WELCOME TO REALITY, TOM!

I can't stop laughing at the often crude, sometimes obscene, but always hilariously on-target messages posted on Tom DeLay's self-serving blog before he stopped the flood (after 75 minutes, I hear).

While his actual deeds - though despicable - probably can't challenge the Bush-Cheney record, this "Christian," "pro-life" hypocrite will hopefully serve some time behind bars. One of the more knowledgeable of the posting people on his site suggested he get help from his friends on Saipan, a reference to DeLay's determined protection of slavery - including sexual slavery - on that island, which is empowered by scum like Tom to put "Made in USA" on the items produced by human chattel.

The source I read (which I have unfortunately forgotten) pointed out that "Christian," "pro-life" Tom is perfectly consistent in his stance on abortion: in the US, he is absolutely opposed to a allowing a woman the CHOICE to HAVE an abortion, while in Saipan, he is just as firmly opposed to allowing the sex slaves held by his buddies and supporters the CHOICE to REFUSE one. After all, other than a few fetishists, who wants to PAY to have sex with a pregnant prostitue?

I suppose that malice towards others is an unattractive posture, but who can avoid hoping Tom goes to jail and gets some first-hand (or whatever) experience of what it's like to have no choice about having sex or with whom one has it?

Unfortunately, like most Republicans who get caught themselves doing what they descibe as heinous crimes when some one else is the perpetrator, Tom is unlikely to go to jail at all, much less someplace where he might actually experience the joys he prescribes for others.

Do look at the messages posted to his blog and saved by a REAL patriot with a fine sense of humor and appreciation for irony:
http://tomdelaydotcom.blogspot.com/

a poem

For some reason - perhaps it's the holidays - some are now waxing poetic with "inspiring," sentimental verse lionizing the poor servicemen stuck in Iraq, as if that somehow changes the fact that they shouldn't be there at all.

Well, I can write poetry, too, after a fashion . I'm no Wordsworth, but then neither are the composers of the sappy patriotic, reality-obscuring doggeral that inspired the following somewhat less-polished opus, styled "Bush and Cheney's Salute to the American Serviceman":

you had naive visions of keeping us free
I had "other priorities": in a word, ME

while you were down huddled in some muddy ditch
I was out partying and striking it rich

you joined the service for love of the nation
but I've made you part of the new "Vietnamization"

I get to be "war president," "decider," and boss
while you get the terror, the sorrow and loss

"support our troops" say I, "don't cower and whine;
I support you to the death: yours, not mine"

don't ask what you die for, don't ever ask why
then I won't be forced to compose a new lie

let no one rescue you, don't hang up your gun
a brave guy like me would not cut and run

so, let's all deride Kerry's humorous attempt
for his words, your lives, I have equal contempt

for when you decided who should lead you in war
you rejected the hero, chose the self-serving whore