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Saturday, December 17, 2005



Having just encouraged the Canadian Prime Minister to turn over the Provinces to the United States so Canadians can pick up the First Amendment right of free speech I now have to learn that the President has authorized the National Security Agency to to conduct domestic surveillance without warrants and the government has effectively been illegally spying on Americans for the past three years.

What will the Administration think of next?

Well at least we still have honest and untainted elections for our President even if he does subvert the Constitution so I guess that makes it OK.

After all, you can't have security without securing someone, can you?


Posted by donburnshomepage at 10:02 AM EST
Updated: Sunday, January 15, 2006 9:44 AM EST
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Wednesday, December 14, 2005



Well it seems after having run an election in Afghanistan and running an election about every month in Iraq, presumably until they get something right, we've moved on to correcting the other democracies that really have been doing it wrong all these years. Most specifically we're fixing the Canadians.

Seems our Ambassador is telling their Prime Minister what he can and cannot criticize in the upcoming Canadian Parliamentary elections. Most specifically he can't criticize the American government.

Of course if the Canadian Prime Minister were to become an American citizen then he could criticize the American government to his heart's content because we've got the First Amendment which gives him that protection. So it really is an easy issue to resolve. Canada merely has to turn over the provinces to Washington as new states thereby making them all Americans and then they too can experience the freedoms of American Democracy first hand.

But then he wouldn't be a Prime Minister anymore so it's probably not going to happen. Too bad. ........ It would be cheaper than sending the army.



Posted by donburnshomepage at 10:19 PM EST
Updated: Saturday, December 17, 2005 9:40 AM EST
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Sunday, September 25, 2005



Remember Monica Lewinski. She's the girl who used to be able to buy gas for under a dollar a gallon in the Bill Clinton Administration.

Seems hard to believe that six years ago gas was cheap, we hadn't invaded anyone and if and when we fought a war we only paid for our side of it. FEMA meant something besides Federal Enemic Messed-up Agency, interest rates were dropping, inflation was non existent and the President was only embarrassed instead of being an embarassment.

Ever wonder whatever happened to the "Good Old Days"?

That's easy. They were bought up by Halliburton.


Posted by donburnshomepage at 10:46 PM EDT
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Wednesday, July 20, 2005




Shifting Sands:

First the president said he would fire anyone in his administration who disclosed the name of a CIA operative to the press.

Now he says that "if someone committed a crime they will no longer work in his administration". Of course that implies they will have to be convicted first, which will tke about two years.

After the conviction it will be "anyone convicted of a crime and sentenced to jail cannot work in the administration if they lose their final appeal (by which time the administration won't be there either).

Appears Carl Rove couldn't be safer if he were in the arms of Jesus.


Posted by donburnshomepage at 12:01 AM EDT
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Friday, June 24, 2005



President Cheney....whoops, I mean vice President Cheney.....has given us the lowdown on our imminent victory in Iraq.

Obviously he has the inside track on such things what with him thinking for the President, but he should take time to explain it to General Abizaid who is our chief honcho in Iraq and who seemed dumbstruck by the revelation. Maybe that's because the closer you get to the explosions the more personal they seem to become and Dick having been in hiding for the past four years is a bit out of touch.

As I've said before, the man needs to get out of the bunker more often. Take a walk without his helmet on, talk to real people for a change, go on vacation in Baghdad. Or, in the alternative he could become a fiction writer.


Posted by donburnshomepage at 10:50 PM EDT
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Monday, May 30, 2005



Had given the weblog stuff a respite in the hopes that nothing would irritate me enough to start it up again and lo and behold, the draft dodging vice president who has been in hiding most of the last four years has to open his mouth and insult my intelligence. So it's back to work I go.

It seems that because he was an expert at helping Halliburton Corp. make money on government contracts for military prisons he now considers himself an expert on prisoner abuse. This time he's taken on Amnesty International for criticizing the United States and it's treatment of POW's at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Whether AI is right or wrong in their allegations remains to be seen, but apparently Mr. Cheney has been in hiding so long he hasn't heard about Abu Grahib.

Obviously the man needs to get out more. Maybe read a newspaper. Talk to a friend if he can buy one. Walk his dog. Become a mortician...... Enlist?..... Something......anything?


Posted by donburnshomepage at 11:38 PM EDT
Updated: Monday, May 30, 2005 11:42 PM EDT
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Thursday, April 21, 2005



According to the news this morning the South Carolina Legislature has made cock fighting a felony. 'Bout time. It's a bit of a nasty sport (if you can call it that) to watch a couple of chickens peck each other to death.

At the same time they also decided to make wife beating a misdemeanor.

One of their congressmen explained to a critic that we just didn't understand the facts.

And the facts are: There are far more chicken fatalities in South Carolina every day than there are battered wives cases, so in an effort to lower the chicken mortality rate we raised chicken fights to a felony and lowered wife beatings to a misdeameanor. Perfectly logical.

It's just a matter of priorities.


Posted by donburnshomepage at 6:40 PM EDT
Updated: Friday, April 22, 2005 7:42 AM EDT
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Wednesday, April 20, 2005



Having mistakenly thought that the nation was in no great danger despite the Bush victory in November I'd lowered my guard and neglected this blog for the last month. And look what happens.

Tom Delay crawls out from under a rock and wants to remove the Supreme Court and replace it with Conservative Congressmen who know how to judge. After all, they made Tom their leader so they must be right.

His latest victim is Justice Anthony Kennedy, a moderate Reagan appointee to the court who has failed to make the appropriate court decisions according to Congressman Delay.

The Congressman wants to visit the part in the Constitution where "judges can only continue to serve so long as they serve with good behavior". Presumeably un-Delay decisions constitute bad behavior.

Considering the source and the ethics of the source we have seen this before. Mr. Delay should be thankful Congress doesn't play by the same rules (at least until he changes them). Then again, if he can remove justices from the Court, why not unqualified members of Congress and perhaps he should straighten out the President too. We'll just let Tom run the show and we can all go home and sleep with a revolver under our pillow.

Whoever said Joe McCarthy was dead and buried needs to go re-check the gravesite in Wisconsin.


Posted by donburnshomepage at 12:20 PM EDT
Updated: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 12:25 PM EDT
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Wednesday, March 23, 2005



With all of the problems in the world the press and the government seem hell bent on billing the case of a brain dead girl in Florida who purportedly wants to die as the main event.

Meanwhile a student goes on a killing spree in a school in Minnesota, more die in Iraq, the debt increases, the trade deficit increases, the price of gas increases, the amount of oil from Iraq decreases and more jobs go overseas. But these are the secondary stories. Go figure.

The smaller, cheaper, less intrusive government seems to be bigger, more expensive, and more intrusive than the one we got rid of and doesn't seem to be doing much right either.

So much for priorities.


Posted by donburnshomepage at 6:18 AM EST
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Wednesday, March 16, 2005



All this time we've been worried about what's going to happen to Social Security when the baby boomers hit and "lo and behold", the University of Illinois at Chicago up and saves us with a report.

According to the professors we aren't going to live as long as we thought we were for one simple reason. All our prosperity has translated into fat. We are eating ourselves to death at a rate that is going to reverse the longevity trend and subtract about five years from the lifespan at the rate we're going.

So "can the private accounts" and pass the feedbag. The more we get, the more we eat. The more we eat the quicker we're gone. The quicker we're gone the less we cost.

Sounds like a plan to me.


Posted by donburnshomepage at 9:31 PM EST
Updated: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 9:33 PM EST
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