Powerful Person on the Face of the Earth" while I'm an asshole about selecting what to put into my cd player.

Informative Weblink

I swear I didn't create this website, folks (it just seems that way):

http://www.iamamoron.com/

Dick Cheney on Presidential Power:

"I believe in a strong, robust executive authority and I think that the world we live in demands it."

It's funny how we never heard him express this belief in a sweeping Presidential authority when Clinton was in office. And I'm going to go out on a limb here and predict that we don't hear him say it again if a Democrat is elected in 2008. As a matter of fact, I will go so far as to say that if Eliot Spitzer were ever to become President, Mr. Cheney (or is that Mr. Dick?) will be quoted as believing the exact opposite at some point during Spitzer's term.

Now let me tell you what I believe in, Mr. Cheney: the strong, robust cock of a large, gay black man -- preferably from the Lower Ninth Ward -- stuck up your hypocritical ass for days on end . . . because I think the world we live in demands it.