How many Bushistas does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

Ten.

1. One to deny that a light bulb needs to be changed;

2. One to attack the patriotism of anyone who says the light bulb needs to
be changed;

3. One to blame Clinton for burning out the light bulb;

4. One to tell the nations of the world that they are either for changing
the light bulb or for eternal darkness;

5. One to give a billion dollar no-bid contract to Halliburton for the new
light bulb;

6. One to arrange a photograph of Bush, dressed as a janitor, standing on a
step ladder under the banner 'Bulb Accomplished';

7. One administration insider to resign and in detail reveal how Bush was
literally 'in the dark' the whole time;

8. One to viciously smear No. 7;

9. One surrogate to campaign on TV and at rallies on how George Bush has had
a strong light-bulb-changing policy all along;

10. And finally, one to confuse Americans about the difference between
screwing a light bulb and screwing the country.

(an oldie but goodie -- and hasn't the number of lightbulb changers gone up since the last time this joke made the rounds?)

Why do Bush vacations end in disaster?

I'm sure it's just a coincidence that Dubya's extensive vacations at his dirt-ranch in Texas so often end in disaster. I'm sure because I'm not some kinda conspiracy-nut.

But still. 9-11, the flooding of New Orleans..... ? you can't help wondering.

While Dubya kicked back on his annual 5 week break from the rigors of defending his disastrous, muddled, counter-productive, grand plan to protect the Free World from the Evil Evildoers of Evil, his spin-meisters were working overtime.

See, it wasn't really a VACATION, it was a relocation of the work site from the Oval Office, while some heretofore unmentioned renovation work was going on.

[See The Clue Factory http://cluefactory.blogspot.com/ for details. ]

Okey-dokey, whatever you say.

After all the Shrub *must* have been working real hard, because he couldn't spare 10 minutes to meet with anti-war protestor Cindy Sheehan, to explain the 'noble cause' for which her soldier son died.

But wait! here comes a disaster!

No, New Orleans did not "dodge the bullet," even though Hurricane Katrina was a mere level 4 by the time it made landfall and was soon downgraded to a tropical storm. Which means massive flooding, and the city and the region and people trapped there are drowning.

Well, time for the Pres to kick the cow-pies off his boots and spring into action! -- oh wait, isn't he already in action? Working hard every day at the dirt-ranch? Isn't that what they told us?

Guess not, because the spin-meisters have now announced that the President is going to 'cut short' his (5 week) vacation to oversee the disaster relief efforts.

Is that guy dedicated or WHAT?!

Vacation, work, who can tell the difference, when you're the leader of the free world? (The rest of us can tell pretty easily)

The sky really *is* falling

...or at least, it is dumping massive rain and ferocious winds on the southeast. Hurricane Katrina has been downgraded to a mere 'tropical storm,' but the natural diaster has left death and destruction and isn't over yet.
(http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/hurricane_katrina

Natural? not entirely. Hurricanes aren't man-made, of course, but mankind sure helps, when it hurts the global environment. While the Bush Administration continues to pooh-pooh the existence of global warming (ignoring the overwhelming majority of scientific opinion and analysis), it is a fact that unusually high ocean temperatures contribute to unusually powerful storms.

The mainstream media is offering tentative comments about how on the one hand, 90 degree ocean temperatures maybe kinda were pretty high and helped fuel the brutal hurricane; and on the other hand, not so much in Australia, blahblahblah.

Meanwhile levees have broken and the death toll is mounting.

It looks like New Orleans will not join Atlantis as another fabled city drowned by the elements. At least not for a few years yet.

But why do we have to wait? While the Bushistas insist the science isn't "there" yet, and Americans grouse about high gas costs, maybe it's long past time when fuel efficiency standards should be imposed?

As a patriotic American, clinging to a few ideals, I remember that once upon a time we were able to put a man on the moon. Surely there is enough brainpower left in the country to make cars run just as well, without spewing so much pollution? That would go a loooonnngg way to cooling off our overheated globe.

IMO.

VENT.....!

Because sometimes you just need to let off steam.